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UBI will just be milked by insurance companies and landowners. In your country there are no caps on how much you can increase the price for medicine or rent. If UBI landed right now, what is stopping landlords from raising their rent by a thousand dollars? See how he doges the problem in the video below by giving the standard lazy libertarian argument: "well, you can just move!" Now don't get me wrong, UBI is the future, but there are some basic pillars it needs to stand on.

It's all about how you contextualise it that makes it a "conspiracy theory". Take your first video and put it next to my man Mark Blyth: Big difference right? Let me assure you that Mark Blyth creates more of an incitement to shine light on the crippling systems that rule our society than "Hidden Secrets of Money". Also check out his talks on austerity, and look up Richard Wolff. Let go of conspiracy theories, they're a waste of time;)

Reality unfolds itself in many multilayered evolving systems. To make sense of them, and how you should interact with them, every individual needs to develop their own framework of meaning and causality. We generally think there is one "true" way to divide up and define the world around us, but there are infinite different ways to assign causal connections and meaning. They are all your own projection, knowing that, you can stop care about "conspiracies" and what is the "right way" of seeing things. When some guy has a vlog about how he hunts down Yeti every day, then that's fine, he's found his life purpose. But I'd generally say to the person who watches his videos and makes it their day job to point others to the findings of this yetihunter that they could probably be spending their time in a more efficient way that would benefit their own personal growth. Take control of your own creation, fight for the beliefs you want to materialise, surrender the beliefs that don't serve you (anymore), and above all swim in bewilderment Reality is your own big conspiracy! (btw: The Federal Reserve started pumping 75 billion dollars in the economy past few days, they plan to do that till October, what's up with that?!)

Finland is the only country on this planet who has been investing in a longterm solution so far. Is that worrying? Yes. But as far as I have done my research the environmental dangers that will most impact humanity are (brown) coal power and outweigh that of nuclear (per gained kWh that is). In a hundred years nuclear power plants will be banned worldwide, I have no doubt about that. But first things first. Idealism can stand in the way of true development. Waiting for the perfect solution or believing in some sort of mega expansive research gizmo that no government will ever consider investing in is not the way to go. It's the same reason why Andrew Yang's UBI is actually regressive. Yes UBI is the future, but first comes single payer healthcare, rent-control, etc.

You believe a very good description of an apple will be enough to convey its taste.

That's like a roman general refusing to invest in catapults to breach a city wall because he gets a vision that future wars are going to be fought with missiles, choosing to keep on shooting the stone wall with a lot of bows and arrows. Priority number one now is to eliminate the need for coal, oil, and gas power plants. Now I don't say additional investment in new nuclear plants is the solution, but what's certain is that the German strategy to shut down existing nuclear plants and replace them by brown coal power plants is nuts. I'm not so confident that full focus on renewable energy with the additional stigmatised nuclear smearing is the most time efficient way to go about solving this problem. For renewable energy to work massive investments have to be made to our grid and storage facilities. Our grids need to deliver enormous peaks of energy especially when the sun isn't shining, storage is essential for renewable energy to really replace dirty power. In the meantime existing nuclear power plants should be utilised to deliver power to the grid. (Side note: I'm not a big fan of wind turbines as these things kill 100 thousands of birds and bats globally every year, they destroy ecosystems, and take up a lot of space compared to what they deliver.)

Yes, dancing and singing can do wonders. Also taking a walk in nature or in the city (around people).

You realise that you can't ever get convinced of that truth when the only evidence you accept is physical evidence.

Consider the possibility of deleting facebook and twitter. I'm not saying you should, just notice while truly considering it as a solution to your emotional issues whether it triggers a heavy emotional backlash or not. Ok so that was the general answer, now more specific to your situation. Could you play a scenario in your head where you walk with him and he "puts you down" as you say, and you as a response take a deep breath first, feel your chest en belly, then look him in the eye, and tell him something like: "I hate to admit it, and I know you didn't mean it in that way at all, but I think that remark you just made, made me feel bad." That's the problem. Feel into your emotions, and express them, to yourself and to others. As long as you don't the only thing you'll feel is anger. Leo has a video I believe on how to confront anger, I remember it made a lot of people angry in the comment section, so it must be good.

It's generally easy to recognise a conspiracy theorist, they are always a little afraid of their own ideas. And they think you have to be as well in order to understand them. These conspiracy theories can only feed off your time when you let fear and distrust dictate you. The opposite, naivety and gullibility, believing everything your parents/ the state/ and science tell you... same problem. I mean look at this shit, isn't that just cool?!

@Apparition of Jack :)

This should be the easiest election in history! ;D (over 1 million unique donors.. never happened this early before)

Love it, Greta is an angel! :'-) We live in a truly magical and important moment in time.

@Gabriel Antonio Sorry to hear you have had a bad experience on Kambo. I also did 7 dots (the general dosage for men is 7 dots, for women it's 5) and puked my brains out, my impressive toilet visit could have attracted more tourists in a day than Yellowstone national park would attract in a month. Anyway, I'm going to be an ass and tell you that you probably didn't prepare yourself well enough. From my experience it wasn't that bad, as long as you fully surrender and take plenty of rest during and after the session. Maybe it's easy for me to say since my diet isn't unhealthy much in the first place. Have you ever done psychedelics? Because your comparison to 5MeO is quite ridiculous Just to clarify some stuff about Kambo: usually the strong negative effects last for only around 30 to 60 minutes it is definitely not a psychedelic. Because of the strong physical reaction it can make you a bit emotional, but still.. 2 completely different worlds. it is 100% worth it

Sounds to me like you're doing it perfectly! Now go deeper into the fear.

Great advice given already. Commit on being fully open to whatever presents itself during your trip, let the psychedelic completely lead you. Radical surrender is essential, fully trust in what is presented to you and welcome it with open arms. Good luck!

Alright. I just came home from a trip retreat, the transformation I went through is beyond words. I've done magic truffles a year ago, that was my introduction with psychedelics, it was a low dose with 2 friends. Just fun, nothing spiritual, nothing beyond human. This time I went for the Bufo Alvarius together with Ayahuasca, it a retreat out in the middle of the grasslands in Holland in a small farmers home. Beautiful and calm environment. The weekend started early on Friday with doing kambo, not that bad but not fun at all. In the afternoon we did a Bufo Alvarius (5-MeO-DMT) ceremony. They gave everyone a full dose first time. All Bufo was smoked. I passed out quite directly after inhaling, when I regained consciousness everything was quite beautiful and I was very aware. Apparently I was away for about 15 minutes and did all sort of shit without having any memory of it. Anyway.. afterward I felt a bit disappointed because I knew I missed the big '5meo experience'. Next day in the morning we did another round of Bufo. This time I got 1/3 of the dose of the day before, just enough to keep ego intact. I became COSMIC POWER!!!!!!! Energy sprayed out of my fingers, yet at the same time my entire body was gone and was the universe. All I did was being more open more open more open, GOD radiated through me. I was lying outside in the grass and all I felt doing was making snow angels and let IT completely eat me up. They laid me down on a mattress in the sun to let me enjoy and to come down, after half an hour I could do things again. What happened was impossible. No doubt. I cried a little. For the evening we had an ayahuasca ceremony planned. But before there was plenty of time for me to walk around on my own in nature and set things straight for as far that was possible. A little worry came up because of the ayahuasca, but I figured that if I just surrender and be open then ALL IS WELL. I felt really good and present like never before. At around 8pm we started with the Ayahuasca ceremony. I can make this long and detailed but I don't really feel like doing that. The ayahuasca experience was beautiful and 'trippy', it went really personal and a lot of life lessons were learned. However 'I' was always there.. just witnessing. And since I learned to be ok with everything it was just easy going. It wasn't that I was in control of what was going on but I just accepted everything and it wasn't really tough that way. After a few hours of that it came off a bit. I puked. I laughed. And laid back down in bed. Then it started. Quite quickly the 5-Meo 'experience' came back and hit me like a motherfucker. I was still in 'all open and accepting'-mode and I immediately realised that it just only begun. Maybe I can describe my first experience with the Bufo I had that morning as GOD giving me a hug. The firmest and most intimate hug ever. What happened now was that GOD got downloaded into me through my head and my heart. It was just endless energy, most of the time I was laying with hands and feet stretched out like a starfish just swimming in endless energy. I received life lesson after life lesson, no end, and I received it all with open arms and a smile. After some time it got a theme were I would experience something, then its opposite, and after that a realisation came that they were the same. Most of these things I learned in books or from youtube or something, but now I BECAME IT. Things like fear=love, I got crucified like Jesus (totally fine with it) and got covered in liquid love (best I can describe this is when you have warm water that's not too hot and when you put your finger in the water it has that temperature that you can't feel it, this blasted out of inside me and all over me, and I was totally endless). In between the 'lessons' I was vibrating spastically with my arms and legs just to get a little bit of a break. Another very profound lesson was that free will and no free will are the same. Every time I got presented a choice I choose surrender and every time I did this with ABSOLUTE conviction, no doubt was there. Oh man, so powerful... and much much more.. I write these down now very clumsily but remember I was all these things. What this was was literally IMPOSSIBLE!! I honestly have no idea how to integrate all this at the moment. I'm left quite horrified. Yet it switches with feeling absolutely complete and wonderful... I'm probably scared because I know that I have to face this even more deeply in the future. I will receive everything with complete openness because honestly, there is nothing else. But still.. I will probably update and put to words the actual insights I received clearly in more detail. Right know I feel like going out for a walk. When I read what I just wrote it looks all totally silly, I have no idea how to describe all this. Though I realise that only now I have had just a small little taste of what Leo talks about in his enlightenment videos and what all other spiritual teachers talk about as well. Please comment, especially if you have some tips for putting it all together after you had your first 5-MeO experience. Thank you thank you

@JustinS Very sorry to hear. I was very glad that the past years I did a lot of healing/shadowwork, the Bufo didn't confront me with personal issues. I got tested a bit but no worries. It went pretty much straight to the fundamental beliefs of being a human. I was terrified at moments but in a good way. Martin Ball's book 'Being Human' also helped me a lot as I could really link what was happening to his descriptions. A lot of Matt Kahn oneliners became lifesavers for me actually, things like "all is well" "how can I serve you" "thank you" "I'm the light the light I am" etc. This Bufo peak lasted at least for 3 hours straight.

Thank you for the replies<3 The walk yesterday really did wonders, it really feels good to be back in the city were I study. All these strangers around me it feels really good. All fear immediately disappeared, never been this present. I'm quite a solid and down to earth guy but I had to flee and walk into an ally and cry like a baby. Even an empty hobo beer can that rolls down the street is alive. I woke up shaking. Last night I entered the godhead again, I first tried to move away a little, what a torture. When the opportunity is there it means you already know its going to obliterate you. No use in trying to explain that my body needs rest or something. But so terrifying. I became the center of love, it was expanding out of me endlessly, it felt completely effortless. Not like an explosion, what came out of me didn't lose speed. No use explaining this. I'm sounding like a complete pussy but I had no fucking idea it would be this hard. At moments my ego hopes for his life that this is all just some 'psychedelic experience'. LOL. Every moment proves this is not the case, pieces of me are ripped away without mercy. All this time I believed that there was going to be a me who was getting some nifty little insight that was going to make me enlightened or something. Taking cold showers in the morning really help me to ground myself, thanks to Gabriel:

Did some of your family members turn ill after psychedelic drugs or other drugs? Don't take psychedelics as long as you really fear of becoming crazy, that feeling will increase tremendously while tripping. Really contemplate what it means to go crazy. Turning 'crazy' or losing the sense of what is normal is usually the first barrier you'll face on a psychedelic trip. No need to worry, most people can surrender to this without a problem (if the problem arises at all!). Do a lot of research, Leo has great books in his booklist on the subject. After that you can more accurately decide for yourself if psychedelics are the right step for you to take. In the end: never do it if it doesn't feel good for you. Also.. the more experienced of a meditator you are the easier your trip will be as it is mostly about surrendering to what the psychedelic is trying to teach you.

There are a lot of long essays in this thread where people share mostly their experience of what they read or heard somewhere.. The point isn't whether trolls are 'real' or not or that someone calls egoic consciousness a hallucination. The point is how much it upsets you when someone makes such a statement; it shows attachment. Sometimes a lot of it. Leo's approach I feel is very masculine, direct, and humorous. I like that most of the time, Leo made me love getting upset! Sometimes however there are periods where I need a more Matt Kahn approach for example, I think that's ok. And sometimes I like to find new spiritual teachers just to see if they can upset me because they share a view that conflicts with my idea of how spirituality or reality or enlightenment should be like. This work is about undoing your tight grip on the beliefs you think up; letting go; surrender.. whatever. It's not about having the right belief. (Of course some beliefs are more 'helpful' than others.) This feeling in your tummy of being upset is a good guide, it takes some humbleness to accept that your tummy is some times more wise than the almighty brain though!

These retreats are also legal all over Europe; Holland, Germany, France, UK, etc (so not just Spain and Portugal) Selling of ayahuasca and 5-MeO is often shady, but consuming of these substances is in most European countries completely legal.

Thank you Azrael, your posts in this thread have been a great inspiration for me. I'm preparing for an ayahuasca and 5-meo-DMT retreat in september. It's very interesting to read how much you have used psychedelics (at least one trip per month?). I look forward to your future posts and I hope you'll get around discussing EMDR and some other topics you mentioned here.

@Lynnel @Moreira @poimandres made good points above. There is some really really bad advice by others, not to be mean but it must be pointed out. Bringing quasi spiritual terms in pickup when you're just a beginner can very easily turn in a big trap. You'll get confident when you approach so many women it becomes boring. These 'mistakes' are essential for your development, mastery takes 10,000 hours remember. Just turn the club in your classroom (or anywhere else you meet nice ladies). Also a small thing: Never take your date to the movies. You're literally watching television for 2 hours together, it's ridiculous when you think about it! You meet each other to connect, going to a place where you have to be completely silent and can't see each other is a place where you want to stay away from. (Besides.. she probably has had sooo many awful dates with other unoriginal guys at the movies, you don't want that association.) Keep up the good work!

You're using spirituality as a cloak to hide a nihilistic view, passivity, and feelings of superiority. These are lies, you need the balls to confront this! Do you really feel that way? Or is saying the lines above a way to convince yourself? Don't wait for yourself to "really want it" (whatever you tell yourself what that means), sometimes you need to make a bold move or really push yourself to develop and move on. True surrender can be counterintuitive. Isolating yourself is often an innocent way of trying to protect yourself from the things that used to hurt or confuse you in the past. Maybe you didn't realise this yourself but it's very brave of you to admit that your current situation is unstable! Maybe you can't relate to anything I said, I feel like I've had the same problem and I shared some of the things that pulled me out of it. It's often the manner itself, in which we state our problem to ourselves, that reveals the solution.