Phyllis Wagner

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    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.

  6. Posted · Edited by Phyllis Wagner

    27 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    If you are doing psychedelics on a regular, weekly, chronic basis, you're clearly not doing them right.

    This is so obvious it hardly needs to be said.

    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.

  9. Posted · Edited by Phyllis Wagner

    @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.

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    8 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

    Once, on a high dose of 5-MeO-DMT I got the urge to turn on the stove and press my hand on it, just to see that pain isn't real.

    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.

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    Sorry if this sounds stupid but I'll just ask this bluntly. I am on a higher floor, Is there a danger of jumping out the windows on higher doses of shrooms when doing them alone?

    I've just done microdoses and I was very much in control, but I am a bit concerned about doing higher dosages alone. 

  17. Posted · Edited by Phyllis Wagner

    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.

     

  19. Posted · Edited by Phyllis Wagner

    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.

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    4 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

    The key difference is that I do not use the stock market to make my money.

    It is a problem when you guys try to use the stock market as your method of getting rich.

    Stocks are fine for holding some savings and getting a 8% average annual return. The problem comes when you expect your stocks to give you 10x returns and make you rich.

    Make yourself rich, then put some of your riches into the market to avoid inflation.

    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.

  23. Posted · Edited by Phyllis Wagner

    @Leo Gura I don't think actualized is really that offensive or radical. What is offensive to the mainstream is stuff like blatant racism. Some of the young people that are doing your life purpose course right now will probably end up well known and I think they will give you props in a decade or two. Celebs have definitely endorsed more controversial stuff like Scientology. There are also tons of stage green celebrities who are into spirituality.

    I think it will happen sooner or later and then the forum will get swarmed by some of their fans. You can't deny you appeal to the mainstream at least a bit by the way you speak, the style of your videos etc. Some dude just casually rambling into a webcam would not get to 1 million subscribers after all. But hey, I totally get the mainstream bias and I tend to agree with you, most of that stuff is definitely whack.

  24. Posted · Edited by Phyllis Wagner

    @BipolarGrowth Thank you! very interesting!

     

    @Leo Gura In a general sense I agree. However, Power of Now was published in 1997 and was relatively obscure, just because Oprah pushed it later didn't decrease the value of what was written. Also consider C.w.G. was a book that saw mainstream success.

    I can actually see actualized.org being endorsed by some celebrity in the future, it wouldn't make the content itself any worse, wouldn't it? I think it's only a matter of time before that happens.

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    5 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    The vast majority of spiritual teachers are coasting on innate spiritual talent that they were born with thanks to the right genetics and so forth. Of course they never tell their students this because it undermines the grift.

    I don't really have any problem with Tolle. I just find his teachings too weak-sauce and bland.

    I mean, I think he understands this. But everyone has got to start somewhere, most people are not ready to just go full-on monk mode. This is pure speculation but spiritual awakening might be a process that takes lifetimes. This inner desire to get serious and wanting to know - I totally get it - but maybe this can also be seen as part of the "right genetics", because to be honest - most people just don't have that drive.