Principium Nexus

Fully realized humans are the ones that are completely in sync with being. This means there is no resistance to any arising thought. How would one attain this? By aligning body and mind through love. This will guide you since you are fully present and being and terms like ego and all other labels you had will be obsolete. You will feel what to do without thinking. Only then you stop walking in circles with the duality infinitely trying to comprehend things. This is the resistance after all of letting you just 'be'.

@brovakhiin Thanks a lot! Creativity goes well with these kind of things.

@Leo Gura If enlightenment of all beings is the final goal to awaken the world, then what major system do we have to replace? Are there some acient systems that we can learn from and how would these come together? Creating a vision of how this would look like we create the movement towards it. I would like to know what would be required

Cheers mate have a nice journey!

Bathsalts is a general term the media uses to describe all the designer drugs. This is because they all say not for human consumption and there was a time they were sold as "bath salt". Designer substances can be dangerous especially when they are not tested and you are your own guinea pig. The psychedelics deveriates of LSD (AL-LAD, 1P-LSD, ETH-LAD, PRO-LAD, ALD-52) are all fairly safe since they have the same psychopharmalogical structure. LSD has been researched widely and is physically not really dangerous and non-neurotoxic (even less than coffee), but the risks are always in psychological behaviour or mistaking the substance for something else! I won't go into the full chemical structure since those are widely discussed on fora where people have both a chemical as pharmacology background and speculate on all the mechanisms and how the molecule breaks down. Two books that hold great value into this subject are PHIKAL and TIHKAL (quite academic and not for someone who doesn't know alot about chemistry). NEVER take something that is completely new, let other people who think they know what they are doing do the dirty work for you. Don't risk your own health for something yet unknown. If you are to try something read upon all the available literature and get a sense of how people react to it. Here are some link that could be value to doing proper research: https://erowid.org/experiences/ https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Psychoactive_substance_index Always do an allergy test with a very small dose! If you feel something is wrong don't take more. Atleast keep a week between your allergy test and a smaller beginner dose. Safety is mandatory, so go slow! Last, try to minimize use to max twice a year and don't do it after eachother in a short period of time (keep min. 2 months between). Less is more with these powerfull tools. If you get a clear message opt-out and let it settle for long period. The reflection period of your experience is the other half of the experience and maybe even more important. There are probably some test-kits online available but the best thing would be to sent it to a certified lab for GC-MS analysis.

@I_Like_Thing It sounds like you haven't tried them and yet your full of judgement. Most of the people who 'drop acid' or take ayahuasca indeed don't have the proper intention but they are also ignorant as hell and don't research further than their own nose. Luckily this is changing and the intent is becoming to learn about yourself/reality/past events and be open for different perspective you don't even know and yet people claim are so profound. It is the profoundness or awe that can break a persons believe of the materialistic/physical world and be that extra push they need to go for that spiritual actualization. You can do it your own way, but don't bash on something you probably have no experience with (yet). EDIT: Just to make clear, you can achieve enlightenment without! You don't need those at all, but for some people they can be great tools. You decide what your intention is and how to properly use them like any other method or technique.

Shamanic use of psychedelics has been around since the dawn of man and has been linked to the development of art, language and a huge increase of human thinking. Human have lived in a symbiotic relation with these things for thousands of years and they have been the mayor root of most religions. Complete egyptian spirituality was build around use of psychedelics like the blue lotus. I find that many people here only think in the term of 'drugs' and carry alot of cultural stigma from the nixon period. You can achieve enlightenment witout the use for sure, but it will be such a huge insight to see for yourself what the illusion of maya really is! It might motivate you alot more and enable you to fully comprehend what some mystics say. Holotropic breathing can result in a somewhat similar psychedelic state without the use of a substance. It doesnt last that long and only gives you a short peak. Once again they are tools, which can be abused or learned as a research tool of the mind.

Made this on AL-LAD a year ago, it certainly promoted my way to think into the painting, as if I could travel along the paths I draw.

"Chronic Loneliness Is a Modern-Day Epidemic" - Fortune June 2016: http://fortune.com/2016/06/22/loneliness-is-a-modern-day-epidemic/ Do you feel lonely and what do you think it causes it? What role do you think today's society plays in this and could it have a much deeper meaning that just a lack of wanted social interaction? From early age I have had many friends and also lost them most of the time when going to a new school or location. Currently I'm in a really though situation and my life has changed a lot, due to some depression and other issues I slowly lost contact with many good friends. Now the weird thing is that I don't feel really lonely because I found interesting hobbies that can take lots of time but I see other people struggle with even being alone for a short period of time.. My idea is that the sense of loneliness mainly arises due the digital area and it's overstimulation. Instead of asking something, the knowledge age (smartphone) has all your answers and stops you from asking obvious questions and in the same regard can satisfy you always with an unlimited amount of 'new amazing' things. Now there are cases where older people are not able to do things physically anymore and also lack interaction which can be very lonely, but I find it sad that younger people also have a sense of being more and more alone and that might have different causes. So regarding to the initial questions, how do you experience this? How you ever tried to retreat from internet stuff to get more excitement from being still instead of always being in action?

@Leo Gura Thanks for the advice! I might go to a similar retreat where you basically meditate 7 days without talking to others. You can do some walks in the forest and bring something like an empty journal or paper to draw. Would you consider drawing or writing also as a distraction and would avoiding those help even more? It's not like doing those all day, but more like short journaling.

@Oleg F I know some people do air tours through grand canyon for example?

It indeed comes in waves or phases, but the pursuit of self-development/self-enquiry/enlightenment is not nonsense. You have to work your whole life to get these things in tune and aligned and it's not flipping some switch and everything is suddenly perfectly fine. I do think these things can blow up some dust and make things look worse in the short-term, but in the long run it will only help to realize better what you want and how to get there. If those expensive hobbies bring you great joy then don't hesitate to do them if you can afford it. If you feel like you need to earn a lot just to be happy but don't like the time you work, then consider changing one of the two. There are so many things you don't have to pay for and can bring much joy also. Please don't blame it on self-actualization etc. Since those are only tools.

I find that too much thinking and learning can be quite exhaustive and doesn't always make the quality better in the short term. It's important to find the right balance in self-actualization, creating big picture and just living life without it. The main reason why I think that there are less women on these forum in general is because your nature is closer to feeling and these things can be sometimes too abstract indeed. It's important to get a good basic understanding what it means to self-actualize and what a big picture is but the fine details can be worked out throught your life. You will confront things when necessary anyway and might come back to learn and deal with it. I think it's a good choice to follow your intuition and feelings. Come back when you feel you need it and don't let the ego tell you this is the only way to liberation. I love to discuss things from time to time, and also like to withdrawl and relax

Conciousness is just being transformed, your mom and dad are actually you. But in turn those also inherited their being from their parents. It would be cool to follow the tree of life completely back to its origin if there is any at all. Thats when we were born

I'm starting to build a habbit to do 40-60min power yoga a day. Feel that it is helping me already after two days

@Michael569 Weird I always get increase of acne due hot showers.

Ego is a tool, you decide how to use it.

@Barna My mind always gets baffelded with this kind of stuff haha

@Barna Yeah it's certainly a different kind haha. Haven't tried 5-meo yet but I did have a complete ego death where I just dissolved. But you are talking about dreams, you mean like recalling your 5-meo experience?

It's all perspective, just look around you. You are already in infinity, maybe it looks like finite space but it's an on-going continiuum. If you stop reflecting up the past and future you become the stream which is all and everywhere. You don't even need to meditate to experience this since it will only project change while their is none. What do you think you are experiencing now? It's nature is in noway finite.

Your actually experiencing infinity right now, just drop all the thoughts and judgements which limit your perception.

I don't know anything about Reiki but from what I read it sounds cool! I have some social anxiety and want to work on that, don't know if you find this useful?

@Prabhaker It sound like the fourth path is similar to non-duality? Would it be possible to walk all four paths sequentially and try to attain them all, even the non-becoming? Could one master all the paths, action, knowledge, love and being?

In trading these numbers hold some psychological value so they have some sort of deeper meaning. 11:11 something I see often but maybe my mind is unconciously spotting them and then making me aware, while other numbers it stays unconcious. In geometry/symbolic mathmatics these numbers represent a certain stage of the universe unfolding, somewhat like a flower. You can find a lot about it online.

Reduce the time spent in hot shower or even better would be to cut out the hot water. Cold water showers are really good for your skin!