My deepest trips were done without music.
Music is good for lighter trips or to boost mood or in the afterglow phase.
But if you want to get some serious work done, turn off the music at the peak.
The reason I said that music can be a distraction is that it becomes too beautiful and hypnotizing, luring the psychonaut away from contemplation. Music on psychedelics is like a siren song. But we don't trip for pleasure, we trip for insight. I'm careful not to turn tripping into a pleasure-seeking activity.

This is not true.
And stop framing this as "tricks" to get in a girls panties. Proper game is about becoming a legitimately more attractive and higher value guy. It is not fake. It is real. The confidence and humor developed through pickup is REAL. And it will be respected and appreciated.
Today I am genuinely much more attractive than I used to be. Because of the development work I did. And any woman who sleeps with me will benefit from that. It's not some trick I'm running on her.

Well, if you want to wake up to a pig by your side every night, no one will stop you
High value is not just about sexual appeal or physical appearance. It's the entire value proposition of being in relationship with someone else.
Contemplate this: The only reason you relate with anyone is to get value out of them. What that value is, will vary. It could be sex, companionship, intimacy, someone to talk to, happiness, peace of mind, security, money, love, children, a house, or whatever. All of that is value.
If you wanted no value, you would not relate in the first place. So don't act like you don't want it. Clearly you do. You want a whole bunch of things from that person. Things you don't even consciously know about.
Being in a relationship is not charity work. You are hoping to extract value from it. And as soon as you stop getting the value you expected, you will break it off to find it elsewhere.

There is no mystery or contradiction.
Dating and relationships have a material foundation, a survival foundation. If this foundation is ignored or denied, it is like being a hippie who ignores the importance of money in favor of love and peace, but then finds herself homeless and begging for coins, or prostituting herself.
While women love to talk about intimacy and love and relationship, the hard reality is that they will get attracted to guys who have a solid material masculine foundation. Then the love comes. There is no love for weak guys.
If you want a solid shot at love, handle the material/survival layer first. Then you might get some shot at love.
This is not a matter of treating women as objects. There are simply real survival forces at work here and to ignore them will produce bad results for men and women alike.
Love all you want, but also tie your camel. Love cannot replace tying your camel.

You don't need to use cockroaches as an example.
Just go to your local bar/club and hit on some women. See how ruthlessly they shut down your attempts at love. They don't give a damn about your love unless you make them wet.
The only way to get to a woman's heart is through her pants. But of course this is never spoken of in polite company. This is something every guy must learn the hard way. Try to get a woman to love you without getting in her pants first.

Yes, spend a few years or a decade figuring all that out.
Spirituality will not save you from handling survival.
By day, survival. By night, spirituality. At some point the two will merge. But not for a while.

@Mada_ No. You are being super needy and low-value. She will never sleep with you due to that.
You have to stop caring about any one girl until she sleeps with you.
Zero investment before sex. Zero!
This is the #1 rule of attracting women.

There are many factors that go into being "high value". You don't need to check every box to get a girl. But the more boxes you check the higher value girl you'll be able to attract and keep.
Edgy means saying and acting is slightly outrageous ways. Edginess spikes the woman's emotions and makes her feel alive and adventurous. An edgy guy keeps the woman's emotions stimulated by saying and doing bold and unusual things. This is what creates that classic "bad boy" vibe.
It is not necessary to get a girl. But it can be highly attractive, especially to very hot, very feminine girls.
Nothing in game is ever necessary. You can get a girl by being a total fool just through pure luck. But game is all about maximizing your value and odds.

A supermodel is a lot more than just a hot girl. She has fame, status, and millions of dollars.
Yeah, I could bang a hot nobody girl. But landing an actual supermodel is a very different matter. She's not gonna date a guy who's not at least a millionaire.
Celebrity dating is a whole nother league, son.
BTW, I once went on a date with the 75th top ranked Russian pro tennis star. She was buying BMWs with cash and she was smoking hot. Her body was incredible. But we didn't get along so I never got the chance to sleep with her. But I got real close. If our personalities were more aligned it would have happened.
So yeah, even a guy with my looks can attract hot girls. But it requires game. It ain't gonna happen "naturally".

Like I said, it all depends upon your standards. If you have low standards you can go develop a deep intimate relationship with a crack whore or a hunchback. But who are we kidding? We want the best we can get.
You don't need to go crazy with maximizing sexual value. But your mind IS maximizing it to some degree, whether you know it or not. Feelings of attraction ARE the maximization process at work. It is not a logical process, it is all handled subconsciously by your mind and all you know about it is the feelings of attraction and arousal.
When you feel aroused by another person, that's your mind telling you:
"ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! HIGH SEXUAL VALUE DETECTED! HIGH SEXUAL VALUE DETECTED! CAPITALIZE ON THIS IMMEDIATELY! DO NOT IGNORE!"
And your ego-mind says, "I love that person for who they really are. I'm so loving. This is true love."
It's all self-biased bullshit. A delicious hallucination.

@Enlightenment Thanks for sharing. Great video. It aligned with many things I have experienced with my own health.
If you struggle with concentration problems, brain fog, fatigue, ADD, autism, inability to meditate, crazy monkey mind, etc. -- that's a good sign you might have heavy metal toxicity and you need to get it fixed before attempting any serious consciousness work.
Consciousness work is basically impossible without a properly functioning brain. Which is what most gurus never tell you.

A Zen story:
 

I have been meaning to do more motivational videos. Hang in there. They are coming.

If you drink tap water, you're a fool. You think it's free of heavy metals & other junk? Ha!
Imagine filling your brain with trace heavy metals for 40 years. Don't be surprised when your health goes to hell.

Everything needs to be upgraded to organic, all-natural, non-toxic. Ditch all the cheap popular brands of soap, shampoo, make-up, shaving cream, detergent, deodorant, toothpaste, face cream, sunscreen, lip balm, contact lens solution, etc.
Get rid of EVERYTHING toxic!
I would even filter the water in your house for bathing and washing your face -- if you're able.

If you can't experience them, why do you say they are true?
You need to seriously investigate what "true" means at all. What sense does it make to say a thing is true if you don't experience it?
Why? Isn't that what's literally true in your experience?
Maybe what's truly absurd is believing in the magical experiences of others which you have in fact never seen?
Why is it absurd to believe in unicorns, but not absurd to believe in "other experiences" when both are equally imaginary? Contemplate this.
You have to seriously question the assumptions culture has programmed you with. Consider the possiblity that you've been brainwashed into believing that other people are real.

What you have to understand is that that is your agenda based on your needs as a woman.
Guys have a different agenda.
It's just that simple.
You must also consider that for guys to attract girls, the guy has to take the lead and do the work. It doesn't happen passively for guys as it does for many girls. If the guy doesn't go out and hunt, he starves.
Hunting is not predatory in some evil sense here. The guy could be hunting for his dream girlfriend/wife. In fact, that's what most guys probably want. But to get her, they must first learn how to hunt in general. You can't just land your dream girl with one attempt. It takes a lot of work and practice. Hunting is not mutually exclusive to romance and love.
Dating can be done unconsciously or consciously, and many shades in between.
And don't forget, just because a guy doesn't get into pickup does not mean he don't abuse or manipulate women. He certainly will as he will be even more desperate and lacking the hunting skills. A starving limping wolf is more dangerous than a strong well-fed wolf.
Also, pickup is not merely about hunting girls. It's most about transforming oneself into a better man in order to attract and keep higher quality girls. In the end the guy will discover that tricking girls doesn't work, so the guy is forced to grow himself to get the best girls.
None of this makes much sense from the girl's perspective because you are not tasked with the burden of approaching. You should be thankful that you don't have to carry that burden because it's quite heavy.
Do some guys abuse it? Of course!
See, the thing is, women LOVE a strong guy. But they don't love the process which a guy must go through to become strong. Women only want the end-result of the work. Women expect that strength to be effortless, natural, and free, without any work. They don't want to know how the sausage is made.
Also, you should realize that what you call "real love" isn't real love. It is selfishness and survival. Women do not love men unconditionally. You are attracted to strong men who fit your survival needs. You are attracted to weak, needy, humorless men.
Men will love women unconditionally the same day that women love men unconditionally. Which is never. All romantic activities are highly conditional, biased, and selfish.

The dude thought it was feasible to stop a hurricane with a nuke and to dig a trench at the Mexico border wall and fill it with alligators.

There is no choice in the matter. Higher consciousness leaders will behave in higher consciousness ways.
You can't act like liberal are more developed than conservatives and then blame liberals for not being vicious enough to conservatives.
This is a fundamental misunderstanding of how consciousness works.
See, when Jesus turns the other cheek, people like Vaush will call him too weak. That's how it looks from an under-developed ego-mind that is attached to survival and winning.
The attachment to winning is what creates evil. That's what needs to recognized.

Life purpose is not an ultimate solution to the problem of meaninglessness. Only hardcore spirituality can resolve that.

This is simply and obviously just a projection of his mind.
The proof here is this: if he stops imagining that "everything is based on morality", then nothing will be based on morality.
Morality is a function of thinking. You can see this with a bit of introspection.
Dare him to still have morality while stopping his mind. It's impossible.
No thoughts, no morality. Which is why animals don't have morality. And many humans, for that matter.
For a thing to be moral or immoral your mind must say, "That is moral!" or "That is immoral!". If your mind does not say that, there will be nothing.
There is in fact not a single action or event that is immoral.
"Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
But you are NEVER going to convince a Christian pastor of this. Because he isn't interested in understanding it.

Well, it is obviously false since no amount of visualizing will turn you into a kangaroo.
Test your theories and models against reality.
Well, open your mind to being wrong.
All the classic spiritual practices. Psychedelics are the fastest and most direct way.
It's a state of absolute consciousness in which you realize that you are God imagining your own body.
Stick 30mg of 5-MeO-DMT up your butt.
Because all of that selfish, egoic stuff is irrelevant once you are in a state of God-consciousness.
You might as well ask, "If God is all-powerful, how come he isn't printing money, banging supermodels, flexing his giant muscles, and driving a Lambo?"
Only a selfish moron thinks this way.
What you don't understand is, God is so powerful and selfless that he doesn't even have a form. Any form is limitation and lack of power.
The cost of infinite power is that you are have no form and nobody even knows you exist.

It is much like walking into a dark room and fearing the snake you see in the corner, only to turn on the lights and realize the snake was a rope.
Your sensation and experience of fear was as real as the rope and the room. But it was based on a false interpretation.
Saying that fear is false does not mean the sensation of fear doesn't exist or isn't happening. It obviously is.
All sensations exist. The pertinent question is, what is their significance and why are they arising in you?

Joseph Campbell never experienced a truly psychotic state of consciousness.
It is not the the same as a mystical enlightenment.
It's a moot point to say that the waters are the same because it's all Consciousness. But Consciousness can take some radical states.
You swim in the same waters as a kangaroo and a glass of orange juice. But that will not console you if you find yourself turned into a glass of orange juice.

What you see is what exists.