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@molosku Da Vinci is the highest Yellow-level mind I can imagine.

Yoga with Adrienne on Youtube is fantastic. Could you do it in your home? Perhpas just call it "stretching" or "exercise"?

Yes, pussyboy energy will be activated if the man is wearing pastel clothing - like powder blue or pink. If the man wears camo or hunting gear - direct right side tapping will ignite alpha energy.

@Elysian I would focus on rising to Tier 2. The jump from Tier 1 to Tier 2 is enormous - larger than all the Tier 1 stages combined. Once centered in Tier 2, things flow differently than in Tier 1.

I'd throw in some yoga

At a mechanistic level, you may want to research the DMN. Spiritual activities such as meditation, yoga, psychedelics reduce self-centered DMN connectivity.

@MM1988 I've found shamanic breathing promotes an energetic shift from the mind to body.

Yes. Memory is not thought-dependent. Generally, my memory is better during thoughtless / low thought stretches. Thinking can reduce awareness levels. Have you ever been so in awe of natural beauty that thoughts ceased for a bit? Or, a monent of such deep that you melted away? Or, perhaps a flow state while engaging in an activity like mountain biking, skiing or rock climbing?. . . Last weekend, I got into a micro flow state while dancing - only a few thoughts during an hour period. My mind-body merged with the environment and flowed. Much more intuition than thought. Also, constant thinking isn’t healthy - it’s like having a resting heart rate of 100 bpm. I like giving my mind-body a rest from thinking

@robinmk4l Self actualization can be uncomfortable at times. Sometimes one needs to put Truth above security and comfort.

@CroMagna Permanently or temporary? I think permanently would be some type of vegetative state. Plenty of people have stretches without thought. At first they are small gaps between thoughts. Then the gaps get longer. I’ve had stretches of 5-10min without thought. Perhaps more important is one’s relationship with thought. A mind that is attached to thought and identifies with thought is a mind at dis-ease. A mind that doesn’t attach or identify with thoughts can be at rest in the prescence of thought impulses. Similiar to heartbeat, colon contractions or blinking eyelids. Those impulses are not generally bothersome because we don’t attach/identify with them.

@Baotrader You are looking at it from the perspective of a self. Remove the self and take another look.

Everything has no limits. Everything is everything.

Surrender

To a rationalist, trans-rational behavior will appear as irrational.

@Rilles To a logical scientist, both pre-rational and post-rational ideas will appear as irrational.

You speak of God as if it is an entity outside of everything. God *IS* everything. Linear time is a construct within the mind. It is a perspective. If you can step outside the linear time framework, you will realize the eternal now. I think you are still viewing your "self" as a finite being that exists through time. This "suffering forever" stuff is the perspective of the self. Beyond the self, there is just what is. There is wholeness. Beyond the self, there is freedom. Yet, it's not a self-centered type of freedom. The life experience is very different.

I’m fascinated by how so many people can only see through the self’s perspective: is it beneficial or harmful to the self? It seems so strange. In a way, it’s like asking if my 5-meo experience will be beneficial or harmful to a dream character of a fictional man who lived in Portugal during the 17th century.

@seeking_brilliance A great video showing how science is discovering that free-will is a fallacy. Realizing that there is no "chooser" and the self is an illusion is one of the highest hurdles to cross. Hopefully, the science makes the process a bit easier for rationalists to accept.

You are assuming there is a god entity separate from a "me" entity. From the perspective of "me". . . yes, it can be horrifying. Completely surrendering to an unknown entity can be terrifying. IME, the most terrifying experience of my life - by far. Yet from the perspective of a transcended self, there is no separation - there is one everything. There is no thing outside of the transcended YOU. There is no thing that can harm or scare a separate you, because there is no you to harm or scare. Everything is YOU. For my self, this was one of my biggest hurdles to cross. There was some seriously scary shit thrown to discourage surrendering. And, it is MUCH easier to imagine and converse about it than to face it. This stuff here is a walk in the park vs. confronting it and surrendering to it.

@kieranperez It seems like "truth" in this context is really opinions, beliefs, preferences and seeking security. There is a much deeper Truth.

Perhaps this one should remain a secret. . .

You speak of the ego as if it is a bothersome pet of yours. Ego = self = personality IME, 5-meo doesn't "help" a person - it kills a person. The person ceases to exist. The self cannot imagine existence without it's self. Yet, there is still a lot of work to do after one has transcended the self and 5-meo can help with that work. When one awakens to the dream, the dream continues. . .

I don’t know anymore ?‍♂️ Take anything I write with a grain of salt ?

@Mu_ Nice costume and video. I like the part about direct experience around 5min.

Yes, it is very easy for the self to attach to "spiritual" ideas. Such attachments lead to beliefs - which are "bullshit". Yet, it is also very easy for the self to avoid, dismiss and reject ideas - which is also "bullshit". There is a sweet spot in which one is aware of many ideas and perspectives without attachment or repulsion. I've found this to be important for direct experience. Without conceptual knowledge, I am likely to disregard direct mystical experiences as "woo woo".