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Absolutely, but consider the effects on establishing the prevalence/incidence of the disease in a population particularly when applying this test to those who are purportedly asymptomatic cases, or labelled as such.

It is possible to detect RNA fragments from other viruses which may be the same base sequence but are known to be not exclusive to the SARS-Cov-2 virus ie the false positive test. Heres some info on this: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30453-7/fulltext The clinical behaviour in Trumps case, if what we have been told is accurate, would suggest he has the real McCoy.

We live in interesting times. What is often overlooked is what is meant by "testing positive" for the virus and this has not been clarified in Trumps case. If the diagnosis has been made on a RT-PCR test of a nasopharyngeal swab this means viral RNA has been detected but doesn't tell us if this simply means fragments of RNA are present, or if he has whole virus present which would confirm active infection. The assumption made is if symptoms are present along with a positive test then covid-19 virus is the cause which may or may not be the case but the clinical behaviour will reveal if the assumption is valid. Culturing the virus is the acid test but this takes time to perform, and antibodies which are also confirmatory do not develop until 1-2 weeks after infection begins.

Of course that everything stated above is rather pointless if your intention by using the word Mind with capital letter was to refer to a certain meta concept of mind. Please clarify. By the way, I am thrilled to hear how did you experience Brahman. Yours, Batman I like this post. Something I have noted which relates to the quote within the quote- the infant lacks language as the absent mind faculty. If you pay very very close attention you can discern that the voice in your head which we typically label as "thought" is associated with micro-movements of the tongue (and also the vocal apparatus-but this is harder to detect) which are a miniaturised version of the corresponding movements which are made when the "thought words" are uttered aloud. This becomes much more apparent if you think the words, then think them again with the tip of the tongue opposed to the roof of the mouth, and then think them once further with the tip of the tongue protruding between ones lips- you can note a subtle but clear difference between how the thought "sounds" between these 3 states. It would seem that this component of mind only exists because we are kind of mumbling to ourselves constantly. This may also explain how trying to anticipate ones next thought can produce a period of absent mind chatter, until one starts mumbling to one self again.

Thanks for clearing that up. That explains why I pissed the bed this morning.

Psychedelics are mis-represented on this forum; their utility is unquestionable but is not unlimited. IME, DMT confirms ideas about eyes and the theory of visual perception are way of the mark when it comes to "seeing", and 5 MeO DMT confirms that the self is an activity. This is at breakthrough and full release doses respectively. Anything more than that is unwarranted conceptualisation and presents significant risks of misleading.

When @Nahm 's posts have you no longer thinking "WTF is this guy on about?"

DMT HCl? You have no idea what you are talking about. DMT HCl is not stable in solution. This is the reason why DMT Fumarate is the preferred prep for IVing, as per the Strassman trial and more recent work at UCL.

If you needed 3 inhalations to have the full release then your technique needs work; the freebase oil pipe is very variable in how it delivers unless you are very proficient in its use, whilst being alert to the fact that different freebases behave very differently in the pipe. 20mg is a very heavy dose to casually suggest to another; should it be the case that the person you suggested this dose to was to have a "lucky" (or unlucky) blast and got the 20mg in one breath they would probably not thank you for it. It could be at best just a whiteout, or at worst a very damaging experience. This site is too casual in some of the advice given when it comes to psychedelics. Harm reduction seems low in its list of priorities.

Dangerous advice- this ^^ is in response to someone using an oil burner pipe to smoke freebase 5 MeO DMT. People have been seriously mentally traumatised by 20mg vaporized properly. 20mg IF vaporized optimally would be less than one full inhalation for most people. Maybe working on ones vaporization technique would be better for ones mental state and stash, rather than half-assing it as per the above advice.

Chill, boss. (!!)

Again, you are defining; but you know that, right? This forum is entertaining.

Is the 5 MeO DMT "experience" enlightenment, or is it enlightenment as defined by Leo? You have only the stories of the Buddha to derive any conclusions from, don't you? I do agree though- Neo Advaitans present a disingenuous picture.

My wording was "as subjectively real", not "more realistic". Your question implies only 2 possibilities. There are IME certain factors which have a bearing on the experience- these include dosage, rate of delivery, whether one has music playing, what ones intention for tripping is, and any subtle expectations. What unfolds can have a coherence which makes sense at the time ie some constancy with "sensible" evolution. At higher dosages this breaks down and it becomes incoherent yet not abstract/trippy-visualesque at all- one gets short-lived flashes of ultra-HD images which are like 4K photos of the real world and can be of the most mundane subject matter, yet are utterly immersive. 45mg of DMT using a convection device if taken in one breath will produce this kind of effect. This is potentially very traumatic and not recommended, and also should cause one to raise ones eyebrows when reading reports of DMT trips of 40+mg which discuss insights and the like. Poor technique would be the explanation.

Thank goodness someone made this qualification.

A breakthrough dose of vaporized DMT will result in the construction of a world more intricate but as subjectively real as the world we usually inhabit, even with eyes closed. The metaphysical implications of this are intriguing but remain speculative.

Insights in the immediate post-trip integration phase could be described as rambling, incoherent or shocking. Others failure to understand should not be an issue if these are "Truth" and thus irrefutable. Have faith in your capacity to convey, and perhaps credit the listeners a bit more. Wouldn't it be more accurate to say "I don't put much stock any more in the reports of the awakenings of other teachers/humans" because the stock is based on reports only? Your access is thus limited, is it not? To conclude "childs play" on this basis? Hmmm. Seeing things- lots of people have seen things and very likely more so than Leo, but they don't make a living out of deriving conclusions which may or may not be accurate, or complete, from whats been seen. But credit where its due- a fine business model undoubtedly. As in all things being offered, discernment needs cultivating or wishful thinking will reign.

Work on your snorting technique. The drip suggests you are inhaling with too much enthusiasm.

I personally do not find it to be that bad at all. The discomfort does however last longer than a few seconds; I would describe it as similar to inadvertently getting some white pepper powder up the nose.

No but I am a qualified physician with a particular interest in neurology. Alpha and beta waves on the EEG refer to the frequencies of the spikes on the trace in terms of Herz and have nothing to do with alpha and beta in the way that Elliot Hulse uses them. There is no correlation whatever.

Wisdom.

You assume more than perhaps you care to admit. Could you perhaps be assuming that it is possible to communicate, in language, and in a "linear" fashion (ie the minds operating system) that which cannot be communicated? If it was possible to do so, then we wouldn't need to do any work, or psychedelics would we? And we could all go home awakened. Also note, for what it is worth, the utterance "x is imaginary" only became a thing in the threads in this forum after Leos use of the phrase. It could be right, or not, but note how attachments to the phrase have developed. This work requires one to be grounded and to experience how the mind will seize on to these while denying it is doing so.

Perhaps qualifying this statement with "in your experience" might make it reasonable. So is imagining a necessity, and what makes it so?

May I offer some unsolicited advice? One thing I have learned from using psychedelics many times, at varying doses and almost always alone, is that it takes real wisdom and nuance to extract the best that these tools have to offer. They are seductive, beguiling and wholly capable of seeding wishful narratives which can endure and then need deconstructing before allowing real progress. The fact/observation that many who are better versed than me in these matters had enduring awakenings by LEAVING these tools behind should give pause for thought. 5 MeO DMT may be an outlier in this regard but that remains to be seen. "Naïve Realism" towards the experiences it offers, despite the magnitude of these experiences (ie concretizing the insights gained as Ultimate Truth)- seems simplistic and a little "wishful" , and with the amount of 5 MeO DMT/B Alvarius venom users out there, wouldn't it be wise to note that reports of enduring awakening as a result are not plentiful?

The waveforms on an EEG do not measure consciousness or tell anything about the degree of cluttered thinking; the most "beta" guy could make his EEG show "alpha" waves by sitting quietly with eye closed. Your conflation of neurophysiology and reproductive psychology is not accurate.