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And because the dose calculations are approximate in this case, intentionally under-dosing can keep the experience manageable.

I agree.

Even though I have learned masculine traits along the way, I feel that as well, but in my own way, especially when I see my type of a masculine woman. But I don't care about social connections that much; I'm at peace when I'm alone.

I wonder whether he will reveal the substance or not after knowing that it won't work for everyone.

I agree. For his retreat, the negative side of truffles would be that psilocin builds tolerance, the psilocin/psilocybin content varies in them, and the ingestion of sclerotia flesh. Yeah, psilocin is powerful. 🤯

They can say that they are using those substances for research purposes. 😁 But joking aside, if something goes wrong at the retreat and it goes out of control, even if the substances are unscheduled, Leo will probably go down as a criminal psychedelic cult leader. 😬 The only things that I think he won't have legal issues with are truffles and salvia in NL if he wants to abide by the law.

The ones that I think would have no legal risk in NL are magic truffles and Salvia divinorum leaves or extracts, thus Salvinorin A.

I find it interesting and frightening at the same time that there is a possibility of having a sudden intense Awakening experience sober that is equally profound when taking a psychedelic. To be honest, I never thought it would happen to me. Today I woke up from sleeping, at which I had a dream of me living a totally different life for decades. When I suddenly woke up, I couldn't bear the reality that it ended and now I'm in a different reality. The thought of neither one being less real in my mind triggered an Awakening experience which led me to recognize that this reality is a dream through and through. I was swimming in pure NOTHINGNESS and EMPTYNESS for a minute. The distinction between my nightly dreams and waking reality was TOTALLY unimagined. I was left ALONE, because I am DREAMING the dream that everyone is part of. Endlessly Melting! Too profound! The realization that no one has truly awakened or will ever wake up other than myself is truly shocking!

I understood that you think that options like the following are good when not using psychedelics:

Gotcha

@Willy Phallicus, I thought about your post to mean something else and jokingly replied. 😄 I assume that would happen when I have more experience. I have too few experiences.

Was it due to Minecraft?

Shit!

Well, there are many more things happening, but never numbness or drunkenness like I can get from alcoholic beverages. Although there could be psychedelics that might harm my body or make me mentally unstable over time, I don't know. Sure. I should have written "A Sudden Awakening Experience Without Psychedelics".

I think it was THC, right? Technically, I was wrong to use the word sober here. From my experience, Awakening is a high level of sobriety, regardless of how it's induced. I haven't experienced drunkenness or numbness from psychedelics. They make me alert and open-minded.

I would have lost my shit. This was my 3rd, so I still can get anxious thinking that I might get mentally ill. It's still a new thing to me. Although this time I was more mentally prepared in facing it and had already started dealing with my health situation. It's been about 10 months since the first two. Ok.

Please, don't expect them to solve your problems. Always start from low doses. I would suggest you to buy multiple of them and just test them enough to understand at which dose it starts to have noticeable changes, but not significant. Then if you want to higher up the dose, pick one and slowly higher up the dose. But I would say do the testing and rest for a time. You always have time to do a serious dose. Testing could go wrong. Don't mix them at your first try. The above is what is on my mind right now. But there is much more to say on psychedelic usage. You can find more information on this forum and other websites. Please check them out by searching. Take your time, don't rush.

It means that there is no intermediary between the observer and the observation. To understand that, you must throw out the view that you are the human body "looking" at an outside world because it's a construction based on the idea that some phenomenon is you and some not. There is literally no distance between you and the mobile phone that you are using. Do you get how magical that is?

I answered by an analogy. You've already heard what produces it from Leo many times, I think. What I'll say is that vision cannot be caused by any phenomenon that it contains. Read my first post in this thread to get it.

Just because a broken pipe stops the water doesn't mean the pipe was creating the pressure in the first place.

This is my approach. Basically, when looking deeply enough, you see that people who think that the brain produces reality are ignoring infinity.

@OBEler, nearly a month ago, I also had a very stable dream, but it was very terrifying. The Earth got out of its orbit for a few minutes and then got back into its orbit again.

Sorry, I should have said that I felt like living for decades because it was stable like my "waking" life. Literally, I was experiencing life like right now. I was also discovering supernatural abilities, e.g., I remember that I was controlling/manipulating electronics from afar by my hands. But right now my memory of the events is very hazy. Just before I woke up, I was feeling very peaceful and loved.

I was pointing out that the speaker wasn't actually saying it's a hallucination. Whatever.

It is fascinating.