Carl-Richard

Ketamine = think Steve-O Rise and Demise. Pyrazolam = think xannies and driving off the road and not knowing where you have been the last two hours. That's just not true. (Ar)modafinil is sanctified crack. A drug dealer I knew used to be on them.

@Ramasta9 Like what is one meal you would eat?

What do you eat in a day?

Non-dual understanding is One. No two ways about it. When I sat in class and had an experience of time stopping, was that me awakening onto time being an illusion? Was that me having an Absolute Time awakening? Or is it the fact that the non-dual experience of course has no time because time is a duality between past and present, between moment to moment, and non-duality is just one moment. All of my awakenings have had timelessness to them. It's just in some of them I get fixed on the timeless aspect, because again, that's how our attention and conceptual mind works. It's limited, piecemeal.

Mhm. That makes sense. Breh they are in distinct pharmacological classes. In what way are you comparing them?

That's basically impossible today if you don't have at least some scientific credentials. This is maybe the closest thing we've come to a debate around the materialist limitations of science on an academic platform: Rupert Sheldrake (the materialist critic wildcard) has a PhD and publishes science actively.

I'm sorry if we're only on visual aesthetics, but this song plays at my gym sometimes, and it's probably one of the worst song I've ever heard. It's beyond Rebecca Black levels of amateur. Point out one aspect and I will tell you how it's aesthetically bad.

Thanks to Rali for showing me this song ❤️

I could add that dopamine is of course not bad, but you want dopamine at the right moment, at the right time, under your control and driven by your wants and desires, what you find important and relevant. If you're driven by a meaningful goal, that's highly dopaminergic, but it's selective (truly selective, unlike armodafinil's receptor selectivity). It cuts out what is not relevant or conducive to that goal, meanwhile if you get high enough on dopamine drugs that keep dopamine steady irrespective of context, you will find yourself stuck focusing on sometimes completely irrelevant things (in a kind of a psychotic or compulsive way), or just wired out of your god damn mind unable to relax or masturbating yourself to death. Finding the baseline is ideally about finding what you merely need to function (not die) and of course be calm, peaceful, content (and clearminded, etc.). Any action will then spring from an authentic inner drive, not a compulsive pharmacologically mediated angst. That said, there can of course be value to using these enhancements and stimulants (I already mentioned some cases), but also just in general when used irregularly (to get a state change that could be more productive in some ways or provide a new perspective). Essentially, think the way people use psychedelics; getting a big state change and then waiting usually a couple of months for the next one.

And the degree is in the dose generally, as far as momentary effects and side effects go. If you are completely pharmacologically naive (not desensitivized) to caffeine and you take a mega dose, you will feel like you're on a serious narcotic substance. It's selectively dopaminergic and that's about it. Too much dopamine might make you on edge. I cut back my zinc supplementation because it did that to me (it has dopamine reuptake inhibitor functions). If you are spiritually inclined, consider that your strength lies outside normal brain activity (the "beta band", noisy, mediocre brain waves). In fact, I would suggest the less baseline brain activity you have, the more efficient your thinking will be, as much of the thinking is outsourced to the offline, subconscious processing, and the more you will be able to jump up to gamma when it's needed (the truly high-octane, flow-based thinking). You can't lift super heavy squats if you maintain a light jog between sets. Ideally you should just walk around and breathe a little. What you ideally want as a baseline is deep rest, and activity only occurs as a response. There is little need in being chronically elevated unless you truly have no time to rest (like during a marathon, or you're a military person marching at night). If you're working a 9-5 or really any kind of normal job, every moment has moments of rest, and keeping yourself elevated instead of resting for those moments detracts from that rest. When I used to supplement with more things, I felt I was in a constant "beta" state, and I couldn't enter deep rest, and my finesse and refinement of thought suffered. I had probably higher "raw IQ" in terms of spewing out more information at a rapid pace, but the quality, precision and groundedness suffered.

That you can take a benzodiazepine like Xanax and substitute a carbon with a nitrogen and a chloride with a bromine and call it a "nootropic" tells you everything you need to know about the label. It's a marketing trick.

"Stimulant" is a meaningless label unless you are referring to a specific process like "stimulation" or a pharmacological mechanism like dopamine reuptake inhibition or general upregulation of such neurochemicals. If you use it to refer to any of the former, these (and probably much more of your list) would be considered "stimulants": Armodafinil Caffeine Rhodiola rosea Ginseng L-Tyrosine Cordyceps B-vitamins, zinc, iron, iodine (likely in your multivitamin).

Might as well jump on Adderall.

Eat yo veggies.

Mogged. What am I supposed to say? "I like beautiful things"?

It's not an exercise. It's spiritual growth.

I rarely share videos just to share it, but here it is:

You just gotta get to know the right teachers. 5:14

Framing "world history" as lines on a map, only zooming out to the Americas at 1450 AD.

@Sandroew When I watch the videos above, I quite specifically register it as "young perspective". Young as in partial, limited, inexperienced.

When I started doing substances, I compulsively and obsessively researched how they work (the pharmacology, potency, chemistry, etc.). Then one time one of my friends who also did these substances asked me "can I mix this drug with this drug?". And I was like (internally) "what?? Do you not already know this? Is this not a crucial thing to know? Is it also not merely interesting?" That is when I truly learned there are different personality types/traits. Some people just have no care or curiosity or risk aversion to learn virtually anything about anything. They will go by either what merely works or by what others are doing as long as it works (or they just have completely different interests). Your date sounds like she's a sensor type, less concerned about intellectual understanding, less concerned about creativity, about personal values, more about what is going on around them, socially, sense-ly.

The first guy wants to teach you how to increase your IQ, showing how he increased his through an unofficial online test, and he sells an e-book with the methods he used which supposedly contains information from 50 studies (which he definitely found on ChatGPT). The second guy tries to paint a picture of a 20-year-old online celebrity through a lens of a famous philosopher. It's educational.