Interesting trip report of Sadghuru

[OBEler]

He was popping 98 pills as a child to find out what death is.

https://www.penguin.com.au/books/death-9781761356933/extracts/3228-death

My father was a physician, so he had a medicine cabinet at home. I knew there were lots of medicines in it. Among them, I found a bottle of Gardenal. It is a kind of barbiturate that can put you to sleep. The bottle was supposed to contain a hundred tablets, but when I took them out and counted, there were only ninety-eight. Someone had opened it and used up two. I thought ninety-eight tablets should be a dose strong enough to cause death. Next, I went through my cupboard. I had some money and lots of personal property like marbles, catapults, and a few pet birds, which are of great value for a young boy. I decided to give them all away because I was going to die anyway. Some things I gave to my brother, the rest I distributed among my close friends. I told them I was leaving. They all thought it was a big joke. Then one day I decided that I would do it that night. I did not eat my dinner that night because I knew if there was food in the stomach these things might not work very well. I told my family I was not hungry and went to the terrace with the tablets. I popped in all the ninety- eight pills and just went to sleep, hoping that I would know where all the dead people go.

In the morning, they did everything to wake me up, but I would not wake up. Usually, it was a little hard to wake me up in the mornings, but this time I just did not wake up at all. Then my father saw that I was limp. Everyone became terrified and took me to a hospital. They did a stomach pump, put me on oxygen, and all that, but I did not wake up. For three days, I was lifeless and in a deep sleep. On the third day, I slowly came awake. Still lying down on the bed, I slowly opened my eyes. The first thing I saw were the rafters in the ceiling above the bed. Immediately, I recognized where I was. I had seen those rafters many times before when I had visited my father at the railway hospital, where he worked. There I was, lying in a bed in his hospital with all kinds of tubes sticking out of me. It was very frustrating, because I had gone through all this trouble hoping to see where one goes after death, and all I see are the damn rafters at the railway hospital!

That was a desperate attempt to know what happens after death, but I had learned nothing about it. The only consolation was that I learned that this was not the way to know. Later, I managed to bully my friends into returning most of the stuff I had distributed to them, and life carried on! Many years later, when I was a young man living life at my cocky best, a deep experience came unasked that changed my perspective about life and death completely.

 

Overall he got no good insights about this trip and probably didnt try drugs again. But who knows if he is secretly popping some 5 meo in his ashram. After reading this I think he is for sure open to it, he has a big curiousity. He  cant use psychedelics openly because it would destroy his reputation. But in secret who knows.

Edited Thursday at 06:21 PM by OBEler

[emil1234]

im pretty sure sadhguru accesses 5meo states naturally

[manuel bon]

@emil1234 not an expert, but I highly doubt that you can access any psychedelic state without taking them. The mind is powerful, placebo is a big thing, but still, I don’t think you can access those states without taking them 

[emil1234]

i can tell from personal experience with kundalini activations / breathwork that it is very possible. not that i have had full blown 5 meo breakthroughs sober yet, but ive seen enough to know that its very possible

[Sandroew]

I feel like i heard so many insane stories from Sadhguru over the years, he turned into the grandpa that tells amusing lies to his grandchildren.

My own grandpa was full of it.

”Back in my day it was so cold in winter the wienerdogs snapped in half trying to get around the corner”

[OBEler]

11 hours ago, emil1234 said:

im pretty sure sadhguru accesses 5meo states naturally

Me too. I heard insane transmission stories first hand. He is really in a different state of consciousness.

[LordFall]

Very interesting, thanks for sharing. Also shows that the spiritual bypassing is deep in his character for some reason. I think he does a lot of good work and spreads spirituality globally and on a lot of mainstream platforms which is great but I always felt a lot of shadow from him. The easiest examples is when he doesn't know something he doesn't admit, he gives word salad answers that confuse people and looks like spiritual narcissism to me. 

Edited 4 hours ago by LordFall