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What you say is true, but you could easily have some trauma related to all of this. It could even create a bias in your worldview. Unless you had very intense healing moments this is kind of inevitable. And I mean bawling or "vomiting traumas" for hours kind of intense. You never talk about emotional healing, so I assume you did not have a lot of those.

Haha I remember that phase ! Don't worry it is not forever Try to go back to that feeling when you have time and meditate, and then just observe it, and try to love it if you can. Like Leo said, awareness is curative. If you observe and love the emotion, you could have some deeply liberating emotional releases.

@Leo Gura By the way I know several people who had crazy healing with DR joe Dispenza workshops. Maybe look it up if that resonates.

I am curious to know if a yogi could take a massive dose of 5 meo and stay sober

Yes this documentary is very good. His interview with Tim Ferris is also great.

Yes if the second guy is that commited, you are probably right, but then he is a pretty exceptional average guy

Let's say you have 2 random, average guys (in terms of trauma, baseline consciousness...), who just discovered spirituality and want to make some "progress" in that direction. One chooses to do regular trips with intention and reverence, but to never do formal meditation (he prefers, yoga, walks, Wim hof method...). The other one does formal meditation but never uses psychedelics. Let's say they spend a similar amount of time doing "spiritual practices" (including trips). Most likely, after a few years, the first one will be much better off. Then if the choice is between psychedelics vs all spiritual practices, then obviously yes better do the practices. Add shaktipat transmissions / energy work and you are golden (ice baths are also very powerful!)

I think it depends a lot on if the person in question has serious trauma or not. If he has serious trauma, then starting a serious meditation practice would be very challenging, whereas psychedelics done properly would be incredibly beneficial. Once you have released most of your trauma, your baseline state become much more pleasant and meditative. I am talking here about trips spent "vomiting trauma" for hours. Trust me your baseline state of consciousness change quite a bit after a few of those. For me it's being in a "non ego" state for 2 weeks after a life changing trip that made me serious about spirituality. After you have had some profound experiences on psychedelics, it is pretty natural to start spiritual practices. So it doesn't make much sense to say "if you have to choose one". No one is going to do regular and serious trips (done with reverence) for years without starting spiritual practices at some point. Plus there are many activities that are consciousness work besides sitting meditation, like going on a walk, yoga, ice baths, shaktipat transmissions... or you know simply being, whatever you are doing. Like if you go on a walk in nature, simply being aware of your surroundings and enjoying the moment, is that meditation ? So IMO, for most people, if they have to choose between never doing psychedelics or never doing "official" sitting meditation, he/she is better off skipping the second.

@Leo Gura Does God our unity consciousness remember all lives like "he/she" lived them ?

amazing video on the topic

Do you know very conscious people in healthy polyamorous relationships ? I thought the following conversation on this topic was very good : It is really a broader conversation about conscious dating and sex

Thank you for sharing all of this. I am genially impressed by the time and care you take trying to help people on this forum And yes the whole culture around consent is really quite sad... This whole conversation reminds me how, as a teenage boy in a bus, an older man put a vest between me and him and tried to touch me. My first reaction was to freeze. Events like this probably happen to a lot of people.

If anyone wants to learn more about the perspective of a sexually abused woman and the trauma it creates, I highly recommend this podcast episode. The woman telling her story is so vulnerable, it's beautiful and very touching. I felt so much love for her listening to it. Plus the girls hosting are awesome https://modernpsychedelics.net/podcast/jinica-torrez-iboga Tim Ferriss podcast on his own childhood sexual abuse and healing journey is also amazing https://tim.blog/2020/09/14/how-to-heal-trauma/

Is this kind of stuff really common for you ? Like every week ? For women in general ? Are you 1 out of a 1000 attractive to make men so crazy and gross ?

Let's say you approach a girl and you feel shy and uncomfortable. This lack of confidence causes the girl to feel no attraction for you. In this case this is not about you ? Do you think that the attraction women feel for you is absolutely not in your control ?

What do you mean with it isn't about you ? If you get rejected it typically means that you were not attractive enough to her in that moment, so this is about you.

@Raptorsin7 Thank you for sharing. It was fun to read haha

https://www.reddit.com/r/FemaleDatingStrategy/comments/o3609c/srsly_guys_what_is_the_generation_of_male/ Interesting perspective for some of the guys on this forum

To be fair to this sub-reddit there are some good and mature content in it https://www.reddit.com/r/FemaleDatingStrategy/comments/o46o3d/rejection_is_redirection/

He does make the distinction that it is not the event in itself that traumatise but how you feel about it. By the way the documentary is a great watch !

Reiki can be a great tool if you want to become a healer. Maybe look into it

@Leo Gura DMT could be even better than mushrooms ! https://www.reddit.com/r/reiki/comments/a5kmkw/reiki_psychedelics/ Read this for more info

If the experience was mild it would probably not heal anything yes. But if you do it with a great reiki master while on a medium dose of mushrooms it could be life changing. Who knows ? Could also have some benefits besides just physical healing.

I was curious about you losing trust in a guy that you started seeing and that you trusted. I have some ideas of possible reasons, but I would love to hear your perspective.

So you felt nothing when you tried reiki ? I wonder if it's because you have a very masculine energy. But honestly if you take low/medium dose of mushroom before a session it is impossible that you will feel nothing.