Leo Gura

@Igor82 Basically yes.

Yes, my value system and ethics sets the direction for this forum. If you don't like my value system or sense of ethics feel free to join another online community who's ethics you agree with it. Not allowing the spread of misinformation about public health is a value I hold.

In practice he is because politics is always evolving and getting more progressive. Obama was like anti gay marriage 15 years ago. Progressive pressure makes Biden more progressive.

FYI, I am not an authority on most topics but someone has to make the final decision in such matters. This is not really avoidable.

@BuddhistLover Of course. Mind is constantly surviving and it's exhausting.

I can't speak to your tolerance/method. 25mg should be right. 30mg might be too much. I would increase by 5-10mg until you reach some deep territory. Don't increase by more than 10mg per trip or you will overshoot. Once you hit deep territory don't increase by more than 5mg.

Yopo seeds mostly have bufotenine, not 5-MeO. Snorting yopo is gonna be a nasty affair. You gotta snort A LOT of powder cause it's not pure.

No I still plan to do some solo retreats. Yes, and so I view it as one tool in my toolbox. There is value to retreats and I recommend you guys do more of them. They are just not a replacement for psychedelics.

Finite mind creates suffering by incessantly relating everything to its own survival. That's really the issue. Finite mind is incessantly judging things as good and bad, which creates suffering for itself.

"There are two types of people in the world, complete idiots and those who are not complete idiots." -- Slavoj Zizek

Find ways to ground yourself. I'm not sure. This depends on many factors. I don't know your exact mental condition and how well it can handle spiritual revelations. You'd have to test the waters. To me it's much more simple. Understanding is simply what I care about most. The rest is relatively uninteresting to me. This is my bias. I don't even know if that's true in practice. Probably not. What you guys seem to overlook in every awakening video of mine is the part where I tell you that I'm always looking to go deeper and discover more and have even deeper awakenings. I never, ever claimed to be "done". That would be a very arrogant position, to claim there is nothing more to learn. I am learning every week and having even fuller and deeper and other types of awakenings and insights. This desire to "be done" strikes me as very premature and silly. I am here to explore consciousness until my body drops dead. What else is there to do? You got some more worthwhile pursuit? It's like I am exploring outer space and you keep asking, "Are you done yet?" I will never be done exploring it because the exploration is the point. I'm not exploring as some chore to reach some end. What if you enjoy the phone call? Why hang up the phone? To do what? Drink?

There is no problem with God's Love. People are just idiots. That's the problem you have identified here

The issue is that a meditation retreat will simply not raise your consciousness to the level of 5-MeO. Meditation retreats sound nice in theory but in practice they don't raise consciousness nearly enough. And yet they take an enormous amount of time and work.

If I showed you a 4K HDR video of a real UFO, you would find some excuse to call it fake. You would say something like, "This looks too good to be true. So obviously it's fake." Already exists: It's never obvious TO YOU. Because your expectations are absurd. No humans are capable of making anything close to what a UFO can do in the air. Any trained military pilot will tell you this.

Around 25mg I was speaking relatively in notions you could understand. Death is imaginary. I exist forever. Meh... Rookies. You can easily do 5-MeO once a week. Assuming you have a stable mind and have done lots of work on yourself and have already done many 5-MeO trips in the past. And you gotta keep your doses moderate. If you take too much it will be traumatizing. Well, all that occurs inside you, doesn't it? Meh, I enjoyed it. Mostly.

Why does this smell of right-wing propaganda?

Let's start by getting him to stick some 5-MeO up his ass I just wanted to see how far I could push 5-MeO and what effect it would have on my baseline consciousness. I'd probably be dead/Infinity.

Not gonna answer that. Yes, I've had times where I've taken 6 months off and 12 months off. I often have to force myself to do psychedelics. My natural tendency is to not do them.

No health problems. But it destablized my life and psyche so much that I basically could not function. I was tripping balls 24/7 even after stopping it for a few days. I could not sleep because I was tripping balls in my sleep. And if I continued much longer I would be so awake that all of reality would just disappear. I actually made plans to inform my family that I would disappear out of material reality. I told my ex-girlfriend my bank account numbers. She had to babysit me while I was about to dematerialize. If you go that deep you have a good chance of killing yourself or losing your mind.

It's not purity. 5-MeO molecules simply work differently in the brain than 4-HO and 4-AcO molecules. Actually the novelty wearing off has never been an issue for me. I did 28 days straight of 5-MeO-DMT and the novelty only increased each day. It didn't wear off at all. If I was hooked up to a 24/7 IV drip of 5-MeO, I don't think I would ever get bored of it. I'm hoping in the future someone will invent a device that can be implanted in the body like a pacemaker which will just manufacture chronic mild doses of 5-MeO and drip it into the bloodstream. This would solve all of mankind's problems with spiritual practice and the majority of the population would awaken.

Medicine?? Def not. Also not entertainment. It's truth-seeking. People who want to understand reality as deeply as possible. Mentally stable people who care about probing metaphysics and epistemology. They are not intended to be effective. They are intended to generate pure understanding -- which then could or could not be practical. If your focus is pure practicality, my work is not for you. I have a certain disdain towards things purely practical.

I wouldn't do it more than once per week. If you want daily tripping you need 5-MeO substances or DMT. 4-AcOs and 4-HOs should be done no more than weekly. 5-MeO / DMT you can blast all day long. But be careful what you wish for. Too much tripping will destabilize your mind and life.

If ever you run out of shit to say, talk about yourself. This is the secret of extroverts. And talk about trivial things. Don't wait around for "important" or "meaningful" topics. You can talk about something as dumb as how you ran out of toilet paper. Don't hold back talking about your feelings, passions, desires, dreams, and aspirations. You don't need to be a millionaire in order to talk about how one day you will be a millionaire and spend that money traveling the world. And it makes no difference if what you talk about will ever pan out in real life. It's just a conversation topic.

Yes, girls love to be validated. In pickup this is called qualification. A girl is unlikely to sleep with you unless she hears from you why she's special and "not like all the other girls." But again, guys make the rookie mistake of trying to qualify girls based on their most obvious physical features. And girls hate that because there is always a hotter girl around the corner with bigger tits. So qualifying a girl on her tits is a rookie mistake.

I suppose if you're gay