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I am not sure what country you live in, but Mimosa Hostilis (the plant is often sold as a purple dye for clothing) is legal in many places and you can use it to extract DMT in your own kitchen. If that's too much, then you can find a seller of already extracted spice on the dark market. Looking for sellers from the same country you are in is smart because it reduces the risk of the package being intercepted to almost zero.

It all depends on one's worldview. Does Tim Ferriss really need your $5 bucks? He is wealthy as fuck. If you subscribe to socialist ideology then it's not immoral for you, because "from each according to his capabilities, to each according to his needs". You will probably make better use of that $5, I guess the only correct answer to the OP question can be given by the OP himself. What do you believe to be true about the world, @Thought Art ?

I would look for another income source. This is the reality of being a writer, especially one writing scientific books. To publish most science books their authors have to PAY to get them published. That means not only do they not earn, they are actually losing money.

Obviously, there are many methods, but the one the most appropriate for a party/social gathering setting seems to be this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfWWVZqzDxA I have loved using DMT to party, but sadly my friends don't. I prefer it so so so much compared to weed. Weed is nah, just not for me.

Texting through PMs with that person in the past, my guess.

Yeah, but you can get an even better networking oppurtinity at cheaper cost and way more fun at a festival like Burning Man. Festivals are the best. You can even make friends with retreats facilitators there, while on a retreat you would be having a seller-client kind of relationship.

I personally don't count that as cheating. I see now my wording might have not been accurate. By saying I don't believe higher numbers I have meant stuff like 20-30%. But when I think about it now, I have been too conservative with the estimate, indeed. You are right. It's not an important question, but an interesting one. I would like to know real data, genetic tests of very, very large population samples. I don't see that as a break of privacy. I am also a proponent of total transparency of finances, as an example, I think everyone at work should know how much every other person earns. So I am quite radical in regards to privacy. I dream of a world of total transparency, honesty, but we are not ready for it.

@Raptorsin7 I think cheating rate is betwen 1-14%. My best guess 3%. I don't believe higher numbers, because then alnost everyone would have some experience in life with cheating, your friends wpuld be talking about such situations non-stop.

It's no for the most of you guys, it's for the rich (richer) people. Those retreats sell like fresh buns, big money. There are many websites that earn like 10-20k a month from just selling ads for those retreats. If the price seems exorbitant you are just not from the social class this is targeted for. Psychedelic therapy if legalized would be just as pricey for many years, so people would still have to resort to black market or growing their own plants.

@Leo Gura are you talking about smoking from an e-liquid vape?

Any supplements that fund a media business have to be over-priced. If they were to be priced honestly, the business wouldn't have survived from selling them, it would be a supplement business then and it would need to have a consumer base much larger than a pool of viewers of some channel. I am amazed at how Leo is able to sustain Actualized, because the LP course is greatly priced and not a grift, and it's the only course, for how many years now? Many years. I guess a lot of people buy the book list to support the channel.

@softlyblossoming I don't have Muse So I doubt I would be able to help you. I've just watched this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGzhDIHckzQ

Paid, $15

@Endangered-EGO Have you tried doing your Vipassana on Muse with a Mind Monitor app? It shows the raw eeg data coming out of the Muse, so should be able to train other jhnanas amd not only concentration. I am curious.

Yeah, bizarre as fuck. People just don't value other people's lives. There is no good moral reason why a CEO of a big company earns 2000x what the janitor in the headquarters of that company makes, or 200000x what the lowest paid worker in the supply chain earns. I can assure everyone, that there's no way in hell that he is 200000x more productive than the slave-worker gluing up iPhones. Meritocracy is bullshit, and it always has been, because meritocracy itself is a concept thought up to show how stupid the idea is. The same with pulling yourself up by the bootstraps. I don't know how that ridiculing gets twisted into an affirmation of the system again and again.

Poland (58% fully-vaxxed) has only 4.4x as many residents as Isreal (67% fully-vaxxed, and started vaccinating earlier) but 11.7x more COVID deaths. What other proof do you need that vaccines work? I have chosen Poland because it's the country I live in and know the situation for sure.

If he was Yellow or something he would certainly have better uses for his money. Something like lending $500 bucks to some African farmer to buy a cow, tools, or a fridge. And to stream how that affects people's lives. That's a simualtion of effects of socialism, from everyone accordong to their means, to everyone according to their needs. Or whatever, there are many ways to leverage your money to make the highest positive impact. At some point people see that being altruistic is a worthy pursuit in life, because they become dissillusioned with living the prestigious life as the way of sustaining happiness. (I mean people who are actively self-actualizing)

I have read it till the point of which papers were included and which were excluded, and then felt stupid for a moment, because this paper is kind of stupid. First, it's written by three right-wing economists, second, it's NOT peer-reviewed, anyone can write such a paper, third there are no studies by public health scholars included, only by social scientists, mainly economists. You know what I call that? I call that bullshit. Canadian truckers protest organizers? Doing a cost-benefit analysis of vaccines? I have nothing to say. Simply not true, what do you mean by most covid cases and death? This sentence has no meaning. They are doing ok, and vaccines are clearly helping. They had a lot of the delta variant, in the beginning, so they are expected to have a little more mortality because the more dangerous version of the virus has spread there, but other countries have omicron, which is benign. Maybe I am wrong and we will see a rise in mortality also in countries with omicron, but it doesn't seem so at the moment. I am not an expert, but it only proves that it was right to do lockdowns, because even if we are all predestined to fall sick to covid sometime in the future (I already have been and I am vaccinated), then it's way better to be sick with omicron than delta, and we would have been sick with the original or the delta if not for all the measures taken.

@MrMog man, call it knowing or gut feeling, it has nothing to do with actual knowledge. Not because it was a smart decision not to get vaccinated, but because covid has mutated and turned out to not be so dangerous afterall. It's called luck. It's identical to a drunk driver arguing that he didn't kill anyone or cause an accident, so he was right to drive intoxicated. No he was not, and neither are people who were avoiding vaccine. Right now when original and delta variants are almost not existent, you can evaluate if getting vaccine is still worth it, maybe not, but it was really worth it in the beginning. The same goes for closedown, first closedowns has been very strategic and very smart. MAybe they have got bumpy execution in some countries, but the idea of a closedowns itself is smart when faced with unknown threat.

Obviously The "gut feeling" is a mother of all fuck-ups. Intuition is ought to be used in situations where scientific tools can't work, where they are being exhausted. Public health is not that. You don't make public health policies based on gut feeling. The same goes for alt-medicine, most of it is more primitive or scams, compared to mainstream science. That doesn't mean the mainstream science doesn't have its fair share of fuck ups and scams. It's just a matter of a degree. You can't even claim to understand society or business without data to prove your ideas, because maybe what you understand is your own small niche and not the world as a whole. That's why scientists who think about the nature of reality =/= mystics, because they lack that experience, data. Kind of a tangled argument, because the data in that case is your direct experience, but it's useful to make that distinction between direct experience and thinking. Your "gut feeling" is mind detached from reality, if you don't take the data into account. Obviously, you have to think if you can trust the data, apply some degree of skepticism, but too much skepticism is pathological

That's also a part of why sociologists treat the universal condemnation (in Western countries) of Nazi Germany as something not so obvious. It's kind of unusual that it has become mainstream in so many countries to make the equation Nazi ideology = pure evil. People who dislike Jews also have to dislike the Nazis, whose one of the main points is hating Jews. Quite a paradox.

@Julian gabriel DMT is like super-short, super-mega-high-dose mushroom trip. 15 mg DMT is like 50 mg psilocybin IMO, but last 2 minutes instead of 2-4 hours

I would say this is a result of Stage Orange's world-centric, humanistic values, which are in narration something akin to: "There are gays, they are humans, leave them alone, let's say we support them and all, but maybe don't act on it and change laws, because that would stir controversy and destroy the story we have about living in a peak-development, global society."

It's sociology 101, I believe every social science student learns that at the University.