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I have in my stash Bliss pellets (5-MAPB+2-FMA+5-MeO-MiPT), a combination to be like MDMA but better and safer, but haven't found the moment to try it out.
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If you're not defending your life purpose, what is the point of having one?
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Carl-Richard replied to Inliytened1's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
I think solipsism as it's usually conceived falls under the concept of crypto-materialism. Earlier I've presented it as an epistemic phenomena of clinging on to the epistemic norms and empirical frameworks of materialism (materialist science, leading to largely discarding psychic phenomena, telepathy, spirits, etc.). This version of solipsism is more an ontological version of the same phenomena. You want to propose that "there is only you", "there is no self", "there is no objective reality, only a dream", but then you cling on to the ontological norms of physical creatures, physical constraints like time and space, perceptual contents, and making objective statements about these things (their limitations, their extension, their locality, closesness, visibility, immediateness). In reality, non-duality makes no claim about objective (or subjective) reality other than its oneness. Any elaboration in any direction is an overreach. -
Dodo replied to Nick_98's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
You are that which sees, not what you see. Neti-neti. Also, there is ai slop -
'Rare' is a very relative term. The perception is skewed by a lack of knowledge of what's out there and how to obtain it. Now, not everyone has the inclination or means to be a huge chemistry/neuropharmacology nerd, nor do they need to. To people from shithole countries (by which I just mean the ones with very strict drug laws) even shrooms and MDMA are rare. For Americans, many of the things common here in the EU are a rarity sold at 4-5x premium, but sometimes the opposite is also true (e.g. MDA, NBMOes). These things change over time. MXE used to be widely available, but following the ban it's now so rare and mythical that people will pay hundreds of dollars per gram. And it's possible for the trend to reverse, as seen with the recent resurfacing of MDPV/A-PVP; you never know. A whole lot of dissos and lysergamides are gradually disappearing since their sole producer shut down end of 2024, some are already basically gone for good (DMXE, MXiPr...). Same with everything banned in the Netherlands last summer, except smart people have stockpiled them in advance and are now making bank reselling through darknet markets, but that is only for what was actually popular (6-APB, 2-FMA, NEP...) and will eventually deplete too; many were not deemed desirable enough and so have pretty much quietly died out. Even RC benzos which were dime and dozen recently disappeared almost overnight, and now suddenly everyone wants some. So, by my standards, 'rare' would not be: something that used to be abundant but disappeared temporarily/permanently for one reason or the other, something nobody ever bothered to put to market or even just synthesize because it's obviously inactive/toxic, pathetic analogues freshly introduced to 'replace' the proper substance they're aping to bypass regulations, something you can't access because you live in a tight jurisdiction and/or cannot obtain through darknet markets or similar channels because you're too ignorant/afraid to use them, something you must extract yourself from a pharma product or a plant, something almost always sold as racemic but only one of the isomers is desired (e.g. s-Ketamine, d-Methamphetamine), something rare-ish but still enough people have tried. Which really only leaves substances that are proven to be active and perhaps extremely potent, but are only available either through analytical standards providers such as LGC or Sigma-Aldrich that will not sell to anyone without a license, or may be ordered as a custom synthesis from a legitimate/clandestine lab, which will cost several thousands at least. From my current list, Salvinorin B ethoxymethyl ether and (+)-MK-801 qualify. Both required impersonating a professional researcher to purchase from the labs and clear customs, not to mention the ridiculous cost (~300$ for 1mg of Sal B). Also, both are around 10x more potent than the next best thing in their class, on paper at least. However, as I learned the hard way, nominal potency isn't everything; sure, they work at even the tiniest doses, but the effects themselves are nothing mindblowing. Certainly not worth all the hassle and money spent, though still an interesting experience to have once. I'd take Salvinorin A and 3-HO-PCP over these two any day. Just cost of doing business in highly experimental research like that. Through it I've been able to narrow down the substances that work best for me and now it's simply a matter of maintaining the supply. You might be surprised how much 'vanilla' stuff ends up on the final list. A "what I've been searching for has been right beside me all along, yet the journey was worth it nonetheless" kind of story.
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Yes, the entire game is usually played for this reason. You found the root. Nice work bro!
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Genuine question about psychedelics: How a physical chemical pill can make your "brain" "do something" to "have" enlightenment/non-dual experiences?
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I feel like this post would be more powerful if you could delve into the mechanics of this. You could probably articulate it better than me but I’ll stream of consciousness some things: When I was younger I was rejected because I was different, and I’ve always known I was different, and I’ve put a lot of thought into that difference, and experienced a ton of negative emotions about it, but have converted them to positive to make life easier. Society rejects me, I reject them. And what is my rationale for rejecting them? They are blind and cannot see clearly - they can’t see all the things I can, they’re ignorant. This is true, but it’s still a defense mechanism - it masks our pain and turns us is into justified assholes towards our fellow humans. Its a heavy, unconscious burden. Deconstruct “I’m the one who can see” or whatever your rationale is for rejecting “normies”. It’s not simply “they don’t value truth and truth is my highest value, therefore I’m incompatible with normies”. This is post-hoc rationalization for something much deeper.
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There ain't no pill for enlightenment. That's the fantasy. Wrong Lisan al-Gaib
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If it doesn't change you much, you wouldn't do it.
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Ok ok. But in that sense being closer to truth is also used in a broarder sense.
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Well, your mind is a master in making stuff up. So no big surprises! That is way patience is so important and not making stupid decisions whilst in the midst of the heat.
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Today I learned a new concept in Aesthetic Intellignece: Aesthetic Sensitivity. https://share.google/aimode/Msdqj9LHoLQqCA2Nj - - - - - While we are at it, there is also Aesthetic Coherence. https://share.google/aimode/4kiieK5qw5va9HVu7
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In my experience, people with a recent autism diagnosis go through a phase where they think everyone who's slightly conventionally different is autistic.
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Great question, difficult to answer simply. I think that considering a belief as something separate is a mistake. Maybe, as stated in the early chapters of the metarationality book, we could think in terms of "The believing" instead of a "Belief" alone. And in this case, believing is something humans do, they believe what they don't know, because of the previously mentioned discomfort. If your arm starts to itch, with the other one you go and scratch it if you decide to do so. In a similar manner, if a human encounters the unknown, or at least their unknown, many things can happen, but usually when a narrative goes inside the mind of that human, and the narrative has holes, like, explanatory holes, then the human could start believing in things that are there to patch this holes. Let's take very religious people. The have it complicated here, because they truly believe in God. And no matter what goes on in life, everything is an expression of God, which is absolutley true, but in this case, they are choosing to believe in something that is true, not because they are silly, but because swimming in the sea of their own believing feels much better for the optimization machine that we call our brain. There are no beliefs out there alone in the universe, rather, people creating stories to explain things they don't know. People are afraid of saying "I don't know", which is understandable since the egomind will always try to stick to a worldview where it feels safe.
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Hi. I don't understand how you are able to spot ND people here, but you might be generalizing a bit... or you might not, but where's the evidence? I have a problem with your worldview because what is socially accepted is in most cases mediocrity. I think you have a bias about seeing ND where there is none. But don't get me wrong, I know it is more nuanced. I am just saying I cannot take seriously the seriousness of the phrase "socially acceptable" used as the ultimate goal in your posts.
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Human Mint replied to Magnanimous's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
I would like to but I don't. I did tons of chamanic breathwork and I use controlled breathing to anchor myself in the present when I meditate because it works. I was just commenting on the power of breathing, something that could be taught in schools -
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Husseinisdoingfine replied to eTorro's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
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Magnanimous replied to Magnanimous's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@Human Mint Do you do kriya? If so what kinds of pranayama do you do? -
Magnanimous replied to Magnanimous's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@Leo Gura is liberation the same thing as enlightenment? If not what's the difference? -
Howdy, I thought I might share a philosophy article I've been working on. The article presents a different take on nondualism than that of Leo and many other folks on this forum, for left-brained folks who might appreciate a different approach to the subject. It's a phenomenology-first approach to nondualism that I've arrived at after years of study and contemplation, which places its real-world applications for our fractured present at the forefront. (If you'd prefer to read this on my actual Substack, here's a link) https://7provtruths.substack.com/p/nondualism-for-naturalists-the-uncommon _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Nondualism For Naturalists | The Uncommon Sense Of World Disclosure Nondualism usually comes wrapped in a dense layer of mysticism. This is the naturalist version: grounded in biology, evolution, and phenomenology - and urgently relevant to our fractured present. A Slap In The Face To Common Sense The exploration we’re embarking upon kicks off with a shot across the bow to common sense - and toward what we might call uncommon sense. At its core is a disorienting premise that’s at odds with how we typically understand our relationship to the world around us. What we’ll be challenging is a way of carving up Reality that’s picked up unconsciously through daily life - and mistaken, by virtue of its familiarity, for objective truth. So strap in, because the familiar is about to become strange. This premise may well land like a slap in the face to what feels self-evident - and that’s by design, because the self-evident has a habit of papering over hidden assumptions. Here’s the slap: the world of people, places, and things we spend our lives immersed in - otherwise known as our lived reality - isn’t some pre-made set that we wander onto, its features in place before we arrive. It’s a home we actively assemble and inhabit - a disclosed world that’s built by our mind and mistaken for a discovery. But assembled from what? Not from thin air, of course - but from social and material ingredients we didn’t choose - including the people we share the world with, who are constructing their own version right alongside us. This goes well beyond “you have your interpretation, and I have mine” - it’s about what shows up as ‘real’ for us in the first place, long before interpretation enters the picture. There’s an old story about how perception works, and it goes like this: the world is ‘out there’, we experience it ‘in here’, and the latter is judged by its fidelity to the former. Our aim is to collapse that distinction - show that minds are worldly and worlds are minded. Call it nondualism if you’d like. Or don’t. The label matters less than what it lets us see, and what’s at stake. Far beyond philosophical navel gazing, world disclosure reaches to the beating heart of a social crisis we know all too well. One that extends from estranged families to fractured nations, from arguments over Thanksgiving dinner to the Big Lie that sparked an insurrection at the US Capitol. When realities become incompatible without adequate release valves to vent the pressure, violence fills the gap and democracies crumble. The stakes are viscerally real - so let’s ground this destabilizing premise before we turn it towards our societal divisions. The Uncommon Sense Of World Disclosure Enough preamble, then - what are minds actually doing when they ‘construct’ a lived reality? In a sense, they’re shaping our environment into a home that we can reside in. And just as a house is designed for a human lifestyle - homes aren’t built underwater, doors aren’t placed in ceilings - minds construct a version of Reality that’s tailored for our needs and capacities. This process has a name: world disclosure. A ‘world‘ here isn’t the planet - it’s a cumulative whole of meaningful boundaries, patterns, and relationships for a living being - raw materials, translated into something livable. To distinguish the two, we’ll use capital-R ‘Reality’ for the raw materials, and lowercase ‘reality’ for the livable version. To disclose means to reveal - to uncover what’s unseen or unnoticed. World disclosure, then, is the process by which Reality gets reworked into a home we can actually reside in - not discovered ready-made, but built through a partnership between living beings and their environment. And just like a physical house, a disclosed world is constituted by its boundaries - walls that separate inside from outside, here from there, mine from yours. Everyday perception is built on them: Mind and World. Self and Other. Subject and Object. Load-bearing divisions that arise so effortlessly we have difficulty imagining that they could be anything other than inherent features of Reality itself. As immutable as gravity, unquestionable as distance - or so the story goes. And therein lies the issue - what’s unquestioned hardens into dogma. Reification: When Mental Boundaries Bleed Into The Real World Understanding where these divisions come from should loosen their hold on our day-to-day thinking - not pry them away entirely, but render them more fluid and negotiable. Why is this advantageous? Because it breaks the spell of reification - the habit of chiseling divisions into stone, and then claiming they were always part of the landscape. Racial hierarchies are one example of how ugly this can get, but one need not reach for the most egregious cases to grasp the benefits of more flexible modes of thinking. For one, it gives us more room to maneuver when these divisions aren’t serving a worthwhile purpose. For another, it helps us get a sense of how others might carve things up differently, thus opening the door to understanding perspectives that seem alien to us - including viewpoints that we’re committed to fighting (one need not tolerate Nazis to see the value in understanding their reality). But to reap these benefits, we need to understand how such divisions arise in the first place. So if boundaries aren’t fixed features of Reality, where do they come from? The short answer: they emerge through co-authorship. Your every perception - the edge of a table, the sound of traffic, the warmth of the sun on your skin - is an act of construction, built by your mind and the world working in tandem. Let that sink in - and consider what it means for our fractured public sphere. When two people can watch a video of the same event and see completely different realities, that’s world disclosure all the way down. And it’s also why facts don’t change minds - because what counts as a relevant fact depends on the world you’re living in. So does this mean that any world is as good as any other? Not at all - remember that world disclosure is a partnership, not a solo-act - and Reality gets the final veto. You can try inhabiting a world where E=MC² is ‘Jewish science’, but good luck trying to crack nuclear fission. Which is to say, disclosed worlds can be pathological - their wreckage measured in lives, not just errors. There are many ways to build a home. Not all of them are fit to live in. Minds Are Survival Machines, Not Metaphysical Engines While world disclosure is ultimately constrained by Reality, the mere suggestion that we co-construct what shows up without the slightest effort on our part might still sound preposterous. After all, the world is irrefutably independent of our whims and desires. And nothing here requires abandoning that intuition: minds are biological systems - not metaphysical engines that dream Reality into being. As anyone who’s ever tried to ignore gravity, hunger, or a deadline knows, the world knocks us on our ass when our constructions fall out of sync with how things actually behave. Yet the fact that this habitual carving up of Reality feels natural doesn’t put it beyond question. Quite the opposite, in fact, when we remember that our perception is scaffolded by biological processes that are opaque to our moment-to-moment awareness. Just as an eye doesn’t see how it sees, we don’t directly experience this perceptual scaffolding. Moreover, evolution is under no obligation to ensure that what feels viscerally real is what’s actually true - minds are survival engines, not a transparent window into Reality. What’s disclosed to us just needs to be compatible with survival - and if that means living in a useful simplification, so be it. If we accept that minds are biological systems shaped by evolution, the boundaries we take for granted might say more about us than about the world. So let’s stress-test these demarcations. Our goal isn’t to discard, but to contextualize - to show that they’re convenient sticky notes slapped over a seamless Reality. So this won’t be a ‘debunking’, in the usual sense of the word. What we’re chiefly interested in is why these divisions are so intuitive for us in the first place, and what their limitations are. A Biological Simulation This means revisiting some familiar starting points - beginning with one of the most celebrated statements in Western thought. “I think therefore I am,” Descartes declared - and in doing so, cleaved the thinking self off from the world of people, places, and things which makes thought meaningful for us in the first place. But is that separation as clean as it sounds? Consider: who precisely is the I that’s doing the thinking here? And is it a foregone conclusion that this I is separable from the world it inhabits? Descartes severed mind from world so completely that he accidentally invented the premise of ‘The Matrix’ three centuries early. And while Simulation Theory adherents might be chasing the wrong metaphor for human cognition, they’re inadvertently correct that we are living in a simulation - not of silicon and circuits, but of biology and neurons. One that’s generated by our own nervous system, and continuously updated by feedback from our physical and social environment - no computers required. Unlike ‘The Matrix’, a disclosed world isn’t an illusion - it’s a curated slice of Reality that’s attuned to your needs and capacities. The lived reality of people, places, and things that you experience during every waking moment of your life isn’t an objective account of what is - but neither is it a hallucination. It’s your mind’s best guess about what’s going on in the world around you. Remember: your mind isn’t some malevolent architect that’s trying to deceive you, it’s a survival engine that’s trying to keep you alive. And that means most of Reality never makes it through the doors of perception. This is by design - or adaptation, to put it more precisely. A survival engine doesn’t show you everything - this would be overwhelming and largely useless to us. It shows you what’s relevant. Some of what’s relevant is programmed in from birth - like our attunement to faces and voices - but much of it depends on the particular life you’ve lived. Every Perception Is An Invisible Curation To appreciate how every moment of perception is a monumental act of curation, pause to consider what’s being filtered out at this very moment. Right now your nervous system is screening out the pressure of your clothes against your skin, the weight of your tongue in your mouth, the micro-adjustments keeping you balanced in your chair. You can test this principle right now by closing one eye, and noticing that your nose is in your visual field - yet your brain has been cropping it out your entire life without asking for your permission. What makes the cut isn’t arbitrary - it’s determined by what you need to navigate, manipulate, and respond to. Which means that what a world is can’t be separated from what an organism does. For human beings, certain features of our physiology are especially important for what shows up. These include highly expressive faces, a bipedal posture oriented along a front-back axis, dexterous hands, and forward-facing eyes. Which is why we can see two apples and a banana on a table and read that as a face, why we use ‘ahead’ and ‘behind’ to refer not just to physical space but also to time, and why a doorknob invites grasping before you’ve decided to reach for it. These aren’t quirks or accidents - they’re invitations issued by the world to a creature built just like you. Thus the boundaries of your world are determined - at least in part - by a body you didn’t choose. But bodies aren’t the whole story. Humans everywhere share the same basic equipment. No two brains are exactly the same, but they’re not so different that physiology alone can explain why we fragment into incompatible realities - no biological determinism here. We Bring Our Environments With Us To Every Encounter For the full picture, we’ll need to bring in the other half of this partnership - a mind’s environment - and what it contributes to a disclosed world: which is a hell of a lot. Social and material environments aren’t just spaces we travel through, they’re interwoven into the lived reality we bring with us to every encounter. This means that if you want to understand why your neighbor’s reality looks nothing like your own, you need to walk a mile in their shoes - and that phrase turns out to be more literal than it sounds. A shared body structure sets the stage for what types of worlds are permitted - no human knows what it’s like to be a bat and vice versa - but life experience decides what world you actually inhabit. And precisely because disclosed worlds don’t emerge from some pristine inner sanctum but from a lifetime of bodily encounters with particular environments, your neighbor can’t just decide to ‘see’ what you see. Just like someone can’t ‘turn off’ a trauma response or decide to unhear their native language, you bring your environment with you to every encounter. But ‘environment’ here means more than just a physical space: it’s the people you interact with, the media you consume, the food you eat, the sources of stress in your life. Same Room, Worlds Apart None of this is controversial. Geneticists have known for decades that genes turn on and off depending on environmental signals. Books like ‘The Body Keeps The Score’ have shown how trauma from our environment gets stored in our body and nervous system. Attachment theory has demonstrated that our relationship with our caregivers from an early age shapes how we experience intimacy, trust, and danger for our entire lives. What’s harder to accept is that our lived history with a set of environments doesn’t just colour our reality - it constitutes it. We’re not just interpreting the world differently - we’re often seeing and hearing different things entirely, even when we’re in the same room. A toddler isn’t just an adult with less knowledge - they’re living in a world without object permanence, where a blanket over a toy doesn’t conceal it but annihilates it. A traumatized war veteran isn’t experiencing fireworks, they’re living in a world where loud bangs are threats, not a cause for celebration. A reactionary isn’t submitting to a dictator, they’re embracing a stern father figure that’s promised to protect them from modernity. This isn’t as simple as ‘you see a pig and I see a lion.’ We’re both registering the same pig. But an activist sees an animal, while an industrialist sees a commodity. These aren’t post-hoc ‘interpretations’; they shape how that shared Reality shows up for us in the first place, before we can form an opinion about it. Thus, the body says what’s possible - the environment says what’s available. What does the environment offer? Invitations to act, tailored to your body and your history. Philosophers call these affordances - and they’re why we can live next door to one another while being worlds apart.
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I'm happy for you man! In your new journey, I recommend you reading "The Alabaster Girl" by Zan Perrion. You'll learn to see woman on a new light.
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Habits and Disciplines Journey Entry #80 Morning Routine: Wake up at 7:30am: 1 Make bed: 1 Journal: 81 Brush teeth streak: 83 Floss streak: 1 Shower streak: 54 Meditation streak: 1 Affirmations / Visualizations streak: Hitting on women visualization: 1 "I love having sex with lots of women" affirmation: 1 "I see funniness everywhere" affirmation: 10 "I am independent of the good or bad opinions of others" affirmation: 10 Free Talk exercise (Say anything that comes to your mind): 10 Night time routine goals: Brush teeth streak: 3 Wash face streak: 3 No electronics before bed streak: 2 "Whole day" goals: No porn streak: 10 No ejaculation streak: 10 Eat 150 g of protein streak: 0 No alcohol streak: 82 No smoking weed streak: 37
