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I believe the way they are going with Esketamine here in europe seems quite reasonable. Only allowing for treatment resistant depression and only with professional guidance. I wonder what indication would allow such a procedure for 5-meo. Existential nihilism?

Don't forget, a high IQ person, that can't act as intelligent is still practically dumb. I had a friend in school, who was by far the smartest, fastest learning and most understanding. But he smoked and drank beer basically everyday. Now he looks like a shipwreck.

I mean most people have such a solid experience of reality and therefore such a solid worldview with no interest in realizing that it might be constructed. It’s like someone told us to look at a wall everyday and contemplate if it’s really constructed or an illusion. If you had no experience into the constructed nature of reality, this would seem so pointless and boring. I guess that’s how most view metaphysics and epistemology. Their minds are simple too solid to find interest in the flexibility and constructed nature of reality.

Actually interesting. I heard that in people with depression, ADs can be tapered off in weeks or months, but with anxiety it might be very different. But then again: which makes this field even more interesting is that EVERYBODY has different experiences with mental issues and their respective medications. Have you found a new or better approach for your anxiety - Or is it gone by now? Maybe you'd like to share more about that I'm actually in a relatable spot right now. Because I'm currently tapering off of Pregabalin super slowly - maybe 6 months more. (because of poly-neurological pain) but since its a strong anxiolytic it can cause some solid states of angst, if I was to miss a dose. Soo interesting, how all this can be manipulated through some micrograms or some lofty molecules.

Just out of personal interest I'm fascinated to hear about your experiences with any kind of psychiatric medication therapy for any kind of mental illness. - So anything about how you take, deal with, feel with, live with medications such as: Antidepressants, Anti-psychotics, mood stabilizers, anxiolytics, sleep medications, stimulants, pain killers ect. I'd like to hear from you, what has helped, has not helped, and how such medications change your personality and life situation first hand. Because, I believe many people see major mental illnesses as a one way street into suffering. But many new medications and therapies have developed over time. I'm curious...

Diving into the realm of mental illnesses and their medications, how do you connect that to Love? When I was at a psych ward for 5 days after a suicidal episode, I got to know a young man called "Ralph". He was a migrant 19 year old from Lebanon, left alone by his parents just some years after his birth. No family, no friends. And a serious case of autism. So bad that he could even wash himself. And the only thing he would do, was to walk around the facility in circles. The entire day. Everyday. Sometimes he had fun with taking water in his mouth and squirting it whereever he liked. Or sniffing peoples hair. One day he search through all of my stuff because there were some nuts at the bottom of my bag. Which he found and ate - at the middle of the night. I guess his nose was the only thing that worked properly. But it was obvious that he would stay at this facility (or a similar one) for the rest of his life, possibly for decades. Nobody in her/his right mind would want to burden themself with the amount of work Ralph required. I guess absolute Love is the only reason this happens.

*My head hurts..* @EternalForest Joe Rogan in yellow means he has fully integrated green and has lived in it for some years. Where in his life has a ever walked in greens boots, let alone integrated it? He is pretty much the most prominent hater of anything green. So there is a lot of room for contemplation on how you have come to you opinion. Of course your entire assessment for Rogan to be yellow can only be rooted in you living on the entire spiral up to yellow for years. Have you?

Regarding amphetamines, from an ADHD perspective: Even though I'm pretty robust in my personality and not prone to psychotic or schizophrenic episodes, I notice a noticable tendency to overthink and feel fear when taking Ritalin. Its subtle, but its there. In general this is a good thing when learning and working on mundane stuff, since you are connecting and thinking more about the stuff you work on. However, In social situations its more benefitial to be relaxed, laid back and a little "drunk" if you know what I mean. So depending on the circumstances, amphetamines have their clear benefit and subtle disadvantage. But being conscious about this mechanic enables you to control it in healthy and overall net positive ways. The underlying take-away here is: A less excited brain (ADHD, Depression and Suicidality) can be hell. Since you are not motivated about life, or can't keep your motivation on "normal" stuff for long. And a brain with too much excitement (schizophrenia, psychosis and alike) can be hell. Since every event, every person, every thought gets supercharged with unrealistic meanings of sorts. Both scenarios can make your life "un-livable". And if a solid balance can only be achieved with medications - where their benefit outways the side-effects, one should absolutely take them.

@Leo Gura Just a little off-topic. But I see you and sometimes others here being too casual with the term "fascist" for a guys like Trump. Do you really belief it is justified to mention Trump in the same sentence as Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler or Francisco Franco? Who were the main drivers for the most horrible genocides in human history? It is extra puzzling for me, since I know you studied dictators and fascist regimes a lot. Isn't this completely watering it down?

I'd say they reduce motivation for most people, long-term. Dwelling in spiritual insights, self-love and deep intelligence is great. But does not seem to correlate with more motivation in the physical world. They can really shift your motivations, which can be disadvantageous for physical structure minds.

I found that there is A LOT of gold lost in Leo's forum replies. Which sometimes entail more insights and sharp thought than every other Podcast or Book on Self-Actualisation. Sometimes its literally like experiencing an art piece, because thats literally what Leo does all day long: "Crafting ever more sharp models of reality". So I want to start collecting my favourite replies here. Mainly focused on intellectual sharpness and insight.

Yes, I probably wouldn’t mind. It’s hard to say definitely, but I can imagine worse. I made some friends with people who do porn with moderate to large reach. And of course I see that money is probably 90% of their motivation to do it. But that’s true for most other jobs. And since something like 1/3 of the entire internet is porn, you sure could find a way to make it artistic, fun and meaningful. I just deconstructed a lot of the beliefs and non-sense around most sexual topics and found there to be little reason for their bad reps. Porn included. And with the liberation of Stage Blue religious dogma bs, porn will only grow in its already massive significance for mankind.

How do you know that I don't want to engage in it myself? ... There comes a time where not jerking off feels more disruptive to ones energy than forcefully going against your insticts and emotions. Fapping out of boredom is usually pathetic. Fapping out of pure lust usually greater than real sex. Why would you miss out of that? Its a delicate balance, that is easy to find, if you are connected with your body's real needs. ... Its super important to find ones owns truth in this matter. I'm just saying what works for me.

Great report. Loved reading through it. I still don't see the need to refer to Jesus or other christian symbols in this context, but if it has a positive impact there, then its great for that.

@JosephKnecht @Leo Gura By the way guys: I’m super clueless, in how to integrate the notion of „Jesus“, „Christ mind“ and whatever the catholic hell people are talking about. It’s super hard for me to build a loving mind for someone who talks about this. Because there is absolute zero direct experience of anything Jesus. Nor does it solve any misunderstanding or impurity of my direct experience. Virtual zero impact of anything Christian on me. Yet there seem to be always folks around who would not let go of the infinite importance „Jesus anything“. If you have integrated understanding and love for a pure Christian Mind, tell me how you did it, because I could use some of it. Till then, I’m going to have juicy mind sex with his father in law.

At the end Rogan has literally thousands of guests. And if his fans want to use any of his content to worsen their views, they will. But I think Leo can easily reach some (1-2%) of his viewers to open up about a lot (spirituality, epistemics, ego-dev., ontology, meditation ect.)

Yeah, I wouldn’t put much hope in such an event. Especially if there are many proven ways of coming out of the depth. Maybe it helps you to know, that I wished my own death for solid 9 months (until 4 months ago). Sometimes daily; or in some horrible nights with every thought. Nothing helped, no antidepressants, no benzodiazepines, no weed, no psychedelics, no morphine (yes I took all of it - out of desperation). The answer and way out of this was way closer and easier than I expected it to be. But I don’t know your case, so just telling you what I’ve don’t is probably not helpful for your case. But it was not a „Eckhart Tolle miracle“. If anything such miracle states made it worse. Because they would remind me of the heaven I could return with death. But now I can say with all my heart that it was worth staying alive. And that your future self would probably (99.98%) think the same about you. Maybe you can investigate, what other aspects of your psyche may be connected to your depression. Maybe its some form of learned helplessness, maybe fear maybe something totally different or nothing of that sort. Investigating there was the key for me.

Regarding the latest post: Jordan Peterson is already at it..

Of course, this one. Everything else is heresy.

Send me your Venmo Unity doesn’t stay forever. Or does it.

Sometimes I just want to lick @Leo Gura's face, when I realize the infinite intelligence and beauty in real time.

I read this while listening to an epic fav. song of mine. Which underlined the message so well. Even my goosebumps have goosebumps.

The minds of Rogan bros are so closed, showing the anything from Leo is throwing pearls before the swines.

Seems quite reasonable though. What more could you expect from the Rogan bros.

That’s what I used to think about depression as well. I think it was Tim Ferris who first started to cover a lot of stories where psychedelics like ayahuasca and Iboga could help with depression. And although they do have a use case for addiction problems, it showed that for depression they are mostly useless. With the risk of introducing new psychiatric conditions. Only Ketamine is used here and there for treatment resistant depression. But In about 98% of the cases, traditional anti-depressants, psychotherapy and psychosomatic therapy is preferred. - By the way. I’m not against psychedelics per se. But throwing them at every psychological problem is just lunacy.