Bogdan

That video is actually a direct quote from you, lol. From a blog or forum post. Dunno if you care, but on two occasions I saw the guy commenting on videos you post on your blog with your commentary

I whole-heartedly agree bro

to paraphrase Leo - rats be ratting 😆

same thought. without epistemology, metaphysics etc these trips will possibly just strengthen his current worldview.

http://youtube.com/post/UgkxVQg6hZp2TuC5WTqmwzv3AbqZBgUpdI2H?si=fB199H9EnFnBhGBL Here's his trip report he just posted

I haven't seen that video. I don't watch fitness content much these days. But I know, right? His advice made my training so intuitive and free and enjoyable even! I think Mike Israetel is a good example of not a very good positioning in societal survival, since he has to maintain his image as a smart gym guy, that has to keep people kissing his smart gym ass to make a living, y'know? 😆 To me it's like... Just use consciousness. Say I wanna grow x muscle. Is the muscle stimulated or not? What does it do? How do I create tension in it? How do I enhance it's strength in the motions that it's meant to do? And how do I not over do it? It's really not that complicated.

Guys, I've studied the fitness industry at nauseum for almost 10 years now. I came into lifting from a sedentary background, and got injured a lot of times due to training as if I already had an athletic body. Long story short, for compound lifts, I recommend this sort of approach: I didn't know who to listen to, so I went balls to the wall on everything. I was dumb, yes. For hypertrophy I found a GVS (Geoffrey Verity Schofield) approach to work best. Check out Lucas Hardie aka Range Of Strength to remain flexible while doing so. Check out David Weck to take care of your spine, balance and coordination. Btw GVS - one of the best (probably natty) natural bodybuilder ever, pretty much agrees with what Leo said, as advice for beginners.

So the intelligent thing to do is to get through enough socialization asap so one can move on and naturally value higher spiritual stuff? Is that a good way of putting it?

Me too. I used to have severe allergies, digestive problems and skin rashes since I was a kid. In the last years they were getting worse, I developed joint pains and much worse skin rashes that would not heal, and I found two things that helped - either strict carnivore, (which was a nightmare for me regarding sugar cravings) - and what I do now, which is eating the majority of my calories from carbs, BUT I need to not go overboard with the fats. I can even eat straight table sugar or juices, honey, etc simple carbs (things I blamed before for instantly making my symptoms horrible) and I feel great as long as I I make a minimum of effort to not eat too much fat. And surprisingly this way I don't really want processed sugar almost at all. Plus, an active lean body uses simple sugar much differently from a sedentary obese one. It was a lightbulb moment for me when I realized "unhealthy sugar" - chocolate bars, donuts, sprinkles, milkshakes etc. are just blobs of fat with sugar. 20, 30+ grams of fat per 100g, alongside those 30, 40+ grams of sugar.

Hm, I think it's possible your current human state of consciousness is still constructing false distinctions/dualities with - experience vs non-experience, arising vs falling, and untouched vs touched. What I see right now is that experience is, by definition, all there is. You say Truth remains untouched, as if that which is touched is not Truth. Isn't that separation you're making?

Ok well.. maybe try 5-meo a bunch of times and then report back? I don't know what else to say

@James123 I see. Sooo... Did you put 5-meo up your bum or not? 😂

@James123 Leo has made all these distinctions clear so many times. Maybe you'll get upset from me saying this, but to me it sounds like you are the one desperately clinging to this life, and projecting it somehow. And when you talk about Truth and birth and whatever it just seems to me like you're imagining a bunch of stuff. Like you're not distinguishing between your human thoughts and reality. If I'm right, all that is to avoid God realization. Cause if you actually would merge with God fully in the way the term means it, you would not call it an experience. Nor would you deny God. Perhaps after hitting you with that harsh way of speaking you won't wanna answer, but I'm really curious - how does your day to day life look like, especially in the aspect of - How addicted are you to substances or unhealthy habits? Perhaps it's not the case, and the language difference might have something with it, but your way of talking kinda reminds me of when I was severely addicted to weed and cigarettes and stuff like that.

Dude your humor is top notch I swear🤣

I know this has been discussed before, but this video just dropped and I was wondering how come someone like him doesn't think that accessing Truth is dependent on brain chemistry. Does he fail to consider that these tools need time and effort to get results? Does he not understand that all states are Absolute? I wonder what questions I should be asking, I'm kinda baffled to hear he did lots of psychedelics and still thinks this way 😅