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I have very fond memories of watching this video when Leo first released it. 8 years ago - holy shit. Very deep nostalgic feelings watching this.

Excellent podcast on an airline pilot's sightings. Particularly the final 5 minute story at 1:15:00. Kinda mindblowing tbh.

Really cool compilation of UFO videos/clips here: Almost certainly a few CGI ones in there, and a few light shows reflecting on clouds, but there are a lot of legit clips.

Well the idea is that we shot them down. We have some pretty powerful and fast missiles etc. I'd say we have a fair chance of shooting them down just based on all the footage I've seen. I don't think anyone is saying they crashed by themselves or their ship malfunctioned.

'Letting go' is a big part of 5-MeO and IMO it's the key to releasing trauma. Don't worry, if you decide to do a few more trips you'll eventually feel confident enough to fully let go. But you need to be ok with letting your life end and letting everything that constitutes 'your life' dissolve with it. It's a certain mental movement that takes some getting used to. It sounds like you were still holding on to a part of your self out of fear. If you go all the way, the 'interconnectedness with family and friends' will also dissolve. Family and friends must be let go of - completely. Because they are just selfish inventions of the mind. No family, no friends, no all living beings. Total distinction collapse is what is required. The visions can certainly be annoying. I'm not sure there's a quick fix here. My best advice would be to fully allow them to arise and pass away. Resistence = persistence. The best way I found to get out of annoying thought loops, particularly on psychedelics is to move your attention into the body, away from the head space. Intentionally relax the body and ground yourself.

What's the solution if you don't live in a big city, and can't afford to move to a big city?

@Leo Gura

@CARDOZZO I'm a big Musk/Tesla/SpaceX fan but this is kind sad to see. I admire the effort but no models/science/or AI will understand the nature of reality. Someone needs to secretly spike their coffee with 5-MeO.

I've been watching a lot of this guy's videos recently. Extremely impressed with everything he's doing and has achieved so far. He seems like a really genuine guy with a lot of integrity. He's also not desperately trying to sell a course, product or anything. I think he has plans to turn Blueprint into a business but at least at the moment everything is free to access. He also isn't super dogmatic about his protocol, particularly things like the vegan diet. He very often says that his protocol is specifically tailored for him and his needs. But it is very interesting that he's on a vegan diet, and in a caloric deficit on top of that. @CARDOZZO Just to clarify your OP, he's not actually trying to live forever. He's explicitly said he's not trying to extend his life, he's specifically aiming to halt or rewind his biological age. These are some really good ones to watch: @Leo Gura Are you familiar with this guy? He's essentially saying how do i be the healthiest human on the planet? Some really high quality information.

Yea this definitely resonates. 5-MeO is incredibly intense. Particularly for those who aren't experienced with it, and even more so at >30mg!! The come up tends to be a bit of wild ride and then, similar to you, I have a tipping point where the intensity subsides, the nausea fades, the last remnants of ego are fully dissolved. On the other side of that dissolution is just pure Bliss, Oneness, Total Distinction Collapse, Eternity, God. As others have said here, you need to start with lower dose. 5-MeO seems particularly unique in that you can't really brute force the higher doses. Why? Because you actually need to go through an energetic transformation in order to fully be able to handle >30mg 5-MeO doses. This is done through 5-10 smaller, incrementally higher doses, starting as low as 5-10mg. Slowly increasing the doses transforms the body's energetic system in a weird way that I don't know how to explain. 'Energetic transformation' is just the best pointer I have. One cool aspect of energetic transformation can be what I call True Trauma Release. Which seems to only be accessible with 5-MeO. And especially incrementally higher doses. People do mega doses of 5-MeO and come out of it with nothing special, just a 'bright light' or most just black out. But 5-MeO can provide True Trauma Release which no other psychedelic can, as far as I've read and experienced. TTR is a full, genuine, and permanent release of lifelong held trauma, something that psychologists have been searching for for decades. Bit of a ramble, but the bottom line is, everything you describe is normal but there is much more to 5-MeO once your body is more familiar with it. The reason your first 30mg dose didn't work was precisely because you haven't done the lower doses - in my opinion. You may also have a high tolerance to it, could be possible. If I did 49mg I think I would likely die.

@CARDOZZO Great share, thank you.

I initially had a lot of concerns about AI art but then fairly quickly corrected my thoughts after researching and understanding it more. The idea that it's going to replace traditional art is mostly false. Obviously, there are some trad artists who will be affected but most not. AI art is excellent - but in its own way. The main limiting factor with AI art is that it's *not* good at successfully responding to professional creative briefs which is precisely what the job of a traditional artist is. AI art can create incredible images, but this is not what's important. People miss this. The important metric is - can people use the technology to respond to real requirements and specifications from a client. It can't do this. Because you'd need to explicate so many details and nuances that a human artist will automatically understand. AI art can be used in the preliminary stages (idea generation, mood boards, initial ideas, etc) because there aren't specific requirements for the image to look a particular way. After the initial stages, AI art tech can't be used. I generally consider AI art to be the next form of Fine Art, which has a very specific definition. Fine Art is art that has primarily aesthetic value and no functional value which, in general, describes AI art. And aesthetic value is very important (most expensive items in the world are works of fine art) so AI art is a very important evolution that I'm quite excited about. Lots of really amazing artists generating some awesome AI fine art. But it kinda exists in its own bubble away from trad art. There's some overlap, but not much. @Ethos

Over the past few weeks and months I’ve been getting increasingly concerned and admittedly very depressed about the onset of A.I art and its impact on professional artists like myself. In 2021 I escaped wage slavery, quit my 9-5, and became a professional freelance editorial illustrator. But only after literally years of hard work and practice. I’ve put thousands of hours into this. Endless nights of grind to get where I’m at now. Only to now recognise that in the not too distant future my work could easily be replaced by an A.I art generator. Some of you might think, ‘surely A.I isn’t that good yet?’. I’m telling you it is. It is truly exceptional. And that’s coming from myself as an artist with a critical eye who knows what is good and isn’t. And it’s only going to improve. It’s definitely stronger in some areas vs others, but on the whole it’s exceptionally good already. In 2,3 or 5 years how good will it be? And that’s my issue. Sure, maybe it’s not taking my jobs right now, but in a few years time it very likely will be. And that’s the depressing part. Whats the point in continuing on in my line of work (which is already very competitive) if the majority of it will be taken up by a.i generators. Very depressing. I’m struggling to get myself out of this state. Feeling very down and have no motivation to work. My wonderful vision for my life has basically crumbled in front of my eyes. I genuinely feel purposeless which is a dangerous state for a man to be in. The only thing I’ve ever been skilled/talented at (art and drawing) is now slowly becoming useless. And look, I’m exposed to this stuff every day. I know what’s out there. I know what kind of art is being made by A.I. And if there’s anyone who would deny the competency of A.I art generators it would be me! It’s in my agenda to deny their capabilities and talk badly about them. But from what I’m seeing, they will be taking a significant large amount of art jobs in the coming years. So there are obviously areas of art which A.I artists will easily take over and there are domains which it won’t. Stock images and photography - this will be the first to go. A.I artists are already creating stock images that literally look like photographs you see on shutter stock, but far more specific to the prompt. Concept art - this will be heavily affected. It includes things like landscape and environment art, character design, a lot of game-related concept art (in-game objects, user interfaces, textures, characters, etc.). Even concept art for films will be affected. I've seen so many landscape artworks, buildings, machines, and cityscapes that could easily be used for film or game concept work. Editorial illustration - This is my field of work. The Atlantic has already published articles with A.I generated artwork. Admittedly, those particular articles may have just used stock imagery rather than an editorial illustrator's work, but it shows that art directors are aware of A.I generators and are more than willing to use them. Cosmopolitan used an A.I artist to create their cover image (although in fairness this was probably just a one-off thing). And just generally I see a lot of A.I art that could easily be used in replacement of actual editorial illustrators. I know what art directors are looking for, I know this space, I know what images work in editorial contexts and what don’t. The reality is that it will become increasingly easy for art directors to input the core idea of an article into an art generator and find a suitable image within minutes and most importantly for FREE. They don’t have to pay illustrators like me to create images. I’ve already seen people inputting music lyrics into the generators to create images. This is similar in a lot of ways to editorial work, except that editorial is just text about some political or social issue for example. It’s all the same. I definitely see graphic designers eventually being affected. There’s no reason why an A.I. artist can’t generate incredible website designs, logos, poster designs. It can’t do it now, but in the next 5 years I predict we will see this. You’ll be able to input a bunch of specifications, all the text and imagery you want included, and then bam! the A.I generator gives you 10 different options in less than 30 seconds. A few tweaks here and there and you’re done. Obviously there are going to be some forms of art that won’t be affected by A.I. For example, there will always be a need and market for fine artists e.g. real paintings. Any kind of art that involves creating 'physical' stuff rather than digital work is not going to be significantly affected. One of the best free A.I. art generators now is called Midjourney. You can use it for free here: https://midjourney.gitbook.io/docs/ Click on the discord link, sign up, and enter /imagine [your prompt] in one of the bot groups in the left-hand side menu. Just seeing what Midjourney can do already is very disheartening and depressing for myself and for many other artists. I feel like I’m back to square one again after so many years of hard work and effort. And like I said, I’m not saying my jobs are just going to be taken away next week. This will obviously be a slow gradual process. But the point here is that in 2, 3, or 5 years will I be needed as an artist? Or at least how many jobs will there be left? I guess the silver lining here is that no matter what I’ll always love creating art and I always can create art. No matter what I'll always have that available.

Yea you gotta go to the right guys. I paid £1000 for a 3-day daygame bootcamp in London with James Tusk and his coaches back in 2019. It was a one-off thing where they reduced the cost but had more guys come onto the course. So it was like 2-3 students per coach, but also sometimes 1on1. We rotated around the coaches, so it was almost like 3-4 bootcamps in one. Ironically (or maybe not), James Tusk was the worst coach. He was basically on his phone the whole time, wasn't attentive at all. The other coaches were fantastic, but they don't have public profiles so I can't share their stuff. But it was easily some of the best money I've ever spent. I think I did around 60-70 approaches over the weekend. Instant, direct feedback from coaches. Learnt a bunch of technical stuff, plus some good life advice. Sounds like I got super lucky though. Couldn't imagine paying 10k for a bootcamp. "Only $10k to get rejected 100 times in 3 days! Limited time offer!"

I did about 24 rounds. I haven't done any in a while for various reasons. Partly just because the supplements can get quite expensive after a while. To be totally honest I didn't notice any significant changes. Although it's hard to say because I did the rounds over quite a long period of time, so it's hard to remember what my cognitive state was like 2 years ago. But I did it because, as I said, I had 3 big amalgams in my teeth for years. So I mostly just chelated to have a sense of reassurance that I'm at least partly heavy metal free. I wasn't necessarily looking for some significant changes in cognitive function. I did have a handful of interesting experiences though. One time halfway through a chelation round my usual social anxiety that I used to have at work completely dropped away. Was like an ultra boost of confidence just out of nowhere. But it wasn't a consistent or permanent thing.

@RobinOntwikkeljezelf I never did any of the tests because I had 3 massive amalgams in my teeth for years. So I just assumed that I had abnormal levels of heavy metals in the body. I generally ran under the assumption that if you had teeth amalgams you need to get them removed and then chelate. My intuition is to go with the safer option of hair and blood tests, even if they are more unreliable.

@Leo Gura Good interview to watch aswell:

No one can give you a definitive answer here, but I would suggest that this is the most likely cause haha. I've had massive heart openings on 5-MeO just from 1 session so I'm sure some crazy things can happen from regular repeated usage. I suspect the intensity of the love will fade over time.

The 'peak' chapter on the Mushrooms vid is insane. Strangely pleasurable to watch. I keep replaying it haha. It has a really unitive, oneness, boundary-collapsing feel to it. Feels like I'm merging with the video almost. I don't know why but it reminds of the peak of 5-MeO, even though the 5-MeO visuals aren't as strong. It's like the best visual depiction of total ego dissolution. Not sure if other people can see that or feel the same way.

Why don't you think he's awake? He had a full-blown Kundalini awakening. Does that not fit into your definitions of Awakening anymore? Genuinely curious.

Go and do 300 approaches and then decide.

@Loveeee Not sure I agree with this. I'm not saying astral projection/lucid dreaming etc are not valid practices but just based on people's reports of those things, they never lead to genuine insight. You can do all the astral projecting you want, but you're still ignorant about the nature of reality. I might say that these things are tangential to psychedelics, but ultimately psyches go way further and can lead to genuine spiritual transformation.

Yea, 100%. This is the number 1 issue my PUA mentors talk about. Most guys aren't consistent and/or give up approaching, so it seems like it doesn't work. I've personally done ~300 approaches, with a bucket full of phone numbers but only 2 dates and nothing more than that. Yet I'm almost certain that if I did another 700 approaches spread out consistently over the next few years i'd have a lot of success.

@Emerald Hey Emerald, only just noticed you're back on the forum. Welcome back!