Forestluv

There is no one to reject or accept a perspective. At the human level, the personality dynamic is highly complex and nuanced. Attachment and identification is deeply conditioned into the mind. The deeper we go, the more subtle attachments/identification can be.

I would say one example of turquoise is direct experience with social fields of consciousness.

Nice learnings.

There is no one to take ownership of a perspective, just like there is no one to take ownership of a birdsong. There is no my perspective and your perspective. Simply appearances. At the human level, be mindful of dismissing perspectives. The human mind is conditioned to hold one perspective and become attached to, and identified with, that perspective. This creates disturbances in the mind-body. The mind can simultaneously hold multiple perspectives, including contradictory perspectives, and be at peace.

@SoonHei Yes, I've done it three times at 90min. - each time yielding a novel conscious space. I would recommend renting a head pillow, if available. Listen to the guide's instructions prior to entering the tank. My first time, I spent the first 10min. trying to figure out how to turn off the background music because I didn't pay attention to the instructions. Then, the next 5min. regretting that I lost the first 10min. Once in the tank, do NOT touch your face. My first time, I scratched my cheek and my eyes burned for the first 15min. Completely let go and relax. If there is some body tension, just further relax. Similarly with mental tension. The mind-body might think it's supposed to be a certain way and start fidgeting. I didn't find that helpful. Just keep letting go and enter deeper and deeper levels of relaxation into the emptiness. Then cool stuff may arise.

One might say the personality arises within consciousness. The human mind is conditioned to become attached to, and identify with, personality constructs. Detachment and dis-identification is a process.

There is no thing to see.

All words are distinctions. At the human level, minds like to interpret and assign meaning. At the absolute level, it has no more relevance than bird chirps.

Thoughts and images arise. That’s a feature of minds. One key for the absolute to be revealed is to surrender all, including attachment and identification with thoughts and images.

@Ethankahn It seems like your mind is still thinking and imagining. All thoughts and images are relative. One surrenders all distinctions to become aware prior to all distinctions.

@Ethankahn When the null void revealed itself, this type of thinking ended.

All distinctions collapse.

@Ethankahn Your mind is still making distinctions. It doesn’t look like Mu has revealed itself. And welcome to the forum. That is a very contemplative post.

@Igor82 Nice to see you went with the flow and had a pleasant, insightful trip. Low doses have a similiar effect on me. It’s nice to have a low intensity, short duration tool to boost my baseline consciousness level. It sounds like you have a great mind set and I look forward to the 15mg report.

To Infinity and Beyond! -Buzz Lightyear

That assumes an objective external reality. . .

At the human level, it’s relative / subjective. You decide your values and when something strays outside of that, you might consider it a problem. You may also try to get in touch with your intuition and what disturbs you. Yet, there is no external objective universal tool to designate something as a “problem”. At the absolute level, there are no problems as the ego perceives them.

Anxiety reduction is not a common feature of LSD. Generally it is neutral or increases anxiety. Creative enhancement would be considered a feature of LSD. Yet LSD is not any more anxiety inducing than shrooms. If you were ok on shrooms, you should be ok on a comparable dose of LSD. If your intention is to simpky open creative channels without anxiety and things getting weird, I’d reccommend a smallish dose in the 50-70ug range. You might also want to consider micro dosing for creative enhancement.

Great. That is plenty for multiple trips in case the first is underwhelming or whacky. If you’ve got anxiety issues, I’d recommend 1.5g. If you don’t have anxiety issues, or have worked through ucomfortable periods with edible cannibis, I’d recommend 2g. I would eat healthy the days prior to the trip and avoid things like alcohol, fatty meats etc. I would eat them on an empty, or near empty stomach. If there is nausea, it won’t necessarily last the whole trip. Sometimes I get moderate nausea on the comeup and then it settles down.

Are you able to get enough shrooms for three trips? Perhaps 6 grams or so? One cannot predict what will arise during a trip. On one trip, one could get naseous, throw up and think they are in a simulated reality, on another trip go into a blissful state of listening to music and on another trip receive deeply profound insights that 20 years of meditation wouldn’t have revealed. Plus, you could find out you have a naturally high tolerance to the substance and need to do another trip with a higher dose. There are a lot of variables at play. Before my Ayahuasca retreat, people recommended I do at least three ceremonies. I’m glad I did. Each one was very different. The powerful enlightening experience came during the second ceremony. The 1st and 3rd ceremonies were great, yet the 2nd one was by far the most profound experience of my life. I’m still integrating lessons two years later. As well, I tripped on San Pedro three times. Again, one of the trips was much more profound than the other two. Based on what I’ve read and my own my experience, with three trips there is a good chance one will be deeply profound. Based on your intention, I would suggest a moderate dose of 1.5-2g.

@joeyi99 I would get enough to do at least three trips as your initial experience. Dosage, mindset and setting are all important variables. I would contine to practice meditation leading up to the first trip and set up a familiar, peaceful meditative setting. The dosage depends on your intention. Do you want a boost to your meditation practice and have insights that are easily integrated into your life? Or perhaps to surrender the self and enter a nondual realm that would reveal a deeper awakening, yet would be more intense and difficult to integrate into life? Or perhaps somewhere in between? Or perhaps just a test drive to see if this might be a good spiritual tool for you? It’s like deciding to take a trip away from home and asking “how far from home should I travel? Should I travel to the local park, to the next country over, around the world to China or to the moon?”

I’ve found self inquiry to be a relatively advanced practice that needs a baseline level of mind relaxation. It’s just not effective with a busy mind. I would work on establishing a consistent basic meditation practice. Once the mind can consistently settle down, then add in self inquiry.

Be mindful of making pre-judgements without study and experience. Each of those tools can be effective or ineffective depending on the person. An egoic mindset likes to think that what is good for me is best for everyone.

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