LambdaDelta

In Barcelona you can meet our boy @Davino. Mountains around Madrid are the best, only rivaled by some places in the north. But it's no catastrophic miss by any stretch. It's pretty quiet in the little pueblos and mostly old folk, but at certain times of the day people go out to hang out at bars and whatnot, so it's not totally dead. Starting around end of June I'll be down south in the Marbella-Malaga area to visit family, let's see how it goes. In any case wish you a fun and eventful journey.

Ironic how this is framed as reductio ad absurdum, when in fact it's a tautology on par with "existence exists" and exactly how reality 'came to be'. God created itself, causality, limitation, and separation.

As in creating itself. DNA replication inside you is God creating itself, you forming thoughts/ideas while reading this or doing whatever else is God creating itself. Same for nuclear fusion powering stars and whatnot, but it goes far beyond the material; God also creates time, mathematical truths and their discovery. Any process and state is created by God through imagination. It creates every distinction too, such as organic vs. inorganic, life vs. death. Someone biologically alive and in otherwise perfect health can feel soul-dead (depressed) as they're God unconsciously creating a perception of reality as negative or meaningless. The more this is understood and integrated into baseline consciousness, the more alive one feels.

Even ignoring bypass of first-pass metabolism and faster absorption via sublingual, LSD in particular is very weak to chlorine (though these 1-acyl substitutes are slightly more resistant), which is far more present in the stomach (from tap water or whatever else) than in the mouth. When dealing with blotters I tend to keep them under different sides of the tongue, occasionally chewing for a bit before finally swallowing after 20-25 minutes. The entire 1x-LSD series was created and manufactured by Lizard Labs, since they closed down it's not produced anymore. So the only difference switching a vendor could make is if one stores theirs really poorly, otherwise it comes from the same lab and likely even batch. Despite being direct prodrugs of LSD, none of them hold a candle to original, quality LSD-25. 450μg of 1P-LSD is a joke next to 150μg of LSD-25. @Davino can confirm. Figure 7 comparing subjective effects in the study linked by @PsychedelicEagle shows this quite clearly. It's a shame that the vast majority sold is impure and inaccurately dosed, oftentimes by a factor of 2 or more, and as such very few dosages given in trip reports are to be trusted. Lastly, LSD tolerance & cross-tolerance is some of the most insidious out there, requiring at minimum 2 weeks to fully reset.

I experience permanent DMT tolerance, so consider yourself lucky

Both have beautiful nature, can't go wrong either way. I've only been to Croatia in passing, so my experience is limited, but I've lived in Spain for over 10 years. For the kind of social activities you're looking for, as well as lodging, Spain is probably more suitable, particularly in large cities such as Barcelona/Madrid (which your trail skips; too bad, would've been nice to hang out)/Malaga. While no specific events come to mind, there's always something going on. June weather might make you sweat though. It may also come as a surprise that more people in CR speak English, though that's mostly an issue in truly rural areas, and even then Spanish is quite a simple language to get the basics of in comparison. In general Spain is very accommodating for tourists in many aspects. Meeting other foreigners from all over the world is much more frequent here for sure. I've never interacted with women in a pickup context as that doesn't interest me, but simply on a personal level they're casual and easygoing, making for pleasant conversation. From what I hear and see, pretty sexually open too.

Pursuing accessibility can become its own trap. 'Tis a delicate balance to strike between depth and simplicity. No matter how plain and explicit some of the points are made, they can still be misused in various ways by unconscious people. In this sense, a certain degree of complexity serves as a filter of sorts. There has to be a mutually trusting relationship between the author and the reader; part of it is the author trusting the readers' intelligence and not doing them a disservice by dumbing down the content. Since it's supposed to be a timeless book (Leo's words), it matters little how few people will truly get its full significance in the present day, in a hundred years there'll be plenty more that do.

Even if God wanted to get rid of them, there'd be nowhere to throw them away to since God is Everything. So the only thing to do is accept. Not accepting them would diminish its infinity and therefore integrity, which must be maintained for the good of all creation. Maybe if God did throw them away they'd eventually mutate into some sort of monstrosity that would absorb and corrupt God, creating an actual Hell, which would be possible in this scenario as God made itself finite and thus susceptible to corruption. But God is too intelligent for that, so it prevented corruption at the root by already including all the possible corruption within itself along with an infinity of other 'good' stuff. This allows it to endlessly subdivide its Mind into an infinite diversity of biased minds that can judge things as evil, experience pleasure and suffering, feel guilt and joy, and so on. These are privileges God had to surrender, in this regard you're more powerful than God itself, so enjoy them while it lasts.

Right, it's a nice mindfuck. Nothing is finite, but some infinities are more infinite than others, yet we still get Equality in the end. 'Cause there is no others, now we're back at rudimentary nonduality

Perhaps it's actually you that doesn't respect love. Love respects you enough to not force itself upon you and lets you form whatever ideas you want about it; that itself is love. If it consumes your mind, that could be because you desperately want to understand it but just can't, I know the feeling. Love is really nothing other than complete acceptance. God is Love because it fully accepts itself as God, which is Truth, that's all there is to it. Other qualities are the same. To create itself out of nothing, God must possess infinite consciousness, intelligence, and imagination. Unconscious and unimaginative beings are consciously imagined in God's Mind. And so it is for lack of love. It's all quite simple and logical, though twisted at the same time. Regardless, Love is compulsory, but understanding of it for a finite form is not.

But of course. Intelligence can take on any form. Even the form of a rock. Just look at Oppenheimer & crew blindly building the atomic bomb, only realizing the consequences when it was too late; or the tech billionaires of today. It would be a trivial feat for a naturally more logically gifted and less emotionally sensitive species. Don't forget that successfully manipulating reality at scale and long-term requires enormous intelligence. Self-deception is Devil's infinite intelligence. It'll still lose out to Truth/Death/Nothing in the end, but it can persist almost indefinitely. Relatively speaking of course, as God and Devil are indistinct. It's not a question of 'might' exist, it absolutely does exist (within Infinity). Only a matter of whether we'll ever encounter such a thing ourselves.

A reason, absolutely; but not the reason. There's likely many advanced alien species that maintain non-intervention. Some in pity, as though looking over a child in the process of FAFO; others in derision, tuning into Earth like a trash-tier reality TV show. But there are far more considerations in maintaining the universal balance than collective human sanity or our whole existence. An intelligent civilization could easily deem that such a mass hysteria event is good to shake us up, or that cleansing the planet with a heliobeam (like the one Nazis wanted to build) is in order, or due to their own twisted evolutionary trajectory they somehow became interplanetary while remaining imperialistic and selfish, and they'll be balanced out in due time, but not before enslaving and exterminating us. Awakening doesn't really grant much additional predictive power when it comes to specific events, instead it cements the certainty of not-knowing. Not the boring, static kind, but one stemming from an overabundance of seeing infinite perspectives. Think Yhwach's 'The Almighty' in read-only mode.

Sounds about right, albeit with a caveat. Loosely speaking, if one were to reach the very apex/bedrock of consciousness, they'd realize that there's nothing you should, would, or even could change about reality, as it is already perfect. Hence everything remains largely the same regardless of how deeply anyone awakens. However, the proper way this realization takes place is through logically parsing the entire structure of reality and evaluating every possibility, which requires infinite intelligence (or imagination, they're the same thing). Otherwise you sort of take perfection and other qualities on faith, which subtly implies treating God as something other than and/or above yourself. Being able to effortlessly do whatever you want strips you of all desire to do anything (a form of ego death, in a way). Seems like a cop-out, but that's how it goes. Such claims are usually mistaken, or more precisely, come from misinterpreting the experience. If someone could just take some LSD and easily solve the Collatz conjecture, that'd break the consistency of the dream too radically, and we can't have that. Or maybe they could find the solution, or get to know for sure that no solution exists, but then be unable to prove it due to various constraints that take precedence over their egoic needs and mankind itself. If there really were a select few humans across history that could perform actual miracles, like Jesus, it's because God sprinkled them in as hints/examples, and they already were selfless enough to be trusted with such a power; even then, it's still a highly localized phenomenon that doesn't change much in the grand scheme of things. What is functionally possible is using LSD or some other method to access infinite intelligence, harvest insights, and enact practical change in the world, within the bounds of the ultimate structure. PCR was invented that way.

That holds for all experience across the board, the only difference is some experiences are more accessible than others. What does it mean to win the lottery? In the unlikely event I manage to replicate the victory itself, emotionally and practically it could still mean something entirely different to me than it did to you. Maybe people say this because they're arrogant and confused, but cannot admit it to others, much less themselves, so they play a rhetorical trick. But maybe it actually is impossible to communicate, and/or they genuinely want you to experience it for yourself, not adopt their beliefs or deny them to validate your own. We're right back at interpretation.

Any and all conditions are rendered by consciousness using intelligence, so it's only natural that it should survive them. Humongous degree of intelligence goes into creating the appearance of lack of intelligence. Being totally wrong on every single issue all the time especially requires infinite intelligence, just in the opposite direction. Absolute self-deception, as it were. Complete absence of intelligence is achieved through being totally wrong about presence of intelligence. Being is intelligence. You already implicitly recognize this. If consciousness is existence/being, and can't be separated from intelligence, what does this say about intelligence? Even the most delusional beliefs are undeniable, precisely because they exist. "- It would be an accursed monster — a being that should have never been born in the first place. - But if he is already in this world, no one has the right to deny him his instincts." The entire spiritual endeavor is a merger of epistemology with ontology so thorough that knowing and being become fully identical, which includes the realization that they always have been.