Leo Gura

Yes but are you conscious of any of it? Or is it just a story in your head?

@ethanb121 Not off the top of my head. Search Reddit. I don't understand why you would be taking 5-MeO while on antidepressants. 5-MeO is very radical. It will reveal shocking truths. Can you really handle that? Why are you on SSRIs to begin with?

@Arhattobe Great stuff. Thanks! I basically agree with all that except that even if all fear and all attachment is eliminated, there will still remain many degrees of insight into the fundamental nature of reality. My claim is this: you could remove all those defilements but still be missing important existential sights such as What is Love? Or What is God? etc.

I will swim around in it like Scrooge McDuck.

Sounds like your trips were very mild. Seems like you have a toleramce to LSD or weak blotter. Your intention is fine, if that's what you really want. But the real power of LSD will shine once you get over all your psychological needs and start setting metaphysical intentions. Like, What is reality? I would trip sitting up, not laying down. Tripping outdoors is tricky. Start by doing 10 or 20 trips indoors where you have full control of environment and isolation from disturbing people.

I would strongly advise against that. It could be very dangerous.

@Anton Rogachevski You can sleep with all the women you want. Just don't go creating an ideology around demonizing women.

Let's use that same logic when your mother gets killed. Do you see how your logic falls apart as soon as the tables are turned?

@Mezanti Kriya yoga is your best bet.

Gooooood! Young Padawan. Very goooooood....

I retract my statement. You can donate all your money to me

Mmmmm... Trolling conservatives can be very tempting. But unfortunately it still counts as a distraction.

These kinds of emotional reactions are a dead-giveaway of dogma. People react like that when they are defending an ideology. There is nothing logical about libertarian ideology despite any appeals they might make to logic. All the logic is a backwards-rationalization to justify one's dogmas.

If you want 12 solid hours of the best sort of cringe entertainment, watch this playlist of Sam Seder unmasking the foolishness of libertarians. He debates and debunks all their top arguments: There are some really hilarious moments in that playlist. Just ignorance so thick all you can do is laugh. It gives you a good window into the libertarian mind.

Talk therapy can be helpful but it is notoriously inefficient at resolving deep psychological issues. There have been studies done on this. People go to therapy for years and show only mild improvements. The studies and the anecdotal evidence backing up the effectiveness of psychedelics is simply too voluminous ignore. The trick with tripping is that it can be done in very different ways. Some ways are frivolous. And most people who do psychedelics are not serious, they are dicking around. I've read so many idiotic trip reports that it amazes me how often people misuse psychedelics. If psychedelics were widely available and people where taught to properly use them, I'd guess that 50% of therapists would be out of a job. There are aspects of your psyche which can be accessed on psychedelics which you will never access sober or with a therapist. And I don't believe there is anything a therapist can help you access which a psychedelic cannot. Maybe you've done psychedelics but it does not seem like you've realized their full potential yet. Perhaps because you were already fairly pure before taking them. Or simply because you have some sort of natural tolerance to them (as some people do). I'm not really saying anything bad about therapy. It think it's a good method for some. But I just don't see how it can match the power of psychedelics. Verbal analysis of psychological issues is simply very indirect. It's the same problem as trying to verbally talk someone into awakening. It's highly inefficient. What kind of psychotherapy allows someone to play the violin without practice???? Let me put it this way: if I had a daughter who was raped, I would not a trust a psychotherapist to heal her trauma. I would send her to do some psychedelics. My ex-girlfriend was an alcoholic and had panic attacks because she was sexually abused in her teenage years. She went to therapy for years. She was still extremely dysfunctional to the point where I could no longer be in relationship with her. She could not handle honesty at all and she was extremely insecure. If she went to therapy for another 5 years, I doubt it would solve her issues. There is a reason why AA was founded on LSD. AA minus the LSD is much less effective.

Seriously contemplate: What is the value of feminism? Why did this social movement arise? What legitimate problems has it addressed and what legitimate problems is it still addressing? Get curious about studying it. Seek to understand it. This will put you in the right frame of mind. Understand that women are not asking for more rights. They are asking for decent and fair treatment and for respect of the feminine way of life. This is not merely an issue of strictly equal legal rights. This is an issue of an under-representation of feminine values in mainstream culture and centers of power. Women have a unique way of experiencing the world and dealing with problems. As men, and as a hyper-macho society, we can benefit greatly from adopting some of those ways. All without becoming emasculated. We can benefit a lot from feminine leaders. Not just women who act like cold bossy men. But truly feminine leadership style. This is in fact one of the easiest ways to reduce violence around the world: put more women in charge.

Unfortunately life ain't so simple. By that logic Hitler could not be stopped. Violence is actually not the opposite of love or awakening. Violence happens precisely because it is part of the Ultimate Good. Some things cannot be resolved other than through violence. That's the paradox. The Hitler issue was resolved by fighting the devil head-on, not by Spiral Dynamicing him. My point is that no amount Spiral Dynamics or Integral Theory would have resolved that issue, and that it might have made it worse. No everyone can be negotiated with. Negotiation has certain prerequisites.

@Key Elements If you're looking for good LGBT song, try this one:

Yes, but also don't expect it to do all the work for you. You still gotta take responsibility for your bad habits. It's not just going to erase an addiction without any effort from you.

I took 1.25 yellow microscoops It was some kind of salt, not sure if fumarate or HCl. I don't recall much body load. But it wraps your mind so much that you don't care much about what's happening to the body.

The key to confidence is massive personal experience. You must sink 1000s of hours into those things you wish to be confident about.

Desire is not a bad thing per se. Desire for Truth and Love is precisely what you need to awaken. Distinguish between low consciousness and high consciousness desires, survival needs vs being needs.

@ROOBIO Always solo

It begins as armchair philosophy, and as you become more serious, it turns into true contemplation. Of course there is no clear line between the two, as that would be just another duality.

Be very careful with dosage. Start low. A little goes a long way.