Oh yeah, there's no guarantee you're coming back.
Well... that's tricky to answer.
Much further. A lot more clarity now rather than confusion. Confusion sorta takes the edge off of insanity because to truly be insane you gotta not be confused about it. Confusion is a sort of defense mechanism from looking it in the face.
I've been waiting a lot time to do a video explaining insanity.
Just needed direct experience of it first
For science
That's difficult to do. Requires doing some serious writing.
I will attempt a write-up what insanity feels like.
The best way to get out is to surrender to it and try to enjoy it. Eventually the mind exhausts itself, gets bored with it, and switches tracks. At least if you got a healthy mind.
How can you know what consciousness is unless you explore all its corners?

There was a lot of visuals. I'll try to write up a doc like I did for my Peotic Description of God Consciousness.
I have a huge aversion to superhero movies.
I know Joker is different, but still.
I'll prolly watch it some day but it's not a high priority for me.
I don't think that's enough to make one insane. I think if any of these people truly went insane it's because they became very isolated and then bore a hole through their own minds with very deep contemplations.
Yes, this is in the right direction.
It's a sort of mind-twisting illogic.

Yeah, in pickup we call that "state".
Your question is how to build state, or get into state.
Well, that's what all game is basically about.
You build state by relaxing, having fun, and doing your approaches no matter what. It usually takes 10-20 approaches to hit state.
You're not going to hit state every night. Some nights will just be shit. But you can get a lot better at it by developing your inner game and being very disciplined about approaching.

Happiness just isn't a factor for most humans.
It takes a lot of develop to actually start to care about true happiness.
Most people are barely paying their rent.

Success requires serious work. Of course. Why do you think most people aren't successful? They are too lazy.
But you don't have to work that much your whole life. Usually that much work is only required when you are starting a business. Once the business is stable you can work a lot less. Although if you want to be constantly innovative and creative, you must work hard. There is a big different between being successful/wealthy vs being innovative/creative. It's much easier to just be wealthy. Creativity is endless work.

Just force yourself to stick in there and always be leading to a close. Don't let a set just flounder in endless talk. Seed the pull, and pull. You need a ton of practice leading, bouncing, pulling.

Not so much demonic but alien for sure.
It's the most non-human of the psychedelics. And mercilessly so. It has no qualms raping your mind.

Cute ad hominem.
I guess Ramana Maharshi was just a deluded fool. Since according to you, health doesn't lie and he died of cancer.
You guys parrot spiritual BS without even thinking about it.

What are you smoking? RSD has been teaching the importance of inner game for over a decade now. Most of their teachings are inner game to the point where guys aren't even learning proper outer game.
Outer game is really important. It's hard to fix your inner game without massive approaching. Inner game is an advanced topic.

When I say to do 1000 approaches, I don't mean mindless approaches, I mean quality approaches. I mean you analyze every approach after the fact and work on your sticking points.
Honestly, 1000 approaches is so little. In practice you should be aiming towards 5000-10000 if you are serious. And they gotta be quality!

Good. What more is there to say?
You're not dead though. There is no death.

Mine hasn't completely gone away, but I've reduced it A LOT.

That's the best description of socializing that I've ever heard.
Exactly! Now go enjoy some ping-pong
Stop being so serious. Be deep on your own time, and be goofy when out in public. Be a wise goofball.

For example, I haven't taken any psychedelics in about 3 days.
Today I woke up in bed and I realized planet Earth is Awake.
You're not doing anything wrong. You're just in a different state of consciousness.
Of course that will happen.
You cannot just naively trust everything your trips tell you. Trips can deceive you, especially about your human capabilities. For example, in the middle of a trip you might get the idea that approaching hot girls is actually very easy and that you'll never again feel approach anxiety. But then next week when you're at the club sober, you see a hot girl, and you chicken out from approaching her. This sorta overestimation of yourself is very common.

Very different. Of course you are everything, but you'll shit your pants if you actually become conscious of the whole planet as if it were your own body.
Imagine your body was replaced by planet Earth, and you could feel into yourself. That's what it's like.
Too early to tell.

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The final goal is to become as conscious of God as possible by whatever means allows for it.
Before you go worrying about a permanent experience, first start by at least being conscious of God for 10 minutes. Then you can worry about how to make it permanent. You don't even know what you're trying to lock in yet and whether that's even possible or appropriate.
It's like you're trying to buy a house on the moon and you haven't even been there once. My top priority is getting people to the moon because after they get there they will know the target and they will be motivated to get back there on their own.

The Teaching Company has many great courses on Western philosophy.

https://www.actualized.org/insights/my-health-situation
https://www.actualized.org/insights/back-from-2-month-break-updates

What humans think of as observation is actually Absolute Truth.
What you see is Absolute Truth, and all there is. Stop making it complicated.
You see a coffee table -- boom! -- that's Absolute Truth.

@Romanov You are correct in noticing that no system of logic or knowledge can work without axioms and assumptions.
All formal logical systems are in fact constructed using a carefully selected set of axioms. These axioms are formally declared.
There are in fact an infinite number of possible logical systems based on an infinite number of various axioms.
There exist very unusual types of logics which do not correspond to the logic of physical human reality, similar to how there are various unusual types of non-Euclidian geometeries which do not correspond to our physical universe.

@onacloudynight You are developing wrong ideas about women and sex. You are getting too attached to outcome.
When you genuinely attract a girl, she will make it easy for you to sleep with her. She will come to you.
Be careful making this about sex. Enjoy the process of going out and growing your social skills.
You still don't understand how to communicate with girls. That's the core issue. Just grabbing some numbers is not enough.
Stop thinking about sex and stop chasing girls. Rather, focus on developing genuine socialization skills.

That formulation doesn't ring well.
More like: Reality is too profound for meaning.
If you are disappointed that reality has no meaning, you don't fathom how profound reality is. I would be disappointed if reality had a simplistic human meaning. Children want that. Adults want something deeper.
You think you want meaning in life, but you actually want something much more basic: consciousness of its Infinite Beauty.
When you see God in everything, you don't ask, "What does it mean?" You mutter, "Oh Wow! Oh My God! How could I have been so blind?!"
If you were wise, you would trade all the meaning in the world for awareness of Infinite Beauty. Human meaning is just a shitty substitute for those who are unable to see the raw Beauty of consciousness.

Dude, my How To Get Laid series gave you all the starting steps. Drop the Mystery bullshit, move to where the clubs are, start going out every night club is open.

Basically it's function of genetics, metabolism, and brain chemistry. You can't assume these are the same across people. They can be very different.
He has tried some. I think his problem is simply that his brain chemistry isn't suited to it or they have not much effect on him.
This does happen. Some people have very high tolerances or just not much happens.
Ralston is an unusual guy so you shouldn't expect this brain chemistry to be normal. He's basically a freak of nature. This can have its pros and cons. He has certain strengths and weaknesses, as we all do.