Shadowraix

@Leo Gura Holy shit man. Its wild to see the profound stuff you say and then this stuff come from the same person. You've really done a lot of exploration and growing in life. Funny that you mention Dallas when I just moved in between Dallas and Fort Worth. Maybe I should go into the city sometime.

Its all relative. Thats why any justification for anything only matters to the degree that you care about it. We don't do things because we have to. We do it because we want to or don't want something.

'Best criticisms' By whos standards?

Just a wild idea I am throwing out on the notion of souls: If everything that occurs is remembered. Kind of like an atom remembering every interaction which is ingrained in its being. - you could call it a building of experience. And a 'soul' is a composition of this experience. So the building off of previous lives comes from what makes up the body gaining experience and then ending up as experience to the next body. This would effectively make the universe a huge ever changing brain. But it would explain the building upon of past lives. Your 'soul' could be made up of tons of past humans or none at all!

Funny how we worry about self aware AI when the mind is essentially that.

@Salvijus They basically serve the purpose of assisted self inquiry. Effective tool and you don't need to be highly conscious to start doing this or helping people do it.

This thread made me appreciate my gf a lot more.

What is a good life to you?

To improve your life if you see the changes caused by mindfulness as a benefit. You can argue anything is a waste of time. But wait what time is there to waste??

You assumed I was making assumptions about you It was was just advice since you brought up anxiety as some reason. That if you decide to run away from it it'll hurt you in the long run.

Thats the point if you want it to be. There is no point actually though. The only point you could say is for it to exist.

Do this method because you feel it will lead you to be the best you not to run away from your own mental issues. Would you still do this if you had no social anxiety and survived fine even thrived in regular living conditions?

Is the company in it to meet arbitrary goals or to stay in the game as long as possible? Don't want the game to end up like the other dead companies.

Yep A woman being attractive or not decides whether I even bother to approach her in romantic interest. But personality can make me find somebody more attractive. So sometimes its a catch-22 unless we just happen to become friends first.

The higher you go the more profound it can be, but please do go up incrementally. The higher the dose the more energy you'll have to put in into handling the trips. I didn't ego death until my first and only 1000ug trip. It was intense and took a lot for me to handle I saw things I couldn't comprehend. It's not for the faint of heart and the risk for larger doses is higher. What it showed me is I had a lot of mental resistance to such insights I had to brute force it. If I were you if less than 500ug isn't doing it for you I'd put more effort into deconstructing the mind and meditation. The further you get along with this the less lsd it should take for such insights or even ego death to come to you. Also if you can, watch a sunset with clear view on lsd. It will be a beautiful experience for you. It blew my mind.

Everything that I have figured out I accept. There's nothing to justify. If you have something against ignorance, look into that. It can definitely be bliss though for the ego.

It's an alright analogy for people who cling to the concept of souls. But seeing it any further than that might hinder your understanding of nonduality.

+1 to this I used to be the same way but then I found myself getting into communities of people who were very "high status" by the community they were a part of. Really helped to relax and treat high status people just like people.

I have a friend who actually enjoys his HPPD haha says the world looks far more vibrant and interesting that way. He would even trip just to bring back the symptoms.

Sounds like a minor version of HPPD. But HPPD is more chronic. Its a risk you'd have to take but such occurrences are pretty rare compared to the amount of people who do psychedelics. I've probably had 30+ trips at the age of 20 with my highest doses being 1500ug and came out with no side effects.

He was talking about after the trip. You never said what you mean by flashback. What is a flashback? You won't re-experience you tripping while sober. I'd say worst case you might encounter a tracer or 2 that resembles a trip or some odd color contrast. If you are talking about HPPD which is rare, thats a different story.

Does the world need saving? There's no saving to do. Goals and careers are just here to play the game while we are here. Don't take it too seriously.

To find what works for you. 500ug lsd + 300mg DXM did more for me than even 1.5mg of LSD ever did. I always gave dissociatives and psychedelics an interesting duality. Where dissos represented more of death and nothingness and psychedelics more of life and somethingness and mixing them felt like I was in control of a boat to sail the infinite seas.

Just because a model like science is very surface level doesn't mean it doesn't have its uses. The model basically is predicting direct experiences from direct experiences.

@Aaron p He's basically saying that everything you think and do is a reflection of yourself. If I call someone a horrible person for doing drugs are they actually a horrible person or is that a reflection of what I like and don't like in a person? You evaluate the world by the standards you either created or were given/programmed. Or consider a situation where a person gets angry about one thing and another person doesn't. They must be living by different standards for this to be. So then you realize all opinions and standards are relative. And this is how you shape your own reality.