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@moon777light It's hard to reach everyone and make them take part in a poll. I bet that Leo has fairly good statistics of his audience directly from YouTube or other marketing tools and will base his decisions on that. He can probaly see who visits the website/buys products/donates on PayPal the most, too. So don't you worry about that! He will know were to go first.

The only person I can talk about it freely in person is my mother. She is materialistic, but open-minded neverteless, I remember talking with her when I was a kid about possibility of aliens and magnitude of cosmos. Now we have a talk about non-duality from time to time, mainly because my parents see me meditating, watching Sadhguru/Leo, they know what books I read, they see I am cleaning my diet, etc.

What about deviated septum? My right nostril has around 60% efficency of the left nostril. I wonder, while doing Nadi Sodhana I should put more effort to match time of exhalation and inhalation on those two nostrils to say for example 8 seconds, or put the same amount of effort on both and inhale/exhale through left for 6 seconds and through right 10 seconds. My intuition tells me the first option would be better, but I am not sure.

@phoenix666 If you have results from other practices and don't feel like it's a wasted time then keep on doing them. The point is to cut the ineffective one's. BTW, your post is kind of mental masturbation. Go test Kriya and then compare if your previous techniques were really that effective.

It's highly controversial. Non-duality can be misunderstood, especially by suicidal people, resulting in even more damage. My deepest realization to this moment was when driving a car. I was intensly focused on the road and my thoughts had wandered for a second towards metaphysical question, then I saw that all is nothing and never existed. It was very positive, but to be honest, if there was a road accident going to happen then I probably wouldn't fight for my life, I would simply let it be. That's how powerful this realization is. I think it may be the same for depressed people. If they are already on the brink of commiting suicide, then Enlightment experience might be just a green light for that, with very high possibility of killing themselves during the trip. I don't know for sure, I am just guessing. So, maybe not 5-MeO, but low dose of AL-LAD would be more suitable?

Man, you know nothing about money, it's clear from your responses. Read "The Millionaire Fastlane" or something similar to get to know the basics. I am for the car idea and other alternative lifestyles, but it's not as easy as you think and you need to manage money even better than when renting a flat. Check out workaway.info, maybe it's something for you. Volounteering, you can discover many new different things this way.

It doesn't matter. The sentence is correct, because there is a corellation between what you experience and electrical signals in a pink blob called the brain. You only make a mistake when you are trying to deduct existence of objective reality based on that fact.

On medium to high doses there is a lot of stuff happening with your cardiovascular system. You can start to loose feeling in some parts of the body. Some little vein can pop, for example in a tongue, which hurts a lot and creates a taste of blood. Your heart can start beating really fast. You can have problems with catching breath. You can feel all kinds of painful sensations in your head. Don't freak out when you start to experience that kind of stuff. If you take known substance in amounts considered normal by psychedelic community, then you are safe. Problems start when you take the wrong substance, for example DOB mislabeled as 4-AcO-DMT, then you can take a ludicrous dose of one substance, that would be considered normal for the another. Other common mistakes are taking NBOMEs, thinking they are LSD or thinking that if new substance you have has similar name, then the dosage will be similar too, that's not true.

I second that it has nothing to do with dark room retreat. If it's really 300ug then you are in for some really interesting and intense open-eye visuals. Please, tell us how it went after you trip, I am curious. I bet that you will want to leave the room after few hours into the trip, but who knows what will really happen.

I desire relatonship and consider myself a happy person at the moment. So while craving for happiness is a factor for some people to get into relationships, I think there are other forces at play there, that decide whether you want it or not. Like, it's whole new field to explore and it's exciting.

Changes are for sure permanent, which is CRAZY at first. You start wondering if you are not getting insane. I know it's a goal of every self-actualization technique is to make a change in life, but no method I know does it so radically and fast as psychedelics, which is scary. For example, in the beginning I didn't even know what a mind without verbal thoughts is. It was mind-shattering and so joyful to discover Eckhart Tolle's works and notice gap between thoughts for the first time. I could only notice it for a few seconds at first. Now after few months of tripping I can sit in no-mind state for long minutes and sometimes I become aware of things I couldn't have imagined back then. Reality feels mysterious and magical now, before, I have thought I have figured it all out. I have became so much grounded, the way I walk has changed automatically into something more balanced. I am starting to feel deeply connected to my feelings, I have been detached before. I have got many juicy insights from my tripping that became incorporated into my everyday life and meditation habit. I have discovered completly new ways of thinking and accessing reality, unspeakable. Improving my diet became effortless to some extent, junk food simply started to taste terrible. Few tips for fruit-bearing psychedelics practice: do it once a month, baby step your doses, be in your best condotion - mentally and physically. I feel like the longer the period inbetween the trips, the more juice you can get out of it. Going too fast makes your insights half-baked, because you don't really have time to incorporate them into your life. That's why I don't recommend doing them every two weeks, even though the substance would work as it's meant to be. I feel often like some parts of the last trip echo in my life. It likes to loop and repeat. If the trip was weird, I might be weirder than usual for a few weeks. If it was loving, I will be extremly open and warm-hearted towards people. You get the point. For me classical psychedelics like LSD or shrooms push towards one direction - it's called AUTHENTICITY. Really, these substances show you what you are at your core.

Cool to watch. Thanks for sharing and thanks to your friend for creating.

I even think that Enlightened people could be more prone to become alcoholics or obese for example, because they are so detached from normal life that they keep those unhealthy habits as anchors to keep their bodies alive, to have at least one physical desire. Just a crazy idea.

I know this loop of "stressful work > masturbation > stressful work > eating junk food" so well. For me the solution was to change my job. I don't know any short term solution that will work for you until you can switch your job to something more healthy, OTHER THAN mindfullness practice. It can be very helpful if applied throughout whole time you work. From the beginning to an end. And don't beat yourself up, there's no point in that. In the end it just worsens the condition. I have fallen into this trap many times, please don't repeat my mistakes.

What I am 100% sure is that you will make it through. There's not a single situation that is permament - everything passes - you can trust in that. If you want some advice then that's what I can tell you: Don't try to keep yourself present, just notice that is the only option.

It hasn't helped me much, but it was fun to explain it to my friends. We were traveling by train for few hours, during that time we talked, did some tests, read a little and ended up figuring our Enneagrams. Descriptions were so accurate it was scary. But what do you do after you figure out your personality type? How to apply it? Maybe you can use this knowledge to choose a suitable career, partner or place to live. I haven't done any of that yet, so maybe that's why it's useless for me. Does anyone know any other uses of Enneagram and other personality types?

I was eating and thinking about a friend. I was thinking about her perspective and then literally saw that there is no her, there are only facets of this infinite grey-mass blob. Which quickly transfered into my own experience - "there is no me". I was sitting there, eyes wide open, nothing has changed, but everything has changed. You get it? I was sitting with my mouth open and looking around, it was it. I wasn't very impressed, it was a very subtle thing, yet not missable. Then mom told me to park my car into driveway. It was like a good joke. There is no me, there is no car, there's just Reality. Duration of the experience - 3 seconds deep, 10-15 seconds somewhat deep, 2-3 minutes good meditative state. According to ten Oxes story I don't think it was even a tail of the Ox, but still something. Let's continue. For few days I had been lacking sleep a little bit, like a 1-1.5 hours lacking every day, so it finally got me and I fell asleep as soon as I sat on the couch. When I was waking up it was like a psychedelic trip. Everything around me was dense, it felt like I had to swim through the ocean of thoughts. For 15 minutes every relationship between any object was understood. Sadly, the memory of this experience fades with every hour. I suspect it's because of the same mechanism that erases dreams. This is sad, because it was one of the most profound experiences in my life and I would like to remember it. It felt like being at the core of knowledge. Why did I call Infinity a grey-mass blob? Because that's how it feel to me. Imagine someone you care about in some kind of scenery. Now this picture is loosing it's color and contrast, while simultaneously the objects in the scene get ripped layer after layer, you start to see person's skull, etc. until finally there's just One. I won't call it a thing, it's just One. It's not how it literally looks like, because perceptions don't change at all, but if it had to be translated into visual language that's how I would describe it. Additional insight: I think that psychedelics like AL-LAD or 5-MeO-DMT take those subtle Enlightment experiences and make them gross and that's what so sweet about them. Having written it down for my personal journal I thought I might as well share it with you.

Maybe it will help you. I spend a lot of time in front of computer and have an improper posture. Which is really a pain in the ass if you want to start yoga. So, looking for solution I found Big Stretch Reminder program. It's very simple and interrupts you every 20 minutes to do some stretching. So far it helps.

@Elton by having direct impact on someone with wider reach. Think like grey eminence. For example, you becoming a Donald's Trump yoga teacher would have an enormous impact on the world.

Reality is twisted enough. I don't see a problem with possibility of some Master going there on demand or in sowe weird, non-understable way being there 24/7. Talk about frying someone's relative brain seems inappropiate in the light of possibilites of Absolute which can get as parodoxical as it wants.

I thnik it's not desired to use them non-stop. For me, music or these beats don't really help. But it might be interesting to test them on psychedelics, I have to try it.

What you are looking for are Ken Wilber's works. Start with anything you like, they are all quite good. No Boundary for example was really fascinating to read.

Congrats on your decision!

@Elisabeth Wheat is problematic, because it's plain energy that's hard to digest and lacks nutrients. And that's a problem, because your body has evolved in such a way that it can't, by itself, reuse or synthesise all the molecules needed to sustain perfect health and body performance. Every organism has evolved to consume certain types of food that were accessible at the time and it turns out people are incompatible with wheat just as dogs are with chocolate.

Oranges are so sweet and juicy, because they have been cultivated by humans for more than 4000 years.