Leo Gura

Of course. The purpose of survival is to create an elaborate distraction from truthseeking. Of course. When I was 18 years old I sat in my bed reading Plato or some Greek philosopher and contemplating the question: How can I design my life so that could be free to do philosophy? Obviously the only reason people like Plato could do philosophy is because he was rich and well off. So I started thinking: How can I become rich and well off so that I have free time? Yes, all the techniques we talk about. And just basically, philosophy. Those techniques are tools that serve your philosophical goals. You can always be contemplating stuff every day, especially during times like driving, shower, cooking, etc. If you're serious about philosophy you do it every day. Your mind is contemplating every free chance it has. As Ralston says, contemplation 24/7. Of course I recommend also taking breaks so your mind refreshes. It's actually perfect to combine frequent and intense contemplation with totally mindless activity like dancing at the nightclub or singing in your car.

You need to do some compartmentalization. There needs to be two parts to your life: 1) work, survival, being human, social life, 2) existential truthseeking. You must master both parts, not merely one. When you are doing work, being human, socializing, surviving, remind yourself that that is not about truth. That's a kind of game you are playing, and you can enjoy playing it. But then there is time when you set aside the game and get to serious work on truthseeking. As your truthseeking matures you will start to merge truth back into your human life and the gap between the two will lessen. Yes, truthseeking is very intellectually stressful. No way around that since most human activity is built on lies and illusions. There is much to intellectually understand about truth. Don't let yourself be gaslit about that. You can perform well at school and work by compartmentalizing them as relative human activities. You don't need to know much about truth to play a video game. And school and work are like that. The reason you do school and work is to master survival and to get a basic foundation for human life. This is valuable to do regardless of whether it is truthful or not. There is always a tradeoff between comfort and achievement. You just gotta get clear about which you value more and to what degree, and live your life accordingly. Ambitious people sacrifice comfort for achievement. The achievement can bring more joy than comfort. But some degree of comfort is also needed. No doubt, being an asleep bullshitting lazy human is comfortable.

Never. Psychedelics are too profound for such a trivial purpose.

If your consciousness becomes high enough you will realize that you imagined all of humanity. Humanity doesn't really exist. It's a construct. This includes all individual humans. It's really relative to your level of consciousness. So-called enlightened people have such low levels of consciousness that most of them don't realize that they are imagining humans. The higher your consciousness goes the more you realize that everything outside of you is imaginary, because you have no outside and there is nothing but you. But unraveling this illusion takes serious brains and balls. Because any attachment or loyalty you have to humanity will hold you back. Humans are not really ready for such consciousness. And don't surprised if it blackpills you. You are just a human and everything human must ultimately be bullshit, including all humans themselves. Humans are such a deep level of bullshit that you invented them in order to keep yourself asleep. You are constantly spinning a dream. That's what all this is. And you don't want it to stop because then you'd be all alone. I don't like talking about it because people are not ready to hear it or cope with it.

Nonsense. No amount of meditation equals psychedelic consciousness. These guys are nowhere as conscious as psychedelics make me. And no amount of talk will ever change that. If you can walk straight and talk straight that proves you aren't very conscious. Just because psychedelics stop working on you is not proof of anything profound. And it certainly isn't proof of high consciousness or that you have maxed consciousness out. Thinking that is a prime example of the kind of shallow mindlessness that nondualists are gulity of and why all forms of human spirituality are rat level.

I didn't steal that from him. I've been saying that for a long time. It's a cliche.

1) By recognizing that your resentment is just an egoic reaction to having been rejected. But no one woman owes you a date. Women are picky just like you are picky about women. Women are not horrible nor unfair to you, they just don't find you as attractive as you would like. And that's life. 2) By recognizing that you must treat each woman as an individual. If other women rejected you that has zero relation to the woman who likes you. Take the win. 3) By being more social and developing some sexual abundance. You are bitter because you are not having sex. If you were having sex you wouls stop being bitter. So the ultimate solution is to increase your dating life. 4) Many women who rejected you might have loved you if you learned proper game and how to communicate properly with them. So learn game.

The 1st kilo is the warmup.

Insanity is as holy as shit.

Everything is truth, and God certainly appreciates insanity as a higher consciousness than anything humans comprehend.

@Fluran You'll be surprised how quickly you can go through 50g of 5-MeO.

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How about coming up with a plan to improve your skills and get a better job, or switch to a job you enjoy or at least tolerate? There are many possible jobs out there, so don't be limited in your thinking.

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You can change dreams, or if you go beyond all dreams it's a formless ocean of emptiness/fullness. In my view everything is Consciousness. It's absolute but not necessarily total. Yes, I get it. Absolute does not have to mean total. I am saving advanced stuff for the course.

Looks juicy. Good work.

@Francis777 I hope you find some solution.

There is a lot of truth in that. But maybe not the whole truth. My view is always evolving.

If you can imagine it, why can't God? I don't know. I'm not sure, but you're pretty much describing the situation of animals. So yes, consciousness can get stuck in low states. Can it get forever stuck? I don't know, probably not.

There is no gaurantee of safety and the more often you do it the more things which could go wrong will go wrong. And the deeper you go the more risk of self-harm there will be. So what you can do is: 1) Observe very strict protocol. Learn to trip in a gentle and controlled way, not like wild maniac who lets loose like a bat outta Hell. 2) Don't trip too often, so you stay well grounded. 3) Don't dose too high. 4) Lock away dangerous objects before you trip. 5) Use a trip sitter.

These are the kind of questions you should explore after hitting a DMT pipe. You're not gonna answer them sober because you are too stuck in this one dream.

My situation is murky due to lots of health problems. So I don't have a clear picture of my happiness any more. For me, a good day is when I am not feeling too shitty from health issues. You shouldn't draw too many conclusions from my case because it's probably quite different from yours.

Yes. They are better than therapy. They are getting popular but no amount of human nonsense will change the underlying power of psychedelics. Fads will come and go but psychedelics will always be king.