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Do we achieve our desires because ultimately they are a kind of suffering and we need to be free of this suffering? If we desire a house, for example, it might mean that the self wants to chase the goal of having this house, and so that means we might not be 100% happy with the experience we are having now, which means that desire is a kind of suffering... we do a lot to achieve those desires, especially the ones that are important for our survival (physical/self)....I've been contemplating on those ideas from "The Book Of Not Knowing" by Peter Ralston...•

In this video Sadhguru says that people who smoke weed or take psychedelics hunt for "experience", but I don't know if I agree with that, of course there are a lot of people who do take it as recreational but there are also a lot of people who use it to have a look at the universe from a different perspective, I know how psychedelics can be helpful because it does really bring you new "possibilities" (or at least bring those possibilities faster), nature provided us with great medicines that cured hundreds of diseases, there is a good reason study closely how psychedelics can help us evolve to the next stage faster.

You live, but are you living the way you want to live, or the way others want you to live? You choose, but are your choices based on your own decisions or on the decisions imposed on you by society? You act, but are you acting out of your conditioning or out of your conscious will? An article I ran to here. https://upliftconnect.com/when-you-rebel-against-herd/

@Shiva It's true half assing it pays the highest price..

@zikzak i might consider that in the next trip, but from what i learned snorting is the gentler way and gentle might be best for a first breakthrough maybe?

I will try my second hit of 5 meo today... my last time was horrible as i didn't the substance to go fully through my nostrils, which ended up going down my throat to the point where i had to puke WHILE on the come up of 5 meo leaving my ego struggling while i'm vomiting, guess i need to message the nostrils more and pull my head down a bit more than 10 minutes maybe...

I've seen Leo talking about Evolution in his episode of "Infinite Intelligence" and also how it's sort of non-random, i would love to see Leo's perspective on evolution as i believe that understanding this concept on a deeper level can give us more insights about our true nature and how the desire for survival controls us.

I've had very intense ones too, especially smoking a day or two after tripping on LSD, the visuals can get crazy, and you can get really weird body sensations like feeling your right hand to be left and your left hand to be right, over all, i do think weed has some potential on giving you insights about reality, i still don't know it's full potential though.

So yes, i'm one of the remaining 800 Samaritans from video above, i think my community is at stage blue and will be for a long time.

well said <3