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I’ve heard the argument from Martin Ball that it may be easier to do "a full-release dose" of 5-MeO-DMT first, because the intensity forces complete surrender, as opposed to working with doses that are too low. With lower or longer-lasting plugged experiences, enough of the ego may remain to resist, which can actually make surrender harder. Martin Ball also describes a "full release dose" as a completely different state from a low, medium, or even strong 5meodmt dose. As being "not even in the same ballpark." Martin Ball argues that if you do not have a full release dose early, it actually makes it more difficult for the ego to surrender. 🔴 What are your thoughts on this approach: Experiencing full release first, then later working with longer plugged experiences? At this point, it appears to me that there's no pussy footing at all with working with 5-MeO-DMT. It's a full 100% commitment, going all the way. Or at least there's nothing you can really do to protect yourself from fearful experiences. You're going to face the biggest fear of your death, full stop. In addition to that, there's another side topic: Speaking with other Psychonauts who will have a high dose of 2C-B, and then 6 hours later (full comedown), they will take a strong dose of 5-MeO-DMT. The reported experience was a much easier surrender into the 5MEO-DMT experience. Even far easier than with the use of MDMA. The MDMA reportedly helped with the nerves of taking 5-MeO-DMT, but it didn't help with the actual surrender part. In contrast, the actual surrender process on 5-MeO-DMT was greatly assisted after a strong experience with 2C-B due to it "softening up the ego" quite a bit.

Thankyou. This is useful information with plugging. I wanted to clarify, that I was considering a smoked dose for this "Full release dose" idea. I was speaking with a person that facilitates smoked doses, and they said they would start me out with a 16mg smoked dose, and if needed, to kick me up to 17mg.

Respect

It's an important step.

This is a really good thing to underline. I really appreciate the reminder as to why I need to keep socialixing and approaching momentum. It really does ooze off of you that you're relaxed and non-needy.

I heard that stating that you're going somewhere, so you are only stopping for a couple minutes is a useful thing that de-escalates the person's discomfort. Basically reassuring that the interaction is going to be short-lived

Wish me luck. I will report back to you guys.

Remember this, NOBODY wants the truth. It takes a very serious individual to actually genuinely want truth. Keep the Spirituality talk light-hearted and Sexy sounding. Weave some wise words in there, and keep it at that. Only the serious want the uncomfortable Truth. Be very clear about your intention, do you want to guide someone to truth, or do you want sex? A genuine conversation about truth is not going to get a woman wet at all. You can talk like spiritually flavored survival stuff and weave in wise teachings here and there, but ultimately it's just games of Survival. Truth and Sex(survival) are pretty much opposite ends of the spectrum. Most people just want to feel good and want to distract themselves. They don't actually have a holy curiosity and respect for truth. When telling someone some truth, less is more. Use your intuition to gauge what they're genuinely able to hear and understand within their paradigm. More often than not, they don't give a shit about truth. What has been of interest recently for me is how to gauge what someone is ready for and not ready for when it comes to the depth of Truth. You have to gauge open-mindedness, their stage of development, their capacity to hold emotionally difficult things in their mind, their capacity to SIT WITH NOT KNOWING, the amount of prerequisite knowledge and study they have. The amount that they actually sit and contemplate something. Most people spend more time contemplating what they want for their Christmas list or their birthday. People will tell you "oh I'm so curious, I want to hear about it, I can handle anything." No they fucking can't, they are fooling themselves. "No trust me I'm really open minded." Fat chance their mind is open enough to ponder about if there are no other people. If you really want to understand some of the depth that Leo points to, you have to work for hundreds of hours just to scratch the surface. A mind needs to be educated, trained, and deconstructed to handle certain truths. Majority of people that consider themselves to be spiritual are FOOLING themselves. Spirituality is FUCKING BRUTAL.

Appreciate it. I always love reading it every day.

Sounds like one hell of an adventure! Good luck! Stay safe, stay vigilant!

https://www.actualized.org/insights/why-you-will-forgive-everyone On a recent 2cb trip the weight of any resentment becomes unbearable and I start forgiving people. A lot of trips was the theme of forgiving reality for existing.

@paradiseengineering advice from a random guy on the internet, (me) . I will use Vyvanse on a daily basis. (15mg) I will go off of vyvanse for a day or two to do a strong dose of a psychedelic, then I'll go back on Vyvanse. This appears to be the most straightforward protocol, especially for the hard hitters like 5meodmt. I spoke to Martin Ball directly about this. If I remember correctly, Martin said he saw people doing this even with SSRIs; being off of them a couple days, hitting the 5meo. Then a day later going back on. I don't think you'll have any trouble with Vyvanse. Even though there's a long half life with it.

Do you have any such projects in the works? Or know of any projects like this?

Nobody Cares about truth. Everyone only cares about survival. Nobody cares about proper sensemaking. I was contemplating earlier, we really only default to the sensemaking systems that were beaten into us. The mind will do sensemaking regardless, and we will naturally just absorb all the examples of sensemaking that we have in our environment out of sheer conformity. But it is not natural at all to upgrade the quality of your sensemaking. You will naturally become more creative than everybody else around you because everybody else around you is thinking in the boxes of the sense making systems that they were taught.

Reality is appearances happening to no one. From: What is Perception?

Open your mind to the possibility that there exists a set of insights that will get you from where you are to where you need to go. - From: What is Insight?

So, basically, me having 95% of my savings in Canadian ETFs is me being a fool right now? (I'm in Canada. But I assume markets are too closely tied to USA)

The only thing I want Leo to reformat is his blog. The page numbering in constant change is annoying. Can't ever save my place easily.

@Leo Gura Appreciate the nudge.

https://www.actualized.org/insights/florida-girl-eaten-by-crocodile Honestly there's a couple things that come up from this. I thought this was a little bit profound I just want to highlight it. First of all I'm totally want to use this distinction in my mind in dating where I don't see a difference between tall people and short people, because I'm 5'3. Also Leo, I want to hear all your black pills about dating and survival. I think a black pill about being short is that women can feel genuinely disgusted by men shorter than the majority. Which is actually liberating for me to think about it in that way. To just start accepting BIAS for the way it is and to stop fighting it or being resentful towards it. This also takes into account the fact that you can level up your charisma with humor and charm many people too. More seriously though, I've been collapsing this distinction between what I would call dopamine fishing and drug addiction. Media addiction and drug addiction are just as harmful. They're both taking your attention off of your direct experience of the sensations in your body and whatever's going on in your mind. Seeing someone at a bus stop Glued to their phone Is like identical to seeing A homeless man on the street Firing up a crack pipe.

Are you me?

I experienced it first hand. Except the fame was just approval from an online "friend group." If I fell into a situation where millions of people were following me to be a LOLCOW for them and it was giving me loads and loads of money, I would be so unbelievably trapped.

This has been my experience.

@Zenterus Wisdom from my experiences: Let them go, let them die. Protect yourself. You CAN'T help them. This is the brutality of survival. There’s a story of a friend of mine who was on this extremely tough military training. All the men were carrying hundreds of pounds, like a minimum of 100 pounds per person, and they were marching for miles. Everyone was just dead. Dead tired. The amount of stress was unbelievable, and it was pushing people to their absolute limits. Some of the weaker guys were falling behind, to the point where they were going to get lost. And my friend was like, “Well, we have to go help them.” And the leader of the military pack was like, “No. Fuck them.” At first, my friend didn’t understand why he would say that. Like, why would you just say, “Fuck them, forget about them, leave them behind,” when people are falling back? Aren’t you the leader? Shouldn’t you be looking after the whole team? But later on, he understood. The reason is that in war, you have to accept that not everyone is going to make it. Some people will fall. Some people will die. Only the strongest, most prepared, and most resilient will prevail. In war, you cannot look after everyone. You cannot save everyone. There are moments where trying to save someone else means you compromise the entire mission, or you get pulled down with them. And this same wisdom applies to the war of daily life. You can look around your own city and see homeless people on the street. People who had certain circumstances, mental health issues, bad luck, trauma, whatever it may be. And some people are resilient, and some people are not. Some people survive, and some people don’t. And the hard truth is that you cannot look after all of them. You have to look after yourself first. You have to accept that some people may fall apart. Some people may not make it. And as harsh as that sounds, you cannot save someone else from drowning if you are also drowning. They will pull you down with them, and then both of you drown together. So the lesson is not to be cruel. The lesson is to understand survival. You help when you can. You have compassion when you can. But you cannot sacrifice your own life, your own stability, your own sanity, or your own mission trying to save someone who may not even be able or willing to save themselves.

Wanted to share, this is the best I could do with Chatgpt image generation.