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It depends on your tolerance. For me 100 mg would be an intense trip. I am currently doing 50 mg. I buy a package of 50 mg. pills. I also don't do it more than 3 weeks apart to not develop tolerance. I don't like sugar so I dont bother with gummies. But if you don't know your tolerance you can start out with 10mg or 20 mg. Take a small dose and wait an hour and a half to see the effect before taking more. Try not to overdose. The "heroic dose" doesn't work with cannabis. It just gives you a bad headache.

Non duality dogma is just as fundamentalist as evangelical christianity. “Everything is one” Really? How do you know? People learn the dogma through hypnosis and then repeat it until they believe it. The purpose of the belief system is to provide the illusion of certainty in a world where our small brains know almost nothing. But we are afraid to say we don’t know. We cling to our beliefs through fear.

I think the idea of energies in the mind/body is legitimate. Awareness of energy seems to be totally absent from western psychology.

What’s interesting is how restrained the Iranian attack was in response to the deadly bombing of their embassy. It was not meant to kill but to demonstrate capability. The Israeli air defense spent billions of dollars to shoot down a few million dollars worth of drones. It also demonstrates that the Iranian leadership has considerable restraint and self control. They weren’t provoked into over reaction. This is in contrast to Israel which excessively overreacted killing thousands of innocent citizens and tilting the global south against them resulting is a strategic loss. It shows the Iranian leadership are not the fanatics they are portrayed in the propaganda of the Western media.

AI has always been overhyped. Google “AI winter”. The last wave was expert systems, which were the crowning achievement of symbolic processing. There was one problem – they couldn’t learn and update the rules. Hence the switch to neural networks which have the ability to learn from data. However, this new wave is powerful and shouldn’t be underestimated. A lot of jobs are going to be lost.

I still believe RFK would make the best president. The most important reason is that he would reform US foreign policy. He would kick out the warmongers and the neocons who are dedicated to forever wars. We could cooperate again with China and Russia. A divided world is going to stop economic progress and also make global climate change agreements impossible. RFK also respects everyone and hence is the best person to bring America together and heal the divisions. The two party system has become corrupt and serves the billionaire doners and not the people. Money rules. This is the root of Trump’s popularity, that he at least pretends to be interested in what the people think. RFK also taps into this sentiment. Fuck the establishment.

I microdose Bufo Alvarius with Meditation. But I think that an intensive retreat in an isolated environment with a skillful facilitator guiding the process could be powerful.

I have been investigating Iboga. Most of the places that do ceremonies are in Costa Rica. Mexico does Ibogaine in a clinical setting. Combining Iboga with Meditation in a retreat for the purpose of awakening sounds really interesting. Are there any of these retreats coming up that use Iboga?

The Taliban managed to defeat the United States as well as all of NATO using vastly inferiour weapons. I am personally impressed by their warrior abilities.

In a literalist religion like Islam, you have the belief in life after death. If you follow the dogma you are assured a pleasant eternity. This belief can make men brave. Thus, in history, these religions have offered a major advantage in war and conquest. The religion also gives comfort to the Palestinians in the face of enormous sacrifice and suffering. Without Islam, the resistance would not be possible, because their collective will would have been broken a long time ago. It makes me wonder that if literalist religions die, will the world end up in tyranny, because only a literalist religion can successfully lead a resistance. A modern population habituated to the material comforts of capitalism have little desire to fight oppression. Be careful about looking down on ancient systems. They have survived this long for a reason.

Keep asking the question and don't accept an answer too quickly.

Lately, I have been microdosing Bufo. I still go into a full trip, but it is for a shorter period of time. I also seem to be developing a reverse tolerance – less does more. I think that the heroic dose is overrated. I have been listening to spiritual teachers who say that unnaturally pushing your energy without it being ready can have bad consequences. Nobody likes to be pushed around. I focus on having a calm journey without fear.

You are lucky to not have STDs. Bad boys don't use condoms.

Hitler was not a conservative. He was a radical way outside the system. At the time he lived in Germany, the aristocracy were the conservatives. Hindenburg was personally opposed to Hitler. The aristocracy only submitted after Hitler took over Germany.

We know from the four noble truths that suffering exists and that there is an end to suffering. That an end to suffering is possible is all you need to know. Talk of “God” is mostly conceptual in nature. Focus on your practice.