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I think you should be fine. Just start with small doses and work up. Frying would only be a thing at very high doses. Plugging is by far the smoothest and safest method. @Antonius Sounds like 1) you have blockages in your body that need to be worked out, 2) you need more experience with 5-MeO and various administration routes, and/or 3) your brain type might be different enough that 5-MeO works differently on you. I get very little body load on 5-MeO. LSD and 2-CB have much worse body load for me. Oh, also make sure your 5-MeO is pure. It should be white-colored. Any other coloration is impurities.

@Aakash I'm not clear what you're asking. Just doing opposite things automatically sounds mechanical and not conscious. The solution is to do things more consciously. Yes, challenging your automatic survival reactions is good. It is harder than merely observing. It's the next step after lots of observing. There is no categorization per se. 99% of all the stuff you do every day are your survival mechanisms. Rather than trying to categorize them, observe them. Categorizing stuff tends to itself be a survival mechanism. Why are you categorizing stuff? To help you do what?

I have been meaning to. But plugging has been so incredibly effective and perfect that nothing more could be wanted. At least that's how it feels inside the trip. Outside the trip my mind can come up with all sorts of other stuff to try. I'm a little wary of smoking because I don't want to blow out my energetic system. Too much 5-MeO too fast does not feel healthy to me. But I am open to smoking it. In fact I will try Bufo soon.

There is only one who in the whole universe. And it is God.

Of course, otherwise you'd be enlightened and we wouldn't be having this conversation. Keep at it. Existence is no small thing to become conscious of. We are talking about ALL OF EXISTENCE here.

Possible, but I wouldn't count on it. Besides which, a person who is so toxic will never allow those negative assumptions to leave the system in the first place.

Identification and survival is an extremely complex and sophisticated mechanism. It's got may layers to it, most of which are of course subconscious. It's a complex tangled mess that takes not just years, but DECADES, to fully understand and deconstruct. It must be this way because your entire life hinges upon it. If it was not this complex and sophisticated you'd be dead a long time ago. Don't get discouraged. Keep slowly untangling that mess. Virtually EVERYTHING your mind and body does, from morning to night is survival. Almost not a single thought crosses your mind which is not related to your survival. You need to take this point very seriously. Really notice it. You must notice how survival dominates your entire life on a second by second basis. And all of that is tied in directly with ego and identification. They are so closely tied that you don't know the difference between yourself and your survival. Every emotional disturbance you experience is survival-in-action. EMOTIONS ARE SURVIVAL! THOUGHTS ARE SURVIVAL! The significance of this cannot be overstated. The solution to it is, you observe it. Like an owl watches a mouse. The more you observe, the freer you become of it, the less it controls you like a puppet.

@mandyjw That's cause you're a cultural Marxist nihilist

His psychology lectures aren't too bad. Still, watch out for how this politics, dualistic metaphysics, and ego infect his psychology.

God is very big! Very, very, very BIG! Lol If you plug it rather than smoke it, the experience will be much, much smoother and gentler. But it will still mindfuck you real good. Conquering your fear is a major part of this whole process. There cannot be deep awakening without facing your deepest fear of death. Awakening is that which lies beyond death. First you die. Then you see God. Then you laugh. P.S. I don't think Bufo can be plugged though. That's one of its downsides. Think of it like going on a big rollercoaster.

It cannot be otherwise. Survival requires identification. The function of identification is to single out what must be survived. If you didn't have an identification you would not be able to tell yourself apart from a chair, and you would not know which of the two is more important to defend and protect. Your entire mind is what you identify with, and what you try to survive. Into this are tied all of your thoughts, beliefs, opinions, attitudes, behaviors, emotions, reactions, knowledge, etc. That entire tangled mess is the self/ego-mind. Its job is to survive at all costs. Which is why changing any part of yourself is so hard. All change is perceived as death and resisted with a vengeance.

In reality these are very complex issues with many possible factors. Of course ego and psychology plays a huge role, but brain health and diet also plays an important role. For example, if your brain is filled with toxic chemicals like lead and mercury, good luck feeling well. You have to research and investigate what your root issues are. Ego is always gonna be a huge factor but there might also be other factors. A lot of mental illness is due to traumatic and terrible childhoods, improper parenting, etc. BTW, I don't consider depression a mental illness. Yes, ego is also closely related to mental illnesses because what happens is that early childhood trauma is not properly dealt with by the ego, which then produces all sorts of dysfunctions. Of course serious mental illnesses can also have physiological factors. It's usually a combination of factors. Don't underestimate how powerful the ego is. It's running your whole life pretty much. It dictates most of your survival strategies and emotional reactions.

No, not 30mg. Less. 20-22mg. Yes, HCl.

@Zega Sounds great, excited to hear your trip report.

If it was no different from sleep, it would be called sleep rather than awakening.

Do whatever you gotta do. It's not my job to address every fool's misgivings on the internet. You need to be wise enough to discern when you are being distracted by fools. Otherwise it will take you 100 years to awaken. There is too much bullshit on the internet to treat it all seriously.

Not everything he says is wrong, but his worldview is generally-speaking so misguided and corrupt you'd be better served just skipping over it. It's not like there aren't 1000 better teachings available. Anyone who would go on PragerU is not to be taken seriously. Find yourself better sources. That's my point. See, it would be a mistake to take a propaganda source seriously, as though it was on the same level as an awakened teaching. This is the mistake of false equivalency. Being openmidned does not mean you let people propagandize you. It takes nuance to be able to discern what is and what isn't propaganda. He is a saavy exploiter of the culture wars. That's why he rose in popularity. Not because he makes good intellectual arguments. Those arguments are egoic justifications. They come from lack of self-awareness. Also, don't confuse popularity with truthfulness or quality. They are usually inversely proportional.

@Truth Addict Emotions will arise. Allow them and just watch them like clouds in the sky. Sometime they will take hold of you. Strong emotions will hypnotize you into a trace of believing in them. Just do your best to notice that and take a step back and witness it. That is all. Your job in this work is to make EVERY form/perception an object of your witnessing. It cannot become an object to witness if you are identified with it. To witness it, you must first disidentify with it. So for example, you are not the sensation in your chest, you are that which is witnessing that sensation. You are not the thought of yourself, you are that which is witnessing that thought. You are not the hunger in your belly, you are that which is witnessing that feeling. Etc. Just keep practicing that as much as you can throughout the day. The more the better. You will become more and more detached from everything, which is the goal. Eventually you should have an awakening to Absolute Emptiness that is your true identity. It will come suddenly and out of the blue. Often it's jolting. Yes, keep entering that state of not-knowing what anything is. That's very good. That is the best state to be in for an awakening to happen.

See, all these kinds of videos do is rile people up and create egoic distraction. Focus on your work. That's is all. Don't worry about criticisms or the judgments of others. Your heart knows the truth of things if you'd only go into silence and listen to it. What others think of you or me is irrelevant. Follow your heart to the Truth. Don't get side-tracked by pettiness.

@Topann Very good! Shows you the deep connection which exists between spirituality and life purpose. I'm tired of hearing people think that spirituality and life purpose are somehow a contradiction. Exactly the opposite!

@theking00 Yes, enlightenment will help with those core issues, but you need something more practical first. Go and actually study and gain experience with attracting girls and being social. Do that first. Fill that need. Then you can return to enlightenment work. You are getting ahead of yourself, jumping into too advanced territory without having done the basics. That's why you're frustrated. GO SOCIALIZE WITH REAL GIRLS!!! Stop trying to avoid it. You are using the idea of enlightenment to avoid doing basic self-help stuff. That is not right.

You are not anything. Keep disidentifying with everything until nothing remains. It's basically as simple as that. The ego will of course react and object and throw hissy-fits. Whatever negative reactions are arising, you must watch them without identifying with them or taking them too seriously. Like watching clouds passing through the sky. The sky does not get bothered by the clouds. You are like the sky. Be like the sky. Insecurity is one of those clouds passing through. One awakening is rarely enough to fully disidentify from the body/mind. Keep challenging anything you identify with. Keep asking yourself, "What am I still identified with? Can I let that go?" Your ultimate goal is to completely disidentify with the entire sensory realm. All forms must be dropped. No form is your true identity. Your true identity is totally empty, a Void.

@Paul92 You are still focusing on form: color, material, etc. Instead I'm telling you to focus on existence itself. Not any particular object, but just the pure fact of existence itself. What is that? Existence itself is not a color, object, material, sound, feeling, thought, etc. It is not even an experience or a perception. What is it then?

It's very important for everyone here to understand that not all people react to 5-MeO alike. I have seen people take 30mg of good, 99% substance without much reaction. Don't expect everyone to be able to take 20mg and have an epic breakthrough experience like I talk about. You need to find what dose and method works best for you. This is an individualized thing.

It's purely a right-wing propaganda channel. It does not even attempt to understand the issues. One good thing about PragerU is that it reveals who the fake experts are. Any "expert" or "intellectual" you see on in their videos automatically exposes himself as a clown, and is never to be taken seriously. Here's looking at you, Jordan Peterson