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One thing that unites them all is their pride in their Armenian, especially Christian, identity. They are mostly very boastful people and generally cultural conformists, with the Armenian Apostolic Church being at the center of gravity. They can get very identitarian, especially the diaspora, as they care more about the actualization of the past Great Armenia fantasy than Armenia's actual borders. Anything that doesn't belong to their Christian dogma is considered a threat to them and are usually labeled as a cult, which is ironic and makes them disregard or disrespect legitimate techniques and practices for spirituality. Their religion is very sacerdotal rather than experiential one, which makes spiritual experience or personal awakening not a thing to be trusted. Without the priests and the church you will never have a connection with God, whatever God means to them. The priests, whom I highly doubt have had an awakening, are considered the protectors of their national identity, and being the first Christian nation creates a sense of historical exceptionalism that feeds into their identity. This all makes them believe that, literally, God's job is to protect Armenia. So, their national identity depends on the church's survival, and the church's survival depends on their national identity. Overall, it is very difficult to be a freethinker living with them, even though they would like to think they are freethinkers.

There are different types of Armenians. It would be interesting to know whether there are Armenians located in Armenia on this forum or even watching Leo's videos. I highly doubt it, although I am one.

The visual patterns had the structure in the image below, however they spanned vertically, like a sine or cosine wave pattern, branching out of the middle of my sight like the feathers of an open wing of a bird, without converging at a single point as it is portrayed in the image below.

I saw glass-like, transparent visual patterns branching out from the middle of my sight with sharp edges at 20 mg. It was beautiful.

I must say that the succinctness of their book titles makes them very alluring to read.

What do you think of the "A Very Short Introduction" book series? In retrospect, do you think they can actually introduce you to the subject? Is it an overall good place to start studying subjects?

Thank you guys.

@Joseph Maynor, thank you.

What makes you say that? Is there at least one book you consider to be good compared to other books?

That book is great.

It's also dangerous to learn from psychedelic trips as if one understands without even doing psychedelics; this will mess up one's mind when doing psychedelics. It's very alluring to listen and learn from others' trips, but you will build beliefs about what psychedelics do if you're not careful.

I'm glad I couldn't try psychedelics until a year ago. Even then, I don't want to go hardcore in my late 20s, and perhaps it's best for me not to do it for now. However, it has shaken me up to question deeply.

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.

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.