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   From: Root@Wan   
      
   On 9-11-2018 7:02, David Dalton wrote:   
   > I have written a few times before of my hope that I will come out of my   
   > low/wilderness years and achieve awakening/enlightenment, like the Buddha did   
   > at the end of his seven ascetic years.   
      
   Hope is like a shovel; IT pushes things away.   
   Clarity sees through all that.   
      
   Science part:   
   When a concept is presented into a form in the brain, the meditation is   
   not done properly.   
      
   A true clarity state should not measure at all.   
   Effects of that state should though.   
   Like rapid healing.   
      
   > I have said that I expect this   
   > awakening/enlightenment to consist of sustained productive creativity and   
   > mental stability, allowing me to taper off my medication without experiencing   
   > adverse effects.   
      
   Expectations ?   
   This far in ?   
   Is this more reflecting on what you said years ago ?   
      
   > I think I have briefly come out of the low years twice before, once one early   
   > evening when I was visiting Vancouver in September 2004, and once one New   
   > Year’s Eve a few years ago here in St. John’s.   
      
   Twice clarity seems beauty hit ya hard.   
      
   > In both cases I experienced a feeling of luminous clarity, and it wasn’t   
   similar to my   
   > waning crescent highs.   
      
   Did you experience rapid healing, as in being awake, not so much through   
   increased testosterone/adrenaline but through 'waking up   
      
   Think the visual from dragon ball z, where piccolo is on namek and has   
   just joined with Nail.   
      
   "YES, i'm HOME, I'm alive, this is all a miracle, I'm awake, i'm wide awake"   
      
   > I have three types of awakening so far:   
   > 1. my waning crescent highs (inspiration/call)   
   > 2. release from my waxing gibbous moon trials by full moon   
   > 3. the above-mentioned two brief incidents.   
   >   
   > But anyway, while medication has eased my way, it seems that it has delayed   
   > the final awakening/enlightenment since most past figures similar to me had   
   > only seven years of low years, a few had 14 years, and I have gone 22.78   
   > years so far. If an 11 year sunspot cycle variation holds, I might come out   
   > of the low years 11 years after the 14 years, so 2.22 more years, or 22 years   
   > after the 7 years, or 6.22 more years. But I hope it will be sooner than 2.22   
   > more years.   
   >   
   > However, note that while my low years were quite bad in 1996 and 1997, these   
   > days they are not very low except in terms of creativity while I am on my   
   > current medication regimen of 1250 mg divalproex sodium and 7.5 mg of   
   > olanzapine nightly and am abstaining from alcohol 1--9 days before full moon   
   > and from marijuana during all of waxing moon, and am not blindly believing   
   > perineum click divination, though I still play at it.   
      
   Find many ways to play, until all play everyday.   
      
   At which point ya realize moving is dangerous ;)   
      
   See the medication as a delay tactix from you yourself.   
   Just to delay, and giev time to refine.   
      
    From your other post where you state you will reduce medication;   
   just like any other withdrawal;   
   make sure to have a good rotation of towels going on, so you always have   
   dry ones to sleep in.   
      
   Sleeping and then sweating coz withdrawal is lousy, coz ya sleep bad,   
   and get sick easily.   
      
   So make sure to have enough towels to soak up, and drink lots of water,   
   coz the body prolly needs to sweat out toxins.   
      
   I only dabbled in psychofarmacology, but for pretty much all of them, it   
   seems they are bad for you, and should only be taken if there is an   
   actual need.   
      
   Weaning off medication should be done as soon as possible.   
      
   What is your personal behavioral therapy like, seeing how you apprantly   
   manage to keep a regimen, as a dude.   
      
   Are you perchance more of the man-loving variety of men ?   
   I mean, keeping a schedule, let a lone a regimen, IT's like you are a   
   star ;)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)