If you want to have sex, you need to socialize a lot more frequently and it will happen. Even without pickup skillz. That is how normies get laid. Normies tend to be fairly social.
The Incel phenomenon is gaining steam so much these days because of the rise of the internet and gaming. Real-world socialization has taken a serious hit. You must consciously over-compensate for it nowadays by pushing yourself to socialize in the flesh even though there's little need to do so (other than for getting laid).
And who knows... you might learn to joy it more than playing Fortnite.

It's counter-intuitive: the chasing of bliss is the very thing which prevents it.
Bliss is a consequence of fully facing one's fear and not needing to manipulate your experience.
It's problematic to be doing psychedelics with the expectation of bliss. I would drop that expectation and instead aim for Truth and understanding. Bliss is the fruit off the tree of understanding. Focus on watering the roots of your tree rather than jumping like a thirsty monkey at the unripened green fruits.

There actually is no such thing as POVs. There is only your direct experience. All POVs are inside your POV.
The concept of Points of View is inherently dualistic. It too much collapse.

And how many of them were single and you were willing to fuck?
You see? The numbers are simply too low.
If you take responsibility for this situation you can socialize with 30 single women in one weekend. Thus increasing your odds of finding the right girl by a factor 30, 50, or 100!
Contemplate how HUGE that is. Imagine x100 fold increase. This is relatively easy to create simply by going out every Fri, Sat, Sun. It's that simple to get a x100 increase. And we haven't even talked about upgrading your skills yet. With upgraded skills you will get another x100 increase.
It's not only a numbers game, but when the numbers aren't in your favor you're setting yourself up for failure.
If you were a real estate agent and you only talked to 30 people in 3 months, your children would starve, no matter how good of an agent you were. Being good at real estate requires constantly getting new leads and socializing and meeting dozens of new people every week. Same when dating.
It's not only numbers, but numbers matter a lot. And this actually works in your favor because you can control numbers pretty directly.
You can increase your numbers by x100 starting next week.
Social anxiety can have multiple root causes, some of which might be deep inner trauma which requires doing some inner work. But this is all a big part of pickup work. Pickup is not just about going out every night. It is also very much about correcting your poor inner game, poor mindsets, limiting beliefs, low self-esteem, bad habits, etc. There is a huge psychological component to getting good with women and becoming a strong, confident man. But all that inner game stuff will never be enough if you don't socialize.
You must do BOTH! Inner game and outer game. You must do psychotherapy-type work on your limiting beliefs and low self-esteem AND you must hit the bars and clubs every weekend.
The two synergize, creating an upward spiral.
Incels create a downward spiral by never going out and then creating a toxic ideology to rationalize why going out is pointless and why no girl will like them. This is a toxic cancer of the mind which creates as self-fulfilling prophecy.
You can change all those pathways because your brain and mind are plastic. That's the whole point of our work here! Everything about you can change!
If you can change your brain to stop constructing ego, you can also change it to be good at socializing.

That will depend on what kind of person you are. Some folks are more insiders, others are more suited to be outsiders.
I'm a strong outsider because I'm very clear in my vision and very independent. Collaboration isn't my cup of tea.
But your personality might be the opposite.

Yes, I have noticed that mushrooms and some 4-HO sub-type tryptamines give me a hangover the next day, while other psychedelics do not.
5-MeO has no hangover effects at all for me. Neither does DMT from what I recall although I'm less sure about DMT since I've done a lot less of it.
You could experiment with various nootropic supplements or vitamins on the day after to see if they might take the edge off. I get the sense that the brain might simply be lacking nutrients the day after which were used up the day before. If you could supplement that lacking nutrient, theoretically you could stop the hangover.
Let us know if you find something.

One day you will realize the most obvious thing ever: experience is Absolute Truth.

Of course no amount of meditation or therapy will fix that. She needs to muster the courage to leave her husband.
That is the elephant in the room. Be ware of using spirituality as a mask for basic material inaction.
The spiritual thing to do in all abusive relationships is LEAVE! Not-leaving isn't love, it's fear.

Thinking that experience is a trick, is a trick.
The color red cannot be a trick. Red is red. That's what it is.

The mind is dogmatic because it has to be in order to maintain its sense of reality. If the mind wasn't stubborn, your reality would literally fall apart.
The mind is stubborn sometimes. The mind is stubborn 95% of the time.

@OBEler It varies person to person.
I've never had difficulty breathing on 5-MeO-DMT or any other psychedelic regardless of intensity.
But you might.

It can still be valuable to build a business and be successful as part of your larger life purpose.
Business is a great way to escape wage slavery and help the world at the same time. You just have to go about it in a conscious way.
Basically 90%+ of all ways of making a living = some kind of business. So you can't really escape business. It's more a question of what kind of business you do.

Hi everyone. This is a relatively predictable process of evolution our psyche goes through on this path of actualization.
Here are the 3 epistemic attitudes one can adopt:
#1- Proudly Defending Unexamined Beliefs:
This is the stage where the person heavily identifies with belief systems. Notions such as right and wrong are clear and defended dogmatically. No contextual understanding or empathy is practiced. The individual views life in a black and white way. Rules are followed strictly and authority is never questioned. The individual tends to make decisions based on their self interests and acts irrationally when one’s beliefs are challenged.
#2- Become A Truth Seeker: Linguistic Knowledge
This is the stage where the person values truth seeking more than belief systems. The relative nature of beliefs, ideas and concepts are seen through. Contextual understanding and empathy is heavily practiced. An event is perceived more objectively from multiple angles.  The individual makes rational decisions based on what is good for everyone in the long term. Open mindedness is practiced diligently when one’s beliefs are challenged. Less is taken personally.
#3- Become A Truth Seeker: Direct Experience
This is the stage where the person realizes the limits of thoughts, linguistic knowledge, beliefs ideas, symbols and concepts.  Truth is experienced directly without symbols via mindful awareness and consciousness work. Beliefs are hold very lightly. Self-deceptions are mostly seen through. Reason, logic and science is integrated with spirituality, meditation and mindfulness.
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Each tier has significant depth and breadth.
Much love,
 

If you take the effort to log your dosages right before you trip, we'll know once we find your corpse

Are you conscious right now of how you designed every hair on your body?
If not, then you aren't anywhere near fully conscious.
Are you in instant telepathic communication with every living being in the universe right now? If not, then you aren't very conscious, are you?
You are stuck in chimp-consciousness.

@liamnewsom202 You misunderstand what makes pickup and attraction work.
It's not about cars or money or appealing to hippie chicks with hippy crack. It's about learning to become a strong, authentic man with powerful social skills who exudes charm, humor, charisma, and presence. It's about becoming grounded and confident.
These qualities are attractive regardless of culture or Spiral stage. You can attract a crack whore this way or a yogi saint.
Attraction is distinction from relationship compatibility. You could attract a crack whore but not be compatible with her value set. Likewise a yogi saint.
You need to screen girls for compatibility. Doing so will make you even more attractive.

There cannot be such a simple answer to this question.
It all depends. It varies from person to person and it even varies for the same person depending on his point on the path. And they are not mutually exclusive but all synergize together.
But if you want to talk about which method will raise consciousness the most within 30 minutes, no doubt psychedelics beat everything else.

Greetings forum!
I have now come to the conclusion that I may have jumped the gun on enlightenment and spirituality. I still only 18, I have not acquired good job and wealth creation skills yet. I could go off an be enlightened, but where exactly? Working at a minimum wage position?
I'm going to spend a majority of my hours of self actualization, more basic self help, until I acquire a stable amount of wealth, as well as a fulfilling life purpose.
Note: I'm not saying I'm going to halt spirituality entirely, that would be disastrous.
Welp, off to the stock market I go! Whipeeeee!!!  
Your two cents?

@electroBeam That's all cute, but it doesn't address the substance of what I said.
Becoming a bear in your dreams is not the same thing as a breakthrough salvia trip.
And shamans used psychedelics! So it's rather odd to use shamans as a case against psychedelics.
Becoming a bear is not the same level of freak out as becoming a toilet seat.
Nobody here is gonna mediate in a cave for 40 years. So citing such examples is absurd.

Good work. You just need to up your dose. Your dose is at the point where the ego still struggles to hang on. Once your dose gets to 15mg or 20mg, it will actually be easier as you enter a full nondual state. Stop worrying about the ego. It is irrelevant. Just snort it and enjoy the ride.
At around the 20mg range you should be safe.
Of course breathing is important. Don't stop breathing. But don't obsess over it either. You don't need to do any special deep breathing. Just normal casual breath.
The whole point of fully letting go it that you accept it even if it means death.
You just have to get over the fact that you might never come back. That comes with the territory of tripping. There are no guarantees, nor is it a good thing to desire such guarantees because this entire process is about facing your fear of death head-on and surrendering to the inevitable.
You are not gonna escape this life alive. So you might as well accept that now.
20mg is a reasonable dose and I doubt anyone would die from it unless they have some special medical condition.

I doubt you'll be able to avoid the fear. A central part of this work is facing fear and dealing with it in the moment. Otherwise it's like you're afraid of being afraid, which just makes you weaker.
There's no easy way to take such powerful chemicals. If you want to avoid such fearful possibilities you should just not take psychedelics at all. They can and will freak you out if you take enough of them. The trick is to be courageous.

Past experience
4 60ug trips 2 125ug trips 3 mushroom trips Several DMT trips. Dosage: 250ug LSD 95%+ purity
ROA: Oral
Everything I write right to the time stamp is the main part and the next paragraph is some tangent.
"Insights" start at T+2:00. This is a rough estimate as I didn't write anything during the trip but I had a clock near me.
22/08/2020 8:20am
T+0:00 So cocky me just decided to take LSD saturday morning without any purpose beforehand. I was going to take 60ug but I thought why not take 250ug? Then I can tell people what was my experience so that they should or not try it. poor me lol
So I swallowed it and did some work for my dad. He has no problem with me taking LSD. I explained to him the addiction potential and he knows about my past of slight depression and low energy so he just lets me do it. He has taken mushrooms himself. T+0:30 It starts kicking in. Now I know I'm fucked lol. I was just chilling in my sofa and then the TV in my living room starts morphing. Holy shit. This usually happens 2 hours into the trip. Thoughts start to get warped and when I think something it seems like I evoke a web of interconnected concepts everytime I think of something.
I saw that I have some negative connotations associated with the words "black" and "gay". Everytime I feel the sensation of my anus and it's pleasant it seems like I'm gay lol. I seemed to have accepted my sexuality several trips ago but now I'm not that sure. To be honest now I do think I have. I am pansexual. I thought I was pure heterossexual but after my first 125ug trip this melted away. I really love my gay friends company. It seems they are way more accepting than normal people. Regarding the word "black" it's not that I'm repulsed by it. It seems like when I think of this word it seems like to invoke the past experiences I saw of racism and I regard the bad feelings I feel when this happens. When I heard a black guy telling me about his experiences of racism I cried for some time. Never saw this subject the same. T+1:30 Things start morphing even harder. Ego starts to get crushed right here. Then bam, oneness. I start crying when I see the absolute beauty of reality. I don't remember much from now on regarding timeframes.
T+2:00?-5:00 I got really a huge memory wipe from T+1:30 to T+5:00 into the trip and I don't remember everything. I did get all the biggest insights here in this part though.
I am God. God incarnated as this human being to experience reality, to explore itself and to know itself through me. Without an observer it wouldn't be possible to see reality. I still don't know why this is necessary. I create reality as I live. This is a dream I have woken up during the trip. The same way I wake up from a dream at night, I woke up from the already waken dream. Everything = Nothing. Everything is made out of nothing. It's not possible everything to be made out of something like a atom or quark or a final particle because that would cause an infinite regression. So the rock bottom is that the building blocks of reality are nothing. Corollary 1: All sensations I feel are interpreted by the filter we call brain to be a sight, sound, touch or smell. We could totally possibly aswell see sounds or hear colors and this be a totally normal way of living. It just seems that for the purposes of survival this current mechanism works. Corollary 2: I don't remember but if I do will add it here haha Oneness. There's no difference between anything compared to anything. I am creating distinctions for the purpose of survival all the time. There's no difference between my mom and my dad, me and a rapist, me and my computer screen, me and a musical note, a monkey and a highway. They're all consciousness. I AM. That's it. Absolute subjectivity. There's nothing behind what I'm seeing. There's no higher truth in the sense that I can't have access to what's true. In the sense of subjective vs objective. Love. All I ever wanted is love all the time. It seems that all my actions were pointed into getting love. When I got to this moment in my trip it seems like there's nothing more to do, it's finished. Welcome, my little human child to the hands of God. It's impossible to die as there was never someone born to begin with. Being born and dying is an illusion.  Reality is a Fractal. It's possible to zoom in and out infinitely. It's just that our human eyes cannot do this but we can see this through microscopes and telescopes. Still, it's possible to go even further into all directions. Everything is Perfect the way it is. I did get many more insights but I just cannot remember even if I strain myself to the max. There were some moments were I was in my living room and another moment I was seated outside my house. There was several moments where I ceased existing and then came back.
Several thought loops happened and in some part of the trip I thought of killing myself. Luckily I got myself out of that.
T+5:00 After all this mindfuck my blood pressure was at 160/60 maybe even more and I actually felt like I was dying. I needed to take several pills of propranolol and my BP still didn't go down for the whole day almost.
T+6:00 I went and just sat next to my garden looking at the sky and meditated for a little bit.
So the comedown was just me trying to not lose my shit and run into the streets naked.
The day after:
It seems like I have changed in some way. Thinking of some things wasn't appealing to me. Some of the addictions I had don't even cross my mind like scrolling infinitely through Reddit or eating junk food.
I don't even know if I want to keep going into Enlightenment or Self-development anymore to be honest.
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I don't recommend people going from 125ug to 250ug right away like I did. It increased in strength exponencially. It seemed like 3x the strength of 125ug. All of my LSD trips were from the same batch.
To be honest I'm pretty sensitive already to psychedelics and this was a dumb move.

I didn't go there, I've always been there, brother.
Nearly everything I say is implicitly relative, I just don't bother to re-explain myself every time for every newcomer.
Murder is only wrong in the relative. But notice, I can still discourage murder. It seems like a contradiction but it isn't. We must still act within the relative domain and play the game of life.
Relatively-speaking, boxing is a waste of time.
See that?

Don't confuse high IQ with cognitive and moral development, wisdom, or consciousness.

Because their body is being held in YOUR consciousness.
Their body goes POOF instantly from their POV.
There is no body outside of one's POV of it.