Leo Gura

Of course there is a trade-off between depth of consciousness and potential for trauma. You must weight the rewards vs the risks. Trying to get lots of growth very fast will lead to higher suffering. That's like trying to eat a whole turkey in 10 minutes. Expect pain. Definitely. 30mg of 5-MeO-DMT is way too much for me. I try not to go beyond 25mg and I plug instead of vape or snort. The plugging really helps take the edge off. The sweet-spot for me is a medium-high dose, but not a high dose. You want it to be really powerful but not at the point where you freak out. It takes some trial and error to find at what dose that sweet-spot is for you. It will be different for everyone. Also, the more you trip and grow, the more consciousness you'll be able to handle without freaking out. I don't know what you mean by nonsense. I think about stuff nonstop. I don't consider it nonsense, it's part of my integration process.

Cause the stranger is easier to deal with

Curt was sorta confused by it. Because it's very relativistic and strange loopy. And he takes it for granted that other people have some objective reality independent of his mind. As I explained, its like a cone. As you move higher in consciousness towards the top of the cone the divisions between self and other collapse more and more unless finally you reach the pinnacle of the cone which is pure Unity/Infinity/Self. At the pinnacle of the cone only YOU exist. Others only exist at the base of the cone. That point is the Godhead/Infinite Consciousness, where no more distinctions exist. Not even physical distinctions exist there. It's just empty Consciousness devoid of all form. You can become directly conscious that self/other is an imaginary distinction, just like all other distinctions. You don't need to destroy the entire Universe to realize that the entire Universe is nothing more than your personal dream. Do you require the consent of everyone in your dream in order to wake up in the morning? Are you being an evil bastard for killing all your dream characters?

Current science is nowhere close to anything like that. Materialist science cannot be used to create something like that. So there would first have to be a revolution within science. Also keep in mind that a conscious AI would have many of the same challenges that a human ego has. You are basically talking about the science of architecting a super-mind. The psychology of that will be insanely complicated and tricky.

I've had a few bad trips and my highest dose of 5-MeO-DMT gave me some trauma and damage which took about a year or two to overcome and integrate. Avoid high doses and avoid vaping. You want to ease yourself in as much as possible, rather than blasting yourself. Most problems come from blasting yourself.

The most selfless people were killed 10,000 years ago. We are all the descendants of the most selfish, greedy, horny, ruthless, manipulative, narcissistic, and delusional fucks who walked this Earth. That about explains all our problems. Ta-daaa!

There are many different ways that could look. Be careful assuming it only looks one way. But it would entail a lot of time in solitude and deep contemplation & meditation. However you choose to do that.

That's the paradox of it. When God gives a portion of its will and autonomy to something finite, that finite thing behaves in foolish ways. It's like asking, if Albert Einstein was so smart how come his kids weren't as smart as him?

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Talk about recontextualization. I thought this thread was about Gandalf from LOTR

That's easy to explain. Selflessness created the organism. Which is then run by selfishness. This is the difference between God's designs and the ego's designs. A rocket ship could be perfectly designed by a genius. But then you put a selfish fool in charge of piloting it and it will turn into an ugly disaster. Where ego is found, ugliness soon follows.

Be careful with such utopian delusions about Leo.

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It's pretty foolish to develop your own game engine. Just use Unity. You can also hire Unity programmers at the Unity forum. A good Unity programmer will expect $60k-$100k/yr.

Once you learn pickup, social circle is like fishing with dynamite. You can just dial back the pace and go slower and softer in those social situation so as not to burn it to the ground. But if you see a girl you like you should be able to turn up the charm and get her hooked rather fast. Just be less aggressive than you would be in a club. It should never take long to get attraction. Of course not all girls will get attracted to you. You need to quickly see when attraction isn't happening and cut it off. Developing a good eye of signs of attraction and hook-point is key. The biggest sign is when the girl can't stop locking eyes with you. Eye contact is like 50% of game. Another key sign is if she is willing to follow you physically around the room when you tell her to move with you. Another sign is if she's comfortable with you touching her body.

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Well, it sure sounds like you were perfectly ripe and primed for psychdelics and you are extra sensitive to them. This is rare but not too unusual. It's a great gift. Remember, do not assume that psychedelics affect everyone the same. Not true at all. They affect you in unique ways. As for the HPPD, what you describe sounds okay and perhaps even desirable. Those are common for advanced meditators. So I wouldn't worry about it. Try to enjoy a more fluid visual field. Good work. Sounds like you will benefit a lot from psychedelic exploration. But lower your doses, since you are extra sensitive. Psychedelics will revolutionize your life if you use them wisely and consistently. Since you are extra sensitive be careful not to go overboard. Tripping for 12-24 hours is not really normal and could become dangerous. For me, LSD peak lasts 3-4 hours and back to baseline by 6-8 hours. Yes, your trip was unusual, but only in potency and duration. The rest of the stuff is typical LSD. All those visual changes you describe occur simply because all physical objects are imaginary, as I keep telling you. If you take enough LSD your hands could morph into claws or flippers -- or whatever you want to imagine. If you take enough salvia you can turn into a beer bottle. But I don't recommend that because it will traumatize you.

Look at all the major scientists that people like Curt and Lex Fridman interview. They are clueless about metaphysics. I could name dozens of names. Read Sean Carroll's book, The Big Picture. It's pure nonsense metaphysically and epistemically. Even someone like Donald Hoffman (a sort of idealist and meditator) horribly misunderstands what consciousness is. They don't understand much outside their narrow technical field. Yet the public considers these academics as intellectual geniuses. They aren't. They are horribly dense and conformist in their understanding of reality. All of these academic types are hopelessly lost in concept-land and they will never break free.

Remember though that imagination IS reality. So if you imagine it hard enough it is as real as real gets. Like when you are dreaming it feels totally real, until you wake up. It's not complicated. It works just like in a dream.

If I was a chair, I wouldn't mind being a lady's bicycle seat. But hey, I'm biased

For something that specific you'd want to attend and network at industry events, trade shows, conventions, etc.

They def make the mistake of confusing the map for the territory. The problem is that this mistake is so obvious and embarrassing to admit that it will never be admitted by a serious intellectual. If you try corner him on it, he will deny that he ever confuses the map for the territory, even though routinely he does -- which you can verify by asking him some basic metaphysical questions about the substance of reality. He will give you the map as the substance. For example, if you ask a quantum field theorist What is the substance of reality? He will say something like: Quantum field equations. This is literally what Sean Carroll says in his book. Max Tegmark makes this mistake flagrantly as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Tegmark Pretty much all materialists do this. Since it never occurs to them that the substance must be consciousness.

Of course if you corner them they will start to fess up and try to save themselves. The point is that they don't understand what they are talking about. The don't have a coherent metaphysics. But they basically picture reality as a giant computer crunching numbers behind the scenes. Which is laughable. Ask them this: Are quarks made out of mathematics or is mathematics made out of quarks? Are brains made out of mathematics or is mathematics made out of brains?

By that logic then mathematics is no better than any other language. Which scientists and mathematicians would want to deny. The problem is that they don't accept that mathematics is merely language. There are plenty of scientists and academic types who literally believe reality can be reduced down to 1s and 0s or an equation. If it cannot be quantified it isn't even considered real. Which is as dumb as saying that if you cannot call a thing a duck, it cannot be real. Here's an example of the kind of stupidity rife within science:

We'll be recording a Part 2 next week.