Gregory1

Mine: was mostly unhealthy. Mother was mentally unstable, way to emotional. My Mother needed emotional support from their kids way to much, anybody who thinks about getting kids, please think about your emotional maturity before you do that. Most Mothers are not ready to be good mothers, they simply don't know what to do with their lives so they get kids.

Hi @Rob06. Thanks and cool question. In general when doing any kind of coordinative activity like playing an instrument or engaging in sports it's super crucial to be as relaxed as possible and only use the muscles that are needed for that activity. Tension / non-relaxed muscles will cause friction and lead to movements being less precise, it will also slow down everything. This applies to any coordinative activity obviously it also applies to playing the piano. Also I would argue that there is a spiritual component to it. Let's call this thing god, for lack of a better word. It feels to me, that when I am playing piano god is showing me what exactly I should do. Not only is got "showing" me, no - god is moving my fingers FOR ME, WITHOUT MY DOING. This was always the case when playing the piano or making music - impulses are coming out of nowhere into me and "doing me" so to speak. To be open to gods intelligence however, I think that you have to be as relaxed as possible. God doesn't force its will upon you, so in a sense you have to completely surrender to it which happens when you fully relax your body and mind. So the degree to which you are able to be gods vessle so to speak directly correlates whith the degree of relaxation (physical and mental) you are able to embody. I've noticed, that this principle (at least for me) also applies in sports. In my trip this became 100% clear, although I already experienced these "states" without psychedelics. My body and my fingers simply started moving, without my doing. There is 0 doubt in my mind that I did anything. It was, as if some other person came from behind, took my hand and my fingers and moved it around for me. There was no me in that state, I simply became a vessle of god so to speak. (I'm using the word god here for lack of a better word. I'm not sure, weather or not god really "exists", I haven't t had a full god realization in any of my trips so far).

@Preety_India Thank you for your love and encouragement

Brother, you really should wait with psychedelics.

Thank you<3

Omg @Jakuchu thank you so much for making me laugh hard. This post was GOLD!

@AminB501 You have no idea how powerful this substance is. How old are you? If you're mature and really desire finding a way to get LSD you should be able to do that without my help.

Makes sense. I mean, how else would truth be accessible (assuming truth exists). The only "logical" way I could think of, how one could discover truth (assuming it exists) would be to be 100% free of doubt and "just see" so to speak

Thanks Leo for the advice. I'll do that and I really hope that you're right about that last sentence.

Thank you, I hope I'll be able to see that in my next trip!

If you're just talking about spiritual development here, sure, models are propably not needed. But if you want to intelligently navigate relativity.. Which is our everyday human state of consciousness, you better have some models in your pocket

@Godishere SD is a model to map out the psychological development of individuals and societies. Models are here for practical reasons. They help us to navigate our everyday life in an intelligent way. SD is a great, useful and very important model for that. Obviously though, no models could ever have anything to do with absolute truth / the highest possible insights.

@Leo Gura this is true in my opinion. Let @FlyingLotus create a summary page for you, that makes it easy to navigate all the content on actualized.org. Perhaps she deserves a monetary payment for that work.

Thanks for the amazing work! Honestly, you should get paid for that!

Great post brother, and congrats for your positive changes. This is a very interesting story. It seems like 50ug LSD changed the neural connections in your brain permanently, you're propably genetically prone to that. Knowing that though, I'd be very careful with taking more psychedics. If 1 trip can permanently change your way of thinking and living for the better, you should expect change to be possible in both directions. If I were you, I'd really be careful with frequent tripping and with increasing dosages. When introducing new psychedelics, I'd start with super small doses and build it up super slowly. Hope that heaven on earth continues for you man. You deserve it, as everybody does. Every happy person on this planet, makes this planet a better one. Interestingly, I also very recently had my 2nd Psychedelic trip ever, 150ug LSD. Utterly profound and transforming, if you're interested you can read my trip report here: Cheers, peace out.

Second psychedelic trip ever. Tears falling. Becoming One with Everything. https://www.actualized.org/forum/topic/73087-second-time-psychedelics-tears-falling-becoming-one-with-everything/

Hey @Preety_India, I didn't look into that journal for a long time now. Sorry for not responding. The songs you recommended here are quite beautiful. I like them and I might try to cover them in the future. I have a long list of songs I love many of which I'd love to cover. So please understand if I can't immedietely cover the songs you recommended;) Unfortunately I didn't stick to my plan to upload 1 vid every week. It was too hard. I always created stuff but it never satisfied me. Now I simply said "fuck it", set my camera up and tried to be as authentic as I can. Just being myself without filter. I would be happy for any feedback I could get from you guys. Thanks and peace:) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmu-pOXvYBY&ab_channel=music4fun

Noo that's not true. Don't forget about McDonalds!

No you're missing something here. What is sometimes present in your direct experience is: THE IDEA OF other bodies. THE IDEA OF past and future. And THE IDEA OF an outer world. Unfortunately you are confusing the content of your ideas with reality. Look deeper.

Beautiful<3 I love that song too:)

I think I'd overall agree with your statement. But of course truth / consciousness should finally transcend dualities like masculine / feminine

There are no "other bodies" in your direct experience. There is no past. There is no future. Only the Now.

guys, please get a private room this is getting creepy

Hey guys, One week ago I've had my first psychedelic trip ever. I took 100ug of LSD and it was an increadibly powerful experience way better and more powerful than I could have imagined. If you're interested in the experience, here is my trip report: https://www.actualized.org/forum/topic/72818-first-time-psychedelics-incredible-beauty-and-perfection/#comment-1002977 In the coming weekend I plan to do my second trip ever, taking LSD again. I've read that LSD builds up tolerance for 1-2 weeks. The time at which I'll be doing my second trip will be exactly 1 week after my first trip. I plan to take 125ug this time, hoping to be able to make this experience even more powerful or AS powerful as my first experience. This second trip I want to use for gaining insight into reality and learn as much as I can. This I want to accomplish by going into the experience with a clear intent and plan about what I want to contemplate / realize within the trip. @flyingwhalee gave me important and really helpful guidlines for my first trip, like for examle going into the trip with a loving intent. He also gave me some tips for my second trip for example to contemplate what reality is made of (conciousness?). If you (the reader) have experience with gaining insights into the nature of reality / gaining insights into the nature of truth by using psychedelics, I would be very happy if you could give me some tips for my second trip. These would include: Do you think after just 1 week pause 125ug LSD will be enough to counter possible tolerance (100ug 1 week ago)? Would you take even more maybe? What questions would you advise me to contemplate to come closer to truth / to have important realizations? Do you think it would be fine to ask the question of who I am? I have a feeling that this question might be too powerful for my second trip (I asked it for a very short period in my first trip and could really feel the weight of that question) (Do you think searching for "truth" is a wise goal to start your psychedelic journey? Or would you rather advise to use the first psychedelic trips for emotional healing / shadow work - although none of that really came up / seemed important in my first trip tbh?) I am very grateful for your answers and suggestions. They really helped me for my first trip and I am sure they'll also greatly benefit me to have a safe and productive second trip. Thank you and greetings Gregory

@Emotionalmosquito you're playing victim here and refusing to self reflect. If you do that don't be upset to be thrown out of the next bar as well. Stop labeling other people as "closed minded" and start to see the world from their POV. Then you might finally understand why you've been (rightfully) thrown out of that bar.