Taking 4 or 5 harmala seeds chewed and held sublingually for a few minutes then eaten before going to bed can work, especially if combined with meditation and lucid dream practices. Dreams will be enhanced significantly but I have also found these harmala induced dreams can be a path of connection to that terrain and access to interacting with it more.
Thank you. Funny thing, my condition applies to the whole visual center, so the capacity to
see dreams is diminished. I'm kind of fine with it at this point, but I still try different methods from time to time. My recent insights are to try a pranayama practice to
clean my channels and buy an eye mask
Yet the path is generally one of self practice although there are teachers yes, but the Buddha’s last words were supposed to have been "All things that are put together come apart. Work to your own salvation with diligence".
Yes, yet that's just the first turn of the wheel of Dharma - Hinayana. They develop these ideas further down the road
This is great advice yes, but the emphasis is on the individual. Christians I had spoken to in the past would state that "the issue is you are relying only on yourself whereas I have God" and I would dismiss this as wishful thinking and just a belief. Psychedelics in particular Harmala and DMT have proven otherwise however, and for me it goes beyond Buddhism, unless they are saying the Dharmakaya can directly communicate with you?
I consider Sri Ramana my root guru because his teachings lit the flame of wisdom in me. Consequently, any other tradition looks like his teachings, hehe. God is yourself; that's the light that brings life to the ego. They have a term for it in Vajrayana, but I can't remember. Dharmakaya can manifest as whatever is needed. It's similar to avatars in the Hindu tradition. I'm not an expert in any of these, but I see commonalities everywhere. They say Sri Ramana manifested as God on Earth to guide his devotees. You see the pattern. All of it is just stories for us to relate to something beyond all names and forms
There is direct precence of the Highest, not only directly communicating but even physically interacting with my system as well as directing consciousness to higher states well beyond my normal capability. So this is a challenge to the traditional Buddhist framework in my view, unless there are some hidden esoteric schools out there that acknowledge direct intervention from the Dharmakaya.
There is a term in Buddhism - 84,000 dharma doors. There is also a famous Q&A between Sri Ramana and Yogananda:
Yogananda: How is the spiritual uplift of the people to be effected? What are the instructions to be given to them?
Maharshi: They differ according to the temperaments of the individuals and according to the spiritual ripeness of their minds. There cannot be any instruction en masse.
We all resonate with what fits our nature, and that's how it's supposed to be. There is no real truth on our level - just the means to get there. I remember reading that Buddhist philosophy is supreme (especially Madhyamaka, which emphasizes "my view is no view"), but practically Advaita is more relevant for the human psyche. Buddhists point to the same things, but they use too many terms to do it, imo. It took me a while to see that
Even at 1.5g/2.0g, I get this feeling of losing my mind/going insane but not in a "bad trip" way. I get this feeling of diving deep into my body as if I were falling into the ocean with only the observer state that remains, during that process, I'll have all sorts of imagery coming up to the surface, sometimes of alien nature, the losing my mind feeling feels more like the natural ego attachments that dissolve, I'll also have feelings like maybe I wasted "my life", or that I was all wrong regarding how I perceive and experience reality, it's physically very unpleasant but It goes away.
Rue is not that dangerous. It's an anxiolytic too, so getting a really
bad trip on just rue is close to impossible. Your system seems to be sensitive, and that's a good thing. It shows that you're primed for this medicine. Go slow and explore
It's related to my way of living too I think. I lost all personal will regarding achieving or attaining something. I truly think that everything in this reality is a distraction to the infinite self, even the sense of being someone which makes it quite "difficult" to operate in a day to day basis in current modern society where too much importance is given to the character, the individual, achieving things, constantly pursuing something "outside", constant actions aiming at maintaining the "false" self. And sometimes those thoughts and feeling I've mentioned earlier will arise, which I think are just normal, that's why I just observe and don't give that much importance even if it can be hard sometimes because most of the thing outside reflects the opposite, but it is what it is, it's part of Samsara.
Yes and no. What you say is basically a story you've created. Samsara is just a story, too. In any esoteric tradition, they say that there is no difference between samsara and nirvana. These labels exist only on our level. Sri Ramana always advised people to work on themselves from within. It's a personal affair inside your own mind. Do your duty, live your life in society, but do investigate
who is doing all these things. By
investigate, we mean paying attention to your sense of self or being. That's it. Everything else is just stories that the mind tells.
To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.
I have to say that I have never gone really deep with Harmala brew alone because of the nausea and body temperature fluctuations put me off, but it may be worth going back and seeing through what may be an adaptation phase, or at least significantly upping the Harmala dosage and placing less emphasis on the DMT subsequently.
Please do. I feel you'll be pleasantly surprised. After years of dmt-heavy brews, I came back to a simple rue tea. Lots of what I thought were dmt effects actually came from rue.
