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I was talking to my brother about my interests in psychedelics for self-actualization purposes. And he said to smoke a bit of weed first so I can get used to losing control of my consciousness because it is something like none other. I was at first very close-minded to this idea because I was very against weed and using drugs for fun. I was dead serious about only using substances to grow myself and nothing else. But eventually, I took his advice and went to his house and took a hit of weed from a vapourizer and then was super high for 3 hours. This was a very positive experience. Some time after that in the future, I then ended up trying out a 2.5 mg THC gummy. It did nothing, and I was disappointed from the lack of experience. So naturally, the next dose for my next trip was FOUR times that. I jumped it all the way up to 10 mg, and I did it while floating down a river on a float with a bunch of other people having their rafts all tied together into one large party float thingy. This was a very unanticipated experience. My everything was high. My body was super high and my mind was insanely high. Here I quickly learned how sensitive I was two substances. I should have known with my previous experience with alcohol. Through this experience I had a crash course on letting go and just letting things happen because I had no control. I had such a body high that I felt like I was engulfed in a extremely high viscosity fluid, like honey or peanut butter. My mind high was so bad that I was forgetting who I was every three minutes and every three minutes felt like a new chapter. Time was so slow. But I wasn't THAT stupid because I at least made sure I had my big sister as my trip sitter to make sure I didn't die. ? At one point during that trip I remember having to pee so bad that I just hung my lower half of myself over in the water while floating down the river while holding onto someone's back. ? After that I think I did have another THC edible trip in a much safer setting at home. But the point of the story is this; as someone who was not experienced with anything but getting slightly drunk on alcohol, getting high on weed was definitely a great first stepping stone to help prepare me for what was coming with psilocybin.

Let me first talk about my mentality about drugs and experience with drugs right from the beginning before I took my first psychedelic. Growing up I was incredibly straight-edge to the point where even when I turned the legal age for drinking at age eighteen, I still heavily avoided alcohol and didn't even have my first drink until a couple years later. I prided myself in being super sober and straight-edge because I didn't see anything positive from anyting drug-related. When I was really young, I was indoctrinated to correlate any sort of substance use with evil and to the point where I actually freaked out and cried when I found out my brother smoked a little bit. Fast forward to a year ago when I was getting my mind opened a heck of a lot through Leo's lectures and listening to hundreds of hours of Leo over the course of a year or so. Every couple of months my reality was shifting significantly because of the amount of knowledge I was feeding into my consciousness. I started to see reality so differently because I had so many new maps to try on and put in place. Right away whenever Leo mentioned psychedelics I did not quite understand why he would talk about such a substance in such a way, but I didn't quite close my mind off to it altogether because of the way he presented it. Over time, I opened myself up more and more to the idea of using psychedelics as a tool. As I listened to Leo, I gained his trust and trusted his authority on the subject of self-actualization, so naturally, I started to trust what he said with regards to psychedelics. My mind really opened up to the idea of using psychedelics when Leo reinforced the point that you could be getting years worth of gains in a single psychedelic trip. Especially when Leo said that 95% of your self-actualization results are going to be coming from the practices. I believe this was communicated in his video the "65 core principles of living the good life". With psychedelics being one of the practice routines to try, and arguably one of the most powerful ones, I was sold on trying it out. So right away I was ready to do my research and get my hands on some magic mushrooms.

I would like to start this off by sharing one of the most inspirational if not THE most inspirational videos I've personally experienced to date. Having watched nearly all of Leo's content, this one hit me deep in the feels, and I cried. This video will inspire you to do 5MeO.

Oh Hell Yeah. I've been holding off watching part 1 because I want to watch part 2 as well. What a treat!

Man I can see how much I've grown now, this kind of stuff used to really bother me, now I just laugh.

My body is ready

Hey guys, I'm looking for some pointers that would help me with my investigations in realizing that the Brain Doesn't exist. Which I think is just basically riding the materialist paradigm. What questions could I contemplate? What books should I read? [I've purchased Leo's booklist btw, I'll probably read the book on materialism ] Maybe I should contemplate certain things on a certain psychedelic? Additional resources? Really would like to shake this one loose. Thanks.

"The map is not the territory. But also it is." Sounds strange loopy I will sit on this to try and understand what you said.

@Leo Gura Thanks! If I understand you correctly, then that also means everything that is 2nd order, (not direct experience) doesn't exist as well. Which makes sense when you ask questions like: "How can you know that 5 minutes ago happened?", only coming to the logical conclusion that you ONLY have the present. I figure I'll realize this one deeply when I do 5meo.

@knowyourroots <3

Does the ground (that part of consciousness) experience itself? Or does consciousness create living beings to experience itself through the creation of eyes? Does that make sense? I was thinking about the idea of how my "self" is the infinite consciousness field, not some point inbetween my ears. Much like how Leo explains it in this blog post: https://www.actualized.org/insights/absolute-infinity-demo

@The0Self very interesting thankyou

@Thought Art

Hey everyone, I have been researching neurofeedback for a while now and I haven't had too much luck with leads, it seems to be a tough nut to crack for me. So I hope I can ask here directly to get some specific pointers in where I can go learn more about neurofeedback. I've done A LOT of digging already. Any significant leads for information is greatly appreciated. (And yes I am willing to drop $2k-3k for a proper setup as Leo recommends.) (I live in Canada BTW if that changes anything for sourcing equipment, I'm pretty sure I can get shipments from the US easily.) My goals with neurofeedback are as follows: Healing my ADHD Learning how to meditate 100x more effectively. I want to know things like: A structure or model to help me get a grasp on the nitty gritty of neurofeedback. What theory I need to learn to put my practice into context. Where can I learn more about neurofeedback so I know exactly what the heck I am doing, what I'm looking for, etc. What equipment should I buy? Where? Personal Stories with using Neurofeedback to 100x their meditation or cure their ADHD Etc. Thanks in advance. I also plan to utilize the following to further progress my healing my ADHD: Kriya Yoga (Currently In the process of reading Kriya Yoga books) Psychedelics (Ongoing) Nootropics (I have acquired Armodafinil, Modafinil, 5-HTP, NALT, L-theanine, Lions Mane, Korean Red Ginseng, a couple others.) Heavy metal detox protocols. (Still Have to research it.

You do it because you are INSPIRED. You build a vision for yourself to who you ought to be. Something insane, something like "best in the world at ..." level. Juicy vision, Juicy life. You focus on bringing that satisfaction in the moment, and teach yourself to enjoy the messy process that is the journey. (See Leos Vid on Satisfaction.) Tuning into your higher consciousness values because you are conscious of the fact that these are superior values to hold. This only works if you truly believe what you're doing is what you're meant to be doing. Always maintain a positive attitude at all times, protect it with your life! Read Arnold Schwarzenegger's Autobiography: The Education of a Bodybuilder. Lots of gems in there about how his mindset was to train with vigor every single day. Also you should rename the thread before it's too late.

Lol My LEGS go numb when I meditate for a long period of time...

Leo's work inspires me to create content of that caliber and beyond. One day...

@Bazooka Jesus First Video Link broken, do you have another link to the video? I don't even know the video title!

Biggest Challenge: Visioning something AWESOME to be super excited for.

I wonder if Leo will do a face reveal

This is an amazing collection and organization of information! Thank you!

Noted.

Yeah this video was the most inspiring video I've ever seen in my entire life. I downloaded it right away. Going to use it later when I do 5MEO. Made me cry a lot.

@Danioover9000 You need to create a Jackie Chan Tulpa to deal with Crysty.

@Ora They have slightly different personalities. A B+ will have a more positive trip, a Penis Envy will have a more violent trip, a golden teacher will have more of a serious trip, etc. @Bazooka Jesus Yeah it's not too much about the bodyweight but more with the brain you have. I'm 5ft3in and 150lb and 1g can fuck me up. I've got a highly interconnected ADHD brain already, so I'm sensitive af. Or at least that's how I make sense of it. @Spooney Spoonerson Start with 1g and go up in intervals of 0.5g. You have no idea how it would affect you. Also another thing I should say is that I have done trips where I would do shadow work first with one intention, and then I would have another intention to gain insights on my life purpose later. It just depends on how much time you need to spend on each intention.