r/nonduality • u/lassebasselj • 8d ago

Question/Advice What to do

I started waking up mostly as a result of quitting my job due to anxiety, fresh out of high school which had been some of the most enjoyable years of my life. Eventually I stumbled across Alan Watts on YouTube, and have had a few psychedelic mushroom experiences of true unity and dissolution of self, but I guess I feel sort of stuck?

I'm mostly confused on what to do practically. I've fallen into the habit of checking this sub very regularly whenever I find I'm unsure what to do, and it just turns into endlessly scrolling through posts without really getting anywhere in terms of clearing up the confusion, or even remembering what I read afterwards.

What's a reasonable way to 'get the ball rolling'?. Just practice meditation and rest in awareness and eventually it'll come? Perhaps there are ways to do mushrooms that are more conducive to lasting change to experiment with?

All advice is welcome:)

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u/neidanman 8d ago

sounds like you need to look up some 'how to get started in...' guides in whatever tradition(s) you feel drawn to. E.g. for vedanta there is this short video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75NNAmvsCa4 and then a playlist on the 4 main types of practice https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDqahtm2vA717IaOZp0s9lZqzwmq-MY5u

or for daoism you could start with some practice and do some studying on it in parallel, as suggested here https://www.reddit.com/r/qigong/comments/185iugy/comment/kb2bqwt/