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Relax to the very bottom of your being. Release to the experience, do not resist what comes. There is a point where your heart will race, and this can manifest as fear. Release and relax into this, don't resist the feeling. Accept the process that is unfolding. Allow your mind to not think, let it be, no need to figure it out. Let it be, go deeper, into the moment, let your thoughts fall to the side. Just being, no resistance. Allow it to unfold.

Yeah read Rumi, he's cool! There's only one way to find out if it's the right vibe for you. Can you read persian by any chance? His poetry is meant to be much more beautiful in persian than in the english translations. I'm pretty old compared to you and am just starting to understand his poems (in english lol). I don't think 14yo me would have gotten it at all, but I'm not a very poetic person.

@kieranperez What is it about Byron Powell's premise you don't agree with? I don't remember many specifics from his book, but I've probably internalized some of what I read in his book, so I'm curious about where your viewpoint differs. I seem to remember that he emphasized training volume way over quality. I still think that's important, but I'm in favour of the "20%" (or so) quality (intervals etc) in my training currently. I'm self coaching right now, I'm enjoying the process of experimentation and discovery, and I prefer that over being told what to do, even if it would be more efficient to have a coach. When I'm more experienced it might be cool to try out working with a coach at some point too though. A question for you and @Sahil Pandit: in your training, how often do you feel you should go into that agonizing level of effort? You know when you are doing intervals or something, and you're pushing way into the severe discomfort territory? How often do you feel you should do that? Is that where the real growth happens, or is it just self-punishment that's going beyond the stress signal that your body needs for adaptation, or is it something to embrace and go even further into?

@Kev Draper Sounds like you can crack that 3hr mark with that kind of 1/2 marathon time! Thanks for the threshold running tips - I feel like that kind of thing helps me a lot too. You remind me I need to get back in the pool too. Re: getting sick, have you tried maltodextrin? It's been a nutritional godsend for me.

@kieranperez thanks for the list, that's awesome, should keep me busy for a while! I've read a few of those: Endure, Daniels', Running the Lydiard Way (what an odd book! Seems like he was drunk or just didn't give a shit while he wrote it. Tons of gems in there, but just weird reading experience), Born to Run. A couple other books I liked that I didn't see you mention were Relentless Forward Progress and Racing Weight.

@Wisebaxter Yeah such a good album. @Cosmic Flavor Tsuruda, Culprate yeah man! Love that kind of stuff. Looking forward to checking out your recommendations. @Mafortu Heilung is pretty interesting. Quite the creation.

@Antonius 5mg increments sounds good too. If you're going to be experimenting with 5-MeO-DMT in the long term, you might want to think about investing in a quality scale like this American Weigh GeminiPRO - if you're careful with your technique you can take extremely accurate measurements with this scale and others in that quality range. Yeah you summed it up there pretty well there. I've definitely had personal, more grounded insights on 5-MeO-DMT that affected how I interact with the world, but on the whole, you've got the general pattern there: it dives straight into consciousness, nonduality pretty readily.

^everything this guy said

It's a bit of an apples and oranges thing. A 20mg 5-MeO-DMT insuf. for me is much more powerful than an high dose (400µg for comparison, my highest dose I think) acid trip. But because it's so short-acting in comparison, it's also not as intense in that way. It's always astounding how much can happen in such a short time. There are a lot of differences in the subjective effects between the two, so again hard to compare. Those sound like pretty big jumps to me. Going from 10mg to 20mg is a huge difference, and 20mg to 30mg might be the difference between a breakthrough and blacking out - depending on your sensitivity to the substance. Can I suggest: 12mg, 16mg, 20mg, 24mg? Something more along those lines. You can probably find smaller syringes over the counter or online if you did want to do it rectally. I think you bump the dose up a tiny bit (10% ish) for rectal, but unsure how it compares nasal vs rectal. I've always done it at night, but day would be cool too. I love music while I'm tripping but I feel for 5-MeO-DMT perfect silence is preferable. YMMV I don't think it matters if you're shy or not, seems irrelevant to me I can only speak from my personal experience, can't say if it will change you. It's weird because I don't think it's changed anything in my personality or how I present to the world, but at the same time it's changed everything on a profound level. I don't know I don't know Again can only speak for myself, but it helped my meditation and concentration practice tremendously I don't think it had much impact on my creativity and visualization

Seems like a neat game, yes!

Yeah the hurting animals is the important bit I think too. The industrial food system is absolutely horrible to animals, with very little compassion for their subjective experience. If you eat meat find ethically raised animals where you know the source, and you know how they're treated. It's never going to be perfect, but there's a big difference between the standard brutal industrial practices, and the (usually much pricier) "ethical" meat. I don't think people should feel guilty eating the occasional meat if that animal was given a good life and compassionate slaughter.

There's this song that isn't on most vesions of Selected Ambient Works vol 2, but should be on every version because ... well check it out. Preferably at high volume. It's like being bathed in the womb of the universe.

@Wisebaxter There are two pretty spooky songs on the album that do go into the dark side. I guess that's part of what makes the album so amazing, it's not all sugar and rainbows, it's real. Sometimes I'm not up for it and I skip those tunes. When I'm up for it, it's worth the journey and you come out the other end greeted by the beautiful concordance that follows. The album as a whole is spiced just right with a bit of dissonance here and there. There's a little darkness, a little risk, in any real life.

It's your own decision, no one on here can make it for you. Nothing you've described about yourself or your practice and habits raises any concerns for me; you sound way more than ready. 150µg sounds like a perfect dose. I'd recommend not getting stuck in your hotel room, when you're ready and comfortable go explore, somewhere beautiful and full of vibrant nature. You mention yourself being a (ex) weed user - I recommend not smoking any weed during your trip, or if you must, only small amounts towards the end of the trip. Put away your digital devices. Breathe.

Whether or not Joe Rogan was talking about Leo, he loves to take the piss out of everyone, himself included. He's a comedian and pokes fun at people all the time, in a kind way. I wouldn't take it too seriously or read much into it

We're omnivores, there's no doubt about it. Part of what I like about Dr. Greger's use of the term "plant based diet" is that it leaves space for the occasional deviation from the pattern, rather than "veganism" which sounds like a rigid doctrine. I reckon you can have your cake and eat it too by being primarily plant based, and adding in a bit of meat here and there - especially including organ meats, marrow, brains and all that - there are tons of nutrients in the parts of the animal most westerners throw away. Personally I don't eat meat, aside from a bit of fish and sea critters here and there. I was raised that way, and I've never had any nutrition problems. I'm very fit, strong and healthy, an excess of energy, and people think I'm younger than my age. Another though on diet: I bet our pre-agricultural ancestors ate a lot of bugs. They probably wouldn't have had stigma around it, and it would be a ready source of high-quality protein and nutrients. I don't know if there's archaeological evidence to support or contradict this idea, but it makes sense to me.

Welcome @Kev Draper! Your story reminds me a bit of myself, but you're a bit ahead of me. I discovered running in my mid 30s too, and am now in early 40s. Any general running advice for my upcoming decade? I'd love to be able to continue growing and improving in my running, but I can see that I've probably already plucked a lot of the low-hanging fruit. Beginning to suspect that I'm entering the phase of the "real work"!

You smoked too much. Good news is you probably have really good vaping technique and didn't let any go to waste. Try 10-12mg next time for vaping. I don't know how that translates to plugging, if you try that ROA you should start low and work your way up over a few sessions. It's a legitimate intention, but I feel a strong intention can get in the way of the experience if it becomes an expectation. Try to keep it a soft intention, put expectations aside and surrender to the experience. Try to let yourself sink to the bottom of it, no resistance.

I appreciate that Dr. Greger uses the language "plant-based" instead of "vegan". There is so much emotional charge around veganism these days. The world benefits from paying attention to the dietary research he presents. Healthy for the body, healthy for the planet.

He's probably a candidate for "stage coral", but it's hard to say because it's not really clear what stage coral even is at this point. He could be orange on steroids or just plain yellow. Really doesn't seem like green or turquoise to me. It's neat how SD has this binary pattern within it. I always get the two famous Krishnamurtis mixed up, had to google him just now to make sure I was thinking of the right guy. edit: Actually I have mixed them up after all. Disregard my above statement, I was talking about UG Krisnamurti. I have no idea how to characterize J Krishnamurta. A summary of J's philosophy can be found here

@Arhattobe Cool thanks. I'm with you for the most part there. I'm a bit more of a relativist when it comes to the superiority of one teaching over another. I suppose you're not claiming superiority of theravada, just advanced-ness, which is a separate thing. I reckon there's no perfect teaching, just like there's no perfect pair of jeans. Just different fits. I genuinely believe that the abrahamic traditions are the right fit for certain cultures/people at their current stage. At some point, over generations, those won't be a good fit any more, or the religions themselves will have to evolve. See, from my perspective, theravada buddhism often seems too cluttered with irrelevant intellectualizations, lists upon lists of things that were perhaps culturally relevant at one time, but are just dead wood at this point. So what seems like nuance and authenticity to you might look like clutter and distraction to me. I'm not bashing on theravada *at all* here, you're right that it's very advanced and can take people at least as far as any other teaching. There's a good reason vipassana is so popular these days; it works. Anyways, you make a good case, I just think you might be putting your preferred teaching on a pedestal.

@Arhattobe So, painting any teaching as "by far the most advanced teaching in existence" throws up some major red flags for me, but I'll suspend my disbelief and ask: why do you say so?

In what sense do you want to know about their differences? In terms of effects: DMT tends to be a more richly visual/sensual detailed experience that leaves the ego fairly intact, whereas 5-MeO-DMT is more void of content and is highly ego dissolving. To me they are somewhat polar opposites, or two sides of the same coin. *disclaiminer: I've never tried DMT, only 5-MeO-DMT, but I've tried a lot of drugs that orbit around DMT, and am a major drug nerd, so this is the understanding I've garnered from a lot of reading and experience with substances that are close to DMT

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I love all the Boards Of Canada, Aphex Twin, Burial being posted on here. You guys know what's up. This is beautiful: Toumani Diabaté & Ballaké Sissoko - New Ancient Strings