The0Self

Prime content if awakening is even on your radar.

Upon discovering that he isn't already well known here, I am pleased to introduce this gem of a teacher to the forum. He's only been around as a public teacher for like a year -- so it makes sense that this is the first time you're hearing of him -- but he's been awake for many years. Even if you're awake yourself he's still a great guide for the absolute highest stages and embodiment of these most rarified perceptual shifts in identity. If one is interested in awakening, he's the best teacher I've found, in my opinion. And he's an anesthesiologist which is pretty interesting. https://www.youtube.com/c/SimplyAlwaysAwake/featured https://simplyalwaysawake.com/ His first book "Awake" is available. At least one of his students authentically woke up at just age 23: Probably the best introduction to awakening; first video of a highly recommended 5 part series on another channel called ZDoggMD: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=zdogg+awakening%2C+explained

@eTorro Do more research and the picture will become more clear. Way too much to go over. I’m not going to be super mean here, but I do have a responsibility to illuminate a bit of this… For starters, the ”Garlic vs Chelation” example is completely useless considering the chelator wasn’t even EDTA (commonly used in studies but outmatched by another option), much less DMSA… As luck would have it, the safest lead chelator, and the most effective lead chelator, are the same chemical, DMSA — there’s simply no replacement for it; neither pharmaceutical nor natural. Penicillamine, of all things — a very dangerous and inefficient copper chelator (to treat Wilson’s disease) which also can chelate arsenic to some degree (though not as well as many other options) — is the “chelator” used in that example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillamine As you can now probably tell, that’s like comparing the effectiveness of… 1. Oregano with 2. An arm cast … for healing a broken LEG… And then, if any sort of antioxidant/etc effects of the oregano actually had some positive effect… stating that “oregano wins against casts in a head to head match up for the healing of broken bones.” ?‍♂️ Take a moment to reassess… Identify each assumption that led to this situation. Hey… It happens. But I can guarantee it’ll happen again if you don’t figure out what those assumptions were. Same goes for all of us. Chelation is no joke. Getting all the mercury and lead out of your body is an extremely intensive and time-consuming endeavor. Even DMPS, which has been repeatedly shown in the lab to be an effective lead chelator, is still exponentially outmatched by DMSA (for lead, not necessarily mercury)… and DMSA itself can take years to truly get all the lead out. And mercury (and arsenic; cadmium; others) chelation is another thing altogether. You won’t be competent with understanding this overnight or anything. It’s a lot.

The difference between 10mg and 20mg is so vast they can hardly be compared. 20mg is an extremely high dose… I mean, it’s relatively typical for this compound, but this isn’t a typical compound. 8-12mg intranasal is a good dose. Up to 30mg if you’re extremely experienced. Even 3-5mg will be earth shattering for some. (If you’re talking about 5-MeO-DMT)

What did you expect? It doesn’t take much research to find out that 40mg of 5-MeO-DMT is well into heroic dose territory. Comparable to… idk… 3-5 breakthrough LSD trips compressed into half an hour…

Garlic will not help heavy metal toxicity. It may help the symptoms somehow, but it won’t chelate. Pop culture medicine edutainment seems to have propagated this idea that anything with a sulfur molecule or even a proper thiol group somehow purges heavy metals from the body or something — this is false. It is only the double thiol group having molecules that can chelate — DMPS, DMSA, dimercaprol/BAL (not recommended), ALA, etc — the two thiol groups next to each other act as a functional hook… When there’s just one thiol (chlorella, etc), it just stirs stuff around; doesn’t usefully or effectively chelate anything whatsoever.

Lately (past couple weeks; not usual) I wake up at 10a and go to sleep around 2a every day (not optimal) simply because just as you say, yes I do go out late on weekends and was confronted by the exact conundrum you describe. For the past 3+ months, I was going to sleep at 12-1a and waking at 8a five days a week, but then on Friday and Saturday night I’d sleep from 3am to 10am — Really caused a lot of fatigue, so now I’m not going out quite as late, and I’m waking at same time daily… Focusing primarily on weight training probably for another month or two or until habituation. Changing it to sleeping 1-9a now though. Definitely very notably less tired in general when I wake up at the same time every single day though, so even 2-10a works fine — but it’s probably better being asleep from 1-3 rather than just 2-3 of the 1-3am sweet spot. I might also try limiting blue light + not looking at screens after 8 PM, if that’ll even be possible ?

I’m sort of out of the loop on this kind of research now but from what I remember back in my narcolepsy diagnosis days was that normal sleep cycles go like this: Periodically cycling between light, REM, and deep sleep, entering the first REM cycle 10-60 minutes in (narcoleptics entering it immediately upon sleep, hence the hallucinations, and also cataplexy since REM paralyzes muscles so you don’t act out your dreams with your physical sleeping body thus waking it up), not entering the first deep sleep cycle until just under ~4hrs into sleep, that (deep sleep) cycle ending just ~10-15min later at about 4 hours flat — which is why ~4 hours is the absolute minimum anyone can live on; and the sleep dose that one will generally gravitate toward when meditating 100% of waking hours on retreat— the first deep sleep cycle, deep sleep being an essential part of sleep, doesn’t occur until just before the 4 hour mark — after which, the sleeper cycles between light, REM, and deep in increasingly long cycles. And while all that was correct, this one sentence here may not be 100% correct, but I definitely learned it somehow: Eventually, over the course of the night, once the individual’s sleep needs have been exceeded, if sleep continues, it’s pretty much just REM and light (stage 2, I believe) sleep, and no more deep sleep. Some people do best with biphasic sleep. Sleeping 4+ hours for one phase, and 2-5 hours for the other — possibly with just a short break of 1-4 hours between the two daily sleep phases; it doesn’t have to be two equally spaced sleep blocks like 1-5am and 1-5pm… It can be something like this: sleep 7-11pm, wake and get work done, read, meditate, or whatever from 11pm until a little before 1 AM (to wind down and then actually be asleep at 1 AM, not just in bed), then sleep 1-4:30am for 7.5 total hours (probably optimal for most people), or 1-6am for 9 total hours (only ever necessary if doing intense exercise), or 1-3am for 6 total hours, still making sure to be asleep between 1 AM and 3 AM (more on that later) — that trial allows for testing whether biphasic sleep is right for you, and it has all the sleep hours in dark hours, which is best for sleep quality. I would certainly surmise that the benefits of biphasic sleep are probably negated, at least to some degree, when one of the phases is done in the middle of daylight hours… The most important time to be asleep, due to hormones and circadian rhythm, is 1-3AM. The time you go to sleep can vary depending on sleep needs — 4-9hr/day for nearly everyone, but many if not most people do best on about 7.5hrs assuming no high intensity exercise, but with high intensity exercise the sleep needs for optimal health and fitness are usually about 1 additional hour per day — But the time you wake up should be the same every day to minimize daytime sleepiness. The variable that you change should be bed time, not wake time. You want to train your body to rise at the same time daily — it seems to help with energy. You want to time it such that you are always asleep by 1AM, though just getting to sleep well before 3AM, while suboptimal, is miles better than getting to sleep after 3, since the hours of 1-3 AM are the highest bang-for-your-buck sleep hours. For instance, wake up at 8 AM daily, and go to sleep at 12:30-12:50 if sleep needs are not very high, but if doing high volume exercise etc you may want to go to sleep as early as 11 PM; there is rarely if ever any benefit to exceeding 9 hours in one day. A poor night’s rest will affect the next 3 days, so your sleep debt is primarily based upon your past 3 nights sleep. This is why athletes often notice that a poor nights sleep doesn’t affect the next day any more than it affects the day after the next, and also that if you get, say, 8-9 hours for 3 days in a row, getting one day of only 4-5 hours might not affect you that negatively, as long as it’s just one day…. But even ONE night of sleeping significantly less than 4 hours can cause an accumulation the following day of some degree of (possibly permanent) damage and fatigue, because you literally completely skipped getting ANY deep sleep, when coming up ahead is an entire day’s worth of brain and body function… Certainly try to be asleep by 1 AM if you want to maximize your total effective sleep quality.

Beef, Greek yogurt, dairy

Well, yeah. Death is un-fearable. But of course all fear is the fear of death. That’s why all fear is empty.

Bringing body temp down is usually not a good thing. Alcohol at night will lower your body temp the next day though.

Not if every time you had sex with a girl you got soaked from her squirting all over you, screaming. And every time, you break their personal record for greatest number of orgasms in a session, by a lot. Etc. You will not be worried about the size of your dick for a second when that is the case.

It baffles me. Everything else about Owen screams the dude is just about as bad as it gets at game.

It sounds like you misunderstood. “Flatness” in any nondual spiritual context would merely refer to distance and separation being illusory.

Talk only to the girl you like and ignore the others. This usually will not work but quite often it does and in that case you saved a ton of work. If it doesn’t then apologize and introduce yourself to the rest as needed — it will be clear at that point that you like the one particular girl. Isolate the girl and deal with objections from her friends as needed in a patient and fun way. Always address noncompliance with a glance and/or vibe and/or words that confidently (and playfully) convey something to the tune of “Why you being weird?” Just an unwavering straight line to your goal, as if you had narcissistic personality disorder; as if you were unable to even conceive of the idea that the girl doesn’t want to sleep with you. Before you get the hang of it, it seems pretty fucking weird, but that is indeed what gets you laid.

Lots of interesting stuff along the way.

Omg! It’s uncanny! ?

This is fine. But if you don’t want them to misinterpret it as nice guy behavior, just be sure to speak with no filter; tease; talk to them like you’re talking to a guy, but with flirtation if they’re an interest.

If you lose weight without gaining or at least preserving muscle mass, you will gain it all back. At the very least, it will be a struggle to keep it off. Might as well not do that, when the solution is so simple. Focus on barbell training; you will struggle to keep weight on once you’ve built 5 lb of muscle (on an effective program this takes about 20 weeks for women and 10 weeks for men). Muscle is incredibly calorically wasteful. And not for the reason many dieticians and nutritionists seem to think — rather, it’s kind of like how a high-performance car engine with huge cylinders and high power output has horrible gas mileage… it’s not because more muscle increases your BMR (even though it will do that as well)… +10 lb of muscle will only increase your BMR to such an extent that you’ll burn an extra mere 60 kcals a day due to the BMR increase alone… a rounding error. And yet… it will nonetheless increase your daily caloric needs by 500-1200 kcals… or even FAR more, depending on your activity level… Particularly if the muscle mass was added uniformly throughout your entire body, particularly the lower body. And it’s not even because of the extra weight — The car engine analogy is the best explanation for the actual reason behind this phenomenon that all experienced lifters eventually notice. High-performance muscle mass is extremely costly to maintain, calorically speaking. Dieting for fat loss, without paying at least as much attention to building muscle, is simply a huge misunderstanding, and certainly a waste of time. Consuming less than 80-120g protein a day is also a huge impediment to fat loss. Even if you just maintained your muscle mass on a diet (requires barbell training or at least some fitness knowledge to do this with any regularity), you’d be many times more likely to keep the fat off than if you just dieted, and relatively speaking, you wouldn’t even have to try. Don’t waste your effort and time. Life is short.

Anything that gives normies paranoia will very obviously have psychedelic effects in the spiritually inclined.

Aliens eh…? Try miprocin. You're welcome.

First of all, congratulations on the milestone! Congrats! ? Close rate, from number to sex, is 10% at best for the most advanced guys in the game btw (anyone saying otherwise is either 1. not doing primarily cold approach, 2. lying, or 3. ignorant, or all 3), so definitely focus the brunt of you efforts on getting more numbers… but do follow up with this one as best you can, to get the practice. About waiting being a good thing — that is a myth. The earlier you follow up, the better. It would be better if you already made plans, but still, at least you mentioned an activity — that’s infinitely better than not doing so! Text or call her (call is probably best if you really hit it off with this girl, otherwise text) and before you set up plans, ask her when she’s free this week, rather than suggesting a day and time, because if you suggest the day and time it’s likely she’s busy during it, and you’ll just have to hope you don’t suggest like 5 times and each time she’s busy ?— so ask for when she’s free and then see if you can work her in your schedule (if your schedule is open that will of course be easy). Make sure you have about 3 hours free (attempt to spend time at your place or hers after, and while on the date, suggest some kind of activity, preferably one you’ve already talked about with her, like even Netflix etc i.e. “we should watch x after this”). So… Prior to the date, most likely by text, ask if she’d be “down to hang out after to [watch a movie / split a bottle of wine / some activity at your place], assuming we have chemistry of course .” Date should last about 45-90 minutes. Don’t try to impress her; there’s no need to win her over, you are enough. She’s not on a pedestal, you’re just two humans in the exact same boat. Neither one of you is wholly responsible for making the interaction go well — she will want it to go well just as much as you… very much unlike a cold approach, wherein you are responsible for carrying the conversation… The same is not true on a date!.. So you can relax. You should both be contributing roughly equally to the conversation. Talk about many topics at one time, gravitating toward the best ones, while making sure you are consistently starting new conversation threads from time to time, via saying whatever comes to mind and speaking with no filter… if she reacts negatively, to either a conversation topic, or to physicality (which you should be attempting throughout), then simply calibrate after the fact (never before) by playing it off as a joke / as no big deal. Do not assume that if she goes home with you, she’s agreed to have sex with you. In fact, you might even want to make it explicitly clear that you have no sexual expectations — if you DO have sexual expectations, get rid of them… That will only help you — it’s most congruent with the man any woman truly wants most. If you have sexual expectations, that’s a dead giveaway that you aren’t currently expressing the optimal vibe for success with women… another even bigger dead giveaway is if you feel like you have to do something to win her over — that should be your main signal to be alerted to; it tells you you’re not in the optimal frame… The optimal frame should feel like she’d be crazy not to be spending her time with you / why wouldn’t she

I like it! ? It’s not like we’re even saying anything that’s absolutely true though — it’s all kind of just bias (or whatever form the being takes, as a relative offshoot of the absolute; agape) using whatever it can, to actualize what it authentically prefers to. The realization of which seems to be accelerated by moving the primary focus more towards the limitless now, rather than concepts in past and future… because the cheat-code frame (there’s one for game; being good enough for all, and also one for enlightenment; truth inquiry) is only ever available now, not in time. Or something. ? Sounds about right when going by feel rather than working it out.

? ikr… Another thing though, perhaps the main thing lacking in anyone’s game, and the only thing you need: The knowledge that you’re good enough for any girl, no matter how hot or high value. So certainly none of the girls who (win the exceedingly unlikely lottery that it is to) cross your path will be able to phase you out of this, not to mention literally no girl could. No wonder narcissists get laid… But hopefully you can see how it doesn’t have to be narcissistic, it’s just meeting the moment with your best, most highly conscious self, and not doubting the astonishing power of consciousness to be whatever it wants to be. Spirituality (truth seeking) can even help with it, precisely because spirituality when developed increasingly becomes the highest priority focus — it makes game seem like not a big deal, so you’re not really outcome dependent in the same way anymore, you’re in it for the ride.

@NoSelfSelf In all seriousness though, just in case I'm misunderstanding you... I had a feeling the first line would have the potential to sound sarcastic when read, so I added the second line for good measure, to indicate that it was indeed a serious comment and that I'm agreeing with you... Are you telling me that didn't work?