Forestluv

That’s not my understanding of what SD is about. IMO, SD is one of many spiritual languages. To me, your message suggests being bounded and enslaved. It suggests a person should avoid a particular language. The spiritual language of Buddhism stresses that avoidance and attachment are on the same level - two sides of the same coin. Both lead to delusion and suffering. SD is a beautiful part within a larger whole.

Yes. Stage green includes connecting to others, developing compassion and becoming part of communities. Green has a more expansive and inclusive sense of community than Blue. On what you quoted of Satchidananda: At a mature level of understand, this gets into Turqoise. It sounds like a Turquoise teaching greens, to help them further evolve.

I would be cautious with pschedelics at your age. Your frontal cortex is still developing. For a breakthrough experience, I would take just the amount to ensure a breakthrough experience. Going higher than that can cause blackouts and the experiences become extremely difficult to integrate into life.

When you reach stage green, you are in for a treat ?

I’ve blacked out at 30mg.

Similar for me. Under 27mg plugged and I’m fine. Moderate body load 30mg+

@mohdanas I wish you the best in your endeavor ♥️?

Your view of “leader” is what made me chuckle.

Homunculus lives on ?

@Mondsee There are tons of awakened women. Many teach small retreats and have youtube stations. For example, check out the science and nonduality list - lots of women. There was also an actualized thread on awakened women. It was enormous - I think well over 100 women.

@non_nothing A beautiful poem with depth of human experience.

You speak of the "ego" as if it were a bothersome pet of yours. Ego = self = delusion The idea that "I want to understand my ego. . . " is a classic trick of the ego!

@Jed Vassallo I did three Ayahuasca ceremonies during a retreat in Peru. I took two servings. As well, I've done 5-meo about 10 times solo at home. The term "powerful" is relative to the person. Are you referring to depth of insights? Visuals? Mental / physical discomfort? For me personally, I would put Aya and 5-meo on a similar "power" level. Yet, they are different teachers with different lessons. In general, Aya gave me three very different trips, while 5-meo has been more consistent. In terms of mental intensity - both require a high level of surrender and I had to deal with panic / insanity zones prior to ego death with both. Both are possessive to me, with Aya more aggressively possessive. Aya was much more visual and it felt like there was some presence offering lessons - often called Mother Aya. 5-meo have very little visuals - it's more like a dissolving. There was no sense of any type of being. In general for me, it's like becoming the universe, being the magnificence of life. Or, just deep insights into energy flows. It's hard to describe. I'm fortunate in that 50-meo is fairly gentle on me, yet I can see how people go into insanity zones with it. Both Aya and 5-meo gave me a very deep sense of interconnection to all of reality - especially nature and people. In terms of physcial intensity - I found Aya to be more physically intense, yet people have told me I'm an oddball with 5-meo body load.

Exactly ???

It depends on your definition of “know”. If you want to go the “it’s all a dream route”, then I don’t know. Yet that leaves me sitting all day in silence in a nondual state - just being. I kinda like communicating with others and making human connections - which involves sharing memories.

This is a 2005 talk, somewhat outdated. He presents a rational, physical view - yet lacks higher-order relativism and metaphysics regarding existence. A standard rationalist with little trans-rational understanding

Ok. There is a deeper understanding than alpha/beta available at a deeper level of consciousness. From an evolution/neuroscience perspective, it would be primarily a limbic system view, with perhaps a single layer of frontal cotex reasoning.

It’s just another perspective

I never had children and I never had a desire to have children. I've always had a strong aversion to having my own kids. Does my life lack objective meaning? We have the technology to kill off all men and keep the human race going without sexual reproduction. Would such a world lack objective meaning?

alpha or beta males is Red/Blue/Orange level thinking. There is a much deeper understanding available at Green and above.

For me, when a sense of knowing arises, the types of questions you are asking dissolve. My “breakthrough” with the whole “were you born thing” came in a sensory deprivation tank.

This makes complete sense from a rational perspective. There is also a perspective that is non-rational.

In the general lexicon of word usage, I would consider "necessary" as most objective, "meaning" as most subjective and "purpose" as in-between. Purpose suggests intention. I think there is a basic concept of intention related to the self and a more metaphysical usage of intention beyond the self.

Seems like some entitlement going on here.

Ok. . . and a pigeon expresses meaningless homing behavior. . .