Tarzan

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  1. @levani what are your goals? lose weight? look good? How good? ripped? or just a healthy bw (health reasons). What kind of diet/lifestyle/looks would you like? How much are you willing to work towards these goals? Ask specific questions and you get the best answers to them as far as your fitness goals and achieving them go for. What might be effective or optimal might not be practical for you (if you dont enjoy your workouts or routines for example, even though they are optimal, or interference with other life factors like how much time you have in the week/day, injuries aswell). Also it depends on what your 'training age' and training proficiency is at. Have you done other sports or lifting (I'm guessing yeah since you love squats)?. What do you do right now in terms of training, and diet aswell. but generally I agree with @The0Self rep range doesnt matter as long as you are going near to failure with like 1-3 reps in reserve. Key parametre to muscle building is volume, which can be broken down differently, but the simplest and prob most effective way is to measure how many hard sets (at or near to failure) per muscle group are you working each week? doing 10+ sets per major muscle group per week is a threshold. Training split, frequency, exercise selection stem more from how much time you have, and what exercises you prefer, also your training age (start slow and ramp up sustainably and when need to - have long term in mind)
  2. as was mentioned you can distinguish between healthy and unhealthy vegan diet. whole foods, b12 and iodine, rest is less important. Heck you can include some processed food if it makes you like whole foods more (and adherence to diet easier), also vegetable oils are not great, not even olive oil (unless you have a hard time getting enough calories in and lose weight by default, then oil is fine) whole food plant based - nutritionfacts.org is fine for learning, just dont become a diet zealot (veganism or omnivore can both be healthy if avoiding saturated far i feel) you can check other things like 21day vegan challenge etc
  3. Kriya Secrets Revealed by Stevens for beginners is nice. Nice descriptions for practice. Ennio Nimis Synthesis of a personal experience (freely available online) is also supposed to be great, but I haven't read it. SantataGamanas Kriya Exposed and Kriya Secrets revealed were really influencial for me. I think you could do good by beginning with the first book and then looking into the others aswell, and especially SantataGamanas books, to get some more perspective on kriya yoga. Also, check out kriya yoga megathread here on the forum (meditation,consciousness etc section) As to how to do it properly might be challenging and take some time.
  4. @Pernani I would lump Kriya yoga as a practice focusing on energy, one-pointedness concentration, and rapture (peak states). You can get into some wild territory if you have a true intention and do it with passion so-to-speak (detached passion ofc). Those states of high energy seep into daily life and it seemed to be working for you, but if you want the transformation that I think you are looking for then you could complement kriya with an investigative, self-inquiry, or the sort technique. Vipassana/mindfulness/self-inquiry. The simplest way is to just rest in that high energy state for as long as you can after the practice (for me it's like doing self-inquiry 24/7, or awareness-on-awareness). Essentially, both TMI, and Hardcore Buddha Book propose exactly this sequence of focus - at first get your concentration right (one-pointedness, which Kriya can do super effectively) - and then investigate. Then again I don't know, for me I did 5meo and my practice got supercharged after I got in touch with my 'Inner guru' (intuition) so-to-speak. Peak states have seeped into daily life and a sudden ability to effortlessly rest on awareness itself. Awareness-on-awareness. Lots of purging and up-downing - getting used to flipping from a passionate feel-good-about-life state to darknighting to equanimous super-accepting-of-reality-and-myself do-nothing states (less common peak states). The highest peak was ego-death at the cinema, lol it was beatuiful and comical to see myself in the cinema (self-inquiry and mindfulness turn into one). I truly don't know what will work for you, but if I'd give any advice it is to brute-force it - everything at once - psychedelics, classic meditation, kriya, 24/7 baseline focus. If kriya then I def recommend SantataGamanas books (Kriya Exposed and Secret Power of Kriya) and for psychedelics ramp your tolerance for self-acceptance and openmindedness up smartly (start with mushrooms or acid, and weh nyou feel ready, or have reached a plateau, then 5meo). And remember that you are an individual and general guidelines might not work for you exactly - experiment with what works for you. You seem to be resonating a lot with classic meditation, which is cool. I don't thing with kriya and meditation its and this-or-that thing but more about how to do both, more of a complementary relationship, lots of potential for integrating them together. So manny books recommended to you lol. I hope you find the time to go through them
  5. Just how the current state of society works. Survival values is rooted deeply in the unconscious need to view oneself as inadeuqate, unworthy, and unlovable. Survival values are destroyed when you apply conscious self-love to yourself. It is the biggest threat to survival values and behaviour, therefore anything that promotes self-love (perfect as you are) rather than self-improvement (being better than you already are) is seen as dangerous, wrong, and stupid. It is hard, there is so much inertia keeping us grounded in a deficiency mindset, which I sruggle with, but I'm growing a lot atm. Being ungrounded is scary, it is why there is a huge resistance towards green and beyond (self-expression values as opposed to survival values)
  6. @integral Ah, gut issues, not as familiar as I'd like to be (I'm not a professional nutritionist, a professional youtube nutrition enthusiast lol, as related to plant-based and exercise-nutrition). Have you checked out gojiman? Or Vegetable Police? They seemed to have similar issues.
  7. @integral I meant your perpective on nutrition / health, rather than specifically Y/T. Also 10 years veganism, you can elaborate more if you like.
  8. @Tarzan The description given is reason not to eat animals for people stuck at orange, its a very different matter at the yellow and turquoise level. This is not a moral debate. We all love animals past green, but yellow recognize that we are carnivores and understands the circle of life, beyond yellow accepts its self, green is very much in denial of human biology. Explain the yellow and turqoise perspective and why it leads to killing and eating animals. If your argument is that a well planned vegan diet is not sustainable for your health then you are wrong, there is no conclusive proof of that. Key word: well planned. What does it mean to be a carnivore? If you mean that you need to eat meat to sustain yourself then that is wrong, there are examples that show this is not the case - people can live just as good or even better not eating meat (or eggs, dairy). If by circle of life by the traditional, or 'natural' way that we used to sustain ourselves - by killing and eating animals - then that doesn't prove we have to continue that way, especially if we find alternatives that work just as well. The circle of life is not a constant, it can change. There are differences between how to make an omnivore diet work vs a vegan diet work, as long as they are well planned both are healthy. I'm not saying you have to go vegan, but stop trying to convince others that veganism doesn't work and they should revert back. If you want to prove to yourself that a vegan diet can work then it won't be simple, you have to put it to the test for yourself, and no half-ass it because that's how you revert back to thinking it doesn't work. I probably do 10 times more work and research on nutrition than you do. The reason why I've chosen vegan is that it is one of the only diets that includes a more wider perspecitve than other diets - most diets just focus on eating healthy and getting lean. You can do that just as well on a vegan diet, but you now include an environmental and ethical perspective. When I do my research my agenda is on practicality and living a conscious lifestyle. By practicality I mean eating the foods I like and produce results with muscle building (no dif between plant-based protein and animal protein as long as protein intake is equated), and a healthy diet (prioritize whole foods, minimize processed, calorie-dense, saturated fatty, and toxin-dense foods (fatty meats concentrate toxins through bioaccumulation)). By a conscious lifestyle I mean knowing the impact my lifestyle has - my purchasing habits - what state of society do I support by buying meat vs plants for example - environmental concerns (animal agriculture loses), ethical concerns - animal agricultures loses again, biiiig time (and I think you or someone else mentioned about plant agriculture killing small ruminants that wander onto the fields, regrettably this is so, but according to studies the 'sum of suffering' is reduced signifacntly with no animal agriculture at all - because to feed the animals themselves we have to raise more crops, by a significant margin (there are billions of farm-raised animals, don't remember exact number but far more animals than there are humans, so no shit we need to raise more crops) By reducing animal farming we also reduce the need for plant agriculture - therefore reducing suffering to wild ruminants wandering in the fields in sum, not to mention not allowing cows, pigs, chicken to suffer for our pleasure and convenience. If you want to present the argument that because we eliminate animal farming, we need to produce more crops to sustain ourselves, then consider that studies show that if we didn't feed animals the food crops produce, we could feed 11 billion people with amount we produce today, so we would still reduce the amount of crops. I suppose you would now think that veganism is even more wrong, because it isn't healthy. That's not true. If you compare different varieties of cancer, heart disease, hypertension etc, then you would not find a significant difference when calories and other confounding factors are accounted for, or even find that no animal food seems to work better for some cases - heart disease for example, since plant foods contain far less saturated fat, usually. I don't know what else to say. I could ask your own perspective - what do you eat and why? If you eat meat because you like the taste of it and don't want to give that up then that's fine. But if you say that eating meat is healthier, and no difference ethically/environmentally, then I just have to disagree with you and will stop arguing with you at this point.
  9. Kriya yoga needs time, just like any other tehnique. I read from Daniel Ingram's book that the first mystical experience usually leads one to believe that whatever technique one used to achieve the mystical state, is the right one for him. My inuition tells me there's not a whole lot of difference, but then again I haven't tried everything. It might not be about any speicific technique but just your own feeling guiding you. and telling you this is right for you.
  10. @laurastarla It might react with air if not properly stored. Keeping it in a fridge or freezer can stop it. If you see a colour change (from almost white to brownish then it has reacted with air.
  11. Start thinking and contemplating about the animals perspective. Would I like to be held in an animal farm, in a small cubicle doing my good boy/girl work by suffering in a pit of shit and the farmers hassling me, making fun of me, sometimes torturing me? And when the work is done and I've grown to how big and bulky, am I willing to happily sacrifice myself to my generous, good human masters? After all they need it to sustain themselves, so I must die for them, to give them my love while denying my own? After all, I've not known anything else other than being in a cubicle of shit, that's what all my other fellow cows do, to me that's what life is, to experience pure suffering and hell. Watching some documentaries helps imagine what they go through if you find it difficult to do it otherwise. Tripping on psychedelics can also boost your visualization and imagination skills. I don't want to go down that place anymore, I've already commited to doing my best to stay 100% vegan.
  12. Lol for me the q was answered when I decided to trip on LSD and imagined myself as another being. Expand your sense of self and apply love. Vegan makes the most sense to me if you expand your sense of self to include other beings like animals. If you do that you will not want to eat meat or animal products. But also since you love yourself, you make sure to do regular bloodwork to see if you cover your nutrients. as far as I know B12 is a must take supplement, that's basically it. You can cover all other nutrients you need with a well planned vegan diet (a wide variety of whole foods). If you are a woman then you might need to pay attention to your iron levels, so doing bloodwork and seeing if your iron levels are ok is most important. If you confirm that you iron deficient then you need a strategy to correct it - more iron containing foods with vitamin C (helps absorption) or a supplement. Iodine is something not too hard to get, but might get deficient in if you don't use iodized salt or seaweeds like kombu (kombu has too much idoine so use within limits), wakame, etc. carnitine, taurine, creatine not necessary unless you want to max out gym gains, in which case creatine is prob most effective, carnitine and taurine small effect. Vitamin A - eat your carrots, or sweet potatoes, or other veggies. Vitamin D - get noon sunlight exposure, or take supplement if not possible. As for anti-nutrients. Phytates are nutritious by themselves - anticancer effects. Although they decrease absopriton of some minerals, prob not a problem unless you confirm your levels are low. Oxalates - high in spinach, swiss cahrd, and some other foods, not a problem unless you have confirmed gut issues related to it. Protein not a problem, absorption is good, while the ratio of essential amino acids is lower, you will get them in adequate amounts unless you only eat very low portein sources regularly for a long time. If you want to maximize gym gains look into protein powders, TVP, or gluten (healthy unless gluten intolerant which is like 1% of population). There are studies showing plant based protein powders work as well as whey. And if you compare vegans and omnivores, while matching protein intake, no difference in muscle gains. The only caveat here is that the amino acid leucine needs to be above 2g per meal as it signals the body to build more muscle tissue. That is about 30 g of plant based protein per meal which is easy to get with tofu, legumes, or just TVP, protein powders. Basics - eat enough calories, eat a variety of foods, get regular bloodwork done to confirm you're doing ok. I haven't expanded my sense of self to plants yet though, not that advanced atm. I wonder how they feel.
  13. @Javfly33 Do you do other practices as well? or just psychs
  14. I recently used 5meo. I've noticed a pretty massive shift in my baseline level of consciousness, to the level that I am having random glimpses, and my kriya practice has improved substantionally. These last few mornings during the month I can't help but feel a bleeding inside - familiar to the feeling of deep love - but towards absolutely nothing. It feels impossible to find an expression to it except to just surrender to it and let it be. I didn't even go that deep during the trip, but it was still the most beautiful experience I've ever had. I think that if I didn't have a conscious intention to reflect on the experience, and to hold mindfulness/awareness during the day + other practices, then I would return to almost as close to baseline as I was before. The experience echoes into your daily practices and you can deepen the experience if you intend to put your focus/energy into it. Planning on another trip until I feel ready again
  15. I don't want to ruin your day. You can eat however you want or cheerlead whoever you want. Its just that I'm not buying it and who knows maybe a I induce some doubt.
  16. The video you posted, where are the studies he cites? Which studies support his claim? All I found was some links directing to his shop and his website, and a disclaimer Disclaimer: Dr. Eric Berg received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1988. His use of “doctor” or “Dr.” in relation to himself solely refers to that degree. Dr. Berg is a licensed chiropractor in Virginia, California, and Louisiana, but he no longer practices chiropractic in any state and does not see patients so he can focus on educating people as a full time activity, yet he maintains an active license. This video is for general informational purposes only. It should not be used to self-diagnose and it is not a substitute for a medical exam, cure, treatment, diagnosis, and prescription or recommendation. It does not create a doctor-patient relationship between Dr. Berg and you. You should not make any change in your health regimen or diet before first consulting a physician and obtaining a medical exam, diagnosis, and recommendation. Always seek the advice of a physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. The Health & Wellness, Dr. Berg Nutritionals and Dr. Eric Berg, D.C. are not liable or responsible for any advice, course of treatment, diagnosis or any other information, services or product you obtain through this video or site. ???
  17. Most of what I've heard of him say isn't backed up by studies. Unless he cites specific studies that support the claims he makes, then the information, however well presented and logical it might sound, it might not be right. He focuses only on presentation on that video, no studies cited in the description. My advice is to focus on channels and nutrition advice that is backed by studies. Understand what they present and review the studies they cite. What you can do to make sure that study represents the consensus is to search for contradicting studies and see how the data holds up. If say one yt channel presents information that keto diets are healthy and good for weight loss, then review the study that backs up that claim - how big was the effect? How was the study structured (according to the evidence hieararchy meta analyses and placebo-controlled randomized control trials are the most trustworthy and reliable forms of studies). Then find more studies that deal with the same topic (it's easier I suppose to search for channels that present contradicting information and then review the studies that they cite). As far as keto is concerned I think a good place to start is nutritionfacts.org, of course look for keto diet advocates and review their cited studies. I'd be critical of anyone who believes in magic bullets and magic diets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Dv7b0TON8&list=PL5TLzNi5fYd8H9nNYTHuxVBTCNP0hZDu3 Look for different sources and compare their claims and studies
  18. Is this like a technique to manage emotions? Kind of like the Sedona method? I'll look into it
  19. @outlandish Maybe freebase is slower because it has to dissolve in nasal cavity before being absorbed. Since I dissolve it beforehand, it is more disperse and the tiny bloodvessels absorb it much quicker. But yeah, no fear whatsoever, just pure awe . I don't think either method is better than the other, I think whatever method works for you is good. But if you plan on dissolving freebase, then do it with dilute vinegar and then add water. I think that the more volume there is, the harder it is to snort. I had 0,5 mL which was a bit too much, my sitter mentioned that some drops went down my face. I think 0,3 mL would be ok.
  20. @Danny777 You can snort freebase, it will burn a bit but it is not too bad. What you can also do is dissolve it with dilute vinegar and water. Vinegar is acidic and will react with the freebase to form the salt form (if you dissolve HCl salt compound in water or dissolve freebase in a dilute vinegar solution you will get the same chemical species where the amine part of the tryptamine moleucule is protonated into R-NH(Me)2+), which makes it water soluble. Snorting the vinegar solution is a bit less painful, because it will be a bit acidic. That being said freebase is a bit more uncomfortable, I think that my nostrils are more sensitive to mildly basic pH solutions than mildly acidic pH solutions. You can read the 5meo megathread, pages 124-126 me and outlandish discussed a bit on snorting technique. But vaporization also works if done right, I haven't explored that, you choose ofc.
  21. @outlandish, @Leo Gura Well damn :D, 15 mg was intense indeed. I prepared it using a few drops of dilute vinegar and coconut water. I tried dilute vinegar or dilut baking soda on their own and for me vinegar was actually very mild. Baking soda doesn't seem pleasant. I think just dilute vinegar and water work just fine to dissolve and shouldn't give much discomfort. I insufflated 0,5 mL solution with needleless syringe, seated, although I think I should've lied down. I lied down, head upside down and massaged my nostrils. I had a sitter by my side just in case. He measured time and told me that it took just 3 mins for the rollercoaster to start, I was basically orgasming for 15 mins straight. Basically no resistance whatsoever, it was amazing. After that I was still in the experience, but it was lighter, and I could walk around like a maniac, it was hard to sit still as I just couldn't believe what was happening. It took like 30 mins to return to baseline, I was communicating with my sitter kind of like documenting what it was like. All in all, it was very positive and I seem to handle 5MeO extremely well, I suppose the return to baseline felt a bit weird. This was intense, but I feel like I didn't go deep enough. I feel fatigued but I don't feel any resistance right now to return to it. I think I'm going to explore higher dosages.
  22. What I've heard is that snorting seems intolerably painful compared to snorting 5MeO since the dosage for N,N-DMT is much higher. Plugging doesn't deem to work, because of the same reason maybe, I don't remember exactly. Vaping seems the best. There are lots of tools that you can either make yourself and order to do that. The simplest way to vape is likely to pick some Mullien leaves and get some ashes, can be from tobacco, and a glass pipe. add the ashes to the bottom of the pipe, add a layer Mullien leaves. On top of the Mullien leaves add dmt powder and add another layer of Mullien leaves so you basically 'sandwich' the DMT. Then you use a torch lighter on top of the pipe and suck some air so that the hot air starts to melt the DMT between the leaves and ashes, and finally vaporize it. After you see some vapors you start to inhale deeply, and hold. 3 hits seem to be the standard for a breakthrough. I got this from someone on this forum or DMT-nexus. Check DMT-nexus for more information, though people on that forum have though of every device possible that you can use to vape, so it's hard to choose which is best, they all seem to work if done right. If you know anything at all about dab rigs then that seems to be the most efficient (uses almost twice as less DMT) and easiest way to vape it (1 hit is all it takes)
  23. @outlandish Have you got more experience? What is the correct way to insufflate? Is it more unreliable than I presumed it to be? 7.5 mg freebase, 3 drops of dilute vinegar, some water and baking soda. I insufflated from a syringe about 0.1 mL rather strongly. I lied down almost immediately, didn't massage my nose at all. Noticed mild burning sensations in the back of my nasal cavity although it didn't drip down my throat. I mean I did get noticeable effects, the dosage wasn't that big, it seems my technique was ok? I will do 15 mg next time though, probably use some coconut cream to see if it alleviates the burn more-so.
  24. Hi guys. So i got my hands on some 5MeO and have decided on insufflation as it seems to be effective and the easiest method by far. My goal is to have a breakthrough experience and integrate. I recently tested 7.5 mg, 3 drops of vinegar, some water and baking soda to back-titrate to neutral-like pH. It did burn but it was quite tolerable. There was was definitely and effect after about 5 mins, I felt my heart pounding and a mild psychedelic trance with fear. It did remind me of a meditative state but nothing special. At the 8-10 min mark though it was calm, pleasant, but still some aftereffects. I have questions about increasing dosage - should I make small increments or jump to a probable breakthrough dose? Its just that I've read some reports where if you're just a bit short on breakthrough dose than that might produce a quite unpleasant reaction, as it gives your ego just enough room to resist and suffer instead of surrendering. Would a 11 mg dose be a smooth increment? How big is breakthrough through insufflation usually for people? (freebase) How often do you guys feel the need to scream and be vocal during your trips? I'm asking this in case I need to rent a cabin somewhere in the woods or smth :D. Also, how reliable is plugging compared to insufflation? I plan on plugging aswell, but it seems it doesn't work for some people and also the dosage is like 2x bigger. Therefore im starting with insufflation as it seems the most foolproof. How would you guys compare the two methods?