1 week of Syrian Rue Tea

[northape]

Did you feel this is part of a progression, or part of a kind of lockout? From my experience the interactive nature of the Harmala + DMT experience is one of the most fascinating aspects. Did you live according to the plan and what you are supposed to be doing? If not you would know why the visions could have stopped. Visions and somatic can be different modalities of the same thing I would say and often cannot be separated.

I feel like my lack of visions is part of the plan. It's not that I'm locked out of the experience, but rather that my visual center works at a highly reduced capacity. Back in 2013, I had a session where my 3rd eye opened, and I saw dmt-like visions instead of dreams for three months. I was basically not ready, so a part of myself closed that opening. I even saw an image of a big eye on top of my skull closing. They have a nice name for it in the Tibetan tradition: the sky door. So, the plug has been pulled from my side, and I need to unravel my own knots to open the door again. I know about it, and medicine knows about it. I have no idea how I closed it, so nothing can be done about it right now. That's just the story my mind created around the issue. How much of it is true, I have no idea

Certain types of Buddhist practice or mystical paths yes, ethics, karma, rebirth, different planes of existence; but the total absense of discussion of God is a major omission to say the least from the Dharma, that and no mention of psychedelics, which is the most consistent direct path to communion with it.
Maybe Advaita. What about Kabbalah which Strassman and others go on about. The experience doesn't fit and seems to go beyond any established framework. Shocking but there it is.

Oh, they have God in Buddhism too. They just use different terms to avoid theism, such as karma, emptiness, dependent origination, dharmakaya, and rigpa, to name a few. We can see these terms as descriptions of the divine, the same way there are 108 names for Shiva or some other deity. Psychedelics are there too, but it's an oral tradition. I'm not in the inner circles of any school, so I have no idea how widespread they are nowadays.

I don't know about Advaita in general, but Sri Ramana's teachings work for any experience. He would always point to who is seeing it all and, by doing so, shift attention to what matters. Whatever we see is just a show anyway, similar to a dream. There is no dream without a dreamer. His actual philosophy is closer to Buddhism, imo. He just used the cultural container he was born into.

There is no creation, no destruction, no bondage, no longing to be freed from bondage, no striving to be free [from bondage], nor anyone who has attained [freedom from bondage]. Know that this is the ultimate truth.