"is this the best we can come up with? someone poses a reasonable
request to be pointed to something, anything that might illustrate
the spiritual side of exsitence. this is something that everyone here
must have at the very least an interest in, but every response has ended up being something one would expect to hear from their high shcool P.E. teacher in health class.
1. change your diet, eat healthy
2. exercise, take care of your body
3. practice meditation, organize and understand your inner voices
(ok, not many P.E. teachers condone meditaion, but still this is very
superficial)
while these may all be great routines to fall into, i hardly
belive they are the answer to someone seeking proof of "something" exsisting beyond the boundries of everyday perception.
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fair enough, i expected someone might misunderstand my recomendations, so ill take some time explaining the importance of my choices. This is indeed a regime intended to show a side of the existance outside of our everyday perception, and it does that by breaking down the walls we have built that are limiting that perception in the first place. And yes the diet is important to, but its pretty basic and occasional lapses wont hurt you much. Eat what you want just try to limit booze, fast food, and pig outs on junk.
For 3 months
"Abstain from drinking more than a glass of red wine a day, and drink that at least 2 hours before going to sleep."
The reason i consider this important is that alcohol consumption near bedtime will inhibit dreaming, and i consider dreaming to be a crucial part of the spiritual quest. Why? because the spiritual quest is about expanding our perceptual limits and experiencing aspects of the world other than the limited mundane one we usually see. Dreams are an example of an entire level of reality we have often blocked out or lost. If we cant experience even that inherently present aspect of reality, how can we expect to move on to even greater dimensions?
Also, any use of drugs in a recreational sense tends to dull the mind to a degree and certainly can make concentrated effort towards enlightenment difficult. I am a big fan of drugs, but when making a directed effort it is good to temporarily abstain.
"Keep a dream journal everynight, As you go to sleep repeat mentally 'i will remember and write down my dreams' and do so in maximum detail everymorning.
Read over your dreams periodically, and try to re-experience them in your head."
again, i consider dreaming the logical first step in expanding the boundaries of our perception and experiencing the world more fully. Also, once dream recall is masterd lucid dreaming can be developed to unimaginable degrees, with great benefits. Obe's can also be experienced through that medium.
"Practice Don Juans (carlos castaneda's) techniques of 'stopping the world' or stopping the internal dialouge, every day. Start with 20 minuites , work up to half an hour, and try to level off at an hour or 90 minuites a day after the first month, unless you feel you can do more.
Techniques: 1. sit in a comfortable cross legged position and listen. Close your eyes, relax and try to focus entirely on your auditory sensations. Anytime you notice a thought, return to listening.
2. Alternative: zen meditation of focusing entirely on the breath, in out, in out
if this is to hard at first, start with a week or two of TM, try the mantra OM MANI PADME HUM, or just OM."
These techniques our crucial for spiritual awakening. We all live in a reality that is hugely limited by our own self imposed beliefs and restrictions. These are often lies and programming from outside people and sources that we have, through years of training, internalized. This internal voice runs incessently, and constantly reminds and reinforces our perception of reality. It can also be annoying. By first controlling (through mantra meditation) and later stopping (through zazen and shamanic techniques) this internal voice we take the first step to freedom from self imposed programming, and also towards total control over our own internal states, which is nescessary for freedom from negative feelings and habits.
"Also: drink one or two cups of strong green tea a day, and at least 6 glasses of water a day."
green tea is a powerfull antioxidant, that helps neutralize chemicals and toxins in the bloodstream. Sound trivial? fine, but i tell you honestly, if your body is clutterd, unhealthy and polluted, the higher functions of mind will be dulled and impeded. When the body feels good, the mind is clear. Also, when one seeks spiritual wisdom one cant help but learn respect for the body, which is our temporary vessel for the soul. Spirituality should enhance enjoyment of life, and that it is hinderd by a sickly body.
"Exercise to Perspiration ONce a day, or do 3 strong workouts a week, with breaks in between.
Also, really abstain from fast food, and limit sugar intake."
again, when the body stagnates or is poorly fed, the mind feels crappy. When the body is well exercised , the mind is clear for higher functions. One simply cannot seperate the parts of man, the healthy human is one where all the parts are equally balanced and integrated, physical health, spiritual development and mental strength. A strong body is just a good thing to have, and it is much easier to meditate when the bodys nervous energy is expended. Also helps sleep and dreaming.
OTher important exercises:
"Analyze your beliefs, constantly. Even your most basic and dear beliefs. Even those you have taken for granted for years.
Also analyze and change your habits and activities the same way. Realize the you are not a slave to your habits or your behaviours or your beliefs, any and all of them can be conciously changed. Anything that you feel guilts about, anything that you dont like, change it. Replace it with positive and beneficial beliefs activities and habits.
This will probably be the hardest requirement, as you may not even be able to identify your beliefs as beliefs, as you are so used to seeing them as obvious truths. Analyze them on the basis of how they are helping you, what effect they have on you. If they are negative, conciously try to change them.
Hard part: when you find a belief that makes you unhappy, eg. people are cruel or evil, you may say : well that makes me unhappy id like to change that. However, you will recall and have many experiences and peceptions that support your belief, and you will say 'well even though i dont like it it must be true' and you will fear that you are deluding yourself if you change the belief.
Try to realize that through a 3 step program of changing belief, changing action and refocusing attention (on positive things in your reality) your perceptions will change to match the new belief. Your very experiental reality will change."
This is possibly the most important stage in the spiritual journey, and it is one that lasts a long time, maybe your whole life. It is a process of redifining yourself and your reality from a position of power rather than slavery. It is crucial for full enjoyment of life and spiritual realization.
"Also important: over your 3 month period, read all the following, it should not be a heavy load for an intelligent literate like yourself. Reserve judgement, see them through, if you have problems with certain parts fine, but try to glean something from each book, and compare them.
the order is unimportant
Conversation's with God
The Crack in the Cosmic Egg
Don Miguel Ruiz: The four agreements, and the way to knowledge.
Seth: the nature of Personal Reality
Article: the Holographic Universe
Adam Smith: Power's of Mind
Carlos Castanedas books, specifically : The journey to Ixtlan, A Seperate Reality, and the other early works, but also note: Carlos castaneda's the Art of Dreaming
Numerous other books will also be usefull, but these are some good ones"
These books helped me alot, and more than that they were insturmental in helping me organize and formulate my own revelations about the nature of life. Reading between the lines of these diverse works, comparing and contrasting, can really help comprehension of the divine principle... anyways just read em is all i can say
"Anyways do all that. And once every three days practice some form of stimulating kundalini energy, awakening or opening the chakras etc. Dont bother with this until you have done at least a month of the rest of this, otherwise preconceptions about its cheeziness or new ageiness will prevent progress."
This technique is simply intended to help move the vital energies upward through their various manifestations, alternatively think of it as moving or rearanging your concious state or perceptual structure.
We know that conciousness can take many forms, from the nearly robotic survival mechanism of the more basic lifeforms, to the intense intellectual logic of the engineer or mathematician, to the emotional mind of the lover or poet, and even to the divine bliss of the sage or mystic. What this means is that within the human mind are numerous possible forms of perception, all of which are open to us, unaided by drugs. The kundalini meditation allows us to control and balance these states, for a more harmonious, complete experience of ourselves and our lives. It prevents us from being stuck in one state and missing out on the whole spectrum
LAst But Certainly Not least:
"at the end of your 3 month period, take a 2 day vacation. Clear your schedule, disconnect your phone, attent to all immediate tasks and make sure you have some free time. Make sure you have abstained from hard drugs and psychadelics for a month previous. Do your daily exercises , meditations etc and have a light breakfast of fruit and veggies and green tea. Then Eat 6-8 grams of potent dried psilocybin and spend some quiet time in an area your find peacefull and where you wont be disturbed. Listen to music or do whatever you desire."
The reason i say this? the previous 3 month program is a method of loading your mind with important knowledge and training your body and soul with practice and exercise. This will give you all the tools you need break out of our current state of limited reality, but fully escaping the illusion takes immense strength. I find that the mushroom acts as a catalyst, helping to form connections and further understanding of all the knowledge youve been storing and present it perceptually as a unified whole. They help temporarily break down our self limiting programs, and once that is done you never quite forget what it teaches you, even once the drug itself wears off.
The power of plant allies is enormous, when wisely used,and their is a reason nearly all shamanic traditions and religions use psychadelics or have used them in some way.
Again, the previous 3 months act as a loading period and ensure that the trip will be spiritual, enlightening and not just fun or frivolous.
All this is based on my own observation. Results may vary.
Also, i dont advocate vegetarianism, although i do advocate getting most protein from fish sources and vegetable sources. Fish is simply the healthiest and most delicious of the meats in my oppinion
much love
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. At the beginning of my post i criticized meditation, but i didnt mean to hit the practice so much, as the way that it was being suggested. Time to oneself to reflect and let the mind emtpy is never a bad thing...its the pretexts to which it is being performed under that i have a problem with today.
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