Who says that this clarity is what we should pursue in our meditation practice?
So what are you suggesting as an alternative, lack of clarity? The essence of meditation is to establish greater presence and clarity, this naturally fosters wisdom and insight over time. The role of psychedelics in helping facilitate this is backed by a lot of research now also.
I feel like your judgment is based on how it benefits you in your day-to-day life, so it immediately becomes an egoic pursuit of a rainbow unicorn.
This is a nonsensical statement. Unless you are trying to convey something and the words you have chosen are failing to convey whatever it is you were trying to say. We are all trying to improve and benefit our lives - which includes our day to day life. Exploration of peak experience is a part of this also. What else would we be doing?
Yes, these experiences have their place and value, but the whole path is about developing wisdom. You don't need any HD vision for that. Extreme focus on visual candy is misleading, and you should see how open and flexible you become instead.
Where did I ever say that being more open and flexible was not a part of it, or that it should be done 'instead'?
the 3rd eye is just one hub in an intricate system. It's useless to build a beautiful house on a shaky foundation.
If you had seen my earlier posts on this thread, you would have seen there has been a constant mention of building of foundations. Foundation of ethics and virtue being first.
Similarly, developing astral vision without balancing the whole system misses the point. It is one thing if it's a natural development in your practice, and quite another when it comes from your so-called understanding. Ego will never help you, so your ideas will just lead you astray.
Well, why dont you tell that to the DMT
"You're introducing things in the wrong order, you're supposed to be bringing in a whole intricate energy system, not just emphasize the third eye chakra"
Yes and no. Life is your teacher, and at the depth of your heart is your guide. Any unique state can show you a new angle on reality and give basic lessons in impermanence. What is consistent throughout all your experiences? I'd say it's awareness or "I am." What is that, then?
DMT is a nice tool, but the teacher is you. Even if you had Buddha living with you 24/7, it would still take your own effort to get anywhere.
Yet what is this teacher at the depth of ones heart? Where do "we" end and where does "God" begin? Did you never hear the phrase that God is found within?
Saying "the teacher is you" in a sense of we practice and learn via trial and error is not really saying anything. Of course this is the process yet we still need teachers who have walked the path before us.
In this case the DMT Dimension/Mind of God is very much acting as the guide and teacher itself to activate and show the path and higher states within. This is not of my own efforts, and nor do I have any experience or much prior knowledge of these states aside from a basic conceptual idea, but I have a role to play in practicing and fulfilling the path that is shown and that is down to me. One of the biggest mistakes some people make is thinking psychedelics will do all the work for them but this is far from being the case.
Yes, DMT helps to train your energy body and shows the possibility of a higher energetic state, but the result is your own effort. When you're going somewhere, you're using a car, but it's not the goal of your journey. You'll get farther with a car, but at some point you need to go on by yourself, especially if you're aiming for the highest peak of a mountain.
You are bringing out a whole set of assumptions and reactions here. Void, myself and perhaps one or two others on here are those who have thus far reported experiencing 'the call' phenomena, and it is a mapping out of the process as we experience and interact with it.
So I dont think anyone is really in a position at this point to make presumptions regarding what it is, its purpose or how it will unfold. Its something I am open to and trying to adhere to what appears to be the message and direction being given. I am curious as to how Voids experience with the call and his relationship to it may unfold parrallel to or different to mine also.
In fact the whole experience as it is occurring is quite crazy when I stand back and reflect on it even to me as a fairly experienced psychonaut, which is why I had been sharing it in real time as it unfolds.
I did not expect the - 'carrier wave call' to be occurring at all outside the DMT space which is where this thread began as an observation, not really expecting anyone else to be experiencing the same thing. I did not anticipate it subsequently being interactive with my intent, I did not anticipate it leading to lockout until I purified my virtue, and I did not anticipate it seemingly now introducing some kind of Kundalini energy system and essentially instructing me how to practice to develop further.
I am curious as to where it is unfolding of course and my feeling is if I want to continue this whole psychedelic venture, I better had make efforts to do what it says. It doesn't feel 'fun' it feels serious and that there is a duty here. A calling as such.
I have little knowledge or experience of these types of meditation systems outside of a basic picture. In fact, I am specifically not going to overload on learning about them now with book knowledge because the Harmalas + DMT are showing me a path of cultivation which I am going to adhere to as it presents itself, and I don't want to in a sense jeapordise the data by filling it up with too many conceptual models outside of what it is directly revealing to me and and guiding.
How much this unfolding experience and practice may end up matching established systems remains to be seen, but one thing I have learned is dogmas and established wisdom often doesn't fully match experience of these realities where one attains them oneself.
