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Yeah.... if you're gonna do psychedelics, it's worth doing the really classic ones: shrooms, LSD, DMT, etc. and not the "legal high" ones because they tend to be so inconsistent and produce lots of bad trips. I would stay away from call kinds of seeds and other gimmicky psychedelics. What you want is your substance to be as pure as humanly possible. 99% pure is the aim. That's one easy factor you can control which will significantly reduce bad trips and increase profound trips. 99% pure 5-MeO or 2-CB or LSD is pure magic. It's so pure you can feel it purifying your soul.

@Shan Many alpha males are of course very insecure deep down. Which is why they need to act macho, get angered easily, call each other faggots and pussies, take steroids, spend way too much time at the gym, etc. The entire spiritual journey for a masculine man is about learning how to integrate feminine qualities so as to transcend both. Use of dominance and authority is anti-spiritual. A conscious person doesn't need or want to manipulate reality in that way. Jesus' or Gandhi's turn-the-other-cheek attitude shows us the power of love over force. If you notice, even the most alpha of alpha males eventually gets taken out. You cannot win through force, because there's always a larger force around to kick your ass. So it's not sustainable. It's like an unlubricated engine which must burn itself out through its own inner friction. Yes, consciousness will make you "a pussy" in the conventional sense. But it will also make you realize how silly that cultural standard is. And that real power has nothing to do with how deep your voice is or how large your biceps are.

@Bewusstsein Lots of practice.

So... no enlightenment? Just a bunch of chimpery?

@username Just go further. All labels are pointers. Don't value the pointers over the insights and experiences.

@username Of course it's progress.

So then what do you care about?

Kinda silly to worship yourself. But hey, plenty of people do it.

@soh If the impact you're making doesn't make you cry, it's not your life purpose. Helping people should be that important to you if you want to be a life coach. Keep looking. Just because you can be good at something, doesn't make it your LP. Put aside all consideration of, "But I need to make a living." << that has nothing to do with life purpose. That is an external condition. You can worry about that after you've found your purpose.

@MiracleMan Not enlightened, but of course you start out without a you If you try to think back, sometime around age 2-3 you created the concept of a you vs other. You probably can't remember. Because there was no you before then.

We are cracking down on useless posts. If you're making a post, be sure it includes a tangible discussion topic, or is saying something of substance, not just vague sayings.

@Socrates You become gradually conscious of all your false identifications. You become clearer about what you are NOT.

@Youssef Sounds like you need some grounding exercises. You're too stuck in your head. Try joining a yoga or kickboxing class. Join a sport like soccer, etc. Get your body grounded. Take a break for a while. Go be out in nature, hiking, etc. The ego will react violently to dramatic growth. Expect some epic ego backlashes on this path. Especially if you try to do it quick and hard.

@5driedgrams The common thread that's revealed in all others is ignorance. Which of course is in you in spades. How this ignorance gets manifest is really irrelevant. For one person it might be anger, for another violence, for another pettiness, for another jealousy, for another greed, for another people-pleasing, for another dogma, for another gluttony, for another drug addiction, for another lying, for another cheating, for another killing, for another preaching, etc. Negativity itself doesn't actually exist. You created it, and projected it onto the world. So yes, you're fully responsible for all the evil you see out in the world. Your mind literally created the category "evil". Without first creating it, you couldn't see it. It really is that simple. Simply to be a self is to create things you hate. This is a core part of self-survival. A self needs to fabricate things to hate in order to survive. That's what a self largely is: a collection of reactions against the environment. If you've taken 5g of mushrooms, you should have seen that Being has no value, meaning, or charge. Ponder the significance of that.

@Max_V 30 to 60 minutes at least. Your mind has to get into a groove and focus.

@Big_D It will just screw up your sleep cycle. You wanna be most alert during your trip, not sleepy. Something like DMT or 5-MeO you can easily do at night cause it only lasts 45 minutes. But I wouldn't do mushrooms or LSD at night. Probably more chances of bad trips at night in the dark.

@AlwaysBeNice Yeah, I'm not sure what the exactly conversion factor is. I was just giving a rough example.

1) I take an alcohol extract. Never tried tea, but hear it works well. 2) Same dose as eating them: 2g to 4g. 2g will be medium-low, 4g will be medium-strong. 4g will blow your reality to pieces. Start with 1g. 3) It's just obvious from your body's reaction. If it makes you nauseous, that's your body telling you you ate something toxic.

@Nahm Truffles are usually weighed/sold raw, not dried. Hence 30g of wet truffles is equivalent to like 3g of dried shrooms.

Yeah, those kinda cases have been reported over the years. Lots of odd stuff like that can be found in the medical case studies. They are dismissed as strange anomalies. If that guy in the picture above drilled a little hole in the top of his head, he could fill his brain hole with Coke, stick a swirly straw in there, and walk around slipping it all day. A handy evolutionary advantage!

@Jordan wang If you haven't noticed, all professional athletes, even the very very best, retire by 30 or 40 and move on to doing something else. It's not just because their bodies age. It's largely because competition like that is unsustainable. It's a real grindy way to live.

@Jordan wang Of course. So get a job, hustle, and save up your own money to start a business. Don't expect anyone to support your life. You are very lucky your parents give you any money at all. Most people don't get that. If you are so smart, you should put your smarts towards supporting yourself, earning a living, moving out on your own, becoming fully independent, and having creating business ideas. If you're so smart, roll up those sleeves and get to work actualizing that smartness. It's easy to talk big, it's another thing to actually do it in the real world, where nobody gives a shit about your dreams.

@Vladimir It's a nice idea, but it will not work. The way you're proposing is what causes the corruption of all spiritual teachings and created all sorts of religions and cults. Consciousness CANNOT be mainstreamed or done collectively. This is a huge ego distraction in disguise. Consciousness must be pursued individually. Please don't start groups about this. Just muster the wisdom so work quietly on yourself. When you deeply awaken, then you can start teaching, if you really desire that. Notice that all the time to spend organizing, is all the time you don't work on yourself. This is not an accident. The ego craves this distraction. It wants to mobilize others without to avoid working on itself. I could easily have turned Actualized into a religion/cult/group/organization long ago. Could have earned more money that way. It was deliberately not done. Teaching consciousness is a very dangerous thing. Without great care, it is guaranteed to turn disastrous, and actually spread unconsciousness. As history shows us. Much of the evil in the world was created in just this way, with people who wanted to spread consciousness, with good intentions, but lack of understanding of the traps involved.

@Sagatarius Your life purpose is perfect. Just go do it. It's not selfish in the way you think. Don't drag enlightenment teachings into this. Keep them separate.

@Himanshu Of course. Every single part and video is a compromise.