Brandon Nankivell

How to best map it?

Since 2 recent awakenings in the last few months + a gradual unfolding of inner peace over the last 12 months, I've noticed dream activity increase. Especially since the most recent awakening. My mind has been pretty relaxed lately. Spending hours outside in nature sitting and doing nothing. Walking sometimes. It seems as if the ego is attempting to fight for its survival by ramping up dream activity. Coincidence? Or normal?

My cringe video turned into a YouTube career in which I work a couple hours a week. Post it! Then keep optimizing.

Great way to grow in my experience. Did the digital nomad thing for 1.5 years on and off. Taught me that living in an apartment for $80 in Thailand for the rest of your life isn't as good as I thought it was It was awesome at the time though, because that's what I wanted. Made friends that I still have today, and valuable connections. Crazy experiences. Learned how to be independent. Going broke overseas was a big wake-up call. Learned much about stress and asking for help. Dating experience greatly increased. Learned the basics of spanish. Learned street smarts and the value of reading people. At some point though it does indeed decline in terms of overall ROI in your life. Mark Manson mentions this. After you've been to enough countries, it all becomes the same. You'll also realize you can't establish roots anywhere and may eventually yearn for that like most. But for 1-2 years I think it's a high growth activity.

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Where do you think you could start?

I concur with @Nahm 's comment on understanding the emotion instead of coping with it. Best wishes to you for meeting kinder people.

Contemplate your own death. Imagine what it feels like when your about to die. Feel the five sense. Perhaps you're in a coffin. Or about to get eaten by a shark. Accept and relax into it. Sit out in nature for at least 40 minutes. When the 40 minutes is up, stay aware for 5 minutes as you get up and walk away. Do this frequently. Watch Leo's Neti Neti method video Read some Peter Ralston books

The Book of Not Knowing is amazing. Still going through it. Feel I could have accelerated my journey if I had found this years ago.

Ripped Maharshi.

Did a decent bump. Felt like my point of consciousness behind my eyes zoomed way backward. Felt disasocciated (surprise surprise!). Especially if a stayed still. I could still function well and was still 'there' in the physical world. Thinking was a little different. Had strange thoughts about ex-girlfriend and ex best friend. Kinda like how LSD makes you see things in different ways. It was dreamy-ish. Providing I remained still, everything around me blurred out / zoned out. Took it recreationally. There was no underlying healing/spiritual intention. Felt like I got nothing from it in that regard, although I could see how with intention it may be of use (to say nothing of the undesirable side effects like potential addiction etc.)

See it as a growth experience. Write a rough action-step plan down, even if it's not perfect. Some basical small steps to follow. Then one step at a time .

It's a pretty broad question. The niche you're in and video style/format would help. A few suggestions based on having 2 channels with a combined 15-20m views or so: Go broad like Mr. Beast - If there is a wide appeal, then YouTube can give more impressions which can lead to more clicks and then to more views This can even work for newer channels, but the title, thumbnail, and topic has to be on-point Always make the first 15 seconds engaging AF and give them some kind of impression that there is more value to come (this can be indirectly communited in the video title or thumbnail without having to say anything in the video itself) Video topic - This is everything. Moreso than title and thumbnail. You can select topics based on Google Trends, however I'd suggest looking at 3-5 popular competitor channels and get a feel for what pops in your niche Have similar videos on your channel so there's a logical sequence of watching for the viewer to follow. For example, 'Sadhguru's Top 5 Tips on Loneliness', then have another video, 'Buddha's Top 5 Tips on Loneliness' - since the viewer may also be interested in that too and it may show up in suggested.

Keep doing the spiritual work. You can try things like imagining a scenario where you were alone forever, and imagine accepting all the discomfort.

Can be normal to feel this way occasionally on the path. If you really want to continue your spiritual development though, you will in spite of this.

Yes.

It can feel like there is nothing to do once you're there, and that everything you had done had been pointless. But doing always precedes it, so the communication can evoke confusion.

Have done nos alone and multiple times on different doses of LSD. Its highly highly pleasurable. I've never conflated it with God-realization. I suppose the sense of self does evaporate for 20 seconds, it's hard for me to say what I'm experiencing, but it definitely feels good, and there still is a tiny hint of being on planet earth (still hearing sounds in the environment in which I'm in). Maybe I just don't get God-realization like others do, or maybe it is but I'm just not calling it that. I feel like it's not. I think there'd be more conviction that it is if it were.

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Name: Brandon Age: 26 Gender: Attack Helicopter Location: Gold Coast, Australia Occupation: YouTube Strategist Marital Status: Single Pringle Kids: No Hobbies: reading, synthesising knowledge, chess, self-inquiry, meditation, online business, rhetoric, philosophy, piano, nature, walking I was 17 and bored after school, scrolling through my 4th gen iPod touch. Opened the iBooks app, came across this book called the 2-week lucid dreamer, had my first lucid dream, was wow'd how awesome the book was so started reading more books, which lead to Rich Dad Poor Dad, which lead to trying and failing some online business attempts until YouTube took off for me and been doing that since. Ended up travelling the world doing the digital nomad thing, all while reading more books and self-developing. Psychedelic experimentation, a little public speaking, podcasted 40 episodes with world class experts and millionaires including Grant Cardone and others, all of this stuff intermixed with periods of anxiety, loneliness, varying levels of depression but fortunately not too much. Around comes mid-2020 and have my first experience of Joy as a state of being that lasted 6-months straight. Started taking enlightenment work seriously. Became obsessed with Osho. Soon had first minor experience of realizing the self is an illusion. Early 2021 my first stream-entry enlightenment experience. Currently conversing with an advanced spiritual mentor who I met spontaneously whilst listening to Krishnamurti, Leo, Peter Ralston, Shinzen Young, and Adyashanti to integrate what I've experienced + further my pursuit of enlightenment. Personal challenges I've overcome: Accepting the death of my Mother Mindset of employed versus investor (overcoming) Stuck living with parents to living independently with heaps of free time doing my own thing Exited Christianity Didn't fit in at school, now I feel I fit in socially and have nearly 0 issues Beat the water temple in Zelda Ocarina of Time multiple times What I'm working on now: Enlightenment Scaling business with a team Intimacy Understanding society and politics Winning Chess Establishing in-person discourses, something like what Terence McKenna used to do Preparing food with love Learning how to clean stuff properly and be a responsible tenant/adult

Based on my experience of 'stream-entry' enlightenment (the first of four stages outlined in Buddhism), it's like: Awareness on steroids and auto-pilot (unless it is a temporary or 'non-abiding' enlightenment) Peripheral vision widens slightly Focal point of your vision widens slightly Clear mind Permanent change in sense of smell, taste, and body sensation Contentment Peace A conviction that the change is permanent No doubt that it can go even higher than this Non-identification with self - It now feels absolutely false to identify as your name or believe that there is a self It's understood that there is 'just things happening' to quote Jim Carey, or 'things ocurring' to quote Shinzen Young Realization that there is no watcher - the instructions from spiritual guides to become the watcher are just that - instructions, the watcher is just another thought Sit-down meditations are easy and you feel like you can do nothing for hours and be content Decreased heart rate and breathing rate Body lightness, like a feather First few days were overwhelming, there was an adaption phase for me, because the shift is so distinct with permanency, there's this feeling like you'll switch back into the normal self how you always lived your life but when awareness is hyper and switched on and won't turn off, feelings of anxiousness can well up - I had insomnia the first few nights - Everything that I was experiencing was very clearly shared via stories from others in Adyashanti's book: The End of Your World - Thank heavens there was a book for this. It's not every day someone writes a book on how to deal with enlightenment after enlightenment and has the direct experience themselves along with students who also have direct experience. Realization that enlightenment doesn't mean you don't make mistakes, make you automatically morally pure, don't have negative feelings arise sometimes etc...

States in Australia have been in put in lockdown again, and it's been ordered that wearing masks is mandatory. How effective do you believe masks are for helping to stop the spread of Covid? Do you think that mass compliance to this order (and the residual effects caused) is enough of a concern that it could lead to a dictatorship or some form of authoritarian rule within the next few years? Is it enough of a concern that may make sense for a minority (let's say 1-5%) not to comply with the order, in order to reduce the likelihood of supposed creeping authoritarianism, whilst still maintaining a high capacity of mask-wearers to help stop the spread of Covid?

Great point. Recently been listening to Leo's conscious politics videos which have been good.