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@Gabriel Joy There is a powerful mediation technique, that is both combines Shinzen Young's mindfulness (noting, labelling, and savoring sensory experience) with visualization. Basically, if you have developed your visualization to the point of being able to hold Yantras, and even mandalas easily in 3d, then what you do is progressively increase your perspectival field, not only to see from different points, but to see from wider ranges as well. Learning and life experiences also are supplementary to this powerful technique.

@DManKee I was an avid coke drinker in the past for about a decade and a half, and what I did to weed out the addiction, was I had a glass of water, most meals I had with coke, almost always a glass of water. I then gradually replaced coke with a diet coke or diet Pepsi, and just got used to the watered down taste, until eventually, I was able to kill of that addiction, and lost a lot of weight. Doing meditation and building that self awareness over time helps a lot too, and the best part was I suffered far less sore throats and colds, once to twice a year, like there was a strong correlation to soda drinks and frequent colds. Best alternative sweet for me is, honey and/or nectar syrup, for mixing with certain foods and drinks.

@JuliusCaesar So, so far from what I red, you're juggling your trip reports with Datura use, and lucid dreaming attempts, and developing siddhis/chakras, and maybe life purpose and other techniques? My intuition could be wrong, but it's feeling a bit dangerous if you're juggling all these. Maybe for example you are better off contemplating, while micro dosing Datura, and instead of waiting for a week, wait for 2 weeks or a month before the next use, and focus on contemplating on what you actually experienced inside the trip. Maybe copy Leo and write notes on posters or your phone about insights from the trip while safely tripping? It sounds like you're better off re-prioritizing exactly where you're time, energy and focus should be. It's all reminding me of when I was in high school. Couldn't be decisive, can't stick to one interesting field and I ended up hopping all over the place, leaping from subject to subject randomly while mostly playing video games and chess.

Correct, like spiral dynamics and the helix structure of societal development.

@Iesu Could you say, that in your experience so far with spirituality, this solipsism/nihilism is proof of evil?

@Carl-Richard You have to be smarter than that. Ask the OP for a down payment first, get him to guarantee to cover the insurance, medical and legal costs, and shipping and camera fee for the experiment, and sign a contract between you two to legitimize the experiment. Oh, get OP to hire a paid actress/actor for the victim part too. Otherwise, OP would leave you to fully pay for your part of the experiment, while OP plays ignorance and leaves you dealing with evil experiment on your own. If it's not contracted, it doesn't exist.

@JuliusCaesar Chamomile tea and lavender tea were effective on me. Just drinking lavender tea made me feel heavy around the eyes, and it was lights out for me. That night had a deep dream too, but whether it was from the lavender is questionable, all this when I brewed from the actual lavender leaves. But getting the herbal tea as a package already should be enough. Do give chamomile tea/ lavender tea a try. Autosuggetion was what I was referring to, but also those deep hypnosis sessions too, either solo or assisted by a hypnotist. Tried weed too for lucid dreaming? Smoked or liquid?

@bensenbiz Cryptocurrency is selflessness + creativity + tech? What about the volitile nature of cryptocurrency investing and scams? So basically speaking, the NFT non fungible tokens, which operates within cryptocurrency, is like an anarcho commune site in a communist state?

Latest video talks about Quantum theory, and the illusion of time. I suggest watching the whole vid before sharing your thoughts on the matter: https://youtu.be/r_fUPbBNmBw

@JuliusCaesar Have you also tried lavender tea/chamomile tea? Heard of Polyphasic sleeping? Basically unlike biphasic sleep(7-8hours) polyphasic involves including scheduled sleep patterns, nap times, and splitting one's sleep into chunks. There's also triphasic sleep as well. Have you also tried self hypnosis for lucid dreaming? Neuro feedback brain training? If I asked you which is more easier to access in your area, classic psychedelics or Datura(natural deliriants in this case like salvia), which class is it(without going into details as to how you got either)? Have you also tried salvia too?

@Apparition of Jack The first or second dose of Pfizer? What did you do to mqnage the heart soreness?

@Carl-Richard Very good gist of systems thinking. Has a 4x stratagy game feel to it.

@PepperBlossoms This is very interesting. Do you think there's some link between the heart palpitations and Pfizer?

Hello all! Yesterday I have gained some new materials to draw with. Today I share with you one of them, called willow charcoal. I tried the willow charcoal, and this what it looks like: The package of Willow charcoal, from a company called BOLDMERE, contains small, medium and large sized pieces (2 to 4 mm, 20pcs. 5 to 6 mm, 7pcs. 7 ti 8 mm, 3pcs. All together 30pcs). Product is made from specifically selected willow twigs. Prone to breakage, but each piece is usable. Perfect for sketching, outlining and block colouring, and suitable to be blended with paint and pastels to create a unique finish( gonna give this a try with my acrylic paint, watercolour paint and pastels). Typically charcoal is messy to work with, and willow charcoal is quite soft and a bit fragile to draw with. Also, willow charcoal is similar to the length of a pencil, but the difference is that the writing end is circular and flat rather than pointy like a pencil. Because of the shaping, I felt I needed to adjust my grips. I used over hand and under hand grips and modified tripod grips to negotiate with the flat circular end. The surface is loose, and when rubbed with the fingers or drawn on the paper, has a pleasant hollowed scratchy sound. The texture is soft and powdery to the touch, in fact when one uses a tortilion(rolled paper for smudging) or the finger to smudge, the willow charcoal is so soft and loose the smudging can easily erase not just the tone, but the outline of your drawing. I suggest using both a finger and tortilion to smudge, and to smudge while being in a drawing mindset, not a blending mindset, while being careful. The smudging really does erase some of the drawing! As you can see, in the right page, tbe middle to upper right section, is the darkest lines and areas I can go. I mainly did it by layering, hatching over lines, and increasing pressure, but I was careful not to go very firm with the pressure. As you can see, the material is so soft it can transfer the image of your drawing to another page, as you can see on the left page of my scetch book, that page was me doing a bunch of faces and eyes. When I saw how easily it can transfer, I thought about some ways of transferring sketches I did of previous works to other papers using willow charcoal. Overall, I suggest not to go in with a perfectionist mind, as creating fine lines is a bit difficult, and sometimes smudging can erase some lines. My thinking and feeling when going in perfectionistic was less happiness, security, confidence and creativity, and more negative feelings like feeling judgemental with my drawing, annoyed, frustrated and worried about ruining the drawing. Go in with a beginner mindset, similarly to using pencil, and instead look forward to creating a mess. Personally, my mood and feelings were effected when I see and experience grey colours, and overall I didn't feel as excited as I thought I'd be, and sometimes the grey tones make me feel slightly bored, lazy, just slightly apathy, however I was using a new material which did make me feel excited enough to draw with. Unless you international want this, I don't think that drawing willow charcoal only from start to finished image is enough, it's doable, but I think mixing willow charcoal with different mediums can be very exciting, which is what my intuition is saying to me. I also have two other materials I have purchased and am practicing with, trying to understand through practice. Hopefully you feel motivated enough to give willow charcoal a try. See you next time.

@JuliusCaesar That's interesting to hear. my sleep tends to be mostly 7-8, sometimes 6 or 9-10 depending on mental/physical stress. Huperzine A and Galantamine are both nootropics, and Huperzine A has a very long half life, like 12-18 hours, while Galantamine is much shorter. Both are associated with greater learning and memory capacity, which I think has to do with how they inhibit cholinesterase. Have you tried supplementing with melatonin, or foods like honey or cherries for your sleep, or drank teas like chamomile or lavender tea? The video provided is for the throat chakra. I thought maybe stimulating either the crown or Ajna chakra might be more in line with lucid dreaming as the dreaming is more biopsychological towards the head/brain than the throat.

@machinegun Ok, so what are you going to do about it?

Not a plant I'd mess around with as Datura has time and memory distorting effects on one's astral and energy body, with some physical effects, but if you fully know what you are doing, and what you want from Datura, I'll say best of luck with future dealings with Datura. Have you also tried micro dosing psychedelics while attempting your lucid dreaming procedure? Nootropics for your sleep and lucid dreaming? Even supplements while preparing for your lucid dreaming? Keep a dream journal too? Do you sleep 7-8 hours even? @JuliusCaesar

@bloomer Have you also taken notes on the getting laid videos too? Noting them down tends to make them less complicated, and the note taking process helps with mentally integrating the information, such that later on the theory is easier to apply and makes them less complicated. Don't forget to take notes and question for yourself. Really put yourself at higher value and talk about yourself a lot. Also, while talking about yourself, don't forget, for every question you ask her, make 2 observational statements and 1 funny statement about her. Too much asking questions makes the whole thing feel like an interview. You can treat her as if your familiar with her, but not as a friend, as a sexual interest. Treat her like a friend if you want to be friend zoned yourself fast! Is your voice a common problem? Go do vocal exercises for singing and projection, learn to speak from a lower larynx and work on having a good melodic range. Having a shaky voice is a minus for a woman and a sign of neediness and fear auditorily speaking. Women on average like to hear and feel a man more than see a man to check them out. Working on that voice and physical escalation is gonna give you a bigger advantage over other men who don't work on their voices and escalations. Those two greatly increases your attraction value.

I've got my first Pfizer vaccine a month ago, and am due a second one a couple of weeks later. What I've experienced in the first shot is not just soreness or slight fever pains, but irregular heart palpitations. Has anyone here felt irregular heart palpitations taking the vaccine? Does anyone know what to do to minimize this risk? Has anyone also taken a booster and experienced any side effects? I'm considering taking the booster for omicron if available, but I don't want to develop a heart condition from these.

@KingCrimson Those are pretty good resources for getting into kriya yoga.

@bloomer Pick a place you're familiar with when arranging a date. You want to be able to lead her around from place to place and talk about yourself a bit, stories that involved you and those places, even if those stories are embellished or full bullshido, in those stories tells her what kind of man you are in general. Don't be afraid to puff yourself a bit, and make those tales a bit emotional as well, not too over the top or dramatic. I also suggest you watch all of Leo's videos on dating, and the three part how to get laid series. Worth a watch through. Also, consider training your subconscious mind, like doing lots of visualizations and positive affirmations about being social, being a player and so on. Self hypnosis is also good as well. Do those exercises until you fully believe in yourself that you are social and worth dating. Fully believe you are worth socializing and dating, as this really puts you into the right state for the interaction. Have fun with your date!

For those of you that have followed so far, there's a channel that discusses what Tulpa are and how to develop one implicitly. I suggest to watch the whole series and videos to be familiar. This is what it might look like to intentionally develop one. Also has paralells with psychology, energies, entities and the supernatural, and also spirituality.

I haven't gotten my second Pfizer dose yet and now the latest version of the covid virus is starting it's wave. What's the minimum time between the second dose and the booster for the omicron variant? If there's a time period I have to wait for the booster, I'll wait until my body settles down with the vaccine first, because I felt a few side effects of the vaccine like irregular heart palpitations.

Good job on Destiny's part in keeping it cool and managing his side of the discussion. Jake, the corn cob guy, for some reason really hates Destiny and it shows in this entire debate about managing one's online community. The Moderator for this discussion is biased to Jake, but Destiny keeps a decent job in managing them both. https://youtu.be/n-PHbg7bx3U

@Carl-Richard 1. I'll be looking forward to reading that future thread on systems thinking. 2. It's possible to out grow adolescent emotional neglect, and to some degree childhood emotional neglect with some inner work involved. However, some emotional baggage that is too large or too traumatic, I can agree that it'll be very difficult to out grow that without more available resources. 3. I think it depends on the cognitive, moral, life experiences and personality type, and ego development of the person. In particular, emotional development or EQ of that individual. I just see that different personality types that have logic as part of the typing will struggle in different aspects of their emotion. Trauma, cultural identity, social identity and difference in masculine : feminine spectrum are also factors that can decrease emotional range. In particular, those who have degrees of psychopathy/sociopathy also internalize and express emotions more limited than the average person.