Strange electric feeling

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While some may claim that it is impossible to possess any sort of psycho-spiritual capacity or phenomenal energetic capabilities without extreme discipline in the areas of one's dietary habits or yogic/meditative practice, this is partially false, although engaging in auto-disciplinary or ascetic practices will obviously vastly amplify your psycho-spiritual functions, one can still achieve impressive feats and make tremendous progress even if they do not fast, follow a vegan/vegetarian diet or engage in extensive traditional meditative practice, especially if one is aware of particular techniques which can allow one to bypass energetic barriers or obstacles that may arise, such as stimulating pineal-centric methods (e.g. deep breathing via the larynx).

While it may not be impossible, it would definitely be hard, as you mentioned, without meditative practices. That reminds me of a video that I saw of a villager in Southeast Asia (or perhaps in the vicinity of Malaysia?) that could set fire to things with his hands (and more!) because of his daily meditative practice. The video was not fake at all. That really tripped me out!

I for one do not meditate. I have way too many distractions in my life. I've tried, but the longest I've meditated for was 3 months (maybe one or 2 days that I wasn't able to because of the distractions). While I had plenty of mystical experiences, I've found that meditating is not really my cup of tea. Being a writer, I prefer a writing meditative practice, or simply thinking real deeply about things (contemplation).

I think that if you're a meditator you will get certain benefits, and if you pursue contemplation, while you will get benefits, they won't necessarily be yogic in nature (such as the type that you've described, TetrisMckenna). I'd say that the benefits of disciplined contemplation would be more along the lines of, say, magical insight about things.