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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.

Sorry I haven't read through this whole thread so I hope I'm not being repetitive, but correlation doesn't imply causation. Yes, measurable phisiological conditions can be correlated with mental states, but it's possible that they are both expressions of an underlying fabric.

Amazing, sounds like you're setting things up really well! I'd love to be able to do this kind of thing at some point in my life. I'm not sure if you have a meditation practice already, but you might add that on to your regime leading up to this if possible. I've found meditation to be enormously valuable in helping to prepare the mind space for 5-MeO-DMT.

I don't think it would be a bad idea to use Ayahuasca as a "warm up" to 5-MeO-DMT. (I think some brews actually have some 5-MeO-DMT containing plants in there too btw, but probably not ever as the predominant push) There's no reason you need to jump in the deep end with 5-MeO-DMT though. You could work your way up in dosage to get a feel for it so that you're never at the point of risking a panic attack. I would highly recommend you approach it this way. Being well experienced with psychedelics, you should have no problems with 5-MeO. It's different from all of the other psychedelics, but it's not completely terra incognita, there are aspects of the 5-MeO-DMT experience wrapped up in the other classics. It's just that 5-MeO-DMT focuses on that one aspect of the psychedelic experience. Try a very small dose at first, work your way up as you become comfortable with it.

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Yes, my member is highly enlightened.

Full lotus or tailor/Burmese are very good postures for meditation. Seiza too. If you can manage them, great. If you're close then it's worth working towards. If you're not, it doesnt really matter, whatever works for you. Side note - I've found half lotus isnt very great because it's off balance, your spine has to have a crook in it.

For plugging you want HCl or oxalate. Freebase is likely fine too, but it could be a bit harsh on your insides. For vaping you want freebase. The maximum enlightenment potential comes down to going deep, relax and accept into it. Allow it to take you where it will, put down any ideas to steer or interfere.

Nice report, thanks. My observation agrees with yours regarding addiction/habit. It can be habit forming; before you know it the weed becomes the end in itself, rather than the means, and it can happens without you really noticing. Luckily it's really easy to stop once you do notice the habit. I do still have a tiny smoke/edible once in a while though. I like it for the occasional perspective shift, or immersive creative session. Insights are independent of the way you got to them, so it's no surprise that you could both get to the same insight through different routes. The insight isn't contained in the weed, it just catalyzed those insights for Victor.

I this like the enlightenment version of the Turing Test?

Sounds like a great setting. If you've tried 200µg of the same batch, you should have a good idea of what 300µg will be like, and can make the call on whether you are up for it. IME LSD scales pretty linearly. The hour hike doesn't sound so far to me. You'll have hours during your trip. Pretty good idea to bring a tent so you could camp out and have some shelter. Make sure you'll never have to operate a motor vehicle while high. Take a bike if needed.

What kind of outdoors setting are you thinking about?

He is make the distinction between the psychedelic class of "substances" and other mind altering "substances". If you're not clear on what defines a classic psychedelic, it's the class of drugs that act as serotonin receptor agonists. This group includes LSD, magic mushrooms, 5-MeO-DMT, mescaline, 2C-B, DMT, ayahuasca to name a few of the most well known. It's similar to how you could encourage someone to eat less hamburger in their diet, but eat more broccoli. They are both food, but very different kinds of food.

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They average around 30-40% effective, something like that. Might not sound good, but when you're talking about vulnerable populations like the elderly, or health care providers, it saves lives.

If you're the kind of person who freaks out on acid it's probably not safe indoors or outdoors. But otherwise I think it's safe yeah. Most of my best trips have been outdoors. It's good to have some shelter to retreat to if needed - at some point you'll need to take a shit, or you'll be hungry and that sandwich you packed seems disgusting. Or you'll need some different clothes, or a shower... If you're on a mac it's option + m µµµµ edit: ^ Lol of course @Socrates uses a greek keyboard

It's perfectly valid for @Annoynymous to be asking these questions here. Any topic could be answered with "google it", but sometimes it's interesting to get the perspective of people on this forum anyways. Perfect resources though @SgtPepper!

^ I was going to say the same thing. Can you bust your ass for a couple of years and pull both off? It will never be a bad thing to have an MBA under your belt. Even if your life course takes you 100% down the route of entrepreneurship you will learn so many valuable things in your MBA, and it never hurts to have that credibility.

Yes it brought major changes in western society, and globally too. It's hard to summarize it in a post on a forum, entire books could be (and have been) written on the subject. The simple summary would be to say that western/rich culture moved from stage blue to stage orange and green. Much of the hippie movement jumped from their parents' stage blue and early orange straight to early green, and then ended up backsliding to advanced orange as they aged. I might try to add to this later.

Haha you starfuckers... careful Leo... Better not do Vancouver yet, Eckhart Tolle might show up and challenge you to a non-dual jedi duel. You'll need to level up a few more notches first. jk that guy is chill af

Many "spiritual" people wear their spirituality like a gucci handbag. Often the people who don't display their spirituality outwardly in an obvious manner have the deepest understanding. Careful not to judge people either way.

London England is a really good idea. It would be more expensive to get there and be there, but just plan on filling more seats. People would be big into it over there and it would be a cool trip.

You just tell them you're not into it, and try to not judge them for continuing. If you can suspend judgement, let them know that you're OK with them doing it so that the situation doesn't become adversarial. I don't hunt or eat animals, but I have respect for people who carefully hunt for food. Farmers too. So many people mindlessly buy meat from the grocery store, completely disconnected from the act of killing (or raising) the animal which they are consuming. At least hunters are face to face with the reality of the situation and have to be real about it. Another cool thing about hunters is that they generally support preservation of wild spaces, for obvious reasons. I read something about lead ending up in hunted meat from the bullets, which is a good heath reason to not hunt, or at least use different shot/bows.