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A great quote from Jim: @Leo Gura what stage is Jim Carrey do you think? Yellow? Turquoise? Mixture of both?

I use Oak as a meditation reminder and tracker of my progress. It has an awesome feature where it shows your current and best meditation streak (days in a row meditated) and also shows the total hours you’ve meditated. It has guided meditations, guided loving kindness mediations, and guided breathing exercises. It really is the most practical app I’ve come across for doing personal development.

@Ampresus I don't think it particularly matters which book you read first, I would just read what you are most interested in at the moment, there will always be more books to read, even if you've read a 1000 books.

@Colin I have not. That seems very interesting!

Yesterday I had an amazing insight into the benefits of meditation (for me) for 6 months straight. This past Monday I had to get a tooth pulled while awake, because of a bad cavity. As I was telling my friend, he exclaimed "dude, did you wake up on Monday and think 'oh no I have to get a tooth pulled'" And Surprisingly, I looked at him and was like "No, actually, I wasn't stressing at all" And then it hit me. Any other time of my life (before meditating) I would have been completely stressed and worried the day of getting a tooth pulled while being awake. I would have been filled with anxiety. Any other normal person who hasn't practiced meditation or personal development would have probably woken up that day completely dreading getting a tooth pulled while having to be awake. But this past Monday I wasn't. I woke up relaxed, did my normal routine, drove to the dentist, and went through the procedure all without maybe a tiny nervousness the couple seconds before the dentist started to pull my tooth out. (It wasn't that bad) I have never experienced this type of radical benefit from meditating. I hope this can help anyone who has just started on the path to see that there are example of practical benefits to mediating.

@danton You're all good man! You are spot on with your house metaphor. You need to build a solid foundation first, but that does not mean that you can't browse roofs for your future, its always good to keep an eye on what your aiming for

@Charlotte hehe I was literally typing the same thing as you posted that! @Flammable you can find the test kits here: https://testkitplus.com/?ap_id=psychedsubstance I highly recommend testing it so you can stay safe and reduce the chances of someone getting injured.

@legendary This is absolutely awesome! Such a great representation of the spiral stages.

@Ingit To me irritation = "things should be a certain way, but they aren't" So I would agree it has to do with acceptance of your present moment at all time, acceptance of reality as it is. But also even deeper: Acceptance of the feelings of irritation you get. Be careful to not judge yourself in your process, just observe and let go.

@Equanimitize This is a great high-consciousness answer @sneha finding your lifes purpose may help you deeply as well. To have something to connect to and wake up eager to work on?

@LiberatedMonkey I just graduated high school so maybe I can give you some advice? Look deep inside and ask yourself what do you really want more? What would benefit you more in the next year if you got one of these goals accomplished? What means more to your heart? What is your intuition telling you to do? I think some contemplation and self-inquiry will help you, it helped me!

@Wekz Big goals will scare you, that is completely normal. Just by becoming more aware of your fear will help you to counter-act it and face it. Also check out

@d0ornokey The Six Pillars of Self Esteem is an amazing book. It completely changed my perspective on many things, and also helped me with some issues I was having with my friends at the time.

@CreamCat These videos are absolutely money. I can confirm to OP if you watch these they will help you with your problem!

@TripleNipple I can confirm, after my shroom trips, weed has been insane. I believe its the new neuron pathways that opened up during my trips, that are still open to this day. @Jack River I get you, "the root of suffering is from desire" - Buddha

@Jack River Im not sure I am getting what your saying? But I think your saying that any spiritual/self development "tool" such as marijuana or psychedelics are just products that stem from the same issues that cause me to want to use them as "tools" in the first place?

@Crystalous I have never thought that to be true, I feel like weed makes me extremely aware of my body and whats is happening around me. This is of course after I had a couple mushroom trips.

Thanks for your reply. I helped my best friend who has stage three cancer get a DaVinci, when we used it the high felt way better then smoking it. Smoking it always messes with my lungs and gives me all this crap in my nose.

Thanks for your input, I have thought about this a lot lately.

@PsiloPutty ahahaha! Thank you for your reply! I will have to try it while mediating sometime

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I think 2 grams is a great beginner dose. I tried 2 my first trip and it was amazing. Although be weary sometimes your first trip won't be very deep because it is new to your psyche. Usually the 2nd or 3rd trip is when the deep insights and powerful experiences happen, just make sure to take your time bumping up dosages when you do so. I went from 2 to 3.5 and it was not fun, be careful!

I tried my first psychedelic at the age of 16 and it was very traumatizing. It wasn't the drug per say, but my ability to handle such a powerful experience was poor. I would start with smoking small amounts of weed, and as far as I know there is no study done that says weed causes cancer.

@AlwaysBeNice thank you for your reply

I feel like I can relate to you man because my dad is the exact same way. I like to listen to Gary Vee, he says a lot on this particular issue that I think you could find some value in. IMO, I think you need to get a job that allows you to move out and live on your own so that you can have the peace of mind to start working on what you actually want to do (the life purpose)