Rigel

Well you’ve got your answer. If you were to take into account every single detail that makes up a shape you couldn’t call it any kinda shape anymore. Life is too complicated to fit inside our square ways of conceptualizing it. There is no such thing as a sphere in all of existence. You can kept zooming in & find imperfections in the edges. But at some point it’s « close enough ». We have a saying in jazz culture that goes « good enough for jazz » when talking about tuning. Perfect tuning is impossible but we can get so close that it stops mattering. So the earth is close enough to be a sphere. Casually speaking, it’s a sphere. Even though it’s not. (Your belief of it is a sphere. Your mental image of it is a sphere, anyways)

I can relate. Last week my semester ended & the next 3days I was sleeping 11hrs plus 2hrs nap in the afternoon. I didn’t even notice how sleep deprived I was. Last night I was swimming & being chased by a scary shark the whole time. Vivid swinging back of the pendulum.

Wait her rational is « Make a better world with only women »? How can she not see that that is literally impossible? Killing all men is the exact same as killing everyone. Just delayed for women.

I was contemplating this in the shower. The ocean came to mind. If you ask anyone if the ocean is finite or infinite they are going to tell you it’s finite of course. The earth is a limited system( a ball ) so the ocean circles back around & has a definite border to it. It’s obvious to me that all of that is a story I am constructing in my own mind because of what other people have told me. I put myself in front of the ocean & I can’t find an end to it. For all I know it stretches to infinity. The horizon is the asymptote. A line that is approached but never reached. I found that to be true with being in tune. Singing in tune. When you think you are in tune, you can be more in tune. Ever approaching the asymptote but never getting there. It echoes with my psychedelic trips. It’s more total & more total forever. Are we ever going to reach the asymptote? Is it possible? Form seems to always be incomplete. Psychedelic trips one up themselves every time. Is there even such a thing as completeness? I heard plenty of people say it is possible. Spiritual characters say that. One of you is probably going to say that right now.

It’s impossible the master music. There’s no end to it. Some folks are very close to the asymptote though. This guy sounds fantastic.

I think you are overlooking the obvious. It’s a game. It’s fun. People play games for fun.

Edible is the only valid way to consume it😝 The problem with weed is it’s too much fun. It’s too pleasurable. And pretty much the safest drug you could take, physically. Which is why it’s so easy to get addicted to. It’s a great substance but to me it’s not even close to a psychedelic. I need courage to take a psychedelic whereas weed is coping. If you don’t get addicted you could get value for introspection & slowed down emotional processing. It’s a slippery slope tho. You’ve been warned. Mushrooms for instance will put your bullshit front & centre & force you to look at it. They’ll reward you after the processing is done lol. Weed will cuddle you & reveal as much as you are willing to take. If you’re anything like me, anyways. Which means that if you are not willing to face yourself you won’t. Hence all the addicted, underdeveloped potheads.

Get yourself a dehydrator! I’ve had one for years for reasons that I will remain nebulous about but I figured out lately that it’s perfect for food on the go. I mean jerky. I make fish, shrimp & scallops jerky. It fabulous! I throw that in my bag along with an apple, a handful of nuts & a bottle of water! Boom! Convenient, tasty & nutritious food for busy days that don’t require ice or reheating. I love it.

Mushrooms are hard to dose. Unless you grow them you are basically gambling. Which is why I always tell newbies to blend their batch & test with 0,5 to 1g a week or two before the actual trip to gauge what dose would be enough for a breakthrough experience. I’ve had heroic experiences with as little as 3,5g. I’ve also had 6g that weren’t breakthroughs.

Reach out to people IRL that can emotionally support you. This forum is too far removed from your lived experience.

I get it, but if there is a healthy life free of this pain out there, will it really be accessible while eating junk, stagnating(literally not moving) & indulging in a wide variety of coping mechanisms? We all need coping to some extent but you are overlooking the principle of right action. The actions which would create the state you want to inhabit need to be taken for that state to manifest. Now it seems to me you are putting the state before the action. You are thinking that your state prevents action. It’s a process. And it’s difficult. But what else are you going to do? Chip away at it slowly. Always keep the basics in mind because a life without them is never going to fix itself. edit: wrong quote don’t mind it.

That’s a great question. What do you do? On a day to day basis? What actions are you taking in your life? What about the basics? Do you get good sleep & move plenty? Do you eat fresh? Do you drink clean water? Psychedelics aren’t going to do the basics for you. Break a sweat every day is my two cents. I am sure your situation is more complicated but try to simplify as best you can. Build a healthy character before going on trying to obliterate it with psychedelics. You build a healthy character by acting on the basics every day. Basics. Simplify. What can you do right now? You are asking the right question.

Came out last month & it managed to be my most listened to of the year.

But Tidal gives better recommendations on top of giving the masters. You are winning here buddy.

Two monitors doesn’t mean multitasking. Some tasks just require extra real estate. If you use it to open YouTube on the side than yeah it’s distracting. Ultimately you create your own distraction independent of the number of monitors you have.

My main psych is mushrooms & I haven’t tried full on tripping many days in a row yet but based off my experience microdosing, there doesn’t seem to be tolerance build up. I can take a dose that rides on the threshold for a month straight & never experienced any diminishing of the effects. Has anyone here tried macro dosing shrooms many days in a row? Do you experience tolerance? I gotta test that out.

Here are my favourite exercises to do with the Swiss ball: -Lay on your back starting at the shoulders. Spread yourself as wide as possible. Rotate those shoulders until they are loose & then work your way down the spine to the hips. You can move side to side to really loosen up the spine & hips. What’s great about this is you can isolate lower, middle & upper spine by placing the ball under the spine where there is tension. -Sit on the ball & make circles or figure 8 with your hips. -Stand on one leg, put your other on on the ball fully extended & roll the ball from side to side with your leg within your full range of motion. Great balance exercise. -Lay on your lower belly while keeping your core engaged & bring your arms up by squeezing your back & hold for as long as possible. Great body weight back exercise. « How to eat, move & be healthy » by Paul Chek has a bunch of Swiss ball exercises in it. ~ The rope is fantastic. The way it makes your spine move translates into & upgrades almost every physical movement especially walking. ~ I gotta issue a warning about barefoot shoes. It’s not an overnight improvement. It’s training. If you’re used to having your feet squished in a normal shoe it’s going to feel very weird at first. Don’t overdo it. There’s a very real risk of injury. Don’t bite off more than you can chew. You’re walking mechanics are going to slowly move from heel strike to more of a midfoot strike. You’ll have to rewire your brain to lower your foot gently on the ground & use the spring of your feet to propel yourself forward. Normal shoes return a lot of the force you use when walking. Barefoot shoes provide none of that. Your feet & calves are what absorb & return the energy. Think of your feet as tripods with spread toes. You can use toes spreaders at home to help stretch & reposition them in a more natural alignment. They are pretty cheap on Amazon. At first I couldn’t wear them for 10min with my toes hurting. Now I can wear them all day if I want to. I am wearing Vivobearfoot. It’s the only brand I tried so far and I like them.

Swiss ball Flow rope Barefoot shoes I use those every day of my life. I discovered the rope recently & I am obsessed. It’s the kind of exercise that leaves you with more energy than before the practice. So fun. I’ve been wearing the barefoot shoes for 6months & my mobility is so much better than before. My toes have spread & my feet are way stronger. I feel handicapped wearing normal shoes now.The vast majority of the shoe industry is a trap.

I was hoping you’d get into it a bit more? What happened? What chemical? What dose? What was your subjective experience? Any lesson? Any value in doing?

What was it like to trip for so long?

Sometimes the simple answer wins. I still need to check first hand. Did you trip many days in a row on any chemical before?

Didn’t Leo mention that 5-Meo doesn’t build tolerance? Never tried it but how would that be different from mushrooms? Does genetics influence how people experience tolerance? Could it be rare but possible that some people don’t build tolerance on mushrooms? Guess I’ll have to test it out at some point.

I tried micro dosing twice the same day as well. Same exact strength even on the same day.

You're sitting here with us, but you're also out walking in a field at dawn. You are yourself the animal we hunt when you come with us on the hunt. You're in your body like a plant is solid in the ground. yet you're wind. You're the diver's clothes lying empty on the beach. You're the fish. In the ocean are many bright strands and many dark strands like veins that are seen when a wing is lifted up. Your hidden self is blood in those, those veins that are lute strings that make ocean music, not the sad edge of surf, but the sound of no shore.

Which chemical is this?