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Anyone else study Yogacara and Systems Sciences?
      01/08/24 06:56 AM

I've been studying yogacara for about eight years though a lot of it didn't make much sense to me until about 9 months ago when I had a DMT breakthrough and had the direct experience of 'mind only'.  The sense that the DMT 'elves' were mind constructing a map of reality and that's why everything always seemed alive on DMT, because I was looking at reality through the lens of consiousness, a living breathing process.

Anyway, now I'm looking at systems science and extrapolating Western language onto Yogacara and I'm starting to see some interesting things.

Eye consciousness I can map onto the visual cortex.  I can do this directly in meditation and relax certain reoccuring closed eye visuals.  Last night, for example.  I came to the insight that the reoccuring mushroom visuals I was having was a sort of muscle memory in the mind.  My visual cortex has been trained to look for mushrooms and does so even when my eyes are closed.

From here I was able to watch for the dopamine reward cycle to cease through a combination of annapanasati practice, simple calm abiding (just being), and some dry insight work (these processes were all done at various points during the sit).

When it did, eye consciousness let go of the mushroom visuals and they haven't rearisin.  Though I imagine they will soon enough as I'm still growing mushrooms and will soon re-habituat eye consciousness to look for them.

Anyway, just curious if anyone else is into yogacara and/or systems sciences as it relates to human psychology/sociology and wanted to start a conversation to hear about other people's personal experiences and thoughts :smile:

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Listen to the silence behind the engines' noise.  Jesus, Sweets, listen.  Hear it?  It's a love song.
For whom?
You are loved.
~ David Foster Wallace, Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way


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. * * Re: Anyone else study Yogacara and Systems Sciences? redgreenvines   01/08/24 07:43 AM
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. * * Re: Anyone else study Yogacara and Systems Sciences? redgreenvines   01/09/24 05:45 AM


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