Heart of Space

Man, who's cutting onions in this thread? Quit that, man.

I think inevitably this happens to everyone over time. Your most profound trips will be your earlier ones. After a while you kinda just get really epically stoned while on them.

In high school I gave a friend a mentos and told him it had LSD on it. He later acted high as fuck and talked about how he had mouths on his hands talking to him. Guess that mentos had LSD in it. Making scientific claims without scientific evidence = pseudoscience. There's no real evidence that binaural beats does anything.

Nah, I've used them with a very open mind. They don't do anything and the claims behind them working are complete pseudoscience.

I'm about 99% positive it's just placebo and there's really nothing special about them. I'm also 99.999% positive that regular meditation with no sound is better for you.

You sounds really unsure of yourself, OP, which is why you add the troll like bits and the "lololol" in your post. It's a defense mechanism for people who know they have no idea what they're talking about. Anyways, goodbye, thanks for that sage like wisdom at the end. I already feel enlightened after reading it.

Having an ego has an evolutionary advantage for human beings. Without an ego all beings would be in such extreme peace they would not care if they could not get their next meal, sexual partner, or even their next breathe of air. If you were in such an extreme state of peace you would have very poor chances of surviving and reproducing. Because of this, the ego is an advantageous creation for the soul purpose of making an illusory game of "I need (X) thing to be satisfied or happy." In the short term, the ego rewards those who give into its wants, but in the long run it is a bottomless pit of craving and aversion. This is the best way an organism with such a complex level of consciousness such as a human survives with the highest probability of reproducing. Seeing through this game will allow you to gain the peace that the ego promises but never delivers.

I would be more than happy to meet most anyone here, though it seems people are quite spread out. Houston, Texas here.

What is a man? (flings wine glass aside) A miserable little pile of secrets!

Enemy is the wrong word. Practice, practice, practice. There is no magic solution.

LOL Woooooah, totally gnarly telekinesis, braaaaaaaah.

It's not very good advice, because many people including myself need to seek to get initially motivated. I wasn't seeking it before in my life and it wasn't exactly getting me enlightened. Hey babe, you haven't been answering my PM's lately, is something wrong?

What's wrong with feeding your shelves? They do get hungry now and then.

It's been documented a ton. Google individual cases where people have ended up institutionalized because of usage. Google countless anecdotal instances where people have clearly poorer brain function and strange new neural connections which affect their behavior negatively, PTSD, hallucinations, or deep clinical depression from a neurochemical imbalance, and more. Are you looking for clinical scientific studies? As I said earlier our understanding of the human brain and our ability to study it is rudimentary. We can't measure or directly see the negative effects of many things on the brain with our current technology. Typical new age psychedelic users in denial will usually counter with the "there's no studies that directly show this," or when you show that the drugs clearly sometimes worsen and bring out life ruining latent mental disorders they'll respond with "that would have happened to them anyways." Sounds like denial to me. It's the same people that will constantly scream in your face that weed has absolutely zero negative effects and cures cancer. There's very little understanding of the negative effects from a scientific stand point, in fact, there's very little understanding of the effects in general. But, hefty personal experience and experience around people who've done a lot of these drugs shows that they very evidently do have negative effects when used too frequently, irresponsibly, or when you just happen to have particular genetics that form a brain that is not agreeable to the drugs. It's a shame there's so much woo woo, denial, and dishonesty around this aspect of the drugs. I think it harms many people. Even weed causes brain damage when used too much, now that I can show you clear study where with too much use it shrinks a part of your frontal cortex and causes more impulsivity and risk taking behavior. And that's a very new study to boot.

Yea, but he slept naked with young girls and tried to hide the fact. Then only later did he try to paint it in this really virtuous light where he was only doing it as an experiment with controlling sexual desire. I personally don't buy that at all. That doesn't strike me as fulfilling a basic human need in a healthy way. Again, it doesn't take away from anything he did. Overall good guy, who had a few weak moments in his life. He was just a man after all.

I'm not sure I buy that. From what I understand is that he actually tried to hide it at first, and then later talked about it. He did it with minors too. I'm saying this takes away everything he did, human beings and human beings after all. We are all not perfect angels.

He was also doing creepy experiments with young women sleeping with them in bed.

Texas. I'm a spiritual cowboy.

Good job, just keep it up. I'd imagine your negative symptoms will naturally subside with more practice. Do you think it's the anxiety that's the fundamental reason for the difficult session? That's a pretty natural response, but it eases and disappears with time. Don't worry about your "bad" meditation session. Relatively speaking you will always have the "bad" days, even when you're meditating 5 hours a day. Just do the best you can to get through it and don't give up.

I'm not trying to sound disturbing or scare people. I'm trying to be honest. Yes, I think initial usage if done responsibly and correctly can have a positive effect on creativity, intelligence, and so on. There are very good reasons to use these substances, don't take me for someone who only thinks bad things about these substances. I just care about people's safety and there's a lot of unsafe information out there that ends up harming a lot of people. I don't think people are often harmed from normal doses either, it's when people regularly use psychedelics, or they take large doses, that's what fucks most people up. With all that said I believe psychedelics should be used very sparingly. I'm talking like once or twice a year sparingly. And no heroic or mega dosing either. And I've been told by people that making people afraid of bad experiences gives them bad trips. This is also false as you can be deathly afraid of a bad experience up to the moment you feel the drug hit you and then have an amazing experience. I'm just trying to give people a well rounded view, that's all.

I was referring to the individuals that were in mental institutions for life. They're likely fried. I'm not sure I even believe that a perma-high is even possible considering the drug is metabolized and the high amounts of serotonin and brain activity required to create the high is not sustainable for long periods of time. It doesn't make any logical sense. I don't believe LSD has any effect on your DNA, that sounds like pseudoscience to me. It doesn't have any obvious negative effects on the brain, but I assure you that it can. It is a commonly repeated lie that you cannot cause brain damage with psychedelics. There are plenty of cases where this does happen, it just isn't obvious to us with our current limited ways of looking at the human brain with instruments. It's not as clearly apparent as, say, the damage caused by a stroke. I assure you, this potential danger should be taken very seriously. It's like if you were to go rock climbing and not consider what gravity can do to you.

Existence doesn't start or end. It's not temporal. In the same way you're not hurtling through time towards death. Your birth and death happen in the same moment. The only moment.

I haven't shared my experiences with LSA, I have a handful of experiences. It's a fairly inconsistent substance I find. And my worst experiences that I ever had were on it. There's much better stuff out there that's very easy to obtain.

I'm not the spiritual community. You're not the body, so it's ok for the body to harm itself? Even that doesn't make sense. An organism with the proper understanding will not purposefully harm itself. People often don't have a proper understanding of the harms of psychedelics and they end up harming themselves for that reason. Whether you are the body or not is irrelevant. The body and mind still function on the basis of knowledge that it has of the world.

Yea, this is the likely result when you mega dose. It's the most dangerous and stupid idea out there on the internet. Partly because of Terrance Mckenna and his popularization of the "heroic" dose. Smart guy, but an extremely idiotic idea. His brother even admitted that Terrance went too deep into la la land with drugs. Regarding your friends, it's not that they never came down, as in they're still tripping. They're not. It's more that they permanently fried their brains and now they're back at base level consciousness, or maybe a bit lower, just with a boiled egg for a brain. People need to understand they have a limited amount of times they can use these drugs before they start frying you. Once you have gotten what you need out of them, quit.