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Share your top books on epistemology that you think are foundational.

I appreciate you guys for sharing. This thread will be helpful for most people. Even though there are book recommendations elsewhere, it would be best if we had more suggestions in this forum, from beginner to advanced.

15 grams of truffles did that to me and more.

Very fruitful and deep conversations.

No problem. What's the name of the book?

The way he talks about diamond luminosity and love reminds me of how awestruck I was at the maximization of love.

The following text on cannabis is from the book "An Ancient Egyptian Herbal":

Quoted from the following Wikipedia article: History of medical cannabis @Leo Gura, those mushrooms could be psychedelic or not. But as you said, it's way more likely that they have been using cannabis.

Yeah.

@Leo Gura, why would those mushrooms on ancient Egyptian architecture be psychedelic?

The crazy thing is that reality gets back to the same structures after dreams at night! How does it remember everything so perfectly what it was like before going to sleep at night and recreate it back again? It seems that there is a deeper kind of memory. Why does it even care to recreate it?

Back then, it would never cross my mind that I die at least twice every day.

Slang names for cannabis. Wikipedia: List of slang names for cannabis

Δ⁹-THC : 11-OH-Δ⁹-THC ≈ 1 (oral) and Δ⁹-THC : 11-OH-Δ⁹-THC >> 1 (inhalation), and the bioavailability of Δ⁹-THC is significantly higher when inhaled. The total amount of Δ⁹-THC and 11-OH-Δ⁹-THC will be much lower when orally administered, and 11-OH-Δ⁹-THC has much higher affinity than Δ⁹-THC. It would be interesting to know whether the above actually makes all people have much more intense experiences after oral administration of Δ⁹-THC or not. Why would the difference in ratio and total amount of the two cannabinoids make the trip qualitatively the same and also more potent when orally administered?

@moonawakening444, and I should say that for testing, I was smoking 1 or 2 pinches of grounded cannabis. I don't know, perhaps the strain was the problem. If I remember correctly, it was the cheapest and the least potent one. However, I don't want to harm my lungs anymore. Next time, I should probably try to vape some variant of THC.

I guess if Δ⁹-THC is too potent for you, then after oral administration, the amount of metabolized 11-OH-Δ⁹-THC would be higher compared to inhalation, and probably, you'll be overwhelmed by the experience.

The more I tested cannabis flower, the more I became hesitant to feel its disgusting initial taste and smell, and to continue tolerating the pressure in my lungs. However, I have never been a regular smoker. I just did it for testing.

@Leo Gura, before vaping THC, have you tried smoking cannabis flower? If so, was the quality of the experience similar to when vaping only THC? Have you also tried edibles? If so, was the experience different than vaping or smoking?

@Human Mint, ok. Now I understand. You are right.

Perhaps external factors? How would epistemic responsibility be related to stable people having a psychosis?

I haven't smoked for about a year. I don't quite remember how I felt, but overall I was alert.

DMT entity incarnate.

Yeah, after a few seconds, you know that you will forget stuff and won't care what you were thinking. But it started to fuck with my mind after a few tries when I wasn't smoking. I started having sudden thoughts that maybe I have been smoking weed and just forgot about it a few seconds ago, and then maybe I will forget what's currently happening. So, I stopped testing it. Interestingly enough, I wasn't worried about that kind of forgetfulness after orally consuming a cannabis gummy, although I knew which cannabinoids were present and how much I consumed.