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This is false. You will literally never run out of things to try.

Do you have hobbies? What do you do for fun when your work is all said and done? And what is your work like? Do you like it? Can you find something better if not? Try knitting, skiing, boxing, running, playing music, dancing, cooking, growing plants, making miniature ships inside bottles, anything really. If you don't like it, try something else. You are bound to fall in love with something at some point. Don't fall in the trap of making your entire life about self-help. Meditation is great and clearing your lifestyle of addictions & such(like you seem to be doing already) is great but you also gotta do stuff. Life is here for you to participate in it. The renunciate path is not for the vast majority of people. You can enjoy a cup of coffee or a glass of wine sometimes in moderation(If you like it). You don't need to try to be holier than you are. I love coffee. Am I addicted? Maybe. Who gives a shit? Live your life. Go have a chat with your parents and tell them you love them. The world will give back what you put into it. If you put negativity in the world you'll be hit with negativity over the head until you learn to let that shit go. I know how hard it is, I am just being blunt with you here. You are not broken. You merely think you are. Go out and have a chat with some homeless people. That is misery you cannot comprehend.

In an effort to become a better citizen I've been shopping for news around where I live in canada(I am not familiar with US networks). I've been wanting to understand what's going on in the world but what I came around to is just insanity. I cannot, for the life of me, find a reliable & non-dramatizing network. So I did a small amount of googling to understand why the news is such a negative, shit-slinging contest and I stumbled on this article: https://markmanson.net/why-you-should-quit-the-news It's a good read. The author goes through some history of centralized & decentralized networks of information as well as what to do if you want actually useful and relevant information. A few things I gathered from it: -Prioritize long form news. If the thing takes 40mins to read, it wasn't just an emotional rant about somebody's opinion, but required probably days & months to research and write. -Don't ever click on a clickbait. -The news networks that make you pay for it will have better information. -You will not understand politics by consuming the news. Read a book about politics if you want good information on politics. The news is about the immediate term. It totally misses the big picture. -You don't need a news anchor to tell you what to think about elections & such. Listen to the candidates themselves & decide for yourself which is the least-worst one. ~~~~~~~ Here's the bottom of the barrel: Murders, crimes, gangs, drugs & violence. Most of the articles I came across that deal with those topics are worthless. Only there to turn people into emotional baboons. I see the war going on in the middle east right now as an exception. I am mostly talking about local stuff here. Once in a blue moon I come across something cool but it's buried so deep in this thick crap that I am questioning whether it's worth it or not. Am I being a shitty citizen if I just remove myself form consuming the news at all?

Do you know how much mg per gummy? 2g mushrooms can vary wildly in potency which is why you should test every batch before committing to a big mushroom dose. It's not a good way to compare. 10-15mg for 4-Aco is a good dose I think.

Did you realize you never wanted it when you got it?

Don't you need to want it to understand it?

Singing exercises are great. Amazing. Marvelous even. Speech is a dirtier form of vocal production. It's much harder to talk for extended periods of time without getting horse and hurting yourself than it is to sing. At least it was for me. My focus would be on the words and meaning I want to express and my technique would suffer for it. Whereas with singing I can just put 100% of my attention on the pure sound and joyous sensation of a vibrating skull thus creating space for much more grace and ease. God I love singing.

I want instructions on how to take a shit and wipe my ass next!

The way I see it the voice has 3 main parts you need to align in order to produce a full sound. 1- Breath. A very simple practice I teach younglings and which is a great way to start a warm-up is to breath deep through your nose and into the belly and then make "ssssss" sound like a snake as long as possible. Then again and again. This will engage the diaphragm and balance your oxygen levels. 2- Larynx and the muscles surrounding it. I don't have a great practice for this. It comes with lots of experience in using your voice. Vocal fries are an option here to gain traction. Just don't hurt yourself with it. 3-Resonators(all the space inside your throat, sinuses & head). Practice humming a steady mid-range "mmmmmm" and focus on opening up your sinuses. Notice how the sound changes. Open up the throat and direct all the vibrations inside of your head. How does the sound change? The more you can allow the vibrations coming from your larynx to reverberate inside you and amplify themselves, the better you'll sound. Great voices come from aligning these so that they support each other. Stay relaxed but keep your muscles engaged.

I was amazed when I went to music school how few people wear plugs. Except drummers cause drums will wreck you more than anything. Especially when you are up close doing the hitting. To me it was always none negotiable. I got custom ones made and never looked back.

Good ole 20's swing. Delicious

I like them. They are nutritious and cheap, which is great for a broke ass musician like me. I don't get bloating or gases at all but I know a good few people do. I still can't exist without fresh, juicy fruits and veggies but a staggering amount of my atoms come from beans. Edit: I mean a shocking amount of my flesh is made of beans. I live with the beans. I am the beans.

It's probably right that taking a newcomer to the field of spirituality and throwing him off the deep end with a month of daily 5-Meo is going to be dangerous and unravel their life in unhealthy ways, but that noob can wet their feet. I think they would be making their life harder by trying to burn through every desire before even opening a book about meditation or some other practice. They won't hit rock bottom by focusing on their breath an hour a day but that's a foot in the doorstep and it most likely would help them achieve their earthly desires by dropping unnecessary mental crap they are holding on to. I think what I am coming around to is that getting into spirituality too young is not the mistake. The mistake is making spirituality your sole and only focus before you have a way to exist and survive in the world. Unless you don't care about living and just want the cake of all cakes. Which is totally fine.

If it wasn't for my spiritual path I would have given up on my life purpose a while ago. To me this either/or mentality is equal to stagnation. Some people's minds work in different ways than yours

I cringe a lot at everything YouTube is trying to feed me these days. Especially YouTube spiritually.

“Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow— You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand— How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep—while I weep! O God! can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?” -Edgar Allan Poe

@actuallyenlightened Dude, LSD lasts 10hrs and the main angle of attack that we have for legalization right now is to first make it legal in therapy settings. Very hard to fit 10-12hrs trip into a therapist's work day. As long as you don't take too much, there's nothing about mushrooms that you can't handle.

This. If you are experiencing come up anxiety(which is normal; your job is to accept that on a macro dose), you are taking too much. Cut your dose in half and if you still feel anxious cut that one in half again and so on.

Maybe trade all the time you spend searching for and trying new drugs with time working out? I'd wager it's gonna be more effective for your sleep.

What about dried stuff? I eat tons of dried mushrooms, rice, beans & oats. I seem to be doing fine. Is there even living cells in those? Doesn’t seem like it.

I am teaching music to preschool kids in a city where we have French and English as official languages. We speak both of them interchangeably. Like one sentence will be French and the next English. Kids are very good at learning all of that. They can make the distinction later about which is which but they can speak and understand both.(as much as you can expect from a 4ish year old) I don’t have experience with more languages than that but three doesn’t seem that far of a stretch.

Psychs make you less stable not more stable. More aware yes but definitely not more stable. Like if you want to amplify your emotions and feel them more deeply it’s the right tool but if you are taking it to manage them and control them you are going to be disappointed.

I wouldn’t be so confused about everything. I would be sure and confident about my ideology. I would probably try to convince and convert people I know!

Get a job at Starbucks or something. I am sure you could save up that amount in a few months and then you are free to give all of it to those scammers.

How you keep trying to convince yourself is baffling. I know it stings but you gotta bite the bullet and cut your losses. You made a mistake. Learn from it.