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Life's too precious to waste it

Alcohol is just a very crude substance. It affects the whole body and all of its processes. It also gets transformed into acetaldehyde by the liver, which is poisonous in small quantities. We have way more advanced substances for all of its possible uses, so I would generally stick to those. I'm not saying that alcohol is bad per se, but I think there's always a better alternative.

@Yimpa Dude I do! I'm talking bout the dream not myself

The dream is extremely consistent - but also drops hints all the time at it not being real. I don't think that the point of the dream is to escape something, but it's like a divine play. A perfect play in absolute harmony. And our quest is to discover what this dream is capable of.

@kylan11 On point! Couldn't agree more... As soon as porn looks too "professional" it's an instant turn off for me. Because it's just so inauthentic. I want to see people really enjoying what they do, getting horny for real, not just faking it for the looks.

And it goes around and round. Listen to this grounding sound. You'll be travelling far away. Listen to the words I say. After day follows the night. You'll be guided by the light. From the sky and to the ground. What's not lost can not be found.

Living means dying/killing in a sense. That's just the way it is. You can try to reduce it to a minimum and do it in the most humane way possible, but there's ultimately no way around the fact. Dying is not the problem, suffering is. By the way, my diet is vegan, but plants are alive too

Happy birthday Appreciate your work greatly!

Strongly seconded! Also: PiHKAL (and also TiHKAL, the second book) by Alexander & Ann Shulgin, the great chemist, who discovered 2C-B, and his wife. Essentially an experience report of how he synthesized and discovered a lot of novel compounds and then tested them on themselves under scientific conditions and later together with their friends. LSD My Problem Child by Albert Hofmann, who first synthesized and tested LSD on himself. How that all went down and how LSD later turned from a wonder drug to his problem child, when it hit the streets and got some really bad press. Drug Use For Grown Ups by Dr. Carl Hart, a scientist who researched the effects of drugs in humans and how he turned from an opponent of drug use to an advocate of the responsible integration of drug use into ones life and society at large. He dispels a lot of common myths surrounding drugs and offers a fresh and more unbiased outlook on the subject and reports on his experience with all kinds of drugs. (This is less about psychedelics and more about drugs in general, but their use is also part of the book) The Way of the Psychonaut by Stanislav Grof M.D., whose life's work is about using psychedelics and other ways of reaching higher states of consciousness to work on trauma. This book (volume 1+2) is not only about psychedelics but also about Holotropic Breathwork and traumas on a personal, perinatal (birth trauma) and transpersonal level. It's essentially a summary of his whole work written by himself in the late years of his life. Those are just the ones off the top of my head.

Well, it's a slippery slope. You can have great dreamlike experiences with it, but it's on the one hand very addictive, and on the other hand a powerful numbing agent on a physical but also emotional level. So I would advise against using it. And anyone who does it anyway to be extremely careful.

Depression is real. Real depression CANNOT be solved with breathing exercises or going for a jog... It can be solved by radical life changes, though. And I mean radical. So radical, that it needs depression to get you to do it. Depression is no joke, it's actually a life-threatening disorder.

But there's still only YOU.

There's no one else to shape the cosmos around but you.

2C-B definitely the most. Ketamine, obviously, the least.

Bullshit. It's so obvious that that wasn't a prank. How would you know? Granted, I don't either 100%, but it would very much surprise if that was the case. The theory, that that's a coping strategy makes way more sense. And a breakdown can DEFINITELY look like that.

It's quite hard to make new friends in Germany. But when you do, the relationships are very strong and based on honesty. Germans love to complain. But when they do something, it's really thorough. They really don't half-ass what they do. Germany has a beautiful social security system (though not quite as advanced as, say, Finland). You know that you'll never be homeless or need to be hungry, as long as you're able to deal with the bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is something which Germans really love and hate at the same time. Germans like to follow rules (example: Standing in front of a red light, even when there's no car in sight). Germans are very straight forward and appreciate honesty. But they also don't like to change their ways sometimes, which can halt progress into the future (example: Germans really love their cash). Source: I'm German from birth. I, personally, am really happy to live here. But there are some things that need to be changed (as there are in every country). I'm a passionate critique of a lot of things here, but overall it's one of the most amazing places to live in, in my opinion.

I'm not that new, but I don't post that often I follow Leo for a while now and see many parallels to my own journey. I regularly gain a lot of great impulses especially from the YouTube videos that further me a lot on my own path. This forum is an awesome source of entertainment and some insight, but I feel that you can get lost in it, too, if you aren't careful. That's why I'm not too attached to this place. But I appreciate it for what it is.

NOBODY knows what's up. That's the fucking beauty of it. And I'm not saying you shouldn't explore the deepest possible depths of yourself - quite the contrary. But anybody who thinks they got it is fooling themselves. And that's the deepest beauty. It never fucking ends. But there are depths so deep that no human ever experienced them or has any idea what that could be. I have no idea about Leo. But I know that we humans are still soooooooo deep in the darkness... There are things possible that are so beyond everything known, that no one even DARED to dream about it. It exceeds even your wildest speculations and then some. YOU HAVE NO FUCKING CLUE. And it is fucking sad to think THIS IS IT. Oh boy you're in for quite the surprise let me tell you. We humans tend to think we had understood something. That's the reason for our being in this darkness and the reason we'll not leave it for a very long time. Except... when we finally stop playing these stupid games of pretending that our understanding was anywhere NEAR final.

There's, ultimately, no separation.

Interesting. But I'd say - except for the novelty factor - watching a juggler is entertaining precisely because he is human.

@LSD-Rumi What about Stimulants and Dissociatives? But yeah... contemporary medicine isn't as advanced as doctors want to believe. In fact believing that it was leads to it being stagnant. I myself had various encounters with doctors that sweared something I experienced couldn't possibly be true, because they never learned it that way. Ironically I was the only one that had direct experience of what was talked about in that conversation.

LSA works and I had my first psychedelic experience with it. It was VERY euphoric and opened a lot of doors in my mind. But I used Hawaiian Baby Woodrose Seeds as the plant containing it. AFAIK the concentration there is a lot higher, so you need less plant material. The experience can be ruined due to a lot of nausea, according to a lot of reports and my later experiences. Nowadays I would prefer LSD to LSA, it just feels a lot cleaner.

@GLORY Simply put: You can.

Talking is fun. I love communicating those ideas, it's also a deep desire to do so - even if it doesn't matter at all. When I'm conscious of that it's even more fun, because I'm not dependent on the outcome I had multiple experiences of what I'm talking about - with and without psychedelics - and I continue to have them regularly. Those are the best moments of my life. And it's always from different perspectives and focussing on different aspects of it. Never have two experiences been exactly the same. And I'm excited to know that I didn't nearly reach the deepest depths of it.