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Have you watched that move @TheDao? Do you recommend it?

Indeed. I checked out https://www.selectscience.net/industry-news/psychlight-sensor-to-enable-discovery-of-new-psychiatric-drugs/?artid=54608 to read more about it. Sounds like one of those tools that could really revolutionize the field. I think similar kinds of tools have been used a lot over the last decade within neuroscience? Neurons that flouresce when activated etc.

The structure of AAZ-A-154 looks pretty interesting: It's like 6-MeO-almostDMT There must be thousands and thousands of variants on these molecules, how wonderful that the doors to this kind of research are opening up again.

Why would discovery of new drugs that don't cause psychedelic effects "ruin" psychedelics? It's not like these discoveries will take away your acid. They're just looking for new drugs.

DMT won't be safer than LSD. Combining psychedelics with Xanax *definitley* won't be safer. There's no obligation to consume psychedelics. They aren't for everyone. If you're dead-set on taking psychedelics again, keep your dose small like Leo mentioned. You could seek a supervised setting with a highly trusted psychedelic practitioner. This carries it's own risk, as entrusting another human with guiding you or supporting you on a trip carries a lot of responsibility and opens the door to misuse of trust. But there are legit guides etc out there who specialize in this, and who can help you.

No not automatically, psychedelics aren't mechanical in that way. Although if you trip a bunch you probably can't help but make some changes. I don't want to make it seem like psychedelics are just self-help tools here, but there's definitely that element to them. Yes! I'd say Forestluv really nailed it there too! That's a great analogy.

Psychedelics are nonspecific mind-amplifiers. An analogy could be that normally you have a sink to fill with the water of your experience, and taking a psychedelic enlarges it to a bathtub. After the trip you're back to having a sink, but you've had that experience of being a bathtub. So you have direct experience of what it's like to expand past the limits of being a sink. Before that it might have been really hard to imagine what that would even be. And then you might get the idea that maybe you can grow your sink, and you have a better grasp of which way to go, and what that might look like.

I wonder if sub-buccally (between gums and cheek/lip) would have any hope of working? It would be less likely to get dissolved in saliva and swallowed than under the tongue. Surely less effective than nasal or boofal.

Moo!

He's a delightful storyteller. That was clearly not his first time dropping acid either eh? Amazing that he didn't have a lot of emotional trauma from that experience.

Locked as this is a low quality/effort post. Meth is a dangerous and highly addictive drug that ruins people's lives. We don't encourage it here at all.

I can't remember if I did or if I just understood what he was saying: Inhale, exhale.

That was a great post. Very relatable - not that I've done an acid bender like that, but I feel I've touched down on the same cycle of experience on a smaller time scale a bunch of times with some heavy trips. I'm sure many of us here have as well. This even happens in the scale of the cycle of breath during meditation. When you slow down and settle in enough you can see it. At the end of the exhale sits annihilation, infinity, unconditioned being. The inhale brings maya, life, the multitude. I asked an accomplished zen teacher about this and he didn't have a direct answer as to why this is, but he asked me: What's the first thing you do when you're born? And what's the last thing you do when you die?

Her book is very good (and fast) as well, and expands a lot on the topics of her TED talk

One thing I didn't like about that movie was that all of the women in it were flat characters, they functioned essentially like furniture in the story. For a movie that was ostensibly about a woke family, it was completely male-centric. Like the old Dick and Jane books where Dick is always doing the thing as Jane watches from the sidelines.

DPT is lab made, it does not occur in nature as far as we know. It is however, chemically quite close to DMT. It was discovered by following the variations that are possible on the DMT base molecule.

I think there's a big difference between factory bread that uses really fast yeasts to pump out the loaves, vs the ones that use slower fermentation, like sourdough. I feel a lot better when I eat those good quality breads too. We just eat homemade sourdough here. I don't know too much about why those breads are so much better, but I've noticed the same thing. I think a lot of the bad rap that wheat gets might actually be the processes that industrialized food production uses, rather than the grain itself.

@intotheblack in the environmental sense. Chicken farming produces far less GHGs compared to all other farmed meats. https://ourworldindata.org/less-meat-or-sustainable-meat Chicken produces 1/5 the GHG of beef for example. It also has one of the highest conversions of feed -> protein compared to other farming. So basically you can feed more people off of the same amount of feed going into the system. Beef contributes to deforestation. Chicken does not. Fish and farmed fish are ravaging the oceans (see Seaspiracy), chicken is much more auditable and contained. I'm vegetarian personally so I don't eat chicken, but if you're going to eat meat, it's probably the greenest choice. I almost wish I liked eating chicken, I see it as a great choice as a protein source.

No rice is not wheat, rice is rice. Both wheat and rice are grains, and bread is usually made from wheat (sometimes with a bit of other grains). @Striving for more

@Matt23 If you like eating chicken you should go for it. It's really sustainable and efficient as a protein source, compared to beef, fish etc. I've raised chickens before for eggs, and it sucks when you have to slaughter them, but it can be done fairly swiftly and if you give them a good life leading up to that it's not so bad. Life feeds on life, there's no getting around it. Chicken is really sustainable, the best choice when it comes to standard available meats. Try to source your chicken from a farm that gives the birds a good life.

Wheat is a dirty word these days, but people need to realize it's a decent source of vegan protein. Whole wheat bread has nearly 3x the amount of protein vs. peas per weight and is much easier to digest - for people without wheat issues. I realize there are celiacs who can't eat any wheat, and others who seem to have inflammatory conditions triggered by wheat, but for the rest of us, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater - wheat is an extremely nutritious food source. Some quick numbers for comparison, protein per 100g: Whole wheat bread: 13g Rice (brown or white): 2.7g Corn tortillas: 6g Potatoes: 3g Cooked black beans: 9g Tofu: 8g Lentils: 9g Green Peas: 5g Some other foods that are high in protein, but harder to eat a lot of: Hemp seeds: 33g Peanut butter: 25g Almonds: 21g Chia: 17g Tempeh: 19g PB sandwiches FTW!

When a fluorescent bulb smashes you should ventilate the room really well, try to wear a mask (easy to find these days!) and try to handle it with gloved hands, or at least holding a piece of paper. Don't worry about a single bulb, it's not going to suddenly give you mercury poisoning, it's more about keeping your levels down over a lifetime. The amount of mercury in a bulb is very tiny, and the amount that you could have absorbed would be much much less. @Striving for more

I'm sure there's no mercury in smartphone screens. Fluorescent lightbulbs have mercury gas/vapour in them (or at least they used to) and you should be really careful when cleaning up those after they smash. But cellphone screens use a totally different tech.

It's been so long since I saw it, it's fuzzy right now. But I do remember that beach scene being unsatisfying as well, and I sort of wrote it off as an unimportant part of the film for my experience of it. Maybe because I just didn't get it either, or maybe because there wasn't really anything there, that it's just an imperfect creation that needed an ending because of Hollywood. What makes it a Yellow film to me is that it's purpose wasn't to show the triumph of good over evil, or to display an isolated story arc, but simply a view of the world in its multitudinous beauty. Superimposed on that view was a story, which is necessary because we're story-seeking humans and it still has to fit into the box office format to sell tickets. But that was secondary to the real purpose of the film which was to illuminate the sense of the enormous cornucopia of reality, love, god. I loved that scene when the predator showed compassion for a newborn dinosaur of another species