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I can relate to this perspective, and felt the same as you at one point. I remember in my very-late teens being around many people who were taking a lot of LSD, during a bit of a heyday of acid in the mid-90s. It seemed a bit like they were cheating, and I also saw some people over-indulge and become very scattered in their lives. I remember one friend proclaiming that LSD was a "gift from god", which seemed creepy and insane at the time. Now I understand what he meant. I thought he was talking about the drug being so great that it was a gift from god, like some kind of delicious candy, a kind of hedonistic reward from a paternal figure, so kindly given to us humans for our pleasure. It seemed twisted to me that he would think that god would behave like this. But I see what he was trying to get at now. That's the incredible transformational potential of LSD, it's ability to bring forth and amplify your own you-ness, to open your eyes to the such-ness of existence, to help us grow from this stage to the next. If it's a gift from god, it's more like a caring lesson in being a human, than a candy with a pat on the head. At this point in my life I feel like I can see it more clearly for what it is. It's a potent force, it can be a gift from god, but that's not guaranteed either. On the whole, I really believe it's of net benefit to humanity - it's not for everyone, but for a vast many, it's a catalyst for growth and actualization.

You'll recover, just take it easy, rest lots, take care of yourself. Yes sounds like brain zaps. They will go away. Sounds like you've learned your lesson already, but just to hammer it home for other readers: don't dose MDMA or other roll/molly drugs in subsequent days, or even weeks. Avoid redosing. Measure your doses. If you must get high again the next day after MDMA, switch to acid or something like that instead of taking more MDMA etc, much safer. Get your pills tested - but remember if it's pure MDMA doesn't make it safe - MDMA has some dangers and you have to use it carefully, properly and occasionally.

Yes I think there's something here!.. I think it's why we seek healthy challenges and adversity in arenas like music, sport, martial arts, debate etc. Otherwise we find adversity in less healthy avenues like poor health, fighting with our companions, depressive spirals and so on.

@Valach Socialism is a spectrum, and all countries are more or less socialist, and in multiple dimensions. Many people consider Scandinavian countries to be socialist because they have more socialized institutions than say the USA. But it's all relative, so yeah, if you don't consider Scandinavian countries to be socialist, that's fair enough. There's not a distinct line in the sand that separates socialist from capitalist.

No, it's absolutely not an opioid. For it to be an opioid it would have to contain at least one chemical that acts directly on the opioid receptors, which luckily is not the case with wheat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid

This is a cute theory that's often rolled out in different formats, but a good theory should be able to make good predictions, and this one does not. If this one were true, you'd expect that in an experiment where the same country went socialist vs. capitalist, you'd see higher suicide in the socialist country. We have a pretty good experiment in Korea, the south went capitalist democracy and the north went socialist dictatorship. You'd expect N. Korea to have higher suicide rates, however it's S. Korea that has a much higher suicide rate. Of course N. Korea is a horrible dictatorship that censors information, so that figure could be questionable, so let's look at a more reliable example... You could also compare Canada vs. USA, where Canada has a flatter hierarchy, and more socialist society than the USA. You would expect a higher suicide rate in Canada (especially considering the compounding affect of difficult weather!), yet the USA has a 25% higher suicide rate than Canada. (USA: 15.3 suicides per 100k people per year. Canada: 12.5 per 100k people per year.). You could also compare China vs. Japan, This myth of socialism leading to suicide needs to be shot down, over and over, because it truly is a myth that gets repeated all the time as "common sense" without any reference to the actual facts. This myth is often held up an objection to instituting social programs (medical care, education etc.), but it's erroneous.

It's "known" to have a high suicide rate, but this is just an assumption/myth that's passed around without statistical basis. In truth Scandinavia doesn't have a particularly high suicide rate. For example, USA has a higher suicide rate than Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Denmark: http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/suicide-rate-by-country/ The highest suicide rates are currently in Lithuania, Russia, Guyana, and S. Korea. The lowest suicide rates are in the Caribbean.

Wow @Bill W now I understand your avatar and username! I knew something seemed familiar there Maybe some of you know this already, but Bill Wilson, the creator of AA, used LSD and many people say that his experience with LSD was pivotal in the formation of the AA program. He wasn't tremendously open about his use of LSD because of the prohibition and stigma at the time, but it's easy to read between the lines and see how it affected his life. You can read more about this topic here, or elsewhere on the web.

You don't need to be a writer to be able to leverage your talent as a writer. Writing is fundamental to so many paths in life, it's a tremendously useful skill in all kinds of arenas. I think when you find your calling, it may very well be in an area that depends on being able to write well, despite not being something people think of as "writing".

Redosing is typically haphazard. If you wanted to redose DPT, and hour later would be too late. If you're talking about plugging or snorting, you should have a pretty good idea of where it's going by 20 minutes in, and at that point it wouldn't be too late to augment your initial dose. Much better would be just to wait until the next day or later and try again at an increased dose in one go.

Working in a lab at your age is such excellent experience, you're earning double or triple your wage in awesome work and life experience right now. Yes, you can't eat that, but it's really going to pay off in the long run. You might be a super effective 19 year old, but more likely you're a fairly normal 19 year old, which means it's a bit of work for your boss to take you on and he probably is doing you a bit of a favour. A mutually beneficial favour to be sure, but he's probably got to train you and supervise you a lot more than someone with more experience and age. Don't worry too much about what your salary will need to be in 3 years to support living away from home, you're not there yet, and when that time comes the money you need will be there for you. In the meantime you're getting paid something like a stipend and gaining priceless experience. In 1 or 2 years you'll be way more valuable to the lab than you are right now, and that's when you'll be in a better position to be a bit more aggressive about your earnings.

Awesome resource!

@Apparition of Jack holding up specific indicators like Reiki or sound therapy as prerequisites for green is a bit dogmatic isn't it? IMO spiral dynamics is a lot more big-picture than that. Sure, some green people will be into Reiki, but it's certainly not a 1:1 relationship. I do agree that it's pretty optimistic to call almost any society on the planet Green at this point in history. You definitely see it more strongly in some areas than others, but even the most "green" places are probably actually predominantly orange still. It's relative too though - what once looked like radical green is now standard fare in a lot of places, and what feels like normal behaviour in one place seems extremely progressive when you go back to a place a further down into orange. At some point it is just a model. A very useful one though.

Fission: I voted pro fission, but with some big qualifications. This is something I've definitely flip flopped on a lot in my life, and can't say I feel completely settled on. We're definitely headed towards catastrophic global warming right now if we don't make some changes. Nuclear is part of the answer that many scientists and environmentalists are urging us to reconsider, and I think it's worth looking at. I'm not pro-fission if we're talking about traditional nuclear power plant tech, but there are many next generation nuclear techs that solve the problems with previous generations of fission power. We're not talking Chernobyl or Fukushima, the Model T Fords of Fission technology. Fusion: I'm pro-fusion, in my opinion it's one of Humanity's great callings to solve this puzzle. It won't perfect or as utopic as it's been hyped up to be, but it will be several orders of magnitude better than anything we have at the moment. In the meantime, we already have an amazing fusion reactor running, and we even have the technology to harness it's power - the Sun, and photovoltaics. PV is already cheaper than coal in many parts of the world. Again, it has it's own problems and challenges, but it sure beats fossil fuels. Great poll!

Yeah I can imagine that. It's probably a very long stretch to expect to find much Yellow anywhere really. I definitely saw a lot of green when I was there - so many activists, artists living alternative lifestyles, weirdo punks and ex-squatter culture. But if I'm really honest about it, probably most of the city's populace fits into the same general orange as most other modern cities today. Just a bit heavier on the green end than say Frankfurt or Chicago. Switzerland's gifts to the world include the Green/Yellow cultural catalyst LSD, as discovered by the mighty Albert Hofmann! I suspect also that there must be some solid veins of Yellow running through the straight-laced and rigid Swiss society.

Eat San Pedro/Peruvian Torch and not Peyote. Peyote is critically endangered and should no longer be harvested from the wild for consumption non-indigenous people. So, unless you know specifically that the Peyote has been cultivated, opt for the San Pedro, otherwise you're just contributing to Peyote's demise. San Pedro grows quickly and easily, isn't at all threatened, and delivers the same mescaline experience. Yes ayahuasca and mescaline cacti are well known to be good for liberation and oneness They won't point as directly to the ultimate primordial nondual experience, but that can be a good thing too. Peyote is such a beautiful plant!

Do you think we'll see more exodus out of HK now?

See to me, David Bohm comes across as a profoundly spiritual person! Quintessential Stage Yellow individual IMHO. I really look forward to checking this video and the channel out, thanks.

Trump doesn't want to complain too much about authoritarianism, it could come back to haunt him when he seeks his third term in office.

Yes, I think this is exactly it. Plus the guy in the white house seems to admire dictators and dictatorships, and the USA sets the tone for global politics to some extent. So the timing is exactly right for China to make moves on Hong Kong's special status.

@K VIL could you please edit your post and give us a summary, or quick explanation of what makes this resource special, and worth being here? Thanks!

They're not the same because oils and carbs are stored and burned completely differently in your body. I can't say which calorie source is superior in your situation though. It's usually better to not go to any one extreme, so maybe the answer is a bit of both, and experiment with it, monitoring your body, as Rigel says.

You can't make a perfect system, there will always be problems and a tradeoff between impinging on personal liberties and protecting individuals from danger. But yes, in my opinion, in the very distant future, allowing adults at some point to have access to clean and safe drugs supplied by a controlled infrastructure would be preferable to the current system where there is a thriving and violent black market that's funded by drug money, and then people's lives getting ruined (and taxpayer money leeched) by the criminal justice system. I don't know what the exact optimal age for that would be, but maybe it would be 21 years old. Intuitively, this is preferable to 16 for sure. Maybe it should be even older, I don't know the optimal age. If you made it too old, you'd not be cutting out the black market, so there's a tricky balance there. Maybe humans are on average not advanced enough to handle legal recreational everything and the black market actually is the optimal system so that only the most rebellious and self-destructive individuals are able to access things like heroin. I don't know, so I don't think society needs to jump head first into this kind of thing. In my opinion we take baby steps towards it, which we're already doing with cannabis, and soon with soft psychedelics, and pull back if it's not going to work out. What I do know is that Portugal is a pretty damn interesting case study that the rest of the world can look at. In Portugal if you get caught by the cops with some drugs (they still have black market drugs around), you are forced to see medical professionals for treatment and counselling, your parents are notified. It's an extremely embarrassing situation, rather than a situation where your life gets ruined. Drug crime is way down (obviously), HIV infection rates have plummeted, addiction rates are way down, jails are not so full. The stats are amazing, it's been a huge success. Finally, society has a handle on controlling these extremely addictive and dangerous drugs, rather than having them run wild. It's really something the rest of the world needs to look at.

I don't know what the ideal system is TBH, I just think the Portuguese model is a step in the right direction. I don't think a teen should ever be given access to heroin, just like we don't give teens booze or weed (in countries where it's legal). So my answer is no, if you're a kid in high school you shouldn't be able to buy heroin from the gov. If we decriminalize and regulate heroin, it could squash the black market and cartels to the point where teens can't access heroin at all. Similar to how teens have a harder time buying booze than weed (in pre-weed legalization places) - there just isn't really a black market for alcohol anymore.

lol @Aeris neither is this a thread about drug legality... the law is really harsh in the UK about weed, definitely do not smuggle drugs into the country, nor consume it openly.