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Yeah if you've ever found any video from Leo's YouTube channel actualized.org valuable, then you'll find this clips Vault valuable. Simple as that.

August 1st 2026 30 minutes of Kriya Practice. A few mins of alternate nostril breathing, Mahamudra, and Kriya Pranayama 1 (Visualizing the energy moving up the sushumna, pausing at each chakra, using ocean breath on the way up and down, being slow af). I want to create a routine that consists of Mahamudra, Kriya Pranayamas, and Kriya Supreme Fire. As I gathered from my forum research that these were the barebones of making a highly effective Kriya Practice.

I intend this journal to be a tool to help me with my practice, primarily with staying consistent. I plan to fill this journal with complete guides and notes from my Kriya yoga studies.

I personally wanted to give a full review after full completion of consuming the product, but I wanted to say this: The value from the insights in Clip #119 was worth the price of entry. Just that one clip alone. I am taking notes on all the clips.

EMDR therapy. Or any bilateral stimulation practice that will target and desensitize overly sensitive parts of the brain, typically associated with trauma.

This makes perfect sense Leo, especially from a physical safety standpoint. My only remaining concern is the possibility of experiencing an intense struggle with my ego while under the influence—particularly a frightening or overwhelming experience with 5-MeO-DMT. (GPT clarified) I suppose the question is whether, if someone is truly serious about exploring this, they accept that fear will be part of the experience rather than trying to avoid it. (GPT clarified) And you keep going into it because you know "there's gold in that mountain." - as Leo has once said as his reasoning for going back into 5meodmt a year later where the first dose produced a panic attack. (can't find the quote) I gather that at this point, while keeping the doses controlled (10mg smoked, 10mg-15mg plugged), if you're serious, you'd front the fear anyways, because you'd know there's gold in that mountain.

I’ve heard the argument from Martin Ball that it may be easier to do "a full-release dose" of 5-MeO-DMT first, because the intensity forces complete surrender, as opposed to working with doses that are too low. With lower or longer-lasting plugged experiences, enough of the ego may remain to resist, which can actually make surrender harder. Martin Ball also describes a "full release dose" as a completely different state from a low, medium, or even strong 5meodmt dose. As being "not even in the same ballpark." Martin Ball argues that if you do not have a full release dose early, it actually makes it more difficult for the ego to surrender. 🔴 What are your thoughts on this approach: Experiencing full release first, then later working with longer plugged experiences? At this point, it appears to me that there's no pussy footing at all with working with 5-MeO-DMT. It's a full 100% commitment, going all the way. Or at least there's nothing you can really do to protect yourself from fearful experiences. You're going to face the biggest fear of your death, full stop. In addition to that, there's another side topic: Speaking with other Psychonauts who will have a high dose of 2C-B, and then 6 hours later (full comedown), they will take a strong dose of 5-MeO-DMT. The reported experience was a much easier surrender into the 5MEO-DMT experience. Even far easier than with the use of MDMA. The MDMA reportedly helped with the nerves of taking 5-MeO-DMT, but it didn't help with the actual surrender part. In contrast, the actual surrender process on 5-MeO-DMT was greatly assisted after a strong experience with 2C-B due to it "softening up the ego" quite a bit.

https://www.actualized.org/insights/the-importance-of-recognition This is a great pointer, Thankyou.

I just love the entire study of it. I am enamoured with the complexity, the profundity, and the counter-intuitive nature of human connection. I was discussing with a friend today about how it appears that the most intelligent thing you can do to court women is by developing an intuition on what to do, rather than following an mechanical unconscious formula. How to develop this intuition can only come from a boat load of experience of being successful with women. Developing the holistic intelligence of intuition. I appreciate the pointer to look at this whole process from an even deeper view of the intelligence of love.

What found you was meant.

Thankyou. This is useful information with plugging. I wanted to clarify, that I was considering a smoked dose for this "Full release dose" idea. I was speaking with a person that facilitates smoked doses, and they said they would start me out with a 16mg smoked dose, and if needed, to kick me up to 17mg.

Respect

It's an important step.

This is a really good thing to underline. I really appreciate the reminder as to why I need to keep socialixing and approaching momentum. It really does ooze off of you that you're relaxed and non-needy.

I heard that stating that you're going somewhere, so you are only stopping for a couple minutes is a useful thing that de-escalates the person's discomfort. Basically reassuring that the interaction is going to be short-lived

Wish me luck. I will report back to you guys.

Remember this, NOBODY wants the truth. It takes a very serious individual to actually genuinely want truth. Keep the Spirituality talk light-hearted and Sexy sounding. Weave some wise words in there, and keep it at that. Only the serious want the uncomfortable Truth. Be very clear about your intention, do you want to guide someone to truth, or do you want sex? A genuine conversation about truth is not going to get a woman wet at all. You can talk like spiritually flavored survival stuff and weave in wise teachings here and there, but ultimately it's just games of Survival. Truth and Sex(survival) are pretty much opposite ends of the spectrum. Most people just want to feel good and want to distract themselves. They don't actually have a holy curiosity and respect for truth. When telling someone some truth, less is more. Use your intuition to gauge what they're genuinely able to hear and understand within their paradigm. More often than not, they don't give a shit about truth. What has been of interest recently for me is how to gauge what someone is ready for and not ready for when it comes to the depth of Truth. You have to gauge open-mindedness, their stage of development, their capacity to hold emotionally difficult things in their mind, their capacity to SIT WITH NOT KNOWING, the amount of prerequisite knowledge and study they have. The amount that they actually sit and contemplate something. Most people spend more time contemplating what they want for their Christmas list or their birthday. People will tell you "oh I'm so curious, I want to hear about it, I can handle anything." No they fucking can't, they are fooling themselves. "No trust me I'm really open minded." Fat chance their mind is open enough to ponder about if there are no other people. If you really want to understand some of the depth that Leo points to, you have to work for hundreds of hours just to scratch the surface. A mind needs to be educated, trained, and deconstructed to handle certain truths. Majority of people that consider themselves to be spiritual are FOOLING themselves. Spirituality is FUCKING BRUTAL.

Appreciate it. I always love reading it every day.

Sounds like one hell of an adventure! Good luck! Stay safe, stay vigilant!

https://www.actualized.org/insights/why-you-will-forgive-everyone On a recent 2cb trip the weight of any resentment becomes unbearable and I start forgiving people. A lot of trips was the theme of forgiving reality for existing.

@paradiseengineering advice from a random guy on the internet, (me) . I will use Vyvanse on a daily basis. (15mg) I will go off of vyvanse for a day or two to do a strong dose of a psychedelic, then I'll go back on Vyvanse. This appears to be the most straightforward protocol, especially for the hard hitters like 5meodmt. I spoke to Martin Ball directly about this. If I remember correctly, Martin said he saw people doing this even with SSRIs; being off of them a couple days, hitting the 5meo. Then a day later going back on. I don't think you'll have any trouble with Vyvanse. Even though there's a long half life with it.

Do you have any such projects in the works? Or know of any projects like this?

Nobody Cares about truth. Everyone only cares about survival. Nobody cares about proper sensemaking. I was contemplating earlier, we really only default to the sensemaking systems that were beaten into us. The mind will do sensemaking regardless, and we will naturally just absorb all the examples of sensemaking that we have in our environment out of sheer conformity. But it is not natural at all to upgrade the quality of your sensemaking. You will naturally become more creative than everybody else around you because everybody else around you is thinking in the boxes of the sense making systems that they were taught.

Reality is appearances happening to no one. From: What is Perception?

Open your mind to the possibility that there exists a set of insights that will get you from where you are to where you need to go. - From: What is Insight?