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Egoloss: Sober compared to Psychedelics?
    #10105346 - 04/04/09 01:33 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

I'm sure many people here have experienced egoloss on psychedelic drugs.
I am wondering how much buddhist/hindu/taoist egoloss resembles the egoloss experienced through psychedelics.

In which ways are they the same, in which ways do they differ?



And last but not least,
do you think it is possible to hold on to the egoloss (enlightenment)
achieved through a psychedelic trip... and therefor remain egoless forever, without further having to use any psychedelic substance ever again?

In other words,
do you think it is possible to let psychedelics help you to reach the top of the pyramid,
and when the psychedelics have long left your brain and blood,
to never descend to the lower levels again?

Do you think it is possible to reach the center of the circle with help of psychedelics,
and when the psychedelics have long left your brain and blood,
to never move away from this center again?



Very important edit to avoid unnecessary arguments:
with egolessness i don't mean to be completely without ego,
because i know that ego is necessary to an extent to operate in this world.

I just mean egolessness, in the sense that you realize that you are not the body, not the person... and this realization is coupled with immense blissful happiness and compassion.

Edited by lobotomix (04/04/09 02:56 PM)

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Re: Egoloss: Sober compared to Psychedelics? [Re: lobotomix]
    #10105424 - 04/04/09 01:55 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

yes and no
no and yes
there is no top of pyramid
egoloss is not enlightenment either
neither of them are permanent as functional mental operating plateus either.
an enlightenment or satori experience which transcends the limits of ego is possible in meditative absorption, achieved naturally, with or without practice, and with or without psychedelics.
in no instance is it permanent,
when a meditation student takes up the path of enlightenment or the middle way, however you prefer to call it, they adjust their life habits to cultivate more insight, and to get enlightenment into more of their activities, into more of their relationships and to more of their memories and associations, but it is always work of some sort.
it becomes lightweight work if done regularly, like sweeping patios.
some leaves or shit of one kind or another will blow into the patio area on a daily basis.
keep a nice broom handy
happy sweeping!


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Re: Egoloss: Sober compared to Psychedelics? [Re: redgreenvines]
    #10105464 - 04/04/09 02:08 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

haha nice :smile:

love reading your posts redgreenvines


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Re: Egoloss: Sober compared to Psychedelics? [Re: lobotomix]
    #10105466 - 04/04/09 02:09 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

Ego loss is not enlightement, it's another way to live the world.

You were born with an ego, you might as well accept it.



I feel many here live psychedelics as one of the religions they criticize with so much contempt.

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Re: Egoloss: Sober compared to Psychedelics? [Re: Kukaracha]
    #10105497 - 04/04/09 02:16 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

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Kukaracha said:
Ego loss is not enlightement, it's another way to live the world.

You were born with an ego, you might as well accept it.



I feel many here live psychedelics as one of the religions they criticize with so much contempt.



Enlightenment and Ego can be interpreted in different ways.
I meant to use the word "enlightenment" in the sense i meant to use the word "egoloss" 

:yoda2:

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Re: Egoloss: Sober compared to Psychedelics? [Re: lobotomix]
    #10105657 - 04/04/09 02:47 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

I personally don't think there is such thing as enlightenment.  The psychedelic experience has tought me that the universe is beyond my ability to even conceive or imagine.  I think "enlightenment" is the feeling you get when you close your eyes while tripping and hone in on the vibes of the world.  Made of love and cosmic wierdness.  The feeling of being.


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Re: Egoloss: Sober compared to Psychedelics? [Re: Cognitive_Shift]
    #10105692 - 04/04/09 02:52 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

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I personally don't think there is such thing as enlightenment.  The psychedelic experience has tought me that the universe is beyond my ability to even conceive or imagine.  I think "enlightenment" is the feeling you get when you close your eyes while tripping and hone in on the vibes of the world.  Made of love and cosmic wierdness.  The feeling of being.



well, apparently you have experienced "enlightenment" yourself then.
what enlightenment means to one person may be different than to the next.
i already explained what i sort of mean with the term "enlightenment".

so people, seriously.
please try to answer my questions about "egoloss"... and how "egoloss" sober interrelates with "egoloss" on psychedelics.

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Re: Egoloss: Sober compared to Psychedelics? [Re: lobotomix]
    #10105706 - 04/04/09 02:54 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

Yes i think psychedelics can SHOW you the top of the pyramid.


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Re: Egoloss: Sober compared to Psychedelics? [Re: Cognitive_Shift]
    #10105829 - 04/04/09 03:29 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

you can see anything you like.


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Re: Egoloss: Sober compared to Psychedelics? [Re: redgreenvines]
    #10105837 - 04/04/09 03:31 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

You can see anything you want, but sometimes you need to be shown.  I think the message of the past 3000 years is that one cannot do it alone.


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Re: Egoloss: Sober compared to Psychedelics? [Re: Cognitive_Shift]
    #10105867 - 04/04/09 03:41 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

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You can see anything you want, but sometimes you need to be shown.  I think the message of the past 3000 years is that one cannot do it alone.




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Re: Egoloss: Sober compared to Psychedelics? [Re: Kukaracha]
    #10105977 - 04/04/09 04:12 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

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Kukaracha said:
Ego loss is not enlightement, it's another way to live the world.

You were born with an ego, you might as well accept it.



I feel many here live psychedelics as one of the religions they criticize with so much contempt.




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Re: Egoloss: Sober compared to Psychedelics? [Re: lobotomix]
    #10107386 - 04/04/09 09:17 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

On this subject everyone has their own theory.  Psychedelics are unique in that they open doors that meditation can't.  Once you go through the door and gain control of your ego, You inhabit both worlds.  Psychedelics get you started, but you move past that quickly.  The subconscious mind is a separate reality, as real as the conscious ego. We have abilities that we are failing to use, but everybody is content that there is nothing left to discover.

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Re: Egoloss: Sober compared to Psychedelics? [Re: redgreenvines]
    #10118241 - 04/06/09 05:41 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

Well said!!

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Re: Egoloss: Sober compared to Psychedelics? [Re: Kukaracha]
    #10118396 - 04/06/09 06:07 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

Ego loss is not enlightement, it's another way to live the world.

Right...it's called humility. Meekness is not timidity, but it is the opposite of obnoxious aggressiveness which is a personality armored with ego-defenses.

Psychoses can develop 'regression in the service of the ego,' in which unconscious contents emerge like an uncontrolled lava flow, pushing all conscious control of thoughts, images and emotions aside. Psychosis is certainly not enlightenment. Enlightenment is not characterized by ego-inflation either. Megalomaniacal 'gurus' who are all about sex and power/money are further from enlightenment than the average person. They live in and for the lower centers of motivation. The non-egoic mind manifests as Paul described love in 1 Corinthians 13:4-8

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or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 
it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 
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Re: Egoloss: Sober compared to Psychedelics? [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
    #10121134 - 04/07/09 01:49 AM (14 years, 11 months ago)

In general folks come down from trips, at which time they will most likely be subject to the same surroundings and life style as before.

People who are serious about meditation start by changing their life style. This is like building a foundation. Or like walking to work and building muscles, as opposed to taking the bus. When the bus breaks they can still get to work.

For a more subtle clarification of what 'self' is, this link may be helpful:

http://www.shinzen.org/

click on "Articles"

then click on

"Meditation and the Self"...The Buddha said that there is no thing called the self. Then who meditates?...

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Re: Egoloss: Sober compared to Psychedelics? [Re: laughingdog]
    #10121431 - 04/07/09 05:02 AM (14 years, 11 months ago)

mark, in moving the concept to humility, you shift everything, and you highlight everything:
me - ego death is fallacy, ego and body are self
jethro - ego and body are tools for self to explore universe
lobotomix - egolessness is a goal but is it the same goal for everyone
cognitive - 5000 years of pursuit of the goal is proof enough for me
icelander - i have seen the ego, and it is quite fetching, so is my dog
laughingdog - having seen how things are, you practice meditation so you can see them again, you meditate, but "who meditates?"

I am resolving that self is ego + body, people seek egolessness in trying to understand buddha, humility seems to be less ego, can it be taken all the way as to eradicate ego>>>>

me- see ego as it is, an operational aspect of mind-body existence
mark- through humility you (self) escape the domination of ego.

I think mr.clean will not get you where you want to go, but it may serve to improve conduct in the short term.
they say, "practice makes perfect"


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Re: Egoloss: Sober compared to Psychedelics? [Re: lobotomix]
    #10121452 - 04/07/09 05:08 AM (14 years, 11 months ago)

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lobotomix said:
I'm sure many people here have experienced egoloss on psychedelic drugs.
I am wondering how much buddhist/hindu/taoist egoloss resembles the egoloss experienced through psychedelics.

In which ways are they the same, in which ways do they differ?



And last but not least,
do you think it is possible to hold on to the egoloss (enlightenment)
achieved through a psychedelic trip... and therefor remain egoless forever, without further having to use any psychedelic substance ever again?

In other words,
do you think it is possible to let psychedelics help you to reach the top of the pyramid,
and when the psychedelics have long left your brain and blood,
to never descend to the lower levels again?

Do you think it is possible to reach the center of the circle with help of psychedelics,
and when the psychedelics have long left your brain and blood,
to never move away from this center again?






It can be realized sober & permanently, but you can't trip on psychedelics, come to a state of egoloss, then keep that permanently, you have to find it sober.

Dabbling in psychedelics usually shows an interest in trascending the causal boundaries we have around us, the mind, those boundaries have to be transcended with no help from anything or anyone in order to reach that permanent state, only you can do it, nothing & nobody can hand you to yourself.

Reaching the centre of the circle... you already are the centre, your attention is merely elsewhere, just bring your attention back to the centre, the one who sees

The bliss that you will come to know is incomparable to any tripping experience

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Re: Egoloss: Sober compared to Psychedelics? [Re: Chronic7]
    #10121529 - 04/07/09 05:34 AM (14 years, 11 months ago)

i get a foggy notion that you mean permanent centeredness and permanent bliss, or are you teasing?


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Re: Egoloss: Sober compared to Psychedelics? [Re: redgreenvines]
    #10121543 - 04/07/09 05:40 AM (14 years, 11 months ago)

Permanent bliss always

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Re: Egoloss: Sober compared to Psychedelics? [Re: Chronic7]
    #10121550 - 04/07/09 05:43 AM (14 years, 11 months ago)

OK, are you in a permanent bliss state? or are you repeating the promise that others have told you.
this is an either or question, and you must not lie.
(invoking 5000years is not a substitute for personal honesty - I want honesty, not the truth)


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Re: Egoloss: Sober compared to Psychedelics? [Re: redgreenvines]
    #10121577 - 04/07/09 05:53 AM (14 years, 11 months ago)

the bliss is not separate from me for me to say i 'experience' a permanent state of bliss, or to say im 'in' bliss

i am that bliss itself, theres no separation at all

thats 100% total honesty
i don't wish for anyone to beleive me

although everything i say has been said before, i am not a parrot, i speak from my own living experience which is undeniable

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Re: Egoloss: Sober compared to Psychedelics? [Re: Chronic7]
    #10121644 - 04/07/09 06:24 AM (14 years, 11 months ago)

so you are bliss;
will the word permanent keep getting stuck onto your honest declarations
maybe "groovy" will be more honest.


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Re: Egoloss: Sober compared to Psychedelics? [Re: lobotomix]
    #10121773 - 04/07/09 07:35 AM (14 years, 11 months ago)

I think.. the ego loss is simply a requirement for spiritual communication.
I would not be.. if our minds were not so polluted with diseased thoughts.

Think of it this way..
The phone rings.. and the moment you pick up.. you start babbling on and on about this and that.. and what you want and dont want.. so you basically cant even hear the person on the other line...
Or .. to make matters worse..
Instead of hearing : there's this really pretty girl.. i think she wants to fuck you..
you hear : .... fuck you :smile:


The whole point is silencing your mind. The mind is silent when it does not want.
The Body .. is like a reference point for your mind..thus the mind shall be quiet when the needs of the body are entirely met , and it does not reflect its wishes on to your thought process >> Ego = Body

So.. i am for the mushroom option.
Ecstasy within 30-45 minutes... you shut the fuck up... And  then..
Just wait for the phone call.. or issue one yourself.


When you get acquainted with this method.. i think it becomes easier and easier to achieve without the fungi.


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Re: Egoloss: Sober compared to Psychedelics? [Re: redgreenvines]
    #10121780 - 04/07/09 07:38 AM (14 years, 11 months ago)

i say its permanent because im not talking about a transient experience of pleasure

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Re: Egoloss: Sober compared to Psychedelics? [Re: Chronic7]
    #10122050 - 04/07/09 09:21 AM (14 years, 11 months ago)

you sound like the 5000 year old pundits.
twisting words
if the bliss is not an experience that occurs, then it is not bliss according to any reality,
maybe it is a new term in your personal abstract mathematics.
or an interpretation of a 5000 year old mathematics.
if it is an experience, it will pass.
so not permanent.
if it is math or an idea, then it is not a real experience that you are having except of that idea or formulation.

sober or stoned, nothing is permanent, even a relative vector or direction - in relation to some other vector or thing.


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Re: Egoloss: Sober compared to Psychedelics? [Re: redgreenvines]
    #10122358 - 04/07/09 10:27 AM (14 years, 11 months ago)

Quote:

redgreenvines said:
mark, in moving the concept to humility, you shift everything, and you highlight everything:
me - ego death is fallacy, ego and body are self
jethro - ego and body are tools for self to explore universe
lobotomix - egolessness is a goal but is it the same goal for everyone
cognitive - 5000 years of pursuit of the goal is proof enough for me
icelander - i have seen the ego, and it is quite fetching, so is my dog
laughingdog - having seen how things are, you practice meditation so you can see them again, you meditate, but "who meditates?"

I am resolving that self is ego + body, people seek egolessness in trying to understand buddha, humility seems to be less ego, can it be taken all the way as to eradicate ego>>>>

me- see ego as it is, an operational aspect of mind-body existence
mark- through humility you (self) escape the domination of ego.

I think mr.clean will not get you where you want to go, but it may serve to improve conduct in the short term.
they say, "practice makes perfect"





I think mr.clean will not get you where you want to go, but it may serve to improve conduct in the short term.I think mr.clean will not get you where you want to go, but it may serve to improve conduct in the short term.:thumbup::thumbup:


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Re: Egoloss: Sober compared to Psychedelics? [Re: redgreenvines]
    #10122410 - 04/07/09 10:38 AM (14 years, 11 months ago)

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redgreenvines said:
if it is an experience, it will pass.
so not permanent.




Is an experience of bliss necessarily impermanent?  Just because you personally haven't succeeded in attaining such a state doesn't mean it's impossible.


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Re: Egoloss: Sober compared to Psychedelics? [Re: deCypher]
    #10122445 - 04/07/09 10:44 AM (14 years, 11 months ago)

It's unlikely and most likely impossible. How's that?


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Re: Egoloss: Sober compared to Psychedelics? [Re: deCypher]
    #10123366 - 04/07/09 01:39 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

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redgreenvines said:
if it is an experience, it will pass.
so not permanent.




Is an experience of bliss necessarily impermanent?  Just because you personally haven't succeeded in attaining such a state doesn't mean it's impossible.




right on I have certainly not encountered permanent bliss,
though I have seen the expectation of it, and much kooky dramarama around that.

if you say you have, (and therefore still are in an immutable state of bliss - that concept of immutable is idealistic at core - mathematical) I must remind you that you yourself are not permanent, so you can't even evaluate it, all you can encounter that is permanent is the idea of "permanent" - like the idea of infinity - it is a mathematical abstraction.
anyway
arguing about it does not make it so.
wishing for it does not make it so.
while observing what is happening should make it clear that the only thing that is "permanent-ish" is change.


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Re: Egoloss: Sober compared to Psychedelics? [Re: redgreenvines]
    #10123602 - 04/07/09 02:27 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

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while observing what is happening should make it clear that the only thing that is "permanent-ish" is change.




Becoming bliss is being indifferent to impermanence/change.
Yes, this is still a matter of perspective, as we can only change perspective, not "that which is."  This indifference comes with accepting "that which is" and living in it.
You are part of the flux.  When the illusion of separation fades, you become the flux.  You are the flux, you are perfection, you are bliss.


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Re: Egoloss: Sober compared to Psychedelics? [Re: Jethro Tull]
    #10123624 - 04/07/09 02:31 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

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redgreenvines said:
while observing what is happening should make it clear that the only thing that is "permanent-ish" is change.




Becoming bliss is being indifferent to impermanence/change.
Yes, this is still a matter of perspective, as we can only change perspective, not "that which is."  This indifference comes with accepting "that which is" and living in it.
You are part of the flux.  When the illusion of separation fades, you become the flux.  You are the flux, you are perfection, you are bliss.



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Re: Egoloss: Sober compared to Psychedelics? [Re: Chronic7]
    #10123862 - 04/07/09 03:11 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

I have yet to experience ego death sober.  In fact when i speak to my father about the profound effects the psychedelic experience has on myself.  He goes on to say that monks over in asia can get there with out drugs, i usually laugh and say "i hope not!"  I don't know what to think if one day i woke up and my sanity was spiraling away from me through my closed eye lids.


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Re: Egoloss: Sober compared to Psychedelics? [Re: Jethro Tull]
    #10123906 - 04/07/09 03:19 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

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Jethro Tull said:...

Becoming bliss is being indifferent to impermanence/change.
Yes, this is still a matter of perspective, as we can only change perspective, not "that which is."  This indifference comes with accepting "that which is" and living in it.
You are part of the flux.  When the illusion of separation fades, you become the flux.  You are the flux, you are perfection, you are bliss.




that is a bit specific, and I think speculative, and I think wrong, but pleasantly poetic


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Re: Egoloss: Sober compared to Psychedelics? [Re: redgreenvines]
    #10123917 - 04/07/09 03:21 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

:lol:

Yeah we :monkeydance: love the poetry.


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