Phyllis Wagner

@Meditationdude It was one night. I never wanted to do stimulants again but still used 10 times last year (I keep track on every use) so my goal to just accept it and use 6 times max this year if I can't surpress it. My 2 months were over so I "allowed" it myself - but man I am so done with it, I never felt so depressed in my life. I love raving, edm and all this stuff but snorting stuff and being wired is so toxic. I think It would be better to keep it nothing or MDMA only 1-2 times per year max. But I need some strategies because 2 months from now all that suffering is forgotten... Its the same pattern every time.

Do you ever feel like you've been scammed? Like all insights are just cheap sayings people post on facebook along with their selfies while you think you've stumbled upon something deep and read way too much into it. That you delude yourself that you are thinking deep about reality when really all your thoughts are just cringe-worthy? Like all other people are smart enough to accept that there are no answers to the ultimate questions but you just keep on reading and doing all this crap to convince yourself you are doing something significant? I am not in a bad mood or anything, but I feel like that sometimes and I wonder if you do too. Greetings.

What does it matter, please don't make this thread about me.

Yeah daily meditation for 4 years, had weird experiences and tried psychedelics. still... DOUBT!

This is exactly it. Makes you feel like you are in a bubble and everyone is telling you not to question it.

Let's say you inherit tons of money from somewhere, or you invest a product that is a huge success etc. Where exactly do you invest it wisely if you don't want to wage slave anymore ? I know the obvious answer is real estate and collect rent, but I personally think it is unethical because you drain money out of people who barely make ends meet by exploiting a basic survival needs and inflate the already ridiculous housing prices at the same time so you and your real estate investor friends get richer.

Don't do it, it's probably dangerous as fuck. The body is made to go without food for a while, but not without water. What if you collapse alone in your home, or you go to sleep at night and don't wake up?

What about microdosing? I experienced more benefits just doing shrooms 4-5 days in a row for weeks instead of every 2nd or 3rd day. Combined with lion's mane and meditation I think baseline increases in consciousness are possible that way. My bro science theory is you want to keep these brain-interconnections like in your holism chart sustained for as much as possible while giving it a push with meditation, lion's mane helps solidify them. Oddly enough I always wanted to stop after some weeks, even though the effect was always enjoyable. I don't understand it, this should be addictive but for some reason it isn't.

This is not from power of now but it is a brilliant clarification of true surrendering. "Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it"

i also still want to see this video!

@Leo Gura Sure, I kind of get it. But if you would have put your hand on that stove, so what if pain ultimately isn't real or pain is love. You would have still felt and regretted it. So isn't this a kind of delusion, like people believing they can fly and hurting themselves? This is like if you get a thought that the earth is flat on psychedelics and totally believe it in that dream-like, and then when you come down you think that was silly but you say to yourself "no wait! the earth really IS flat - i just can't comprehend it from my current state of consciousness". Just doesn't seem like a healthy thought process to me.

You don't have to be so pedantic about it. Just clean it with a sponge, dry it with a towel and apply the oil.

How can you be that conscious and at the same time lack the basic foresight that you will have to deal with these burns for months in a practical sense, probably even do permanent damage to the sensitive nerve endings on the finger tips. So in that state this doesn't concern you. Okay, then why not have the foresight that it will concern you when the state ends. It's not deliriant after all.

These responses kinda freak me out. Guess I will stick to microdosing.

@Hello from Russia Taking one minute to clean a pan sounds like a huge hassle to you? I find it quite nice, slows you down, you can use it as a mindfulness exercise.

Definitely not. What you do after every meal is wash it gently with water, dry it and then apply a tiny bit of oil with a paper towel - takes me less than 1 minute. And you may can even skip this with Stainless steel because I know it is done to protect against rust with cast-iron.

Not sure if this is a joke, but you just do this once, not every time you use it obviously.

I am gonna say it again if anyone has sticking issues with stainless-steel, cast-iron it is because of the coating. It should definitely not be necessary to soak it in water for multiple hours to clean it. 1. Take steel wool and dish cleaner and remove all of the current coating and let it dry. 2. Take a paper towel and add a light film of sunflower or similar oil to the whole pan. 3. Put it in the oven for 20-30 minutes. 4. Take it out & let it cool. 5. Repeat step 2-4 at least 3 times. The coating is literally baked into the iron that way, the pan will only get better from this point on.

@Leo Gura Would you disclose which stocks/ETFs you have bought and what % of your money lies there? No trying to snoop around I am just interested in managing wealth.

Just buy 3 sizes of quality cast-iron pans from lodge and you will probably never need to buy another pan again. @Preety_India I use cast iron pans and they really do not stick. You have to bake a coating into it, this takes about 3-4 hours if you do it really properly and then they have a natural non-stick coating that lasts very long. After using you have to wash them by hand and rub them with a little bit of oil. Its really only a little bit of extra effort but well worth it. Also cast iron last a lifetime unlike the chemical coating pans. @flowboy I dont have that issue at all. Depends on what you cook I guess, maybe you are using the wrong oil or you need to rebake the coating. Usually I just need one or two swabs and my cast iron is clean. The more you use the cast iron pan the better the coating becomes usually. I had simmilar issues in the beginning but now they are as non-stick as the teflon pans.

Well you could always have good intuition and invest some play money into companies that make it big and get rich that way. It's not a total casino. There are also some lessons about herd mentality, bubbles etc that can be learned by watching the market. But I've been watching some GME youtubers lately and I agree, daytrading is insane. I admit it is kind of fun watching charts all day but it is basically the same mindset gamblers on the roulette table have, delusions of gaming the system included.

I want to share something I find quite funny here that I think about when it is recommended to cold approach 1000s of girls. There is a local "celebrity" where I live who does exactly that. This guy is probably not right in the head, he takes the same subway up and down every day and asks every women out for drinks. He has been doing this years, almost every day. When a women says no he just asks the next one and then the next one, he does this for every female passenger. He is not being aggressive, just asking for drinks. This guy has been banned from entering the subway (but goes there anyway). He is well known within the city, has been in minor newspapers a couple of times, and you can find videos where he gets beat up because of his behavior online. I don't know if any women ever said yes, but I don't think so, his social status is basically rock bottom at this point, he is a weirdo. I just find it funny because people here would say he must be a womanizer by now. Literally approaches hundreds of girls per day.

Imagine you make a picture of a room and print it out. if you look at the picture there appears to be 3 dimensional space, however there is no real distance going into the picture, all the colors are sticking directly at distance 0. I hope this explains, at least this is my understanding of it.

So someone actually asked him this, what do you guys think about the answer? @Leo Gura this is basically your main point of criticism about him - right?

@Craigxt22 nobody can answer that I guess. Only did microdoses but Shrooms always feel good to me. If it feels like torture dont do it, easy as that.