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Smoking in the Balkans is really something else, I think it's close to 40% of us. Most of my friends smoke, I have been on and off since the age of 18. Stopping entirely is always the best idea, but when you are surrounded by it, it's a bitch. I am powerlifting, so I have dialed it back significantly, lighting a few only on social occasions. The good thing is I study in the US and here the packs are mad expensive and no one really smokes so I go for 8-9 months without. To answer your question, you are definitely all good if you stop now. I have also smoked for about 4 years on and off and have no issues with climbing, running and exercising at high intensity. It will start getting bad if it's a daily habit.

@Keryo Koffa Your video encapsulates what you just described so well, which just goes to show how meta you went. I think as a psychonaut you have chartered territory comparable to the likes of Kilindi Iyi, the ultra-high does stuff, possibly even more complex due to the psychedelic-dissodelic synergy. Glad you are still here to share. From my 6 years on this forum, this is definitely a highlight.

This.

You are just next level. Them alien holarchies in your brain be working 24/7 to translate relational and contextual meaning like it's no one's business.

🤯🤯🤯 I know I will be coming back to this video for years to come. Your 'double up' message was so on point, will have to follow the cosmic instructions next time, hah.

Thank you for your feedback, @Davino, @Paradoxed. I think the salvia I got turned out to be very weak. I might have to try and do an extract or get a stronger one, but that will be in the future. What happened was that I made several doses of 0.25 and was doing progressively more without much of an effect. The most it got after like the 6th attempt was waviness with mild body effects, but that was essentially it. It also didn't do anything more than that to either of my brothers. Sorry to disappoint, hah. Will come back eventually to it, since there is something exceptionally strong drawing me to this substance. I have had extremely vivid dreams my entire life (one yesterday) that closely match what i have read as trip reports. But not yet I guess.

@LambdaDelta Thanks, will keep the taste in mind! @Sho fio I had set 'alien' as my directive during that trip and what I experienced subsequently was on a cosmic scale. Best I can describe it to you is I became a Kardashev scale 2-3 entity, taming stars and receiving guidance on the fundamental missing piece in the contemporary paradigm.

I try not get ahead of myself with salvia. Very experienced users, such as @Leo Gura and @Davino for example, have cautioned extensively.

Thanks! I don't want to set any expectations other than consciousness exploration. I do set intent through a word or phrase, and in this case it would be 'chaos, entropy, order'

@Keryo Koffa When you say Psychic, are you referring to Michael Talbot’s range of siddhis, or is there something specific you want? For me, the “magician” Is THE archetype, since it is described as having both theoretical and technological insight - the one who makes something out of nothing. That is the only way I see of bringing world-changing amount of value without oppression or manipulation. Nuclear fission, flying saucers, meta materials - that’s on my wish list, hah

I am yet to experience stage Coral, hah. You definitely should write about your trips and the process of integration in the Journal section. I know a lot of other forum members also follow your posts with immense interest. There mods won’t make any complaints about your art, references and style of writing.

Great input, I can see you have been thinking deeply about this topic. I would also suggest looking into Statistical Physics - it’s mathematical dimension has lead to Fields-level research, specifically on the Conformal Invariance of Brownian motion, Ising and Lattice models, the latter of which have direct application to Neural Networks.

That unfortunately is true. I think the proliferation of social media has lead to eco-chambers that erode the epistemic trust in science and all our accumulated knowledge to date. Whilst I in no means claim science to be the end-all-be-all, we nonetheless would be foolish to erase and reject its 2000 year old history. I envision its recontextalization by addressing the underlying metaphysical and ontological assumptions that in fact prevent its growth. Ideas, such as non-determinism, holism, emergence, non-completeness would only help complexify our understanding (Tier 1-> Tier 2).

@r0ckyreed You are still operating with a pre-rational model of the world, which is of course okay. Nobody is 'denying time' for the sake of their survival/ character continuity. We still use clocks and calendars. But the deeper understanding of it to be an emergent phenomenon/illusory is what allows for you to, for example, have internet and share your thoughts with us. By your same logic, denying its deeper nature by no means changes how it affects you. You don't have to know the GR field equations to understand that the faster you move, the slower times moves for you. We have predicted the existence of gravitational waves, lensing, and black holes precisely due to this understanding. What have you predicted?

My last 300ug trip was an Alien Awakening. Contemplating their existence and technology will very well unlock a phase shift in our understanding.

Good thing. Use the void to crystalize a material exchange. What's the point of all them realizations if we don not become magicians, right?

Time is in fact not ‘fundamental’ even per modern day physics - due to Relativity, your speed determines the extent of your time dilation. Photons do not experience time. The singularity at the center of a Black Hole is at “the end of time”. The space-time manifold is the basis on which this rests. Another less-cosmic in scale realisation is related to entropy production. It is what determines the “clock” for chemical and biological organisms, and it is again something that can be tuned.

When channeling the cosmic currents, you can’t really ’translate’ much of them through a hose. Building industrial channels takes time. You can definitely cut yourself some slack.

Totally understandable. At a certain level of consciousness, human bullshit just becomes tiring.

That is absolutely true. Genetics play an enormous role, however you look at it. Question is, what is your talent? Nobody’s asking the horse to fly or the duck to eat rats.

Watched the Obamas, it really was a thrill. Feeling more and more hopeful.

Check out Leo’s and Daniel Schmactenberger’s Book Lists. Enough gold in them to last you a decade.

My first trip was at 16, I’m 22 now and have had about 30 total between LSD and mushrooms. I have prolonged periods of focus without much psychs, and it works for me to come back from time to time, but I don’t go as deep as say Leo or other psychonauts here do. I know I will eventually, but this is the age for foundational ‘grind’, sorting out one’s future. Totally understandable to leave psychedelics for a few years until you build a foundation. You are already ahead of the curve.

This is in general a good way of thinking. I have tried different substances when socializing, but still think it has to be in your base state. Microdosing is probably the best in terms of social benefit, alcohol is the millenia-old social lubricant. Weed works only if the other people are also high, otherwise it is really out of tune.

@r0ckyreed Ego ('The Self') is deeper than just 'personality' (lower-case ego). It is the unique crystallization of your consciousness that allows you to perceive anything at all. Psychedelics make it more fluid, allowing to transform and morph into higher order structures, loosing the 'personal' form. Alcohol, amphetamines and other dopamine-active substances on the other hand make it more rigid, dropping you to a lower 'survival frequency' per say. Two frameworks to consider on reading are Jung's Model of the Psyche and the Active Inference (Free-Energy Principle): Jung differentiates between the 'ego' and the 'Self' ('ego' + 'unconscious' = 'Self). Substances/States of Consciousness tune the latter 'equation', expanding or shrinking either element of the Left-hand side. The Right hand side is the totality, within which the entirety of existence resides. Interestingly, there is a somewhat novel concept in science that can serve as a basis for a yellow-stage model of the 'ego', i.e Active inference and the Free-energy principle by Karl Friston. Whilst a finite and resource-constrained organism, you need to continuously craft a model of the world, the reflection of which you perceive as the 'self'/'ego', a reflection that nonetheless never stops flowing.