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@barry Just keep in mind there is no real growth without learning to abandon your deepest gross desires. Whether you choose to do so now, or in 20 years, you're gonna have to do it at some point. Without that, you cannot escape suffering.

Anyone ever peruse the Buddha's Eight-Fold Path? What is one of the eight folds? Right means of making a living This whole debate about spirituality vs life purpose is nonsense. Just because life doesn't have a fixed Absolute purpose doesn't mean that you as a mortal human cannot consciously undertake a goal or purpose of your own, with detachment, for shits and giggles. What else are you gonna do?

Your notions of enlightenment are WAY too idealized. That's not how it works in the real world. You do not become the Terminator, asking for more and more pain. You can disidentify with ego all you want, but the pain and discomfort may still be there. You may be in horrible pain. But deep down you'll just know it's not what you are. That doesn't make the pain disappear. And when the body is having a violent reaction, that's not up to you. That's the body doing its thing. Just because you're enlightened doesn't mean that when you get food poisoning, you go back for a second poisoned meal. That would be plain stupid. There are also many degrees of enlightenment. He was not some kind of hardcore Zen Master who sleeps on a bed of nails. I would expect a powerful chemical like 5-MeO to freak out the most hardcore of people. It's like a shotgun blast in the face.

@Outer Psychedelic trips can be long, lasting 6 to 12 hours. You will definitely get hungry during that time. Yes, there is some appetite suppression when you're on the peak, but the peak doesn't last long. I always eat a bit during my longer trips. The banana is eaten BEFORE the trip. This is just silly. Are you saying fat people never get hungry? Try not feeding a fat person for half a day and see how they feel. I have less hunger issues being skinny than when I used to be fat. Fat people are often terrified of hunger. As though it will kill them.

No drunk posting please. Do not post on this forum while tripping. Any such threads will be deleted in the future. It's a terrible idea to be posting anything publicly while under the influence.

Daniel Ingram is an ER doctor. So yeah. You don't have to become a teacher.

Good stuff

@Mrkvn8 Not necessary. You don't want to be distracted by hunger.

@Lorcan Lack of college degree isn't gonna hold you back much from making money if you want to make money. Finding and nailing your life purpose is the best way. Chasing money, chasing investment schemes, chasing marketing schemes is not good. In the end, even if you win at that game, it will be a hollow victory. The money will really do nothing for you. You will be more miserable than ever. And 99% of people lose at that game. You want to offer real value to the world, not marketing gimmicks or exploiting financial markets. Be ware of being caught up in the hype of external success. Those marketers are just pushing your chimp buttons. Follow your life purpose instead. The problem with your question is that it's a fundamentally misguided approach to life and money.

Always take psychedelics on a empty stomach. If you're hungry, eat half a banana 1-2 hours prior to the trip. After 2 hours into the trip, you can eat more. Avoid junk food. Don't overeat. Have vomit bucket ready at all times.

@Max_V Notice that you don't actually know what you are. Like seriously... you have no idea yet. You are unable to articulate what you are without speaking nonsense and contradicting yourself. Hence self-inquiry.

@d0ornokey The do nothing technique is not good for building concentration and this problem with over-creativity.

@Hardik jain There are tons of sensations present, you're just not sufficiently mindfulness yet. Start practicing mindfulness with labeling, as I describe in my Mindfulness Meditation video. You can practice with sounds or body sensations aside from breath. You can also focus on the belly and lungs rather than the tip of the nose. The tip of the nose is more subtle.

You just need to buckle down and stick to one technique rigorously for a while. You can choose any one of the following: Following the breath very mindfully, noticing it go in and out of your nose Mindfulness using labeling, and select a specific domain to label like body sensations or external sounds Concentration practice using metronome sound Mantra meditation: select a single mantra like: bah-ring, bah-ring, bah-ring... and do it very rigorously Do one of those rigorously every day for a month, and then see how you're doing. This requires 100s of hours of practice to start to re-shape your mind patterns. Getting started is the hardest part. Doing a retreat where you do nothing but this for an entire week is the best way.

Up until now this forum allowed you to change your username. Sounds nice on paper, but in practice I'm finding it creates confusion when people change their usernames on a whim. So this feature is being disabled soon. Finalize your username now, or forever hold your peace.

Happy for ya Let's also see how it sticks around.

Take strong psychedelic. See for yourself.

@benny You don't need any "skills" to do inner work. It's nothing mysterious or technical. You just need to sit down, shut up, and look inside with self-honesty, without distraction. Many ways to accomplish this: contemplation, meditation, self-inquiry, journaling, psychedelics, retreats, etc.

A quality milligram scale costs $30 on Amazon Yes, HCL and HCl are the same thing. If they don't say anything about it, you need to ask them. Don't assume anything. The trick with smoking 5-meo is that you need to learn how to vaporize it properly. You could easily be loading 10mg into the pipe but effectively only vaporizing half of it. Which of course is a very weak dose.

@Voyager Sounds like way too small a dose. Were you smoking or snorting it? Was it freebase or HCl? And it sounds like you were just eyeballing the dose. A big no-no.

Just sounds like you might be going through the motions of doing college.

Of course most marketing and business is unethical. Multiply that by 100 for online marketing. It's a lot harder to build an ethical business on solid values. And it can't be done in certain industries. Which means you might need to change industries. Building something to align with your deepest values usually means going back to the drawing board, questioning everything about what you do. You probably won't be able to do it just by putting some lipstick on a pig. The LP course points the way for how to do it. It's not a very business-like course, but that's exactly why. Business-like courses will not ground you in your deepest values. They will just teach you unethical marketing techniques.

I doubt the mushrooms made you physically sick. But if the trip was psychologically stressful, that stress could have lowered your immune system allowing for easier infection.

"Once, Zhuang Zhou dreamed he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering about, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn't know that he was Zhuang Zhou. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakable Zhuang Zhou. But he didn't know if he was Zhuang Zhou who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming that he was Zhuang Zhou."

@electroBeam You're going about this backwards. Follow where your strengths are pointing you, rather than trying to do the opposite.