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He loves so much that he forgot that he must die someday. I think you can love life without prolonging it. Anyways. Sorry for derailing your thread.

Why does he focus on always prolonging it? I don't get it. It would get too boring. People must eventually die.

Brain's "philosophy" is how to prolong the human lifespan and defeat death, even though he has taken a psychedelic.

I just wanted to know about that. 👍

What's not advanced about your existential stuff? As of now, a lot of them might not be advanced to you, but for me, all of the existential stuff that I have heard from you is advanced. Which means that people who want to attend must be familiar with your theories about those stuff, right? So, we also must have done what you consider non-advanced existential stuff before joining your retreat? If so, what are those?

@Leo Gura, I'm not trying to specifically cast a doubt on what you've been saying through these years. I know that you've been hammering on the "surgery" part. That's what makes your theories worth listening to, at least for me. Though, a lot of your God, alien, etc., theories I don't know what it actually points to because I barely have experience with psychedelics. So, I'm trying to treat them as possibilities, even though they sound very interesting and deep to me. But your theory must be as deep as your experience of "surgery" allows it to be.

Wasn't that theory built upon doing "surgeries"? I think that the "surgery" must be held more significant than the theories of it. I assume you would say that most theories are BS of what you talk about. So, it could also be dangerous to prefer theorizing in the name of safety instead of doing "surgery". Imagine the first human who did actual surgery without any theory. That's how it must have started.

As long as we survive as humans, because after tripping, we will come back, and we would still have an outdated theory of the world without rethinking about the experience, which would backfire, right?

Even if that's how most people define it, it shouldn't be taken as an insult by default. Though, people often love to use that to insult others and activities because mostly of groupthink. Though to me, gay strictly refers to homosexual men. It's less vague and confusing if we're also going to refer to a sexual orientation by that word. I mean, why not use the word "effeminate" instead of "gay"? I think it comes from people believing that homosexual men are effeminate by nature as if they're not "man" enough to be with a woman and some of them try to act like feminine women to be with them, which is very stupid.

When you say that "the real work is in chemicals" and words aren't helpful, you mean that no amount of contemplation or any other human method could be of help with the chemicals to access that domain, right?

I would say if you don't experience and only have beliefs about deities, then they aren't actual deities. It should come from experience, otherwise, they are just beliefs. So, if you actually experience something that more or less reflects some word, don't you have the say what the word means assuming that you haven't held beliefs about it?

@Leo Gura, what makes a deity a deity from your experience? It's refreshing to know that deities could be experienced. Though, people are too eager to make up and hold beliefs about deities and be attached to them, which makes me discard them. Beliefs of deities are thought to be unique, as if there couldn't be even slightly different from the "original". But if deities do exist, I think they have to be of infinite kind and all of them equally true and original, which makes worshipping and forming beliefs about one or a few of them nonsense, right?

Recently? I know that you did it a few times in the past, but haven't mentioned stuff about deities. Doesn't it make you forgetful?

@Leo Gura, what happened that "deity" became a thing for you?

@Leo Gura, I wonder how you would make the chemical legal. How much different would it be than the illegal ones? Why should they make it legal?

Really? That's cool. It is 5-LeO-DMT.

There's only one legal chemical that comes to mind where he lives, which is Salvinorin A.

@Leo Gura, you speak of the chemical as if it was created yesterday and only you know it.

@Girzo, thanks for informing.

@bazera, I wouldn't do ayahuasca alone for the first time either because I'm afraid to mess things up, although I would want to know the dose before drinking it in a retreat center. However, I haven't done ayahuasca. I have only smoked DMT that I made. The intensity depends on the dose. MAOIs just prolong the experience.

It is probably salvia. It doesn't appear to be illegal in the state of Nevada. It could also be a mescaline-containing cactus.

As far as I know, you have to keep a specific diet for that, unless you want to harm yourself. Ayahuasca is not only DMT; it's DMT + MAOIs (monoamine oxidase inhibitors), where the MAOIs prolong the duration of the trip by preventing the enzyme MAO (monoamine oxidase) from breaking down the DMT in the digestive system.

Never heard about that chemical before. Interesting.

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