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Yes, you're right. It's possible that using the freezer is excessive. But if you want to keep it for decades, it probably is a good strategy because chemical reactions happen more slowly at lower temperatures. The downside of using the freezer is that you risk moisture issues, so if you're not going to be diligent with your procedure, it's better to not bother with the freezer. Thats why for short term storage I don't recommend using the freezer.

I will watch this asap, totally resonate with this. Purity and perfectionism are toxic. To speak in buddhist metaphor, the lotus blossom is rooted in the mud, cut it off and it quickly dies. Yeah I don't really see a lot of Ken Wilber worship going on around here either, not sure what you're on about Joseph Maynor.

It's beginner stuff; it's advanced stuff. Tolle is the real deal.

5-MeO-DMT will degrade over time, but if you take care of it, it stores really well. It's true that the salts are more resilient than freebase, so for long term storage choose fumarate, oxalate, HCl etc and not the freebase. If you need freebase in 10 years, you can always convert it from one of the salts. Heat, light and moisture are all enemies of these molecules, so protect them from these elements. Store your drug sealed away from moisture and in the dark. You can keep it in the freezer as long as it's bone dry in the storage container. The cold temperatures of the freezer will help with storage. For short term storage, don't use the freezer because things can pick up moisture as they warm if you're not careful about how you do it. I've been meaning to write a more thorough primer on this topic and post it on the forum, so I'll try to do that later in it's own thread.

Alan Watts is great, his lectures are fantastic. Personally speaking, listening to his lectures has really ... I don't even know what words to use here.. his words have nudged me in the right direction. He's one of these rare teachers who is able to lift the curtain just a little bit, and begin to communicate the ineffable. Yes @luckieluuke! I've played that game and love it! Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) my video card can't really handle games, so I haven't been able to really play it much, but it's such a neat game, totally different from almost anything out there. Tier 2 gaming lol!

Meditation. Fundamentally meditation is a non-intellectual process of "self-inquiry" into the greatest sense of the idea of self.

@Elysian what I'm saying - forgive me if you already grasp this or if it's non-helpful - is that 99% of humans (or some large majority) need to have a sex-life, and in the absense of one, that sexual pressure spills out into other areas of life where it might not be appropriate. You can end up unconsciously/awkwardly hitting on friends or whatever. So in my opinion it's better to have a balanced life and not try to foresake sexual desire, but rather accept it as part of this beautiful existence. I guess I'm saying that you might want to think about trying dating, it's a great way to manage lust, because it's exactly the venue for expressing that part of yourself.

When I look around, in almost every country I've visited, it seems to me like nearly everybody is living a way too sedentary life for optimal human. I think this is the #1 missing link in most peoples lives: we're wired to try to conserve energy when possible, but paradoxically we need waaaaay more physical stress than most of us get in order for our bodies and minds to function properly. I think a lot of the problems people have with low energy, allergies, food problems, weight, depressions, OCD, back issues, chronic pain, happiness would simply vanish if people moved and used their bodies more. What do you think?

Haha I need that cry-laughing emoji rn.

Yes @kieranperez but I think that might be putting too much colour/judgment on it. At least if we try to look at it through a Tier 2 lens, you could say that Orange's "compromise" of Yellow's nobility is a necessary part of making these ideas work in todays environment. If Orange didn't bring the idea to market maybe it would just fester as some academic concept and not come to life or bring any utility to humanity.

"Abstinence makes the Church grow fondlers" We're wired for sex, accept it. Ugly things happen when people try to pretend they're beyond it. Maybe some day when you're much older you really will transcend this human need for deep sexual connection, but it's pretty rare.

That's funny. I never liked getting my dick sucked either until I met this girl. She should probably teach the art she's so damn good at it..

I've been with a woman who just can't handle it, it's like tickle torture for her. It might be because she's uncomfortable with it, but I doubt it because she's into all kinds of other stuff that more prudish women wouldn't admit to like anal, masturbation, whatever weird thing I come up with. She has no problems with orgasm and loves giving oral, so no big deal. Every once in a while we'd try again and she just wasn't into it, which was fine. Different strokes for different folks so to speak right? Maybe I just suck at giving oral, but I don't think that's it either because other women love it, and she never liked it from other men either. Still I did always wonder if I could crack that egg.

Some girls are really ticklish and can't stand oral, prefer being fingered or just being rooted with your dick when it's ready. Just putting that out there in case any one ends up with one of these girls haha! Don't be fixed on the idea that she must like oral cause some girls just don't. Most do though. @Marinus another thing to look at that I think no one's mentioned: are you sexually attracted to your partner? Your dick isn't a machine that you turn on and off, make sure you're genuinely into her and that the chemistry is there. If not perhaps you should move on.

That was my understanding too. For example: the pattern of yellow being extremely inventive and coming up with technology that transcends current paradigms, and orange being cunning and recognizing the business opportunity in it, and capitalizing on the idea. An example of this: The Deep Learning field of AI is born out of a very Yellow approach to technology. Right now Orange is scrambling to figure out all the ways to profit with this emerging tech, without really paying much attention to the big picture of it. In some ways this kind of relationship could seem parasitic, but in other ways it's just how things work in our society/economy/culture at this stage of development!

Paul Stamets would be a good example of a stage yellow environmentalist

I think it's really cool that you've recognized all this and want to change it. @Etherial Cat's recommendation to interact with people of different backgrounds is great. It's really hard to hold racist/discriminatory viewpoints towards a group when you become close to members of that group. It's really easy to form the shortcut stereotype views when you only look at a group from the outside. Travel is a great way to do this. Go to another country very different from Canada, learn the language, get cozy and you'll see that we're all just ... people.

^ The best, love that guy

@1x0 yeah tardigrades are really neat. I fancy the hypothesis that they're extra-terrestrial in origin. They are very resilient and have been taken up into bare naked outer space and survived. It's more likely that their origin is terrestrial, but it would be so coooool... Maybe tardigrades will survive all our shenanigans and evolve into the next cycle of dominant intelligent life in the same way that early rodent like mammals emerged out of the dinosaur era and gave rise to us

@Elia Gottardi Wow that sounds intense, sorry you had to go through that terror. I'm glad to hear that you see that the experience was positive, but at the same time I wouldn't want people to have to go through that kind of terror since many people would genuinely be traumatized by it. It's crazy how differently 5-MeO-DMT can affect different people. I also wonder if the vaping ROA, and/or the toad venom as a source has something to do with it - it seems to me like there's more reports of the pure terror variety that come from stories of vaping and toad venom. It could be that with the toad venom the dosage is imprecise, so there's more chance of going too high with it. It could also be that the other alkaloids in the venom complicate matters, but this I feel is not a necessary part of the explanation. I think vaping has something to do with triggering the terror experience. With vaping the onset is so fast, so there's no chance to acclimatize and accept the fear that comes, you're basically blasted right into it. With sniffing or plugging the onset is much more gradual and gentle. You definitely get the fear response as part of the experience of coming up, but I feel it's more manageable because you have time to deal with it, accept it, and surrender to the experience of being. To me sniffing or plugging seems like a more reliable and safe ROA. IIRC you can't sniff or plug the toad secretions, I think it must be vaped, so sniffing/plugging is probably only possible with synthetic salts of 5-MeO-DMT.

@gilded_honour well this is the wrong corner of the web for this kind of discussion. You need to get clever with google and find the research chemical suppliers that distribute 5-MeO-DMT. I'll say this: price varies by how much quantity you buy (of course) and if the cost per dose comes out to be more than say a meal in an average restaurant, you're paying way more than market price. Mods please delete this if it's inappropriate.

I agree that it's unlikely that we humans will make ourselves extinct. We will probably be the last animal to go. What will be more likely to happen is that we'll scrape the planet clean of most of the ecosystems and leave it a very barren, anthropocentric place. The reptiles, amphibians and insects will be wiped out, most all but the smallest sized fish populations will be fully harvested and collapsed, all the remaining megafauna will be wiped out. Most forests will be cleared or burned, the remaining forests will be second-growth managed tree farms. The reefs will be dead, the ice caps melted. Jellyfish will abound. Bacteria and other microscopic life will proliferate because of faster evolutionary cycles and being generally inedible to humans. The oil will be mostly gone, we'll be relying on more expensive sources like wind, solar and nuclear. Commercial fusion will be 30 years away. Humans will be fine, albeit living in a much more arid, boring, paved planet. We'll be living in air-conditioned HEPA filtered boxes, eating synthetic meat, drinking soda, and plugged into much more sensational VR most of the time. We're racing towards ecosystem collapse, but we'll always take care of #1.

I don't think we really talk about prices of drugs on here. You could look on the web and find out for yourself. Anyways, compared to the magnitude of the experience in your life it could cost 100x as much and still be irrelevant. It's priceless

We're not really talking about DMT here. And you're contradicting yourself

Yes I know, that's what I'm trying to point out. The person claims that mental states are physiological in nature, meaning that underlying phisiology causes the mental state that we experience. The argument to counter this is that we don't really know about the link between the mental experience and the measurable physiological state. It could be that both are caused by a 3rd underlying source, or that the mental state is the cause of the physiological reaction, or vice versa. Perhaps the observable physiological reactions are what it looks like when mind occupies the matter we call brains. This is a debate that his been raging for millennia, you're not going to be able to settle it. The truth is we don't know and we can't answer this debate at this time, or maybe ever. It's not even clear that the question is an askable one, it could be nonsense.