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@Goodpeace That looks super suspect. Test it with a test kit. Make sure it's an indole substance at the very least. I doubt that is 5-MeO-DMT. It should be dry and white-ish. Like this: https://www.dissidentreality.com/articles/books-about-5-meo-dmt/

@Dan502 Survival is a relentless mechanism responsible for keeping you alive every day. So it's really a wondrous thing to observe. Notice that theories are also survival. And of course hurt is all about survival

Obviously Culadasa is supernaturally gifted. That's the trick these masters never tell their students about. They act as though it's pure practice and skill. No, they largely coast off their supernatural concentration abilities.

You're not yet understanding what I meant by survival. You are thinking of survival as some biological evolutionary theory. That is not what we're talking about here. I mean something much more direct and viceral. To understand you must turn to your direct experience of life and observe how every micro thing you do is a function of survival. Don't speculate about it, observe it happening in you. It's happening every second.

Great! The trick is understanding what it is.

We already had too many of these debates. They lead nowhere because people all have their own opinions and personal definitions. You must do the practices to discover what such spiritual words mean.

@Hardkill Inside the book list

@Hardkill It's got "charisma" in the title. Do a ctrl+F search.

@Identity Just notice what you're really asking for. If you become all of it, then you will no longer be a human having a life.

I recently added a book to my book list about how to develop charisma. It explains what charisma is.

@outlandish It's not that way for me at all.

Yes, this seems to happen. Don't worry about it. Go for nonduality.

1g of mushrooms or 100ug of LSD Is great to start with. Don't go beyond 2g of mushrooms or 150ug of LSD as a newbie unless you have a high tolerance.

The blissful stage doesn't always come. The blissful stage is the end result of the ego surrendering. If the ego refuses to surrender don't expect a blissful stage. If there is psychological baggage you must deal with, that won't be blissful, that will be taxing and challenging as you work through it. Then, on future trips you'll be primed for a blissful stage. Taking psychedelics to experience bliss is not the right attitude. Rather, take them with the expectation of doing emotional work, whatever work is necessary for you to get closer to Truth. The more inner work you do, the more baggage you clear out, the more likely bliss will be in the future. Think of psychedelics like a therapy session. Challenging stuff should come up. This is how you grow.

@ardacigin Very cool. Glad to see some folks on this forum actually doing the practices and developing their concentration skills. This is how it's done folks! You need to do the practices if you want to be spiritual. Pick a practice and stick with it until you get good at it. Practices must be done methodologically and consciously, not mechanically to get results.

That is good. I would recommend you do more small dose mushroom trips. They will teach you a lot. Become comfortable in the mushroom space. No, truth is not just truth. Truth is extremely radical and has many layers and facets to it. Most egos are not ready to handle the full Truth, they will recoil, freak out, reject, deny, demonize it, etc. To handle the Truth you gotta be at a certain level of development and you need a certain degree of purification of mind. In practice one has to ease oneself into the Truth. Usually with spiritual work this happens gradually over years and decades. With psychedelics this whole process is short-circuited, thrusting you into the Truth within minutes or hours. With smoked 5-MeO-DMT, it's even worse, you're thrust into Buddha-levels of Truth within seconds. That's way too fast for most people. It can be overwhelming and traumatic if you're not ready. Not all people have the same capacity to handle Truth. For some it's a lot easier than others. A lot of this has to do with how much ego you've got, how much psychological trauma or baggage you got, and how much you desire Truth. Most people have a very low desire for Truth, which is why they spend some little time contemplating metaphysical questions.

Sounds like you smoked it. That will be very confusing. Plugging it is much smoother and clearer and friendlier. Before you smoke 5-MeO-DMT you should have a lot of experience with other psychedelics. Otherwise you're likely to freak the fuck out. Because your whole reality will be ripped away within seconds. Start with small doses of mushrooms, LSD, etc. Only after you've explored some of the psychedelic landscape should you attempt smoking 5-MeO. Because it will hit you very hard and very fast. Plugging small doses is much friendlier and gives you a lot more time to understand what is going on. Blasting yourself into hyperscape is not ideal for our work unless maybe you're already very experienced and comfortable in the psychedelic landscape. A gentle introduction to psychedelics is VERY IMPORTANT! Gentle is the key for beginners. Which means very small doses and non-smoking methods which come on gradually and give you plenty of time to explore, contemplate, and integrate. When you're learning to fly you don't just jump into a F-22 jet fighter. You start with a simple, slow, gentle, propeller plane. Learn how flying works before you start doing barrel rolls and the like.

@Schahin It will be terrifying to most people when all of reality gets pulled from under your feet. You have only seen a few hairs of the Ox's tail and already the ego is ready to forget all about it. Doing 5-MeO once is not enough. The lower doses can be more challenging than higher doses since the ego is still there to resist. But with that said, the higher doses can also be very challanging if you are not ready to handle the Truth. The Truth is very radical. It's not the spirit saying stay away, it's the ego. But if you feel unready, then don't do it. Sounds like you need to mature more.

Sigh.... User @Anton_Pierre has been banned from this forum. I expect more maturity than this, and he simply was not interested in listening to warnings or correcting his behavior.

@Ero Long before the elections.

Remember, all spirituality works this way: if you don't do the practices, not only will you not understand it, you will definitely misunderstand it and it will worsen your life.

This is toxic garbage and it has nothing to do with spirituality. It's all just justifications of a wounded ego stuck in victim mentality building an ideological narrative to protect its own survival. It's sad to see people taking such narratives seriously. If you keep watching stuff like this, it will corrupt your mind and make it impossible to grow your consciousness to the highest levels.

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Drugs are imaginary.

@Jed Vassallo Should last for years.