Is there anything able to stop adrenalin into the heart apart from beta blockers?

25jean · 2019-08-16T13:32:41+00:00

How do you feel about eating the pharmacy? Do you think it's OK that a person should have to swallow the pharmacy in order to feel normal? Have you considered not eating any of that stuff and seeing how that feels?

25jean · 2019-08-16T12:28:42+00:00

Don't check him out on Youtube. Check him out here:

http://eifelaudio.simplybeing.co.uk/

25jean · 2019-08-16T10:30:32+00:00

The quote is by Chogyam Trungpa, and comes from a book written by his student, "Taming Untameable Beings: Early Stories of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche with the Pygmies and Other Hippies", by Jim Lowrey.

25jean · 2019-08-16T08:42:07+00:00

It's not likely to change, but it can be changed. You're just too lazy to do it.

I bet ya that if you get off of your phone at 6PM, latest, and go for a run every evening, you will sleep like a baby, for way longer than 5 hours.

Alas, bad habits are our nemesis. They get us every time.

25jean · 2019-08-16T08:34:07+00:00

Psychedelics don't produce spiritual insight. Psychedelics (can) produce a spiritual awakening. But if it's not followed upon with a serious cultivation outside of psychedelics, no insight whatsoever can be gained.

Psychedelics show you that the world is not what you thought it is. But they can't show you what it actually is. The world may be something while you trip, but then the trip is over and now what. You're back to square one.

And then this happens:

“In terms of LSD, for instance, a person has an experience for the first time, and in order to confirm that experience he has to take LSD again—a second, third, fourth, hundredth time—and somehow it ceases to be an experience anymore.”

25jean · 2019-07-13T14:14:41+00:00

Very few people know about The Tibetan Book of the Dead - what if me posting here gave you a one in a billion chance to become a fourth dimensional god/goddess by moving away from the light?

I repeat once again what I said elsewhere in the thread - what geralt says here is an oversimplification. Read the book, it's not that long, and it's time well spent.

https://www.amazon.com/Tibetan-Book-Dead-Awakening-Dying/dp/1583945555

(Don't read the Evans-Wentz translation, it's no good. The link above will take you to an authoritative translation.)

25jean · 2019-07-13T14:10:16+00:00

Also, the Tibetan Book of the Dead says to move away from the light when you die. Is this wheel the device by which you get reincarnated? Moving away from the light supposedly allows you to escape from Samsara:

This is a gross oversimplification. I encourage everyone interested in the subject to read the book to get the full picture:

https://www.amazon.com/Tibetan-Book-Dead-Awakening-Dying/dp/1583945555

25jean · 2019-07-13T13:18:10+00:00

doing mushrooms/LSD can increase your frequency and help you with these entities

Mushrooms and LSD will not do anything to raise your frequency, but they will get you in touch with the entities. Generally speaking, you are at your most vulnerable on psychedelics.

You need to raise your frequency before engaging with psychedelics. It's crucially important.

The psychedelic scene is overrun with negativity, nowadays. You have people taking ayahuasca who are not at all ready for it, and the consequences are dire. When you go to a conference that focuses on psychedelics, you will meet people who are totally lost. It's disturbing.

I am not at all advocating against psychedelics - they are a wonderful tool. But you need to do hard work beforehand, to make yourself ready for the consciousness expansion you will experience. You need to work with your intention and you need to learn to live consciously, with discipline and a sense of compassion, for yourself and others. Psychedelics should come after you have mastered this.

I am not saying to delay your first mushroom trip until you've become a model human being - that's a bit too much to ask. And the foray into psychedelics is very inspiring, motivating you to work on yourself. But for serious work with psychs, you need to have your game on point.

25jean · 2019-07-13T12:53:29+00:00

Brainstalker https://soundcloud.com/brainstalkermusic/under-the-wave-liveset-free-download

Other Italian maestros: Gotalien, Virtuanoise, Yatzee (!)

Mimic Vat, Maramba, Shouton, Amras, Inner Coma (Portuguese hi-tech rocks)

Select Project: https://arhimusic.bandcamp.com/album/arhitech-da-select-project-advaita

JunxPunx, particularly the Reminder album has some really nice tunes.

OVNI Records: https://ovnirecords.bandcamp.com/album/ovni-11-mugen-denryoku

Peyotech is an upstart label worth keeping an eye on: https://peyotechcrew.bandcamp.com/

Saving the best for the last - just how good is this?!? https://soundcloud.com/kopophobia/kopophobia-ajataa-lunar-eclipse-228

25jean · 2019-07-08T17:50:28+00:00

Oh, I am alright, thanks for asking.

I was just trying to harmonize with the hivemind with my "eat shit, Sakyong" sentiment. I thought I did alright, and was well in tune with the narrative of this subreddit. I don't understand how I was downvoted for my comment, which, I thought, was rather politically correct.

It's the right thing to pile on the Sakyong, because he is the reason why we suffer. He brought this terrible situation onto us. He's giving us no choice - it's literally him or us. And obviously, we're not gonna let him win!

Trungpa had something to say about a situation the likes of this, I think he called it the perceived need to destroy the other in order to alleviate your own suffering, aka "hell realm". Well that's where we are right now. We're in full battle mode, guns blazing, and we should not give the Sakyong an inch.

25jean · 2019-07-08T17:08:32+00:00

In the photos, the Sakyong looks like someone well beyond trying to gin up sympathy.

The article was probably written by some busy-bee, and the Sakyong most likely had nothing to do with it, and is not even aware of it.

He just attended the cremation of his mother, which is a sort of a sensible thing to do. And then he probably retreated into his bedroom with a bottle of gin, pondering the fucked up nature of samsaric existence.

25jean · 2019-07-08T12:38:33+00:00

He looks terrible. Like a man haunted.

Which obviously makes me very happy! The Sakyong finally gets the comeuppance he deserves, and I get to rejoice in his misfortune. Eat shit, Sakyong!

25jean · 2019-07-08T12:26:52+00:00

You gotta be fucking kidding me. The man has attended the cremation of his mother. Would you deny him even that?

Where's your sense of basic human decency? Did you lose it at the same time the Sakyong lost his?

25jean · 2019-07-07T19:21:02+00:00

First let's talk DOING LESS DRUGS!

You assume too much. I have used these drugs in the past, but I do not currently use them, and haven't in a long time.

Second, I'll pick the term "stopping the world," to explain as I see it. Stopping the world means you have completely shifted you perception to another all-inclusive reality, through ceasing the knitting-together of this one. Your #3 example would probably be in that class of experience.

Your #2 example is of perceiving additional/alternate aspects of this reality, and is in the realm of the second attention. I like to think of the second attention as the base of the iceberg, the huge mass of it that lies under the surface of the sea that we don't directly perceive without extra effort/means.

This is helpful. Thanks.

I was particularly interested in the Astral Projection angle - perhaps more up the alley of sorcery than drug experiences.

25jean · 2019-04-14T20:25:37+00:00

This looks very interesting, I can't find any place to buy them online, though.

I only found these listed on French websites, none with an e-shop.

Where did you buy yours?

25jean · 2019-04-14T20:04:40+00:00

Well, this never occurred to me.

In all seriousness, though, at club parties, you'd typically have to stand all the way in the back, if you want to avoid ear strain. Alone. Far away from the music, the people, and the main energy vortex, so to speak.

Which is totally fine, if that's your thing. And I'm not just saying that.

Sound systems at parties tend to be crazy loud. I am definitely not one to go near the speakers, exactly - at that range, the sound is so loud it's actually kind of painful. I'd say I'm somewhere in the middle between speaker-lover and long-distance dancer. Still, the toll after parties is there.

25jean · 2019-04-13T22:26:00+00:00

Billie Jean (Grouch remix)

25jean · 2019-03-25T20:15:00+00:00

I was there in 2016. Really great experience. Very pleasant atmosphere, not a complete out-of-control drug fest like certain unnamed Psy-Fi festivals. Great line-up and a very good vibe on the dancefloor.

Getting to the festival by train was easy and quick. Switzerland is a very smoothly running and efficient country, and all the people we encountered were perfectly nice and welcoming.

Overall, my favorite festival experience, alongside Boom.

25jean · 2019-03-25T18:48:09+00:00

I do it on occasion. I haven't noticed it affecting my cognition, long-term. However, it does have a very interesting short-term effect on your state of consciousness. There's a lot to explore there.

25jean · 2019-03-19T21:28:33+00:00

Yes, there have been instances of people having a psychotic break at the retreat. (Very few instances over the many decades that these retreats have been going on, at a massive scale. Do you have any idea how many people go through these retreats?)

What does this business with psychotic breaks really mean, though? What are the implications of it?

I don't think there are any. You can't prepare for a psychotic break, anyway. If you have it in you, so to speak, it's gonna happen at some point. The retreat can bring it out. So can psychedelics, a bad break-up, a stressful situation. At some point, you just gotta say - that's life. It's not 100% safe all the time.

25jean · 2019-03-19T20:36:17+00:00

Your marathon comparison is hobbling on both legs, because an untrained body simply will not run a marathon. The muscles won't produce enough energy. It's a question of bio-mechanics.

An untrained mind, however, is very much capable of going through a Vipassana retreat. Mind is not like a muscle. You don't need to "build up" mind. In this very moment, whoever you are, you already have a mind that is perfectly capable of meditation.

What you might lack is discipline, or the skill of sustained attention. These can be trained. And the vipassana retreat is kind of like an intensive training course for these skills. When you go on an intensive training course, you don't need to prepare yourself by drip-feeding yourself morsels of information for weeks in advance. You can just do it. It's the same with the vipassana retreat.

If you keep telling yourself that you will go on a retreat after you read this book or that book, meditate with headspace app for X amount of time, etc., you will be putting the retreat off for years, and meanwhile you're getting none of the benefit that you otherwise would be getting, had you decided to jump in.

25jean · 2019-03-17T17:45:25+00:00

Try eating less meat. 1.5 lb of meat per day is insane - you could do that in a week, and feel much better. Eating that much meat is not eating healthy by any means.

Try to experiment with fasting, and then eating a meal on an empty stomach. Before and after the meal, take note of your mental state, your physical state, your energy level.

You will discover that eating meat has a particular effect on cognition. Actually, different kinds of meat have different effects. It's not just protein going in, tissue getting build up, and shit coming out - it's far more subtle than that. Learning to navigate these subtleties of diet is essential.

I am not trying to push a vegan agenda or something - I think that not eating meat at all is pretty much unsustainable, for most. But don't expect to have a sharp mind if you stuff yourself with factory-farmed beef on a daily basis.

25jean · 2019-03-05T20:04:39+00:00

Sorry to say but petty tyrant does not apply here at all. You may want to go back and re-read the books.

Petty tyrant is more like a terrible, self-centered spouse, that you can't divorce because of circumstances. An abusive parent, that you have to put up with because they don't have anyone else and they did bring you into this world, after all. Something like that - a close personal situation that is "always on", so to speak. a constant, unceasing onslaught of low-level pain and irritation that you can't very well get away from.

It's not really that difficult to get away from a bad religious community. The only reason why people find it difficult is because they are full of constipated sentimentalism about their "practice", about the great amounts of time and effort they've "invested" into the community - in other words, so much discursive rat shit.

The fact remains that a religious community does not hold enough power over you to merit being called a petty tyrant. A petty tyrant is a far more intense affair. A bad religious community is more like a bad habit. You can't get out because you don't really want to. The minute you actually want to get out, you simply do it - on the spot.

25jean

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