Natasha Tori Maru

Salt isn't so bad. I need it after sprints and mountain biking. It was coveted for a reason historically. It also aids in food preservation. I do not do well if I remove it.

Have mercy on that delicate unprepared audience 💀 Maybe reserve that for when one of the mods brainfarts 🥹

Hmmmm. Internet is difficult. Text. Online. It gives people time to craft what they want to say, how they want to come across. It can control how we are perceived. Thus, reducing an accurate read. So I find face to face is the only way to truly be able to gauge where someone is at, if I have any hope to be able to at all. On the flip side - text and the formats in online spaces can let us express things we otherwise cannot face to face. There is something special to be said for the sort of stream-of-consciousness style crafting a reply can do for both parties. A pause. A reflection uninterrupted.

100% Which is why, in all endeavours, I personally attempt to meet people where they are at. Business, the forum, family, friends, career. All social domains. It does require aptitude reading people. Intuition. Wisdom. Experience.

Self nerfing to get down to normie level

In my experience, using force never works with beliefs. Ever.

My GOD. I just googled 'Leo Gura' and selected images (work PC so no duckduckgo before you lance me), only to be presented with these mutant abominations: https://pthibault7823.artstation.com/projects/oOL45J https://zenpalart.artstation.com/projects/4bZ3Xq "The following is a head I've sculpted, retopologized, textured, and am about to rig for animation. My aim is to replicate an animation of Leo Gura's facial expression when he became enlightened after an experience with 5MEO DMT"

I think we already eat them - isn't additive E120 made of insects? Red dye in foods

Cut me deep

It would be funny if the whole experience wasn't also associated with this feeling 'This is it, I am stuck like this. It is over now, I am locked in and no one will know I am conscious as a wooden tree/table. There is no escape and I cannot go back' Maybe I'm just a pussy and some chad is able to avoid a serious mogging from the drug. But it makes me feel a bit better it skullfucks other people too...

I wonder if that is a common thing with salvia - this perceiving one is 'turning into' something else.

For me it felt forceful in an unpleasant way - I was sitting at a wooden table and the legs grew up into me. I was literally turning into the wooden table and unable to move, it seemed like my body was being eaten/turned into wood and bark. I opened my mouth to try to ask for help and weeds and soil started dribbling all down my front. Arms started to dissolve into sap and then stuck rigid like amber... 0/10 do not recommend. I am normally really good at surrendering / letting go - but this felt like a surgical removal of my sanity to be replaced with fucking tree sap and timber....

This is the thought that prompted the question. I really enjoyed the Curt Jaimungal 2 part you did a while back. Too bad about the uncanny valley AI thumbnail he has up now

Excellent. I am glad to hear this. Do you have trepidation you will be misrepresented? I suppose at the end of the day, there is an element of surrender 'what will be, will be' and you can only do your best. There would be a fine line to walk, I imagine. Risk/reward. Need to keep expanding, but a risk engaging with another brands platform.

For me 10. I couldn't deal with that amount of self/form dissolution/merging in my visual field.

It could be the simple fact of actually handling the trip. That you can surf the waves of catabolic erosion of reality as you know it... I will never do it again. Ever. I genuinely believed I was never going to return to normal. The only blessing is the short duration. I was doing a lot of poppers at the same time though, so I am unsure if this made it easier or worse on me. Gacked into another dimension.

🎯 🎯🎯 🎯🎯🎯 I feel like maybe we need some more bullseyes in here, to really drive this home The making babies talk while fucking is a one way track to make her go totally hate-mode if anything turns sour with the realisation the fling was only about sex. Babies are a deal-beaker for heaps of women. And even if this weren't the case, talking about babies is implying there is more future there than is a potential reality (if this is a FWB example). Yup. Social media needs to fucking die. It just feeds men 'you are broken' and women 'you don't need men'. None of this shit is true. It is just disempowering propaganda to weaken and brainwash the younger generations into believing they need something external to themselves. It perpetuates hyper independence. The major issue the younger generations have is a PROFOUND fear of emotional intimacy. Men who have a firm grounding and know how to cultivate intimacy have the wisdom to lead with a balance of kindness & ruthless action.

Upset others make assumptions toward your situation. Dislikes judgement/discernment from others. Makes assumptions about others. Judgements about others. Do you see how you do the exact same thing you dislike in others? Precisely what I raised earlier.

I think it challenges the foundations of what we believe. But to be more specific - several of my close family members are born again Christians. They view what I describe as a foreign 'entity' that can only be demonic in origin: their basic assumption is that any message I receive from 'God' would be positive and I wouldn't lead to me questioning so much. There are also those who assume I am either 1) making shit up or 2) experiencing schizophrenia or the like. I think it is a function of the materialist mindset: how can my brain be experiencing a thought from someone/where else? Thoughts come from the brain, for them... What is your theory?

Are we including experiences of almost telepathy like ability? I occasionally feel a thought is not my own. In that, I could not trace it's origin. It just 'popped up'. Sometimes I can see where it originates from, like this direct experience example below. Other times, I just feel like the thought isn't mine.... Example - I am at home. I was mopping the floor with this new cleaner. I noticed it had no smell, and I recalled when someone at work cleaned an area at the hospital with metho (big no no). 3 firetrucks later and big fine to the business. I then looked up at the sprinklers at my apartment. Experienced a shiver of fear thinking, if there were ever a fire and I was out, I would probably kill myself trying to get to my dog. I then laughed at the thought of the sprinklers going off (for anyone that doesnt know, sprinkler water is fucking diabolical, black, stagnant fetid shit). And I imaged being covered in that satanic black fluid. In this thought pattern, I was only aware of fear of fire suddenly arising. Then a feeling of revulsion. I wasn't being mindful of the thought chain so the strange thoughts 'I don't want my dog to die' seemed to just 'pop up'. But when I sat down and traced my thinking, I could clearly see why I suddenly felt fear/revulsion. Contrast - I am shopping at the supermarket, being very mindful of my thoughts. I go to grab some mandarins and suddenly feel anxiety and think of an unkle being in hospital with cancer. I do not have an unkle. I try to trace back the thought. This time there is no linear nature to it. I move to the cashier to pay, and in front of me a woman is engaging in small talk with the cashier, then she says 'my unkle has just been diagnosed with cancer, I am going to pick him up from the hospital after this' I have had this happen to me many, many times. Increasingly so when I begun a serious meditation / mindfulness practice. I do not feel I read others thoughts - It feels like, not all thoughts are my own. Like I am retrieving them sometimes. Is there a reason for the thoughts I have, to have been mine at all? Is this just something we assume? Where and how am I 'retrieving' these thoughts? I constantly look for evidence that my thoughts are actually mine. And I am slowly trying to figure out what feels different about the thought when this situation shows up. Anyway, I am not sure if this is what you describe. It happens to me many times a week now. Deeply personal. I have been called some bad things for sharing this. (⁠ʘ⁠言⁠ʘ⁠╬⁠)

Improvement. I wonder if the dairy/meat industry is a player here. Why is meat, cheese and dairy right up there with vegetables and above fruit? Oil is easily over eaten. Assuming the higher up, the greater serving size. Eggs and fish seem low.

I do wonder if it wouldn't matter, though.

Ah okay - this is the issue. The effect they have on you will not change until the belief they are a threat changes. It is worth looking into if that is a belief or a truth.

@SQAAD No. Sharing personally earned wisdom. If you did not do this (judge, rather than discern) - you would not let it bother you so much. The simple fact it perturbs you is evidence of it. You won't understand this until you realize it.

Perhaps the mechanism behind this is the suffering the alcohol generated? In which case, it would indicate alcohol isn't unique or the actual reason for spiritual growth. It seems common suffering is a huge ingredient for spiritual development