TrynaBeTurquoise

You must have taken the ladder before this post.

No doubt, my point is the people in professional sports, take the NBA for example, are not the guys with the most mastery over their mental skills. There are so many immature man-boys. They are there because they are top notch athletes who have practiced the game and developed extraordinary skillsets (some more than others). Thats the foundation. What separates the average to good NBA player from the best of the best is the mental. One is a prerequisite for the other in the case of sports. You foster both at the same time but the mental, or presence in big moments, getting in the zone will do you no good if you don't have the foundational skills and physical capacity.

First off, you're asking how to perform better at basketball. You need to practice basketball skills. Thats your foundation. Its far from all mental. The mental for basketball, or any team sport, is layered on top of skills, which are neuromuscular then physical conditioning, then understanding of plays and chemistry with teammates. Thats your problem as to why you are inconsistent at basketball, because your plan first and foremost is to meditate and float tank, ask for quick fixes on a forum last minute before your playoffs. Secondly, do you not see the selfishness in this? Why do you have to 'dominate'? The goal is to do whatever it takes to help your team win, not get glory for yourself. Even if that means making the right pass and playing good defense and not scoring at all. You are not the player I would want on my team. Its not a pick up game. Put your ego aside.

How bout actually conditioning your body for it and working on basketball skills? All stuff you put out is the icing on the cake when it comes to dominating basketball. Definitely has nothing to do with self actualization.

Speaking from the training profession as well, performance is not equal to health as you probably know. The carbohydrates in beer will indeed replenish them, but only because of the nature of what they are doing, that they can afford all those empty calories. Thats an extreme example. Nothing wrong with that, but for the majority of people, beer is a poor choice to replenish your stores after physical exertion.

Thats a projection.

When we're talking about belief, we are talking about taking something up on faith, accepting the existence of something. But when you experience something directly, there is no longer a need to believe. An experience is something you directly encounter, prior to belief. No need to believe something after you experience it. You may experience something, but not know exactly what you experienced, in which case you can form beliefs about what it was. Content wise. But the belief that the experience happened is not a belief, you directly experienced that whatever happened, happened. Structure wise. Of course, this is going to be dualistic because the mechanism we are using to describe this is language.

Did Jesus really say beliefs are true? Don't confuse religious beliefs about Jesus with what Jesus said himself. It is indeed possible to have direct experience without beliefs. Whether or not you believe something doesn't change whats actually happening. Sit in silence with a quiet mind, there are no beliefs going on in that temporary direct experience.

I too have been wondering about the plastic tupperware. Its one thing to microwave food in the plastic container, (and microwaving is a whole separate issue in itself) and put hot food in, as oppose to cooled down food and then refrigerate. Not sure if that minimizes the negative effects of the plastic.

Thanks for sharing. Amazing how much this flies under the radar.

lol same This is still a misconception. You are putting a direct experience on the same level of belief because you haven't had that direct experience yet so you want to bring it down to your level, naturally. Its nothing to believe or not believe, its direct understanding of whats actually the case, on the same level of directly experiencing you are a conscious being. Its a re-frame of what you've been experiencing your whole life, hidden in plain sight. You just have a bunch of conditioning and assumptions to unwire.

I've tried it myself and have done a lot of research into the different frequencies. I have experimented starting a binaural beats session with beta, then transitioning to alpha (for twice the time I was in beta) then dipping to theta (2x time in alpha) same thing with delta and then eventually gamma. This progressive slowing of the waves made it a bit more profound. Although paradoxically, I have heard that even though gamma is the most rapid frequency to get to it you have to dip below delta, not by going above beta. Haven't seen much further information or deep investigation on how to best apply these practically in different scenarios. The most practical uses of binaural beats for me so far have been delta waves during a meditation before going to sleep.

Maybe it goes deeper than what you are thinking. About your cold, even if minor that is an illness in your body that is definitely related to a mind/body interaction about stress in your life perhaps. Something deeper going on emotionally, that could've caused this trip. Don't dismiss a cold as just a cold, it definitely goes deeper than that. Even if you attribute it to pure physical reasons, such as your immune system being exposed to some pathogens or you eating something shitty, its all connected in the mind/body stress response. Some things to contemplate. Don't let it discourage you though. Keep charging forward responsibly and im sure you will overcome this and get many great trips in the future. Try to see the humor in what happened with the blood scenery best you can as well, even if it seems strange. Just my advice, I am no expert in this but these are things I try and do myself.

I would definitely invest in a scale to weigh it out. Can get good ones for relatively cheap online. Maybe try to eyeball out of memory the dose you took on the scale and see how much that was to get an idea, then compare with dosage intensities online. Maybe you took a lot more than you were ready for. Simple things like this I think will influence your subconscious before the trip, knowing you're doing it in the most responsible way possible and having a way to measure out the dose beforehand so you aren't just jumping in with maybe some hidden subconscious anxiety of not knowing it.

Out of curiosity, how long did the visions of blood everywhere seem to last in your mind? Not how long the trip was in real time but did it seem to stay like that for a good period of time? And did this trigger a fear or panic response immediately? Or was it more of an uncomfortable feeling of confusion?

Have you ever downed spirulina powder in water? That was the most gag reflex inducing thing I've downed, maybe along with ashwagandha powder in water. Wonder how it compares to downing the cactus. Is it necessary to chew for a longer period for alkaloid absorption?

Theres a lot of fear involved in people accessing the pure chemicals, in the US. Some average people are scared of horror stories about the feds or don't know how to approach accessing them online, especially since all the reputable vendor sourcing was banned, or scared of the dark web. I feel a lot of people would rather blow all that time and travel money to travel to Peru than risk ordering.

Some insight into your question Around the 15:00 mark he starts telling about a dream where he consciously chose not to indulge in something exciting like sex but wanted to go deeper and get to the godhead/source of consciousness.

@GreenWoods Funny, when I took 8mg galantamine, I had a dream I was in a classroom studying a textbook about lucid dreaming. But failed to become lucid and realized this after the fact. Drove me crazy. Its been very elusive and frustrating for me. I took it on a later rem cycle, it was maybe 2 or 3 hours before I was supposed to wake, but either it wired me a bit or placebo too much excitement about LD for falling asleep. Will revisit soon, maybe with another sedative herb like valerian.

This is a great podcast indeed, watched/listened multiple times and each time I get a new valuable piece of info I didnt catch before. He really covered great info on so much, healthy foods/herbs, mindy/body connection (and the powers of healing pain/illness from within), pitfalls of modern medicine/academia, psychedelics and nature of consciousness (he touched on how everything is consciousness) You should check out Weils appearance on the Aubrey marcus podcast, very good as well. Posted it here earlier.

You have a recommended weekly dose for entheogenic use?

@GreenWoods Great posts. Been trying for a while with pada and reality checks, and became lucid a couple times, but lost awareness again in the dream or the dream destabilized. Also tried galantamine right before my REM cycle and its frustrating because it makes it harder for me to fall back asleep.

Very interesting indeed. I would also think more often you would get a vehement denial rather than neutrality based on the radical nature of some of the video topics. Like, people can't connect the dots to actually do a minimal amount self reflection or give a small effort to comprehend the implications of what they are hearing if it just happens to be true? Seems like if you were to actually dedicate 1-2 hours of your time to watch lets say one video you would do at least a minimum amount of reflecting. But the low conscious person is wired differently, not ready. @exhale brings up good points, the person initiating the search or stumbling upon content like that themselves vs another recommending them to watch might have an impact.

I think thats just talking about illegal or fringe legal substances, not nootropics sold on amazon, not really a big deal imo but I could be wrong. No prob.

This is awesome, thanks for recommending this. I have experimented with normal synthetic GABA but it was before I did any research on its inability to cross the blood brain barrier, but only theoretically work through a gut microbiome-brain interaction. Didn't feel any effects, maybe a little placebo here or there. Definitely getting some of this pharmagaba. @Raptorsin7 Can you share a link to what you got or PM if it makes a difference for you?