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Avoidant people do not actually stop doing the suffering in the way that Ralston proposes. Instead, they continue doing the emotion and bury it with distractions and self-deception. Or projecting it outside into the world or on people so they don't have to take responsibility usually creating more suffering in the process. Stopping suffering is not like this. It actually doesn't even require for the particular emotion to end. You just stop suffering it, by opening up to it, looking into what belief you hold, that causes it and stop believing that. As you do this, the actual emotional sensation in your body stops feeling bad and eventually will transform into something else. You don't try to get rid of the emotion or to make it feel different. Neither do you try to act it out, release it or process it in any way. You just stop doing the shit that makes it come about and it will cease to exist. Doing this is actually not even that hard once you get the jist of it. Did it many times. It's one of the most accessable things that Ralston teaches. Mastering this skill and making it effortless takes consistency, though. And it requires a good ammount of personal responsibility is paramount which is why this way of relating to emotions is just not present in our culture. I think this is the reason he continues to hammer that assertion of "You're doing your suffering, stop doing it."

Japanese work mentality leads to some of the most exceptional products on the world. Insane, artistic kind of quality! In japan there is a word for hard working craftsmen, called "shokunin". They work exceptionally hard to create the best stuff they can. Here are some great examples: https://www.stefanimhoff.de/shokunin/ BUT: Those masters are usually exceptionally stubborn, working only for the sake of elevating their craft and definately not for the money! This is the difference and this is interesting because its a very clear example how hard work leads to completely different results depending on weather it's approached by a conformist mind or by an authentic mind. It's clear to me, that the value of hard work can easily get corrupted by conformity and how this gets exploited by capitalism.

Hating on mondays and looking forward to weekends, that's some conformist shit. Generally, the whole attitude of relating to work in western society in general is full of conformity.

I am backing this! Do not attempt dry fasting!! It's not worth the risk. If you stop giving water to your body you can run into dangerous territory pretty quick! You certainly cannot avoid running into trouble after 3-5 days. The issue is not even so much the lack of water but your bodies reaction when you rehydrate it. Google refeeding syndrome !! It can have deadly side effects. Also, is there a way to keep the ai trolls from polluting this forum with potentially dangerous content like this thread? @Leo Gura

I did 4 Myers-Briggs tests in the past and got 4 different results. Not hugely different but still different types. I also think that the mood and well-being of the moment you take it has a big impact. I would suggest that just like all other typologies you treat it more like something you have put on, like a costume or mask rather than something you are.

@Carl-Richard This question requires way more nuance than a simple yes of no! If you would ask me if psychedelics mindfucked me in ways I couldn't even anticipate and revealed how malluable my experience is and how few things I can take for granted in life, I would say HELL YEAH! If you'd ask me if I undertook tremendous work to change my behavior and my attitude to life as a result of a psychedelic exsperience, I would answer: Maybe some of the times. There were many trips, that despite having them approached as a serious conscious endeavour turned out to be mostly recreationally entertaining and didn't affect some of my deeper inner mechanics in the long run. If you would ask me if psychedelics produced any change in my life by themselves without conscious effort on my end, I would answer: Definately not! After a solid 10 years of regular tripping at least 3 - 25 times each year, I have to admit, that all those trips produced way fewer lasting changes than I was telling myself all along. This became more and more clear especially during the last couple of months. I hate to say it but intense inquiry and meditation retreats and even just deeply educating myself on an intellectual level seem to have produced a lot more lasting changes in my life. The couple of deep trips that shifted a great deal for me were also during intense retreat settings so it's hard for me to seperate out the effect of the psychedelic from the rest. Then again we could talk about weather life changes are even the point of tripping and consciousness work of if it's more about gaining experience or understanding. You asked for the first thing that popped into my head. After 10 years of experience, at this moment, it's a NO. Maybe I change my mind at some point.

It's also an option that they just failed to integrate their experience adequately and therefore didn't get any life changing effects.

@Leo Gura Got it. So the creator of the videos I posted has a pretty comprehensive website linking some gear that still seems to be avaliable: https://sites.google.com/view/mintylovesrue/emesh Besides knockoffs that usually seem to require some fixing to get them to work properly, he seems to be recommending this one: https://sites.google.com/view/mintylovesrue/emesh/mesh-rda-reviews/cthulu-iris#h.oqv98jpf3scm https://www.cthulhumod.com/product/iris-mesh-rda/ I have no personal experience with it. Looks decent though.

@shree This is almost the exact setup I use, except that I prefer a short mouthpiece to ensure that no DMT resublimates in it and I inhale the exact quantity that I put in. So far emesh the cleanest and most effective method for vaping tryptamines that I've come across. @Leo Gura I can recommend. For anyone that doesn't know: The emesh is a stainless steel mesh coil that you place your DMT on. You then heat that coil up and it immediately vaporizes the complete dose. The main benefits are, that once you got the technique down, it is extremely precise regarding dosing and that you inhale only DMT no vape juice. Also it's a lot less harsh to the throat and it doesn't taste like breathing the fumes of burning tires. You could use this gear: - Mesh Coil - Vape Mod - Stainless steel mesh These videos do a great job of explaining the details and the smoking technique:

At this point this thread is almost comical!

Happy to hear that! What I love about them is that he mostly uses archive footage and this makes for a really relateable experience of the specific time, he speaks about.

Wow, I can only try to imagine. I think, this is basically what this guy did:

Sephalopod intelligence is the closest thing to alien intelligence, we have on earth. Here are some of the things that struck me as I was researching about them: They have twice as many neurons as a cat but 2/3 of them are distributed in their 8 arms and only 1/3 in their head. Each of heir arms has basically its own brainstem and sense organs. Their arms can act independantly but also concertated. They can change the color and texture of their skin to match their surrounding within an instant despite their eyes being color blind. They do this with photoreceptors in their skin. They can solve compex problems and mazes, they have memory and the capability of abstract planning and can recognize people. They exhibit play despite being an antisocial and solitairy creature. (Play as a form of learning is usually only found in species that form social relations.) Contemplating this is valuable to realize just how many aspects of our mind and our intelligence we take for granted! Realize how radical this becomes: It's not a given, that your body is one entity. Imagine the possibility of your left arm, just going on, doing its thing for a while, grabbing, managing and learning stuff, while still allowing for your body acting as a whole if one of arms fins some information that would necessitate that. This ability to switch between centralized and decentralized intelligence is something that humans are not good at at all. How would it be to have an octopus awakening and become octopus-god? Realize what aspects and what believes about yourself and your intelligence would need to be dropped? More Resources: My Octopus Teacher (Neflix) Inside the mind of an octopus, interview with Dr. Jennifer Mather (Youtube) Dr. Jennifer Mather about Octopus Intelligence (Youtube)

Those videos are just dogfights, organized to generate clicks and views. I don't see productive debate being modeled there. So I agree with them doing more harm. It's just people fighting.

Are there any other plattforms for video creaters, that are worth considering, to be used instead of youtube?