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@Sugarcoat wrong. You need a microdose scale to measure the amount you are taking. Everyone needs less or more for them, but these are strong hallucinogens. Read books from Terence McKenna because you don't need a specific number of stems and caps. It's the weight and strain that determine whether you have a mild trip or a full on psychedelic experience outside of set and setting and neurological wiring and sensitivity to consciousness expansion

@r0ckyreed Don't worry about it being anything other than five hydroxy dimethyltryptamine. A microdose scale. If you fast for more than 4 hours or a day, hydrate with water, meditate 30 mins before you take it. Stay home, it's hermit mode time. If you have any spiritual books you can read those. When you take it don't expect anything miraculous or mystical to happen. Instead use the first 30 minutes to an hour to reflect on your life and be willing to accept whatever it is the mushroom is going to reflect to your mind. If there are things that you don't want to think about come up just allow them to come and allow them to go without getting sucked into the content too much. It's like taking a long train ride from home to a new place within. Remember to accept whatever happens and to let go. Use your breath as an anchor for the coming and going of existence. Follow the inhale let go of the exhale. Do some yoga if you can as well feel your body. Love your body because you are beautiful.

Yes those are definitely psilocybe cubensis. Ask him what strain it is. It looks like no more than a gram, before taking them make sure you disconnect the phones, turn off the television, set the whole day aside so that nobody is bothering you. Do not eat for 5 hours before taking them and do not eat any junk food throughout the whole day. Slice up some apples and fruits to have that ready for later. This is not for recreation this is for your spiritual experience.

@Sugarcoat @Sugarcoat Go into it ready to die

@Sugarcoat It is possible to transcend and collapse dualities because they are constructs of the human mind. Dualities do serve our survival, and there is a strong emotional charge pushing our drive to survive. Which is why even if you are directly conscious of Truth, the ego can still exhibit fears and desires like a zombie that won't die. It's okay to play the game of life and death while also knowing and seeing the big picture. The Absolute is imminent as well. There is an old saying paraphrased by Alan Watts " I pray that death doesn't find me still un annihilated" meaning the ego has disappeared before death caught up with it.

@Sugarcoat Do you think there is a possibility of transcending those dualities?

Do you feel that spirituality can infuse your ambition towards living in a more practical way or is it something that is separate from the more practical? There is a duality between spirituality and reality that we've created. This makes me curious to see if our spiritual pursuits and exploring consciousness and reality have to be separate from our ego driven needs and survival. Just like peak experiences, higher consciousness and altered States are temporary experiences and then you plateau, this motivation and renewed energy will plateau in time and you do need anchors to ground you or something to remind, replenish and rehydrate the soul for inspiration and vision. I did take Leo's life purpose course and that definitely helps me to renew my spirit. Basically I'm wondering can spirituality and meditation be infused into life purpose and practical results making? They seem sperate, or can they be a synthesis?

@Leo Gura Wow! I have been wrong for writing stupid, mean and low consciousness things on this forum. I apologize.

I absolutely love reading the juiciest books on non Duality, psychedelic States of consciousness and enlightenment. What book gave you the most impact on your life? I have taken LSD in the past numerous times and devoured whole books in a span of 7 hours. One of my favorites is "Be Here Now" by ram dass. I also love "conversations with God".

It's like a school without buildings. I wish all schools were teaching foundational principals and teachings of self Actualization. Like emotional mastery, epistemology, good nutrition, psychological development and becoming wise. I feel like I'm in class with each actualized.org episode, taking notes and doing the homework, taking action and not just taking it as an ideology. Sometimes I wonder into the metaphysical halls and the more advanced teachings but I must remember to come back to the basics because I have a lot of work to do with immediate survival such as relationships, work, career and meditation

Is this all based on your direct experience? What is this experience that you are having right now? No!!! Whatever your ideas are, are false. What is this experience that is happening to you right now? Look around you. You don't know what this is. Period. Start from there. What is this awareness? Pay very close attention to what's happening directly in your experience. It's difficult to do this because your mind won't shut the fuck up. You take the voice to be who you are if you get down to it. What are you? Are you your name? Really question what you are, also question what other is and what reality is. All these spiritual ideas sound juicy but we must not put the cart before the horse.

Those tolle books are what got me on the path as well, Peter Ralston is an absolute banger of a beast man. I love Alan Watts books too those are amazing especially after having a satori and having peak experiences on psychedelics.

@Ishanga God is playing hide and seek with itself. It's knocking and opening the door on itself

I have experienced this on LSD and it makes me anxious and scared because I call my brother to come close to soothe me so I can feel some comfort and believe that he's real, he told me he will go to the kitchen and come back in a moment. He was gone for 10 minutes but it was actually eternity. There is no time, only clocks moving. It's beautiful to realize this facet of awakening but can feel terrifying because you are beyond consensus reality. Read the Power Of Now by eckart tolle, it is basically this Awakening,

Show me what you are, clean the doors of my perception!!! Who am I?

These are all amazing books, and very thankful for you guys sharing. I have over 100 books collected before I encountered actualized.org, plus his amazing book list portal which is exciting and you guys are recommending some that I haven't read. I have the osho book of secrets, it's huge and has many techniques that range from tantra, lucid dreaming, transcending death, third eye meditations ect ... Very powerful shit. I once practiced a specific meditation in that book before bed, which caused a gnarly paralysis followed by an encounter with death, it scared me so the next morning I continued with this book, and in the next paragraph osho said that Ramana maharishi had an experience when he was 16 that he was about to die from a nightmare he had, he accepted it and his body became stiff, in which he awoken to the Absolute.

@Paradoxed @Paradoxed@Paradoxed@ExploringReality@Hojo Bingo! That's it.

@Hojo that's an assumption your clinging to

@Hojo @Hojo Your lost in concepts. You believe evil exists in an absolute sense. I'm saying there is no evil at all! You saying there is evil is a projection from the human mind. Is a lion eating a gazelle evil for the gazelle or the lion? No! You saying that you need evil to exist is your belief, and you cling to it because that's your ego trying to defend that. If you can't see beyond your perspective, that's on you dude, it's not my job to verify truth for you. Where in the universe is it written that evil exists?

@Hojo You're conflating absolute truth with relative truth. You're right in the absolute sense it doesn't matter and you could do whatever you want, but there are consequences in the relative domain and you don't want to be a fool with your actions because there are consequences right? Don't get your panties in a twist because you come across paradox and contradiction. You're trying to act rational and that's why you're going straight to judgment and criticism of what I said

@Hojo Your lost in concepts. Instead of playing arm chair philosophy and hypothetical scenarios, be realistic. Learn how to defend yourself, and if you need to fuck someone up, go ahead, but understand consequences in the relative domain without projecting metaphysical assumptions about good and evil based on your survival as a fictional character.

@Jannes Well, it is possible to master your emotions in such a way that it doesn't compute to a lower mind that you don't need to freak the fuck out and worry in order to get shit done. You can clean up dogshit without projecting your dislikes and fears onto it. You can whoop someone's ass if needed to protect your survival while also seeing the big picture as well. But obviously are you that mindful while in a heated position? Probably not.

@numbersinarow Someone attacking you is only evil from your perspective as a survival organism that has an ego to defend, has self bias and core metaphysical assumptions of the nature of reality. You can skillfully defend yourself from an attacker without projecting evil onto it. Because from the perpetrators perspective or what you call an evil person, they are acting from good intentions from there point of view no matter how fucked up and twisted it is. They believe they are doing good even if it's selfish and destructive. So calling someone or something evil inherently is a construct of the ego mind because you can't see the infinite diversity of the relativistic nature of reality. What you call evil is what doesn't serve your survival or what you believe is good for another. Contemplate that without getting defensive. Try to open your mind that reality has infinite requisite variety and truth doesn't always serve you, you selfish fuck.

•Very high perspective for dealing with arguments and heated emotional debates. This is foundational for dealing with fools.

This is a good one 😁