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watch Leo's intro to systems thinking, this is pretty much it.

that's a very meaning-based view of the world, the opposite of nonduality. To me love is just an emotion inside awareness, it's not everpresent whatsoever. It's definitely a very powerful emotion, but it's not existence.

did you do any psychedelics before? and how much times 5meo?

well no wonder, that alone can get you high

if you want to live the western lifestyle theres a limit to how much you can minimize your use of technology. I agree that "adding more" is not good, but you dont necessarily add more during a trip, it depends on how the trip goes and what your intentions are. also that's nothing compared to modern distractions, phones and notifications differ in orders of magnitude. In the not so far future we will know better, when we will have more modern teachers and legalization is a thing now. Right now though, I think the best way to know if psychedelics help is to judge by yourself, I think its very individual. if psychedelics bring more good than trouble, fuck them off. if they're opening your mind to the bullshit youve been telling yourself (like it did so very hard to me) I think they're cool.

Do you know what's the common thread with all of those people? they're old. They have no idea how it's like to grow up with computers, phones and technology we have today. Leo is fairly young so he knows, he also played a ton of videogames so he knows very well, that's why I think he recommends psychedelics. They dont know how fucked up the young generation's minds are because of technology. that's something to consider. I want to know the opinions of gurus which are fairly young, but they wouldnt be much gurus, right?

get out of here, are you joking? if not, for how long have you been doing it?

2 months, a month's break and now 2 weeks in

edited the quote. lol seems like its working

personally I find it boring

I watched that video and I kind of have to say that I agree on some level. I was never in a relationship but I would imagine it takes a shitload of emotional energy. Going after the life purpose, contributing to society, getting enlightened, getting wisdom is much more important than having a relationship. I guess the ideal approach is to have casual sex at the start as long as it develops me, because i never had sex, and not to be in a relationship. Maybe date in order to get experience but not to go too far. At age 30+ to search for a partner and to start developing a deep connection. For women it is for sure different, but for men, as said in the video and as ive seen in other places his sexual value maximizes near 40. It also makes sense because if I would date a woman, she would be minimum 18. I dont want to have kids until 30-35, because I wouldnt be able to finance it and it would hinder my personal development. That means that the woman would have to date me until I was about 30, but ideally a woman would have kids at around 25-30, because of her biology. If I would date a girl my age she could potentially waste all of her young years with me if we would break up at the end. that would mean that after the break up, say at around age 30, she would have very little value compared to a 25 year old woman, so she could stay lonely for her whole life. That's just evil and ignorant from my perspective to do that.

@now is forever i dont identify as an existentialist, i dont care about labels much. bruh, its either me or you, but i cant understand how what you write me connects to my previous posts. what did you mean by all that? @Crystalous to me thinking that my sense of existence is the only truth is a belief.

the materialist paradigm- consciousness is a byproduct of brain activity. Give me points that contradict that, make me doubt that.

@now is forever didnt get you. all im saying is that i dont know about other potential truths, and the only truth that i do know is that i exist

@Joseph Maynor i dont care about enlightenment, i dont know what it is anymore. what i care about is truth

@now is forever its not a question of whether it matters or not, its a question of truth. the only thing i know for sure is that i exist, but that doesnt mean its the only truth that can be. the outside world can exist, i don't know

but there's stuff you cant disprove. I cant disprove, even experientially, that there's no outside world. hence I stay in a place where I dont know.

@now is forever wat

why? how can you know or not know something for certain? except that youre aware i guess

@Leo Gura Do you experience personally semi-serious benefits already, after months of doing kriya?

I suggest try first a 10 day vipassana retreat and see how you do, if you cant manage that dont do 5 meo. i would also recommend building up to it with different psychedelics with different dosages. for example some shrooms, then lsd, then a heroic shroom dose (5g) and then Id only try 5meo. it might me too much information at once for you so you might not get anything out of it.

tried to do what you recommended. didnt connect at all to the words, sounded too superficial and cheesy thanks anyway

Actually a very strange thing happened to me. I was looking at the moon and I felt sort of "download" of energies from it. I felt a sensation in the belly, it was as though it was growling and I was hungry. I didnt think anything of it, but then about 30 minutes later, I was with my friends, the moon became more red I felt this energy in my hands and back and i started to freak a little, but it passed. at around 10pm when the eclipse was at it's peak I felt a sensation in the back of my head. I concentrated on it and it went to the front of my head. at that point the sensations in the upper back and the hands came back again, but much stronger. the energy continued and continued to increase and I felt a sharp pain in my teeth, they actually became very large, and a lot of hair was coming out of my hands and my back!!! my nails also started to grow bigger and i couldnt help the energy in my throat chakra and just started howling. everyone around me looked at me terrified. then I felt this anger and that hungry feeling again and I couldnt hold myself back and slaughtered and ate all my friends. im now covered in blood, I ran back home just to write about it here in the forum!! and what a synchronicity that you posted a topic about this!! all the hair fell out and I dont know what to do now, im contemplating suicide, help.

watched both vids. In both I couldnt grasp the "I AM", I have no idea what that is or how can I be aware of it or experience being it. Am I aware? yes, definitely, how do I know? because it has to be the case, but I cant get what that experience in the present is like.

not sure what you meant here, but x rays and gamma rays are the same photons with different frequencies (energies) human perception of time has nothing to so with "physical" time. time in terms of physics depends on how fast youre traveling compared to another object. youre misunderstanding. time in the human sense is neurology and psychology, not physics.