DisEmboDied wrote:Does anyone else out there take psychedelics, have beautiful and clear instructions on how to make your life very happy or balance it, or just to clear it up, ...
On a transpersonal dimension this all does not make any sense, it is all idea. These ideas are projections, illusions ... let's say possibilities. What is good, what bad, what does this and that, all believe where I derive seeming truth and meaning from.
Ultimately, I don't know. It is only this now.And on the other side (in the illsuion of self - intrapersonal dimension), YES, work with these projections to grow, keep the experience and what you derive from it close in your memory.
This seeming paradoxon remembers me of the first two postings of ETERNAL and Northerner in this
thread.
DisEmboDied wrote:.. and then spend the following days or weeks, maybe ever, not doing what you learned while in those perfect states? Thus causing a little bitterness and self-resentment?
To me, the "perfect state" is this particular endless moment, regardless if "I" (mind full of concepts) like it or not and what ever "I" believe and think about it.
What is feeling this bitterness and ruminates in self-pitty. What did I really take out of your psychedelic experience, more than just another idea?
DisEmboDied wrote:Love and Light (and Darkness)
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To my mind, transpersonality does not make sense and on the intrapersonal dimension:
Doc Buxin wrote:...take your time. Don't be so hard on yourself when you make mistakes. Mistakes are THE thing that we learn and grow from (or not; it's always our choice).
Do better by yourself and you will automatically do better by others. It's all give and take. It's all about self-love and self-forgiveness (which, of course, implies self-discipline and self-sacrifice). There is no true "easy way".
We all walk the long road.
I can say from my experience, that there are no shortcuts to anything. Each process is made of single steps with more small steps within these steps, like a fractal. A butterfly does not suddenly evolve out of the caterpiller but it has to grow and pupate in between and in between these steps it has to eat, walk, sleep and grow even more .. and again, each of these smaller steps are just results of even more smaller steps (till atomic level and far beyond)... and so on(e).

My attention is always in the now, what I as human (really?) experience as now, even if everything may happen at the same time, now.
tseuq
[edit: I guess this post can be summed up as: "No/never mind, only love."]
Everything's sooo peyote-ful..