Tim R

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  1. LSD is the most powerful in terms of the amount-effect-ratio. We're talking about µg (millionth of a gram) for effective dosages - although for trips it would be more like hundreds of µg, but still: ten thousandth of a gram. With things like 5-MeO, dosages are somewhere in the two digit mg spectrum. Terence McKenna compared LSD to a red ant tearing down the empire state building? Too bad he hadn't much to say about 5-MeO...
  2. I'm Russian - we have a so called "Banya" at home. It's something like a mix between a sauna and a steam bath. It's absolutely great? I wonder if @Leo Gura knows about баня?❤
  3. I think Leo has covered Spiral dynamics pretty much to the last drop... What's there to "critique"?
  4. Brilliant prank. Stage Orange at its best... This just says so much:
  5. When Dr Maté mentioned this hypocrisy I started laughing because I actually never thought of that analogy. Just brilliant.
  6. Excuse me, but since when do you have to be infinitely conscious to (at least partially) understand and integrate your shadow? This is ludicrous.
  7. This topic is extremely important to our work. Anybody who is serious about Self-Actualization knows despair and should know it as their potential friend, and if not, one hasn't been serious about it yet.
  8. 1. How do I recognize whether a friendship has gone down a toxic path? I'm at a point with a friend where it just doesn't seem to be very natural or healthy anymore, but I am not quite sure whether we're just drifting apart concerning our worldviews (which is certainly the case) or whether it has turned into a toxic relationship where nobody really enjoys it apart from the unhealthy satisfaction of flawed egotistic motivations that stem from underlying narcissism or low self-esteem (or maybe something else). It obviously takes two to tango, so I'm trying to figure out what might be wrong with me - but I can't change the other person. 2. At what point do I have to end a relationship? 3. How do I make sure that I'm not deluding myself about my flaws or the dynamic of the friendship?
  9. Are you attached to your identity or your body? I mean, are you a biological man who want's to become a biological woman? Or is it just the identity?
  10. @Leo Gura If you're going to deconstruct science, which I welcome, I suggest you also include some proposals how science can evolve. I hope you're not just going to rant about the materialist paradigm and how all scientists are utterly deluded about what reality is and how truth is found (most scientists are deluded concerning this, but not because they're scientists). Some scientists (though extremely few, mostly those involved in psychedelic research) know about reality and consciousness, but in mainstream science you just can show up and proclaim that consciousness and appearance is all there is (and a few other things?). I am currently studying biochemistry, plant physiology and bioinformatics at university and I am very eager to develop science beyond its current limits and misapprehensions (optimally with help of the use of psychedelics equivalent to Galileos use of the telescope), I just don't know yet how, therefore I'd really appreciate your take on this.
  11. That's what the DMT entities say when Leo suddenly pops up in the middle of their living room and demands to understand what reality is??
  12. A Zen game is basically something Zen people will do to... "test" each other. II mean, not really, it's just a game. I am very fond of Zen and my best friend is a Zen Boddhisatva - we sometimes play Zen games... There is no definition of what a Zen game is. You have to get it to play it and play it to get it. Answering on the mundane in terms of the transcendent and on the transcendent in terms of the mundane.. Or something like that? If you ask me what a Zen game is, I will fart and leave the room.
  13. This video helps you deepen your understanding of gravity and relativity, enjoy. For most of you it will probably change the way you look at gravity...
  14. @justfortoday Yup, your recontextualization technique sounds about right. About 2 years ago I "slipped" into that state of awareness and haven't "returned" ever since lol. Well, but it's the way things always were. For most people it's in the "wrong" context though. When I suddenly understood that the whole universe was/is me and that it is right here, right now, there's nowhere to go, there's only one Subject that observes itself through everything there is, it made me feel like I went insane. There was no I, and there was nowhere to go. No "escape" (but there's no one to escape either?). You are emphasizing the visual aspect of this realization, I'd like to add something to this: Listen to some sound. Put on some "Om chant" on YouTube or something (it doesn't really matter what you listen to, but the Om chant are long and repetitive sounds). Now, close your eyes and listen. And then try to hear the "hearer" and that which is "heard". As you will find there's no difference. Only boundless sound without locality, appearing and disappearing in consciousness. Nobody listening, nothing that is listened to. Only that which is. It might be a bit easier than the visual aspect, because visual perception is our primary intake and therefore I think associated more strongly with "what reality is".
  15. Have you ever contemplated what Fun is? Is it taking risks? Is it the tension you feel in the prospect of the possibility of something going "wrong" without the component of being serious about it? Why are some things fun? What is it about them? Everything can be regarded as a fun activity (right?), but why? Is it the sheer joy of Being? Is it involvement? Or is it simply activity for it's own sake? Just like Love that loves everything for its own sake?
  16. "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke
  17. I'd like to start a collection of quotes from Leo. Many of the things he says are very inspiring, funny, wise, outrageous, weird, etc. and I think a collection of quotes would be a cool and useful thing to develop. Just share your favorite things he said or wrote in either his videos or here on the forum.
  18. Here, some brain candy for ya. This episode is from the Lex Fridman Podcast with Michael Malice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIk1zUy8ehU (PS: "The link could not be embedded because www.youtube.com does not allow embedding of that video.")
  19. I hope everybody here recognizes that it's not possible to "stop your brainwaves" and that this obviously is a hoax...
  20. You're frustrated because you expect them to understand. Drop your expectations or at least regulate them to an appropriate level. I could tell you about some deep insight I had - but neither would I expect you to understand nor would I be frustrated if you weren't even ready to use my insight as guidance. What do they ask for? You insights?
  21. As long as you are aware of the fact that it's only a game there's absolutely nothing wrong with competitive sports, I think. After all, what do you think the ego is? A game.