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I have a couple of good accesories that really improve my quality of life. 1.A generic but sturdy push-up bar + rings in my apartment (around 35 USD total) it's quite convenient having it right in my studio to hang whenever I want: In the same lines, weights. They are not the best brand imo but better than nothing, they do just fine and are durable. (around 200 USD) And these are the kind of disks I like but don't have: 3. And finally, a multimeter and a solder iron. It is handy and allows you to repair some simple electronic stuff quickly. The solder iron in particular is not the best, still looking for the best. But the multimeter is pretty good, made sure has every option. (No more than 25 USD for both, but around 100 USD for better quality).

@manuel bon Good for ya... I've been struggling with it for quite a time now. Just yesterday I broke a 25 day fast from caffeine (except cacao a couple of times). It has been a great challenge for exercising my willpower. Are you getting benefits from it?

Can't say for sure. The time when I was doing the WHM I didn't get sick. But with lack of sleep is pretty obvious for me, I will just caught anything. That's why I mostly rely on sleep to keep my inmune system ok. Cold exposure could help, but I don't think if you're already sick. I completely discarded that practice.

You can just take a nap, usually the best option when your body screams for rest. Just don't do more than 1 hour or you will find it difficult to sleep at night.

I would stick to mushrooms, they make you crack up by just looking at grass and they wont create an adiction.

Too much lobbying from Big Food is repulsing. But everything happens for a reason.

Hmm, if you can't use psychedelics then I don't see how you can verify it. Something that I am noticing is that it takes a lot of time to start grasping this. Month by month my perception changes and I am able to understand the same teachings in a more solid way. If you already assume that you're constructing all of reality then is much easier to grasp the truth. Still a belief, but it sets you in the correct direction. Different than the conventional narrative of our society. Is a growth process, you can't rush it but you can start investing in it.

He's just another example of mastery. He travels to lots of countries and explained how got really good at the game. They even do competitions on this. If you stare at thousands of pictures of the same country then you get a feel of the color of the sky. I could only guess UK, I guess. He explained how he studied country by country watching and analyzing hundreds of the Google car photos. Those are fragments of the 360° camera. For example they can see glitches on those photos that only ocurred in just a single place on earth, hence guessing.

You pick your favourite and keep the rest as hobbies and see them grow through time.

To be honest, is super weird

That would be so freaking lame, lol. Maybe that happens to you, no way to know beforehand. The good is too good and the bad, really bad. You can certanly enter into an experience which is pure hell and there is no way to go back. You can also experience beings -probably in most trips- which are simply inteligent entities that appear in your experience. You can comunicate with a deeper inteligent, you can realize you're dreaming. Best thing you can do is to prepare yourself in your day to day life in such a way that you become super healthy and resilent. Then you hope for the best. You want to be as healthy as possible when having those trips.

Exactly. You can socialize at a low perspective level, or higher perspective levels. And social structures highly influences the level of socialization (country, religion, institutions, communism or capitalism). Also, you couldn't survive without the whole social structure that is currently suporting you. Or maybe you could but you'd need a lot of luck.

Integral made a good point. It shows the power of assumptions at play. Also consider the fact when you move to a new environment ut puts you in a state of mental plasticity. Moving, and those kind of drastic changes, like going to a different country, expands your mind. I like to think we are wired to change environments from time to time. At least makes a lot of sense given our hunter-gather/nomad lifestyles that we went through for millenia. Collective ego is a real thing too. Ask the question: How does my state of mind change when I am with X vs Y group of people? When you're in church you're going to act and think in certain ways which has been programmed into you. Different from when you're in an art class for example.

Low perspectives have a strong emotional appeal to them, they suck you in and suddenly you get all involved without even realizing it. No space for reflexion whatsoever and nevermind any caring for truth. Probably we agree that low perspectives are really easy to adopt whereas higher ones take a lot of work. A quick answer to the question "Why demonizing other perspectives puts you at a low perspective?" could be: because in doing so you prevent yourself from the possibility of actual understanding, or the possibility of doing any crucial discernment about the perspective in question, given that you get attached to a belief or an emotion -which sometimes are very correlated-. This doesn't mean you need to accept all the lower perspectives when you don't agree, especially when they're a hazard. But demonizing is just anti-truth and a really bad habit overall. Its a fun exercise to seek higher perspectives.

That was a good video, looking foward for the next part. I could not come to any satisfying answer myself for the questions yet, but its a really important topic.

I've listened and read Matthew Walker, a sleep scientist, and I've come to the conclusion that sleep is, by far, the best tool for personal development, going meta, having healthy relationships, consciousness work and living happily. It is just mind-blowing. The education system is criminal for forcing teenagers to go against their biology (read the book for understanding this statement better). I've always hated when my mother used to wake me up at 6:30 in the morning to go to school, after going to bed at 00:00 as any other teen governed by their biological transformations, which includes a shift in your circadian rythm at that age, would. Now I understand why I struggled the way I did back then, and this still is to this day something that I cannot come to terms with. I don't blame my mother I blame the system, in fact my mom usually allowed me to stay in bed which was the best thing that could happend to me in that moment, and everyone around me of course used to call me "lazy". Such a shame. If you research the matter enough you will view sleep in a more mature way, taking advantage of it and not neglecting it anymore. I make this post because I intent to share this knowledge with as many people as soon as possible, since we as a collective neglect sleep on a daily basis, and even sometimes we feel proud about it. I am changing forever the way I relate to sleep after reading this book. All the credits to Matthew Walker. This book covers, among other things: How sleep regulates the inmune system. How sleep is essential for memory formation, and how a sleep deprived brain will boicot any learning attempt. What is sleep? Why sleep exists among all living creatures? Does a cell sleeps? And most important, why should you sleep? sleep stages, body systems of sleep such as melatonin production, light exposure, circadian rythm, etc. Other things that you should learn ASAP. "Why We Sleep" on Amazon. Why We Sleep Free Audiobook on YouTube. Note: just a few first chapters, not the full audiobook. Extracts from the book to convince you even further: I am thinking of making a video exposing in great detail everything about sleep and why we should care. That would be a great service to mankind.

I like to view it this way: they (psychedelic entities) are as real beings as a cat or any human, and I like the mindfuck of it.

I was aware of it and experimented a bit. It definitely boost my energy. Withdrawal from caffeine is a hasrh reality though.

Probably that happiness, inner curiosity and motivation is my natural state but very easily corrupted by unhealthy habits and environment.

Chris Williamson just released a talk with Matthew Walker. Matt explains sleep much better than I do.

Maybe maths is a bunch of ways to represent "One" or the "Whole". All the ways you can partitionate one unit. Be it the number one or any other number. Like: 1 = 12*3 - 35 1 = -47 + 24* 2 - 1 For example 24 + 24 = 48, and 48 is itself whole but is also made of other wholes. And going further, any function represents a point in space, it literally is a bunch of arithmetics combined to represent a coordinate, so if you run every function possible at the same time it would fill all the space with points, making just one point. I don't know.

You can't avoid being impulsive sometimes, but you can think your way out of it.

Having a calm baseline consciousness helps, but that's not all. You need to study your own psychology and become familiar with your own ego, your own triggers, your reactions. Compare it to others and see how the people that avoid being impulsive act.

There are dozens of different psychedelics with completely different chemistry and effects. I would explore others if I was you and leave behind those that don't work with your particular body.

I don't.