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McKennaRules
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Lessons Learned from Shrooms, Books and Introspection
#7838308 - 01/06/08 06:27 AM (16 years, 26 days ago) |
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Some are my ideas, some are ideas taken from writers in the books I've read. I just wanted to share with you guys this:
1. Design Ritual and System to cope with inherent limitations. 2. Remove Barriers. 3. You are a Multidimensional Self. 4. Choose Your Track: Breakdown or Breakthrough 5. Don’t Expect a Result from What You’re Doing. Simply Be Here. 6. The Idea of Motivation is a Trap. Just Do It! 7. Permit Yourself to Fail and You Permit Yourself to Succeed. 8. To Conquer Fear, Feel the Fear. 9. Start Thinking as a New Person. 10. Failure is the Price of Success. 11. Form Multisensory Associations to Remember. 12. See Yourself Clearly. Admit Your Flaws. 13. Face Your Fear and Get Moving. 14. Turn a problem over in your mind as if it were a three dimensional object. 15. Talk to yourself. 16. Hold a question in your mind. 17. Cultivate Patient Attention. 18. Bear in mind. Contemplate. 19. Chew a topic over and over. 20. Employ mental momentum. 21. Now is what there is and always there is. 22. Get back to the naked experience of reality. 23. Go out of your mind to come to your senses. 24. Tomorrow never comes. 25. Develop new strategies to succeed. 26. Re-evaluate your progress continually. 27. Examine your errors. 28. Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races. 29. Do what does not come naturally. 30. Analyze your defeats. 31. The things which hurt, instruct. 32. Circulate your energy of arousal throughout your body. 33. Your need is far deeper than any woman can provide. 34. Desire for a woman is a stepped down version for union of consciousness. 35. Access your mind intimately and deeply. 36. Do things your way if you must. 37. Connect the dots. 38. Get used to thinking hard. 39. See things truly for what they are and not how you see them. 40. Removal from immediacy may reduce sensuality. Pain and pleasure. 41. Lose your grip on reality to regain it. 42. Sit and free write. Let the ideas flow. 43. Fresh music felt at an immediate level is always good. 44. Step outside your contained self and transcend it. 45. Feminine Goal: Flow of Love. Fullness. Not emptiness. 46. Own the primacy of your desire to be free. 47. Goal: Direction toward freedom. 48. Ecstasy: Moment of release from constraint. 49. Keep your breath full, your body strong, your attention present. 50. Feel through your own physical and emotional boundaries into it/her. Feel into it so deep, you lose awareness. 51. As long as life continues, it never ends. 52. Be free in feeling and action. Even if it hurts. 53. Act with spontaneous skill and love. 54. Stand straight and full. Breath full and deep. Gaze focused. 55. Admit your fears and resistance. 56. Honor your edge. Honor your choices. 57. Your mission is your priority. 58. Make use of other men’s criticism. 59. Be willing to change everything in your life. 60. Enter periods of unknowingness. 61. Your priority is the mission which leads to freedom. 62. Don’t get lost in tasks and duties. 63. Investigate, realize and embody true freedom. 64. Live from your deepest core. 65. If you’re not failing, you’re not growing. 66. Try. Then stop and think. Then try again. 67. Learn the secret of contentment. 68. Get over your regrets. 69. Breakthrough: philosophical barriers into intellectual insight; fear of death into spiritual freedom; a woman’s resistances to open her heart and body.
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Re: Lessons Learned from Shrooms, Books and Introspection [Re: McKennaRules]
#7838309 - 01/06/08 06:28 AM (16 years, 26 days ago) |
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1. Grasp Nothing, Yet Refuse Nothing. Receive, But Do Not Keep. 2. To desire not to desire is still to desire. 3. Close your eyes and just listen to the general buzz and hum of the world. 4. Keep your back erect to be balanced and centered of the mind and body. 5. The future is a concept. It never exists. Time is always now. 6. Meditation is a kind of grooving with the eternal now. 7. The point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment. 8. Be unpredictable. Avoid the comfort of routine. 9. Re-create yourself. You are not your past. 10. Nothing is certain. And now law is fixed. 11. As you get older, rely even less on the past. 12. Put aside all illusions and delusions about what could have been or should have been. 13. Loss is a fact of life. Impermanence is everywhere we look. All that we gain is eventually lost.
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Re: Lessons Learned from Shrooms, Books and Introspection [Re: McKennaRules]
#7838311 - 01/06/08 06:29 AM (16 years, 26 days ago) |
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1. Since the mind does not stand still, think about things in several relations. 2. If you think you’re tired, you’re not. 3. Interest is a product of experience. 4. Riches begins with a state of mind. Become success conscious. 5. Do not seek channels of least resistance. 6. Understand everything as you read. 7. State of mind must be belief, not hope or wish. 8. Synthetic Imagination: Arrange concepts/ideas/plans into new combinations. 9. Intensify your desire. 10. Concentrate upon desire until it becomes burning obsession. 11. Any idea/plan/purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought. 12. Your greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence. 13. Mix emotion and feeling with your words. 14. Opportunity sometimes comes in the form of defeat. 15. Seek relations between topics. 16. Just say no to habitual temptation. 17. Continue acquirement of knowledge for passionate absorption. 18. Buried deep within you are stores of energy. 19. Delay rewards until the job is done. 20. Draw on your reserves and keep going. 21. Work on a higher plane of efficiency. 22. Appreciation for discipline. 23. Change something you do every day. 24. Observe, Act, Evaluate, Re-adjust, Repeat. 25. Complacency is the success disease. 26. Profit from your losses. 27. Embrace humility. Defeat pride. 28. Do not rely on clichés and habits. 29. Never stop discovering and never cease learning. 30. Give just a little bit more. 31. Hunger to discover and grow. 32. Fatigue is mostly an illusion. 33. The only absolute control you have is thought. 34. Just keep going. 35. Pay attention to small details. 36. Focus must be intentionally sustained. 37. Think things through; then follow through. 38. Train harder and dig deeper than others. 39. It’s not where you start, it’s whether you start. 40. Rejection is a by-product of primal threat. 41. Habit; Attention; Information; Definition; Wind; Distraction. 42. Review concepts and lessons in your mind. 43. Poise; Peace of Mind; Calmness. 44. Infinite Intelligence. 45. Control of the mind comes from persistence and habit. 46. Meditation. Self-Examination. Serious Thought. 47. Eradicate: Indecision, doubt and fear. 48. It’s tendency of the mind to be forever changing. 49. Do not give up at the first sign of defeat. 50. Do not wait. The time will never just be right. Start where you stand. 51. Increase energy, sharpen wit, banish shyness, improve timing, turn on like electricity. 52. Regulate the arrangement of your state of mind. 53. Make use of repetition. 54. Ignore all distractions. 55. Keep your eyes and ears wide open and your mouth closed. 56. Plan rightly. Nature will take care of the rest. 57. Be so absorbed that you neither eat nor sleep. 58. Use all your senses to deepen your impression. 59. Develop interest in the object of attention. 60. Function at a high level of intensity and energy. 61. Overcome the resistance of the nervous system. 62. Emotion of sex contains the secret of creative ability. 63. Knowledge is intelligence, experience and experiment.
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Re: Lessons Learned from Shrooms, Books and Introspection [Re: McKennaRules]
#7838313 - 01/06/08 06:30 AM (16 years, 26 days ago) |
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1. Think lots of new ideas. 2. Express gratitude often. 3. Do what you don’t want to do. 4. Character is: self-discipline, core values, sense of identity, integrity. 5. Laugh at yourself. 6. Be humble. Seek feedback. Act on the feedback. 7. Defeat pride by embracing humility. 8. The decisive internal moment. 9. Experience ego-death. 10. Find your second, third and fourth wind. 11. Eliminate distractions. 12. Pay attention. 13. Master habit formation. 14. Definitions are a means of mental economy. 15. Secure information to acquire interest. 16. Economy of effort. Economy of motion. 17. Nervous energy is good. 18. Create conditions for efficient study. 19. Write your ideas down constantly. 20. Don’t let emotions leak. 21. See everything for the first time. 22. Cultivate low-latent inhibition. 23. Your days are numbered. Create a sense of urgency. 24. Stay intimate with your suffering. 25. Be absorbed in your mission. 26. Restore your purpose in solitude. 27. Feel outward. Feel breath. Feel infinity. 28. Align your life with your mission. 29. Unadorned suffering is the bedmate of masculine growth. 30. Feel your suffering. Rest with your suffering. Embrace your suffering. 31. Become immersed in what you do. 32. Relax and think through things. 33. Eliminate that which dulls your edge. 34. Make risk a constant practice. 35. Lose your fear of success and failure. 36. Eradicate impulse. 37. Empty your mind of doubts. 38. Cut your ties to the past. 39. Control your imagination. 40. Expose yourself to conflict. 41. Develop internal discipline and toughness. 42. Wage constant war on habit. 43. Search and find freedom. 44. Death-Ground! 45. Keep yourself restless and unsatisfied. 46. Lose attachment to comfort and security. 47. Boredom begets tiredness/laziness. 48. Study yourself carefully. 49. Maintain presence of mind. 50. The world is ruled by necessity. 51. See with soft-eyes. 52. Respect the power of accumulation. 53. Pay attention to your style of thinking. 54. Be aware of the self-locality of truth. 55. Think: a. Rational and Emotive b. Logical and Intuitive c. Concrete and Abstract. d. Convergent and Divergent. 56. Cultivate Semantic Sanity.
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Re: Lessons Learned from Shrooms, Books and Introspection [Re: McKennaRules]
#7838315 - 01/06/08 06:30 AM (16 years, 26 days ago) |
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1. The mind must be free! 2. Become a machine-human hybrid. 3. Deviate from your patterns. 4. Direction in life is a masculine priority. 5. Become sensitive to the force of your breath. 6. Breath is a primary expression of personal energy. 7. Open yourself and wait. Do not cover your suffering. 8. Challenge your attention with practice. 9. Cut through your habits of dullness. 10. Seek greater release, freedom and consciousness. 11. Keep a careful watch over yourself. 12. Do not allow the mind to wander. 13. Cultivate peace of mind. 14. Concentrate your mind and body. 15. To remember, deepen your impression. 16. Each day increase the intensity of your concentration. 17. Crack the shell of your closure. 18. Journey is greater than destination. Momentum is your friend. 19. Build models of reality. 20. Work hard. Practice. Be disciplined and persistent. 21. One by one, eradicate your faults. 22. Morning to night, train the mind to be steady. 23. Mind is governed by laws of association. 24. Make it memorable with: a. Pictures b. Redundancy c. Surprise/unusual d. Conversational style e. Activities f. Multiple learning styles g. Stories h. Questions/Challenges i. People element 25. You’re a work in progress. Always. 26. Compulsion order. 27. Take advantage of tunnel vision for some tasks. 28. Lean slightly beyond the edge of discomfort. 29. Stand in the space of the unknowingness, raw and awake. 30. Be bugged to act. 31. Your fear is your sharpest definition. Make it your friend. Stay with your fear to transform. 32. Approach your edge and feel into the source. 33. Absolute attention and total presence. 34. Have: a. Belief b. Passion c. Initiative d. Focus e. Preparation f. Practice g. Character h. Responsibility i. Teamwork j. Perseverance k. Courage l. Teachability 35. You are Powered by Psilocybin. 36. Use the breath to feel rhythm, nature and energy. 37. Practice. Work. Research. 38. Centralize your mind and body. 39. Be an engine of creativity. 40. Embrace chaos and the imagination. 41. See things through to the end. 42. Assume formlessness. 43. Make each moment a full expression of your core desire. 44. Understand reality to manipulate and create it. 45. Employ technique. Master technique. 46. Pay attention to detail. 47. Purpose is primary. All else is secondary. 48. Pause before you respond. Choose your words well. 49. Be on when you need to be on. 50. Rule your thoughts. Don’t let them rule you. 51. Master the art of letting go. 52. Work on yourself like clay. 53. Problem Solving Process: a. Neutral Zone: Holistically Viewed. b. End Zone – Execution Preparation. c. Data Zone – Home of evidence, fact, logic and figures. d. Ozone – Divergent. Dare to dream. No judging. e. Judgment Zone – Evaluate and scrutinize. 54. Six Basic Intelligences: a. Abstract – Symbolic b. Practical – Getting things done. c. Emotional – Self-awareness. d. Aesthetic – Form/Design/Holistic e. Social f. Kinesthetic – Whole body competence. 55. Super Machine-Human Intelligence: a. Information sharing at high speeds. b. Fast, accurate, consistent. c. Merging capability/Pooling resources. d. Skill sharing. e. Freedom from inherent design and architecture. f. Improves its own abilities via feedback loop. g. Understanding and responding appropriately to emotion.
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Re: Lessons Learned from Shrooms, Books and Introspection [Re: McKennaRules]
#7840137 - 01/06/08 03:34 PM (16 years, 26 days ago) |
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1) We are animals who will die.
2) What the thinker thinks, the prover proves.
3)I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions.
4)Twas ever thus.
5) Icelander rules.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
Edited by Icelander (01/06/08 03:34 PM)
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Re: Lessons Learned from Shrooms, Books and Introspection [Re: Icelander]
#7840178 - 01/06/08 03:45 PM (16 years, 26 days ago) |
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you should be a poet!
-------------------- The best way to live is to be like water For water benefits all things and goes against none of them It provides for all people and even cleanses those places a man is loath to go In this way it is just like Tao ~Daodejing
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Re: Lessons Learned from Shrooms, Books and Introspection [Re: Cracka_X]
#7840735 - 01/06/08 06:21 PM (16 years, 26 days ago) |
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Excellent posts! I just came across this book, looks to be on topic:
Mushroom Wisdom: How Shamans Cultivate Spiritual Consciousness by Martin W. Ball
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1579510361/ref=wl_it_dp?ie=UTF8&coliid=I190V1L3ND5XV6&colid=15FSSKDMEZBFK
Book Description
Mushroom Wisdom explores the universal aspects of the psilocybin mushroom experience as it relates to spirituality. Author Martin Ball explains how mushroom use can lead the spiritual seeker to profound states of self-awareness and radical understanding of the nature of the self, reality, and the sacred. Topics include looking into the spiritual mirror to uncover an authentic sense of self, developing “witness” consciousness to overcome self-limiting concepts and judgments, and removing obstacles of ego and self-induced suffering to trigger the rich experience of “spirit flow.” The book also addresses the creation and use of ritual, sacred objects, and the importance of sound and silence. Ball distinguishes between using mushrooms in spiritual work as opposed to simply having a pleasant psychedelic experience. Not a guide to how to have “fun” with psilocybin mushrooms, Mushroom Wisdom is a serious investigation into deep spiritual nature, drawing on both a wide array of scientific disciplines and ancient shamanic practices.
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