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@StarStruck It is possible but there isn't really any way round this problem i'm afraid. In order to overcome approach anxiety you must approach. But you'l be surprised by how much the anxiety drops after just a handful of approaches. The first ones are always the hardest though. But I absolutely promise you, the vast majority of the anxiety goes away after you start doing approaches. Really the key is to just get those first few approaches in as quickly as possible. I was taught to start by walking up to any girl or woman and giving her a genuine compliment on the way she looks. And if you do it from a genuine place, like you actually mean the compliment, you have a smile on your face, it feels great and girls love it! I'd used to say something like 'Excuse me, Hi, I just wanted to tell you that you have really nice eyes'. Something like that. It just gets you moving towards the girl and starting the conversation which is where the anxiety was for me. So just physically doing that, without having any intention of having a conversation with the girl, really helps. Try going out and giving 2 compliments to 2 different girls, and then walking away.

A fair point, thanks for offering your perspective. I blame no one. Everyone is just trying to survive. I 100% recognise that relationship abuse is not a female only issue. I'd never suggest otherwise. If you interpreted that from my post then your interpretation was simply incorrect. This is complex stuff, it's difficult to communicate all of the subtleties, details and alternate view points in one forum post. My post was specifically focused on the idea that women have it easier when it comes to casual sex/hookups. I believe this to be more untrue than guys believe. It tends to be a defense mechanism from guys who don't get laid. And I know this because I am one of those guys. I know why there is so much blame on women for our lack of sex. It's fucking hard sometimes. But having a genuine insight into the nature of a woman's experience is incredibly beneficial. Actually stepping into their shoes and seeing the process of social survival.

Yes and no. Its super important to remember that women think about sex quite differently to men. We men project our male mindset onto women which makes it seem like women can just have sex with any random guy. This actually isn't true because women don't want to have sex with any random guy out of a number of fears, anxieties and valuing the emotional-bond component much more strongly. Men will basically have sex with any random girl, except for a small amount of exceptions, partly because there is usually very little or no risk of harm or danger. So we naively assume that women can do that too. Of course some women do just have random sex. They can go up to a random guy and say 'i'm horny, want to have sex with me?'. However, even in those cases there is still a lot of things they have to check off the list (subconsciously) before actually having sex with the guy. There will always be an underlying anxiety of 'will this guy rape me or abuse me in some way', even if it's just a fun one night stand. There is a still a strong selection process that is necessary and that takes energy and effort on the behalf of the woman. Some women will even go back to a guys place, get in bed with him, but then decide not to have sex with him because of some small thing he said or did. So to conclude, if a woman is just looking for sex it is absolutely not as easy for them as you think. Easier in some sense, but actually more difficult than it is for guys in other ways.

@levani There's a big Kriya Yoga megathread around here somewhere if you search for it. It's big but if you read the whole thing from the beginning all your questions will be answered there.

Except for having to choose the right candidate out of hundreds of applications and making sure that you don't end up choosing the degenerate abuser who won't leave you after 6 months...

@Valwyndir I appreciate your curiosity and perspective. However, you should definitely take a high dose of 5-MeO for yourself before engaging in any more conversation about it. Otherwise the conversation is just pointless.

This is incorrect. How many times have you done 5-MeO and at what dose? At 30mg dose of 5-MeO-DMT is a completely total recontextualization of reality. There is actually very little 'content' change, relative to other psychedelics.

@Flowerfaeiry Sounds like a great experience and I genuinely appreciate your honesty here. I am also conscious of this more devotional, female-orientated approach to spirituality. But you're still lost in illusion. There is no Leo! There is no guru! There are no separate people called you and Leo. You must keep going until you recognize that you ARE the appearance we call Leo and that everything you have learnt from such an appearance is actually just you teaching yourself.

Yes I agree. He's clearly an incredible integral thinker. But it's like he's just maxing out on the intellectual mind stuff and is hitting up against an invisible wall which he might not fully understand how to go past yet. He needs that quantum leap in consciousness to get outside of the wall, so to speak. 30mg of 5-MeO will do the trick! Watching the video below really shows the limits of Daniel's thinking imo. Tim tries to ask Daniel questions like 'What is all of this?' and Daniel just seems kinda confused and unable to answer.

It depends on what your goal is. If you goal is to get laid once, then you could probably do that with 50-200 approaches. A number of different factors would determine your success rate. Actually "talk to 800 random women on the streets" is not far off what most guys need to hear. It really does boil down to TALK TO MORE WOMEN. 800 women on the street isn't actually all that much or difficult to achieve - if you're serious about it of course. If you did 15 approaches a week, it would only take you around a year to do. Thats on average. You could have weeks where you do much more, and weeks where you do none. Now, admittedly this is only feasible in a busy city area. I live in central London, so it's easy for me to say, but I understand the difficulty of doing the above in less populated areas.

Yes playfulness is the key. When I was on a daygame bootcamp late last year, the coaches kept on hammering at us to be more playful. I asked a number of them if they could just give one piece of advice and it was always 'be more playful' or some close variation of that. I'll be honest, this was extremely difficult for me, and it still is. To be serious and reserved around strangers seems to be completely built into my way of relating. It was only after i'd done a bunch of approaches that the anxiety would drop away and I could actually start 'trying' to be more playful. However, I would say a few small things really helped with loosening the logical behaviour/dialogue. Simply smiling as I entered the approach was very helpful at setting the initial vibe. Smiling is extremely underrated haha! And also loosening up the body, moving about a bit whilst talking the girl, using my hands expressively, taking my hands out of my pockets etc. This really helped too. The physical aspect of the approach very much informed the 'mental' side of things. Looking forward to your upcoming videos on the topic.

Yes its safe as long as you start with a low dose first and slowly build your way up to higher doses. I would start with 5-10mg. It gets very intense once you start going over 15mg so I wouldn't recommend going over that for your first time.

@Madhur Yea I second what fridjonk says. I'm going to assume that you are sitting down in a chair most of the day? If so, you need to start lightly and carefully decompressing your spine. Best way to do that is to buy a pull up bar that can attach to the door frame and hang on it for few minutes here and there. You can decompress the spine in other ways, hanging off the edge of your bed etc. Just google them. Best option is hanging bar.

@Skenderberg 'Vaccine passports' have pretty much been around for decades now. There any many countries where you have to provide evidence of having had a particular vaccine before being able to travel (hepatitis B, meningitis vaccines etc).

@caveman Looks interesting but have you seen Leo's video on why reality cannot be a simulation? Discussing the simulation stuff is kinda pointless to be honest. Saying reality is a simulation doesn't say anything at all, because it still leaves the question of 'well what is the nature of the base reality' or 'what is the nature of the simulation'?. The matrix isn't rock bottom. Might watch the doc though.

@mandyjw You don't need to subscribe. Just look for the 'can't pay for the subscription? Contact us' link (something like that). All of Sam's podcasts are free to access.

@Conscious life Just Google around. I'm pretty sure there are sites that let you paste in the URL and it'll create a download link for you.

If you find where it says 'Can’t afford a subscription? Contact us'. Click on contact and follow the instructions.

@Mel B I listened to this one the other night as well. @Leo Gura you gotta check this one out that Mel B linked. I actually enjoy listening to Sam Harris, but these kinds of interviews just illuminate Sam's misunderstanding and close-mindedness. This one with Jim Newman is even harder to listen to than the one with Rupert. Jim just runs circles around Sam. I think one of the main things that Sam doesn't get is that Jim is clearly in a radically different state of consciousness, which simply cannot be understood or conceptualised. Sam thinks that they are both 'at the same level' and so he thinks their inability to agree or come to a conclusion is a pedantic matter or just a difference in terminology. For anyone else who doesn't know, you can access all of Sam's podcasts for free.

@Soullee Why would you assume that something happens to consciousness if a particular body dissolved? You are assuming there is an individual consciousness inside the body or some how reliant on the body. Is this true? You might also be subtly holding consciousness as another 'thing' separate from other things. Is this actually true? There is no 'your consciousness'. There is no 'vehicle or vessel'. There is no 'human reality'. There is no 'memory storage'. There is no 'control over your consciousness'. There is no 'incarnation'. Your questions are fundamentally based on false beliefs and concepts. There is no point trying to have a discussion about this stuff. There needs to be a change in a state of consciousness for you. You need to start questioning everything you've just written and discovering whether it's actually true, or whether its just conceptual. Don't ask other people for more ideas and more concepts.

@ertopolice Good effort! Keep it up Caffeine withdrawals can be quite challenging. But its also not that difficult to overcome. Have you considered substituting your coffee for a black tea? I'm currently on 1 cup of coffee in the morning and then 1-2 cups of tea throughout the day. I never have more than 1 cup of caffeinated coffee in a day.

@Patrick_9931 Intense fear is quite normal during a 5-MeO session, and i'm sure it can manifest in a hundred different ways. This must be let go of and released in the moment as soon as it arises. Don't hang around in the fear. The letting go doesn't really happen by itself so you must be willing to surrender. Bad trips come from not letting go. There is much further to go past the mental stories like the one you described. Let go let go let go. Go for Infinity, go for Eternity, go for Actual God.

What you probably experienced was just a subtle shift in consciousness. This is quite common, sometimes things just 'click' in a new way, or you overcome a subtle barrier in your thinking. It can feel kinda freeing and pleasant. Definitely a great sign for sure, you clearly got something in what Leo was trying to communicate. However, I probably wouldn't class it as a 'mystical experience'. Although, one could argue that everything is mystical. A true mystical experience is usually very obviously a mystical experience. As in, there isn't any doubt as to what occurred. Otherwise you're getting stuck in concepts and mind games.

The bubble has burst...

Of course i'm open to learning about new psychedelics that are better than 5-MeO. And i'm sure there are. However, what i'm saying is that 5-MeO is more than sufficient for our work here. It wouldn't bother me if I never found another psychedelic again.