Consilience

Think about what you just said. History has shown this is clearly false, unless you’re trying to bring non-dual relativism into the discussion, in which case there’s no point in replying. Also speaking from personal experience as someone with a chronic illness and requires a functioning healthcare system to keep my body alive, politicians can very much influence the quality of my life. Obama raising the age for individuals staying on their parent’s healthcare has been pivotal for my early career and life purpose development.

What would happen if the whole of America shared your opinion, and no one voted?

This is a great post and awesome insights. Are you going to Ralston’s fall workshop? I feel like I have a memory of you saying you were but I can’t remember.

I'm a Personal Trainer/Weekend Fitness Director (I manage the training team on the weekends) at a big box gym. I fell hook line and sinker into the student debt cash cow and graduated with a two degrees. One in Kinesiology and one in Nutrition and $100k in student debt. Current plan is to become a project manager, fully integrate and master Stage Orange as I work in a business setting, while paying off loans. I also am intreguid by learning how to manage micro and macro systems simultaneously, which a project manager would certainly need to be capable of. Plus it pays a hell of a lot more than PT. Even though I love health and fitness, it's not my life purpose. My Life Purpose is to help others become conscious of their authentic self by essentially guiding them towards deeper and deeper levels of self understanding on emotional, mental, physical and spiritual levels. I'd like to find a way to open up a retreat like setting that does meditation, contemplation, and perhaps even psychedelic retreats once psychedelics are fully legal, and create workshops. But this is a long term, 15-20+ years down the line goal that requires a shit ton of personal development on a multitude of levels.

I died lmfao

I have to second The Book of Not Knowing. Very dense but crazy insights into the nature of the mind, psychology and consciousness.

The fact that you cant self reflect and see how furthers my point. You projecting, and casting judgement and then providing shallowing rationalization for why... all of that is ego dude.

So much ego. So so so much ego.

Real talk, if you’ve never tried psychedelics, how could you possibly know or have this opinion? One of the cornerstones of this work is radical openmindedness.

Working out and getting your heart rate into the 75-85% range for 30 minutes, 3-5x per week has phenomenal healing effects and promotes energy. Various breathing techniques help too. If you’re taking shallow breaths throughout the day, that’s going to affect your energy levels as well. If you drink caffeine, id stop this too, as their are going to be energetic consequences with chronic caffeine intake. Your body is capable of providing energy on its own. If you smoke weed frequently, this can also create lack of energy. Ive also personally found that if Im dehydrated, I have less energy than when I am hydrated. Finally, 60 mins of meditation per day also has helped me with my energy levels, surprisingly (in addition to being the tool for investigating reality and the self). Also sleep!! This one is so huge.

A complete surrender to what is so, what is being, is happiness

Ive had nothing but positive experiences mixing weed with mushrooms but... Ive only taken 1 hit any time I mix them. I would say they can be mixed safely if the shroom dose is small enough and if the weed is a small dose as well. You gotta be careful. In terms of a dark entity taking over, Ive heard reports from a youtube channel called 343 that mushrooms make you susceptible for certain entities taking control. However it’s important to remember that any “entities” are existentially you, as the ultimate self. Even though they may appear as separate, they are not. I would say the best approach next time is to just surrender fully. You can always take solace in the fact that the psychedelic experience will eventually fade.

Is there any way you could give a brief summary on how it’s changed? For me LoA got weird when I realized the mind is not separate from “physical” reality

Holding a law regarding the regulation of conscious experience (when it doesn’t harm others or your self) as important seems rather unconscious from my pov

Truth is right now, is it not?

What a great analogy!

What’s the point of doing this?

There is nothing more true about sobriety vs being under the influence of a drug. That duality collapses. It’s funny, that was one of the first huge realizations I had upon trying psychedelics was... holy fuck everything is crazy different because Im tripping balls, but nothing actually changed. Even though form changes, reality is still just as itself. Sobriety and sanity, even though consistent, are not permanent or necessary for truth. Truth transcends the dualities of insanity vs sanity, sobriety vs high, drugs vs no drugs, etc.

You realize one of the last obstacles to overcome on the spiritual path is facing your own death right? Nothing beta about that.

Do you think your previous experiences with 5-MeO caused a potentiation effect with this new substance, similar to how it has affected other psychedelics? Such that, someone who hasn’t tried 5-MeO might not get the same effects with this new substance as you have.

What a tease~

I love this post. Great job dude... you should start a blog or something. The thing about psychedelics that have been most transformative for me is that they've allowed me to experience levels of being, empathy, and awareness I did not know were possible. They’ve allowed me to understand not conceptually, but directly what infinity is. Was it a temporary state? Of course, but each trip has left a residual effect, a residual lasting awareness and understanding. The insights are extremely important too though. If one doesn't intellectually understand the nature of mind, language, space, time, physical reality, communication, emotions, survival, and even self as ego, then the likelihood for making breakthroughs in Being are smaller. Especially for an ego that is oriented towards intellectualization and understanding. If my ego hadn’t understood its own illusory nature from a conceptual perspective, I dont think the path would ever have begun. This is all to say, psychedelics have helped with this initial process. Psychedelics are not substitutes for the real deal however, but they do show me all the bullshit and baggage I have left to process and deal with that Im normally unconscious of during my sober mode of being. Taking note and having the humility to learn from these tools is a huge opportunity, especially when living in a society that demands constant action and distraction away from simply Being. They are tools in this multidimensional, spiraling esque path towards enlightenment but you are correct in that having insights cannot replace the work of Being.

It does with mushrooms as well. Also though @outlandish makes a good point.

Who is the witness stepping out of the VR? What is the empty space of awareness witnessing the simulated and non-simulated world?

Here’s the thing. These dualities must collapse: Other people DO exist. Other people DON’T exist. Even though all is one, every expressed moment of form is utterly sacred. Every. Single. Moment. Are you conscious of just how precious and rare your individual life is? Every minute distinction one could make that is relative to this finite form of Shaun is sacred. So even if we are other people, it means nothing at all because right now the perspective of our finite self is the only perspective possible until physical death. There is something special about the culmination of your experiences. Your life is literally infinite but is also literally finite. That finitude must be seen for what is is, but this is done though a deep, reverence and gratitude for what is so, as it is right now. And everyone has this. We are one infinity, but we are also finite by design. The relationship you have with your ego is the same in nature as your relationship to other people’s egos. So try to see this infinity of individuality within yourself, and other’s. That’s how I see it anyway.