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As a soon-to-be doctor I'd say a few things on this sad story: Why on earth taking methadone to sleep? A good dose of Lorazepam might have been enough, Methadone is the closest substance there is to morphine and heroin... People who are not detoxing from heroin or that don't have to deal with chronic pain or some other conditions should stay away from it, and,most of all not, at all mix it with Benzodiazepines (Lorazepam) and alcohol With 5-meo-DMT we should expect more a serotoninergic syndrome, but it doesn't seem the case, if things really went as the girlfriend said It could be some allergy to some other substance but I would expect a different clinical presentation that the one described MOST likely, if as Leo says they might add Fentanyl to the substance, that the Fentanyl might have made the breath centers of the brain block, acting alongside methadone (opioid as well), benzodiazepines, alcool (alcol and benzodiazepines act together on the same receptor do slow the CNS). Also having ketamine still in your blood doesn’t help… Medical examiner might be able to clarify that by testing the substances in his blood, which stay after a while from your death. Since we can’t be sure, what we can take from this story: NEVER NEVER mix methadone with Benzodiazepines unless strictly supervised by a doctor. The combination is just used rarely in some hospital scenario where people can resuscitate you immediately Never have in 2 days: ketamine, benzodiazepines, 5-meo-DMT, methadone, and maybe even fentanyl. People have died for way less then this Start with low af doses, then maybe increase. Maybe the first and the second time to be extracareful it's better do it in a house where another person is present so that they can call an abumbulance, so that you are more sure that you’re not allergic to the substances that might be mixed to DMT. Do good sourcing (I don't know how). I think that @Leo Gura needs to make a post about how to source properly these precious but also risky molecules: they are amazing, and I saw that he also (rightly so) encourages careful use of them I think some talk on how to properly source them might have to be done to avoid people getting troubles with them.

Wow such a difficult question... Probably I'd say the last one: simple in explaining some of the ultimate natures of reality, plus an exercise which I felt really gave me an insightful experience.

Fuuck I was having more or less the same thoughts yesterday. In the end belief is a form of imagination. Ultimately it's more "all imagination" as Leo says than "all belief" as I used to believe (and still do to a certain extent) like you. I have to work more on this

No duuude are you crazy? We get every day tons of value here

Dude please don't do anything to harm yourself, trust me as a doctor that there are tons of things that you can do for your insomnia both in conventional medicine and tons of other practices that can really improve and maybe treat for good your insomnia. Statistics are often useful but need to be deeply understood and are easy to misinterpret, so don't rely your all life just on that.

Agreed. Yet still my mind, probably since my awakenings were not enough deep, this "why truth should be love for example, if it's experienced only within a certain state of consciousness, why giving it the advantage of being true as opposed to the consciousness state where it is all purely evil? I mean all the states are true, cause truth is all there is. But then why love would more True with the capital T, if is just experienced within a certain state and not in others?

Amazing, what will the apprenticeship is going to consist of?

Any happy successful person

Leo, where the hell you're able to meet this kind of people? I've been trying some research in my country, but with basically zero results

Not even the Catholic prists in the #1 Catholic country where I live speak like Elliott Hulse

Exactly! East is full of these kind of amazing stage Blue examples either with swords or some any other things

Lovely Stage Blue

It seems to me that the illusion we are imagining has some definite structure which is sometimes sort of predictable, as if there were rules and principles behind it. Is science valid to understand how the illusion works? Can science be sort of broken if you set your intention and MIND right? I'll give you an extreme example of it: according to science you couldn't be able as a human to grow a pair of wings and fly, so as humans if we wanted to fly without a plane should we sort invent some scientifical way to grow wings (maybe with stem cells) or would it be possible to be in a state of consciousness and of mind control, where in this reality you can grow a pair of wings and fly?

Congrats Leo!!! What's the proper way to integrate rational thinking into someone's like? Both in the spiritual and inner endevour and in every-day life decisions?

My dream, which I expressed also in this forum answering to a thread, finally came true. Thank you very much Leo

75% healthy orange 20% green 5% other stages

60% Red 30% Orange 10% Blue

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLsAMJ3K8EEvDCPLTGdc4eg

I'd rather have his Spotify songs playlist... Usually I've enjoyed so much the songs shared on his blog

Why you don't explain more how you got financially free?

100% agree, finally a quality post!

Dude, I'm sorry to say that it's so clear that you have never met a really damaged psychiatric person, or if you did, you interpreted the situation in a weird fashion, same goes with baring to study these drugs other than with some Youtube video taken out of context. Even with all side effects life of most people without the drugs that you mentioned is total shit. And I speak as soon-to-be doctor and as a patient who struggled with OCD which SSRIs improved a lot. The thing is that sometimes they missused, but they're not like a tool to get ridden of, because as I said in my previous post the alternative of not having them is far worse. We need something reliable to try to control the symptoms and get the patient with a decent headspace to do psychoteraphy, inner work, shadow work and whatever, and that space is not the space where you believe that your bed is talking to you about how shitty you are and how society is governed by aliens or when you are so obsessed about something that you don't want to be thinking about like maybe how many bacteria there are on your hand. SSRIs seem to produce addiction, only because often if you don't go deep with psychoteraphy and about changing you life, you get back with the depression, but it's not like for withdrawal like with heroin but because the bring bang all the shadows that were partially supressed with the SSRIs. Basically what you're saying regarding the effects of the drugs has no evidence, and I don't mean scientifical, but logical or even experiential, other than some conspiracy theory and prejudice. Basically you see the misuse of them and infer the worse about them, just if you infered how much a knife is dangerous by looking at the news of an homicide, while failing to see all the uses and different scenarios.

Lool whoever criticizes psychopharmaceuticals has no idea of what they're saying most of the time. Yes they're not miracolous, and yes they should be just a small part of the way to heal a patient, yes there is some placebo effect to it, and yes they can cause side effects, but still the alternative is way worse. They should be part of the healing process of some people, along with alternative medicine, meditation, etc, etc. But they shouldn't be demonized either. Just ask an old psychiatrist who when was young had very few treatments for psychotic patients and with people with all sorts of psychiatric issues (not just depression, but OCD for example) and tell them how they're work and how their patients improved their functioning in the world in most cases with conventional drugs. Do they fully heal to the cause? No. But still the alternative is far worse. People with schizophrenia completely change if they respond to the antipsychotic drug, and you can verify by yourself or by asking a relative of a patient with this condition. There are obviously side effects, even messy and troubling ones, but still the alternative is usually not some schizophrenic who is peaceful psychic and healer, but usually people who also might seem possessed by the devil of that they really suffer a lot or are often even dangerous to other human being (during my rounds in med school I happened to see a person who completely changed after medication, while before he was just seeing insects and being depressed and hearing voice of "God" saying that he should kill all the people with blue-eyes who were according to him the devil that made the world a shitty place) and are dreaming the worst in their reality, so of course that compared to that situation the drug improves their life so much even if they get side effects it's still valid. Same things goes with panic attacks and depressions, sometimes drugs are the gateaway to normalize a bit the neurochemistry of the patient so that you can actually counsel him properly and all do the necessary deep healing, which can be quite impossible if the patient is having one massive panick attack a day or he's so depressed that can't get out of bed and can't even come to your psychoteraphy session.... Are they overused? Very true, but still they're one of the tools that you have in your arsenal to give a better life to human being who is in deep suffering, and it's troubling to see how many people demonize them so much, and don't just say that they don't need to be overused or that they don't need to be the only way of dealing with things. Basically they can't be thrown in the trash.

What does he mean for internal reflection? What is his methodology? Thanks for the valuable post, btw. I don't fully agree with what he puts in the 80 and what in the 20% but still it's an interesting perspective

Agree, but often to get the attraction truly unleashed there needs to be also a show of compatibility of values, which determines a sense of belonging and makes your mind unleash the attraction for the other person, so in a sense Spiral Dynamics compatibily plays a part in the attraction and falling in love process