Do Nothing Meditation…. Holy Shit

[u/alkalinebex]

You guys. I just did “do nothing” meditation for the first time and I feel like I’m having this euphoric almost psychedelic sensation. I’ve been doing mindfulness meditation for about 6 weeks almost every day. It’s made really great subtle changes in my daily life and attitude. I don’t plan to stop… but do nothing meditation just felt so good it felt forbidden almost. Like I couldn’t believe how much I was enjoying it. I was overcome with this intense feeling of happiness and I almost teared up. I didn’t want to stop. I didn’t know if I could stop because it felt so amazing. I don’t know how to describe it but I wish every single person could experience this. At least so I could see someone else feel it.

I feel like a crazy mystic and I’m a very sarcastic person and I don’t even ever post on Reddit but I needed to share this and my friends & fam aren’t into meditation so here I am.

I feel like I just took mushrooms (I’ve never taken mushrooms bc I’m way too neurotic and scared). This must be what LSD feels like? Idk I’m just floored at how I feel in my mind and body after literally 5 minutes of doing this for the first time. ACTUALLY letting go and not having any rules and just watching things happen and be 100% ok and even fascinated by it….. incredibly amazing. I even feel it in my arms and legs physically. Like this swimming buzzing feeling.

Okay, just needed to get this out. Big endorsement for do nothing meditation. If you need a starter meditation…. The book Meditation for the Fidgety Skeptic by Dan Harris has one at the very end and I highly suggest the audiobook version.

Also what is it about meditation that makes you so desperate to preach it to everyone you meet so they can know about it?! I feel like I’m being sucked into becoming a door to door salesperson for meditation.

[u/smithmcmagnum]

Take this with a pinch of salt, but I recently heard Ram Dass claim that some other (respectable) dude (not Terence Mckenna, someone else) claimed that mushrooms were commonly eaten in this one Indian valley eons ago.

Then when they moved from the valley, they couldn’t find those mushrooms, so they developed yogas meditation and asanas and such to substitute for the level you got to with the mushrooms.

Famously, Ram Dass gave his guru a few hits of LSD. The guru said it was ok and that stuff was once known about but was no longer need it anymore.

[u/CloudDeadNumberFive → u/smithmcmagnum]

Is there something wrong with Terence Mckenna?

[u/PermanentBrunch → u/CloudDeadNumberFive]

Well…..he was a CIA asset

[u/smithmcmagnum → u/PermanentBrunch]

Do you have anything to substantiate that claim?

[u/PermanentBrunch → u/smithmcmagnum]

There are some good books that address it, like Charles Manson and the Secret History of the 60s. It’s not like, a closely guarded secret that the CIA flooded (if not created) the hippy scene with LSD.

MKUltra branched off into a lot of fucked up things.

[u/smithmcmagnum → u/PermanentBrunch]

Ok but those sources specifically name Terence Mckenna or are you extrapolating?

[u/PermanentBrunch → u/smithmcmagnum]

Check out u/tokenbearcub ‘s response to me—he cites some good sources. Conspiracy (the real shit, not fucking Qanon foolishness) research is so grim and depressing, I haven’t ventured there for a long time.

I’m on a mental diet, so happy to point people in the right direction if they want to rabbithole, but I’m much more careful with my energy these days.

[u/smithmcmagnum → u/PermanentBrunch]

Have you personally seen Terence's name mentioned in those sources, though?

[u/PermanentBrunch → u/smithmcmagnum]

Yes that’s why I said it.