I wish I had an actual number of how much I've dropped. Psychedelics are great for opening doors to new ways of thinking but they aren't the answer to figuring out life (I used to think it was). I had to stop once I started realizing that I was actually taking it too far and that I had already seen all that could be seen with that substance. I think psychedelics are a great "reset" for you mind and there have been scientific studies done on how taking them can actually elevate your mood long term. Interesting to say the least. I want to try DMT. Have you read about it? There's a controlled lab experiment on humans with a documentary that follows the patients whole experience and it's called DMT: The Spirit Molecule.
Just for clarity the word Karma means intentional action. There is another term; vipaka, which means " th result of intentional action. So karma/vipaka just means that the quality of your experience now (vipaka) is the result of your past intentional actions (karma). Actions motivated by greed, hatred etc. degrade the quality of ones experience, while actions motivated by compassion uplift the quality of ones experince. This ties in with reincarnation and energy. Not energy in the sense of being some mystical spiritual force, but energy in the sense that things are simply happening. Like me typing my thoughts on this thread, finger hitting hitting the butons, words appearing on screen, people reading and comprehending, etc. It takes energy to do stuff and for stuff to happen. Its process or transformation, not birth and death or beginning and ending. Like cotton into thread, thread into shirt, shirt into dirty ragged shirt, dirty ragged shirt into something to wipe your ass with when there is no toilet paper, shitty ragged shirt tossed on side of the road to disentegrate into the earth, worm food, worm excrement, grass, flowers plants an so on... That is just how shit works, it applies to everything, even the thing we think is a self, mind, emotions, individuality. It just another phenomena, part of the weave that is the frabric of reality. Doesnt come from anywhere or go anwhere just transforms through process which in our sentient realm takes the form of karma/vipaka.
From a Buddhist point of view the huge hole you mention doesn't exist. Buddhist do not believe that this planet is the only one in the universe capable of supporting life. Buddhists also believe that this reality we experience is only one particular mode of perception and that there are many other modes that are imperceivable to our mundane senses which also take the forms of environments. This is all probably mumbo jumbo to you, which is all good. I don't agree with your assertions about "bad" and "good" people getting what they want and don't want. Just because someone is a politician or CEO doesn't mean that their every action has a negative motivation and that applies to "good" people as well. And how do you determine that a Banker, politician and CEO are getting what they want? By the fact that they have lots of money and possessions? That doesn't necessarily reflect the quality of ones life experience. Happiness and misery, richness and poverty are states of mind which are determined by how a person thinks and acts.
I agree with the part about believing in yourself and being in control of your life. However, if a person understands that thoughts and motivations effect the quality of ones experience then that person could actually raise the quality of his or her existence through ritual. In that sense, it isn't a crutch but a means for gaining control and utilizing that power.
yeah, i saw that doc, i found it interesting that someone in it reported seeing the place where one waits to be reincarnated, because thats what i saw, ive only done it once though. one of the thoughts Ive had about Karma recently is that instead of it affecting the person, it affects the entire world, like the world is shit cause theres so many people doing things out of greed and powerlust. idk if thats as much Karma as it is the physical, scientific results of their actions though.
