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A pull up is not functional, but pretending to be a flag is. I guess I’ve really misunderstood fitness.

Has this reduced your use of other psychedelics? About a year and a half to two years ago this same switch happened for me with THC. It became at least as strong as other psychedelics had been, but it was far more sustainable and convenient to use often. So I basically stopped using other psychedelics almost entirely because the risks were higher and reward was equal or even less. To me it seems like the amount of hours spent in intensely high states of consciousness is the most important factor for deep awakening. THC becoming ultra potent at low doses made the process a cake walk compared to before.

There’s only one life you get to experience now regardless of how many other people there are. A life purpose can benefit your own experience greatly.

@Federico del pueblo the hilarious part is that functional training in the modern day would be far closer to practicing typing to become more efficient using a keyboard than swinging a kettlebell around in the most arbitrary movement pattern you can imagine. What function are we trying to improve at? Why would the traditional compound movements be bad things to train? It’s just odd. If someone wants to go chop some logs in half for hours, I’m cool with that, but it is in no way optimal for muscle or strength development. You have to train close to muscular failure with 30 reps or less to get optimal muscle growth. You have to train a little further from muscular failure for sets of 1-5 reps for optimal strength improvements. Most of the functional training fad exercises cannot achieve these two goals nearly as well, safely, or predictably as the tried and true compound exercises.

Perfect! Exactly the type of response I was looking for

I’ve found that the two work together quite well. Higher baseline paves the way for higher peaks, and higher peaks pave the way for a higher baseline. Have you noticed a similar effect? I feel like enough results in one side of the equation will lead to results in the other pretty reliably given enough time and practice.

Any tips for setting up an extended stay at a monastery? How did you make that happen?

You obviously have no clue about what Daniel Ingram teaches. Classic.

@CultivateLove I was just listing an absolute ?

Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

Daniel Ingram is no joke. He knows what he’s talking about and is also a pretty cool guy which is a plus. In case you’re unaware, he has his main book which is a ridiculously impressive piece of work for free here: https://www.mctb.org/ I’ve experienced shifts in baseline consciousness like he describes. It is very real. Frank Yang is another person who has deep experience with this same line of spiritual development. Seeing that Frees by Rob Burbea is a great book once everything in MCTB is pretty well understood that goes a bit deeper.

Functional training is a pretty hilarious concept. I wouldn’t worry too much about his nonsense. Feel free to tell him once he’s ready to stop suboptimal training to let you know ?

I’ve been living in zero gravity for a year straight now. Here’s a convoluted guide to realizing it.

This is a good point. I’ve definitely set myself back significantly multiple times by trying to improve my circumstances too much in a short period of time. Although this is a bit different for me because most people will not go clinically psychotic if they work too much, but this seems to be a pretty steadfast part of my neurology at this point looking at the pattern so far.

Idk, I’d say Brady is a far better footballer.

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If no-self isn’t profound, you haven’t realized no-self anywhere remotely close to its potential. No-self is something that is felt in the bones 24/7 once realized and is entirely inescapable whether doing spiritual practice or not. There are many different degrees to realizing it. There are also many different levels to the peak experiences of realizing it too.

I’d imagine it works quite similar to how any other psychedelic affects someone with a strong foundation vs. a complete noob with no practice history. There are still plenty of people watching cartoons on LSD getting pretty much nothing out of it. 5 MeO is probably going to skew a bit more in the spiritual direction even for the uninitiated due to its potency, but I’m sure there are ways to not get nearly as much out of it as one could.

Just go full send and get acrylic nails while you’re at it. No regrets here.

Try reading Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins. The audiobook has more content than the book btw. Reading that book really leveled up my capacities for discipline and at least short-term periods of high exertion in life.

Nice man! Happy for you ?

I am a landlord, but this doesn’t mean I’m not broke in a sense. Cash broke is not the same as asset broke. I only pay myself a little over $400/mo from that business because my partner and I mainly reinvest at this point. I live very frugally and make a pretty lackluster amount of actual cash in my hands from my normal job. I also said kinda broke ? There are plenty of people worse off