Colin

@Peace and Love awesome thread, I walk outside in nature almost everyday.

@Leo Gura The disillusion of fear is one of the most beautiful things ever. I must get back there, I must!

Thanks for asking

@SLICKHAWK While someone who understood this language may have understood the row of hebrew script, as it was, when I first got there. As soon as I focused on it, it began to rapidly change, and the rate of change was so fast that even the most advanced scholar would not have been able to understand it or keep up. I think it is possible that while my conscious mind did not understand it , a higher part of my self did. Though I am careful not to delude myself and guess what it was.

Well as much as I am reluctant to ascribe it to Christianity, at an earlier part of the trip a row of about sevenish purple hebrew script appeared right in front of my field of view. They were crystal clear and began very rapidly arranging themselves in different order, some being taken out and replaced. I didn't consciously understand it. I don't speak Hebrew. I don't have Jewish relatives. I didn't grow up around synagogues. But, that sounds like a communication to me.

I want to be careful not to pollute the experience with what I have learned since then, but considering that it was a male that shared physical characteristics to me I would describe it as a divine representation of myself. An impossibly evolved and divine representation of myself. The word higherself makes sense to me. Though i'm sure it would mean different things to different people. Also This being was standing really really close to me. Like about a foot away.

@Callum A Also yes I am extremely happy to read your account, and to be here with you.

Same, no words were exchanged. It was pure, all being piercing feeling. And it gave me an understanding that the foundation of reality is goodness . Though it has been a long hard, road to integrate this knowing in this struggling world. My best ally has been Channelhigherself.com check it out if you haven't seen it yet.

@Callum A." I took nndmt without having any prior knowledge of it. I had no experience with eastern spirituality or meditation. I was an atheist at the time though I was raised catholic. When I took the dmt, I went though all the normal stages of dmt and was completely convinced that I had died and was on the other side. I was freaking the fuck out. There were a lot of amazing visuals. But I kept trying to think of my home and my family and my familiar settings. Through force of will I brought myself back in to normal earth world for a few moments, and was panicking "holy shit!" "holy shit, I'm dying!" . Someone I was with said "it's ok". In that moment I intuited that I had no where else to go, but to go within. So in that moment I directed my mind to go within my self. In that moment I was transported to a realm made of white light. There was a being that was radiating light standing right in front of me with a rainbow aura looking down on me and smiling and I was instantly filled with the most overwhelming amounts of love, compassion, warmth, comfort, safety, bliss, and peace. All fear and discomfort was completely and utterly dissolved in this experience. It was incredibly crystal clear and realistic."

@Callum A did you see my post about nndmt in another thread?

This is not coming from any school of thought or theory, but this is my experience. I took nndmt without having any prior knowledge of it. I had no experience with eastern spirituality or meditation. I was an atheist at the time though I was raised catholic. When I took the dmt, I went though all the normal stages of dmt and was completely convinced that I had died and was on the other side. I was freaking the fuck out. There were a lot of amazing visuals. But I kept trying to think of my home and my family and my familiar settings. Through force of will I brought myself back in to normal earth world for a few moments, and was panicking "holy shit!" "holy shit, I'm dying!" . Someone I was with said "it's ok". In that moment I intuited that I had no where else to go, but to go within. So in that moment I directed my mind to go within my self. In that moment I was transported to a realm made of white light. There was a being that was radiating light standing right in front of me with a rainbow aura looking down on me and smiling and I was instantly filled with the most overwhelming amounts of love, compassion, warmth, comfort, safety, bliss, and peace. All fear and discomfort was completely and utterly dissolved in this experience. It was incredibly crystal clear and realistic. I don't know how it would apply to lsd, but I could posit the not dogma guidance of directing your mind to go within yourself.

@Peace and Love OK good good, I just had this outpouring of empathy when I read your story, because I know how helpful and nice you have been to me on this forum.

OK good good, I just had this outpouring of empathy when I read your story, because I know how helpful and nice you have been to me on this forum.

@Peace and Love

@Peace and Love dear god peace and love, I just want to give you a hug.

@Dodosterits the old balance of challenging yourself and being good to yourself.

one simple tip that has been great for me lately has been using ear plugs. Ambient background noises annoy me more than I realized and using ear plugs takes off a surprising amount of stress.@ansimuz

There is no denying that the hours upon hours that we have spent seeing Leo's face and hearing his voice has given us a sense of familiarity with him. We are smart enough to recognize that he his smart. Smart recognizes smart. Do you perceive Leo to be better than you? Also Leo has done enormous good for most of us, so we appreciate it.

It is an extremely short read. Basically one man's account of how this practice saved him from crippling sadness and then made life seem magical and amazing. The thing is, is that it actually works. Don't be overly skeptical and throw it out. I think the ideal is to keep it up for six plus months to see life long results. In my experience it wore off kind of quickly, but I can't overstate how positive the results were. The book is not needed, though it is supportive.

A very simple thing that has made all the difference in the world for me is stretching. I don't know if this is an automatic duh for every human being other than me, but it wasn't obvious to me. you can stretch everything from your back to your legs.

I decided to post this because I think self love and self compassion are both extremely important for me and humanity at large. Plus I have had some discussion about self love on this forum so think this may resonate with some people here. This video is a little on the boring side. It is coming from an academic perspective, but it is a good introduction to the fact that there is actual science being done in this field, yielding great results, and that this field very recently has started to explode with the amount of research being done. It presents some ideas and techniques and gives some ideas around the topic. I certainly wouldn't say that this is a complete reference for the subject, but a welcome addition of knowledge. She has more extensive courses she offers that I am considering someday taking, but if you want the rubber to meet the road right now, I still stand by using the affirmations "I love myself" over and over day after day.

Were you using headphones? if so what kind, just curious

I think all of the self judgement is in you , and if a person is really evolved then they won't be judging you. They might understand you. So basically it is a non issue because if they aren't enlightened then why do you care what they think about your state of development? One more thing, it is good to be honest with actual sincere, wise, competent, and compassionate teachers because they can help you where you are weak. It is huge trap to put up a front out of fear of what they might think and not make real progress where it is most important for you

Not knowing anything about yoga, and barely knowing anything about meditation, years ago I decided to meditate several days in a dark closet just as an experiment. On one of those days I had a full blown kundalini rising and was jettisoned in to a full blown non-drug induced "psychedelic" state for a moment. It scarred the hell out of me as I had absolutely no reference for it. I'd like to try it again now that I am bit more worldly and a bit more knowledgeable. Certainly something to that though.

The way I under stand it, is that they are you emotions. They are not just little balls of light that you look at in yourself. They are not to be seen, but to be felt as feelings that you directly experience in your self. I'm sure there are different philosophies on this, but this is how I understand them.