outlandish

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  1. When @Emerald types up one of her long ass posts, it's totally worth reading. Good observation. I never thought about that dynamic of how men's attraction starts at the loins and moves up, whereas women's attraction starts at the head and moves down. Of course this is archetypes, real people are more of a mixture and complex. @F A B I really like that book, but I think like Leo said, you have to take everything with a pinch of salt, you can't be too literal about anything you read. Also, it sounds very likely that you have shed a relationship that wasn't quite of the quality you're looking for.
  2. Valid topic! It's really easy to dish out those sorts of replies. It's worth taking a good look at our own motivation for the words we choose IRL and on this forum. Look out for: regurgitation trying to appear in a particular way giving advice that the recipient isn't ready for Of course nothing's inherently bad about saying these sorts of things. It's just more of the same game we humans are always playing.
  3. @TobyI don't know, this is just from what I've observed in myself and people around me. Yeah maybe alcohol helps some people, kind of doubt it though. It mostly seems to cloud judgement and bring out the worst in people IME. I'm not a puritan or anything, I drink occasionally myself, but I do think I'd generally be a better and healthier person if I didn't.
  4. @Dan94 The way you measure extremely potent chemicals like LSD with standard milligram scales is by using liquid volumetric measurement. Basically you weigh out a measurable quantity of the drug, then you dissolve it all in liquid. Then you can measure off portions of that liquid for individual doses. For example: Say you have 10mg of LSD. You weight that on your scale (+/- 1mg say). You then dissolve the LSD in 10mL of pure distilled water, or ethanol. Now you have a solution of 1mg per 1mL of liquid. Using a pipette or precise syringe you can measure off 0.1mL doses of your solution, which will each contain 90-110µg of LSD - a standard but fairly strong dose of LSD.
  5. Alan Watts was enlightened despite his relationship with alcohol, certainly not because of it. Not saying any of us disagree, just want to point this out for readers. Sometimes people turn to alcohol as a reaction against awakening. It's like an ego backlash in a way, it's a gauze mask that dulls the intensity of truth and brings us back to comfortable safe unrealized self.
  6. When I was about 5 my parents were meditating a lot and they shared a storybook about the life of the Buddha, and it talked about how he became enlightened. I only partially grasped it, but I think it made a bit of sense intuitively at that age. I remember trying to meditate with them and being very distracted, not being able to sit still, and my parents telling me not to worry about it because I was already enlightened haha. I think I did actually understand that enlightenment was inherent but that I was unable to realize it, and that my parents were kind of letting me off the hook, if that makes sense. So I think a young child can understand these things a bit, but I also think that it's unnecessary. More important at that age, I feel, is just to help them in the nitty gritty of attachments and emotions, help them deal with their own suffering in those moments, and model the right approach to life. My kids are about the same age as yours, and that's my approach right now anyways. They've done a little bit of meditation and I think they kind of get it. It's never something that I put on them, just up to them.
  7. Nice report @Adilbek! Yes this stuff definitely works haha I love how you are carefully working your way up in dosage with this, that's exactly the way to approach it. Don't worry too much about checking out the "visuals" on 5-MeO-DMT, what you do see can mostly be regarded as a distraction, and it's not really meant to be to visual (compared to other classical psychedelics) anyways. Personally, I'm like @Arthur in that my 5-MeO-DMT trips have been very peaceful externally. I like to tell the people that I live with what I'm doing for my own peace of mind, just so that I don't feel like I'm hiding something, rather than for their benefit. If you don't feel like you need to inform your housemates you may find that you're fairly peaceful on it as well as you work up in dose. Once I had a big breakthrough, and emitted the deepest belly laugh as I came out of the realization and back into the dual+ universe. I was sure I woke up the whole house because the dogs in the neighbourhood started barking in a chain reaction! They heard me for sure, but in the morning none of the people in my house noticed.
  8. I think some ayahuasca brews contain 5-MeO-DMT as is - The classic ayahuasca brew is made from DMT + an MAOI, but sometimes the shaman adds 5- MeO-DMT plants too, or even really dangerous ones like scopolamine deleriants. Ayahuasca can be a real shit mix of drugs, I find it really sketchy and probably won't ever bother. Most people have extremely positive experiences with ayahuasca, and there's good reason for it's surge of popularity, but I don't think it's for me.
  9. Leo's right, it's better to not combine psychedelics. There are enough variables just working with one, let alone when you start combining them. There are safety concerns with certain types of combos as well, so you really need to do your homework if you go down that route. @Cudin your combo sounds pretty safe to me, although ginko gives me a headache so I never use it myself. MDMA is extremely well studied now, it's one of the most studied pharmaceuticals, currently in US Phase 3 trials for treating PTSD. It does not appear to have negative long-term side effects when used sparingly, and is destined to become a powerful tool for psychiatric treatment. It won't be harmful to take a moderate dose a few times in your life. It's a drug that does have some teaching to offer, especially when used in a professional therapeutic setting. It's lessons are in the realm of acceptance, love, non-judgement, which can be really powerful for people suffering from trauma, PTSD, addiction etc. However, despite this knowledge, personally I don't trust MDMA much and have only taken it a handful of times. I find that the true psychedelics have much more to offer, are safer to use, and don't have negative side-effects.
  10. It's an amazing combo, but I've only used it in a festival/rave type setting. Nonetheless it still revealed some important insights for me around love and human connection. Not more useful than a straight up LSD trip, just a different perspective. I'd agree with @Shadowraix and suggest keeping the doses lower to get the most utility (and safety) out of it. 70-100µg for the LSD and 50-80mg for the MDMA. If you start getting into higher doses it's more and more awesome but it starts becoming more of a recreational type trip rather than something useful for growth/insight. Also higher doses of MDMA will lead to a harsh comedown. There is some debate around the timing, although for me personally there's none. IMO you should dose the LSD first, then the MDMA right as your coming up to peak on the acid at around 2h in. By the time the MDMA comes on, you're already established and comfortable at the plateau of the acid, and wide open to the MDMA experience. I don't recommend using MDMA regularly at all. A few times a year, max. For me it's once a year max. I've seen long term burnouts from people abusing the drug.
  11. This is a really good example. A lot of the morality and order that we take for granted in the west has it's roots in abrahamic religions, as much as we orange, green, yellows typically don't like to acknowledge. If you trace the cultural roots of typical modern society back far enough, they look something like the way these people lived. I like how the man says that they maintain their traditions, but have abandoned the harmful parts of their old culture. This is a great example of how spiral dynamics builds up on top the previous stages to move forward. Obviously they aren't thinking about this in terms of SD, but that's what's going on.
  12. @Jeff Zhang I believe some psychedelics are not controlled substances in China. For example, 4-AcO-DMT is not controlled as far as I know, and therefore has quasi-legal status. You would need to do your own research as I'm definitely not a lawyer. 4-AcO-DMT is a high quality psychedelic, very closely related to the active compound in magic mushrooms. Most of the world's 4-AcO-DMT is produced in China AFAIK. Nonetheless, it would likely still be dangerous to order 4-AcO-DMT within China, as the society very much disapproves. You wouldn't want to have to explain to the authorities that the white powder is not a banned substance... and you might need an expensive lawyer to defend you. Another option could be to seek lysergamides, which are extremely discreet in the mail as they are distributed on blotter paper. I also recommend you try to travel to another country to experiment with psychedelics if possible. Europe or the Americas would be your safest bet. Mexico, Peru, Canada, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands come to mind as generally tolerant nations when it comes to psychedelics. Good luck.
  13. Be patient, two weeks is hardly any time to see weight loss. You could even be gaining muscle that's replacing fat right now. Keep at it, maybe dial up your efforts a little and you will see weight loss. Consistency over the very long term is the important thing. Think months and years not weeks. What is your current diet like? When do you eat? How much exercise are you actually doing? Weight loss simply comes down to burning more calories than you ingest, the different diets can be explained in those terms.
  14. I think cannabis has been helpful to some people with Parkinsons. I don't know too much about this topic, you'd have to look into that more.
  15. @Emerald that was some damn interesting insight.
  16. From the perspective of an ego there is free will (or won't) and from outside the ego there isn't. Neither are the absolute truth IMO. This is a rich topic, one of the big questions for sure.
  17. Good stuff @VictorB02 always love Alan Watts' words. Anyone else hear his voice in their head when they read that? The great Spiritual Entertainer.
  18. You can just paste the video URL in the text editor, rather than as hyperlinked text. That will make it embed.
  19. Post-modernism and liberal democracy have problems. But the alternative right now is worse. Leo's right, we don't need less green, we need more. That's the way we build up from where we're at and move forward. The big challenges that we face today as a society can be solved by green and then yellow approaches, they're exacerbated by getting stuck in orange, blue, red. Green doesn't need to shut orange and blue up, it doesn't need to be a rejection of orange and blue, it needs to build on top of orange and blue. Jordan Peterson has some solid points about free speech and the limits of society's power over the individual. But he's not worth spending too much mental energy on. He's a pretty angry righteous dude. I think he speaks some truth to what needs to be fixed on blue and orange levels, and a bunch of his stuff is getting spun out of proportion to empower some nasty red type people. He reminds my of Ayn Rand, who also had some good points, but if you follow her philosophy all the way it ends up being a miserable state of affairs.
  20. Swimming has a steeper learning curve than running and cycling, it's just a harder skill to learn. The fastest way to swim is the front crawl, radically different from the default mammalian doggy-paddle that we're probably wired for. Compare this to running, where even if you've never run a mile in your life, you're gonna have the basic idea off the couch. So I think it boils down to this: I like what @Michael569 said about needing all this muscular harmony - I don't think it comes instinctively at first, and a good amount of practice (and feedback) to dial in. I swam a lot as a kid and am lucky to still have good technique. When I go to the pool it's pretty rare that anyone swims faster than me, and it's not because I'm training at it or putting in a big effort, it's just the residual muscle memory from years of practice.
  21. Word. That scale seems to get a lot of love, and is really affordable too <$30 or so?
  22. I'm sorry man, I feel for you, when I imagine this scenario in my life it's really hard. Your daughter is lucky that she has you and that you will be there for her. One day at a time man, it will slowly heal.
  23. @Jed Vassallo unfortunately the scoops aren't calibrated specifically to 5-Meo-DMT, and densities between batches of 5-MeO-DMT can vary. The scoops can probably deliver fairly consistent doses from one scoop to the next, but unless you calibrate them with a scale, you don't really know how much you're getting in absolute terms. If you don't have access to a scale and don't want to buy one, I think your best bet would be to start with the "5mg" scoop say, see how it feels, and scale up on subsequent excursions accordingly. Be careful when reporting your doses because your "10mg" scooped dose won't actually be 10mg. Better yet, spend the $100 or so on a decent scale.
  24. @Arhattobe I'm able to abide in a state of relative non-thinking at times, during meditation or while doing simple things, yet aside from rare deep moments of stillness, there's yet a background murmur or hubub of thought chit-chat bubbling away in the background. Sort of mind activity just below the surface of consciousness, sub-thoughts bubbling away. Occasionally, in the most profound moments of stillness even these fall silent. I'm wondering, when you say you go about your life without "thinking", do you still experience this kind of background chatter? Or does that fall away too in a prevalent way?