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See my website. Also I find more and more than it's indeed closer to the or in the heart and not in the head as some masters have claimed, perhaps it can be made clear by just putting your hands around your heart.

The savior has returned! In the form of a powder! And he ain't fking around. Really interesting stuff, only tried 11 mg vaped or so, a little overwhelming at first, didn't get rid of emotional issues, I was more in mental overdrive and trying to deal with the intensity and doing self-inquiry, and shifting back and forth between, fear, emotional investigation and self inq and trying to think what would be the 'best thing to do' (I know, not helpful). It puts you nice and deep together with yourself, leading to easy insight, but it will also shake you up quite roughly. Can't say much else about it, except that from a deeper consciousness POV this world is a pure magic gift, all of it. I have a lot more work to do. And 5-MeO still won't do it for me, you have to bring you a-game and your best amount of honesty (which you cultivate with your practice) to get the results (though probably it's a little 'easier' at higher levels to see emotional release). - I feel like this stuff is way way more relevant for humans than all the other stuff out there for self-inquiry/healing. It's really pointing you towards the beingness without the dancy fuss that I think only tends to confuse the (western) human minds more, very unpractical, but this leaves not too much room for mind speculation (though it doesn't turn that off either, at least not in my dose). - But huge potential, just huge. Also, does holding it in for longer than a few seconds absorb (a lot) more of the substance?

Wonderful dude, yeah, sounds like it triggered something. - Yesterday I had a session with my cousin and had it done with myself. I found it being interesting how despite it being painful, there's also something oddly pleasant about it, I think it's because it just feels good to get in touch with your body and the emotional feeling related to it (even if the emotional sense is baaarely there), and of course someone else seeing it without being judgmental about it. Also some other benefits: - I felt quite physically awake afterwards. - I really felt quite more grounded afterwards, like after having had a really good workout. - I felt more confident in the body (because of the grounding sense), but also I think because some fears were triggered in the body and the body-mind knows it's still fine. And I got some insight into my psyche/body as for some fears down in the body, and that they couldn't get out because I have a block on making sounds, (but I couldn't really make sounds there to release it), but insightful! - I notice talking to someone and acknowledging their pain is quite important to have it be effective emotionally when I do it. But of course that depends on the person giving it and receiving it. I'm pretty good at feeling what they have and then comforting and acknowledging it, but also being stern about it to them so they have to acknowledge it, so I could be saying something like: 'Holding it all that pain.. Having to constantly preform and prove yourself, as a little child even, for all those years.. And no one there who could look at it and help you with it..' And pressing it at the same time they hear it, ye, that's powerful.

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Remember that you are pure feeling/awareness, don't cling to anything else, just be. Given you are used to not being that, be sweet to yourself if your mind still doesn't act as you'd like to. Be ready to admit that despite your maturity, there's probably a little scared/sad kid within you, allow his feelings, allow that vulnerability. That's it, and try to be alone if you can. Oh yeah and go for 2 grams minimum.

That's just plain untrue, it's just you teaching yourself and plenty of people do have a good time with mushrooms on festivals. I wouldn't recommend it though, because for most people there's the potential you trigger deep fears/sadness/anger and these places, how developed the general consciousness might be, is still really superficial in general I think compared to deep emotional work. But you still can't properly ball your eyes out or scream at the top of lungs of pain at these places if you want to, and that's kind of a waste and might leave you in a more troubled ego state for some time.

It's also a really cool way to diagnose to someone that they have suppressed emotions and that they are stored in the body. I tried it on my bit of a macho, but nice, roommate that I don't know that well yet yesterday, he's very emotionally suppressed/in denial and not into spirituality but recently got interested into healing because of panic attacks/depression. Sometime ago he didn't belief emotions could be stuck in the body ('it's all in the head beliefs') but yesterday we got talking about this technique, and he was willing to try it, but he didn't think there would be anything. ^ ^ The session: Quickly we were able to many tight spots and spots that were relaxed. He initially didn't get emotional release after the first 15 min of pressing tight spots on the lower back, logical if you are not used to being emotional or acknowledging the mind/emotions/body at all, but some of the spots in the lower back did trigger some heat and nausea and fear (he gets nausea's during a panic attack). Which wasn't comfortable but he said it was a little bit freeing to feel it. (This confirms the lower back being (more of) a fear line). Then we went to the heart area, a gold mine of tightness, probably for many men (holding back love/sadness). I could press 1/6th of the pressure I used on the lower back (on which I used quite a lot of pressure), and it would get the same reaction. I asked what the first thing was that came to mind: ''..", he was probably surprised/confused, this imagination/emotion thing was related, I asked again, 'my ex'. I figured he hadn't worked out the loss, and that there was sadness there. We continued the pressing, I asked about how he was raised and how they taught him about crying, in combination with his memories, my compassionate talk of acknowledging the hurt and the frustration of not being allowed to cry; the wrongness of that; acknowledging the stupidity of the parents, we got some emotion out! - Summary: So, with people who are not used to being emotionally open, just pressing the muscles is often probably not enough. Talking to them by acknowledging the pain in the most emphatic engaging sweet way you can and acknowledging the wrongness of their upbringing/situations, engaging them into using their memories and feelings, while continuously massaging the hurt spots (in bursts), which forces them to acknowledge their pain that they know you can also see, is probably one of the best and most unknown therapy methods out there. Edit: The comforting relaxed loving hand on the hard massaged parts in appropriate moments is quite important too I think. And it's also a very tangible way to show people that ALL THEIR MISERY is not based in reality, but caused by their hurt inner child. That all their (existential) fears, their sadness, anger etc. Are not based in ultimate reality/true nature, but have their basis in negative imprints, showing individuals how accessible and real liberation is! And the fact that is shows people how much emotional suppression they have can be a good wake up call in and of itself as well.

I know Shinzen talks about it, but I really don't see how or why you want to label sensory experiences. Because they are always present? At least for me..perhaps if you have a more focused consciousness it could be useful, but it seems weird to me, I mean, you won't find unconscious baggage or delusion in sensory experiences.. - But I find labeling inner experiences very useful: 'talk', 'image', and 'concept' (for thoughts that don't present themselves as sound). As for 'feel', I try to have my awareness on that as much as possible, as therein lies the gateway to the Self, and the most direct access to suppressed emotions.

You already know you're not these things, it happens instantly, what's there to find? You continue to focus on the sense, the feeling, of I am.

It's suppressed emotions surfacing, feel it/the body. And the above is good advice.

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Fuck yeah! I agree, huge potential! Perhaps @Leo Gura can experiment and make a video?

Just know that also if your mom dies it'll be fine too. My dad died and I have regular dream contact with him, and you can use the passing to learn to surrender yourself to his love in this life as she'll be in purity (it might take some time for her to stabilize though). But you can research Darryl Anka that channels Bashar, in my experience he's legit. He speaks about detoxifying the body (with Dr. Shulze's detox stuff or (3.000 mg of vitamin C and 3000 mg msm powder 3x a day (didn't specify for how long) so that the cells are sufficiently clean (to be able to absorb nutrients properly), and he mentioned that raw avocado/asparagus/walnut pureed are natural cancer cures.

He's like a child and that's a jolly good sign

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I don't think you'll easily get the same effect. Aside from not feeling like pushing through, I think the power of this technique also is that someone else can clearly see you have pain and barriers, that in it self is a big thing. How often can you tell yourself you have this trauma and this pain etc., but the moment you tell someone else you bust into tears.

I did for little bit on someone during a tantra workshop, but it was on the rib cage, for a rather short amount of time. It did work though, at some point I pressed her so hard for a moment and it really hurt but then some tears cam out and the tension was gone (with her permission of course).

The fearful (/angry/sad) reoccurring thoughts come from suppressed emotions (memories in a sense), and they are stored in the cells and in the mind. The body is the mind, or a reflection of it, and you can work on it from both ways. The pressing on the tight muscles activates the suppressed feelings, and the practitioner helps (forces) the patient staying with it, in a safe space, so they can be processed. Because what usually happens, when we feel this in meditation, we go like: 'uhh, interesting.. OOH SHIT AH (heavy feeling), OK NOT NOW', because we get scared, and want to chose the easy way out, and because we have been used to suppressing it for so long. But it's also doable through meditation, it takes more time though generally.

You can make it into metta practice yeah, Shinzen has actually something specific on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abRaPYjb6mA

Bump. With a good friend or practitioner you can potentially work through so many negative imprints in minutes/hours that might otherwise take years of meditation to clean (though meditation of course has other benefits as well).

UG and his hurt inner child

Weed's pretty great, or was. Recently I've hit a threshold of a state of consciousness that is so similar to being high that it basically stopped doing anything to a large degree, this is after a 3 years of consistent practice and smoking weed 1-2x a week for the past few weeks. I'd say 100% ultimately, but arguably things differ when the body starts craving it (don't think this is possible) and or when withdrawal comes into play (this only happens after long term high dose abuse).

Lower doses of DMT are excellent to start with. Being in nature and with people that you are close with can be great too.