TheAlchemist

Very interested. No need to start a circus by talking to him, l am super curious what would happen but that's probably just my brain craving for some drama entertainment or something.

I bet Daniel Schmachtenberger would be totally open to a conversation especially at this time. His new media/education nonprofit platform consilienceproject.org just launched in its pilot phase, so I'm pretty sure he is also looking to talk to people with an audience to raise awareness for that. I'm sure you could talk about basically anything though. Neither of you have a podcast, but it would still probably take off and get traction even as a one off chat.

I think it's possible since you first melt the dmt into the mesh with a few short clicks so it should be stuck there, but there's no struggle with keeping it just at 0 degrees vertical. You simply put your mouth on the mouthpiece, click a button and inhale. You can get a curved driptip (mouthpiece) that is longer so saliva won't be an issue at all.

Yes, I can confirm this method is an absolute beast. You can inhale a full breakthrough dose with 1-2 inhales simply pressing a button. For me the smoke still stings in the lungs but it's not really harsh. No hassle with open flames, hot pipes, efficient vaporization and it makes exact dosing easy. Make sure to get a long driptip so the vapor has even more time to cool down. I tried gordotek method, crack pipes etc. before this and it was always a hassle and wasted a lot of material. Once you get this method set up, you are just a click away from hyperspace Feel free to ask me if you have any questions.

This. Paul is also quite the 5-meo connoisseur, in Aubrey Marcus' podcast he talked about something like 100 5-meo breakthroughs he has been through. He just doesn't talk about that too much, but maybe with Leo he could find some common ground to talk about it.

Why are aliens so interested especially in the USA? To me this mostly sounds like another case of Muricans fantasy of thinking they are the center of the world and not realizing they are 4.25% of earths population. When intelligence agencies around the whole world in Japan, Russia, Germany, France, Congo, Uzbekistan, Argentina etc. start coming out making these reports I will take it more seriously.

One thing that confuses me about spiral dynamics is that it implies that development at the collective level is non-linear, as in the scale of time it takes for a new level to appear is shorter and shorter. For example: Stage purple: 50,000 years old Stage red: 15,000 years old Stage blue: 5000 years old Stage orange: 300 years old Stage green: 50 years old Stage yellow: >50 years old Stage turqoise: >50 years old Why do we all of a sudden have new stages popping up within a few hundred years (or less) from each other, when before it took thousands of years? Are we just being modernity centric here, overly focusing on modern times as being somehow special, or does the emergence of new levels facilitate faster emergence of yet new levels, making it non-linear? These new stages emerging faster and faster would imply that collectively humanity is developing in a non-linear, almost exponential way. But yet the general consensus is that it will take at least hundreds, maybe thousands of years for humans to shift significantly as a collective to tier-2 for example. But doesn't that imply a linear growth pattern? What if there are certain thresholds we break through collectively, which allow faster and faster development? That would change our assumptions quite a bit.

Abundance mindset vs. Scarcity mindset perhaps?

Great points, thanks. Population growth surely is part of a positive feedback loop. It keeps going until a "competing" stabilizing or negative feedback loop gains more momentum and slows it down. This is the case with all positive feedback loops if space or resources are limited. Once they gain momentum, they usually grow non-linearly until they reach saturation, or are overtaken by another loop. So assuming that the same would apply to collective human development, we will eventually see rapid growth and some kind of saturation point. Will this point be a collapse or a transcendence? It's just very interesting to think about.

My point is the same regardless. Why did it take 110,000 years for the next stage to emerge from beige to purple, but only 20 years from yellow to turqoise?

Yes that makes sense. And in the same way that we couldn't have predicted how these new enablers (like the internet) will change opportunities for development, we probably can't really know what the future enablers will be. What will be the next enabler at the same magnitude or more than the internet? Who knows, some personalized AI algorithm optimizating for nutrition, spiritual practices, psychedelic use and teaching epistemology based on environment, genetics etc. could quite quickly result in massive breakthroughs where vast amounts of people start developing much faster than ever before. I'm just not so convinced we can predict at the collective level how these developmental stages will unfold, and especially when they will unfold. Since it seems like a non-linear process, there could be rapid breakthroughs so that it won't take hundreds or thousands of years. Maybe it's like solving/filling in a puzzle, the beginning is the most difficult, but it gets easier the more we fill in the pieces, until at the end, progress is extremely rapid.

You mean Connor Murphy? He didn't train after about a week in due to the weakness

The earth is not in danger, and no serious climate scientist or systems thinker who is working on these issues is suggesting that. This is mostly a threat to the stability of human civilization. How resilient are we if a well expected pandemic stopped growth for many years? If one ship was able to stop a massive portion of world trade probably for weeks? How well are we prepared for much deadlier pandemics, more harsh hurricanes, droughts, mass environmental migration and flooding of highly urbanized coastal areas? Sure we will probably solve these things in the long run, but rather sooner than later, with minimal human suffering. This requires many tranformations within our societal systems, which we are all a part of.

For that to be true, at least the following assumptions would also have to be true: A) Neanderthals had significantly higher IQ that homo sapiens B) The genes that enable higher IQ were genetically transferred to humans from Neanderthals in significant amounts and they are affecting cognition in humans. Those are some highly shaky assumptions, whereas the assumptions about how the differences can be explained by sociological and geographical reasons are way stronger. So it's not impossible, but it's not really plausible either, so I don't see any reason to go creating these hypotheses in that direction, unless there is a vested interest to "prove" some races "superiority" over another or some other divisive motive.. And it doesn't require much thinking to realize how that kind of behavior is problematic for society and humanity's progression.

Nice, seems very legit. I love that there is truly a global perspective in the topics of the videos, great relief from all the USA-centric content that the internet is flooded with. The first one seems fresh, cheers mate.

What are some podcasts/youtube channels/other sources that analyze current geopolitical affairs in the world with a nuanced, perhaps even integral/holistic perspective?

Beautiful and fun game, I'm not totally convinced of all the wide-reaching benefits though. The only major effect I notice outside the playing is that my mind starts contantly imagining chess moves when trying to sleep, meditate or concentrate. If I play a lot of chess, my monkey mind goes crazy obsessively trying to somehow solve these chess patterns that appear in my mind.

For me it's an easy choice, just think about how many unknown variables you are introducing to your body system. Even though we have no evidence that Teflon is toxic to humans in the amounts it used in pans, it is still good to follow the principle of reducing unknown variables, just like with inorganic/organic food.

All I can say is I find both Metta and Kriya to be very powerful techniques in regards to affecting my awareness, most techniques don't affect me anywhere near as quickly. I would experiment with that for a few months and then re-evaluate

Vaping DMT is enough horror for me lol Very interesting point, never had the desire to watch horror movies after starting shadow work and taking psychedelics. I think meditating on the experience of fear that arises from horror movies and accepting it could be useful.

how long have you been doing it?

I can vouch for this too. My second strongest (after 30mg dmt) mystical experience was on a high dose of cannabis after having not smoked for almost a year. Stronger that many shroom or LSD trips. The effects have been very different after getting into spirituality than they were 5 years ago when I smoked quite often. I have no problem classifying Cannabis (sativa) as a psychedelic now, whereas before it wasn't really psychedelic at all for me. It just shows how much intention and prior context matters, I'm willing to believe that for some people small-moderate doses of shrooms are probably not even really psychedelic because they don't have that context to hold them in. But of course it probably also has to do with the unique chemistry of the individual using it etc. so probably it isn't like this for everyone. I think Terence McKenna had an interesting perspective: the best way to use Cannabis is to do it rarely, but when you do it take a massive dose.

In these conversations about gluten I usually don't see people taking into account the highly promising benefits of feeding the gut microbiome. It has been demonstrated that many healthy bacteria strains in the gut can be fed with rye especially well, since it has a really good slow digestion profile and it it is broken down almost through the whole length of the intestinal tract feeding different bacteria along the way. The intestinal tract is basically as diverse as a rainforest, and if you don't feed the bacteria that keep the system in balance, unexpected consequences might happen, which we are have just in recent years begun to understand. Overall if you don't have celiac disease or other gluten sensitivity, the net effect from high quality rye seems to be quite positive. Thesis= gluten good Antithesis=gluten bad Synthesis=gluten in some forms and in certain cases bad, sometimes good and healthy. Before the last decade the power of the microbiome wasn't understood anywhere near as well (especially how it affects brain function), and that aspect is changing our understanding of the body system quite significantly. It's quite a new aspect of consideration in regards to human health optimization, but many people (understandably) want to cling to the old paradigm where the role of the microbiome wasn't understood.

I have found that weed is quite a powerful psychedelic for me now after having used psychedelics. Many years ago, before using other psychs it had a very different effect on me compared to now. I would bet that if someone like Leo who has tripped extensively tried a strong sativa, he would have a powerful psychedelic experience from it. But I could be wrong