you mean when the pissing contest thread becomes a pissing contest?

Have a Beingasm Today !

house wrote:
19:10:05 ‹house› mama aya gave me lego man eye healers

Isn't this essentially the same thread as THE QUOTE ROOM?

Men and women belong to essentially different spiritual systems, and we will never bridge the gap between us, as long as we try to do it only at the level of this world. This can be very frustrating since we keep trying. To unite, we must unite our roots, beyond any difference in thinking, feeling or physical appearance. When we work together, we build a connection at an entirely different level - beyond a spiritual level. We can transcend the mundane conflicts and differences, since we have a higher goal. When a man and a woman bond for the purpose of attaining a higher goal, they create a spiritual vessel between them, which doesn't exist in reality. This vessel is neither feminine nor masculine, but a new vessel, in which they receive the sublime abundance - eternal and complete.

One thing that has arisen in answers given is Integration. It is fundamental to integrate your experiences, no matter how long it may take. It may even happen that you will not be able to do it. It happens. I've seen tons of people that never fully understood the hyperreality that entheogens show. It is not for everyone. And it's not the practice of Yoga that will make you integrate. It's your life. It's working, it's paying your taxes, it's talking to your boss, it's raising your kids and have arguments with your wife or significant other, and on and on. Integration will put your Real Life (tm) into context. And that's the real acid test.

Say yes to your reality tunnnel.

if you wanna try suicide, first try something completely different

There isn't much reason to dive in to something so deep and otherworldy, when the breadth and depth of this experience, this life, is so complex in itself. I feel like psychedelics have marginalized or minimalized my view on everyday life to something less than what it is. I've now realized the things I have sacrificed to ask these questions, and I'm done, I'm going to dig deep into life, into everyday experience sober and find what works and search for ways to truly satisfy my curiosity.

it's like mom dropped us off at school and we've got about 80 years or so to play with our fellow classmates before she comes to pick us back up. while here, i plan on being a proper kid- going crazy (in a good way), playing with all of the neat things here, sharing with everyone, being kind to everyone, helping others when i can...

....and when i know the day is almost done and i'm gonna get picked up soon, i will clean up, put the toys back in their place, say goodbye to my friends with love and gratitude, and shift my focus on the cozy warmth of the home to which i will soon be returning and the love that warms it.

It makes sense to think of spice as a portal rather than a process. I wonder if the ancients had a process for entering the spice portal which they used to catch and keep spice insights. I see Nexus as a way to recapture that process, as folks share their experiences. Each piece of the puzzle leads to a more complete picture. It's like watching history repeat itself. Hopefully we are gradually reaching another rung in an upward spiral instead of getting stuck in a repeating rut!

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The gods of ancient India are often pictured sitting on a lotus blossom..the "many petaled lotus"...It came to me in a dream that each petal of the lotus represents a way of being, like an infinite number of rays shooting off into Whatever's Out There. Doesn't matter which path you take, it leads where you need to go. Any path provides the challenge and the opportunity and the answer. The dream also whispered, "Be the best you can be at whatever present you find yourself in. In that way, you honor your path."

I think it is a common thread running through all the mystical traditions (and it has certainly been the major insight of my own experiences) that the root of human suffering and delusion is the sense of a lack of "beingness", or the lack of an intimate connection with the world, and that this lack is caused precisely by a false and confused sense of who or what one is, i.e. what the self is. Redemption and freedom then consists in remembering or rediscovering one's self, finding or constructing a unity from a sense of identity that is fundamentally fragmented.

I think it is extremely exciting that people who are not spiritual practitioners, and who have not apprehended this dilemma in an intimate and experiential way, are looking at human cognitive architecture and rediscovering this exact same insight. The picture that is emerging from cognitive science is that "personality" or "identity" is an adaptive strategy that the organism takes on to deal with the world. And moreover, there is not one such personality, but there are really many personalities that go together with particular adaptive situations. This is exactly what one discovers through meditation or psychedelics, or any other non-ordinary state of consciousness that forces the brain to "break" its adaptive strategy and realize that a strategy is all it ever was. It was not an I, a self, or a subject. It was just something that was being done, or played, or performed. And if you ask, "well who was doing it?" the only answer that can be given is "the world itself" or, perhaps "no one", but these amount to saying the same thing.

@ https://www.dmt-nexus.me...ts&m=81040#post81040

...The point being that when you stumble into the chapel perilous of "belief defines reality" you have seized on an important psychodynamic insight that can be applied in daily life and experimented with. But to try and turn this psychodynamic insight into a bloated metaphysical theory that offends contemporary scientific knowledge steers you away from the practice and into armchair philosophizing.

...Isn't understanding our true nature and the reality of our lives not a metaphysical pursuit at its core? If one person is encouraged to become awake and aware of the most inportant questions facing someone living in this world, is that not enough?

A friend and I sat in the park last night, in awe with all the beautiful trees. She suggested perhaps the goal was for humans to evolve into trees: absolutely every element of their existence produces something positive for someone: recycled nutrients in the soil, shade, oxygen, leaves, fruit, a home. They are entirely giving. Every aspect is giving. What would it take to make every aspect of your life a giving one?

Have compassion for your fellow brothers on their spiritual path and forgive their transgressions as you yourself have strayed from the path many times, we all have.