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For some background. I am 18, a senior in high school, and plan on going to college after probably taking a gap year. I will make another post in the future about whether or not I should take a gap year, but for now, I am thinking I will use one to learn permaculture in a permaculture village(which is a small bet for a possible LP), and to go on meditation retreats. I found one program that runs a year, and looks really great. I would learn so much and definitely come out with an answer or at least new direction. It would cost about 8 to 10 thousand total for travel, extra expenses, and a fee for a $6.3k for a year rent for a room there, food, and to fund the permaculture experts who teach. This seems like a pretty good deal to me. This place: https://ranchomastatal.com/ I have around 4k saved up, but I would rather make around $10k in the next 6 to 10 months so I don't lose any money. I could obviously make this working a few months to half a year in a full time minimum wage job. I signed up for the Doordash app so I can start, my schedule does not allow for a work schedule, I don't have the time with school. I don't want to do this, I don't think it will add any real value. It would be cool if I could learn to make money online, I don't need to be rich, just to make 10k. This may be a better way. How would you go about making this money? What should I research?

@Meetjoeblack Not sure, might study psychology but I am heavily doubting I will, if I decide to go to college. I do plan on traveling very minimalistically, on the other hand, my intention wasn't to travel but to go to some place for an extended period of time. Minnimalism won't save me money here I dont think.

@Pharion Thanks! @DrewNows will check out that video

I guess that might be a better option But I haven't found one that meets my needs for wanting to really learn permaculture yet.

@TheSomeBody Either way

Read the research paper in the recent thread in this forum section on living food by pluto, the one on B12. It should address that well. Very complicated issue. @DrewNows well said Seriously he is literally insane. john rose seems to address this idea very well

@Scholar I am reading Healing with whole foods which addresses all that stuff! Very cool!

!!!! What I was just thinking in my last post.

Fuck this is so frustrating, I just wish I had the answer. I suppose I will have to research a lot, and most importantly experiment. Raw veganism sounds convincing to me, but it's not like I deeply understand it or have lots of direct experience yet. It's interesting that even on actualized.org there is nowhere near a clear agreement, some of us are just finding different conclusions. One thing I do have in my direct experience is that when I eat animal products I feel gross, physically, mentally, and spiritually. Before I finally decided to try veganism, I had spent years eating mindfully, and gradually becoming disgusted with how meat & animal products make me feel, and how it tastes. Over the past few months it was so gross, I would just choke it down. When I eat fruit, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and that kind of thing, I enjoy it so much and am filled with gratitude and love, not disgust. I eat a pretty high fat diet, lots of avocados, nuts, seeds, coconut, etc. But overall a lot of every macro nutrient. I feel good with this. I have heard arguments that the macronutrient ratios don't really matter, if you do it right. 80 10 10 can be good but so can 60 20 20 or high fat. Lastly, I notice that I enjoy raw foods more. I eat almost all raw during the day, and cooked food with dinner. This gives me a good contrast. Cooked food just makes me tired and feels harder to digest. I just had a smoothie with soaked peeled raw almonds, coconut, oranges, spinach, banana. I feel great and not tired. I also like hemp protein powder lol.

@pluto Thanks for sharing! I have watched most of Kevin from raw healing mastery's videos, but don't know much else. I recently switched to about 98% vegan, and will soon be fully. My energy levels are well above what they used to be. I notice if I have something like chips fried in oil with guac, or plantains fried in oil, my energy levels plumet to food coma levels, which is cool because I now realize I have very stable energy. So do you not take any supplements? I currently take methyl B12, algae oil, D3, magnesium citrate and zinc gluconate. Edit: Very interesting B12 article. read it all. What book do you reccomend I start with? One of those people you mentioned?

@Shiva That, plus permaculture in either case is way better. The environmental impact of any plant could be bad if it isn't from a sustainable technique. Monoculture is gross.

That depends. @Leo Gura What kind of animal products do you eat? For example, I spent some time just eating animal products that I knew were raised with love, that is, I visited the farms to ensure the cows and chickens were living the life. Do you do something like that? or will you eat an animal product that may have been part of the really naughty animal industry of our society?

Not that I like this guy or his attitude, but he does a good job against the two we mentioned:

I don't gamble with not getting plant spirits

What if I go vegan mostly for selfish reasons?

Idk man, I Bobby is a little better that sv3rige but I don't think those people are valid sources of wisdom or just info.

I don't think so. Green is already over 10% Unless yellow at 10% would make green move up a bunch. What he seemed to be talking about was a yellow version of the green 1960's, or of the orange enlightenment. This is just a rise of solid green.

Stan Grof mentions that as an example of past life trauma in his The Way of the Psychonaut.

haha i just found that video the other day and added it to my watch later

I didn't find the books helpful enough to continue reading

@Calcifer I've used ecovillage.org a lot to research places like that one. There are plenty. With WWOOF you can volunteer at farms in exchange for housing and food. Some cool opportunities for traveling there.

It's now been about a month since I got a cough. It started as a cough, and there have been two 4 day ish periods where I had a stuffy nose too. It isn't too bad, but it still very concerning. I suppose I could have bronchitis, i don't know what else. I have been thinking about going to the doctor, but I'm worried they'll just give me antibiotics. How long should I wait before going? apparently bronchitis can cause coughs lasting over 2 months. Most importantly, does anyone know what I can do to get back to wellness naturally?

Wow! How serendipitous. I have been thinking about taking one, and have just reached the point where I am most likely going to take one. My plan: -Figure out if I want to college -Volunteer in permaculture ecovillages for around 8 months (this is a small bet for my Life purpose) -Go on lots of meditation retreats -try to make money online -research and reading

I am 18(as of yesterday) I take no medications. It is pretty dry. Occasionally green and yellowish mucus has come out, but only a few times. I have had only a few painful coughing fits. The coughs are usually pretty not intense, it can happen anywhere from 5 to 50 times a day. Weed once every few months. I'm taking B12 daily. I use humidifiers. THis seems to be not from air conditions but I don't know. None other than the cough. I guess I just assumed it was disease in and of itself, thanks for that. Taking Host Defense which has some of those mushrooms.

I did take about 2 weeks that were very relaxing over the holidays. I never really do too bad with stress. Meditation keeps me very calm. Well said. Will go in a week if I'm not better. Yes I have recently, but only about 10 days ago really, so after I had already been sick. None of the following had any noticable affect. I did a fast for two days a week ago. In the past 1 or two weeks I have been transitioning into veganism. I have been vegan fully for like 4 or 5 days. The thing about the doctor and antibiotics is that my parents may urge me to take them if the doc says I should. Although really I have full control so that's a rubbish excuse. I get a solid 8-9 hours sleep every single night. I have been made sure I am getting enough vitamin c from food, and I have taken a few supplements. Not that kind though. Also, I have been using Paul Stamets Host Defense since christmas.