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I simply hold the postition of not knowing when it comes to aliens. It's not like having a belief on this matter changes anything, so why have one? Believing that they haven't visited Earth, would require me to to change position when it turns out to be wrong, and if I had a positive opinion on that, then I would have to search for evidence and constantly explain myself. Why bother?

@Alex_R I actually feel like DMT is easier for newbies as it last soo short. From my experience best introduction to psychedelics is 50 mg insufflated DPT or, if someone gets turned off by the idea of snorting drugs, 225 ug AL-LAD

If you have liked Laloux's work, then you will also like Corporate Rebels - Joost Minnaar, Pim de Morree. Corporate Rebels is their brand, but also the title of their first book. It tells stories of some great, inspiring, stage Yellow businesses. Currently reading it. The first chapter didn't impress my though. There is some point in reading books, that you reach after reading lots, where it gets hard to find something that will blow you away, haha.

@Breakingthewall 12 times. It has been my first psychedelic ever actually. Full effects, peak + coming down, last 6 hours and it is not an experience as deep as LSD.

I am positive about high doses of shrooms, you just need a perfect setting for 4 hours, when the most intense effects happen. You have to be ready to get pinned for 2 hours to your sofa not being able to move from the bodyload if you happen to get it, otherwise, great experience. No matter how twisted the trip is, I maintain full consciousness over how much time has passed, which is super helpful in not freaking out. If you don't have that ability and can get fooled that you are "trapped in a loop" or something, then make your own judgement wheter you are able to bear it. I think LSD has harsher mindspace than shrooms. Shrooms are easier to manage. LSD is more spiritual, too, though. And better for thinking about complex ideas, refining insights. LSD overall is the superior psychedelic, haha. I would like to have something in my collection that is exactly like LSD, but lasts 3-4 hours.

Here you go @Intraplanetary Allan Dib - The 1-Page Marketing Plan Cal Newport - Deep Work Cal Newport - So Good They Can't Ignore You Frederic Laloux - Reinventing Organizations (Stage Yellow book about doing business and management. Opens your eyes to what is possible in that game.) George Leonard - Mastery (Do not mistake with Robert Greene's scheisse) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Good Business (It's a Yellow book actually, but so what) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Flow MJ DeMarco - The Millionaire Fastlane (The amateur sociology part of the book sucks, conflating stage Green with stage Red and calling it all "Sidewalk", while Blue is "Slowlane" and Orange is "Fastlane", otherwise AAA book, the best one on becoming entrepreneur.) Peter Senge - The Fifth Discipline (It's an early Yellow book from the 90., worthwhile read for any business owner, is an intro to systems thinking.) Ryan Honeyman - The B Corp Handbook (Stage Green book on having a conscious business, not sacrificing your values for money. It includes and improves on stage Orange ideas.) Seth Godin - Purple Cow Seth Godin - This is Marketing Simon Sinek - Start With Why Harvard Business Review - 10 Must Reads on Managing People Harvard Business Review - 10 Must Reads on Managing People, Vol. 2 Harvard Business Review - 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself (Unabridged) Jack Canfield - The Success Principles Michael Gerber - The E-Myth Revisited Michael Porter - Competitive Strategy (Business 101, it's a classic academic book.)

@Chi_ He has said that he now only eats chicken with salt, until his serious gut problems heal.

10/10 Leo would probably say 8/10, because Bernardo is not God-realized, haha.

Ah, I have forgotten Strasssman, but you already have read something from him, soo Martin Ball and Christopher M. Bache are the most practical authors on my list.

@gggkkk I can recommend you a few books. There are no practical books about psychedelics, as the most practical thing is just to take them, haha, but a few of them might catch your attention. Here are the books I have read, alphabetical order, favourites in bold: Aldous Huxley - Island (Literary classic, it's very interesting to read Brave New World first, written before Huxley discovered psychedelics, and then the Island, which is a reply to that story changing the vision of the future from dystopia to some kind of low-key, realistic utopia.) Ayelet Waldman - A Really Good Day (Book about microdosing, written by a normie who had nothing to do with psychedelics, interesting.) Brian C. Muraresku - The Immortality Key (Newest anthropology book about ancient drug use, also touches on subjects of pagan death cults and pagan-christianity continuity theory. Written by a researcher who has never done psychedelics, on purpose, so his work doesn't get demonized or labeled as ravings of a lunatic. Interesting as fuck.) Carl L. Hart - Drug Use for Grown-Ups (Responsible drug use, decriminalization advocacy, full of captivating personal stories. Dr Carl Hart is someone who wears his heart on his sleeve. Great guy.) Christopher M. Bache - LSD and the Mind of the Universe (Story of a hardcore philosopher who dosed extremely strong LSD doses twice a year for decades to do his research.) James Fadiman - Psychedelic Explorer's Guide (Oldie, not that goldie anymore, haha. The content of this book is normal knowledge on the internet nowadays.) Jim DeKorne - Psychedelic Shamanism (Dangers of choosing that path. Some interesting points made.) Mark Fisher - K-Punk Politics (Has a chapter at the end from his never finished book about "Acid Communism", because of the suicide he commited. ) Martin Ball - Being Human (READ THIS SHIT, the finest biography of the finest 5-MeO-DMT researcher) Martin Ball - Being Infinite Martin Ball - Entheogenic Liberation Martin Ball - God's Handbook Michael Pollan - How to Change Your Mind (Various interviews, stories and a personal adventure of discovering something new. Typical Pollan's book, but about psychedelics. Great.) Rupert Sheldrake - Ways to Go Beyond and Why They Work (Has chapter on psychedelics if I remeber correctly, but overall it's a worthwhile book. Rupert is similar to Leo in my opinion.)

@Pilgrimage of Self When you start doing Vipassana the recommended path is something like that: you go on a 10-day meditation retreat, then after it practice meditation 2 times a day for 1 hour, you do that by reducing the amount you sleep by 1 hour, so it effectively takes only 1 hour from your day, then you strive to attend at least one 10-day retreat a year. Something like four 10-day retreats or one month-long would be ideal, but often not feasible. The 4-hour a day, month-long retreats are cool too, they just require lots of determination. You would have, if you had done 5 x 100-hour long retreats. But 500 hours dispersed daily throughout 5 years? Unlikely.

If you were talking about Buddha or Muhammad the way you talk Jesus, the people would have the same issue with your behavior. It's not about content, but delivery.

@EntheogenTruthSeeker You are too open. You need to balance openness with groundedness, otherwise you are just acting crazy. Read Peter Ralston's "The Book of Not Knowing" if you haven't done that yet. It would be very helpful to you. Look for chapters about "Grounded Openness" and any chapter about bullshit.

Take it. Don't look for herbal alternatives in that case, because if doctor's antibiotics are a grenade, then herbal alternatives are napalm air deployment all month long. That something is natural doesn't mean it's gentle or more holistic. You are good, you have a diagnosis. It's way worse when you have just IBS without a known cause, becuase it adds up to the stress. But, H. Pylori, it's a daily bread for gastroenterologist, they should be able to help you.

@Thetruthseeker That's why they are Green and not Yellow, hah. I don't know of any stage Yellow person who's anti-vaxxer, at some point in your cognitive development such notions start to seem stupid. The thing is, you can be Green with a terrible epistemology. Like all the stuff with crystals, astrology, etc., it's 90% bullshit, and when you start to ask people for reasons why they adopt these believes you can get really scared. I have a female friend who does yoga, some full-moon prayers and stuff like that and... oh man, the way she makes sense out of the world, it terrifies me. I lack words to describe what is scary about it, but it's like she lacks some mental tools to distinguish what's worthwhile of trust and what's not. She also holds strong belief on topics she has no idea about and has no willingness to learn about them. It's not dogmatism per se, but some stage Green version of it.

@PonchoTheWizard Minty's is a niche, but very practical YT channel. Love it. Man, I can't rave enough about the emesh method. I think I will buy a few spares in case something faults. Golden method. Vaped 25 mg today, it's like a dream.

You would be better off if you have been doing like special weekends when you meditate 12 hours a day, or do a month of meditation where you meditate 4 hours per day for a month. Otherwise, you are not really aiming at Enlightment, but maybe stress/anxiety-management.

Okay, I might have some ideas for you, radical or not, you might like them. So, let's start point by point. Cabin, I have thought it through, is not really a sustainable choice. You can have higher level of living and more possibilites living in a small apartment in the city. Costs are similar, cabins are actually quite expensive. You don't need to live in the forest to do spiritual work, haha. And you are young, so sex oppurtinities, etc. Having a girlfriend/boyfriend (whatever rocks your boat) is cool, you can move to a cabin when you are older. Could be possible, but there's a lot of competition of people who love this job and also what if you would be mediocre at it as you are at IT jobs, wouldn't that also be psychologically draining? For an easy job for an easy buck, I suggest helping younger students with Maths. It should be easy for you to find clients, because of having Computer Science-related degree. It's good money, nice job, better rates than entry graphic design jobs, you set the hours. I would only go for the web/graphic design if you want to build sales skills, because that's the only reasonable way to make good money there, to be a great marketer. You can go serve on retreats, do volountering from Workaway.info, etc. for two years if you have such a need. Good option if you want to explore the world and meet interesting people. Possible, but hard to do. Need some education in that direction or a lot of connections. You would have to save some money and buy tickets to the psychedelic conferences whenever you can attend one, check your local drug activism organizations, or become a great entertainer and start psychedelic-related YT channel, TikTok, or whatever social network shit there will be in the future. Only you can know how much you love running. If you want to know a perspective of someone who did decide to pursue that path, then Rich Roll has written a cool book called "Finding Ultra". Journey from obese lawyer to ultra-marathon runner. If you have waited for so long, then I would wait till the end of school and do it as a big event to end that chapter of life and start a new one, just how Leo described in of his best epsiodes "Life Unfolds in Phases..." or something like that, I don't remember the exact title.

Tried it. Doesn't work. I mean I feel the effects, but they are nothing? Vaping 40 mg in 4 rounds would make more sense because the 10 mg feels like a trip and not just post-yoga effects like the 5 mg dose does.

OMG! This is THE method. Flawless, one-click launch. It was all true, no exaggeration, the best thing. My setup is iStick Pico + knock-off Digiflavor Mesh Pro RDA + VandVape mesh 150 316L + I have had to buy 510 to Ego/510 adapter to make space for the RDA, because the Digiflavor is too big for the Pico. It's better to buy Aegis like in the photo posted by @TheAlchemist, but if you have another brand of vape it's good to know that maybe you can fit the RDA on it with an adapter. Found some glass tube and mounted it with a rubber on top. The smoke has no taste, nothing, just goes into your lungs, puff, it's gone. Like breathing normal air. You can see through the glass pipe exactly when to stop inhaling. No recrystallization. Digiflavor is easy to load, can't vouch for other RDAs. My settings on Pico are standard TC-SS mode, I don't know what TCR value is set in that mode, but not the right one for that 316L steel mesh, for sure, haha. But it works when set to 160C degrees I am kind of sad when I think about how much spice I have wasted by trying to make the ceramic cup method work. But there's no reason to be sad anymore because I have found Love. eMesh gang unite! Make yourself visible and comment on your experiences. https://www.reddit.com/r/MintyLove/comments/m7s5co/mod_boxes_suitable_for_direct_emesh_in_tc_modes/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MintyLove/comments/m7rqjm/rdas_suitable_for_direct_emesh/ I have bought my stuff from AliExpress. Works in Europe, might be not available in the USA.

Not always. I mean the people in ashrams are not always the most hardcore seekers, some people who come to such places care more about taking care of flowers and cooking dinners for others, not really pursuing truth. Jack Haubner, an ex-monk from the Ken Wilber circle has written books that describe some of the bullshit that goes in ashrams. Edit: Oh I have almost forgot, being a groupie for the master, that sometimes also a reason to join a monastery. Though, being molested is not fun, some people really have weird fantasies. Also, serious practicioners meditate in their own micro meditation rooms, I forgot how are they called. Even Vipassana retreats often have them.

@Tanz No, it shouldn't. Don't spread misinformation. Some people need higher dosages. But they need to be aware of risks, that their method might have been wrong etc. And that when they get it right accidentaly the trip might get very strong. Also, 5-MeO-DMT might not be the right substance for some, everyone has to make their own judgment of how high are they willing to dose and when it's better to just abondon the substance.

I haven't taken it yet, but it does sound like 5-MeO-DMT, considering that reagents match it's probably it. What ROA did you use? What you describe is a strong psychedelics experience, a little too much to get comfortable. It's dicey at these dosages, because if it's not enough for you to completely get lost in the experience then you will be left with an intense body load and suffering. If it's not your goal to deliberately explore those extreme dosages, then you should stick to lower doses. If you go to PsychonautWiki and look at the dosage chart of any psychedelic, a dose called "Heavy" will give similar effects to what you describe, regardless of what the substance is.

What the "OSHO wasn't using drugs"? He has been inhaling nitrous oxide. It's even not redacted from his books, which are really his talks transcripted and edited by his followers.

@ShardMare It will come with age, if you work at least a little bit on it. Check out Charlie from Charisma on Command channel on YouTube, he has some good tips. Watch the videos, do the exercises, you will become quite charismatic, quite fast. He also has a video course for $597, which is pricey as hell, but full of structured exercises. It's a quality product, but doesn't even come close to the price/quality ratio of the Leo's course, haha. You know what I would do? I would watch videos on Charlie's channel and try to put them into action. Gain some experience, for a month or two let's say, and then trip on 100 mcg LSD and try to understand how charisma works even deeper and integrate it into your personality. But nothing will work if you don't put the work in.