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Can it be two things? I'll list 2 anyway. First, the way most use psychedelics. Several aspects there. Whether psychedelics can actually produce any kind of real spiritual insight is a separate issue I don't care to debate. Routes of administration: I know for a fact a significant chunk of the reason people get mediocre results is wrong route. Plugging/boofing works as well as it does for Leo due to his abnormal sensitivity, if you simply emulate him, even with an increased dose there's little hope to get close; a qualitative difference is required, stacked together with all the other factors within one's control. No need to go as far as IV — IM, and even SubQ (which diabetics and people in HRT do on a regular basis), already offer a massive potency increase. Pains me every time seeing the waste of substance and trips when people barely scrape a rudimentary Samadhi with 20mg plugged 5MM while I get God-consciousness at 4mg IM. There's definitely stigma around injections as junkie stuff, I had to overcome it myself; nevertheless, they're the preferred method of delivery in hospitals and other clinical contexts for a good reason. That said, without truly knowing what you're doing better stick to non-invasive routes for your own sake. Lack of basic chemistry and neuropharmacology education: continuation of the above. The kind of ignorant shit I regularly witness here is frankly embarrassing and demonstrates unseriousness. Even for many advanced psychonauts that may have deeper awakenings than I do this is often the case. People not understanding the difference between salt and freebase, not knowing what the main classes of psychedelics are, what is agonism/antagonism, which receptors and neurotransmitters are involved, inability to read analytical purity results, citing a research paper and drawing conclusions from the Abstract alone when a table or graph in the middle shows the exact opposite but they're unable to interpret the data... I get it, chemistry looks boring and intimidating, but with an extremely practical reason and all the resources available there's no excuse not to learn it. Some of you need good 'ol scientific rigor beaten into you like dogs, same way I once experienced it. Seems harsh, but that's how mastery is achieved. This creates a sort of bell curve meme dynamic where the idiot is totally reckless, the midwit is risk-averse which keeps him safe but also trapped in the mediocrity of his conformist ignorance, and the sage can again afford to be almost as reckless as he likes because he knows the field inside and out. Narrow definition of what 'psychedelics' are: to most this just means tryptamines, sometimes together with lysergamides and phenethylamines; in rare instances it'll also include dissociatives and a couple outliers like weed and Salvia. If people even consider dissociatives, often that just means Ketamine, and why? Because Leo has a video on it. In reality, nearly all psychoactives used in the proper context can serve as valuable tools in spiritual pursuits and daily life. I successfully integrate stimulants, antipsychotics, anticholinergics, sleep & hypertension meds, and more into my toolbox. Not appreciating the power of synthetics: if you enjoy growing weed or mushrooms as a hobby, that's cool. Otherwise this is pure nonsense. Why are you choking down on shrooms when there's 4-AcO-DMT? Why are you talking about weed strains when for a couple hundred dollars you can create a lifetime supply of any kind of blend you desire with THCA + terpenes + minor cannabinoids, like the guy that recently replicated the Coca-Cola syrup recipe? Why are you smoking Salvia, the most potent psychedelic on Earth, in a disgusting extract without the faintest idea of the dose you're taking when you could extract Salvinorin A crystal? Why take extracted DMT when there's synthetic DMT? (fine, synthetic DMT is pretty rare to come by). Conformity, laziness, and a deluded idea of what 'natural' is. Miscellaneous: other sloppiness — misunderstanding tolerance, not knowing how to prepare a volumetric solution and weigh the substance, not even realizing the same substance can have wildly different weight for equal volume, not taking measures to properly store substances to minimize degradation, not knowing where to source, not following regulations to stock up on a particular substance you like before it gets banned or dies out in obscurity, not knowing how to extract/convert/purify substances, imbalanced approach to set & setting; ain't enough time in the world to list it all. This and more I intend to correct by writing the most comprehensive guide to psychoactives to date, should anyone be willing to lend an ear. The goal is not to get everyone to do things my way, but create a resource for people to educate themselves and branch out into personalized methods. Now for a rift that cannot be corrected through any means — excessive focus on dating & sex. I see various survival distractions, but none as potent and prevalent as this. I acknowledged in another post that the only reason I can so easily brush this aside is because I'm asexual, for others this is a matter of genuine import. And yet it still doesn't quite compute — are normal (by this place's standards) people actually this horny? That's not rhetorical, perhaps someone would be so kind as to provide an answer. If so, I sure am glad to be bereft of the whole capacity to begin with. Through not caring about chicken feed one can get much better goodies such as an orgy with imaginary alien babes, or better yet an endless self-referential loop of mindfucks within God's Mind. Which is not to say you can't get both kinds, it's simply a question of time and effort allocated.
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@Natasha Tori Maru your list doesn't matter to the universe
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Add this to my list
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1- yes it has negative stigma because it says you're alone in this world . When I was a child I would cry a river whenever my parents leave the house and I have to spend time alone in my bed staring at bare walls waiting for my parents. Loneliness has no reputation of being a good emotions. Emotions do not determine objective truth though .do you agree? 2- isn't solipsism like the opposite of materialism in the sense of "naive realism "? 3- same page on the relative vs absolute blending . Just because a solipsist thinks the world is his imagination doesn't absolve him from eating and working etc. 4- some people do hold it as a belief or they are entertaining the possibility..like dude there is some weird shit in this reality and glitches in the matrix you encounter multiple times everyday. I don't personally think solipsism is so far fetched. I mean you go to bed ever night and create a solipsistic seemingly real universe ...I Don't see what's so far fetched to think this experience right here works the same way . 5- if you take a chemical and hallucinate a dragon ..why can't you hallucinate from the start? Anyways i don't want to derail the topic Just sharing some thoughts .
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Trial and error, in nature the indigenous would do touch, skin, taste, smell experiments with micro-amounts, see reactions, and go from there. Sometimes the poison is the medicine we need, but the incorrect amount can kill, its all years and years of trial and error and almost superhuman senses and observation and intuitive skills the natural man developed overtime and his understanding and connection to nature. Other tribes, especially the shamans and healers could communicate with nature and actually hear/listen to which herb does what and when and how because the plants themselves could speak to them in a way through vibration and frequency. I met this shaman in the amazon who would simply smoke native tobacco and it allowed him to energetically see the stagnant and damages areas of the body and use sound and chanting and prayers to move that energy and clear the damage out. These days people need powerful psychedelics to be able to see things. Other things is like some herbs/foods looked like human body parts, organs ect... and naturally aided that part/area of the body, as walnuts help the brain, tomato the heart, celery the bones, and so on...
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I use Dr. Jen toothpaste. Has nanohydroxyapatite in it. Supposedly helps prevent more enamel from being destroyed on your teeth and maybe help create more of it. Many new toothpaste brands contain this ingredient that you order on amazon to try out.
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It's a culturally contaminated term (bunch of materialist philosophy tends to get smuggled into it), and it's a horrifyingly fertile breeding ground for relative-Absolute conflation. These two are also connected.
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bazera replied to JoshB's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@Infinite Tsukuyomi Just curious, why do you do this? What are the results you're getting from it, or at least what are the expectations of results you think you should be getting? I've done it couple times but gained not much from it. -
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@Basman People do it on purpose in India they sit there and watch bodies melt. There are many stories of buddha where he shows people melting bodies and dying bodies. Its looking at fear.
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Infinite Tsukuyomi replied to JoshB's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
1) Mindfulness with labeling 2) Neti Neti (usually after #1) 3) Balancing between sleep and waking 4) Holotropic Breathwork 5) Plain ol Jane meditation 6) I do some Kriya too -
@Carl-Richard what exactly pushes your buttons so much about solipsism?
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I don't want to give you one thing (I disagree with the question), so I will give all the things I can think of: What religion is (hint: you're it), what spirituality is (and how to practice it, and much of the dangers of the practices), how to talk about spirituality (e.g. how scientific can you get, how conceptually engaged can you get, perhaps how precise, concise and unambiguous can you get), what New Age is (hint: you're it), what mysticism is, what solipsism is. Essentially most things worth talking about (except the latter). Some more: the limitations and scientific status of Spiral Dynamics (it's a Western-only model as far as the empirical data goes, and Turquoise is baloney).
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One integrated Mind is more powerful than a thousand divided minds.
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@Ramasta9 This shit's important, yo.
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How can a body of work from one individual be better than an academic body of work that involves thousands of people testing it across tens of thousands
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Web dev industry is changing so rapidly, we don't actually write code manually any more, we just do it with AI 90% of the time, but the thing is, it's crucial to know the fundamentals and actually understand what AI is doing to differenciate slop from useful code. Also, you take charge whenever it doesn't do things correctly. But that skill of actually knowing stuff came from years of experience for me that I got from doing this full time professionaly. I'm not sure where juniors gonna get that experience if no companies hire juniors anymore (junior jobs are almost nonexistent atm). We're moving into a new abstraction where big picture thinking, architecture design, AI agent orchestration, proficency at fundamentals, and leadership qualities are becoming more and more valuable.
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But how do you do it while managing self-deception and sensitivity to outside signals? It's always a balancing act. If you go too far to the one end, you become Andrew Tate "depression doesn't exist". If you go too far to the other end, you become a fragile snowflake paralyzed by uncertainty and doubt.
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Alright, so I've been having it really terrible, but seemingly what happened was that we had a huge influenza-outbreak at my job that was really starting to hit at thursday the 19th, and then, in my manic state after having temporarily conquered my burn-out with meditation, I went on this long cross-country skiing trip on friday the 20th, and I was already frazzled from lack of sleep, burn-out stuff, and some mild cold stuff that has been going on the whole winter which I have never fully recovered from, but by share luck (or unluck) I was finally granted a good night of sleep before this skiing trip, and I pushed my body way too hard, and then when I woke up on Saturday I was totally crushed, and now I've been having the flue since then, and it didn't hit me so hard physically. Some running nose and fever and stuff, but the depression that came along with it hit really, really hard, and of course all these burned-out narratives got really badly mixed into this state. But it does feel like it is depression that comes from a temporary infection. So anyways. Not sure how to proceed with this - but I have finally booked an appointment with a therapist now, and that is way over due. The depression has hit so hard that it has been impossible to meditate, and I have more just been really disgusted by how hard I have to fight myself to keep a flow going by sitting down again and again to meet and breathe with these really, really uncomfortable feelings, but now there is finally some lightness entering so I think I can do a session of meditation. All of this was in many ways a very unfortunate process, but I'm glad it finally pushed me to seek out a therapist again. It is very scary to see how much hubris that can build up when I'm feeling good, and now I'm literary at the point where I'm praying to God for help and guidance.
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PHP is where real web dev is at.
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Yeah. That's all I know how to do at this point pretty much. HTML and CSS and a touch of JavaScript. This is a cool video. So many options in web dev right now.
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@Ryan M I turned 30 this month and I also struggle with this, especially when I think back and realize how quickly it went from 20 to 30, I'm assuming it won't be any different from 30-40 in that regard. I also made some pure health choices that led me to be a bit overweight and in a bad shape at 30, which I'm trying to correct now but it's challenging with all the bad habits developed over the years, but it has to be done. But in many ways I think 30-40 will be far more exciting and enjoyable then 20s, because I have all the lessons of some fucked up decisions that I made over 20s now that I can use to dramatically improve certain aspects. I just wish when I'm 40 I look back at my current self and be proud that he really considered all the lessons from failures and really put theory into practice. I think the most important thing is to prioritize your health and well-being that will create a foundation for all the other stuff (creativity, career, relationships, spirituality, etc) that you will be doing. Without that foundation, nothing works and everything is extra-struggling. At least for me.
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Which is why God cannot allow the universe to be your way. Your way minimizes Love.
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The human body functions on (amino acids) which are only (directly) found in plant foods, the body actually needs to work harder to break down (protein) from meat into (amino acids), and cannot utilize them as effectively and efficiently, so its actually easier to get the "correct protein" from plants, not animals. If you care about health and well being that is, if you are purely for muscle mass and such, meat is the way but its gonna take years off your life.
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I realized today just how top notch my mental clarity is. It was so mudded from Video games YouTube etc. and now there is basically none of it because I consume pretty much none of it. This was a dream back in the day and now it is reality. So I can socialize better .. it's always better in fantasy but yeah socializing feels much better then watching YouTube the whole day. And I am probably just at the beginning, this can get much better.
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