Esoteric

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  4. Posted

    On 2/8/2016 at 3:07 PM, Mooders said:

    I have felt some small benefits from meditation however i find it hard to do it everyday. I understand that I dont want to do it because its emotionally difficult and all that but for whatever reason I just dont really do it everyday.

    What i do enjoy doing everyday though is walking. I have recently been pressured by heavy emotions caused by a girl very close to me and whilst I find it hard to sit and meditate I feel I have made some huge progress just going for a walk for a couple of hours. 

    am I robbing myself of progress by substituting a walk instead of meditation? I sometimes do mindfulness techniques such as labelling a sound and then listening to it whilst i am out walking I just find it easier to sit and do when i get away from my surroundings and I feel more likely to start doing something if that something involves physically getting up from where I was. 

     

    I sometimes do a walk meditation as an add-on to my normal daily meditation. I put on my headphones, set bells every 5 minutes and count my breath for 45-60 minutes. It can be as efficient as sitting meditation, plus you get better at not getting distracted by visual sensations. Note that just walking is not really meditation if you get lost in monkey mind, it just makes the monkey mind not as annoying. Walk with an intent to be present.

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    @Neo When I see your posts on this subject and your continuous outrage, it makes me think of a Leary quote: “LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.”

    You really don't know unless you have taken a psychedelic drug. People can use these substances responsibly and with respect, or people can use them poorly with destructive outcomes. To make a statement that it's not an authentic experience because "a group of friends who do meditation" says otherwise doesn't mean anything. Obviously it can help people in their journey. You seem to take it really personally that people are willing to use these tools for growth.

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    So I do a different technique for two weeks straight and then switch to another one. The next technique I am want to try is the "Do Nothing". Though my over-analyzing mind is making the simplicity of the technique a little hard to grasp. Do you simply sit and watch as awareness? Let's say you just sit and you get caught up in a thought do you just acknowledge that like with other techniques, such as breathing in and out, and get back to just watching? Is it more recommended to do with eyes open or eyes closed? 

  10. Posted

    6 hours ago, Anlib said:

    @Leo Gura do you mean that the lower level of conciousness you have when u take this drug, the more pain u will recieve? I mean u say to you audience that they should concider taking this drug, but I don't think that many people are more developed that Tai. I mean, I think most of you audience are lower consiousness than average. What type of person are searching on yt to get their problems solved by a video? Dont get me wrong, most of your videos are fucking awsome:) but i often feel like you often say thing's in you videos to make me/us feel like we have more consionusness than most of us have. This is aviously for marketing reasons so people subscribe to your channel, but if you're saying that thai would have a nervuos breakdown because of his "deluded belives" who would'nt? Would I have a nervous breakdown because I suddenly realize that im not a human?

    How is it a sign of low consciousness because you seek tools to improve yourself? And you are also making really big assumption that people simply want a video to solve their problems when basically all of Leo's videos stress the fact that a big chunk of work is required for any type of personal growth and progress. The average person fool themselves into believing they have control and that life is about climbing up career and status wise, not even wanting to really take a good look at what they are really doing with their lives and what life is. So no, I would not say there are more "low conscious beings" here than "average", should be the other way around if anything. 

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    9 hours ago, Prabhaker said:

    Momentary despair doesn't mean that overall you are miserable person, I will like to quote from Leo Gura's post "All psychedelics do is reflect your own mind back at you. They are a mirror. " 

    If you don't escape, if you allow the suffering to be there, if you are ready to face it, if you are not trying somehow to forget it, then you are different.I don't mean become a masochist; I don't mean create suffering for yourself and enjoy it. I don't mean: go on, fall down from a cliff, have fractures and then enjoy it- no. Suffering is already there; life by its very nature creates suffering.  When you watch suffering suddenly you are not the sufferer.  Through suffering you become aware of the opposite pole, the blissful inner being. You return to the source, get centered. By escaping from suffering using psychedelics or drug or by any other means may give you a temporary relief, but you will miss an opportunity for spiritual growth. When you start growing, when you decide to grow, you have to face all the pains that you have repressed. You cannot just bypass them.

     

    Again, you quote others without any chance of knowing yourself. You are going on total belief.

    Also, it's like you lump in drugs under one big umbrella. If you had done a big dose of a potent psychedelic you would know for yourself that escaping from suffering is not at all what you are doing, in fact escape is not an option when you stand naked in front of your own psyche. I personally don't think psychedelics will do the work for you, but they can certainly be an aid for spiritual growth and has been for me. They have given me pointers, they have given me wake up calls to what is important to work on. So thank you for the recital and lecture, but I am well on my path in this.

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    10 hours ago, Prabhaker said:

    No, but it is Aldous Huxley's finding. That’s why Aldous Huxley wrote a book and named it 'Heaven and Hell'. 

    Well I haven't read that book, but I can make an empirical claim that you are wrong in this case. I have done psychedelics in times of despair with positive results, also there have been so many others that have. Look at ayahuasca for example, how many people do you think are drawn to go to the jungle because they are in a state of crisis? Sure, some people are there for the "fun" of it, but that is not a significant number. Visionary artist Alex Grey is another example, he was on the edge of suicide, having prayed to a god he didn't believe in the day before spontaneously trying LSD for the first time which radically changed his life.

    I am not saying one should take these substances when in crisis, because it can easily go bad. I am saying that what you are claiming is false, and frankly if you haven't done any psychedelics you shouldn't be making any sort of claims about them.

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    @Baul https://erowid.org/chemicals/5meo_dmt/5meo_dmt_dose.shtml

    As you can see insufflated says 10-25mg for a strong dose. It does not state that 25mg is the highest maximum recommended dose. 30mg will not be a problem (as in you will not be in physical danger) if you have a good calibrated 0.001 mg scale, though going further than that is not really necessary, after all the 5-MeO-xxx substances are notoriously hard on your body but LD50 rate is 115 mg/kg so you will have to do quite a bit to cause permanent physical damage. Mental damage though is highly dependent on how prepared you go into it, because these substances are no joke.

  16. Posted

    2 hours ago, ChimpBrain said:

    Long time psychonaut here. Ordered some this morning and will report back with results once it arrives. I've used 4-aco-DMT several times and it's effects were honestly not much different than mushrooms but I know a small molecular change can make a HUGE difference so I'm excited for the experience.

    It's not weird that 4-aco-dmt is similar to mushrooms though, Shulgin have even suggested it is an esther to psilocin (which is 4-ho-dmt) just like psilocybin (4-po-dmt) is. The theory is that the acetoxy (ACO) group metabolizes to hydroxy (HO). Which seems plausible to me as 4-aco-dmt seems to be psychoactive alone and then after like 30 minutes it changes its character into what is very much like psilocin.

  19. Posted

    First post here, hello fellow seekers.

    Funny seeing this thread here as I just (literally) got accepted for a 10-day Vipassana course. This will be my first retreat. I still haven't really understood what Vipassana is exactly. I mean I know  it is focusing on the breath and body sensations, and I guess I will get a better understanding when I begin the course. It starts in 3 months. I was wondering if someone can enlighten me (lol) on what I should read and practice during these three months leading up to the retreat? Or maybe it's better to just do my regular meditation techniques (mindfulness, strong determination sitting, body scans) and just take the course with not much knowledge about the technique itself?