Date: 12/30/13
Exchange w/ Shroomery member ACaterpillar
Asked via PM if he ever ended up attending dhamma.org's free 10-day meditation retreat. Subject had previously announced on the message board that he had booked a reservation for it.
-Are you referring to the ten day silent meditation retreats?
-Yeah. Subsequent to my PM, I saw a post of yours where you said you did it. However, you didn't elaborate much. How intense of an experience did it yield?
-I would say it was incredibly intense.
By the end of the retreat I was entering very deep places and having alex grey-esque visions.
Entity contact, "out of body" experiences.
But those things are really just distractions, and if you want to take it as far as possible then you have to not let yourself get carried away by these fanciful things.
The retreat also has had an incredibly lasting effect on me.
My awareness of my self is incredibly heightened now.
My awareness isn't near as developed and penetrating as it was when I finished the retreat; but because of the familiarity I now have with those deeper parts of my consciousness I can return back to them with ease.
I'd recommend it over any psychedelic.
But I also don't think most people gain as much from the retreats as I happened to.
-Wow, all that from 10 days. I'm seriously impressed.
In regard to you having an above-average experience, were raised in an exceedingly pure way in regard to health? i.e. very good diet and good quality water. Because they say that a one who is ravaged with things like fluoride and general poor health is inhibited from higher consciousness stuff. Also, were you vaccinated?
-I was vaccinated and considering that I drink tap water and eat food from American restaurants I would say my body hasn't had the cleanest experience.
I attribute my ability to pull more from the experience because of several things.
One of them being my previous work with psychedelics which I believed helped dissolve certain filters that society conditions us to develop.
Also I think your past lives have a large role to play in your predispotions and current mental circumstance in this life.
Exchange w/ Shroomery member ACaterpillar
Asked via PM if he ever ended up attending dhamma.org's free 10-day meditation retreat. Subject had previously announced on the message board that he had booked a reservation for it.
-Are you referring to the ten day silent meditation retreats?
-Yeah. Subsequent to my PM, I saw a post of yours where you said you did it. However, you didn't elaborate much. How intense of an experience did it yield?
-I would say it was incredibly intense.
By the end of the retreat I was entering very deep places and having alex grey-esque visions.
Entity contact, "out of body" experiences.
But those things are really just distractions, and if you want to take it as far as possible then you have to not let yourself get carried away by these fanciful things.
The retreat also has had an incredibly lasting effect on me.
My awareness of my self is incredibly heightened now.
My awareness isn't near as developed and penetrating as it was when I finished the retreat; but because of the familiarity I now have with those deeper parts of my consciousness I can return back to them with ease.
I'd recommend it over any psychedelic.
But I also don't think most people gain as much from the retreats as I happened to.
-Wow, all that from 10 days. I'm seriously impressed.
In regard to you having an above-average experience, were raised in an exceedingly pure way in regard to health? i.e. very good diet and good quality water. Because they say that a one who is ravaged with things like fluoride and general poor health is inhibited from higher consciousness stuff. Also, were you vaccinated?
-I was vaccinated and considering that I drink tap water and eat food from American restaurants I would say my body hasn't had the cleanest experience.
I attribute my ability to pull more from the experience because of several things.
One of them being my previous work with psychedelics which I believed helped dissolve certain filters that society conditions us to develop.
Also I think your past lives have a large role to play in your predispotions and current mental circumstance in this life.