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It might be enough. Meditation is a process to become one with everything. You can't do that part by part. Infinity is way too vast to consume it that way, you have to swallow it all at once, so in a sense I understand this approach of disregarding every other outcome than pure Enlightenment, but for how many has it worked that way? Not so many, most people will experience biegger or smaller breakthroughs throughout their practice, if they do it the way it should be done.

Since always. How else can you know that you are doing the right thing and not just sitting on a butt from laziness? The reason for meditation is the Truth, not joyfulness, concentration, peace, etc., I get it. But it doesn't mean that those things can't come up from the practice. Something will come up, you can't know what, but something will. If someone is not getting any results, doesn't notice any change in himself during practice, then I bet my money, 99% chance that person is doing something wrong or not really meditating. There's a reason why only a few are Enlightened masters.

@Xin I was more curious about what you do when for example thoughts arise. Many people just sit and think about random things, but that's not it. It's not also trying uber hard to still the mind. It will happen automatically when you "do the right thing". Possible results? Moments of intense, focused, uniterrupted concentration. Mystical experiences and Samadhis. Clear mind, when you stop and notice the lack of thoughts spontaneusly throughout the day. Random existential insights. Noticing things beyond thoughts and common senses. Overall more enjoyment from every activity like eating, walking, etc. If after a year you have none of that, then it's wise to either improve the practice or do it more often and more consistently. With sitting meditation the thing is to do it as much as you humanly can. If you don't have too much time, then I recommend switching to some kind of yoga or taking holidays and doing a retreat. Psychedelics are also an option, but I am not sure if they are a path for everyone. I am actually very curious about the results of the current Leo's 30 day retreat. If that doesn't work then I will reevaluate their long-term value for myself. Yoga seems to be the most solid way.

Try Kriya Yoga. It's really powerful. The problem with "normal" meditation techniques is that they start snowballing only when your practice is around 1.5h-2h daily and you do a few retreats throught the year. Below that I feel like these are mainly sustaining current level of consciousness instead of growing it. Add to it the fact that most people meditate improperly and you end up with mediocre results. Describe how your meditation session looks like, maybe you are doing something improperly.

@CosmicDNA It can be stopped by customs, although it should be sent foward. 5-MeO is not tested for in any country and is not mistakeable with any other compound. Source: https://erowid.org/chemicals/5meo_dmt/5meo_dmt_testing.shtml

Good, but don't cling to it. There's still so much, much, much, much more to discover.

Sounds good. At some point when you can start to feel that "she's yours" just ask her out or something. Exactly, it's my Achilles' heel and I guess most of introvert guys struggle with overanalyzing. Get out of your head and life becomes much easier. Working on yourself with meditation, yoga, etc. helps in taming the mind. Instant-fix is to stop assuming that you know people and just approaching them with curiosity what their answer may be, instead of creating a whole dialogue tree beforehand in your head.

Yours is especially worrisome.

You will waste material. LSD builds up tolerance for 2 weeks. Here's a chart based on experiences of bluelight forum users: So 14 days is ok, but if you really need to then 1 week is a MINIMUM. If you plan to trip a lot throught the year, then 1 month inbetween the trips would be the best. Dosing everyday is probably unhealthy and just doesn't work the way you would expect it to do. To be honest, if you have never tripped before, that 150ug will be the best experience of your life. Just make sure you do it in the right set&setting. Prepare headphones and some music, blanket, a comfortable place to lay down. You can listen to music with your eyes closed, I really recommend it. Don't forget water to drink and maybe a banana to snack on. You might feel an urge to pee a lot, so remember that you need to be in a close distance to the toilet/nature. Ingest it on an empty stomach to avoid discomfort. Don't worry if you feel shaking, cold, or tightening of blood vessels, that's normal and called bodyload. Wear comfortable clothes, etc. You have probably heard all of that before. After the peak, when you will start to get grip on reality again you can try doing one of the exercises from Leo's list: That kind of practice is much easier to do when under influence of psychedelics. I have personally liked looking at a pen and seeing that it doesn't exist.

If there are people involved, there will be issues. But by no means I say you shouldn't look for new friends. I am myself thinking of attending yoga classes just to meet some new like-minded people, who might have similiar interests, to make friends with. I feel like this self-actualization journey makes people lonely. Who the fuck can you talk with about psychedelics, yoga, health, etc.? I only have one such a friend. And I would like to have more. If that's a case for you, too, then I can't see a reason why you shouldn't go and try finding/creating a new social circle. Ulimately we all have to face the Reality in solitude, but that doesn't mean that whole journey has to be bland and traveled alone without any support. I think that's partly what this forum is for, to satiate the need of connection with other self-actualizing people, so you can focus on your solo-practice and don't waste time finding practicioners in the offline world. But if you have lost your social circle, then why not look for self-actualizers in your local area?

Do you really think it's that easy to organize that kind of event?

It's funny how people get into Yoga to gain physical or mental prowess and then they get mindfucked into Enlightenment. I would say Kriya Yoga or Sadhguru's Isha Yoga (which is modified Kriya). They work extremely fast.

Are you familiar with work of Oliver Sacks? He connected neurobiology with humanistic approach and wrote many brilliant books. I think you might like them. If you don't have time for reading more books now, you can always check out a movie based on one of his books titled "Awakenings". He is a very inspiring guy who at some point of his career was taking psychedelic drugs to better understand his patients. His autobiography is of great value if one is searching for a life purpose or inspiration.

Change your practice to something more powerful, like Kriya Yoga. From practicing Do-Nothing meditation daily I didn't get as much of an impact on a daily life as I get from the Yoga practice. It's miraculous how effective it is. Psychedelics also bring more awareness into your daily life. Especially 5-MeO, but LSD or Magic Mushrooms can also give you a lasting raise in awareness. You can also get rid of your unwanted habits. Doing 10 day long retreats helps in that. Such a reset will help in getting consistent gains in awareness. TL;DR - Kriya Yoga

I am currently experimenting with 5-MeO-MET. I have gone up to only 12 mg at the moment. It seems like a good alternative for 5-MeO-DMT. Comparing to the low dose reports, it's the same thing, but longer acting. Will tell you the results of higher doses when I get there. @okulele What substance was your last trip, when and what dosage. Because there IS cross-tolerance with all psychedelics. If you have taken for example 300mcg of LSD then you have to wait at least month to be sure that it is not interfering with your tolerance. Or if you were taking low-medium doses of mushrooms every two weeks for half a year then you should give yourself a break, too. Otherwise don't expect dosages from the Internet to be accurate.

Man where did he say that. It's just a technique and it seems to be quite working. Doing LSD even once is way more dangerous, even when you have a 100% certainity it's the LSD.

It's funny that RSD teachers know that personally very well. RSD Max has two part book called "The Player", where his depression is being described. Yet one of the main points that advertise his newest product caled "Girlfriend Game" is guide to having threesomes. I guess that high consciousness stuff doesn't sell well enough. RSD as an organization has a very big ego and is money hungry. I can't imagine them switiching to more conscious bussiness scheme, where they sacrifice part of the money for just putting out better and more honest content. Like for example Leo does with Actualized.org, he chooses less money-making, but important topics, doesn't bomb us with short videos and pricey courses all the time, etc. But it's easy for him, beacuse it's his organization, his personal growth = growth of Actualized.org. RSD have this harder, it's fueled by an army of unconsciouss workers and also not everyone at the top is high in consciousness either.

You see, just because a mechanism is brutal it doesn't mean that it's fruit must follow that same set of rules. Look at the evolution, it's basically "survival of the fittest", but it has produced many mechanisms that are not about that at all. Love, music, art, it has outgrown simple survival. Like for example, you care about people and you can say that this urge to help others had evolved to force you to take care of your children. But then it started applying to members of your tribe, then animals. People now care about things that have nothing to do with their survival. In the beginning high consciousness had been helping you to be a better leader, but then slowly started developing into something more. Now it is attractive, even tho it has nothing to do with survival. You can't just look at everything with one lens, in this case "survival".

Go and try it, you don't have to live that way forever. Just please don't end up like the main character of "Into The Wild"

Is this guy that @dude has linked living off his house hacks? No, he's not stupid. He has a bussiness, a website, is writing ebooks and selling expensive courses to build his wealth. So maybe rather than following what he says, you can follow what he actually does. Just some more food for thought.

All that saving makes sense only when you are already earning a lot of money. Look at Leo, I would estimate that he earns around $200.000/year (50k YouTube/150k other stuff), maybe less, maybe more. The thing is, if he saves up 80% of his earnings, well that's something. And if you save up 80% from your $2000 full work time salary then you are living in poverty and saving up your milion would still take you 50 years. You can't win with Math. You need some leverage, wheter it's being extremly good at something like basketball players, singers, writers, etc. or bringing value for a lot of people with your bussiness like Leo does.

That's not a good idea if you want to have a million dollars house. How much can you save a month by not paying a rent? A $1000? (I don't know prices in Belgium) Let's assume optimistically that you even earn $2000 a month from your properties. To earn a $1.000.000 you would need over 40 years! Guess what, your kids will be grown-ups by then. Plus you can't escape taxes, you will be taxed as heavily as an entrepreneur. And there's inflation, so you would need to keep that money on investment deposit, not to earn, but to avoid loosing money! Paradoxically, going into bussiness is safer than all those "safe" tactics.

That's the way, no-one said it's super easy. For some, it's still easier than working 40 years in a life-draining corporate job. You live in the EU, set up a bussiness in Germany or anywhere really, if it's that bad in Belgium (which I don't believe).

Entrepreneurship.

@Sev He is not talking here about Ralston's intensive.