It's harder, but practice more improv.
Asking women questions upon open is terrible. You quickly lose her with your interrogation. Instead, either make funny assumptions about her or talk about yourself. My fave way to open is just telling her about my day or where I traveled recently. Travel stories are the best.
Stop the questions. Make statements. Learn to carry the entire conversation. You should be able to talk for 5 minutes without needing any input from her.

The perceiver is Nothing.
Or, to say it another way, perceiver = perceived.

Scheduled my vaccine for Tuesday.
Maybe I can shoot a video of me getting it. We'll see.
Pfizer version.
Neither the Pfizer nor the Moderna vaccines contain any heavy metals.
Don't delay, schedule yours today.

Beautiful, try giving this a read:
https://www.dmt-nexus.me/forum/default.aspx?g=posts&t=492
it will blow your mind 

Repressing sex definitely does not work. So I say indulge in it in a conscious way and exhaust your urges until you are bored with it.
But also, sex and dating can be a giant waste of time. So be careful not to get your mind hijacked by it.
You're damned if you do and damned if you don't. Welcome to life.
And do not fool yourself that you will use sex to reach enlightenment or whatever.

It's a fine personal goal, but LP is not about what you do for yourself. It's about what you want to do for others.
So in this case once you finally reach your goal, a valid LP would be to spread that experience to others.
So you're close to an LP, but you're stilling thinking of it too selfishly.
Your LP might be to help OTHERS expeirence 5-MeO-DMT. Although that is risky business so be careful with how you go about that.

@Kshantivadin Yes, well, the problem with you is that you are getting way out ahead of your skiis. Try to bridge the gap with a life purpose that's a bit more closer to your experience of life. You are making an LP about a thing you haven't even experienced, don't know is real, and don't even know if you will like.
You gotta test all those waters first and see if it really is something you're passionate about. Don't assume your passions, feel for them in the now. What are you passionate about now that in part of your life experience?
You can always expand out into 5-MeO or awakening once you experience it and find it resonates.
The problem with assuming too much is that you will find you aren't as passionate about that thing as you thought once you actually experience it. It can be easy to fall in love with the IDEA of a thing rather than the thing itself. So be careful not to fall into that trap.

“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you." -- Werner Heisenberg
@trenton Maybe you should actually study the greatest scientists
There is nothing scientific about atheism, rationalism, materialism, or realism. It's all pure fantasy.
If you actually start questioning reality you will see that 50% of sicence is bullshit.

There is an epic difference though between your normal interactions with your parents and you being conscious that you imagined them.
The difference is shockingly huge. It's fucking freaky. Most normies would think they've lost their minds if it happened to them.
But I highly recommend it

Game can be directed towards various goals. The goal does not define game. You could do game to find a wife. In fact, many guys are interested in that.
Game is simply learning how to attract women. How you use this skill is up to you. You could use it to become a rapist, or you could use it to start a family.
Practically, to find a good life-long partner requires burning through lots of dates to find the right one. Your first handful of relationships are going to be awful.

You should chase living an authentic life aligned with your top values, your top passions, helping spread truth, consciousness, love, and beauty across the Universe via which ever way most excites you and suits your unique strengths and talents.
You are right that you should not just sit around twiddling your thumbs. You should be constantly working on your life purpose and evolving yourself towards that end.
Life is short. Don't squander it sitting around in confusion and inaction.
False success is chasing what others tell you is good.
True success is devoting your life to expressing the Love that you have for the world in your unique way, and doing so skillfully and eagerly.
False success will not make you happy, but true success will.

Peter Ralston in particular has made some incredible contributions to mankind's understanding of itself, but virtually nobody recognizes it. He really deserves to be as well-known as Einstein. But, alas, that will never be the case.
Being well-known is largely a marketing game. It has little to do with the depth of one's work.

@rd5555 I wouldn't put up with human bullshit in one's living situation.
Move out and find yourself a solitary place where you can feel right.
You shouldn't have to abide fools and devils cavorting in your living space.
Yes, it's annoying to move, but you'll be glad you did. Consider it part of your personal development process. An important part of personal development is setting up your own personal sanctuary at home where no assholes can interrupt you. Don't treat this as unimportant. Your home is important.

For me it was of momumental importance. It was not about the sex. It was about my growth into a man.
In practice, yes. The order of operations is: become skillful at survival, then transcend survival.
For a few exceptionally gifted people this order of operations is not needed, but for most people it is. It is hard to be serious about spiritual work when you are horny and lonely and craving it.

@KGrimes Your problem is very simple, you are hitting on too few girls. When your numbers are so low you will constantly be frustrated because the reality is that this is a numbers games. If you hit on 5 girls a year, chances are that none of them will pan out no matter how good you are. If you hit on 1000 girls per year, now you'll get some results.
Talk to more girls. Don't expect any one of them to pan out. Don't focus on attracting any one girl -- that's just a recipe for misery. Girls will be extremely fickle and flakey until they sleep with you. So the trick is to hit on lots of girls and don't hold your breath for anyone particular one to sleep with you. Majority of them won't.
It's just like sales. It is foolish to hinge your entire business on one customer. Your business should be structured such that you are so busy no particular customer matters. You shouldn't need any customer's business and you should be willing to lose it without a hint of threat to your business.
The paradox is that when you structure your business this way, more people will want to buy from you. And more girls will want to sleep with you.
That's creating abundance vs being stuck in scarcity. It's counter-intuitive and girls will tell you they don't want that. But practice they love it because it os am honest signal of a high value guy. A high value guy has lots of options and girls can smell it and they LOVE the smell even though they will deny it if explicitly asked about it.

You understand how a door works.
Don't take that for granted. That is a profound thing.
And don't dismiss it as "at the level of mind", since whatever your mind is doing, is by definition something consciousness and the Universe is doing.
How is it possible that the Universe can understand how a door works?
Contemplate that.

Of course!
This very much depends on you, your genetics, your specific issues. For example, if you have heavy metals in your brain, chelating those metals out will be one of the biggest permanent boosts to your brain chemistry. But not everyone has that problem, so if you don't have that problem, chelation will be useless for you.
That is just one example.
In general, rigorous spiritual practices like mediation, mantras, and yoga will all change your neuorchemistry if you do them hardcore.
Psychedelics of course are the most powerful way to change neurochemistry, although it doesn't tend to be permanent change. There is a tradeoff between permanence and degree. Permanent changes tend to have much lower degrees of change.
To what degree can it be change is unknown. If someone invents a device that we install in your brain which releases a constant stream of DMT, that will be change so radical it would eclipse all spiritual practices.

Of course spirit is everywhere, because it is everything. It's only a matter of how intensely conscious are you of it?
Your visual field is always made out of spirit and it is always Absolute. You just tend to ignore it as you go about survival.
Never forget, the entire visual field is God.

Yes
99% of humans are in a non-enlightened state. Obviously. Just look at how they act. Like zombies and animals.
There is no contradiction. Non-enlightened states are still fully Absolute and Truth. The only difference is that the person is not aware of this fact. For example, when you are in dream state at night, you are conscious and you're aware of stuff, but you are usually not aware that you are dreaming. If you become lucid in your dream, now you are aware that you dreaming. But the dream is Truth regardless of whether you are lucid or not.
It's sort of like, you can have cancer, but that doesn't mean you know you have cancer. Think of Truth like hidden cancer. You have it but you don't know you have it until you awaken and realize, "Oh! Of course! Truth was always here the whole time. Why was I so blind?"
This issue is easily resolved with null state. The null state is what Buddhist aspire to and hold as the Absolute. The null state is of course Absolute, but it is no more Absolute than non-null states.
When consciousness is totally inactive, totally not dreaming, it enters the null state of pure formlessness. But it is a serious mistake to confuse this null state for "The Truth" or "The Absolute". That is a sneaky bias as now you identify with the null state more than all other states. In fact, the null state is not better than more important than any other state, including the state of total monkey mind.

If you really want to crank up your retreats, combine it with water fast. Don't eat any food during the whole retreat. Your mind will become crystal clear. Food fucks with your consciousness.
Water fasting is painful though the first few days. It really tests your self-discipline and tolerance for discomfort.

Metaphysical and epsitemic contemplation is required to make psychedelics fully flower.
A big trip without intense sense-making effort is sort of a waste. The point is to use the psychedelic experience to clean up your sense-making. Otherwise you drop out the high state and right back into your old sense-making paradigm.
But with all that said, Adeptus still got a very profound awakening experience. He just needs to do more sense-making work with it in the future. What he's describing is Godhead/Infinity.

The key difference is that I do not use the stock market to make my money.
It is a problem when you guys try to use the stock market as your method of getting rich.
Stocks are fine for holding some savings and getting a 8% average annual return. The problem comes when you expect your stocks to give you 10x returns and make you rich.
Make yourself rich, then put some of your riches into the market to avoid inflation.

@dflores321 Of course trying to escape your job is harder and more stressful than not doing so.
If this was not the case, everyone would escape. But very few do.
Realistically, to escape wage slavery requires working twice as hard as other people work.
When I escaped my job I was working so hard, nonstop, days, nights, weekends, holidays -- it was so emotionally stressful I would just cry sometimes. It was extremely difficult. But here's the kicker: it was the best thing I ever did for myself.
You get from life what you put into it.
"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation."
In the end it all boils down to what you're willing to put up with. You're willing to settle for a shitty life and boring job -- that's exactly what you'll get.
Personally, I would rather kill myself than work a boring job my whole life. Which is exactly why I was able to create an alternative for myself. I refused to settle. The pain of escaping wage slavery was high for me, but the pain of surrendering to a boring job was higher.

Then you will not be at peace.
Trust me, if the pain gets high enough you will automatically surrender. Extreme pain actually destroys the ego. Pain is actually something that ego creates, so when the pain gets too high the ego cannot keep creating it any more.

Your motivations are backwards.
You are asking how you can be a bigger leech. What you should be asking is how you can provide massive value to the world. That is the proper way to get rich.
This is counter-intuitive. Your selfishness will backfire on you. It would be wiser to solve your situation through selflessness.
I am not saying crypto is bad, I am saying your selfish mindset will keep you poor. So if you really wish to be rich, start thinking seriously about reversing your mindset before it is too late.
Notice how you want something for nothing. This is sure way to failure. If I did business this way, I would be broke.