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Yes you can feel like your personal barriers and inhibitions are lowered so much that you can feel like you could do some "crazy" things. like I absolutely get why people could end up running in the streets naked on psychedelics, or feel like they could fly and jump out a window, you just kinda don't give a fuck. But if you're well aware of the circumstances that you're in I don't think it's a particularly large risk. Like it's still your choice as to whether or not you're going to do the stupid thing or not, it's not like the psychedelic is mind-controlling you to do stupid shit. Like for example I went for a walk through the park on shrooms once and I had to piss and I was like "oh I could just piss right here, what difference does it make?" but then I was like "oh wait, no that goes against standard human conventions, and even though I feel like in this moment I am beyond such conventions, I still know what those conventions are and so it remains in my best interest to not piss out in the open but to walk back home and do it in private." I kind of get the impression that people who end up acting on a lot of the more destructive impulses while on psychedelics are also the type to do stuff like mix drugs like alcohol into the mix. if you're drunk and tripping then you're just asking for trouble.

Oh I've have had a taste of that too and it's true. Extreme existential anguish and suffering did instill an altered state in me and made me start seriously questioning all of reality for the first time, and that's ultimately what put me on the path of seeking out psychedelics in the first place which majorly helped me put that experience of suffering within a context. I also don't recommend it. But hey, that's life for ya.

Damn It takes like 300ug of LSD for me to even be on the edge of a breakthrough, and even then it's usually only a brief taste. there is also the factor that some people are just naturally more sensitive. My friend had a breakthrough on 1 and a half grams of mushrooms (it would probably take me at least 3 or 4 depending on potency), but he definitely didn't take to it as a regular spiritual practice or anything whereas I have. I'm fairly convinced that there would have been no way someone with my brain and body chemistry could have experienced anything remotely close to enlightenment-like experiences without psychedelics. I wasn't even open to that possibility being a real thing that existed before. The structure of my ego as I've come to understand it (so far anyway) is very heavy on putting up barriers and walls between myself and others. That's a pattern that led to a lot of negative shit in my life. Psychedelics are the only thing that reliably breaks down those walls for me and it was such an incredible life-changing relief to discover that. I think that is likely the case for a lot of people out there.

An ironic recommendation considering his massive cannabis consumption habit.

I too watched Leos videos while super high on weed. When I first discovered the channel I pretty much spent a month straight watching as many videos as I could while smoking weed every night. Absolutely helped to connect a lot of dots, my mind became extremely open and able to make tons of interconnections between what Leo was talking about and my own life. Though it's very easy to become reliant on weed, I definitely was and eventually had to quit, so watch out for that trap.

I've been watching this channel for a while and even more so than the geoguessr videos, this guy's "Straight Line Missions" are a total blast to watch. He crosses an entire country/region by travelling in as straight a line as possible, traversing all the obstacles he finds in his path. Great adventures with such a uniquely fun premise. Such a creative life purpose.

I used to drink it in extremely huge amounts and I was more or less reliant on it. I quit and completely abstained for over a year. Now I only consume it on rare occasions (once or twice a month) and it feels like a a stim high followed by a crash a few hours later, so if anything it leaves me with less energy on the whole. I've become a huge fan of matcha tea and now consume that ever morning, it doesn't get me uncomfortably wired like coffee does and I don't get a crash from it. It's an acquired taste but I've come to really enjoy the flavour too.

It's definitely vastly superior to Power Of Now that's for sure. Though I'd say it's probably only a must read for those newer to spirituality, more advanced folks are probably not going to find too much they haven't heard elsewhere from the book.

When's volumes 2 and 3 of SES coming out?

Getting horny and confused is definitely a risk, which is why you shouldn't leap straight to doses that could cause that, or else you could do something regretful. Micro or mini doses still have an effect. don't take higher doses until you're comfortable with lower ones. Or don't do the high doses at all if your purpose is sexual behavior, you probably wouldn't be functional if you start ego-deathing all over the place anyway, that would defeat the purpose. You could probably get away with micro/mini doses without telling people you're around, but def don't take higher doses around people who don't know you're on a higher dose.

If you want a drug to get you horny i'd suggest a bit of LSD instead of viagra. I've noticed that I can get extremely horny with no external stimulation whatsoever when I'm on LSD even on microdoses. and on higher doses the most kinky shit I would never otherwise imagine floats into my brain and turns me on, so I could easily see how someone could use LSD to go against their normal sexuality if that's something they wanted to try. I've suffered from mild ED as a result of porn addiction, and that's helped wonders with helping to reconnect with my sexuality. Seems to be specific to LSD though, mushrooms doesn't seem to have this effect on sexuality (or at least not to the same extent anyway).

if you dont have the life purpose course yet, there's a bunch of great videos there just waiting for ya.

Be prepared for any possibility you can think of. He might be way more or less sensitive to the substance than you expect or react in an unexpected way. When I introduced a friend to psychedelics he turned out to be several times more sensitive than I am and when he took 1.5 grams he had a total breakthrough experience so I had to readjust my plans on the fly to accommodate for it. Still went well though.

Do psychedelics sooner.

It was suggested that I make this into a new thread so here it is. Just gonna quote what I said in the other thread:

My mom is obsessed with Dr Berg and has converted my Dad, my sister, two of my aunts, one of my uncles, and two of my cousins to keto over the course of the last year and a half. They've seen success with weight loss because of it which has validated her view and now she never shuts up about how every health problem is caused by not eating keto. The basic principles of removing carbs and sugar from your diet seem reasonable enough but in practice it seems like most meals consist of some combination of eggs, meat, cheese, cream, nuts and a handful of specific vegetables (cauliflower mainly). Surely a more diverse diet would be better in the long run?

I think I came close to something like this (or something akin to it) while meditating a few weeks ago. It was like I discovered I could focus waves of pleasure across my body by focusing on my lower abdomen and imagining orgasmic-type feelings. My reaction was partly "oh this is interesting" and "wtf is this?" since I wasn't expecting to have this kind of experience. I was concerned whether it was an overly hedonistic way to spend my meditation session, and if that was a good thing or not. So I played around with it for about half an hour but since then I haven't tried it again. But using some of your tips I might give it another go. I remember it was difficult to maintain consistently, I'd find that these waves would be accompanied by some of my muscles starting to clench up and my breathing becoming strained and uneven (somewhat like what happens during a real orgasm) and the more intense the wave of pleasure was the more strain I would experience, so I was definitely experiencing the "tension/contraction" you mentioned. Eliminating that would likely be the biggest challenge for me.

Andrés has been killing it lately over on his channel and I think this is one of his best so far, tackling questions about what "nothingness" is. He even gives Leo a brief shoutout midway through the video.

If you struggle with porn addiction you really just have to cut it out of your life completely. It's as simple as that. Many people can use porn without it becoming a detrimental aspect to their lives, for some people it can even be a positive thing. But if you find that you aren't in that group of people then you pretty much have no choice but to let the habit go. If you struggle with impulsively going to websites then install an app that restricts your use of certain websites or whatever. Put some sort of barrier between you and the porn that forces you to go "oh yeah i'm falling down this rabbit hole again" before you actually fall down the rabbit hole. Some people will recommend a no-fap type of approach, and that can be good for some people. However I found that the pent up sexual energy would become too distracting and overwhelming if I didn't masturbate at least a few times a week. However I did set the rule for myself that if I get horny I cannot allow myself to act that impulse out in front of a screen of any kind. The connection between arousal and looking at pictures on a screen was something that needed to be decoupled in my mind.

I tried a few dating apps this summer. The pictures I used were fine enough, though I didn't have many recent pictures of myself so I was limited in my choices of picture quality (obviously this hurt my chances massively). I spent most of the time crafting and tweaking a good profile that I thought best reflected me and the qualities of my personality that might make me seem appealing to like minded people, and when I was looking through other profiles I would usually be looking at their profiles to see if the things they wrote made them seem like someone who I might be interested in meeting. Generally I was disappointed to find that most people didn't put any effort into their profiles at all, and usually I would reject outright anybody who didn't put the effort in to give more details about themselves. And no surprise I barely got any matches at all. After about a month of this I realized that I was going about it all wrong, and that I would never get matches this way. But on a deeper level I also realized that I didn't want to get matches that way and that looking to get laid is not my top priority. Primarily what I want is to meet interesting likeminded people and expand my circle of friends and connections, and if something more came from that great, but if not no biggie. and once it became obvious to me that these apps were not the place for that mindset I deleted them.

Stages appear in individuals long before they appear in the collective culture. So on an individual level Orange rationality came online around the time of Socrates Plato and the like, but on a larger cultural scale it came online around the time of the age of enlightenment reaching a cultural peak throughout the 1900s.

My eyes just start to get sore after a while. Or I'll start to become really aware of my blinking patterns which distracts me. Or I'll start darting my eyes around too much. Easier for me to just close my eyes and eliminate as many potential distractions as possible. My mind alone can be distracting enough sometimes.

way below the visual threshold. the intention is to use the psychedelic as a supplement or nootropic rather than for a trip. Find the smallest dose where you can feel any effects at all and then take slightly less than that. Depending on your preferences and purpose you might want the microdose to be at or slightly above the threshold so you can feel it a little bit. But imo I think it's best to aim for under the threshold rather than over, since if I wanted to feel it I'd just do a full trip. Generally with mushrooms depending on the potency of the strain a microdose ranges from 0.1g to 0.4g. The strain I'm using is on the stronger side so I think 0.1g will be good for me. With LSD the microdose range would be around 10ug, maybe a bit more or less depending on your sensitivity to the substance. The impression I have is that the shorter duration of mushrooms means that you can take it slightly more often than lsd. shroom microdose schedules seem to recommend 3-4 times a week, while lsd microdose schedules seem to recommend 2-3 times a week (but then, I've also heard of people microdosing everyday so I guess it depends on the person). So I think that's the trade-off. But it all depends on what you're looking for. The longer duration of LSD is definitely an asset if that's what you're looking for. But like I said I've had trouble sleeping lately which is why I've leaned towards the shorter duration of shrooms.

Good timing for this thread! I'm about to start microdosing with mushrooms. I was considering trying lsd, but I've had some insomnia issues lately so the more stimulating and longer lasting effects of lysergimides might not be ideal for me right now. What sort of schedule and dose are you planning on? I'm planning on starting with a 4 days on and 3 days off schedule, with 0.1grams of PE mushrooms.

A shame Ariel Pink had to get involved with maga stuff. Pom Pom was one of my favourite records the year it came out.