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Hey could someone link the video leo mentioned of a preacher reaching maha samadhi I looked for it and i found what might be the one he mentioned: at 1 minutre

From my experience, one thing that I want is to have real life friends that have the same interests as me, like the people on here do. I find the platform of an online forum and the internet to just be so limiting that I wouldn't pursue being friends with people on here. But if I met any of you in real life I think we would get along great.

John Hopkins is a great place for psychedelic research (I'm applying there for college) https://hopkinspsychedelic.org/ All these links stem from this site https://hopkinspsychedelic.org/achievements Here is how shrooms & psychs make you stop smoking: A list of articles https://www.quitsmokingbaltimore.org/articles An anecdote from Adam from psyched substance: And look at this. They are researching mystical experiences! https://csp.org/docs/religiousleaderstudy Effects on deppression: It is interesting they administered it with a drug that makes people less impulsive. https://www.insider.com/magic-mushrooms-depression-treatment-ssri-alternative-2019-2?fbclid=IwAR0_SWDf9zgFi2lHWn6l7iTX82e7V51SP7SOL68mbFJleDzpkinGAg3itXU And here is a list of Hopkins publications: https://hopkinspsychedelic.org/publications including 5meo multiple times! and openminded buzzwords like 'mystical experiences' and 'subjective uses'

ctrl f is limited on the book list since you can't have the thing open in 1 tab, you need 4. The blog too, you need like 30

Hey, coming from someone who has been using it for over a year, 0 to 4 times a month, and has not been at all addicted. It depends how you do it. If you do it then go do unconscious activities, using it to make them more enjoyable, that won't work. Cut that out. I like to go for a bike ride and focus on mindfulness. Or you can meditate. Or spend time with friends, just be careful to not use it for hedonism

Iceland used to be a huge forest, but stage red vikings deforested the whole thing in the 9th century. Now that they are green, they have got it from i think 0.5 to 2 % forest. It will take hundreds of years to restore it. This may be what happens in brazil. As long as species do not go extinct, recovery will always be possible. A stage green society would even donate their land

His most recent video, he talks about retreats, kundalini, and the dark night. He made a video shortly after Leo's 'dropping the roles you play' where he mentioned that video. His videos have lots of practical advice. And Leo would love this one:

Man you could write a book @Danioover9000 about this

I've always wondered about this, modern psychology seems to think psychopathy is not a temporary stage

yup. It's a long ass book I recommend getting the paperback. I was lucky enough to get the 2nd edition on accident, and it's great.

I'm almost done with this book, I didn't think it would be good, but my Grandmother insisted I borrow it from her. It fills me with positive motivation and equanimity, it's one of my favorite books. A part of the book is autobiographical, and another part is artsy picture with poetic stuff, but most of it is very foundational, insightful, and practical advice. There are 20 or so chapters on meditation, yoga, dance, psychedelics, guru's, mantras, sleep, siddhis, and tons of wisdom. It's from 1971 and represents the best of the hippie culture.

tldr I find from my experience that retreats and trips have the same effect on long term growth, both result in a backlash that can be fought through to gain growth, it is just that trips hit a higher peak. If you are concerned with those peaks, you are correct you will not get to the same levels. If you are concerned with permanent enlightenment or higher consciousness, retreats and sober techniques will do you just as well.

^ I'm a total noob. Yea, I think Leo's ego backlash video is one of the most important things to keep in mind.

(This story is about a friend of a friend, just using first person so it makes sense) cough This is my first trip since around 8 months ago. Tripping is what got me to actually be able to start and maintain a practice of meditation then(around 8 months ago), and after that I decided to focus on that for a while. I set the intentions of getting insight into Life purpose and my sadhana, and also answering the what am I question. I took 3 grams and used this recipe I felt way less nauseous than usual, and the come up was very fast. I spent some time thinking about life purpose, and money. I felt like I had a really deep understanding of how the economy works, in the sense of people exchange value for money, meaning I have to create value, it really clicked. Then I started doing self inquiry and for like two hours I was launched into this egoless state of mind. There were no thoughts about myself during it. I didn't know what the world was or what was going on, I just layed there taking it all in. I'm not sure if it was pleasant though, I really can't remember. Once I came back I realized I had been gone, and I was just thinking and saying what the hell, oh my god. After I came down I had a huge ego backlash. I sat around for a few hours just being mindful as waves of bad feelings went through my body. Then I went and watched random videos on youtube for 2 hours. Then I was like, nah bro, let's go back and have a mindful ego backlash, and I did that for a few hours then went to bed. I expected to wake up this morning still having an ego backlash, as this has happened before, but for some weird reason I feel normal this morning. I did yoga with little resistance, I don't feel drawn to unconscious stuff. I don't feel super motivated either though. I feel really drained of vigor, like I just ran a marathon yesterday and I need to chill out. I might do this again before summer is over since I won't have an opportunity during the school year. I should also mention that I've had nightmares about a traumatic event the past two or three nights, I think it was brought up by shamanic breathing on friday, and I bet tripping had a similar effect. I think I feel a little better about it. I usually have nightmares about it every few weeks, which is much better than the multiple times a week it used to be.

lmao I couldn't get the motivation or focus to do shamanic breathing during a trip

I'd love to hear more!

Leo has a trend of hitting the same topic from different angles, which can be helpful. For example his explanation of god videos were similar to a bunch of videos that explain conceptually the realizations you can attain. He also has a bunch of videos similar to the self-bias one, as he mentioned. It seems like there are so many more 'practical' topics he could cover, and when I listen to these videos I don't find them helpful. What do you guys think?

Yes @Leo Gurawe really need that conscious suffering video that you keep alluding to.

Well I thought the self bias video on the blog was really good. I guess some videos just don't give the same helpful vibe due to subjective experience.

@Muhammad I had an experience yesterday similar to that except I didn't leave my body, but I did what you said and it felt like the suffering built up and then I broke through a wall and it was effortless for like 10 min

eh maybe

And then you've got your sofia and your naropa Im pretty sure Sofia is undergrad and grad, naropa is for sure https://www.sofia.edu/ https://www.naropa.edu/

I wonder if we will invent a new way of identifying people, such as through technology

Making waste into currency would only serve the purpose of spreading it out. Money is going spaceless/digital in the future. And then with the idea of throwing it into space, to what extent would we do that? Until we are all standing on a little rock that used to be the earth? But in the more short term, we never know what type of things could be re purposed with better technology.

I would go for it. There's no point in forcing something higher consciousness, work on getting survival in check first.