The psychedelic alone is not enough. What really matters you must have a burning desire to fully awaken. This desire is the key and it's very rare.
Without such a desire, no matter how many psychedelics you take, you will not fully awaken.
God will never force you to surrender yourself. You must do it willingly.

No. If only it were so easy.
In practice it's much harder and messier.
Firstly, there's no guarantee that just being born to good hippie parents will make you Green. You could still turn out a Red rebellious teen who does heroin.
Secondly, even if the kid has an easy path to Green due to his comfy environment and education, he will still not have fully integrated the lower stages. He will be a weak, flimsy Green. A lot of people in their 20's today are Green on the surface, but at their core they are hollow. They haven't developed the assertiveness and courage of Red, nor the discipline and work ethic of Blue, nor the success of Orange. This is very typical. It's a very flimsy Green. Such a kid will believe in universal equality but can't even muster the balls to approach a hot girl nor has the work ethic to hold down a job and pay his bills because his hippie parents paid for everything.
In practice you need years of experience working through each stage. You might need to do it backwards in the sense that you start off as a hollow Green, then you go back and master Blue, then Orange, then Red, and then back to Green to fully appreciate Green and become rock solid Green, then Yellow, and beyond. Each of these phases might take you 3-5 years of active work.

After you do enough psychedelics, the distinction between being on psychedelics or off them starts to dissolve away.
That itself is a duality.
You also have to consider that people like Ralston were likely born with an abnormally high amount of natural psychedelic neurotransmitters.
Not everyone has the same neurotransmitters in their brain just like how not everyone has the same level of testosterone. It's foolish to expect that you can out-lift someone with a natural testosterone level of 2000.
Yogis and sages OBVIOUSLY have higher levels of the right neurotransmitters. This is clear in them from birth. They didn't work for it. They got it as a gift.
I know people who were basically enlightened from childhood or were born with siddhis.
You are NEVER going to naturally match the consciousness states of someone like Sadhguru. He's a genetic freak. Some piddly yoga practice will NOT be enough to match his level.

But it's not like one awakening contradicts the next. Each awakening simply expands the depth of understanding of Truth/God/Love/Oneness/Infinity. So your question is moot. What I am talking about is not like believing in something which could turn out to be false later on.
I don't just know it. I AM it. I AM INFINITE LOVE types these words.
God knows itself by being itself. It is essence of consciousness that it can be perfectly self-aware. I have had infinite self-awareness.
Again, you create a duality. The two are One.
Exactly! Because surrender would kill you. Which is the last thing you (the ego) wants.
What controls God, is God!
The whole trick here is that you (ego) refuses to let God/Love control you. You are a devil, which means you think you are in control and that without this control you would die.
You are resisting surrender of all control to God out of deep fear.
Imagine for a moment that you would not have to make another decision in your life again, because you just completely trusted that God would take care of you. That's what total surrender/awakening is like. You completely surrender all attempts to manipulate reality to make it suit you. It's total selflessness. You are so selfless that if God tells you to jump of the roof and die, you would just do it without any resistance. You would have no will of your own.
THAT is what utterly terrifies the ego. You are to scared to trust God's intelligence. In your selfish arrogance you think you are smarter than God! That's your devilry in a nutshell. You refuse to bow down before God out of fear. And God perfectly understands this. God will not force you to bow. God will wait for a million lifetimes until you wise up and decide to bow out of your love for Truth. Because the Truth is, YOU ARE GOD! So how can God force himself to realize himself when he has chosen to stay asleep?
You see the problem here? If you were human, God could force to awaken. But you are not a human, YOU ARE GOD! If you are God, and you have chosen to be asleep, not even God himself can save you because you are him but don't realize it!!!
Imagine if, one day, God forgot that he was God. How would God ever fix that, especially if he refused to accept that he was ever God?
That is EXACTLY your situation.

Maybe so, but you don't understand what Love is.
It's easy to access some state without proper understanding of it. Understanding is something deeper than a state.
Accessing states is not good enough. You must contemplate to understand it fully.

It squares up perfectly. Being more feminine is what makes you more dramatic, emotional, playful, and charismatic. But you still need to be confident and assertive.
Don't try to act macho. Act feminine and playful. BUT, be confident and assertive as you do so.
The ideal man is like a knife coated in honey. It's sweet on the outside but it's made of steel on the inside.

Existentially, of course those assholes are deeply neurotic and scared egos. But the act is good enough for most girls. Most girls are equally as neurotic as the assholes they get attracted to.
Like attracts like. The more screwed up the girl, the more screwed up a guy she will attract, and vice versa.
Yes, of course.
But also, to be assertive requires being a bit of a dick sometimes.
You can be a warm dick
Attracting girls is a very specific and narrow skill set. It's like fishing. You need the right bait.

They like: confidence, assertiveness, detachment from outcome, driven-ness, strength, leadership, charisma.
Which tends to be what assholes have a lot of.

There is an interesting twist to the guy-pays-for-her-on-first-date: if you pay for her, she will subconsciously feel more obligated to have sex with you. It will be emotionally harder for her to say NO at the end of the night.
Which might be worth it
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Once I went on a date with a perfect 10. She was hotter than a top-notch porn star. She wanted me to buy her jewelry before we even had the date. I laughed it off like she was insane. She actually appreciated that because I could tell she's used to getting pussy guys to buy her whatever she wants on account of her hotness. So she got attracted to the fact that I didn't show any weakness and didn't let her play her usual games. She could respect that.
So we meet for the dinner date. She immediately tells me she's horny and wants to have sex. I tell her right off the bat that we're splitting the check as we sit down. She orders a fancy shrimp appetizer thinking that I'm joking. She starts looking at lobster on the menu. I tell her again, we'll be splitting the check. She looks at me in horror and disbelief, like I am kidding. Waiter brings us the fancy shrimp. I tell her I'm not kidding. I stand up and walk out, leaving her sitting there to pay for the shrimp.
That was probably the only time in her life a guy walked out on her and she has to pay for the date
In retrospect, I should have paid. That was the hottest girl I've been on a date with. $50 for sex with her would be a bargain. Girls that hot are 1 in 5000. But she was so spoiled rotten. A hot girl knows how to use her looks to get whatever she wants. It's a way of life for them.
That experience taught me to be a little less cheap. Just a little
If you don't push past the edge, you'll never know where the edge is. If you're a guy, see how far you can push it. It will be an interesting learning experience, and you'll grow some balls in the process. And it's a great way to test how much your girl really likes you. If she likes you enough, she will pay for you. Or, you might lose a few.

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This is a VERY important point! So listen close. This IS THE KEY TO THE ENTIRE ENLIGHTENMENT PATH:
You will NEVER become enlightened unless you surrender all EXPERIENCES. This includes all pleasures, all people, and ALL of life AND reality itself!
The whole point of this path is to gradually (or suddenly) work yourself up to that. You are already enlightened. The only thing standing in the way is your clinging to experience, and your conviction that "good" experiences are valuable and desirable.
This is what makes enlightenment so rare. Few people are willing to trade life for Nothing. It's too counter-intuitive to do in practice for 99.9999% of people.
*Note: to surrender ALL experience does not mean you will never experience again, or that experiencing is wrong. But you do have to deeply grasp that all experience is SUFFERING. The reason you want "good" experiences is because you suffer, but the reason you suffer is, ironically, because you cling to experience and refuse to let it go. So you're stuck in hell, unless you wise up and wake up.
As you meditate, you should be constantly paying attention to how every experience arise and passes away, and leads to suffering. By deeply grasp this core dynamic of reality, you will develop the nerve to quit the whole shebang. You basically have to say, "FUCK YOU! I QUIT!" to all of life/reality.
Only then can there be true happiness. And this level of "happiness" is not like an MDMA high or anything else. It's ETERNAL! FOREVER! You have broken all of reality. Reality stop being real at this point. You have literally transcended death. You have stopped being human.
And then you proceed to chop wood, eat Cheetos.
If this doesn't appeal to you, it's because you haven't suffered mindfully enough yet. Suffer some more -- a lot more -- and then maybe in 10-20 years you'll think back, "Hey, I vaguely remember that crazy Leo guy saying something about all experience being suffering. Now I'm starting to see his point. How do I break out of my self-created hell-hole? I'll do whatever it takes, because this is no longer tolerable."
Or... you just have to be deeply curious about TRUTH at all cost.

We are all different and have different spiritual talents. Some people get enlightened in one weekend, others take 30 years, other never.
I have some special talents which many people don't have.
It's impossible to compare what he and I have integrated. I have no idea what he's integrated. Maybe he did more than me in those 20 years. Hard to say.
I don't recommend it either. He did very high doses which is dangerous. My approach is doing moderate sizes doses but doing them more often.
I wouldn't call it the same. There's no way to know or compare these things nor should you try.
I have been contemplating the metaphysics and epistemology of reality since I was 16 years old. So I had laid a deep theoretical foundation. And I'm also very good at contemplating metaphysical things.
Of course. Why not? Almost any psychedelic can be used to have serious spiritual insight and the insights will be similar.
You could do what he did using almost any psychedelic if you're committed enough. The magic is not in the psychedelic as much as in your intent to use it to understand reality.
What we're talking about is understanding.
His doses were way too high.
I recommend low to moderate doses which won't be so difficult to integrate.
I don't recommend you copy me in doing 30 days of 5-MeO-DMT. That's too much and it's not necessary. I did it because I wanted to push the edge and explore uncharted waters. I was only able to do it because I had a deep theoretical foundation and I had several years of prior experience working with psychedelics.
For a normal person such as yourself, you should be aiming for small doses done once or twice a month, with breaks in between.
A good starting dose is 1g-2g dried mushrooms or 125ug of LSD. Or the equivalent of that on any other psychedelic.
There are dozens of wonderful psychedelics or research chemicals you can use to achieve a similar result. Through experimentation you can find which molecule works best for you. Don't assume we are all the same. Your brain chemistry is unique.
In general I would say you're getting ahead of your skiis. Do a few small trips and just see how psychedelics make you feel. They may not be right for you, or you may find that they are perfect for you. It all depends. There are too many variables to know ahead of time. This is a domain which requires exploration and careful trial and error.

The brain is a hallucination.
You're not getting how radical this is. Reality has no ground. Anything which you think is grounding the present moment is false. Nothing is grounding anything.
The ego-mid is playing tricks in order to maintain a sense of "reality". You must cut through all the false grounds it constructs. Including brain, Earth, universe, atoms, birth, your childhood memories, etc. It's all pure fiction!
Nothing you think is real!

A woman is not like a guy. She has to be turned on and seduced into horniness.
You gotta stimulate her emotions, build an emotional connection, and then escalate physically.
You build an emotional connection by sharing parts of your personal life story and being vulnerable with her.
You should be looking in her eyes non-stop. This builds massive intimacy and trust.
Make your touching playful to start. Treat her like your little sister. Be playful and put her in a playful mood.
Rather than doing a serious kiss, you can try something like making her laugh and then doing an eskimo kiss.
If she is willing to hold deep eye contact with you, and she's willing to let you stroke her hair, she's willing to kiss you.
If she rejects a kiss, you just act cool, like nothing bad or weird happened, and you try again in 10 minutes after you make her laugh.
Always escalate physical during emotional upswings. When she is laughing or smiling or happy.
Give her hugs. And start putting your hands on her hips. If she's letting you hold her hips, she willing to fuck you.
Sometimes girls are cold. You gotta warm them up.

It's pure, 100% mystery.
Throw away all concepts and ideas and just bask in the mystery of the present moment.

@dflores321 You need to stop being a pussy and develop confidence.
Women are attracted to CONFIDENCE most of all.
You can be introverted, but rid yourself of shyness, weakness, meekness, and social anxiety.

You need to stop this mental masturbation and second-guessing and simply talk to more girls.
When in doubt, talk to more girls.
Girls are mostly not attracted to you because you're not able to convey your personality properly. You are simply uninteresting and don't subcommunicate the qualities of an awesome man.
You need to make your personality pop. You need to stand out among all the other lame dudes out there who are sitting on forums worrying about their looks.
Just the fact that you even care about your looks already shows how weak of a man you are.
A man is not a doll. That's not what women need from men. Women need men to have balls.

Sorry. I stand corrected. I was not thinking of it as a percent.
0.2% is more realistic for a newbie. Although I knew a newbie in Vegas who slept with 25 girls in like 3 months. So it very much matters your geography and also how quickly you learn.
The biggest problem will be that you will attract a LOT of hot girls, but you will be unable to close them for stupid logistical reasons.
The most important element for getting a high lay count in pickup is becoming an absolute master of handling the logistics. You will lose 90% of girls due to logistics. Which means, 90% of girls who are ready to fuck you, you will lose. At least as a newbie. As a vet you will get good at handling all the bullshit obstacles.

I never claimed I have. Be careful what you assume about me.
Pickup has an extremely steep learning curve. The first few years you will suck so bad and get very low numbers. Most of your numbers will come 5 years in. Guys who get laid a lot are either naturals or very experienced and veterans of the game.

It doesn't really take that much. That's just in the very beginning as a total fool.
The results curve is exponential. So you will get a lot better.
Also, when I count approaches, a lot of those approaches a very brief. Most of them are not long conversations since you will get blown out a lot very fast.

@Lyubov Just start being emotionally vulnerable and the right girls will appreciate it.
Integrating your feminine side is one of the most important things you can do to make yourself a stronger, more attractive man.

More excellent work from Abby Martin and Chris Hedges.
Chris Hedges is brilliant.
 

You fundamentally misunderstand what pickup is about.
It's not about running a script. It's about learning how to be authentic. Guys struggle with social awkwardness A LOT. Guys are not as socially intuitive as women who practice socialization their entire lives.
Again, you're not understanding because you have no genuine curiosity in this topic. You're looking at it and judging it from your female self-agenda.
What you're doing is akin to me telling women: Don't watch any YT make up videos and don't shop for panties at Victoria's Secret and don't do anything to improve yourself. Don't wear heals. Don't wear bras. Don't do your hair up. Don't shave your legs. Don't shave your pussy. Don't do your nails. Don't hold in your farts. Don't go out and don't socialize at night with any guys. Just sit at home, be normal, and you'll get a great husband.

In stage Blue society getting laid is a lot easier because you just go to church and marry some girl your church friends introduce you to.
But also, men have been hitting on women since the dawn of time. You just learn about it today thanks to the internet.
Bars and clubs and alcohol exist for one reason: for people to get laid.
We live in a highly alienated time and culture.
You know, in Quaker society none of the boys have a problem getting laid. Their parents just set them up to marry the girl next door.
My dad met my mom by approaching her on a street corner. If he didn't have the balls to approach her, I wouldn't be here, and neither would you.

I talk about a lot more than the Absolute. Mostly I talk about relative stuff.
But also I point to the Absolute in various ways.
Wilber's 4 quadrants is fundamentally dualistic because it requires cutting the world up with distinctions. Wilber's model is relative and cannot be applied to the Absolute itself. The Absolute is not divided into subjective/objective or I/we.
Subjective experience is the ground for everything else. So in this way Wilber's model is misleading. Wilber's model is itself only exists within your subjective experience, as does Wilber, for that matter.
There is nothing but your subjective experience. Period.