Introduction

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The powerful psychedelic 5-MeO-DMT is famous for granting profound experiences of nonduality. With an accurate understanding of the nature of mind as empty luminosity, it is easy to experience awareness as a blissful, lucid, and limitless expanse of nondual wisdom and universal love. Nondual, skylike awareness is beyond birth, death, confusion, and suffering. Even a single experience of nonduality can be life-changing because it reveals an entirely different way of being, characterized by openness, love, and universal compassion.

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This book is a meditation manual for recognizing the nondual nature of mind, empty luminosity, using 5MeO. This recognition is called rigpa, often translated as insight or awareness. The goal is to stabilize rigpa so it lasts all day and transforms life into a flow of wisdom. Psychedelic meditation can bring us to the direct realization of empty luminosity many times. It is deep neuroplastic training in nonduality.

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Neuroplastic training in nonduality refers to our ability to rewire our brain to let go of the deeply ingrained habit of duality and begin functioning without duality. The problem with relying only on daily meditation is that the training effect is very gradual. Most meditators do not become stable in nondual awareness before they die. Psychedelic meditation sessions are very intense neuroplastic training in nonduality, which can accelerate the training from decades to years.

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This manual covers the entire range of practice from beginner to advanced. The experience of starting with low doses of 5MeO is surprisingly gentle and grounded in the body. Beginners often encounter complete mental silence, deep peace, and a clear glimpse of empty luminosity in their first low-dose sessions. This easy recognition of empty luminosity and relaxed liberation from concepts with no previous meditation training or psychedelic experience is unique to psychedelic meditation. Sometimes, people exclaim, “This is so easy! Is this cheating?” The answer is no, this is not cheating, because our next step is to bring nondual awareness into daily life where it can benefit ourselves and everyone we touch.

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At higher doses, awareness becomes extraordinarily bright. The brilliant white light, the supreme sunlight of naked awareness, washes out the relative dimness of concepts, appearances, identity, and duality. There is only brilliant white light, unobscured naked awareness. This precious and unexcelled quality of naked being is blissful and effortless. 5MeO is the God molecule, meaning one, oneness, and nonduality. It reveals unobscured primordial wisdom, the mother luminosity, the ultimate unconditioned nature of awareness.

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The cumulative neuroplastic training in nonduality is the dose intensity multiplied by the number of hours spent in rigpa. Even a hundred hours of high-intensity rigpa practice is significant neuroplastic training in nonduality. A working person can schedule a hundred hours of high-intensity rigpa practice a year in weekend sessions with no hangover, side effects, or lost time. The rest of the week is integration practice, bringing the wisdom of rigpa into daily meditation and daily life. No other practice can deliver this much nonduality training so effectively.

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Psychedelic Meditation Institute holds space for practitioners at all levels of psychedelic experience, all levels of meditation training, of any tradition, and no tradition. This manual will benefit from your feedback and will be updated to track our progress in understanding and explaining the practice. You can be a pioneer in bringing psychedelic meditation into the world safely, accurately, and effectively. If you are interested in joining us in this research, visit https://psychedelicmeditation.org/ to get on the mailing list for announcements of classes, discussions, and meditation instructor training sessions.

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This meditation manual contains no intellectual speculation or wishful thinking. It reflects traditional texts, oral instructions from qualified teachers, and personal experiential research. The nondual traditions have always sought the sharpest tools to cut through to primordial purity, such as multi-year solitary retreats, dark retreats, and thögal practice. Now, practitioners have access to the sharpest and most efficient tool of all, psychedelic meditation. Over the next generation or two, psychedelic meditation will become a primary vehicle for realization. May there be a thousand Buddhas in every generation!

 

1. Understanding Empty Luminosity – Understanding the nature of mind transforms a psychedelic experience into a psychedelic meditation session.

2. Nature of Mind Practice – How to recognize awareness as empty luminosity in psychedelic meditation sessions and daily life.

3. Nature of Mind Practice with 5MeO – Brilliant, profound, blissful immersion in nonduality is the heart of psychedelic meditation practice.

4. Navigating 5MeO – Practice hints.

5. Essential Training – Psychedelic meditation requires some familiarity with mindfulness, loving-kindness, and emptiness.

6. Navigating Psychedelics – How to work with confusion and fear as duality dissolves.

7. Thögal Practice with LSD – Advanced nature of mind practice with LSD.

8. Navigating LSD – LSD sessions are long and can be challenging.

9. Resources – Related organizations, books, Buddhist training options, and psychedelic safety.

10. About the Author – The lineage of teachings and series of coincidences that lead to this meditation manual.