Many people, including Buddhist monks, spend thousands of hours sitting in what they call meditation. In reality, what they're doing is thinking and ruminating upon their problems.

Karmic progression implies that we are kind of alliterating steps to life. There's alliteration, a kind of rhythmic structure. Once we're in time and space, the variable structures are somewhat limited.

This is just one little lifetime in a succession of lifetimes.

Karma exists within causality. It is three-dimensional. Free will exists outside of causality; it is not bound by karma.

With the use of psychedelics, it was all based around the Tibetan Book of the Dead, using them to experience enlightenment.

When the world stops, time stops.

The disembodied being stays in the same state of mind that it was in when it was embodied, unless it does something to change that while it is out of the body.