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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.

Well... it is true that you are complete already without needing to do an ounce of work in this life. This can seem threatening because most of your actions and work has been motivated by a sense of lack or externally enforced motivation. So it can feel like your entire foundation for work has been undermined. Which is true. But this is a great thing in the long-run. Now you're opening up to authenticity. Now you can start to ask, "What is worth doing?" This will ultimately probably point you towards a new kind of work. There is tons of work to be done once you become highly conscious. It's just a different kind of work and it's done for different kinds of reasons. Imagine doing work out of a higher calling, rather than lack or need. Imagine becoming a vehicle of divine inspiration. But it will take time to figure out how to make the transition and make this actual. In the meantime, stick with your existing work as you make plans for your new work.

Notice how all those things are concepts... monkey mind really. Is there any problem with just being? If being is not enough for you, it's cause your mind is chattering away in the background without you noticing it. "I need motivation" << monkey mind "I need to feel love for other people" << monkey mind "I don't feel connected to people" << monkey mind "I need a reason to keep living" << monkey mind "I want a way to get fulfillment" << monkey mind "I..." << monkey mind Become mindful over all the above, and fulfillment will be the natural end result of simply being. Sit, be, enjoy. If being isn't enjoyable for you, that's something to work through. Spiritual purification is required there. It can take many hours of sitting before it becomes enjoyable. But start to notice that mere being is highly enjoyable. It doesn't require any adornments. Spend some number of hours just practicing enjoying the act of existing. If you want to catalyze that process, take some AL-LAD or mild psychedelic. It will show you the beauty of mere existence. You don't need anything at all. Not love, not fulfillment, not a reason to live, nor any such made up human nonsense. Just be and enjoy.

When has it ever not been that? All the direct teachings are out there. People just don't want them. Nothing more direct than 30mg of 5-meo up the nose. Literally enlightenment in 15 mins, for 30 mins. But who wants it? I find it hard to stomach myself.

That's why your Mom overlooks all your evil traits Happy Mother's day.

It's easy to get overwhelmed when you start. Pick one thing and focus on it for a few months to build up some momentum. Maybe it's meditation. Maybe it's eating healthy. Or whatever will make the biggest difference for you.

@Ayla Not sure what the big deal is. That is the entire path. The mind struggles and through its failures it learns the way. How else could it be? You can't just jump from addicted, ideological monkey mind to enlightenment in one fell swoop. It's gonna be messy in between. With of course many traps and false starts. My approach is to just keep learning, practicing, and pushing through it a bit each day. If you want the most direct path, go rent a cabin in the woods and sit there questioning everything for weeks and months until the mind shuts up. But who is prepared to be that hardcore? Maybe 1 in a million. Most people need a more gradual process, or at least to build up to that. I think the best we can do to help people with enlightenment is explain it clearly, tell them all the traps, given them actionable techniques which they can use every day to become more aware, and finally just inspire them to do it.

Well... it's true that the world is not real and not significant. That's called awakening. You don't need professional counseling. Professional counselors need awakening. So what exactly is the problem?

@Jordan wang Eventually you'll find that such over-the-top stunts are unnecessary and don't grow you that much. You have plenty of real fears to tackle without resorting to childish ones like orgasming in public. You want to tackle some real fear? Do some self-inquiry. Or find your life purpose and try following it. That'll be much more growth-inducing. Don't chase fear for its own sake. Plenty of fear will naturally arise as you pursue Truth. Fear like you've never imagined. When you do stunts, people will clearly see it as such, and you'll probably look like a fool, cause you're being inauthentic. Ask yourself, "Why am I drawn to doing stunts?" If you were just being yourself, would you be orgasming in public? Being yourself is often scarier than pulling a stunt.

@Visionary You just need lots of preparation and rehearsal. Practice, practice, practice at home. Get a camera and record yourself. Toastmasters is great for beginners.

@oysterman A quality problem. Don't theorize too much about it. Pick a thing and start making your first small bet. That will yield feedback within a few months, allowing you to gain more clarity. There is only so much clarity one can get through sitting and thinking about these things. Your small bets don't need to be perfect. They just need to be within the right ballpark. If the best thing you can think of is working with plants. Roll with that for the next 6 months and see how it feels.

@Ritu Not only is it fine, vacations are mandatory!

@BeginnerActualizer If this is your first time thinking about your values, your current progress it great. You don't need to nail them 100% to move forward. It will take months or a few years before your values fully gel in your mind. You don't have to sit and wait. You just get started on executing on whatever you've currently got. That will spur on the gelling process. Try to do the course well, but also keep moving forward. If perfectionism is paralyzing you, drop it and keep moving forward.

@street19 Yes, it's frightening. But again, what have you got to lose? Where do you start? Google your nearest monastery. They take new people all the time. Easy-peasy. I'd do it myself if I had nothing going for me. A healthy environment can change a lot. It won't do the inner work for you, but it can put you on track so you can start doing the inner work. Your only real problem is that you've lost touch with yourself, nature, and with BEing. Mainstream society has discombobulated you. That can fixed faster than you'd think if you really put your heart into it and exit mainstream society for a while.

@OnceMore No words can describe it. It is the universal cure to all of mankind's problems.

@LetTheNewDayBegin Hehe... such a methodology is called life. Stick with it. Who says you're doing it wrong?