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Play the guitar. Music is my favorite meditation.

I’m 27 years old and I haven’t had sex in 27 years. You are okay mate. Sex is a drug.

I saw Leo's blog post on Philosophical Counseling, and something about it doesn't seem quite right. The title Philosophical Counselor seems to misrepresent the field of counseling. A master's or PHD in philosophy does not mean that you are now qualified to counsel clients through mental health struggles. There is already Existential Therapist or Existential Counselor, which is a specific form of mental health counseling that helps people deal with existential issues such as death anxiety, meaninglessness, career concerns, etc. My issue is that this field of philosophical "counseling" should really be called philosophical "coaching" or "consultant." I currently am an Existential Therapist, and it is a great life purpose. A typical PHD or Masters program in Philosophy is not going to prepare you for the mental health struggles of people as compared to a Masters or PHD in counseling. There is a difference between a mental health counselor and life coach. Likewise, there is a difference between Philosophical coaching and Existential Therapist. I would suggest pursuing Existential Therapist as a life purpose as opposed Philosophical Coaching because there are more opportunities and more of a demand for mental health counselors. As an Existential Therapist, you can practice a wide variety of therapy modalities such as EMDR, SFBT, CBT, etc. This is what I do. Just food for thought.

Damn. That’s counterintuitive. I was mistaken.

Would be nice, but as Leo stated, hardly anyone is interested in dogma-free thinking. And ChatGPT has replaced that job pretty much. It is kind of paradoxical to hire a philosophical consultant to teach you how to think because really this can be done on your own. Thinking is not something you can outsource because if you did, then you wouldn’t be engaging in independent high quality thought.

If that is the case, then this life purpose would be almost obsolete.

i guess this is the hard problem of science in a nutshell. And the hard problem of life.

I guess where do you draw the line? If you are working with people as a philosophical “counselor” you are gonna run into people with trauma, depression, grief, anxiety, etc. that require someone with more training, which is where an existential therapist comes into play. As a philosophical “counselor” you’re not gonna be able to help Hamlet with reconciling his thoughts on suicide because it would be unethical to practice outside of one’s training. My point is that this field seems nice on paper, but when put into practice, you are going to have a lot of people come to you that, unless you are damn good at philosophical “counseling”, they would do better with just seeing a good existential therapist. But I could be wrong. I don’t know where you draw the lines between when to refer a client to therapy if you are a life coach.

I personally like ChatGPT 4 better than Claude. Gpt gives more thorough answers and will call you out on crap. Claude blows smoke up the ass. ChatGPT can analyze website links whereas Claude cannot.

I felt trolled after watching Infinity of Gods episode. How can there be infinite sovereign minds?

With question 6, I am curious as to how true knowing of reality is possible. It seems like he advocates for contemplation as a path to enlightenment. I am not sure what his stances are on meditation and psychedelics. But he seems to suggest that skepticism and contemplation are methods and that when there is no need for further contemplation or doubt, you have Truth.

The real test is if you can have these discussions with him and see if he is willing to listen. Explore what’s holding you back. All relationships have conflict. But it is about how you both go about working through it. If he didn’t have the status he has, would you still love him? At the end of the day, it is about how a man makes you feel, not just what he can give you.

Thanks! I assume that if they did come fresh, I could use an air dryer on them or put them in the oven? I plan on talking to my friend this coming Wednesday.

Yeah. I have no idea. I am going to see what I am going to get. Maybe I can ask my friend to order me some dry mushrooms in advance. I assume you can tell they are fresh by how moist or dry they are?

@halfknots Thanks so much for your detailed practical response! Do I need a desiccant or could I just air dry the mushroom and put it in the concealed jar in my closet? What do you find to be your favorite way of drying mushrooms?

@FlyingLotus @OBEler @What Am I Thanks guys! I will take your feedback. So far what I have researched, the lemon tek method is basically weighing the mushroom on the food scale and try to aim for 1-2g and then cutting it up into small pieces, putting it in lemon juice and stir it and wait for 20 minutes before consuming. Does it matter which part of the mushroom I use? Like the top or the stem? Some people recommend a coffee grinder and some people say I can just cut the shrooms into small pieces for lemon tek. Do you guys use a strainer? I heard it was optional. You guys recommend 2g? Also, I am wondering if I could store the mushrooms in a glass jar and put it in my closet drawers? Thanks.

I don’t have any health issues, but I am aware that tomorrow isn’t granted. Thanks for your support. I will try 2 grams raw. I will be sure to drink a fruit smoothie before and after I eat it raw.

Thanks to all of you so far. Such great feedback, response, and support from all of you. I do not have access to 5me0. I could ask my friend if he knows of anyone who could get me some. I have not got the mushrooms yet. I want to get a drug test kit and do more thorough research before I get them. I would love to try 5me0 but it has been hard for me to find. I know that I could die at any moment and I want to do mushrooms and dmt before I die.

I think for my first time, I just want to eat them raw. I was planning on making myself a fruit smoothie and eating the mushrooms raw first after I weigh it to 2 grams and then drink a fruit smoothie after I eat them. The other option is that I can put the mushrooms in my fruit smoothie blender and mix it in with a fruit smoothie. I honestly don’t see anything special about lemon tek. It just seems like the exact same thing as me making mushrooms with a fruit smoothie.

Thanks guys. So I could put them in a blender and make a fruit smoothie out of them? Or would it be better to eat them raw as they are. I don’t want to make them less effective. Thanks.

Could we have been not born at all? In this dream, you are dependent on others things within the dream. For instance, in order to be born, there has to be someone else pregnant. If your parents never had sex, how could you exist? If you never existed, then what would your consciousness be like? Before age 4, there is a blank. I have no memories of being in the womb nor anything prior. After I am dead, I assume it will be a similar blank. But this doesn’t seem right because consciousness abhors a vacuum. There is no such thing as nothingness because consciousness is always imagining something. Nothing doesn’t exist. Nonexistence doesn’t exist. Buddhists have it wrong.

Hello. I am curious as to what you guys have found to be the best laptop to play video games on? I want to play some old video games that I used to play as a child on windows XP such as Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. But I also want to play newer video games on the PC such as Life is Strange, Skyrim, GTA-6, etc. Any recommendations on a PC that can do this?

The more you do this work, the less authority you give to others and the more you realize the foolishness of others. If you think that there are others above you from spending years doing this work, then you wasted many years climbing up a guru’s ass. I have reached states of consciousness that most people around me haven’t achieved. I haven’t reached the highest, but from my work so far, I see the many traps and foolishness of spiritual authority. I see right through those Buddhist Bats. One of the insights one should have is realizing that all the answers to the Universe are within. Consciousness is the answer. Nobody can write about enlightenment which makes it pointless to read books about it because consciousness is direct and reading is hearsay.

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What do you think about Zephyrus G16? @MarkKol