Leo Gura

This issue has been settled.

I see lots of egos running around wild on this forum, myself not excluded. Part of the problem is that the forum fuels this. All online platforms do. It's just the nature of the beast. But for us it's particularly distracting. So to reduce that, the idea came to mind to remove all reputation points and ranks. What this would mean is: No more titles like Common Chimp, Great Ape, etc. No more reputation points by your username No more Thumbs Up button! No more Thumbs Up scores on individual posts Basically, all members would be equal. All posts and responses would just ride on the weight of their logic. This change would strip out all the social proof which now exists. This would be a pretty significant change, so I wanted to see how you guys feel about that. With this, there would be no way to tell which member is more reputable than another, or which thread is highly liked or respected. The biggest downside would that the best content, and the most trustworthy members, would be harder to spot. The biggest upside would be that we stop wasting time looking at who thumbed-up what. And it would force people to actually read the content of a post before pre-judging it. And I would like to get rid of my rank/reputation. It would still be possible to see how many total posts a user made. That stat is not going away. I am still undecided about this. Yea or nay? Speak now or forever hold your peace.

@AstralProjection Good! Your drug supply just doubled

@Joseph Maynor Bad trips on LSD are certainly possible. I had one strike me out of the blue on LSD. They sometimes happen for seemingly no good reason. Mushrooms can be real devils. Gotta be extra careful with them.

@Emerald Fair enough

Psychedelics are a power tool. They must be used very carefully, wisely, and responsibly. They are no toy. Do not give psychedelics a bad name through juvenile usage. The psychedelic gods will punish you, and oh will you suffer.

@Parki With such an attitude, one day the gods will punish you.

Nope, nope, nope

For a newbie, it can be a good gateway. A newbie is not gonna appreciate underground Turquoise teachings. Those come later.

Surrender your whole life to the Truth. Don't ask why or how. Just do it. You are not important. Your needs are not important. Let it all go. Once everything is let go, there are no more problems.

@fabriciom You are being closedminded and clearly speak from inexperience. Don't tarnish the Buddha's name to justify your closedmindedness. You are being shown extremely advanced and cutting-edge techniques here. If the Buddha told you about enlightenment 2500 years ago, a closedminded person like yourself would have burned him at the stake for witchcraft. Which is exactly what people like you did to Jesus. The only reason you know of Jesus today is because people like you killed him 2000 years ago. Think about it.

@riplo Look into Oprah type material or goop.com type stuff. That is the girly version of self-help.

All knowledge in the relative domain is probablisitic and fallible. It is not about being sure, it is about taking the best seeming course despite incomplete information. Get used to taking action on incomplete information. If new, better information surfaces you can adjust course.

This is a very good description.

Good But there is nothing which is not God. To be infinite means to be everything. So your body is God. Next time, try contemplating without doing the writing thing. Let go of everything and take a full dive into the mushroom headspace. Writing is holding you back. The deepest insights are non-verbal.

@Baotrader Visualize your body being strong.

@SoonHei Contemplate: What is an insight? Here's an example: the insight that 1 + 1 = 2 Insights can be big or small.

As organic, raw, fresh, whole, unprocessed food as possible is best. Lots of fruits and veggies is best. High quality meat is good too. I have a video: How To Shop For Healthy Food

Sounds like it is not as pure, requiring higher dose. Nasal snorting is tricky. Easy to lose half the dose down your throat. Rectal plugging is a more reliable way to get the full dose. You may have a naturally high tolerance. No psychedelic works the same on everyone at the same dosage. Try plugging 20mg, then increase to 25mg, then 30mg, and so on until you get a breakthrough. Vaporizing should easily give a breakthrough. Careful. Start with very low dose like 5mg and work up.

@Torkys Research is always good. Educate yourself about nutrion.

@seeking_brilliance You can have a direct experience of whatever is present in your direct experience. The marble both is and is not Absolute Truth. Depends on how you look at it. Remember that in the end, all dualities will collapse, including your duality between duality vs nonduality, relative vs absolute, and you vs the marble. Be the marble, be the universe, be God

@No-Thing No quite. Psychedelics can reveal the Absolute and many other valid insights. Psychedelics are not the opposite of enlightenment. You have to distinguish between genuine insight and visual phenomena. All visual phenomena is relative. Genuine insight is genuine insight.

@Baotrader See video: The Dark Side Of Meditation

@seeking_brilliance "The Earth is round" is a belief. None of us actually have any direct experience of it. For autolysis purposes, you admit that it is a belief, that you don't know, and that even if it were true, it would be a relative truth. With autolysis you are looking for Absolute Truth. Which means if it was not present before the Big Bang, it is false. Absolute Truth can only be found in your direct experience. It is what you are. It is the feeling of reality itself.

Hehehe.... You're misunderstanding how this works. You can enjoy whatever you want. It's just that conscious people enjoy healthy things while unconscious people force themselves to do healthy things out of obligation. For the conscious person, the healthy action and the enjoyable action are one and the same. Things are only a problem if your mind makes them a problem.