Shadowraix

You know why its not the way, or why its not the way for you? Person A takes a drug and has an awful even horrifying time. Person B takes the same drug and has such an amazing time their life is opened and changed for the better. Can person A denounce person B's experience and/or vice versa? Wouldn't this result in a your mileage may vary answer?

You still have financial ramifications and social ramifications of such acts though. "Choose A and you'll be homeless, choose B and you'll be comfortable" kind of deal it seems like to me. Legal benefits aside, it almost seems like marriage serves this purpose of keeping you in line when you might be on the brink of giving up. Materialist things you don't want to lose.

One big problem of the Bible as many know is verifying if whats in the Bible is the full and completely uncensored version of it. Which as others has pointed out, its contents has been cherry picked. You can find nonduality interpretations in the Bible easy. In fact you can in most religions and even ancient philosophies. Egyptians and Greek were big pursuers of the nondual path. Its all the same thing just explained in different ways with different abstractions etc from my perspective. Then when the source author is no longer around all you have is interpretation through YOUR lens and not the authors lens. You'll go around in circles doing that. It seems awfully flawed to need to read a book to find God and then basically be indoctrinated into the most popular religion of that area as well as the teachers interpretation of the teaching. This is all outward seeking and not inward seeking. All the suffering I see due to religion to me seems to come from following that religion with no inward seeking. Its a closed locked down box that refuses to realize its more than a box. Beware to not use religion as an opening for the ego to project itself onto the world.

I've always looked at the whole chakra/aura stuff as an abstraction to help people understand some fundamental concepts. But these days such things are taken literally.

Did you notice ego or what you perceive to be ego? Looking at something through exclusively your lens can be misleading. Also, what video, what part? What do you define as ego? I also am curious on your intents of this post. It looks like a shitpost given its lack of detail. I don't see anything constructive here, but I think that can change.

One of the funny things about nihilism is people often apply a negative meaning to meaninglessness. As you transition to green, make sure to do what you can to avoid moralization, otherwise it might cause you a lot of inner turmoil from my experience. A lot of inner conflict for me was projecting my ideal reality onto reality itself and getting upset when they don't align. Reality is what it is, and you must accept that. Your desires will tell you what you want of the world. Advocate for change all you want, you may or may not be successful, we'll find out. Keep your mind on the stars but your eyes on your feet. It all might be meaningless and/or an illusion but that doesn't change it will feel real and meaningful for you. There is an absolute truth but also the relative truth.

Yes. You can have a negatively perceived experience with any substance. A better question is if YOU will have a bad trip. You run the risk with every drug you take. Know your research, yourself, and how much you can handle. Incrementally go up in small amounts for max safety.

While I generally do agree and see the point, people tend to be very expressive to how they feel and the things other people say. So on one side seeing video rebuttals can help open new perspectives. That is if you are watching the videos to learn and then make an evaluated decision on your own for your own improvement vs to just attach and defame somebody. The spreading of information and ideas is one of our great points as social creatures. The more edge case scenarios we have like this the more we can build a more robust model on the type of world we want to advocate for. Very few people are willing to lead. I used to be very argumentative like them in my early high school years because my sense of raw nitpicky logic developed faster. It was a big ego trip to feel like you won an argument with superior debating skills. I can imagine a lot of people get the same off this stuff.

Spiral dynamics is useful. The key is to just not build some ideological attachment to it. If you're using SD to attack, you're likely gonna go down a negative path. If you're using SD to understand and integrate/improve then I can see a lot of benefit there. You can remove SD entirely when talking about anybody and still point out the same flaws you did using SD.

Well said, I was going to say something along the lines of that. Try the recommended advice, find out what part of it works, what doesn't then adjust until you find the right balance for your body. You gotta start somewhere and I would think a well supported average of what is best is a good starting line.

I'm sure you already know the basics to tripping. Good comfortable environment etc etc You really can only do so much to prepare for such an experience. The rest comes up to you submitting to it. Although I do want to note that dosages for profound experiences will vary widely among people. I've seen people say 400ug knocks them into another world yet ive had 500ug and could walk and talk. I was never put into my place until 1mg of lsd to which I was taught the intense mind shattering aspect of the substance. So always make sure you have some gauge on how things scale for you as you go up in dose else you'll be caught with your pants down (metaphorically)

This is a tricky thing because I would call the human brain the most varying organ among all humans. As you grow and shape and develop all the unique experiences come together and starts molding you. Some people struggle to let go. Others do it freely. My first psychedelic was LSD and my progression was something like 100ug 8 times, 200ug 1x, 500ug 1x, 1000ug 1x, 800ug 1x, 700ug 1x, 1500ug 1x etc Massive jumps in doses and I handled all of them relatively fine. 1mg had me stuck on the floor and freak a bit but I just breathed and was able to relax and submit. For other people this kind of progression could result in a total psychotic break. Or maybe you have a profound experience you are just not ready to handle which can cause similar results. Or maybe you are prone to underlying mental illnesses that a psych will accelerate its development. Physically, most traditional psychedelics (I won't speak entirely for RCs, mixed bag) are safe. There is the HPPD risk people talk about. I found 1 single study in China that said LSD caused some form of photoreceptor damage, but its a single questionable study. Mental effects will vary wide and high and it mostly plays out to YOU doing the research and you knowing yourself to decide if you want this experience knowing the risks. Assuming best case scenario, yes, psychedelics are AMAZING tools for this kind of work. Its always good to make sure to note that cgkid is talking about why he would never do them again due to his past experiences with them. Your mileage may vary.

Drugs are tools. They can be positively and/or negatively beneficial. Black and white thinking on this kind of thing will severely mislead you. Most psychedelics discourage addiction from many factors like tolerance the overall exhaustion post trip and generally mindfuckyness of it. Doing a drug doesn't make it a "problem" People just often give higher value to sobriety mindstates by default. Even outside the realm of 5-MeO and how Leo describes it, it can do a lot for introspection. Also psychedelics were prominent in MANY cultures. A lot of stories can be traced back to drug use. I really wouldn't be surprised of Jesus achieved some realizations from drug use. Its not necessary to achieve it, but it will help you build a foundation to build upon quickly.

You know, I have always found it very weird that our language is very gender based. When I took my German course in high school I was baffled that inanimate objects had a gender assigned to them as well which just served to increase the language complexity. I remember talking to a friend who had met/researched some tribe that used living/nonliving in place of gender which at least to me makes more sense. Is it possible these people are so heavily caught up in gender and such references as identity on the sole idea our society and especially language is so caught up in differentiating people by gender/sex down to how you talk to them? I wonder where we would be at if it wasn't so heavily gender based.

I meant in terms of society as a whole. If people don't want to break this tether they'll never get rid of such a narrow construct. If they do, then you can acknowledge unlimited genders. I think with this people fear language getting too complex.

Leo mentioned evolution being intelligent and not completely random in his infinite intelligence video. He said he'd do a video on it using a ton of resources to cite. I too am interested in this.

Consciousness is just a word used for the most fundamental substance of everything. Notice when you go breaking down what something is you end up with energy in science. Slowly things break down until whats left? Nothing! For a fundamental substance to exist it must be able to take on the form of anything which is also nothing! Which it only is itself. Everything you are, consciousness has to be by extension. You are a manifested form of consciousness! An unknowable and undefinable substance! You won't be able to wrap your head around it entirely. You're using 2nd order to try and understand 1st order. The Kyballion (Teachings of hermetic philosophy) tries to explain this concept by calling it one big mind. Like your mind but much more infinite and powerful. You are a derivative of this all powerful mind. You can imagine a person in your head who thinks they are experiencing a physical reality. That person you imagine, you are in it, but it is far from you. It is merely a subset of you. If everything is some big mental creation then of course its illusory. Software without hardware. So when you die, its merely consciousness just manifesting in another form. Are you a human or something just perceiving the human experience unaware of what you actually are?

Father God Mother nature Those 2 phrases really shine the Yin Yang aspect of feminine and masculine.

Think of it this way. Consider the early days of the universe when life was just being formed. Do you think life since the get go could think? I would say not. So being comes before thought. Consciousness in the context of the mind is usually equated to self awareness. In a lot of nondual perspectives is used in the perspective of the most fundamental form of everything in which everything derives from. So your self awareness derives from consciousness itself. The thing that is doing the grasping is the exact thing you need to get.

If there is anything I can say about psychedelics that seems to be mutually agreed upon among many is that it at least strips societal conditioning. Ideas one holds on how things should be or should act. To question even the most standard things in society like attire etc. Makes you realize you were a robot the entire time. Its only until you have such a realization that the real work can begin. Psychedelics don't mean much if you can't implement what you learned in sobriety.

@Shin Those quotes really resonated with me.

You aren't the cause of their suffering. They cause their own suffering. By trying to project their own image of how you should be onto you instead of accepting the reality of who you actually are. If you want to maintain relations then personally I would just be neutral about everything. If they try to protest then ask them to let you spread your wings. That if their path truly is the right path for you, then you'll find such a path.

From what I know, the Big Bang only describes the expansion of the universe from a singularity. It does not describe any sort of origin or creation of matter. It was already there.

May be true for a certain demographic of women. Just find one that isn't that way.

Biological sex indeed is roughly black and white but you do have intersex which is just an all encompassing term for biological variation regarding sex. Although people don't like to acknowledge the inherent dynamic nature of life and shrug it off as a minority. Yes gender in this case is often used for how you express yourself. We as a culture has set features that make us more masculine or feminine. And you can slide along the spectrum between these. As far as I know gender has been considered an expression component of biological sex. I can understand feeling neither feminine or masculine but in terms of having genders outside of that spectrum we must define whether gender has some sort of correlation with biological sex or if its completely untethered.