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Paul Stamets would be a good example of a stage yellow environmentalist

I think it's really cool that you've recognized all this and want to change it. @Etherial Cat's recommendation to interact with people of different backgrounds is great. It's really hard to hold racist/discriminatory viewpoints towards a group when you become close to members of that group. It's really easy to form the shortcut stereotype views when you only look at a group from the outside. Travel is a great way to do this. Go to another country very different from Canada, learn the language, get cozy and you'll see that we're all just ... people.

^ The best, love that guy

@1x0 yeah tardigrades are really neat. I fancy the hypothesis that they're extra-terrestrial in origin. They are very resilient and have been taken up into bare naked outer space and survived. It's more likely that their origin is terrestrial, but it would be so coooool... Maybe tardigrades will survive all our shenanigans and evolve into the next cycle of dominant intelligent life in the same way that early rodent like mammals emerged out of the dinosaur era and gave rise to us

@Elia Gottardi Wow that sounds intense, sorry you had to go through that terror. I'm glad to hear that you see that the experience was positive, but at the same time I wouldn't want people to have to go through that kind of terror since many people would genuinely be traumatized by it. It's crazy how differently 5-MeO-DMT can affect different people. I also wonder if the vaping ROA, and/or the toad venom as a source has something to do with it - it seems to me like there's more reports of the pure terror variety that come from stories of vaping and toad venom. It could be that with the toad venom the dosage is imprecise, so there's more chance of going too high with it. It could also be that the other alkaloids in the venom complicate matters, but this I feel is not a necessary part of the explanation. I think vaping has something to do with triggering the terror experience. With vaping the onset is so fast, so there's no chance to acclimatize and accept the fear that comes, you're basically blasted right into it. With sniffing or plugging the onset is much more gradual and gentle. You definitely get the fear response as part of the experience of coming up, but I feel it's more manageable because you have time to deal with it, accept it, and surrender to the experience of being. To me sniffing or plugging seems like a more reliable and safe ROA. IIRC you can't sniff or plug the toad secretions, I think it must be vaped, so sniffing/plugging is probably only possible with synthetic salts of 5-MeO-DMT.

@gilded_honour well this is the wrong corner of the web for this kind of discussion. You need to get clever with google and find the research chemical suppliers that distribute 5-MeO-DMT. I'll say this: price varies by how much quantity you buy (of course) and if the cost per dose comes out to be more than say a meal in an average restaurant, you're paying way more than market price. Mods please delete this if it's inappropriate.

I agree that it's unlikely that we humans will make ourselves extinct. We will probably be the last animal to go. What will be more likely to happen is that we'll scrape the planet clean of most of the ecosystems and leave it a very barren, anthropocentric place. The reptiles, amphibians and insects will be wiped out, most all but the smallest sized fish populations will be fully harvested and collapsed, all the remaining megafauna will be wiped out. Most forests will be cleared or burned, the remaining forests will be second-growth managed tree farms. The reefs will be dead, the ice caps melted. Jellyfish will abound. Bacteria and other microscopic life will proliferate because of faster evolutionary cycles and being generally inedible to humans. The oil will be mostly gone, we'll be relying on more expensive sources like wind, solar and nuclear. Commercial fusion will be 30 years away. Humans will be fine, albeit living in a much more arid, boring, paved planet. We'll be living in air-conditioned HEPA filtered boxes, eating synthetic meat, drinking soda, and plugged into much more sensational VR most of the time. We're racing towards ecosystem collapse, but we'll always take care of #1.

I don't think we really talk about prices of drugs on here. You could look on the web and find out for yourself. Anyways, compared to the magnitude of the experience in your life it could cost 100x as much and still be irrelevant. It's priceless

We're not really talking about DMT here. And you're contradicting yourself

Yes I know, that's what I'm trying to point out. The person claims that mental states are physiological in nature, meaning that underlying phisiology causes the mental state that we experience. The argument to counter this is that we don't really know about the link between the mental experience and the measurable physiological state. It could be that both are caused by a 3rd underlying source, or that the mental state is the cause of the physiological reaction, or vice versa. Perhaps the observable physiological reactions are what it looks like when mind occupies the matter we call brains. This is a debate that his been raging for millennia, you're not going to be able to settle it. The truth is we don't know and we can't answer this debate at this time, or maybe ever. It's not even clear that the question is an askable one, it could be nonsense.

Sorry I haven't read through this whole thread so I hope I'm not being repetitive, but correlation doesn't imply causation. Yes, measurable phisiological conditions can be correlated with mental states, but it's possible that they are both expressions of an underlying fabric.

Amazing, sounds like you're setting things up really well! I'd love to be able to do this kind of thing at some point in my life. I'm not sure if you have a meditation practice already, but you might add that on to your regime leading up to this if possible. I've found meditation to be enormously valuable in helping to prepare the mind space for 5-MeO-DMT.

I don't think it would be a bad idea to use Ayahuasca as a "warm up" to 5-MeO-DMT. (I think some brews actually have some 5-MeO-DMT containing plants in there too btw, but probably not ever as the predominant push) There's no reason you need to jump in the deep end with 5-MeO-DMT though. You could work your way up in dosage to get a feel for it so that you're never at the point of risking a panic attack. I would highly recommend you approach it this way. Being well experienced with psychedelics, you should have no problems with 5-MeO. It's different from all of the other psychedelics, but it's not completely terra incognita, there are aspects of the 5-MeO-DMT experience wrapped up in the other classics. It's just that 5-MeO-DMT focuses on that one aspect of the psychedelic experience. Try a very small dose at first, work your way up as you become comfortable with it.

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Yes, my member is highly enlightened.

Full lotus or tailor/Burmese are very good postures for meditation. Seiza too. If you can manage them, great. If you're close then it's worth working towards. If you're not, it doesnt really matter, whatever works for you. Side note - I've found half lotus isnt very great because it's off balance, your spine has to have a crook in it.

For plugging you want HCl or oxalate. Freebase is likely fine too, but it could be a bit harsh on your insides. For vaping you want freebase. The maximum enlightenment potential comes down to going deep, relax and accept into it. Allow it to take you where it will, put down any ideas to steer or interfere.

Nice report, thanks. My observation agrees with yours regarding addiction/habit. It can be habit forming; before you know it the weed becomes the end in itself, rather than the means, and it can happens without you really noticing. Luckily it's really easy to stop once you do notice the habit. I do still have a tiny smoke/edible once in a while though. I like it for the occasional perspective shift, or immersive creative session. Insights are independent of the way you got to them, so it's no surprise that you could both get to the same insight through different routes. The insight isn't contained in the weed, it just catalyzed those insights for Victor.

I this like the enlightenment version of the Turing Test?

Sounds like a great setting. If you've tried 200µg of the same batch, you should have a good idea of what 300µg will be like, and can make the call on whether you are up for it. IME LSD scales pretty linearly. The hour hike doesn't sound so far to me. You'll have hours during your trip. Pretty good idea to bring a tent so you could camp out and have some shelter. Make sure you'll never have to operate a motor vehicle while high. Take a bike if needed.

What kind of outdoors setting are you thinking about?

He is make the distinction between the psychedelic class of "substances" and other mind altering "substances". If you're not clear on what defines a classic psychedelic, it's the class of drugs that act as serotonin receptor agonists. This group includes LSD, magic mushrooms, 5-MeO-DMT, mescaline, 2C-B, DMT, ayahuasca to name a few of the most well known. It's similar to how you could encourage someone to eat less hamburger in their diet, but eat more broccoli. They are both food, but very different kinds of food.

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They average around 30-40% effective, something like that. Might not sound good, but when you're talking about vulnerable populations like the elderly, or health care providers, it saves lives.

If you're the kind of person who freaks out on acid it's probably not safe indoors or outdoors. But otherwise I think it's safe yeah. Most of my best trips have been outdoors. It's good to have some shelter to retreat to if needed - at some point you'll need to take a shit, or you'll be hungry and that sandwich you packed seems disgusting. Or you'll need some different clothes, or a shower... If you're on a mac it's option + m µµµµ edit: ^ Lol of course @Socrates uses a greek keyboard