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Great image! Is there a higher resolution version? Some of those tiny letters are hard to make out. what are the letters referring to? white letters A through I ascending on one side and grey letters N to V on the other (except the V looks to be red or brown? hard to tell).

I really struggle with being overly vague when asked questions about myself. It can be tough for me to pin down my thoughts into specifics. I'll often end up rambling, being overly wordy, getting unnecessarily philosophical, resorting to metaphors, talking in circles, or ultimately saying nothing. I'll think of many possibilities from many different angles, and I'll see the worth of all the possibilities that come to mind, without being able to focus in on which of those angles actually represents my views and desires most accurately. This comes up in counselling sessions a lot for me. My counselor will ask me about my goals or about how I feel about something, and I'll often find myself stumped, even though I almost always do have a lot of deep feelings about the subject. I often feel like anything specific that I say couldn't possibly convey what's in my head. Even when I think of something in specific language it often falls into ambiguity as soon as I try to translate thought into words. I'll question if what I said was accurate and begin going back and revising and rephrasing and end up off in the clouds. I'm a very artistically-minded person so in some ways I've come to see this as a strength of mine when it comes to things like writing poetry or music (I'm quite good at creating art that has multiple meanings or could be interpreted in different ways by different people), but I also recognize that this tendency for vagueness holds me back in terms of building relationships with others and especially when it comes to setting concrete goals. So I'm curious if anyone has any advice for how to overcome vagueness?

Oh this is a good one! Definitely applies to my question, as I do fall into the trap of using overly flowery language when something simple would suffice. The practice Leo recommends here is something I'll make a point to do on a more consistent basis. True, pen and paper would make me commit my thoughts more definitively. The internet is a huge distraction when I'm typing on my computer, I'd agree with that. But beyond that I find with a computer, even when writing posts like these, I'll often re-read and revise over and over doubling back to add something here take something away there, switch a sentence around to make it flow better, and often be tempted to edit my post after posting it if the option is there. Maybe this shows a lack of internal organization leading to a lack of confidence and focus in what I have to say. It makes writing take much longer than it probably needs to be too. I also wonder to what degree the difference is between writing and speaking on the issue of vagueness. I definitely have a tendency to ramble on and repeat myself when talking to people because I'll often second-guess whether I included all the points I meant to include or doubt that the person I was talking to fully understood what I was getting at. What you did there, I see it.

For me it was gradually building up awareness that the addition was adding nothing beneficial to my life and that I'm actively harming myself by continuing to partake in the habit. In terms of drugs I quit alcohol, weed, and coffee. Alcohol was easy to quit once I realized that it was a massive source of depression in my life (though withdrawal was a bitch), and coffee I realized was a huge source of creating unnecessary anxiety in my life. The most difficult of these to quit for me personally was weed because it did have many positive benefits in my life, in that it helped me overcome depression and to do shadow work on myself, but after a while I had to admit to myself that I'd sucked most of the juice out of it and I could no longer justify the cost of using weed every day. In terms of online habits I quit porn and most social media (hard to get social media down to nothing because it's kind of necessary to connect with certain people in my life but I've reduced it by like 90%). Porn was surprisingly easy to quit once I actually admitted to myself that I was addicted to it (I was in denial about it for a long time) because it had been such a drag on my life for so long that I couldn't deny how much harm it had caused in my life, I was just so fucking sick of it. I think what's worked best for me in the case of the more challenging additions is gradually reducing my use little by little. Like with social media first I made myself a rule that if someone I followed on twitter was posting 50% or more stuff that I didn't care for I would unfollow them, and then I put tons of words that triggered me into the muted words filter, and then I turned off all retweets, gradually inching myself towards an almost completely dead twitter feed. So when I would habitually check twitter there would be less and less content there to grab hold of my attention, and I would spend less and less time there. And with quitting weed I switched from smoking to using tincture oils and then went from THC oil to CBD oil, until I was barely getting high anymore and then it barely made a difference when I stopped. Another factor is to not beat myself up for minor relapses. Like if I'm at a party and I smoke a joint or have a drink that's no big deal. Those are more unique occasions and my issue was more with making those things daily habits rather than simply doing them at all.

Come on now, Leo wouldn't be playfully teasing people with a conspiracy theory drug. Also it's really old anyway, not new at all so it doesn't even fit the profile of the description.

No idea if these are at all related to the chems that Leo is referring to, but there are a couple psychedelics that I heard about by following psychedelic channels over the last few months that I haven't seen talked about by almost anybody. One was norpsilocin (along with other recently discovered mushroom alkaloids like norbaeocystin and aeruginascin) which was discovered to be present in mushrooms and be more potent than psilocin but is destroyed by MAOs in the body. so presumably an MAOI could make these chems active. perhaps this explains why it's so dangerous to combine shrooms with MAOIs because it makes these alkaloids active giving people unsafe and unmeasured doses of these potent chems (that's total conjecture on my part though). there's info on them on this site: https://psychedelicreview.com/study-shows-norpsilocin-is-more-potent-at-5-ht2a-than-psilocin/ The other was 25-CN-NBOH which is talked about in this video as being created to specifically to selectively target the 5-HT-2A receptors to study the head-twitch response in mice. Haven't seen this chemical mentioned online anywhere other than in this video. the video doesnt indicate any thing specific about the chemical since the presentation is specifically about the head-twitch-response study. Maybe it wouldn't do anything except make you twitch a lot. But the 5-HT-2A receptors are associated with psychedelic effects so presumably it would be active in some way. Whether or not these are even close to what Leo is referring to is besides the point, I'd still be very curious to see more research come out about these.

Fair enough. If he didn't want people asking he wouldn't have said anything. If these substances are truly worthwhile they'll probably end up popping up somewhere at some point. Leo isn't the sole arbiter of new psychedelics, if he doesn't spill the beans eventually somebody else might. Can't keep a lid on something like that forever. Maybe Leo finally tried the psychedelic lichen he mentioned in the "Correcting The Stigma Of Psychedelics" video. (my research led me to believe that one was a hoax, but maybe it's not)

I'm as curious about these as anybody, but if they are so new and rare I think there's a possibility that a sudden massive boost in demand for them out of nowhere could overwhelm what is currently likely a small supply. I could also easily see a situation happening where Leo says "Chemicals X Y and Z are great and here's how to use them for self development" and then a bunch of irresponsible people immediately buy a ton of the substance, take beyond heroic doses, freak the fuck out, and give the chemicals a bad name before most people even have a chance to explore them. So perhaps Leo is just holding them back for the time being for harm reduction purposes.

Interesting comparison of the phenomenological differences between the two. https://qualiacomputing.com/2020/07/01/5-meo-dmt-vs-nn-dmt-the-9-lenses/

I'm about halfway through. If you've read or watched a lot of Eckhart before there likely wont be much you haven't heard before here, but I think this podcast would make a great introduction to his teaching. He's got such a gentle and relaxing way of describing things, listening to Tolle is like spiritual ASMR.

The system of math you use is also arbitrary and relative. In binary 1+1=10 Check out some of the wildly different ways math can be represented: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_numeral_systems#Standard_positional_numeral_systems We're used to the decimal system, but we could use any of these if we wanted to.

The Straight Story by David Lynch.

After experiencing extreme depression, anxiety, and hopelessness for many years psychedelics revealed to me how I was creating my own suffering, that nobody else was going to face my fears for me, that the path to freedom and self-improvement was through conscious action, and many other things. I began to research the mechanisms of how they worked which led me to discovering books and talks by Terrence Mckenna, Alan Watts, the Shulgins and so on. Eventually the youtube algorithm started pushing Leo's 5-Meo "magic pill" video into my recommendation feed last summer and while I haven't done 5-meo (maybe one day but LSD and psilocybin are more than enough for me currently) Leo's no-BS approach to spirituality and self-improvement resonated more deeply with me than any teacher I'd encountered previously. Over the course of several months I watched the majority of his videos, and I've been keeping up ever since.

CBD works nicely for mild anxiety reduction, as well as for sleep, and soothing mild pain. not everyone really needs to take it, but I think it's worth trying. Basically no negative side effects, so no downside if it doesnt end up working for you. If you use any high THC-based cannabis items then CBD is essential imo because it balances out the THC. but not everybody will fit into that category. Thanks. Discovered Leo's content last fall and after some lurking I figured it was time to check out the forum. Yes I agree. It's much nicer to be calm throughout the day. I have far more natural energy.

Lion's Mane mushroom. Get fruit body extracts (ex: RealMushrooms), not mycelium extracts (ex: Host Defense) Absolutely agree. For years I was in denial about how much anxiety and general body discomfort my 3 or 4+ cups of coffee a day addiction was causing me. I gradually replaced coffee with a variety of other hot drinks near the end of last year and it was a huge upgrade to my quality of life. Coffee does seem to have some health benefits (at least according to some studies anyway), but I've come to think that those benefits are greatly exaggerated by people to justify their desire to keep drinking it.