Leo Gura

Artists have used psychedelics for a long time. The very first cave paintings, the earliest human art, was psychedelic shaman art.

Very interesting. Increasing beta is not right though. You want beta to be as low as possible and alpha as high as possible. That's what meditation does. Yes, coherence is super important. Gamma is also important.

I have lists of hundreds of things things I don't understand.

@Angelo John Gage The mistake you're making is conflating the Aztec state with their highest shamanic wisdom. Let's apply your logic to the USA. How come Donald Trump is putting children in cages and bombing the Midde East when we have people like Eckhart Tolle, Adyashanti, and Peter Ralston teaching nonduality? How come we have Catholic priests molesting children when the truth of nonduality is readily available in thousands of YT videos? Every culture has vast diversity, from the lowest of the low to the highest of the high. The wisest people are never in charge, never in politics, never mainstream. And don't forget stages of development. Although the Aztec shamans accessed nondual states they were not high on the Spiral. They were mostly Purple, Red, and a bit of Blue. A stage Red person may access a mystical state and then cut out your heart and eat it.

Yes, of course. Learn to crawl before you go trying to fly. Don't worry about it. Handle your basic survival needs. Later you will shift your balanced back to spirituality. You can only do whatever your ego will allow you to do. If your basic needs are severely under-served your ego will not allow you to seriously pursue spirituality. Your heart must in whatever you're doing. If your heart is telling to go fuck, then go fuck. Get it out of your system.

@ravlondon Well, if you think it about, having sex with a random stranger within 4 hours is extremely weird! It's highly unusual. Girls will do it, but it's not something they do on the regular. You have to really make it smooth like magic. It is highly unnatural to have sex with a person so quickly. Usually a girl would know a guy for weeks or months or years before she would sleep with him. Simply due to the social circumstances of meeting new people.

@How to be wise Red/Orange

@ravlondon Yeah, I've seen that clip. That's the right attitude. He's just being too creepy and no charm. But yeah, you gotta be an approach machine. High volume. You fish using a net, not a single hook. You gotta be persistent like he is, and you gotta have a light-hearted attitude. Notice how he doesn't judge himself or even register rejection. A rejection is literally nothing. He's just having fun and taking it easy. That is absolutely essential. You cannot take this shit seriously. You basically must place zero investment in the girl until she's ready to sleep with you.

I don't really actively talk about it unless they ask me, which they rarely do. My Mom is pretty tolerant of me doing whatever, even though she basically thinks I'm crazy. My brother is pretty open to it because his wife is pretty heavy into spirituality and he's had some mystical experiences on psychedelics. But mostly he's stuck in stage Orange materialism and scientism. He's open to it in theory, but not motivated to do any actual practices. Recently I introduced him to the Spiral Dynamics model and he found is interesting from a sort of scientific and historical POV. My Dad I don't communicate with at all for others reasons. My ex-girlfriend was a bit into it but the metaphysical stuff was just way over her head. Although she loved the psychedelics. It doesn't really matter. Just do your spiritual work and mostly keep it to yourself or some close friends who are also into it. Definitely do NOT expect your family to be into it or to understand it or to support you in your spiritual journey. Your family wants you to be the old you. They don't want you to be enlightened because it would freak them the fuck out. They cannot handle the mindfuck of you becoming immortal. It is just totally outside their reality. They want to feel like The Matrix is real. A great way to scratch the itch of sharing is to find a girlfriend or boyfriend who's also into self-actualizing and spirituality. Then you can go real deep with it together. That will be a wild fun ride. But it requires the right person, not just some rando. There is no cure for closedmindedness. Other than to open one's mind.

@ravlondon Glasses aren't about looks for me. Contacts are way more comfortable and give clearer vision.

@ravlondon Huh? I've worn contacts since middle school and never had any issues. You should take them off at night when you sleep. Try different brands to find the best one for you. There are many brands and some are much better than others. My favorite are Proclear. They never get dry.

@MM1988 What bad experiences? A girl rejecting you is not a bad experience. Did a girl stab you with a knife? Then I might understand you'd be hesitant. You are just being weak and playing victim. You need to take massive action to solve this problem. This requires going out over and over again hundreds of times. Try to enjoy it. Some night you will cry. It's difficult but also rewarding. It helps to find some friends and wings to roll with. Solo is doable but pretty hard for a newbie. You REALLY have to push yourself when you're solo. The problem with kids these days is that they have no sense of work ethic. They don't know how to discipline themselves to achieve a big result. You expect everything to be handed to you, otherwise you think it's impossible. Like if I took you by the hand, sat you in the car, drove you to the bar, put you into a good mood, and pushed you to approach girl after girl after girl, and told all your sticking points and all the right ways to deal with girls, you'd have success. But you're not motivated enough to do all that by yourself, to figure it out by yourself. You have to learn to lead yourself and to be a creative problem-solver. All the resources you could possibly want for learning how to approach and date hot girls is available online. Much of it is free or very affordable to purchase. But see, you're not making use of it. You're not even appreciating that 20 years ago none of this information was available. It was basically unheard of and impossible 20 years ago. But today it's all free knowledge. And yet still you don't put it to use. 20 years ago you would have paid a million dollars for this knowledge.

@MM1988 I will try it, but I don't really need it. I get total nondual consciousness on a small dose of LSD, mushrooms, or basically anything else. 2g of mushrooms gives me access to the entire universe within 15 minutes. At this point the reason to try new psychedelics for me is purely for experimentation, not for spiritual growth. But I'm still down to experiment. Who knows what I could discover? Still hoping to meet some aliens

@kieranperez There are probably other cheaper solutions. Just start by doing your research and be open to finding new stuff. But also, if you were really serious you could get a job and save up $2k-3k pretty fast. You have to be open to trying stuff and doing what it takes to get results. Don't lock yourself into a victim mindset. There are many ways to solve problems. Maybe you could even volunteer in a neurofeedback facility in exchange for them letting you use their machine. It costs them nothing to let you use it. Get creative.

Neurofeedback is definitely no placebo. I use my EEG machine to meditate every day. It's about 10x-100x more effective at meditation than without it. No joke. You feel it after 1 hour. I don't regret spending $3000 on it. It's a truly amazing tool, but too expensive and too technical for most people to self-operate it. It took me over a month of technical study to learn to use it properly. But now I get to use it for the rest of my life easily, for free. Strategic thinking FTW!

You might be right about that. Research is very sketchy as yet. Then again, I'm taking brain health more and more seriously these days.

Like I said, do your research. You'll be surprised at what gems you may find.

I heard it on a podcast from a psychedelic-researching neuroscientist (can't remember his name or the podcast). He did brain scans which showed the brain rewiring itself and a build-up of tolerance which never fully goes away. MDMA changes how the serotonin in your brain works. At least that's what he said. Of course I don't have direct experience of that. To stay on the safe side I would not do more than 10 trips of MDMA unless I hear new research to the contrary. MDMA causes your brain to dump massive amounts of seritonin (which is what gives you that pleasure high), and then the subsequent crash. You don't want to fuck up your brain's serotonin levels or regulation pathways. I'd rather stick to LSD, mushrooms, and 5-MeO-DMT -- which seem much safer.

Vitamin D deficiency is very common these days. And low vitamin D levels are directly related to low mood, low energy, and depression. If it's so severe that you're unable to function like normal people, there's a good chance it's physical. I have been working on improving my own health lately (thyroid issues) and I've been reading about how ADD is correlated with heavy metal toxicity. It's probably not the only factor, but it is definitely 1 of the factors. I'm not sure what all the factors are. You'd have to research that more. Don't expect conventional Western medicine to have a proper root cure for ADD. You'll have to look more to the fringes. Yes, they can be expensive. Usually $100/session or so. But also permanent improvements can come from just 10-20 sessions. Health ain't free. It can be a good investment. If it actually helps you, you can earn that money back simply from increased productivity. But you'd have to weigh the pros and cons of that for yourself. Personally, I invested $3000 in my own brain training machine. But I'm sorta hardcore and I got money to burn.

@kieranperez It seems to me that your issue might be physical. If you have serious ADD you might want to research ways of curing that first before you tackle other things. From what I understand, ADD is often caused by heavy metal toxicity due to impure diet and water. If I were you I'd get a heavy metal toxicity urine test done to make sure you don't have elevated levels of mercury or lead. I would also check other vital blood work stats to make sure you're not vitamin D deficient, thyroid deficient, etc. And if all of that came out good, then I would look into EEG neurofeedback training. That's quite effective for ADD. You can find treatment centers all around in San Fran. If I were you I'd spend some serious time researching the root cause of your ADD. Find the best books on ADD treatment and read them. Visit some ADD forums. Find cases of people who successfully cure ADD and follow their steps until you resolve your condition. ADD could be physically caused. It could also be psychological. And it could also be both at once. So you must look at physical solutions as well as psychological solutions (like meditation). Kriya yoga is a great practice for reducing monkey mind.

The best mathematical analogue to God is Cantor's set theory and Godel's / Tarski's incompleteness theorems.

@Highest If you liked that you'll LOVE 5-MeO-DMT Good work!

@Haloman For the love of God, your mind has been rotted by Red Pill. Red Pill is a cancer.

@Eric Tarpall Quiet you! You would not recognize truth if it slapped you in the face.

Dude, WTF is this sad victim thinking?? I never drank once in my entire pickup career. Which means starting at zero experience. Stop spreading your limiting beliefs onto others. I swear, you guys on here have such terribly limited attitudes about women. It's like you've learned nothing about the core of what I teach: you cannot trust anything your mind says! What's embarassing is how easily you believe your own bullshit stories.