TrynaBeTurquoise

So on Friday I had a 1 gram experience but I felt like I needed higher of a dose to get more out of it. Thoughts on doubling the dose to 2 grams? I have done over 2g before with zero tolerance and its still not super intense, wondering if I should go even higher today like 2.5g according to the chart, but don't want to get blasted to my surprise for whatever reason if I have an individually low tolerance effect. I feel like today a perfect opportunity has arisen to trip again and go deeper, but wanted to get thoughts on how much the tolerance would effect me from 2 days prior if anyone has ever done something similar themselves?

Wow!! 2g was incredibly strong. Hope to be able to integrate my experience, lot of ups and downs and deep questioning/insights that took place, maybe will write out a full trip report soon. Tolerance is not as simple as that chart or how people make it out to be. Felt like I had no tolerance at all from the 1g trip 2 days prior.

Aye aye, captain Going to use 2g on an empty beach and see where consciousness takes me.

A great fat burning strategy to start the day Strike/Stroll/Shiver 1. Strike: black coffee or some form of caffeine in a moderate amount to mobilize fatty acids (cant have any calories to break fast) this is optional but does increase fasting metabolism 2. Stroll- Go on a walk or engage in a mild to moderate intensity of exercise for around 20-30 mins or so 3. Shiver- cold shower, 2-5 minutes with deep breathing to activate parasympathetic nervous system (rest and digest) and improve circulation. Then you can break your fast with a high protein/fat meal, basically no high amounts of fast digesting carbs to prevent energy crashes. This should all be within your daily 12 or so hour fasting window for gut health. This is a great strategy to improve cognitive performance throughout the day with a slow and steady energy. Hope people can benefit from this.

I did some looking around and some have said that this chart is LSD specific and mushrooms do not produce as much tolerance. Also remember the Mckenna brothers were on one of their more well known psychedelic expeditions and Dennis reported they were getting “blasted” on psilocybin day in and day out, lol

Don't try to think of spirituality as an abstract concept or state you are trying to achieve, spirituality is present at all times no matter the circumstance. Like Leo said, spirituality should be identical to actuality. Distinguish in your awareness what is made up/conceptual (thought stories, self-identity) and what is actual (what is present in your awareness no matter what your thoughts are about it). And the closer you get to what is actual the closer you are to spirituality.

I think this just raised my consciousness

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, that are dreamt of in your philosophy

Recipe for this: -1 Tsp Guilt -2 Cups Subconscious Cultural Programming about "Drugs" -3 Tbsp Fear -A pinch of fundamentalist morality -1 Tsp God forgetting that he is God Stir well, conceptually, to create a thick mixture of ideology

Don't base your diet on an enlightened master just eating raw honey in the jungle or meditating so much he only has to sleep 4 hours a night for example, for 99.9% of people this will be a health disaster. More essential than a quick sugar like honey would be amino acids or fats, so in this case you would be missing all your foundational nutrients and your body would start depleting rapidly

-Avoid gluten -Eat a variety of fermented foods -Get enough quality sleep every night -Eliminate stress as much as possible

Of course, also nothing is right or wrong and theres no such thing as an ego, you could look at it from that perspective, or any perspective that you want, but when your true primary motivation is "i want to feel spiritual which makes me feel good about myself" or "I want to explain spirituality to others which fulfills my hidden social needs or whatever" vs "I want to transcend my self image and notion of self/other altogether" results experienced will vary

Can't explain it to others? Thats not the point of spirituality, its for yourself. Sounds like you got involved with it in the first place for all the wrong reasons, like using it for some form of entertainment with an ego identification to it.

While being drunk I agree has its own kind of "spiritual nature" in a very different kind of way, its still something you want to avoid as its quite literally poisoning your body and results in so many negatives for your hormones, sleep, organ, brain function, ect. I think most of us have been through a phase of low consciousness and finding ourselves drunk and taking awe in the feeling, but once you wake up to what you are doing to yourself its just not wise to ever go back there, speaking from my experience.

"Drugs" is a human invention and a loosely defined concept at best. What constitutes a drug and what doesn't? Who gets to say? Our brain is full of "drugs" on its own even if you live a 100% "sober life" your neurochemistry will be interacted with by your emotional states, food you eat, sleep you get, other environmental circumstances that cause physiological changes. The #1 ignorant defense mechanism I see right now is people lumping in mystical states of consciousness with "drugs". Its just silly and naive, but people don't realize its a programed belief that goes much deeper than they are conscious of. You have to experience how drugs are a made up notion.

Yeah but they also infect the host to ultimately cause its downfall, clearly they are women. (Its a joke moderators don't give me a warning pls)

As I remember, he was calling out these men for purposefully acting new-agey and adopting that overly passive pretense to serve some end or fit some ideal. Not because they naturally had less test or identified more with the feminine. He described a general shift in the attitude of society where women had to become more masculine to compete with men and men tried to fit some new ideal contrary to their true nature.

This is just a general question, zooming out from Leo: What is more authentic, a person who puts on a pretense of lovey-dovey niceness all the time or a person who responds in ways people perceive as edgy or rude to voice their truth? Would you rather have the insincere front or the "real thing"? There is no way a person who tries to sugarcoat everything so to speak, all the time is being authentic. Look inside, sometimes that bubbly love attitude is authentic but at times when there is an absence of that and a passion comes up to speak your truth in a way that some people might consider offensive, is that inauthentic or is that just "socially unacceptable"? On the flipside, being a dick all the time is not authentic either, its likely a wall of defense and insecurity. Theres definitely a fine line to balance on.

Just a clarification, Dieda is talking about masculine and feminine energies, not men and women. He explains a man can be more feminine and a woman can be more masculine. There is no inequality or value judgements taking place.

Im quite offended its 2020 but theres still only recognition of male viruses. This forum is about equality is it not?

Damn right Ill debate it down to the epistemic roots. No i’m just busting your balls with that one, no pun intended. My post was meant to be humorous

Theres a difference between throwing a ball and shooting a ball into a basket. Its nuanced. With the skillset Kobe possessed, you can't say he was just "throwing it", he spent years working on the mechanics and quality repetition of his shooting motion. Theres footwork, theres timing, theres a subtle flick of the wrist, follow through, ect ect thousands of times, in a game setting, under metabolic fatigue and with defenders in your face. The man just died and you said he was "throwing" it? C'mon Leo

Its mostly killing older people. Not the type of thing young healthy people will die from especially with access to proper treatment. Its still quite serious but not of the nature you proposed.

I'm sensing a Ben greenfield enthusiast? If you have the means to get the equipment, set it up and use it for sex. Supposedly makes it a lot better.

My only question is why the Leo avatar told the delivery guy at the door he was recording here