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@RendHeaven well said.

I wish you the best with your healing. Do what you need to do.

Well maybe I'll get there at some point. I've done a lot of sober spiritual work so more psychedelics could be a quantum leap for me. My current goal is to do 5-MeO for the first time by the end of the year.

I admit I'm mostly speculating. This is not some hard line stance I have. From the reports I've read from people over the years, just calling low dose 5-MeO "extra energy" doesn't seem right.

Well I've not experimented with 5-MeO. So maybe I'm wrong. But even a low dose at 3x a week seems crazy to me. If it's so low that it has almost no effect, then why even do it?

The image of Trump doing anything intellectual makes me laugh for days.

I have a hard time relating to how much some of ya'll do psychedelics. I'm still understanding insights from trips I had years ago. And they're so badly inconvenient for normal life. 1-2x per year feels like max for me. 3x per week consistently is insane.

Re: griftocracy Love seeing Scott Carney getting some attention. He is a serious journalist with good ethics, an appreciation for truth-seeking and solid progressive politics.

We think it’s a good point. Certainly this is a challenge for monogamy. We could find countless examples of couples whose feelings have faded for each other over the years. So you have to contend with that. From a personality perspective, some people are going to be naturally wired for high novelty / variety. These are the people on the right tail of the normal distribution. They may have an extra hard time with monogamy compared to those in the center.

This is not from an official Trump account. Although it certainly sounds like something he would say.

@integral this looks like a joke. The girls knew what was going to happen. Sometimes it can legitmately be this easy, but generally both you and her have to be in the right state.

@Thought Art Hey brother. I may be able to offer you a perspective as someone who has also been involved in a lot of new age healing practices. One of my biggest critiques was the lack of replicability and verifiability. It becomes very difficult to discern what's accurate and what isn't. Especially since many people in the new age field don't trust mainstream science and will frequently make claims that just blantantly go against it. For that reason, I was drawn to reinvesting in my scientific education. It's been a welcome change of pace for me, and you may find similar benefits to bringing more science / empiricism into what you are doing. Ultimately, if you are in the healthcare / wellness field, our work is pragmatic. Either people are going to get their desired results or not. One of the advantages of mainstream healthcare is the extreme amount of testing that it has undergone. To put it simply, things have to work. Looking forward to hearing about your next moves.

I like living. I enjoy my life and have no desire for it to end. I'm a very happy person. But of at the same time, perhaps that's only because the circumstances of my life are quite good. I'm sure if my life went to hell and I experienced persistent deep suffering, maybe I'd want it to end. But that's not my situation.

Your body would literally melt into a puddle of goo without tension. Educate yourself on biomechanics:

Many misunderstandings about bodily tension here. What people need to grasp is that not all tension is bad tension. In fact, the vast majority of tension in your body is very necessary. Simplistic ideas like tension = ego are not going to cut it.

Green / Yellow. Maybe some turquoise. Although it technically doesn’t have a value system. So spiral dynamics doesn’t quite fit.

God = reality. I’m still not sure exactly how this relates to what we were discussing. Your position was that experience is relative and therefore not the absolute. My position was the opposite, saying your relative experience is in fact still the absolute. I am not claiming that experience is being created by some separate deity. I am not saying there isn’t flow. I am not strictly saying God is creating a human experience. It is obviously much deeper than that. I am saying God = reality = infinity = the absolute = limitless = Truth = consciousness = experience = void. These are just different aspects of God.

I don’t follow any of this.

In that case, I’d definitely shoot for increasing your income until you’re at least 250k a year. 1-2 million invested I think is also a good goal, but that will likely take longer.

What about family? You’re going to need a solid income if you want kids. Most of that other stuff can be done relatively cheap.

What are your long-term goals? I think what you outlined here is your better option. Stay invested and focus on growing your income with your current income. Only touch that money if you truly have something worthwhile, like a solid business opportunity. Otherwise, you eat shit. 165k is nice but you want to grow that number over the years.

@CarbonI recommend instead of trying to get rid of your anxiety, consciously leverage it into becoming more responsible. You are recognizing the seriousness your situation demands. This not a mistake. Alternatively, you could also decide the stress is too much, leave your business and find some lower-stress, lower responsibility position. But keep in mind you will probably be poor and not be contributing much to society.

The bottom line is that if you refuse to acknowledge that your experience is God, you will never understand God. And you will never understand Truth, because all experience is absolutely true. Right now you are looking at God.

I’ll take a shot at it. Sanity is a particularized state of consciousness characterized by internal coherence. It is generated by the sum total and interconnection of rules, memory and consistency within the experience. Because sanity is local to that state of consciousness, it does not need to hold outside that state. Sanity is useful for creating certain kinds of experiences and must necessarily exist and be imagined within the infinity of Mind. Insanity is also a state of consciousness, characterized by a lack of internal coherence. It is a loosening of said rules and interconnections. Taken all the way, insanity is unlimited Mind, unbound by all constraints. Insanity is not conducive for most creatures and normal human experience. Because it of this and because it is fundamentally a different state of consciousness, it must be experienced to be truly understood.