Leo Gura

No drunk posting please. Do not post on this forum while tripping. Any such threads will be deleted in the future. It's a terrible idea to be posting anything publicly while under the influence.

Daniel Ingram is an ER doctor. So yeah. You don't have to become a teacher.

Good stuff

@Mrkvn8 Not necessary. You don't want to be distracted by hunger.

@Lorcan Lack of college degree isn't gonna hold you back much from making money if you want to make money. Finding and nailing your life purpose is the best way. Chasing money, chasing investment schemes, chasing marketing schemes is not good. In the end, even if you win at that game, it will be a hollow victory. The money will really do nothing for you. You will be more miserable than ever. And 99% of people lose at that game. You want to offer real value to the world, not marketing gimmicks or exploiting financial markets. Be ware of being caught up in the hype of external success. Those marketers are just pushing your chimp buttons. Follow your life purpose instead. The problem with your question is that it's a fundamentally misguided approach to life and money.

Always take psychedelics on a empty stomach. If you're hungry, eat half a banana 1-2 hours prior to the trip. After 2 hours into the trip, you can eat more. Avoid junk food. Don't overeat. Have vomit bucket ready at all times.

@Max_V Notice that you don't actually know what you are. Like seriously... you have no idea yet. You are unable to articulate what you are without speaking nonsense and contradicting yourself. Hence self-inquiry.

@d0ornokey The do nothing technique is not good for building concentration and this problem with over-creativity.

@Hardik jain There are tons of sensations present, you're just not sufficiently mindfulness yet. Start practicing mindfulness with labeling, as I describe in my Mindfulness Meditation video. You can practice with sounds or body sensations aside from breath. You can also focus on the belly and lungs rather than the tip of the nose. The tip of the nose is more subtle.

You just need to buckle down and stick to one technique rigorously for a while. You can choose any one of the following: Following the breath very mindfully, noticing it go in and out of your nose Mindfulness using labeling, and select a specific domain to label like body sensations or external sounds Concentration practice using metronome sound Mantra meditation: select a single mantra like: bah-ring, bah-ring, bah-ring... and do it very rigorously Do one of those rigorously every day for a month, and then see how you're doing. This requires 100s of hours of practice to start to re-shape your mind patterns. Getting started is the hardest part. Doing a retreat where you do nothing but this for an entire week is the best way.

Up until now this forum allowed you to change your username. Sounds nice on paper, but in practice I'm finding it creates confusion when people change their usernames on a whim. So this feature is being disabled soon. Finalize your username now, or forever hold your peace.

Happy for ya Let's also see how it sticks around.

Take strong psychedelic. See for yourself.

@benny You don't need any "skills" to do inner work. It's nothing mysterious or technical. You just need to sit down, shut up, and look inside with self-honesty, without distraction. Many ways to accomplish this: contemplation, meditation, self-inquiry, journaling, psychedelics, retreats, etc.

A quality milligram scale costs $30 on Amazon Yes, HCL and HCl are the same thing. If they don't say anything about it, you need to ask them. Don't assume anything. The trick with smoking 5-meo is that you need to learn how to vaporize it properly. You could easily be loading 10mg into the pipe but effectively only vaporizing half of it. Which of course is a very weak dose.

@Voyager Sounds like way too small a dose. Were you smoking or snorting it? Was it freebase or HCl? And it sounds like you were just eyeballing the dose. A big no-no.

Just sounds like you might be going through the motions of doing college.

Of course most marketing and business is unethical. Multiply that by 100 for online marketing. It's a lot harder to build an ethical business on solid values. And it can't be done in certain industries. Which means you might need to change industries. Building something to align with your deepest values usually means going back to the drawing board, questioning everything about what you do. You probably won't be able to do it just by putting some lipstick on a pig. The LP course points the way for how to do it. It's not a very business-like course, but that's exactly why. Business-like courses will not ground you in your deepest values. They will just teach you unethical marketing techniques.

I doubt the mushrooms made you physically sick. But if the trip was psychologically stressful, that stress could have lowered your immune system allowing for easier infection.

"Once, Zhuang Zhou dreamed he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering about, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn't know that he was Zhuang Zhou. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakable Zhuang Zhou. But he didn't know if he was Zhuang Zhou who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming that he was Zhuang Zhou."

@electroBeam You're going about this backwards. Follow where your strengths are pointing you, rather than trying to do the opposite.

Well... it is true that you are complete already without needing to do an ounce of work in this life. This can seem threatening because most of your actions and work has been motivated by a sense of lack or externally enforced motivation. So it can feel like your entire foundation for work has been undermined. Which is true. But this is a great thing in the long-run. Now you're opening up to authenticity. Now you can start to ask, "What is worth doing?" This will ultimately probably point you towards a new kind of work. There is tons of work to be done once you become highly conscious. It's just a different kind of work and it's done for different kinds of reasons. Imagine doing work out of a higher calling, rather than lack or need. Imagine becoming a vehicle of divine inspiration. But it will take time to figure out how to make the transition and make this actual. In the meantime, stick with your existing work as you make plans for your new work.

Notice how all those things are concepts... monkey mind really. Is there any problem with just being? If being is not enough for you, it's cause your mind is chattering away in the background without you noticing it. "I need motivation" << monkey mind "I need to feel love for other people" << monkey mind "I don't feel connected to people" << monkey mind "I need a reason to keep living" << monkey mind "I want a way to get fulfillment" << monkey mind "I..." << monkey mind Become mindful over all the above, and fulfillment will be the natural end result of simply being. Sit, be, enjoy. If being isn't enjoyable for you, that's something to work through. Spiritual purification is required there. It can take many hours of sitting before it becomes enjoyable. But start to notice that mere being is highly enjoyable. It doesn't require any adornments. Spend some number of hours just practicing enjoying the act of existing. If you want to catalyze that process, take some AL-LAD or mild psychedelic. It will show you the beauty of mere existence. You don't need anything at all. Not love, not fulfillment, not a reason to live, nor any such made up human nonsense. Just be and enjoy.

When has it ever not been that? All the direct teachings are out there. People just don't want them. Nothing more direct than 30mg of 5-meo up the nose. Literally enlightenment in 15 mins, for 30 mins. But who wants it? I find it hard to stomach myself.

That's why your Mom overlooks all your evil traits Happy Mother's day.