Carl-Richard

LMAO

Show me a question that wasn't asked by a human.

You got an example?

Did the people you listed say explicitly "I'm 100% certain that this true!" or is that just a general wibe you're getting? How do you go about distinguishing that wibe from just being invested, involved, or simply taking it seriously? Does every action require 100% certainty?

You meditate and then you go about your day. That is about as conscious you'll get. If something entertains you, that's high consciousness entertainment. Don't turn consciousness work into a crippling obsession.

You're confusing seriousness with certainty.

I'm more onboard with that. Though, one should be vary of letting this kind of insight paralyze you to the point where you don't know what to do. You can never ever perform a fully informed action.

@Mikael89 You're confusing limited experiences for Experience itself; the relative and the absolute.

That is like asking "why do people dance?". Because they want to. It's because God wants to. The idea that every question must have an answer is an anthropocentric notion. Adopt a cosmocentric perspective. Why do people dance to music? You need a beat, a rhythm, a structure, a progression. If it's infinite in all dimensions, it must be happening right now. Absolute Infinity contains EVERYTHING! Confusion, delusion, illusion is all true. Where else could it be if not inside infinity?

Knowing is experience. You said you didn't trust your experience, and I asked "how do you know that?", and you replied with "I don't know". I replied "Good", because you showed consistency in your answers. Whether or not you claim to trust in your own experience, "trust" is still a duality. Whichever part of that duality you choose to go with, you still have to know that. Experience still stands.

How do you know?

Good.

How do you know?

How do you know that you're not trusting in experience?

By doing that though, aren't you trusting in the experience of you not trusting in experience?

Suffering is the currency of survival. Because survival necessitates evolution. Suffering drives evolution, evolution drives survival. If the universe is boundless and infinite, it must also contain you as a possible configuration of itself, or else it couldn't be absolutely infinite. If it didn't contain the limited little you who is suffering and asking anthropocentric questions, then it would be limited and not infinite. Delusion is just when you take an illusion for its appearance rather than its substance. An illusion is simply something that appears as something it isn't. The illusion still exists, therefore the illusion is true, just as much as the thing it appears to be is true.

Alcohol is actually the only drug that causes aggressive behaviour (according to Jordan Peterson who has done studies on it). Of course It depends on the person and the situation. One time when I became blackout drunk, a friend of mine told me that I just went around telling people how much I loved them

It's not a pratice. It's just you going about your day without unnecessarily fueling your attachment to spirituality, without creating neurotic patterns around spiritual pratice itself. Your spiritual practice obviously shouldn't be a source of neurotic behaviour/thoughts. It's directly antithetical to what you're trying to achieve. You don't want to spend the rest of your life doing a 24/7 spiritual practice. That is what you're setting yourself up for. Do your spiritual practice, then drop it and go about your day. "Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water."

That is exactly the problem.

Do you think this is related to the massive dose of MAOIs that you talked about?

Hell no. If you haven't talked to anybody in your entire life, dropping the internal narrator doesn't automatically grant you social skills. Becoming awake will only keep you from holding yourself back (drawbacks that stem from neurotic thoughts), but being social is an actual skill that you have to develop by actively engaging in it. For example, you don't become a guitar god by realizing you are God. That's a ridiculous expectation.

Do you want to induce non-dual states or do you want to abide in it? It's apparently easy to induce it, but letting it become your natural state is a completely different task. Focus on the problem of resting in non-dual awareness. These types of practices is just a hamster spinning in a wheel. You need to be able to rest. By rest I don't mean "becoming aware of your true self", or becoming mindful, or inducing a calm state. I just simply mean relax, stop searching, go on about your day. Limit your spiritual practice to a select time period of your day. When you're not practicing, you're doing something else. Whatever you're supposed to do, do it fully, then when you're not doing it, let it be. This is important, because a non-dual state only becomes your abiding state if you're already at rest. I keep seeing this type of ADHD spirituality on this forum, and based on my own experience, it's really detrimental to both your mental health and your spiritual progression. By following half-baked practices that you can just do on a whim whenever you feel like it, you're setting yourself up for intrusive thoughts and compulsive behaviour. Your practice shouldn't impede your daily life. Have some structure, establish a routine, and your work will actually pay off.

This is a non sequitur. The only way you build social skills is by doing it in practice: go out there and be social. You don't become more social by putting more ideas about it inside your head. Being social is about getting out of your head, learning to feel others and meeting them where they're at, and you cannot think yourself to that place. You have to walk yourself to that place, and only then you can start using your mind, to interact with other people.