(03-11-2025, 06:52 AM)Nugget Wrote: I've tried many times to meditate but haven't ever had much luck. I did learn years ago how to get 'in the zone', but it doesn't even come close to the definition of how to meditate.

I have had experiences with the effects of massive endorphines (what a blessing!) and once what I surmise must have been a massive release of DMT, only with a highly spiritual component. 

Although I was a teen in the 60's I opted out of all the drug experimentation; I really wanted to try hallucinagenics but fear of a bad trip and being busy having babies held me back. I didn't think that it would be a very wise choice to mix parenting and parenthood.

I tend to think anything man can do nature can do better; we just don't know the right prompts to enter. I think our brains are capable of so much more than we can ever imagine, and it's probably a good thing we don't have the knowledge to utilize all of our power.

I think getting in the zone is probably what a lot of practitioners of folk magic and those that filled the roles of priests in societies without them did. Ethnobotany shows a lot of knowledge about using plants from back in ancient times does correlate to what we are now able to measure and test. That was probably one of the main educational things they did. People that frequently do even this light sort of meditation also seem more inclined to being good at conflict resolution and innovative solutions.

The brain is largely still a mystery to us and the mind, as a functional thing much larger than just the gritty physics of matter, is a mostly untapped source of unknown potential for most of the population.

It's not for everyone at all levels of exploration, but there are benefits to anyone at any level of exploration. For some the juice isn't worth the squeeze, much like not everyone will get the same benefits from physical exercise or enjoy it.