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Profesional oil-based lubricants help a lot. With a nice lubricant you won't even feel it that much. Water based lubricants make it rough. And saliva sometimes does work and others it's still unpleasent, so I've sticked to more reliable lubricants.

@freddyteisen I recommend 5meos to start with. Imo, LSD and mushrooms are much more challenging to beginners and for me the time factor 16h LSD and 6h Mushrooms is huge, it feels like too long. So I absolutely recommend you to start with 5meo, is all you need. But it's not a good idea to "Completely blast out and dissolve my ego" I wouldn't recommend it as a first experience. You've never tripped at all, it's the first time with that chemical, you have no clue how your body will react, it's just not the safest approach. Buy yourself 5meo, and do microdosing to meditate or do yoga, increase the doses with time and when you feel the calling to "blast out" call that facilitator and do it. That's my solid advice. To sum up: 5meo to begin YES! First experience full Breakthrough NO!

@BlessedLion Pleasure is a part of life as well. One should balance dopamine and serotonine. Although our society may be so out of balance with dopamine that the balancing tendency is to quit many sources of artificial dopamine. I like this quote from a sage man:

But you are the CEO and so is the shadow. It's really you. I am all of my inner pieces. It's just that we are all fragmented and seeking inner reunification. In the perfect world the CEO, the lover, the artist, the darkness, every figment of you gets integrated into a complete individual and hence you would complete the process of "individuation" as Jung stated or wholeness as I prefer to state it. Although in my view, there's no end to human development, as parts of my inner self just restructurate into higher holarchies of wholeness ad infinitum.

I'd say it's the adaptive process of harmonizing all forces to perform a desired task in a unified and efficient way. In my opinion, at every level balance happens because it's the interplay of polar opposites. Balance happens in multiplicity and it's a property of the intelligence of life. So the bottleneck of how we are able to properly balance our life and enhance our wellbeing may be intelligence and consciousness but it's balance what grounds it into action and life.

@Norbert Somogyi To me balance is not about repressing fragments of our psyche by the "CEO" archetype and to push further aside shadow work to keep the ongoing momentum. For me balance it's all about leting every part of my self and shadow to have a seat at the table of my mind. Maybe it’s not either resist or surrender, but a third path: relating. What part of yourself are you not letting speak in the table? That's what is causing the imbalance. And after so much resistance, that disowned part of you rebels and steers the wheel of your life for a while; next morning the sun shines and you say: Oh what have I done? And then back again the CEO kicks him out of the table. Does this sound familiar brother? You have to bring balance to your inner world and how to properly do that only you can say. Also consider shadow work is a very broad and personal subject and the metaprinciple of balance may not be detailed enough to handle all of its nuances.

I liked how you often describe Infinity as an object and then we finally get to Reality and the present experience. Although this time I shifted from object to subject and went through the logical steps and it certainly gives a nice personal twist to Infinity. The Infinite Subject

You can be extremely balanced. Certainly extreme unbalance is not desirable and must be corrected. Even if a simple parametre like your ph is unbalanced you die. So ironically if you wanna be extreme in a pursuit it's equally important to strike the right balance, otherwise you burn yourself and quit or torture yourself to success by destroying your health and other areas of your life. I'm advocating for a personal and sophisticated balance.

This episode feels like an introduction to Divine Logic.

Hey this is Leo from Vatican.org This would make for such a funny costume video like he used to do for Halloween, but Leo's not cool anymore

I read it all. I find it interesting to know about your journey. You feel more aware and complete now than in previous posts. Take care and continue integrating.

I'd add the word permanent. The permanent dissolution of the separate self.

Then why did you say Leo never defined states of consciousness? I'm puzzled now

I'm currently reading that book, it's good. In my view, seriousness doesn't mean grumpiness, you can be seriously funny!😂 For me it's about the quality of intention, the clarity of decision and its constant execution.

Nope, or maybe Leo already did a 2h long episode on that. Check it! Truly brilliant. See this is unserious. You haven't even bothered to check the main channel or previous responses from the search function in the forum.