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@Joseph Maynor The practices or foundation are directly related to the ‘letting go’ for the trips, and also are the means of integration after trips. In my experience, the default / baseline awareness pops to a higher permanency sort of out of the blue, but is still directly from the discipline of practices and increased doses. So, practices & psychedelics. One without the other is half, and half is a yo yo ride. Jo - Please don’t take this like I am implying you are not on top of your practices. I am sharing experience & my best understanding of them. I did the practices for many years before I started the years of psychedelics. Surely, my view is biased by this.

@Shakazulu How are they different to you?

@nightrider1435 ? I use an aqua gear pitcher that goes in the fridge, and fluoride free toothpaste...

@Annetta

@makouda It’s like when you hear something and get it, and then a minute later get the deeper joke, or deeper meaning, connect the story, see what’s really going on, etc, but staying with an inquiry for 5, 10, 30 min, etc. That’s over simplifying it. Here’s Leo’s video on contemplation, and the enlightenment exercises. The comments on the enlightenment exercises are really great. https://www.actualized.org/forum/topic/9425-contemplation-the-most-important-tool-summary/ https://www.actualized.org/forum/topic/7587-list-of-enlightenment-exercises/ https://www.actualized.org/articles/contemplation

@Mike Rivers That’s really well done Mike. Nice. Accept only the truth. You can seek either, and find either. Psychedelics, there’s no substitute.

@SOUL you’re right.

@Epiphany_Inspired Awww what a sweetie! Same here!! I really do think that would be a great thing @Leo Gura could do. It hits all fronts; going full minimalist for a duration, career forwarding, a rare way to help a lot of people, and a very intimate rare experience for him...and actualized would be the better for it. Btw...how’s Vancouver? Headed there in a few months.

@Aquarius This is gonna seem like I’m being rude as hell, but I’m hopin it reaches you in that second level or deeper awareness where the relief is, but, this.... ”I know the past doesn’t exist” Is actually not true at all. If it were, there wouldn’t be this.... Ever since I was 14......etc, etc, etc. The usefulness in realizing the past doesn’t exist is to be present now, without the filters & perpetuated view based on past experiences. This is that Now Tolle’s got on lock. It’s a real mind blower, the actual Now. You will notice this through your days with other people from now on. People almost always state the answer they need, and then the problem they are having. Like “I know it doesn’t matter but, blah blah”. You can tell it matters, because they’re talking about it.

@Epiphany_Inspired I’m usually wrong, but I think the point is to get livin! As in, that’s kinda what he is spending his working life doing. Helping people wake up and live their lives - not falling for the lazy comforted don’t have to do anything-technology built me a cozy nest that I’ll sit in until I die, trap. Being aware of it.

@Shin

@Epiphany_Inspired you got this! & I happen to recall, that you have done unbelievably harder things in the last couple years than simply picking something to get started with. A while back, I used to trick myself by saying... I’m just going to do that for like 2 minutes to see if I feel like doing it. Once I started, I kept going.

It’s atoms. Which are nothing. You can make a foundation, take enough psylicibin, and see for yourself also. The double slit is nice too. But, for the love of God, this is my opinion, it’s nothing more than nothing. I am wholly fake. Every word of this is fake. I’m not claiming to even know what the claiming is.

@Shanmugam There’s all the scientific evidence necessary to see we are an illusion, but tell someone, and they would not believe it!

Just yesterday, my wife & I argued about garbage day being a day later due to the holidays, and I ended up being right. So, anything is possible guys! Never give up on your dreams! You can!

DItch permanent residence living for a while, go full nomad. Stay with each of us for a day or two, around the globe. Shoot an hour or so video live, a one on one sit down with each person. We’ll cover your expenses and ship the equiptment to the next guy / gal. Sell the ‘episodes’ to a tv network. Can you even imagine traveling the world, capturing it all on tape? All the countries and cultures? ?

@Ruby White Hi Ruby! I’d love to hear it. Just a friendly heads up, it’s a bit of a brutal honesty environment round here, so..thick skin. ?

We all channel our self.

@egoless yeah, but Rupert didn’t really decide to make that video. jk

@Jamie Universe Since all is in actuality self, there is a direction and spectrum to the visual & audible aspect of waking up. Typically, it starts with a lot less thinking / mental filtering activity / projection (or the rare “fuck all” / suicidal trigger of awakening), resulting in increased awareness of our person and surrounding - appreciation of our “beingness”. Animals & botanical life don’t have our intensity of thinking filter, I presume they are total “beingness” - “infinite intelligence”. So there’s a connection with nature we ascend to, and likewise nature resonates with our awakened presence - there is twoness in the illusion, but of course oneness in the underlying reality. Then we experience it with people. Then inanimate “reality”. “Reality” itself, is not consistent, it certainly appears to be, but perception is everything, as there is no “reality” which is perceivable, only reality perceiving, only One, which is perceiving it’s self. It really is a “Jamie Universe”, quite literally.

@Znib94 I would keep your focus on breathing from the stomach, and keep relaxing your entire body over and over, with spine straight. The healing will happen regarding your knots. I assume you meant “calmer” but man that is a funny typo. Congrats on doing this for yourself! ❤️ In the Buddha’s story, armies of demons came at him, and when he remained still, their arrows turned to flowers. To defeat them, he simply touched the ground, or ‘connected’. I know it’s a story, but there is truth in it. It’s hard for the mind to accept that simply sitting in meditation can cure such things, but it’s technically not curing anything, just removing what we’ve added unknowingly.

Bible wise...I think this is interesting.... “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them” Image: a reproduction or imitation of the form of a person or thing; especially : an imitation in solid form.

Everyone’s ‘feeling’ of being wrong is dynamically different. We feel the meaning we’ve assigned. For example, some people get very upset hearing that their belief is a belief. Some people love discovering their belief because they want to be free of them, to have clarity. To me it’s a fun little game, and to some it’s a justification for a war. I think it has a lot to do with the environment we grow up in. If parent is ultra critical, kid may learn to assert he is right for the affection. I had to ‘undo’ that one myself. Also, not everyone’s default is assuming they’re right. Some are interested in the truth.

@Shin Your compassion got me man. Beautiful Shin. ? @tatsumaru I feel for you. I find getting things / thoughts out of the head and into the physical world is effective. I agree with Shin in that it’s a matter of distinctions in thoughts. I’d make a couple columns on a piece of paper, maybe thought...and happening. It is admittedly simple and sounds too easy, but in the mind, it’s sometimes one big cluster. Even if every subject etc gets written in the ‘thoughts’ column, it is effective in making the distinction visual. Also, if you haven’t watched this movie lately, I really recommend it. I think it’s on Amazon prime, maybe Netflix. It’s about Siddhartha of course, but it’s really about me, and you, and every person. Meditation (awareness) is ultimately where the ‘cure’ is. It might be a difficult adventure in the beginning, but it will peel off what has been added, all with the power of ‘nothing’. It will be more rewarding than I have words for. It is worthwhile. imo, it does require the ‘burning of the boats’, as in, if meditation is flirted with, on and off, it can uncover pain without resolve, but if there is a real commitment to the daily (morning is best imo) practice, it does ‘work’. If you feel meditation has left you as anything other than unconditional love, there are still layers the practice can allow you to become aware of - and they can disappear, as they were just thoughts.

@tyler7415 I had a tremendous anger issue. It took everything to turn it around; diet, meditation, (tried medications but it didn’t help, it subdued it and caused side effects), self inquiry, daily exercise, and listening to a lot of videos on positive thinking, and reading a lot of books on freeing the mind, really digging into my life and accomplishing what I desired to, and utilizing creative outlets / activities. In hindsight, I was always casting a negative counter balance like perspective, but I didn’t realize it, because I thought my view was the most accurate, realistic one. Those activities opened my eyes to see how wrong I was and how much I was missing out on in my life by trying to be right all the time. It was like I put how I felt last, and learned to put it first, so I could experience compassion. Then later, psychedelics opened my eyes much more. I had also tried therapy. It seems to help most, but it didn’t help me, other than to expedite the realization that I had to decide to take care of myself. I’m thankful for it in that regard.