UnbornTao

I hope you know what you're doing by randomly picking and eating wild mushrooms. Don't be negligent. Otherwise, it's a recipe for disaster. And do not combine alcohol and mushrooms, just in case it were to occur to you. Oh, and don't fool yourself. If you just want to get high, be honest about that. This is my advice, based on how I interpreted your post. God, I'm drunk with mod power!

Fanaticism is a function of repressed doubt. — Dune

@Yimpa

The purpose of this journal is to share questions, humor, miscellaneous creative content, and raw reflections on personal empowerment and consciousness. My goals are to deepen my experiential understanding of these topics, improve my communication skills, have fun, and help others see things in a new light.

Sorry I didn't respond to your post earlier. I really can't tell what you may have become conscious of - if anything. Hopefully it was true and profound. The point is that the mind can pretty much make things up and distort whatever insight may have been had. I could retroactively attempt to confirm my belief system - if I were a Scientologist or a Buddhist - and with enough fervor, I probably could. I would be able to "move with the map", so to speak. I could think in such a way that any other conceptual structure like idealism, nonduality, and so on would be "confirmed" in my own mind. This is a fundamental point. For example, consider that Ramana was not talking about solipsism. As far as I can tell, he was attempting to communicate the truth he was directly conscious of. Huge difference. The realness of the consciousness is what is in question. I guess the point, once again, is basically this: we're biased. Our minds are biased. I've realized that, generally speaking, people are not very good at discerning what is a real communication and what is something else - and how to tell when someone is speaking from an imaginative intellectual world or a conclusion, rather than from direct consciousness. As an example, revisit the thread on Teal Swan. Also, you mention Bashar, and to me it is not much different from the former. Like seriously, why are you listening to him? It's a waste of time.

Blueberries is all I care about. Fuck the rest.

Hey man, I hope your situation improves. But lighten up on yourself. Your shit smells too. Stop being a whiny bitch all the time. It's OK to fuck up, everyone does it from time to time. Try to own the actions you take and their consequences. If you want to do something about it, ask yourself: What can I do right now toward this goal? How can I conduct myself to create a new living situation for myself? Then go do it. Best.

Alcohol is a toxic substance and has the potential to be abused. I wouldn't try to rationalize its use. Hey, I might drink a beer or two every once in a while. Not to tell you how to live - enjoy it occasionally if you want - but avoid fantasizing that it's going to make you more spiritual or anything like that. Your liver, brain, and body in general will disagree. Microdosing psychedelics is a much better option. Smoothies, on the other hand, will for sure improve your health, cognition, and overall well-being. If you want, you might as well implement them into your diet.

Nice. Do you use a Windows PC now?

Funnily enough, I was writing about this exact point somewhere else: that he, in fact, was not. He was attempting to facilitate the truth he was actually conscious of. Night-and-day difference. The problem is that the profundity of this principle still eludes us. It's a difference that is all too easily missed. We may genuinely think the Buddha was a Buddhist. It isn't even about solipsism or any other particular belief system per se. This is not merely a matter of semantics, either.

It's probably more about the body (and so the brain) enjoying the movement, producing those sweet, sweet neurochemicals, changing your state, and so on. Never mind.

I think this kind of reasoning has the potential to be problematic down the road. If you want, enjoy the occasional beer, but I'd avoid falling into the notion that a substance you ingest is going to increase your consciousness. Sorry for the lecture, wanted to point that out.

Yeah, I'm not going to keep contributing to this. You guys keep jerking each other's off.

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Yeah, maybe. I'd also add that it is possible to discover the truth for oneself, and being a 'special' person is not necessary at all - just in case that's assumed, which is an easy trap to fall into. I appreciate that you admit that it's essentially just mental masturbation.

@CARDOZZO Muito obrigado.

I understand it's hard not to hear that as a negative, but it is not about making yourself wrong or starting a war between two aspects of yourself, so to speak. You're perfectly fine. The place where these things come from, however, is a fantastical world of one's own making. It's mere philosophy. Like, I bet my money the guy on the video has a solid sense of self to which he's attached, like everyone else.

Create the enthusiasm. You might think that other things - things you'll be at the effect of - will do the trick but that's not true. It's like a skilled actor in a play: they can willfully become enthusiastic when needed, in a real way. Consider this possibility. Stop waiting for external things to spark enthusiasm in you.

Good, good.

First, learn to tell your ass from a hole in the ground