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It's perfectly valid for @Annoynymous to be asking these questions here. Any topic could be answered with "google it", but sometimes it's interesting to get the perspective of people on this forum anyways. Perfect resources though @SgtPepper!

^ I was going to say the same thing. Can you bust your ass for a couple of years and pull both off? It will never be a bad thing to have an MBA under your belt. Even if your life course takes you 100% down the route of entrepreneurship you will learn so many valuable things in your MBA, and it never hurts to have that credibility.

Yes it brought major changes in western society, and globally too. It's hard to summarize it in a post on a forum, entire books could be (and have been) written on the subject. The simple summary would be to say that western/rich culture moved from stage blue to stage orange and green. Much of the hippie movement jumped from their parents' stage blue and early orange straight to early green, and then ended up backsliding to advanced orange as they aged. I might try to add to this later.

Haha you starfuckers... careful Leo... Better not do Vancouver yet, Eckhart Tolle might show up and challenge you to a non-dual jedi duel. You'll need to level up a few more notches first. jk that guy is chill af

Many "spiritual" people wear their spirituality like a gucci handbag. Often the people who don't display their spirituality outwardly in an obvious manner have the deepest understanding. Careful not to judge people either way.

London England is a really good idea. It would be more expensive to get there and be there, but just plan on filling more seats. People would be big into it over there and it would be a cool trip.

You just tell them you're not into it, and try to not judge them for continuing. If you can suspend judgement, let them know that you're OK with them doing it so that the situation doesn't become adversarial. I don't hunt or eat animals, but I have respect for people who carefully hunt for food. Farmers too. So many people mindlessly buy meat from the grocery store, completely disconnected from the act of killing (or raising) the animal which they are consuming. At least hunters are face to face with the reality of the situation and have to be real about it. Another cool thing about hunters is that they generally support preservation of wild spaces, for obvious reasons. I read something about lead ending up in hunted meat from the bullets, which is a good heath reason to not hunt, or at least use different shot/bows.

No meaning, it will pass. I've had that before and it went away once I stopped fussing over. Until then, sounds like it's a useful tool on your dashboard to let you know you are indeed in meditation mode. You could pretend it's your 3rd eye chakra opening up or some shit like that if it makes you feel better

@PsiloPutty

Does a dog have buddha nature?

10mg is fine for someone experienced. I'm talking snorted, not sure about plugged potency vs. insuffl. I think those ROAs are pretty close in strength. In any case it never hurts to start even lower. My first dose was 6mg or something, despite being very experienced with psychedelics. It's always good to get a sense for the full range of a psychedelic, and gain practice.

Listen to your gut on when to trip, knowing that with 5-MeO-DMT there is very little tolerance build up. For me personally, Leo's schedule would be too aggressive, as I need more time in between to integrate. However, there is great value in striking the iron while it's hot, so if the vibes are right for you, go for it. I don't think 5mg would possibly be strong enough to induce a "freak out" but it is enough to get your toes wet and have a taste. It's a good place to start. Very good idea to work your way up in dosage to get a feel and build your confidence, and also to establish your rituals and methods around it.

Good question, I don't have an answer to it. My best try at an answer is to read from a diversity of high quality and critical journalistic news sources. The Guardian, The Economist, New Scientist, BBC, CBC, NPR, Al Jazeera, Washington Post.

Yeah it was a huge cultural movement, something my parents were part of, and that I was kind of born out of. It wasn't just USA if that's what you mean by America, but all of western/rich civilizations had at least some degree of this revolution. It basically started in the 60s and extended into the early 70s. It was a youth rebellion that (on the surface at least) rejected traditional cultural norms that we identify as stage blue/orange here. It was tied in with rock n' roll, protest, civil rights, eastern mysticism, psychedelics, long hair and so on. It was the post second world war baby boomers, who were a demographic juggernaut, coming of age and upturning the culture of the time. There are still echoes of this revolution today that are continuing to build on what happened then, and you can also see the same revolution play out on smaller scales in many "generation gap" scenarios, especially with 1st generation immigrant families where often you see the children rejecting old world culture.

No one can make the decision for you, it's is something you have to decide for yourself. I can offer some input on the matter. How old are you? As a general rule, psychedelics are not for teens, you should be an adult before you test the waters with psychedelics. If you're not an adult yet, there is your answer. Taking them because you feel like you should or feel like you ought to not a good reason. It is not something anyone is obliged to do, there is no reason to think everyone should take them. Don't pressure yourself into it. The reason to take them is because you want to. It could be out of curiosity, desire for introspection/self-growth, or even just plain old fun (yes psychedelics can be super fun and that's not a bad thing!), or any other number of good reasons. The fundamental thing is that you use psychedelics because you want to, not because you've been told to, or because you've gotten the impression from actualized.org or the internet that it's something you're "supposed" to do. It's a bit like sex that way.

Not too late at all go for it. I think you're probably smart to delay it a bit, means you have the perspective to know what you want to pursue. Lots of people I know wasted years in university studying a field they ended up not being interested in.

Great post! I've been thinking a lot about this dude lately. Perhaps there wasn't the sufficient context in his era to express it in the terms of our current understanding. I don't know, this is just conjecture. He obviously understood deeper than most about this stuff.

This is a great exercise! I have layers of bullshit on top of bullshit. For example I pretend to be interested in talking to someone even when I'm not, in order to not be rude or hurt someones feelings by brushing them off. Yet underneath that is an actual desire to connect with the person, which I've bullshitted myself out of by being impatient and thinking I dont want to talk to this guy. So I end up having doubullshit conversation when I could have had a more authentic and intimate interaction. It's one of my goals to live a more authentic and intimate life. There's a danger here in swinging to the other bullshit extreme that you see in hippie personalities where interaction can become a forced kind of intimacy that is equally bullshit. So it comes down to authenticity.

Yes it's possible. You can quiet your mind until all that's left is a kind of background hum of neural subcircuits/subconscious chittering away without catching your conscious mind's attention. You can get used to these moments, and then still even further until that hum becomes silent and all you're left with is unconditioned awareness. I cant say I've spent a lot of time in this headspace, but a little bit and it's real and possible.

I think the culture is important too. They have a culture in a lot of these villages where everyone runs, it's *the* sport in these areas, whereas in a lot of euro/american culture running is often seen as a punishment! I think that environment makes a big difference. Genetics must play a big role too for sure. These east africans probably have persistence hunters more direct in their ancestry than the average european does for example. But none of that is any good without the training

Maybe we're disconnected because we sit around in front of computers TVs and phones and living in our heads instead of our beautiful bodies? I've never met an athlete that was disconnected from his/her body. I've never felt disconnected from my body after sweating it out that's for sure.

No I totally agree; you don't need to go balls to the wall all the time. You need to push the needle into the red from time to time, but mostly not. Kenyan endurance runners for example, as you know, spend most of their running time at a very light easy pace that probably any average runner could keep up with. I just mean that a lot of people feel like they're doing really well by going to the gym twice a week, and they ARE doing well because by comparison to the average lump they're actually doing something with their bodies. But we're really built and optimized to be *much* more active than that.

@kieranperez lol

Real estate, preferably for your own shelter and then as rental secondary. Don't fuck around with investments until you have that taken care of. Continue with your life.

That's badass, nice. I just want to do a 5 minute mile ? maybe I can hope to get to 4:40 some day, I can see my improvements constantly. It's exciting to notice there are quite a few runners in here, this came up in some other thread. Abundant physical activity is a foundation that's overlooked by so many because we live in a society that's radically lazy. Most people are getting 5% of the exercise they need for optimal human existence, so when a person does 20% they feel like a champ and pack it in, but could go to 200% and really thrive.