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Using long-term health effects of cigarettes and comparing them to psychs are apples and oranges. Two completely different things. Classical psychs like Mushrooms and LSD are among the most physiologically safe compounds for the brain, more-so than even coffee, which a healthy individual can use regularly for years.

While he has gone deep in psychedelics, they wont transform your worldview if you are stuck in stage orange metaphysics. He has been very stubborn with scientific thinking in the past. When he had a guest on who spoke on the philosophy of science, stating the limits of science and rationality he got very defensive and noticeable frustrated. Defending public image is hard, but its not something thats mandatory. Its a personal choice to sacrifice public image for truth and open minded discussion. Thats his decision if he cares about authenticity or what the public thinks of him. Whether the mind blown noise was for show or not is irrelevant, and we don't know his true feelings in that moment.

I think this would be ideal first, Aubrey is a highly open and vulnerable guy, and have always seen him extremely gracious to his guests, and is more immersed in spiritual topics in general than Joe.

When I watched the clip and Rashad was saying that he realized others were him, Joe made a noise like he was blown away, but as with most people, he probably did not think that point could be expanded upon. Don't think asking about training was dodging it per say, I don't think Joe would know how to carry on that discussion, hes still in the materialist metaphysics. Leo on that show would be a highly interesting cultural phenomenon. The tricky part is imo, listening to a lot of Joe Rogan in the past, maybe he's gotten better, but when his core beliefs are challenged, he can get very adversarial and closed minded, even rude to the guest, and sometimes he takes his comedy shtick way too far in the most serious moments of discussion which totally undercuts the guest and throws them off. Leo would have to be highly highly skilled in maneuvering all those things, which I think he is capable of being for sure, but might be more challenging than one would think.

Starts 3:35 Even though this is just a comedy bit this has rung true my experience of once a relationship, the sexual demand starts to flip progressively between the genders.

In one of Eckhart Tolle's talks he recounts an experience of trying acid after other people telling him about it, and he must've taken a very low dose, because he only describes colors, sounds, other sensations being slightly enhanced and nothing else. He was basically saying its not necessary in order to experience presence while alluding to how most people are so out of touch with the present moment which is is why they peg LSD as so profound. He did not discourage its use though, certainly would not think he groups it with alcohol, which he has talked about being used to "fall below thought". Still though, Eckhart did not fully explore the realm of what psychedelics have to offer by just dabbling his feet in the water with LSD. Probably had no desire to ever do it again after concluding it was just a sensory enhancer. Can't know for sure though.

Nice, this is the underlying emotion behind anger.

First step is to stop moralizing about cheating. You dreamed that because there is a part of you that loves sex and wanted another sexual experience. And your subconscious acted that out, just accept it was a wonderful experience that deep down you loved, or else you wouldn't have dreamt about having sex with another woman. Its important to be completely honest. No did that have anything to do with breaking your partners trust? No, its something that didn't even happen in the realm of reality where you have a partner, and its something you didn't consciously choose to experience. Your subconscious did it because what you resist persists. You can't bury your emotions. But you need to be mature enough to realize how you did nothing "wrong" and this dream experience gave you pleasure that had nothing to do with deceiving or cheating on your partner.

Hope you continue to grow and have an amazing life journey, much love

Your experience on the psychedelic totally reflects your personal mindset and intentions entering the trip. You don't have to worry about your trip being "shallow" like what you assume its like when others use it to just get high if you personally have a set, strong intention to be more conscious than that. Its wondering and questioning everything deeply while tripping vs only admiring the visual or auditory changes that produce a euphoria (maybe). Nothing wrong with admiring what the "other knobs' are doing like Leo put it in the psych video today, but mainly focusing on the primary consciousness knob.

As a college student with only a couple semesters left after this one before graduation, my classes are getting more demanding and the scientific/rationalist/academic paradigm is being forced fed more and more, especially in a mandatory research class I have to take. In this critical inquiry class (referring to Kinesiology) Ontology and Epistemology are brought up but misrepresented greatly. My assignments are requiring me to play into that paradigm in order to get a good grade, which limits my authenticity of expressing my true thoughts on the matter. How can I balance having to jump through these hoops while staying authentic to my true self? Place less importance on grades and just get the most practical technical knowledge for the future as I can? Or jump through the hoops to get the best grades possible while waiting out graduation, knowing in the background this is only a temporary thing I have to deal with?

This AMSR stuff is quite interesting, did not know much about it at all. I guess it doesn't effect me since I haven't experienced anything pleasurable from the noises. Still such an unexplored phenomenon.

This channel is really practical because it not only exposes a lot of the hidden toxic ingredients in labels and what to look for but he goes into different grocery stores to examine the latest products on the shelves to make your own shopping more informed and easier.

The problem here is you are carrying guilt about morality, that your sex dream was somehow "cheating on your gf" which is a total fantasy. You are guilting yourself over something that just played out in the subconscious mind in a dream, just let it go and realize the unnecessary suffering that directing your mental energy there is.

@Leo Gura@Serotoninluv @remember @Nahm @electroBeam Appreciate the advice, all helpful @Serotoninluv That seems like the most worthwhile college course of all time. I would actually spend the expected hours to study for one class by the college on that one and then some. I have been doing personal training for a couple years and am in school for kinesiology, I have developed a pretty good holistic understanding of the body and nutrition especially with improving peoples movement quality and coaching others. The only reason I would go to grad school is to be a physical therapist, but I was told by a holistic chiropractor first hand he would not advise wasting all that time and money to be a physical therapist because people who don't have doctorate degrees can know more about the body and help people just as much if not more than them. So I am looking to somehow transcend personal training, and stay in the health/fitness/wellness world while not being even forced deeper in the paradigm in grad school.

You need to adjust your taste buds to nutrient dense, healthy foods without anything processed. Organic and whole. Clean out your gut, exercise, fast daily for at least 12 hours and eventually Mcdonalds will taste like shit to you (your body will start to realize how processed and dead that food is)

Thank you, appreciate the feedback. Doing them in silent darkness I know will be a challenge for me, but its probably what I need more than being distracted by a bunch of things in the environment. Hope your trip goes well, it sounds like an ideal combo for doing it in silent darkness. The MDMA should help open your heart up to pure love while the mushrooms do their work.

It’s been less than 24 hours and it’s already hard to remember all the intricate details of my mushroom experience yesterday, but I will try my best to recall as many details as I can Set: Calm mind for the most part, had tripped on 1g of Psilocybe Cubensis 2 days prior. Some background anxiety and fear (about life in general) going on but not pronounced. Was unsure of how 2g would affect me since of potential tolerance to my recent mild dose which only brought about subtle trip effects, mainly a body high with a slightly trippy headspace. Setting: Secluded beach north of San Francisco, near Point Reyes National Seashore. No crowds of people here, empty for the most part since it is so far off the main drag. Intention: -Be more present during the deep parts of the trip -Question the mushroom more, be more open to new answers -Become conscious of how reality is being constructed -Transcend my everyday thinking patterns that cause unwanted suffering *Times are rough estimates mostly: 3:00pm- Dosed the mushrooms in the car before arriving at the beach, 2 whole dried mushrooms weighing roughly 1g each, with a ginger tablet for digestion. The mushroom taste never bugs me like others report. It doesn’t taste good per say, but I have no problem chewing them thoroughly. Set up a towel with some snacks on the beach by some sand dunes. 3:30pm- Was walking near the ocean with my bare feet, I began to feel weird sensations in my body. The wind felt very strong blowing by the water, I began to feel uncomfortably cold, with a little background anxiety coming on. Really was focusing on deep nasal breathing which calmed me a bit. When I walked further inland to my towel, it was the opposite, no winds, just extreme silence, this transition was borderline overwhelming for my psyche knowing the mushrooms hadn’t really started to kick in fully yet. 4:00pm- Walked up on the sand dunes behind my towel, peed by some bushes, I remember I started having thoughts about what my “story” would be writing my trip report later. I would think how I would most accurately recall this experience into words to express it best I could. Then I started feeling guilty about this. I started feeling guilty thinking about the forum, like I was “confusing the map for the territory” I began thinking and saying outloud “fuck that shit” over and over and just desperately wanted to be present and forget everything else. Problem is I couldn’t do this. This was a prevailing theme for the trip, that my ego mind, identification with my thoughts, could not silence. 4:30pm- Laid down on my beach towel, and started becoming so thankful and appreciative about the emotional difficulty and background fears I had just faced during the come up phase. I was like “thank you so much” saying out loud, feeling like this was the mushrooms gift to me, making me stronger this way. So I layed back on my towel, put my arm over my eyes and started to watch the fractal patterns. Every time I eat mushrooms I see the SAME PATTERNS! Mechanical fractals, almost flower-like, spiraling and transforming in the blackness. Almost a faint gold color. The weird thing is, after my first time noticing these on mushrooms, I can see them in my day to day life with my eyes closed if I focus hard enough, although they are extremely elusive. When tripping, they just become extremely pronounced and even project on to surfaces, such as becoming tattoos all over my skin during previous trips. Anyway, back to the current experience. As I layed with my eyes closed watching, I felt no fear, and was thinking about how this beautiful psychedelic imagery is something I love so much and am intrigued so deeply by, but at the same time am usually fearful to be present with and observe. Why? I think my ego is always scared of getting sucked in too deeply. I suddenly open my eyes to look at the beach, and I become overwhelmed with the transition to the external scenery. I began to feel fear when I checked the time and realized it was only an hour and a half after dosing, and it had felt like so much longer. Again I return to my breath and my vision starts to slowly adjust to the bright sunlight. 5:00pm- I began contemplating a sea dollar I found. I was questioning how the flower-like pattern could be there, so symmetrically placed. It seemed so much like a human design, but yet it was completely untouched by man. I was thinking “what is this” over and over. 5:30pm- This is when I entered the deepest levels of consciousness. The sun started setting and began walking toward it on the beach, again barefoot, feeling the cold energy of the earth. I started questioning my life purpose. I wanted to communicate with the mushroom, like Terrence Mckenna had always talked about. In the background I knew this is just communication to my higher self. I began thinking questions in my mind, almost pleading for answers, “what is my life purpose”? I heard nothing. “Why can’t you tell me what my future holds?” And I just waited for a split second trying to be as open as I could to a higher answer. And boom, I got a sudden “download” along the lines of “If you knew your path already, there would be no point of life playing out. That's the whole point and beauty of life, not knowing what the future holds but having it play out organically as time goes on”. Then this is when words can’t describe what I was feeling, I didn’t feel like a human anymore, I was contemplating so deeply what reality was and how it was being constructed, and I got another download “You don’t know anything at all”. And I just accepted that. I just felt like such a limited, finite animal being. I felt so limited in my human body, almost like a primitive caveman. All the dualities of animal and human went out the window. From here the trip got less intense, but overall it left me with way more questions than answers. I couldn’t transcend my ego mind at all. I never entered a deep fear or state of panic, but it was like all my subtle background fears in life were pronounced and I couldn’t enter a state of peace or bliss. While I know I shouldn’t get down in the dumps about this, it's hard not to feel a little disappointed in myself that I was such a slave to my negative thoughts. I know the answer here is loving myself more, as much as an uphill battle as that seems at times. There was so much profundity in my deepest state staring at the sunset, but trying to capture what I was feeling in this report seems futile. So many details have left my mind already, but I feel it was the closest I ever came to transcending my human form. Maybe I just wasn’t ready for the next level of higher understanding. Heres some pictures of my scenery during the trip: Didn't take these, found them on the web. Was too busy in the trip to take pictures or work my phone. Up on the dunes, my towel was just below the hill on the beach side: Sunset (almost exactly how it looked yesterday) when I was standing by the shore looking at it and questioning deeply:

Make the distinction of "physical sensations" such as feeling things, and those feelings "originating from the body". The ladder is an additional thing that is assumed as obvious but is a separate process that you are adding on top of the feelings. All you know for sure is that there are sensations present in awareness. Notice how reality is not following your body, you have never left reality ever. Reality is always right where you are, and this doesn't mean its just because of a physical location of the body. Thats mistaking correlation for causation. My best advice is don't expect to get it immediately. You have to really contemplate it a lot.

The thought that you reside behind the eyes in the head area is just a deeply instilled cultural belief. Really think about it deeply, how is it possible that "you" are physically located there? Why would you be physically confined to that area? How do you know that you are the body? Be honest, you don't know what you are and how you were created, how you got here, and thats the first step to true discovery, admitting you don't know and what you believed you were your whole life were merely beliefs.

I've had insane dreams the last 2 nights after tripping, like more dreams than usual, more vivid, better recall, and seeming like one night of sleep felt like an entire month or something, can anyone else relate?

Having less sex compared to when? 5 years ago? 10? 20? Also how less of sex are men having and how do people keep track of this? Is this true for a self actualizing male, or just true for the average man who probably doesn't take care of himself physically, mentally and spiritually? I think the ladder. Maybe the rise of the internet and so a lot of men just stay at home on the computer all day gaming or what not, compared to 20 years ago when that wasn't a thing. Or maybe the economy and how much more young people need to work and go to class and that takes over their lives, leaving less time for pursuing sex? Just ideas.

Great points. One can intuitively grasp (like Leos latest video) there is an equality in male and female "privilege" or no privileges either way depending on which perspective you look at it. Making it seem like there is an imbalance from side to side is a partial perspective. Hopefully If people are getting any value out of that video its that they shouldn't let external feedback validate them.

Was questioning what this was, how is this pattern possible? Like, what is the essence of this pattern, how does this just exist as it is with no human tampering?