Rigel

What do you like to do in life? Find communities that do those things and go be around people without any intention other than to have fun doing the thing with other people. If you have enough fun around enough people, you will match with someone without even trying.

The catch 22 with all of this is that feeling lonely is not attractive at all. It makes you needy and desperate which healthy people can smell off of you. It will not solve your problem ultimately but you might need to get together with another needy person that engages with you selfishly to realize that it doesn’t really work. It’s valuable experience even if it blows up. You’ll be less needy and higher quality people will start to vibe with you more. Having healthy relationships will make your life beautiful and better but you can’t get that if you’re not somewhat exuberant with your energies without the need for anyone’s approval. You don’t need to be perfect but if you don’t love your life already you will only attract people that also don’t love their life. Which again you might have to do just to break up some of that neediness.

I recently tried black garlic which is fermented garlic. It’s really sweet and it lost all pungency but developed quite funky notes. I like it.

Porn doesn’t do those things. People do those things. Changing the behaviour of folks by forcing them can only go so far. The way people can avoid these states is through conscious choice. Porn doesn’t do anything to us that we don’t do to ourselves.

My commutes became so much more fruitful when I stopped listening to stuff and put earplugs instead. I struggle to find stuff worth consuming at this point.

Everyone involved sounds so fake. I just see children playing dress up on both sides

Damn I’m realizing you guys just don’t know what music theory is. If your theory is limiting your playing in anyway you just have the wrong theory.

All 12 notes are usable on any chord. It’s just the function that changes. In -> Out -> In. You are dead on. That’s the bedrock of jazz right there. If you look at the holy ii-V-I. That’s what’s happening. The V chord is the tension point you speak of in that scenario. Jazz people usually alter the five with any number of chromatic notes to increase the tension even more before going back to one but chromatic notes can and do happen on every chord, at times. As long as you dance around and lend on notes that tell your story you can get there in infinite ways and use all the notes to do it.

It’s actually pop bread and butter. Usually moves up by a semi tone not down but that’s so far from unusual. According to music theory it should and does work. Theory can and does account for modulations and outside chromatic motions.

Of course you never do it just because. It tastes like shit and feels like shit on all levels. It’s THE conformist drug. People pretend to like it cause they want to get hammered, it’s easily accessible and they don’t know any smarter way.

Sure, that’s not how they derived the solos but theory isn’t meant to tell you how to play in the first place. That’s a misunderstanding. Every thing in there can be described in theoretical terms. There’s ways to describe way more unconventional music than this. All good music was derived independent of theory, even if the artist knows theory. You can paint by number very complex, weird shit. Meanwhile « Let it be » by the Beatles is four basic chords and simple melody but it’s a banger cause it comes from the ear even if it’s dead easy. Listen to George Harrison’s solo on « something » also dead simple and theoretically typical. That shit slaps. My experience with talking to and hearing hundreds of pros along with my own practice in the last decade as shown me that the people that poo poo theory generally play worst. Of course theory is not replacing the ear, that’s absurd. But I have encountered this poo pooing of theory many times and usually comes from limited players. The trap is there, you could choose to paint by numbers but that’s not how actual working musicians generally use theory.

By far the funnest sourcing method.

Travelling to trip once will not change your life. Tripping is a practice, you won’t be able to navigate it very well the first few times. Check if you can get your hands on spores in your country. Those are being sold in a grey legal zone in some places. It’s really not a magic pill. You need tons of experimentation to learn how to integrate. Going off and doing one trip is good if you go with the only intention of seeing what’s there openly and figuring out if you even want to go down that road. For safety you need enough substance to try micro first and slowly ramp up over many trips, weeks, months and years. You can’t just trip once and get all the benefits, that’s just not how it works.

I successfully switched to decaf. There are some really tasty specialty ones.

Did you read the book?

Here’s my shortest summary of it: Just stop.

The lens of movement. I like to pick anything at all and ask myself how is this moving? In how many dimensions? Physical 3D based movement? Poetic movement? Emotional movement? Then I think of vectors. Where is it going? How fast? Is it aesthetically pleasing? Does it make sense and harmonize with the meta-geometrical structures through which it’s moving? What trace is left behind? Is it sustainable? Is it intentional? What if I stop moving? Wait I’m still moving… ok I got it this time. Oh wait I’m still moving. This time for sure… Oh no, still moving. How wonderful. I get moved by it.

There’s a huge range of expression for your specific genetic make up. You can live well below your potential or close to it. Why not learn to ride the wave your on? Better than getting rolled over by it for 80years even it’s not the nicest wave. It’s still rideable and enjoyable if you self-helpify your attitude. No need for the books. Get to practicing. You created this human cause you wanted to experience this human. Enjoy it. Or not I guess. You could also from your divine power choose to curse yourself with a bad attitude about it.

Good for u, how was your first trip like? I never managed to like blue honey but I tried very hard. Hope you’ll enjoy it more lol. Maybe I just made it wrong idk

Health and spirit get fed by the same hand. The hand of harmony.

No it’s the norm and also the smart attitude to have. By all means don’t let me stop you from being negatively motivated.

You can love a challenge right now. You don’t need to trap yourself with more limiting beliefs. The noobs that usually can stick with it and stop being noobs are the ones that are in it for the love of the game. You think brut discipline will get you there? Lol

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Any answer you read here is also a story. Just like your desires. It’s fake. It’s an invention. It’s bias. You desire stuff that keeps the falseness of you’re identification intact. If you didn’t seemingly desire finite stuff you would just die and realize every thing that can ever exist is desired by God and that’s why it’s here. Human desires are stories for children. It’s crucial to play the human game. If you don’t pretend there’s a game there’s no more game. It’s a life and death story. Human desires don’t even exist. Free will is an illusion. God desire is infinite love & creation.

It’s a story. You can’t help but do exactly what you are doing right now. Wether the human desires it or not. You could say God desires everything infinitely. Which is why anything exists at all.