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Mushroom’s potency is hard to gauge. If you don’t grow them you’ve got two options. Store them whole to keep them longer but every time you take them the potency is a gamble. Or blend them all together so you know 2g of this batch will be the same 2g next week but in this case they will stale much faster. I tried making tea and freezing it. Doesn’t work you loose A LOT of potency that way. I tried blue honey. Doesn’t work you end up eating so much sugar to get a decent trip. Not worth it. Have yet to dabble with alcohol extracts. In an ideal world you know where it’s coming from & you are certain your whole batch is a single genetic specimen. That way you can store them whole for a while and the potency isn’t a gamble.

It means whatever you want it to mean.

It’s cool that you are at a point where you can assess these subtle things. You say it’s not minor but I mean is it? Most people struggle to not put poison in their mouth in huge quantities every day of their lives. I’ve spent years in the woods on and off, miles away from any kind of pollution source growing up. I think I know what good air smells like. I’ve also lived in 1,5M population city. It’s undeniable that the air is far worse but I feel like you are blowing this out of proportion. But I am curious. What do you even consider clean air? Where do you live? Are you in rural area? What do you actually breathe day to day & what is your bench mark for good air? And assuming I am just full of shit & this truly is this hugely significant blindspot, what can I do about it? What’s reasonable here? I don’t have money for a house for now, I am bond to renting.

It’s so hard to stomach. I got down a rabbit hole of watching murder investigation YouTube yesterday and I can’t tell you how primal the fear of realizing god is a psychopath that kidnaps & tortures children without a hint of remorse is to me. And that it’s also the one terrified about it on the other side of the screen. Is it even possible to make peace with this stuff as long as we are individual humans? I can clearly see that this knee jerk reaction is my bias as this specific non-psychopath bag of skin. I should probably make peace with not making peace with the darkness. Being scared to acknowledge it is also it I guess. Fear. Yeah that word sums it up pretty well.

The extent to which your tolerance is still there is highly individual and circumstantial so it’s impossible to determine precisely. You could have a weaker trip. You could not have a weaker trip. And what do you consider wasting it? If you have 85% of the strength of the previous trip due to tolerance is that wasting it? Shrooms are also highly unpredictable when it comes to potency. Test it out 1 week apart and come back to tell us! Was it weaker or not?

Bingo. Training will inform how much you want to eat in the end. You want muscle & bone density. That is not gonna happen without training. Moving yo body’s such a pillar. And then eat loads of foods.

I got to magnet that to a fridge somewhere. ~ Virtual virtual pizza

Bread & toppings free pizza

Compassion for us broke rat people🐀

Did you read is book on mastery? It's a step up from Zen Body-Being imo while dealing with very adjacent & overlapping subjects. i.e. Principle of effortless interaction yadi yadi yada.

The version available to the public isn't using the great voice that they showcase here. I asked it why it won't express itself like in those videos & it told me that it was just for show & they keep it down to earth for folks like me. Which is such bullshit. They don't tell you that in those videos. Very dishonest presentation. I like the capabilities it has especially with the integration of DALL-E but common man, I also want my AI to sing. AHAHAH loads of hype & bullshit in this one. But it is promising! I could do without the blatant deception and lying on their part though. The tragedy is it's actually capable of those things right now but they won't allow it for the public. They also tell you it's available with the free plan which is a total lie. At least it was when it came out. I had to pay to test it & my subscription is still going so they may have actually made it free in the mean time and I ain't aware of it.

I would finally have a soundproof place. I can't express how much energy I waste trying to be a good neighbor & not make too much noise. Also I wouldn't have to hear them. That's the dream.

Does survival instinct necessitate an ego? They do have a strong survival instinct. Do dogs & insects have egos? Wtf is an ego?

Am I correct in assuming that you are speaking from direct experience here? I know your gut health's been deteriorating for a while but you still seem like a sharp dude. Did you experience brain deterioration first hand? Or are you speaking of much more serious abuse to reach those danger thresholds?

But I gotta wonder about the first people to ever talk about it or write that shit down for future generations. Surely some humans just got it independently from anyone at some point otherwise we wouldn't be talking about it.

That's an interesting question. I remember being a kid in the bath tub asking myself why is there something rather than nothing & almost loosing my shit over it. There was an innate interest in the mystery & I remember it vividly. But the pull towards conformity got the better of me during school years. Hormonal teenagers are seriously dumb. I don't miss that. If it weren't for people like Leo beating it over my head with a word stick every week, I'd surely have forgotten that spark I had as a kid.

Weed was always very comforting & "safe" feeling to me. Which is why I was so addicted to it. Never got me to face my inner shit. It was always a blanket. Which is the whole problem. Psychedelics aren't fun. Although they could be. They are whatever the fuck they are in the moment & sometimes that's terrifying, suffering, not-fun. Which is why they are so great! Weed never revealed anything hidden from me. Weed was always the one hiding the stuff.

That book is a straight up banger also. I've been squeezing it for months & juice is still coming out of it.

That little grin he gives when he says after enlightenment there's "Much more consciousness to be had"

It's great. A bit shorter than mushrooms but similar in the effects. Not quite the same. Yes it can. I couldn't recommend anything other than start low & see. It's shockingly similar to mushrooms for me. Can probably do both.

I have switched to a berkey filtration system & I love it. They seem to claim heavy metal removal although I haven't looked into 3rd party testing or anything. I can attest to chlorine removal from smell & taste comparison pretty easily. I don't know about the micro plastic. Probably removes some of it. I would hope. I assume reverse osmosis would be a good choice. Never had any water coming out of that.

I always use my own filtered water in a stainless steel bottle but last week I forgot it at home & had to buy bottled water. Better than being dehydrated all day or drinking tap if you ask me. Once in a while at least.

What a banger. Totally rocked my world 5-ish years ago.

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