All colors, sounds, sensations, feelings, tastes, smells = raw data
It's the most fundamental stuff of which reality is made of. These are the true "atoms". You can't boil down the color red any further than itself. You can't boil down the taste of salt any further than itself.

Those sound like shitty friends. Fuck 'em. Find better ones.
A true friend is supposed to be able to feel happy for you when you are succeeding.

Yes, of course! Money is super important if you are building out your life purpose / biz / career. Money is what allows you to avoid becoming some devil boss's bitch slave.
I take money very seriously, even though it's not important in the absolute sense. You should be very prudent and strategic about money. Not to buy toys, but as a resource to enable your creativity. I am very pragmatic about money. You need it and it's not some evil thing. When you set up your LP correctly, money becomes a reflection of your creative output and service to the world.
Here's how you should think about money:
For more pragmatic biz advice, see my videos: The Psychology Of Small Business Advice and Money Psychology

Although to be clear, I don't support investing in Wall Street. They are scumbags and devils. Earn your money through creative effort.

It's hard to do a lot of day time approaches. Day time approaches have to be much more solid given their rarity. Majority of my approaches were night time. Simply given that, more results will come from night because it is a numbers game.
But my first success was from day.
Day is best, if only you could find enough hot girls during the day. They tend to be very rare and it's not so good for practice. Day is when you have to execute already solid game so it looks smooth and chill and effortless. Night is best for rapid training and fun, and if you want same-night results.

That $8000 would have been better spent traveling to Vegas and living here for 3 months of non-stop club action.
You gotta be smart with how you invest your money.

@Johnny5 While the universe is appearing, it is still Absolute Truth, however it appears.

You are looking at this in terms of sex.
The proper way to look at it is in terms of growth.
He's not doing those 1000 approaches to get 1 hot girl. He's doing it to overcome his fears and to develop strength as a man. That development will pay dividends for a lifetime. So it's worth doing even if you only get 1 or 2 lays out of it.
And like I said, result grow exponentally. So the next 1000 appraoches after that could produce 2-4 lays. And the next 1000, 4-8 lays, and the next 1000, 8-16 lays. And by that point you are getting more pussy than most guys can dream of.
Business works the same way. The first few years of starting a biz, you work non-stop but earn nothing.

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.