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Be extremely careful. A month is waaay to quick imo. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30850328/#:~:text=Guidelines recommend short tapers%2C of,often not tolerated by patients.

Did you have such an improvement after just one DMSA/ALA 3 days detox?

My two cents: honesty is the key. If you have something you don't want to talk about, your verbal and non verbal communication will suffer. Even if what you don't want to talk about is 10 concepts down the line, your mind senses it and starts to control your communication to avoid saying it or to say it in a way that is not 100% honest. If you think about the things you can talk about as nodes in a graph, you can see how a node representing a thing you don't want to talk about affects all the other nodes, especially the ones nearby. 0 things you feel resistance to talk about = amazing impromptu communication. That's my guess at least

Tolle's take on this: https://youtu.be/VauHIuyPwkM?t=9m16s

@Prabhaker oops, I did check for similar threads, but only in the spirituality section. My bad

Leo wrote "There are many good systems and teachers available online these days" in his recent yoga post on his blog. So, could you give me some names of good systems and teachers? Thx in advance

Lol, I had read your previous answers, but I guess I didn't read them with enough attention One more question if you don't mind. I get how nothingness can be known in its pure form. Rupert Spira put it like this: "it’s the sinking and sinking and sinking and sinking of the attention into its source and as the attention sinks into its source, it is divested of all the limitations that thought and feeling have superimposed on it and at some point it stands completely undressed. And attention undressed, attention divested of all limitations is pure consciousness". I've already had a taste of the process Spira is describing when I did Leo's guided letting go meditation. So I get that if I let go of everything (my self included) pure awareness will remain. What I've never understood is how it's possible to be aware of nothingness merged with content! I've heard Shinzen Young and Rali (Naked Reality on youtube) say that it's like an intuitive knowing, but this doesn't really mean anything. Could you please help me understand?

Yes, that happened to me before. But I wouldn't say that I became what I was sensing: I wasn't there at all! The only thing remaining was the perception. And then I "emerged" again after a while and started to think "Oh, I wasn't present for a while!". Is this what happens to you too? Maybe the problem is that I'm identified with the self and so when the self disappears, I disappear. What happens to you when your sense of self disappears? Can you recognize that that's what's going on, that the self isn't present anymore (while it's happening, not as an afterthought)? And if you can, how does it work?

@Azrael Can you become what you are seeing (or hearing, feeling etc.) whenever you want? That's an hallmark of enlightenment according to Shinzen Young and other teachers. And if you can, how would you decribe that "process"?

I know there can be nothigness. Peter Ralston describes it here: "get that you could be a snail, right now, you could be a snail, so you have no eyes, no visual perception, nor any idea of such a thing. Create this idea for yourself. What that would that be like? You're a snail, see. So, I exist, but I have no eyes, no visual and no idea of such a thing. Create a world in which that's true for you in your experience. Ehi, now, how about a single cell organism that has no perceptive organs at all, be a single cell organism, has no perceptive organs at all. What's that like? Without perceptions or any memory of perception. Without language, without perceptions or any memory of perception and without language, can you think? Try. [...] Try harder. [...] You can't think? See now, that tells you something about thinking, does it? [...] ... close your eyes. Now, what you have in your experience? Darkness is vision, you have hearing, sounds, feelings, sensations, smell. Now remove all of these. It could be done. You know, we could destroy your smell, we could destroy your ears, we could destroy your eyes, we could destroy your nervous system [...] whatever. See, it could be done. So, go ahead and do that, remove all of these, even sensations. It's possible, so imagine doing it. So you remove sight and sound and sensations and smell and taste [...] remove perceptive faculties of any kind. Now where are you? What are you?" So, if you're saying that there is a nothingness that is the most fundamental "thing" and that precedes and follows every sensory experience and it's the essential "I", I could believe you, it makes sense. But that would just be another "experience" (I know that technically it's not an experience) in a series of experiences. It wouldn't be always there. When attention "arises" from that nothingness that nothingness disappear. But if you're suggesting that nothingness is always present, I don't follow you.

2 Not in "my" experience 3 In "my" experience there is just a series of "perceptions" and no me. 4. Nope. There is not an "I" that is aware of anything and there is just a series of "perceptions". Even if some day "I" will find this "presence" you are talking about, it would be just another experience in a series of experiences/perceptions without any entity aware of it. I'm sorry I'm concise, I have little time unfortunately.

"To be sure of something is a quality of mind. The one that is sure or unsure is the mind. You're thinking like a lawyer. You are right from the point of view of a human entity" What you mean by “mind”? And what you mean by “to be sure of/to know something”? "You are separating consciousness from form, yet have you any evidence, if you are going to lawyer about, of there even being such a thing as form?" Not sure what you mean. I’ll say this (not sure if it’s what you’re referring to): there is the colour blue and the colour red and they are not the same “thing”, so there are two “forms” "Isn't all you have of form just the perception of it, awareness of it?" Not sure what you mean. What you mean by perception? Who is the “you” you’re refering to? I can’t find a “me” in my experience. There is just a series of “experiences” and that's it "So the only thing in fact we have first hand evidence of right now is that we are aware, not claiming who we are even, we know we are aware. What we are aware of is just perception in awareness." I actually don’t know that I am aware. How can you say that you are aware?

I understand that there isn't a separate entity that controls stuff. What I was saying is that you cannot be sure that consciousness/you won't cease to exist when the body dies. You can't be sure of the contrary either. That's all I'm saying. Not sure if you're going off on a tangent or I'm the one that doesn't see your point

So what you're saying is that because in one's direct experience the body appears in consciousness and not the other way around, therefore consciousness won't cease existing when the body dies? If this is what you're saying, then I'll repeat what I said in my first post: you can't be sure, it's just a speculation. It could be that consciousness will cease to exist when the body dies even if in your direct experience the body appears in consciousness. And I still don't understand what you mean when you say "consciousness doesn't know anything".

Not sure I understand you. What do you mean by "consciousness doesn't know anything"? I 'd rather say that the body-mind doesn't know anything.