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I have read like hundreds of books, listening to 3-6 hours of audiobooks every day. And I will tell you, there a few categories of books that are painful for me to go through. "Conspiracy theories" is one of them, they really are not so convincing if you have read beforehand less radical history books describing the same events. Not to say that alternative versions of history ain't interesting, but conspiracy theorists usually sprinkle their ideas with errors in reasoning. The other type of books I dread reading is economy ones written by people believing in free markets and small government (even classics, like "Economics in One Lesson" by Hazlitt Henry). They usually argue with ideas like progressive taxes, workers unions, etc., but they do this by roasting stage Blue ways of thinking., completely ignoring that ideas proposed by progressives are not that old communist shit. I can understand this coming from someone who has lived in the 1940s or 1960s, but if someone pulls those ideas in 2020, that just shows his or her dogmatic attitiude.

You could read on people trying to vape 4-AcO-DMT freebase, it's basically the same substance as psilocybin but you can ingest it without smoking the shroom's body.

Patagonia seems like a Green+ giant company. "Let My People Go Surfing" by Yvon Chouinard, the founder of Patagonia is a very interesting read, here he describes a little bit of his personal story as a vagabond climber and difficulties of building and sustaining a conscious business.

Smoking psychedelics make me nauseated and I think I am not the only one. If you don't want to puke then choose a roa different than vaping.

I believe 5-MeO increase sex drive in general. 5-MeO-MET does that for sure, too.

@Eren Eeager You can put a few mg on a paper. I have seen with my own eyes blotters of DOB dosed at around 1.5 mg. They were as small as the LSD ones, maybe a few millimeters larger.

I have not tried it, but it seems like an interesting substance, worth giving it a shot. But wait, you are based in NL and couldn't find 5-MeO-DMT? That seems like the easiest place to find it on earth, next to Canada.

I don't think it's fake, you can do a chemical test to figure out what the substance is instead of guessing.

I have been suspecting that everyone gets the same message. Is there someone who has got a different answer to that question on a psychedelic?

Hey, we seem similar. I am currently going to college studying management, because I have come to conclusion that I want to help build conscious organizations as my life purpose. The quality of knowledge delivered at the university is mediocre at best. I am getting way more from doing my own reading, devouring books about systems thinking or nature and science. I wouldn't go to college if I had to pay for it. I am only there because of the extra benefits. I hope you will find your way soon. I remember once asking on a psychedelic trip what am I supposed to do in life. The answer was that it's completely unimportant whether I become this or that. The important thing is to keep doing your yoga, pursuing the truth, the rest doesn't matter. Then I had asked, what about psychedelics, are they a part of the spiritual path. The answer was "you tell me" said with a sly smile. So, ask yourself, whether sober or in a psychedelic state, what is it that you should really focus on in life. I suspect your answer will be similar to mine, that is "keep doing your yoga".

Watching paint dry is actually interesting, I encourage you to try it. It's a good meditation technique. @Endangered-EGO You could read Ralston's "Zen-Body Being" and train body awareness every day. The book is available on Audible if you don't have time to read it on paper. I have been listening to it at work and applying the principles on the go.

@Eren Eeager it's the gepard that got deadly wounded in that case, so I guess life is just not rosy on the savanna.

I believe I have seen a torrent with all of the RSD videos.

Nah, I don't think so. But I had read The Red Queen by Matt Ridley a few years ago and this vision was like viewing this book in an actualized version. It's LSD that is ahead of us all

I have had visions about sexuality on LSD, women with dicks, men with vaginas, 50 new genders and organs in all shapes, sizes and possible configurations, and to top it, mammals mixed with insects. It's all relative, there's nothing inherently feminine or masculine to reality, that's the insight.

If your goal is fooling around, then yes. Otherwise I would suggest getting serious about doing the work.

Ego, ego, ego, Wee-oww, wee-oww, wee-oww, The non-dual police is going after you Take on serious reading about non-duality or something. I would suggest starting with Ralston's "The Book of Not Knowing". Or if lengthy books are lame for you then maybe read a comic, "The Universe is a Dream" by Alexander Marchand. Then we will be all able to discuss, right now you have clearly not done your homework.

That's why @electroBeam said sorry and corrected himself to 1987. I don't know what this discussion is about, you guys must have not eaten your breakfast today

You know that after buying the list no-one forces you to read books only from that list? You can still read what you want. I am lately catching up with the list and listening to 2-3 books a week, thanks to a cool trick on Audible that allows you to get 3 books for one credit. Ok, maybe it's not a trick but straightout gaming the system, but you can exchange any book twice and no-one asks a question. Great option for people from developing countries.

Don't give up. Meditate or do yoga everyday, it's worth it.

@electroBeam chill, the deluded people sentence wasn't aimed at you but people who live normal lives completly oblivious to spirituality and are therefore suffering needlessly. My argument was that telling them about Enlightenment is less misleading than saying there's nothing to pursue. You have said you don't know what to do. In my perception the answer is more spiritual practice. Sitting in silence, yoga, journaling, etc. Whatever rocks your boat.

I don't think that the idea of Enlightenment is misleading. It tells you that in a limited time that this body-mind has in its current form it can get conscious enough to grasp the Absolute Truth. At least some degree of it, with maybe becoming happy and loving as a spill-over side effect of that realization. From my perspective telling people who clearly live in a delusion that they are Enlightened is more misleading.

That is not Enlightenment. So keep doing the spiritual work.

Rupert is my favourite teacher. He has some of the clearest explanations of non-duality. I especially like the kind of videos where he describes life from enlightened perspective, like this one: Buddha At The Gas Pump's interviews with Rupert are also great.