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@Strangeloop In what context are you asking these girls out? Are you in school, are these in social circle, or are you approaching girls you've never met before?

@SQAAD Honestly I think the ROA and dose is a major factor here as well, in addition to what has been said in other responses. The vast majority of people who take 5-MeO will smoke it, and likely do it with someone else or at worst in a group setting in the jungle. Not saying that God can't be realised in a group setting in a jungle, just doesn't seem like a conducive setting to realise God. It's unlikely for you to realise yourself as God with one mid range dose. Took me around 6 sessions with slowly building up the dose and getting use to the substance. Only then was it an OH MY GOD trip.

The absolute nature of reality of course! But there is a distinct difference between all of these concepts that we are using and the actual direct consciousness of it. The actuality of it is more profound and wonderful than you can possibly conceive of.

Are you even directly conscious of what 'consciousness is all there is' is referring to? The fact that you say its 'obvious and boring' says to me that you are not. What could possibly be more profound than the absolute nature of reality?

@jj40 You obviously lack clarity in your life but but this won't just come to you by itself randomly one day. And it won't come from watching Youtube videos. You have to actively create clarity and focus in your life. So sit down and intentionally and actively think about what you want to achieve. Actually write it out. Set a timer if you need to, and keep writing until the timer ends. If you don't know what you want, write out what you don't want. Keep doing this every week until you have a very very clear sense of what you want out of life. Then start to lay out actual action steps that you can take to achieve those goals. Set the intention from today to figure out what you really really genuinely want and don't give up until you do. Like I said, having direction in life isn't just going to come to you in a flash one day. You have to be proactive about this.

Actually you don't really need to learn anything to start investing in the stock market. The actual process of buying shares is incredibly easy. All you need is a good understanding of the market in general, what companies are likely to continue doing well/grow/innovate. Where is society heading, what things will society value in 10 years time? For example, TSLA stock is essentially free money at this point because electric vehicles are the future, and the company is providing so much value and is so far ahead of any of its competitors. I would advise against investing in crypto. Far too unstable and the returns are negligible.

@Beeflamb Your question is far too broad. It's basically impossible to answer. We're not here to lay out your life plan for you.

I think one bump may be acceptable if you received no replies after a week. No more than that please. Go to a 10-day Vipassana retreat. They're held all over the world and they're completely free with food and lodging provided for the whole duration.

That list of certified dentists is just what i've been looking for, thank you very much for that! Very helpful

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@tezk Excessively bumping threads is against forum guidelines, so please don't continue doing that. But to answer your post, the whole point of going on retreat is to be alone. Even if you attend a big group retreat you're still doing it alone, eating alone. I'd strongly recommend not going with some one else unless you are completely separated from them, not talking etc.

@Bird Larry Sure, I get this. I think it's fairly normal. I tend to keep quiet about my goals and ambitions, partly out of fear of being judged. I don't want to say i'm going to do something and then end up not following through with it. However, there's really no need to go around telling people your goals and vision for life, unless they specifically ask. Most people really don't give a shit - they're too focused on their own life. In my experience the best thing to do is quietly get on with your work, projects etc, and let the results speak for themselves.

@Intraplanetary Even though every person is 'wired' differently, I am surprised to hear she had literally nothing to show for her experiences. Why did she continue to do so many trips if she wasn't getting anything from them. I wonder how she would respond to 30mg of 5-MeO.

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@Dodo She reminds me of Anna Brown. Love the more feminine perspectives on spirituality.

I'm specifically working on becoming a freelance illustrator. I want to get to a point where i'm doing client work i.e. working for brands, companies, advertisers, magazines, publications. In addition to that, I want to produce and sell artwork that specifically illustrates spiritual and metaphysical ideas/concepts. I've always been 'arty' but I never got any good career advice in my teenage years, so I dabbled around in other areas and spent many years not really building my art skills or doing anything art related. However the whole time in the back of my mind I knew I was wasting a natural talent that I had, and if I didn't pursue it seriously I would regret it for the rest of my life. One day I suddenly realised that there are actually people that get paid to draw and make pictures! It just didn't occur to me that illustration was a potential career path, particularly now with social media etc. I also realised that illustrators aren't just people that draw images for children's books. There are many other avenues to go down. That was about 2.5 years ago, and i've been working on projects and kinda obsessively honing my skills ever since. I had a lot of fundamental art skills to learn, despite having done a lot of art my whole life. And good work takes a lot of time. I might spend 15 hours on a piece only to realise its not working. So thats why i've been working on it for a long time, and i'm not slowing down any time soon. I took Leo's life purpose course sometime before this. Elements of the above are clearly in my notes from the course, just not as explicitly. The main thing the course taught me was to just be committed to figuring out what you want to do in life, even if it takes you years to get there.

@Leo Gura Personally I didn't see any issues with the post. I actually thought it was quite genuine and honest. You didn't try to sell yourself as something you're not. My only concern was that, as you said above, people would almost certainly use it against you. A brave call to retract the post - it was probably the right move. Put that post on an actual dating site and you'll be drowning in it. Best of luck to ya!

@Cosmin_Visan 'Flower power sounding ideas'? Don't make a mockery of things that you clearly have had no direct experience of. You will be weeping for forgiveness when Infinity dissolves your entire life and everything you believe to be true. When you realise yourself as Eternal God Infinity, all written philosophy becomes utterly meaningless and quite frankly useless.

I'd say the best solution is a full nights sleep - which is 8 hours in my case. Of course a full nights sleep doesn't mean good sleep, so do everything you can to make sure that you have high quality sleep. I am guilty of always having a coffee in the morning before my meditation but to be honest there are occasionally days where I still fall asleep.

Personally I would go and do this project. By the sounds of it it doesn't seem like a long term commitment. It's not like you're gonna be working with this guy forever. It could provide some really good experience which you can take with you going forward. Of course! You are not alone in this. I could go off in 20 different career paths, but ultimately you have to commit to something. You've got to be ok with letting go of a lot of stuff, dreams, ideas, in order to fully actualize one path to the fullest. It doesn't mean you can't change course in the future, but you've got to commit to something in the short term at least. Really it comes down to what the hell do you really want out of life?! If you had to spend 50 hours a week working for the rest of your life what would you most want to do? Then start putting a plan in place to make it happen. A great vision, but too vague. You can't 'help people actualise', do 'psychology research', and then do 'music/art' all at the same time. Be much more specific, think about the actual reality of each of these things on a day to day basis. If you had to pick one of these things which would it be? What do you really want to be doing? Psychedelic therapy is field that is going to massively open up over the next few years and decades - and it will be an extremely important area of science. We will need lots of compassionate, openminded, and forward thinking people to take the lead. Why don't you work towards this? I could see myself doing this - maybe in the next life.

Whats so hard to believe about this? Girls are still out and about. Maybe not as much as normal, but just because there's a pandemic doesn't mean all the cute girls suddenly vanished. I know plenty of guys that are still out doing day game and getting phone numbers. On nearly every session in the past few weeks I have gotten a phone number, and many of those were from girls with masks on. Just to clarify, i'm average looks wise, and my talking skills are still very amateur. I've only taken up day game in the past few months. There's no trickery here, i'm not hiding anything. Its very simple.

Day-game. Stop using Covid as an excuse - it isn't one. Don't just limit yourself to bars and clubs. Girls are still out and about and open to being approached in public, if not more so than usual because they are being starved of their usual social contact. Even here in the UK, with a full lockdown, it's still completely possible to go and speak to girls. Food stores, parks, and just generally on the street there are still loads of girls walking around, depending on where you live of course. What about the masks you might say?! You can still approach girls with masks on. Unless they're completely covered up you can still get a sense if they're attractive or not. You can use it as part of the conversation. You say you're exhausted after work, do some approaches before work and during lunch time? If you can't approach during these times, then you have no choice but to approach after work. It's tough, I know, but sometimes you gotta do stuff that you don't want to do. Scrap the dating apps unless you're a super high value guy. I have a lot of experience using the apps and it doesn't come close to the experience and benefit of actually talking to girls face to face.

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@Leslie Ann Firstly, welcome to the forum! Secondly, I see you have started two separate journals with the same title. Please just write all of your entries in one journal thread.