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In Canada mushrooms are still illegal but pretty much normalized by younger folks. Most of the well known RC's are available on the clearnet. It's still iffy and grey area but the general trend seems to be toward legalization of the stuff. Oh and you can also buy san pedro.

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Maybe the fake trip can show you that there isnt a difference between the fake trip and the real trip.

@The Mystical Man Fine don't do them whatever. People will keep doing whatever they do and they won't give a shit what you are advocating or what you consider a good technique. It's all fine, even psychedelics.

That's silly I don't have solid grasp of physics and mathematics. What I am saying is Einstein can write down his calc and understand it better than if he didn't. I can run circles around Newton if we talk about jazz harmony. ?

My mom used to say:"A little bit of everything in moderation." there are problems with that line of reasoning but also a lot of wisdom. She loved me very much and wanted the best for me. You'll get back up champ.

Maybe you would have had perfect scores if you had written something down. ?

No it's not. It's just information. If you can’t learn something without believing it you got a very weak mind. I can learn about nazi germany and extract lessons from it without becoming a nazi. Memory as nothing to do with ideology. It's just information.

No you won't understand more. Speed as nothing to do with depth of understanding. I can listen to a melody and play it back without thinking about how you would write it. Very fast. I can also write it down analyse it and transpose it in every key. That will make me understand it 12x deeper and remember it forever. Speed has nothing to do with depth of understanding and memory. If your mind can process it that's great! You can do it fast in your mind. Writing it down will only solidify it in your memory and increase nuance of understanding. Less is more is bull shit. Less is less. Unless you are on the cushion?

It's also a thing you can acheive with psychedelic. You are right in saying that you dont NEED it. But again why not help yourself?

Why not work through your stuff while on psychedelics and sober? You'll be sober 97,6% of the time even if you do mushrooms every week (which is a lot). It's not like you stop doing the work as soon as you are not on psychedelics. Why not help yourself with a peek experience once in a while? That's just silly you can’t deny how psychs help people.

What if I have a show and people expect me to have memorized the set list ? Your point only applies to spiritual insights. If you wanna survive and learn to actually do something in the world with your information it only helps to write it down even if you never read it back. Your post is titled "writing kills memory". That's blatantly false. Writing can’t properly communicate higher states of consciousness is more accurate. And no it's not because you memorize something that you are indoctrinating yourself. You are conflating memorizing with believing. I memorized that stuff is made of atoms in high school science doesn't mean I believe it. It's just information. It's just perspectives.

I feel like writing actually helps memorize things. I transcribe a lot of songs and it's easier to memorize when I write the chord changes, melody and lyrics down 10 out of 10 times. You could argue that sheet music and english are not equatable and maybe they aren't but I think they are.

I am not outraged by this. I don't think he's helping anyone when doing this though. Not a good teaching method if you ask me. He does a lot better with the videos. Maybe yall care a bit to much about what a random dude on the Internet has to say. I think there's value in the videos, some bull shit also. Forum seems to be mostly bull shit to me, including my own and leo's. I like it for entertainement value. You know what maybe it is ok? I am very grateful for Leo's body of work? but he could shut it all down tomorrow and I'd still be on my merry way.

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A lot considering the fact that you won't get high at all without first making it into a tea or extract lol

My guess is that would completely destroy psilocybin and psilocin.

@Yimpa Weed doesn't induce quality sleep. In the long run it's a net negative. You'll see when you stop using it. I don't argue that it's better than ssri's.

How do I know that I don't know?

@woohoo123 Great then start shedding! You'll see if it's the right path for you by doing not thinking.

I am guessing you don't know how hard music is since you don't play an instrument. How do you even know that that's what you wanna do if you don't play? And how old are you? If you write the best book in the world(assuming such a thing even exists. Soilers: it doesn't) chances are people will read it and love it. But can you fathom how much work it is to create that? Nothing short of obessesion is gonna get you there. Do you love music or not? You seem to already intuit that people's approval is not sufficient motivation which is great now ask yourself what would be a sufficient motivation?

Naah everything's fine. I went out for a run earlier. The sun was bright. The sky was blue. The sound of snow crackling under my feet was just exquisite. Ah and this forum is cool too.

What is it?

How? You can hold this idea and still act as if there is another. What else is there to do? Freaking out over this idea has nothing to do with the idea itself or wether it's true. In my college philosophy class they called what you are doing "the slippery slope" which is a sophism where you create consequence and doomsday scenario without backing it up. Something like paranoïa.