Singularity8

I had a huge spiritual awakening when I quit smoking too! I read the book "The Easy Way to Stop Smoking" by Alan Carr (Highly recommend) And it was like it unlocked the nature of addiction in my mind and all of the sudden I could see it everywhere and from there I had epiphany after epiphany and everything in life clicked together and made sense. I was elated and tingly in my forehead for about 2 months and then I went back to being normal but wiser. The key take away though, is that addiction is self deception. My mind created a narrative that I enjoyed smoking so that I would feed it niccotine, but the truth was that niccotine made me anxious all of the time, and smoking would make me feel normal temporarily until the anxiety to smoke would build up again and I'd smoke again to feel "normal". Non-smokers feel the "normal" feeling ALL THE TIME. It's funny because it inverts on you. At first the cigarettes feel good and relaxing but eventually you become anxious and the cigarettes just bring you a moment of normal. That's it. And it is that way for any addiction. At first it starts out with some sort of positive feeling, but eventually you feel like shit all of the time and you need it to feel normal. Crazy right? It is all just lies to your self when you think "the cigarette relaxes me" No. It doesnt. It makes you anxious all of the time in a way that the non smoker never experiences.

You put psychedelics here for a reason. They are a useful tool for escaping the mental prison we exist in. Not "drugs" in the sense that society has brainwashed people into believing are an evil thing. In my opinion Leo is one of the clearest people I have seen though I'm sure he has some delusion like me and everyone else. He does tend to presume his viewers are of a certain spiritual level and perspective which can come across as him being narrow minded. Being told "you have to meditate for 40 years to experience this" when I have experienced it and I have barely meditated 6 months is presumptuous. But I don't mind. He seemed very excited about his experience and insights in his last video and I think that is wonderful. He is the only person besides myself I have ever seen brought to tears by the absolute perfect beauty that is creation so I can relate to him in this video. He seems great to me!

Colorado! Denver metro area. It would be SO NICE to have a friend who was into this stuff!