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Yeah fucked up my back & hips from being a noob at practicing in school. Now I am straight and I don’t hurt myself. Every morning I do toe touche, low squats & this chi gong exercise I believe where you swing your arms & about 80% of your weight foot to foot where it twists your spin & basically every joint. I like to do pull ups for this reason. It straightens & strengthens your back & hips soooo well. edit: what really fixed it though is to stop doing the repeated movements or lack there of that were causing the thing in the first place. So you gotta locate that.

How epic would it be if I bought the course with gig money I made by following the vision created as a result of the life purpose course?

You sure your friend doesn’t have any problem? Often times the people that don’t care about their health are too numb to feel their unhealth in the first place. Maybe nothing serious yet but a low grade heaviness that they don’t even notice at this point.

@Sandroew The only species you will easily be able to put your hands on is psilocybe cubensis. Every strain you hear people talk about are genetic variants of that species(golden teacher is one of them, it’s pretty much the vanilla of cubensis. Penis envy is another popular choice). I think the difference is minimal between strains but that’s a point of contention in the community. Pick which ever one looks the coolest ahah! (As a thought experiment of course. It’s not legal & you should never ever grow them right🫡)

It’s actually a very fun hobby. It made get into growing gourmets mushrooms as well. I adore pink oysters. Tea is great. If you don’t eat the flesh along with the tea like I do I would recommend you grind it very fine. The more surface area the better. I use pestle and mortar. Then pass through a coffee filter(Tea bags would also work I guess but none of the metal stuff, fines are gross) & you’ve got yourself an interesting & smooth tasting experience with max absorption. Bon appétit 😋 Edit: If you wanna sin like me, remove the weight of your shroom dose from your coffee dose & replace with powdered mushrooms. Then proceed to brew a pour over as usual. That’s a bold move. If you like coffee. If not proceed to ignore & make tea.

Oh no you cannot buy. It will be much more expensive.

Yes very. once the infrastructure is there shrooms are shockingly inexpensive. Maybe your 4-Aco plugs are better than mine.

Mushroom’s potency is hard to gauge. If you don’t grow them you’ve got two options. Store them whole to keep them longer but every time you take them the potency is a gamble. Or blend them all together so you know 2g of this batch will be the same 2g next week but in this case they will stale much faster. I tried making tea and freezing it. Doesn’t work you loose A LOT of potency that way. I tried blue honey. Doesn’t work you end up eating so much sugar to get a decent trip. Not worth it. Have yet to dabble with alcohol extracts. In an ideal world you know where it’s coming from & you are certain your whole batch is a single genetic specimen. That way you can store them whole for a while and the potency isn’t a gamble.

It means whatever you want it to mean.

It’s cool that you are at a point where you can assess these subtle things. You say it’s not minor but I mean is it? Most people struggle to not put poison in their mouth in huge quantities every day of their lives. I’ve spent years in the woods on and off, miles away from any kind of pollution source growing up. I think I know what good air smells like. I’ve also lived in 1,5M population city. It’s undeniable that the air is far worse but I feel like you are blowing this out of proportion. But I am curious. What do you even consider clean air? Where do you live? Are you in rural area? What do you actually breathe day to day & what is your bench mark for good air? And assuming I am just full of shit & this truly is this hugely significant blindspot, what can I do about it? What’s reasonable here? I don’t have money for a house for now, I am bond to renting.

It’s so hard to stomach. I got down a rabbit hole of watching murder investigation YouTube yesterday and I can’t tell you how primal the fear of realizing god is a psychopath that kidnaps & tortures children without a hint of remorse is to me. And that it’s also the one terrified about it on the other side of the screen. Is it even possible to make peace with this stuff as long as we are individual humans? I can clearly see that this knee jerk reaction is my bias as this specific non-psychopath bag of skin. I should probably make peace with not making peace with the darkness. Being scared to acknowledge it is also it I guess. Fear. Yeah that word sums it up pretty well.

The extent to which your tolerance is still there is highly individual and circumstantial so it’s impossible to determine precisely. You could have a weaker trip. You could not have a weaker trip. And what do you consider wasting it? If you have 85% of the strength of the previous trip due to tolerance is that wasting it? Shrooms are also highly unpredictable when it comes to potency. Test it out 1 week apart and come back to tell us! Was it weaker or not?

Bingo. Training will inform how much you want to eat in the end. You want muscle & bone density. That is not gonna happen without training. Moving yo body’s such a pillar. And then eat loads of foods.

I got to magnet that to a fridge somewhere. ~ Virtual virtual pizza

Bread & toppings free pizza

Compassion for us broke rat people🐀

Did you read is book on mastery? It's a step up from Zen Body-Being imo while dealing with very adjacent & overlapping subjects. i.e. Principle of effortless interaction yadi yadi yada.

I would finally have a soundproof place. I can't express how much energy I waste trying to be a good neighbor & not make too much noise. Also I wouldn't have to hear them. That's the dream.

Does survival instinct necessitate an ego? They do have a strong survival instinct. Do dogs & insects have egos? Wtf is an ego?

Am I correct in assuming that you are speaking from direct experience here? I know your gut health's been deteriorating for a while but you still seem like a sharp dude. Did you experience brain deterioration first hand? Or are you speaking of much more serious abuse to reach those danger thresholds?

But I gotta wonder about the first people to ever talk about it or write that shit down for future generations. Surely some humans just got it independently from anyone at some point otherwise we wouldn't be talking about it.

That's an interesting question. I remember being a kid in the bath tub asking myself why is there something rather than nothing & almost loosing my shit over it. There was an innate interest in the mystery & I remember it vividly. But the pull towards conformity got the better of me during school years. Hormonal teenagers are seriously dumb. I don't miss that. If it weren't for people like Leo beating it over my head with a word stick every week, I'd surely have forgotten that spark I had as a kid.

Weed was always very comforting & "safe" feeling to me. Which is why I was so addicted to it. Never got me to face my inner shit. It was always a blanket. Which is the whole problem. Psychedelics aren't fun. Although they could be. They are whatever the fuck they are in the moment & sometimes that's terrifying, suffering, not-fun. Which is why they are so great! Weed never revealed anything hidden from me. Weed was always the one hiding the stuff.

That book is a straight up banger also. I've been squeezing it for months & juice is still coming out of it.