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@StarStruck Having 70 webcam girls just means that he has the same "deep" knowledge of female psychology as a pimp. He is just peddling another belief system, which does nothing to help you develop the skills you desire.

Tate puts on an act which is so over-the-top and corny, I am surprised anyone takes him seriously. It is something like professional wrestling, except that professional wrestlers at least have a sense of humor. I can see the psychology though. He appeals to boys who grew up with mothers who taught them to always act nice. Tate acts the opposite of nice which helps them to change their belief system to something they think will make them more successful in the world.

That’s interesting. The medicine affects everyone differently. The first 6 times I took Ayahuasca, I had no visuals. Now I have intense visuals on both Aya and Mushrooms. They are incredibly beautiful but somewhat distracting. There are no visuals on Bufo, but it expands consciousness and cuts through all the nonsense. I take it in complete silence, no music, no distractions.

Develop a relationship with the medicine. Talk to it and ask it to guide you. Especially mushrooms, you can ask them for advice. You aren’t afraid of a friend who you know, are you? Get your mind out of the scientific propaganda that makes you assume that you are only taking a chemical. The views of a toxic culture don’t serve you. Learn to connect with the medicine. Some other suggestions of what you can do during the journey. Focus attention on your breathing and follow your breath. Have a mantra that means something to you. Some suggestions: “No fear”, “I am not afraid”, “Light, Strength, Love”, “I forgive myself, I forgive everyone else”. When I was in the Amazon, Black Ayahuasca convinced me that I was going to die. It layed out the case, piece by piece, and presented me with one terrifying vision after another. I finally came to a place of peace and said “If I die in the jungle, that’s ok”. A vision then appeared of two paths leading into a forest. The one path was the path of imagination and fear. The other path was the path of reality with no fear. A voice said “choose the path you want to take”.

I do a high dose of Bufo every month with an experienced guide, and then do a low dose by myself every week. I have found that a low dose can go even deeper and be more beneficial than a high dose. The key is to connect with the medicine, not how much you take. I recommend starting out with low doses and learning to connect with the medicine – fully surrender with no fear, no drama, or preconceived notion of what it is suppose to be like. Reading about someone else’s experience just creates a concept which acts as another barrier to direct being.

I do Bufo Alvarius rather than synthetic 5-meo. But straight to the point for me. It goes to the present moment. Unlike other psychedelics which keep me in the mind with visions and stories, Bufo takes me outside the mind and into the silence. There is no voice or sense of "I". On the coming down part of the journey there can be insights, catharsis and a deep sense of gratitude.

Real Buddhism is a path and not a set of concepts. Buddha didn’t speculate about metaphysics because he focused like a laser beam on the path that ends suffering. That is why he never talked about God, because it was irrelevant to ending suffering. All this talk: “I am God”, “Its a dream”, blah blah blah, are just words forming concepts and is useless. Follow the path and go into the silence where there are no words or concepts.

What is criticized here is mostly Western Buddhism. The Buddhism practiced in the East is at a whole different level way beyond psychedelics. But even in the East it has become mostly bureaucratic and the authenticity is shrinking.

It’s interesting how having horns, pointed ears, wagging one’s tongue, and having a red tint gives a feeling-sense of evil to the Western mind. When there is objectively nothing bad about showing your tongue and moving it back and forth. It’s all imagination.

The ego is a machine.

Social security was meant to be self financing. It's not for free. People pay into it during their entire working life. But congress took the money out over the years calling it borrowing. The system should be made truly independent and it will work.

I once took 9 grams of mushrooms and I felt like I was plugged into a light socket and being electrocuted. The visions were too fast and intense to make sense of it. I don’t believe taking high doses necessarily does anything useful. You are trying to force something with a chemical rather than doing the work and developing your consciousness in everyday life.

I am beginning to wonder about the shaman’s dose. The fraternity brother can chug 25 beers in less than 5 minutes. However, there is even a greater brother who can chug 30 beers in less than 5 minutes. Is the fraternity brother a greater shaman or just insensitive? The other path is that less is better. Develop your sensitivity and go into the journey calm and relaxed. When you go into the silence, the silence teaches you.

It’s a testament to the safety of the tryptamines that they are being massively abused by irresponsible, ignorant people but we still only hear occasional stories of someone being injured. There are even people who do 5-meo at parties. We never hear about the deaths caused by adverse reaction to aspirin.

Having taken alot of psychedelics, I respect Ralston’s point of view and I am willing to consider it seriously rather than being defensive and finding out reasons why it isn't true. Ayahuasca and mushrooms keeps me trapped in my mind and there are too many visions and stories to examine the mind itself. How much is imagination and fantasy and what is coming from deep knowledge? Bufo Alvarius goes beyond the mind directly to the present moment and an intense awareness of my being. However, the effect is short lived and temporary. I haven’t tried synthetic 5-meo yet. San Pedro connects one to the heart and doesn’t mess with your mind. Perhaps San Pedro or Huachuma is the most useful. A heart centered consciousness is healing.

"Nick Cave's 15-year-old son Arthur died after an accidental cliff fall at the Ovingdean Gap in Brighton, England in July 2015." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_More_Time_with_Feeling According to the above article, it was an accident. What if he had drunk alcohol and then slipped off a cliff, would anyone blame the alcohol? Or how about blaming the cliff? Or what if you slip off the cliff because you were paying too much attention to your smartphone. If something like LSD is preconceived as being dangerous, then the facts are used to justify the conclusion.

The daughter of a famous TV host, Art Linkletter, died in the 1960s. She actually committed suicide but Linkletter blamed it on LSD. She jumped off a balcony. Linkletter was very influencial in vilifying and spreading false information about LSD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Linkletter#:~:text=Diane Linkletter (October 31%2C 1948,at the age of 20. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/09/richard-nixon-war-on-drugs-timothy-leary-216264/

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I have been using “psychedelics” for healing for about three years. I would like to offer a contrarian view to the hype. First, they work differently for every person so it is hard to generalize. I have seen people who take ayahuasca once and then say they don’t need it anymore. Other people go to ceremonies for years and nothing happens. Be careful about the hype. A popular one is that “ayahausca (or insert your favorite psychedelic) is worth 15 years of therapy”. These statements are obviously just marketing slogans. This is what happens when business gets involved. The other factor is that most people conducting ceremonies are facilitators. That means they are responsible for delivering the medicine and providing a safe space. But they don’t have a clue about healing or therapy. Thus, you are basically on your own. The other factor is that psychedelics create an illusion of “deepness”, that something is really happening, when it is just triggering your imagination. It takes a strong intention to direct the mind to deeper knowledge and healing. Lastly, I would encourage you to start your healing now even if you don’t have access to them. You don’t need them. Have a meditation and mindfulness practice.

I take Bufo Alvarius on a regular basis, with a guide and by myself. A lot of the “deepness” of psychedelics is illusory. You aren’t really connecting like you think. It is just stimulating your imagination. I recently completed my first Plant Diet in the Amazon. I learned that the Plant Diet is actually a rigorous ascetic discipline. You purge and cleanse yourself every day (including vomiting for 5 to 6 hours at a time) and only then do you take the master plant Ayahuasca. If you are worthy, she will share her wisdom with you. In other words, the Plant Diet is just as rigorous as a real meditation. You get nothing for free in life. The magic pill is the real illusion.

He does and is not afraid of the word "God". But his life purpose is to make meditation something rigorous that is accepted by Science, so I believe he downplays talk of God for that reason.

I studied with Shinzen many years ago and heard the story of his first enlightenment. He was accepted into the monestary of a Vajrayana Japanese Buddhist sect. He had to meditate by himself for six months day and night. Every morning he had to pour ice cold water over his body. This was in winter, and these place have no heat. The way you make real progress in meditation is by putting in the effort. It is effort. Not genetics. Doing a half ass meditation for 40 years gets you the results you should expect. It is just going through the motions and make pretend.

A Bodhisattva is not playing that game.

The universities are already a farm where they teach sheep to be sheep.