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If Love is acceptance, then it is nothing at all. Because acceptance is just a lack of resistance. If there is no resistance, which is an egoic dynamic, all that is left is existence. A pure existence is of something lacking resistance already is fully "accepted". It just exists, which is what it means for something to be accepted.

His point would be that if what we call love normally is a human emotion, and the Love you talk about is not that human emotion, there is no reason to call it, and refer to it as, Love in the first place.

I am worried that if I take a higher dose it might erase the subtle effects I am currently experiencing, and on the other hand I wonder if those same positive effects will be exponentiated. I expect there will be permanent and significant changes to my brain structure. With the amount of brain connectivity I gained from 20mcg, I am curious if 100-150mcg will actually be 5-7.5 times higher, or if some sort of peak is reached before that. I also kind of want to go with a lower dose before going higher, like first doing 100mcg instead of 150mcg. I want to do a 100mcg dose anyways, and I wonder if it will be underwhelming, or in fact not even as powerful, once I took 150mcg.

Wow this is only a week after my last post, but it feels like a month has passed. Was on a short family vacation, and I noticed a pretty significant yet subtle shift in my consciousness throughout. To keep things short, I feel like even just the 20ug did somehow resolved certain things I have been working on for years, or at least pulled me from a plateau. I am still much more in the moment and am far less prone to be caught up by certain habitual thought patterns. Usually I am kind of left-brain, intellectual minded, and I definitely feel less "autistic" in that way. My memory seems better as well. I also had certain strange hang ups that just kept me in loops because I just did not have the perspective to truly imagine possibilities outside of them, which now feels utterly silly. In general, I would say there is less friction in my life, it I am flowing far better. To be clear, my intention with these first psychedelic trips and the usage of 1V-LSD is primarily self-improvement oriented, and more specifically oriented towards my current life-purpose goals. My main intention is not spiritual, although over the past few days I have realized the two are not really as seperate as I thought. I will be taking my proper trip in the next week, and I can't imagine what it will do to me if 20ug seem to have already created such significant shifts. I still do not know if these changes in consciousness will just disappear after a while, I imagine that is possible, especially with bad habits. Also, I feel like people just became more attractive to me? Women just suddenly all look much more gorgeous and feminine to me, whereas before I had harsher criteria for what I found visually and socially appealling.

10mcg was much more subtle, could also be because I still felt in R-Mode flow after 3 days of taking the original 20mcg dose. I still feel super exhausted the day after though. I didn't get quite enough sleep, but it feels like I ran a marathon or something.

What do you guys think of prodrug safety? I have 1V-LSD lingering around, and am not quite sure what the risk profile would be. I am reading that it is pretty much equivalent to LSD, but at the same time it is obviously not a well-researched drug. Does anyone here have experience is 1V-LSD? Never used psychedelics before and I want to do my first trip soon.

How safe do you guys evaluate taking analogues of LSD in general? Do you guys know of cases where analogues caused some long term significant negative side effects, as opposed to normal LSD?

You can switch between R-Mode and L-Mode if you are familiar with them, this wasn't an exercise to find deep truth but just me testing out the substance and taking note of some things. In the notes you will actually find me talking about that it's probably better to remain in R-Mode during a full trip, which is basically the advice you are giving. Also, imaginary is just another word for existence, and you are partaking in existence when you say logic is imaginary. Anyways, I still feel the effects of the substance. I don't know if it actually changed something permanently in my mind, but I definitely still feel like I am basically in the moment. I am immersed in everything I do such that I do rarely have subtle anxieties that would otherwise kind of always be present in the back of my mind. I kind of lose myself in the activities I partake in, which to me is actually a tremendous benefit. I will take another 10mcg dose tomorrow to test how that will affect me, and then take a two week break before I do a full trip of 100-150mcg. I am curious to see how long-lasting the benefits of this substance are. I can see why some people microdose it to treat or dampen depression.

I'm not looking for a psychedelic experience with this trial.

Alright, I'll do 20ug and am expecting basically caffeine-like effects, I will report later I suppose.

Never took psychedelics before, am pretty sensitive to things like weed, coffee, alcohol and I metabolize things very rapidly. I ate the wrong things yesterday and have had a headache and barely any sleep today so I will not be able to trip, as I think that would be unwise. This means I have to wait for another 2 weeks before I can trip, which I think might be better anyways because I will be isolated from all things hedonistic. Though I am contemplating to take maybe 20-30ug today, just to maybe see how I react to the substance. Would that possibly undermine my trip in two weeks, in terms of tolerance or other factors?

I ate edibles (too much for how sensitive I am) once after spending a day blindfolded because I was training my visualization capabilities. Jesus Christ, it's so easy to just completely lose yoursel in the darkness, especially if your mind was attuned to trying to detect the most subtle phenomena and kind of pull it into your imagination.

What do you think, 150ug for a first trip? Or go for 100ug?

Idealism claims that reality is fundamentally mental, and while in a sense that it true, really, this framework or idea is just a reactionary position to physicalism or dualism. A dualist might say the following: "There is reality, and in that reality exist agents, like us, who have perceptions of reality. The perceptions of reality are fundamentally a different substance than the objective reality, which is material, as opposed to mental." Now, the idealist will then say "No, this is not true, actually, reality is completely mental, the only substance that exists is consciousness, subjectivity!". Here is the problem: To say reality is mental only makes sense in a dualistic framework. The truth is, existence is just existence. It's not imagination, it's not mental, it's just being, existence. The concept of imagination and the mental is only relevant as so far as it describes a certain functionality within reality, but in terms of ontology, those terms are meaningless. When we critique the dualist materialist, we simply have to point out a confusion they partake in, namely that they deny the existence of what they refer to as consciousness. When redness is in what you call "your awareness", really, that just means redness exists. It's there. That's all it means. Redness isn't being experienced by anyone at all, that entire framework is materialist framework. All there is, is the existence of different dimensions of existence. One of those dimensions is redness. When the dualist says that there is a fundamental different between the mental and the objective reality, they have to point to redness and say "This is not what existence is!", which is obviously absurd. Of course redness exists, it is pure reality, it could not possibly be anything else. The dualist will try to point out and say "But clearly redness is not reality, because a person can be wrong about what they perceive, it's clearly subjective!". What is happening here is that the dualist already defines existence as whatever is outside of the dissociated existence (what they refer to us subjective experience), meaning the world or the universe. He makes the claim that reality is there, and then there are subjective agents which walk through reality and perceive it. But this is obviously delusional. It has to be the case that what is referred to as the subjective experience, is actually itself part of the world and reality. The entire framework therefore is confused. The correct framework looks more like this: Reality is one unified thing (let's conceptualize it as the universe), and within that one unified thing or substance, there exist relationships between parts of this one substance. And the relationship between those parts of those substance then are what a dissociation, or individuated consciousness, or "subjective" experience, is. To say reality is subjective is just to say that different parts of reality relate differently to each other. That's all it is saying. What you call your own personal mind simply IS a relationship within existence or reality. So, what a physicalist would conceptualize as brain activity, and what you would call individuated consciousness or dissociation, is always part of the greater whole. This obvious "being part of the greater whole" is always present, because reality obviously is reality. It's undeniable that existence is existence, unless there are specific relationships in existence which ARE the denial of that indisputable truth. That is it's own relationship within reality, and that is the relationship within existence which is dissolve upon taking psychedelics. So, you have the overarching relationship of "parts" of reality that constitute what you call your individual mind, and within this relationship that are egoic relationships that identify certain things as self vs not-self. When this structure gets dissolved, there will be a realization within the overarching relationship of existence (the individual mind) that it actually IS reality itself, that everything simply is the self. And really, that is delusional too, it's all reactionary. There is no self, there literally is just reality. And everything in existence is reality. That's all there is to it. It's not a mind, it's not imagination, it's not subjective, it just IS. To say reality is a mind because it has the qualities of a mind just reveals that you have been confused about what reality is from the beginning! It's not that reality has the qualities of a mind, it's that what you call a mind has the qualities of reality, of existence, that these ARE the qualities of existence from the get go. Of course it has, what other qualities could it possibly have? What else would redness be, but existence itself? So, this is where idealists like Bernard Kastrup partake in the materialist and dualistic delusions. They are so entrenched in this framework of "mind vs reality", that they cannot recognize that they partake in it when they define reality as mind. There are no minds! There is just different forms and relationships within existence, and they are all existence. To say "My true self is God!" just is to recognize that "Existence is existence, and anything that exists is existence!". This entire idea that existence belongs to someone is the crux of the problem. What is referred to as the experiencer is just one form of existence, and it is a sense, nothing more. It is not fundamental. There is no experience, the very notion of experience, imagination and the mental is delusional.

Have fun with the permanent brain damage I suppose.

This, children, is why you don't take powerful mind-altering psychedelics 30 days in a row.

I feel like a lot of people are utterly clueless to the degree of insanity that is currently transpiring in China. Xi Jinping has basically positioned himself to be the new Mao and is currently indoctrinating an entire generation of children to hate the west and to accept Xi Jinping thought, a book Xi wrote that basically everyone in China is forced to read.

The Belt and Road Initiative isn't doing as well as you think. And you really need to look at China's foreign policy, there is a reason why South East Asian countries have China on the top of their list of most hated countries. https://thediplomat.com/2022/06/what-china-gets-wrong-about-southeast-asia/ I am obviously not saying everything China does is stupid and wrong, but the way the CCP currently works it is literally throwing the potential of the chinese people out the window, to a far, far greater degree than something like the US. China has incredible strategic potential, but the current regime and political environment is literally rotting the country from the core.

Here is another good article for the lazies: https://inkstickmedia.com/the-myth-of-chinese-strategic-genius/ Also, just to show you how their diplomats tick: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-chinas-wolf-warrior-diplomats-use-and-abuse-twitter/ https://www.wired.com/story/chinas-nationalistic-wolf-warriors-blast-foes-twitter/

The guy has a chinese wife.

Anyone who has followed chinese politics knows that china is not at all strategic but completely reactionary, so I would suggest reading up at least on the basics of the types of choices the CCP has made over the past decades. You have to also consider the shere amount of corruption which takes place in China, which we have seen over and over causing idiocy on a scale unimaginable for western societies. In China, appearance is everything. China actively lies about it's economic state to uphold and investor-friendly image. https://www.voanews.com/a/satellites-shed-light-on-dictators-lies-about-economic-growth/6813119.html https://thediplomat.com/2019/03/chinas-reputation-for-long-range-planning-is-wildly-exaggerated/ https://tfipost.com/2020/10/how-one-misunderstanding-back-in-1972-led-to-the-myth-of-chinese-foresight-and-excellent-planning-skills/ It's not surprising that this delusional view of China is so prevelant among people in the west, considering China has the greatest propaganda apparatus in the world. But I am still disappointed when I see people fall for it, who should know better, lol. For you lazy people, I recommend just watching something like The China Show: https://www.youtube.com/@TheChinaShow While they do have a bias, they are accurate enough and will give you a good sense and picture of how China works and in what state it currently is.

China is not strategic at all, it's all smoke and mirrors.

I know, you could only possibly be pointing to one thing, which is reality. And then, it's just a question of what reality is, or what it's qualities are.

@Israfil Here you have a video from 4 years ago from the same person when they still lived in China. That was kind of when relations between the China and US started degrading, but like I said above, it has degraded significantly over the course of Covid. That does not mean everyone hates americans, it simply means the very nationalistic, politically activated portion of the population which basically will follow everything the CCP says has a growing hatred towards americans and the japanese.

This is from 5 years ago. The relationship to the US has been degrading over the course of Trumps presidency, and has only in the past years, especially during covid, taken on new heights of animosity. Most chinese people even today view especially white foreigners as a kind of sign of higher wisdom and authority, this is why the White Monkey jobs are a thing. Now, how chinese people relate to people from the US will depend on the generation, the location and so forth. But this is not really related to the topic above, which is specifically Xi indocrinating the youngest generation of chinese children into a very specific, anti-US ideology. This is why the thread is called "China's Hitler Youth", because we know that dictators target specifically the youngest generation to be able to take over the entire country in a sort of cult of personality autocracy.