/lit/ - Literature

>>3220746
Your consciousness is immaterial, and as such it is impossible to expand. But if you read and experience life and think about what you're experiencing you'll learn.

short term - psychedelics
long term - kundalini; achieved by meditation

you would be a retard for using psychedelics long term.

the fruits of meditation you may enjoy only if you devote to it long term

http://iai.tv/video/on-having-a-mind-having-a-body-and-being-a-person

>>3220755
>Your consciousness is immaterial
dat idealism. not that i disagree with you. i think it is essential to rejoin to the origins of pure consciousness, but OP is probably speaking of the `consciousness` used in psychology i.e. the good old expansion of outlook on life. though, if not, just see >>3220767

This is the Vishuddimagga, the path to purification an abhidhamma work by 5th century Buddhist meditator Buddhagosa

read it, put it into practice, become enlightened

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/nanamoli/PathofPurification2011.pdf

drugs are for the weak, expand your mind with it's own power

>>3220986
>become enlightened
not so fast there, chief.

>>3220746

Shotgun blast to the head. Instant Universal Consciousness.

>>3220746
There is no consciousness.

If you prefer word games to esoteric meditation, read Idres Shahs' three books of Nasrudin tales and then read the gateless gate.

>>3221011
>There is no consciousness.
you forgot "the why part" in your poverty postulate

By seeking to learn from your everyday experiences.

That's it, no real special techniques involved aside from wanting to change yourself.

I wouldn't listen to anyone telling you to take drugs either.

>>3221051
simplistic bullshit

this is how fascism starts

>>3221051

you do realize that your mind and all your thoughts are nothing more than electro-chemical processes in your brain, don't you?

>>3221051
>By seeking to learn from your everyday experiences.
>blatant empiricism

pls go

>>3220767
long term mushroom use is fine. mushrooms are good for you.

>>3221070
>you do realize that your mind and all your thoughts are nothing more than electro-chemical processes in your brain, don't you?

>>>/sci/

i'm begging you.

>>3221070
You point?
>>3221071
Experience is the only way you can learn shit. Any theories you happen to cook up must be tested in real life as to prove their worth. That's how it's always been.

>>3221074

wait. you don't know that to be true?

were you home schooled by fundies?

>>3221082
>Any theories you happen to cook up must be tested in real life as to prove their worth.

hahah instrumentalist dogma, cute

>>3221082

my point is that the person who said that drugs cannot expand your consciousness does not under stand what "consciousness" is, and does not realize that some chemicals can enhance what we call "consciousness".

of course, smoking weed or snorting mescaline usually just results in the user coming up with utter nonsense. but not always.

>>3221072
Goddamn stoners on my /lit/. Link me to a corresponding study on mushroom long term usage that shows its amiability, kind monsieur. Sorry to burst your bubble though, but it most certainly harms your CNS in the long run; you're supposed to "evolve" your CNS naturally, and not in any means through drug use. It's just a tool.

>>3221096
Drugs only give you a hint of knowledge and most people don't even remember and much less even apply what they see. A better option would be lucid dreaming, exploring your own subconscious, at least that doesn't make you into a burnout after a couple years.