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Get a personal trainer or coach to help you with exercise technique/selection/programming if you can afford one. It will saves you tons of time, wasted effort, potential injury, ect.

Its okay i dont think you got feisty. I feel my ego is still wrapped up in defending psychedelics because of how much they mean to me emotionally.

@Consilience There is a difference with what you and me are saying, I don't agree. Without the psychedelic trip itself, there wouldn't be the "embodiment" that happens afterwards or the opportunity for it to happen in a given case. The psychedelic catalyzes change. Moreover, you are not going to be able to "embody" a psychedelic journey into oneness. The notion that you really can is also false. Its showing you a glimpse of whats behind the proverbial curtain of reality in a way nothing else can. So the "horrible for embodiment" is a non sequitur.

@pluto lmao thank you for that laugh Was it the commercials that did it for you? Even when I enjoy a TV program now and then the commercial breaks are so mind-numbing to me. Probably my biggest beef with television, how all the marketing is warping your value system trying to sell happiness with material objects.

Also, a lot of the anti psychedelic mindset stems from people expecting them to do the work for you. Thus "horrible for embodiment". Yes, the substance is going to have zero effect after it has left your body on your choice and effort to embody what you've learned. That is absurd, yet people still kind of expect this. You are never going to get around putting in the effort yourself. As a catalyst though, psychedelics are extremely extremely powerful for the person who wants to learn and put the work in themselves.

I disagree that they are horrible for embodiment. It depends how seriously you take the lessons learned in your trip and want to change your habits and how you want to approach life. Just like anything else, you could go to a seminar with excellent teachings and one person could really have a mature attitude about it and embody a lot of what they learned and the other person doesnt take it as seriously, doesnt have as much self control, ect and it goes in one ear makes a big difference at first and out the other. Maybe you havent done the right psychedelics with the right dosages in the right set/setting. Or maybe they just arent for you. In which case Leo is directing you to do other practices.

Your BS detector couldn't be more faulty my man. Hes doing an amazing service to humanity with all the developments hes contributing to with medicinal mushrooms and how they can fight disease, save the environment from waste pollution, save animal species, contribute to the progress of psychedelic medicines, ect. Yes he has to make money to support all these things. Hes probably one of the most valuable people to humanity right now. Hard to think of other people playing as crucial role of a role he is playing right now. What does story telling have to do with this? Its his first person experiences.

This is a subject where normal doesnt equate to healthy. If you are below the normal amount of TV watching of the general public that usually means you have better habits that take up your time.

Right off the bat something that kind of baffles me about your thought process is that you cheating on your girlfriend by sleeping with her best friend and her being aware of that, will make it LESS likely that she cheats on you? That is for sure going to backfire on you. It will likely be the exact opposite of that, she will be more likely to cheat on you, if she doesnt leave you first or your relationship doesnt crumble into pieces because of that.

They are still two different levels of reality. But the point is that perceived physicality in a dream is there. You are perceiving things as physical in a realm that you know is not physical once you've exited it. Get it?

In a dream while your sleeping you don't walk through walls most of the time, and you definitely dont fall through the floor/ground/earth during your dreams (unless you were lucid and consciously wanted to) So in that dream you get that same physicality, but its all in the mind realm.

I think this is a pretty minor roomate issue, out of the many other potential roomate issues that could exist. Just ignore it, this basically has nothing to do with you. Maybe this is your shadow, since you work out, that you want to show off your muscles secretly or something and get some recognition for it but suppress that, and you are angry that they are doing the same thing with their smaller muscles lol. Keep in mind they are gay, perhaps much more feminine. Would you be angry if a feminine woman you roomed with was taking beauty selfies and looking at herself in the mirror?

Don't internalize it as something being wrong with you. Just sounds like some immature girls. You can find women who follow through in their 20s even though they are more rare. The better rapport you two have before the date the less chance she should do that to you. Although here and there there could be a genuine reason for a girl flaking on you, like some legit circumstance came up for her, but most of the time that is not the case. Just dont let it discourage you, keep charging forward and you will get success.

Personally, from a male perspective, going up to a random woman and asking what her name is before anything else is a poor beginning. And I've never done pick up or anything like that. You have to lead it off with some other conversational point or reason to connect with the person before you ask for their information/identity with zero context. I can see why thats creepy. In years past when I was generally scared of approaching girls, I actually got an attractive girls number just by approaching her with my contact screen open on my phone, handing it to her where she proceeded to enter her name and number (she was with her friend in a store) and I walked away all without saying a single word or opening my mouth. I was with my own friends and we were just making eachother do dares. And back then I really didn't take care of myself much and had zero game. But goes to show you its counterintuitive and literally something like this can work and asking for a name out of the blue is creepy.

More so than ever before, when I think about humanity on a larger scale, or people who I interact with like friends or family, on a smaller scale, I kind of conceptualize humans in the back of my mind more like animals than being a separate, higher, advanced species. And it intrigues me, its like looking at the exact same reality but everything is drastically recontextualized. This is hard to put into words, so I cant capture the essence of what Im fully saying here, but I get an intuitive gut feeling as to how primitive humans are now compared to how I used to think we were (advanced, the highest form of life on earth, extremely sophisticated relative to animals) Even though that is true in a sense, the magnitude of how powerfully our emotions, instincts, and desires control us, and even the physical features of the human, makes me think of us more like a bunch of apes nowadays. Not equating humans to apes per say, but I feel now like Im living in an ancient world (in a relative sense) compared to the higher potential of life forms in the future, where society has evolved into higher stages of consciousness. I am very grounded in my physical body, so this isnt me looking down on being human or trying to reduce the human form down or disown it, but I feel like this a valuable insight that goes on behind the scenes in my mind, and helps me realize that no matter who you are, how successful, powerful, ect, you are still dealing with the core issue of being a human, or at least identified with being human, and the caveats that come along with that. Anyone else adopt this sort of "monkey lens" that can relate? Or further insights on this topic

You could probably say that 5meo has the ability to take you to the 10th dimensional perspective, and NN DMT can take you to other timelines/universes/infinities, so the 8th/9th dimensional perspective (if I remember the video correctly) but I'm sure theres tons of variability with all of this, probably any psychedelic could take you deep enough under the right circumstances.

Something that trumps boredom for me while meditating is, focusing on the calming physical sensations of proper deep breathing. Connect your mind to take long inhales and equally long exhales, breathing in your stomach not chest. For me it becomes like exercise. If a day or two goes by where I dont meditate, my mind/body actually feels worse and actually physically craves the deep breathing to keep my nervous system at homeostasis. You probably wont get this at the beginning, takes some time to build up the point where you notice it.

Thanks for posting. This is probably the best video hes made. Definitely he has had some growth. I used to watch him years ago but lost me because of the things you said, even though he was advocating harm reduction and responsible use, he would still use the "i was stupid for tripping like this, dont do what I did" spiel nearly every new video he would make on a substance. Gets to a point where you have to practice what you preach.

1st dimension is a single point, going full circle to the 10th dimension which is a single point. Interesting.

I think that microdosing is healthier in the sense that even at those low doses it still disrupts that default-mode network of brain activity an gets your psyche into new thought patterns. If everyone micro-dosed instead of drank coffee our society would be a lot different. But at the same time coffee is great in its own regard for those who get the quality stuff and use it properly.

Why do you want to have sociopathic levels of anything? Realize that human nature is depending on other people for survival. But at the same time, you won't be needy if you were to have a high level of self esteem, meaning been content in your own skin and not relying on other people or any external factor to determine your happiness and overall internal state.

a) Ralph Smart, first person, "whats helped me along my journey" b) Im not sure. If you get annoyed by someone saying "you" in a youtube video for example, take a step back and realize that they are just referring to their general audience and aren't calling you out personally. Or if its person, they could still be using "you" in a general sense, so don't take it personally.

I find this pretty silly. Reduces spirituality to a video game like statistic. Completely subjective and meaningless when you have no idea about the internal experience of the people you are ranking and how your direct experience would line up with theirs.

Fruit flies aren't even that bad dude. Just buy some fruit fly traps at the grocery store for like 5 bucks, it will attract them into a liquid in a small container and drown them. Would you rather tiny little fruit flies trying to get some nutrition from your fruit or big ass hairy cockroaches crawling all over your food and kitchen pantry, perhaps even ones that fly?

Not trying to promote substance use over practices like hatha yoga for this, BUT every once in a while taking some kratom or a cannabis edible helps me really get in touch with my body and become more conscious on any muscle tightness/joint stiffness/lack of range of motion ect. going on that I normally would not have been aware of, even if I deliberately were to try to feel for those things. Combine that with some trigger point self massage/stretching or yoga poses and that brings about some great healing.