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Psychedelics fell incidentally into my life early on in a jarring way. They became an integral part of my path.
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Bloomberg.com https://www.bloomberg.com Taiwan Plans Drills to Counter Risk of China Energy Blockade 21 hours ago — Taiwan will conduct new drills in the near future to ensure the island has access to critical supplies in the event of a Chinese blockade, https://www.forbes.com/sites/jillgoldenziel/2026/01/31/china-is-practicing-a-taiwan-blockade-with-a-floating-great-wall/ China Is Practicing A Taiwan Blockade With A Floating Great Wall Jan 31, 2026 — China's maritime militia can swarm 2000 “fishing” boats to rehearse a Taiwan blockade—weaponizing lawfare to threaten sea lanes, trade 天下雜誌 https://english.cw.com.tw/article/article.action?id=4662 Iran War Reveals Taiwan's Natural Gas Crisis - CommonWealth Magazine Mar 18, 2026 — The ongoing Iran war has highlighted the vulnerabilities in Taiwan's energy supply chain. With just 11 days of natural gas reserves — the lowest in East Asia — and over a third of its gas supply routed through the Strait of Hormuz, Taiwan's energy vulnerability has never looked more exposed than since war broke out in Iran. As Taipei scrambles for stopgap measures,
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If you force yourself to function with ADHD and ignore the fact that you are pursuing something you don't care about, what you get is success, but you pay with something much much much worse than depression: Functional depression. I tend to look at hardships in my life through the lens of asking what I learned from it and because of that I never regret anything I do. However, there is one decision in my life that had a devastating impact on my life and I'm not sure if I can reverse the damage it has left on my body. It was the decision to not give up and push through no matter what. I did have success, I was able to study successfully, but it took an enormous toll on my body. I'm still suffering from chronic pain because of this phase in my life. It has been four years now of pain every day. I don't believe that the lived experience of Dr. Mike is desirable at all. What happens if you push through doing the things that you don't actually want to do is that you become insecure and detached from your body. I believe that this is the case with Dr. Mike. For him, his bodies only a tool, tasked to grow like a balloon to soothe his insecurity that he has because he's making his life unnecessarily hard for his neurodivergency. I've once seen a video where he was tasked to do athletic activities like the broad jump and it's clear that he's completely detached from his body. In some way my sensitivity saved me from pursuing this path because the chronic pain became unbearable. I think if I was not sensitive at all, I would still be on this path and suffering like Mike. At the end of the day, what Mike wants to do is pursue his special interest. And that's what he's doing on YouTube. But if you think about it, neither does he need to take steroids or have bad body awareness to pursue it, nor does he need a PhD. He's only pursuing things he doesn't care about to prove to himself that he's good enough. I know this feeling exactly and I am so glad I have grown out of it.
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There is something to be said of disillusionment. I experience dangerous levels. Naivety is its own separate mentionable danger.
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But the potential for danger and misuse is high at that age, generally speaking. Just cause you managed it doesn't mean it's a smart overall approach. We don't want youngsters wrecking themselves. It was hard for me even in my 30s. I took it too far. I can't imagine a youngster going through my arc. That would be very risky.
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Mellowmarsh replied to Just Dreaming's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Have you noticed that everyone who has ever died in this waking dream has disappeared in the exact same way that everyone in a nightly dream has disappeared. Is something seen as a solid tangible image ever real to you if the image can both appear and disappear ? Is something seen as a solid tangible image that can appear and disappear to you be absolute proof of a witness? Awakening, or witnessing, or being aware, is simply a continuous waking up to the conscious recognition that you are conscious of the dream. You can only be conscious you are dreaming. As the eternal witness, You are always lucid. Lucid of the dream. You can never become conscious of being unconscious of the dreamless state, or the stateless state. - Today
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I see you've smelled my penis envy 🥹
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You can break the guidelines if you are serious and know what you're doing. Those were my general guidelines for a general audience. A serious mystic is a unique case that breaks many rules.
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Dose doesn't lose potency. It's not getting fully absorbed. Don't increase dose, just try better method. If you increase dose and it gets fully absorbed you'll be in deep trouble. So careful. 30mg is a very serious dose.
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Elliott replied to Husseinisdoingfine's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Saudi Arabia Is Pressing U.S. to Drop Its Hormuz Blockade Gulf energy exporters worry Iran could escalate and close the Bab al-Mandeb, the main exit route for bottlenecked Persian Gulf oil https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-us-strait-of-hormuz-blockade-25fbd430 US-sanctioned Chinese tankers pass Strait of Hormuz despite US blockade, data shows By Reuters April 13, 202611:42 PM EDTUpdated https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-sanctioned-chinese-tanker-passes-strait-hormuz-despite-us-blockade-data-shows-2026-04-14/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/apr/14/middle-east-crisis-live-hezbollah-urges-lebanon-to-pull-out-of-talks-with-israel-blockade-of-strait-of-hormuz-begins The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah will not abide by any agreements that may result from direct Lebanon-Israel talks in the US, negotiations it firmly opposes, a senior Hezbollah official has said. Wafiq Safa, a high-ranking member of Hezbollah’s political council, spoke on the eve of talks expected in Washington between Lebanese and Israeli ambassadors to the US. -
I'm glad I couldn't try psychedelics until a year ago. Even then, I don't want to go hardcore in my late 20s, and perhaps it's best for me not to do it for now. However, it has shaken me up to question deeply.
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Something about the way he says it makes it seem too try-hard. Maybe I'm being unfair.
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He means you lack a penis.
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15mg felt uncomfortable 3 weeks ago then not I gradually increased by 2.5 mg increments quite easily until 25mg which got me hanging on for dear life 3 days ago, today it felt weak so I dosed again and still underwhelming Is that a thing ?
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You need to get out of your head ASAP, bro. Terminal brainrot. Your turning into a turbo chud. Notice how everything is something happening to you specifically. That's the pattern of insanity. Insane people say "I" way more than average. It's a voice in you head spewing all this shit, like "they are doing this to fuck with me". With mindfulness you can notice these negative inner thoughts. Then you create some distance and they lose power over you gradually.
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Mellowmarsh replied to AtmanIsBrahman's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
"I love you, with no beginning, no end. I love you as you have become an extra necessary organ in my body. I love you as only a girl could love a boy. Without fear. Without expectations." — Unknown -
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It's too funny not to go back now.
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The I'm not one of them game.
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See how you go - people have a large variation in reactions to creatine. I loaded up gradually to 10g per day and have been on that for a while. Great for focus. My advice would be to take it with coffee in the morning (micronized no flavour) as it can cause intense insomnia if taken later in the day. I require less sleep while taking it. I cycle off it for a week out of every 8. Great for sprinting and weights or just cardio. BUT - my Mum and sister cannot take creatine as it causes anxiety in them. My stepdad has ADHD and it helps him. I would do some research on how it works for an idea - I believe it works on the energy transfer system between cells of the body.
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You can. Just be smart about how you will survive. How will you monetize this? Who will feed you? Do you have a roof over your head? What people will be around you, what community will you have if things go wrong? What if you go insane? Homeless? Leo is basically cautioning against going too far into "airy" abstract thinking when you do not have the life support to practically sustain yourself. It is much easier to function and work 9-5 when you are not constantly questioning the metaphysics of your walls, the couch you are sitting on, and Alien God Awakening Intelligence! It's the same concept of being a Soundcloud rapper.
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I wonder if it helps with ADHD
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Agreed! I suppose I was just a little rebellious Shroom monkey. . . 👽🙈
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I think a better frame is that there are people who are more orbit-like (more dependent, people-pleasing, other-focused) and some people who are more orbit-line (more independent, immovable, self-focused). Some people can endlessly pursue with no issues, and some people hate the feeling of chasing because they need extra security and clarity in confidence that the other person is genuinely interested in them. This is more a personality trait or preference than a gender thing, to be honest. There are also people who like to “reach beyond” what they think they can get, so they don’t mind pushing further and assuming they have to work for it, and in the end, they feel satisfied when they get what they wanted. That’s where you get common tropes like a man seeing a woman as a muse or a siren, a symbol of beauty, and perfection to admire. And will do anything in his power to keep and protect her. In a more toxic form, you see this in the “simp” meme. Then you also get the opposite trope: a woman who adores her man, wants to please him, and deeply admires him. In a more toxic form, this can resemble BPD-meme patterns of obsession, drama, etc. I actually think kink communities sometimes understand this a bit better, ironically, haha, because they don’t frame it strictly as man-woman dynamics, but more as dominance and submission, attachment roles, and psychological preferences. I’ve met men who genuinely enjoy adoring their partner, and women who genuinely enjoy being adored. In those cases, the relationship can work very well. I’ve also seen the opposite, and more “equal” dynamics, too. But I also think that once the initial phase passes, if neither person is able to shift out of being only the adorer or only the adored, the relationship can struggle long-term. For a successful long-term partnership, these roles will naturally switch back and forth. Plus, if you are a spiritual person, this should excite you because you get to experience both yourself making someone else feel like God/Love, and also someone making you feel that way in return. I feel like people often treat dating like politics, as if it’s a team sport, like “does red win or does blue win?” It becomes competitive in a way that misses the point. Gender and dating are often treated similarly, which is unfortunate. "Should the woman or the man submit? Who should love whom more? Who is the actual sucker here?" The ego has and needs both sides. It’s a fundamental principle of holism. Just like everything is a holon, the ego is one too. The ego has two sides: the admirer and the admired. It wants someone to admire so it can feel love, humility, and connection. When you have someone as an “other,” they can become almost mesmerizing in a way that makes you feel expanded or stunned by their beauty, whatever form that takes. So you get both the ego humbling itself enough to experience real love and a sense of expansion. But the ego also wants to be admired so it can feel safe, valued, and appreciated. So it can also be touched by someone’s love and gentleness, and actually let go of its defenses, allowing it to expand more toward ego dissolution and love. Both men and women have this ego structure, and if neither side is being met in a relationship, it becomes very hard to maintain anything stable or long-term. But again, I never really know if we are talking about hookup culture and dating strategies, or actual long-term spiritual relationships. If you mean the initial stage, then yes, you probably do not care that much about the person themselves, but more about what you can get from them. So to maximize results, you need to be receptive to people who are easier “wins” (who like you way more, that is.) That applies to both genders. If women don’t choose men who genuinely like them a lot or even more, they also tend to suffer. If we are talking about actual relationships, these concepts are quite meaningless. You need to deeply understand your partner’s preferences and not assume you already know what they want.
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AtmanIsBrahman replied to AtmanIsBrahman's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
“Love is the realization that there is no difference between anything” - Leo Gura
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