Carl-Richard

I guess such videos can be a reminder that when people are expressing suicidal tendencies and they're justifying it using spiritual ideas, be very deliberate about how you're giving advice and focus on grounding them, don't use it as just another oppurtunity to mentally masturbate about non-duality.

But you're talking to these people.

Give me a YouTube channel ?

And it's why we should stop using the word.

The dreamer is not a person. All persons, including what you refer to by your own name, are dreamed up.

Because it's a very extreme case of valuing intellect over experience.

And (many) psychedelics are nausea-inducing drugs, probably most noticably when there is food in your stomach.

ChatTopG: 5-HT3 agonism induces nausea, irrespective of mushroom flesh.

When I think about it, I remember reading that ginger has some serotonergic activity ? Maybe it counteracts the activity caused by the psychedelics.

? No, he presumably eats the same breakfast every day, only that day he took LSD. I thought he knew that you're not supposed to eat much before tripping.

I guess my friend eats toxins for breakfast every day then ? You would probably agree with that anyway ?

Where did you learn this? The nausea could be caused by indigestion of the flesh due to changes in serotonin activity in the gut. That could explain why if you take a powder instead, you don't get indigestion, because you're not eating any food. I've witnessed people puking on an LSD come-up probably because they ate breakfast beforehand (I didn't and I didn't puke).

It can cause some nausea if you eat the flesh and don't make it in a tea for example. It's not deadly though.

The dark blue color also includes factors like mental impairment and dependence. There is virtually no such thing as dependence when it comes to mushrooms. However, the paper defines mental impairment as something like mental health damage, which is of course a potential risk, but it's not like a passive "brain frying effect" (as far as we know), but rather that it might trigger some underlying conditions, or just cause a very unpleasant experience. That is why it's important to be careful with dosages and such, especially people who are mentally unstable.

Psilocybin mushrooms are probably one of the most innocuous things you can eat healthwise

Edibles can be very powerful and last very long, so be careful, but yeah, you'll avoid all the negative effects of smoke inhalation. You should try mushrooms sometime in a small dose, preferably without mixing it with any other substance.

Weed has a weird way of lingering in the body after the high is technically over (colloquially referred to as the "after-high"), because the psychoactive chemicals are lipid soluble and can stay in your cell membranes and fat stores for longer periods. But sure, you probably wouldn't overeat, but you certainly wouldn't undereat either, unless you smoke so frequently that you go into severe withdrawals when you stop smoking.

REM sleep is very important for things like memory formation, learning and general cognitive functioning.

Do you know that you're not a form?

Alcohol is an actual toxin though. People looking like death after waking up from weed could have something to do with how it affects sleep (it removes much of REM sleep), or how it causes overeating of unhealthy foods.

I asked this question and used the text from one of my favorite writings: "Can you analyse this text and try to give me the MBTI type that is most likely the case for the person who wrote the text?:" This is what it answered: I've consistently thought of myself as a mix of an INFP and an INTP, so when I write something that is the deepest reflection of myself and the bot seems to agree, that's cool. I also tried it out on different people on the forum, and it's surprisingly accurate. I haven't seen it differentiate between E/I (e.g. ENFP vs. INFP), but it's nevertheless the same functions.

I think of intuition as all the inarticulated ways of perceiving information that are not discrete sense perceptions, which seems to touch on some of the things you're mentioning. In other words, you don't know exactly why something is the way it is, or where it came from, or why it occurred to you in that moment (you can only speculate), but somehow it seems important for whatever the situation is. It's not like a set-by-step process of deducing a logical conclusion. It simply occurs to you as if you're "seeing" it (hence it's a way of perceiving, and it's not articulated). This can apply to anything from choosing the premises for a logical argument, to vague feelings about something being off, to being compelled to do something a certain way which you can't explain.

Yes, inhaling any smoke is bad, not just marijuana. Shrooms aren't smoked (psilocybin mushrooms that is). I don't think it causes you to age that fast though. I think forehead lines may appear more or less pronounced depending on the day, e.g. because of varying stress levels, or even something as innocuous as emoting when talking to people. Also, consider that you've recently started smoking weed, a substance that alters visual perception and level of inquisitiveness.

It's more like a blank void, but it's not even a void, because it doesn't really extend anywhere. There is no point separate from another point. There is one point, a pure emanation. But yes, the descriptions are ultimately futile and don't make the experience justice. I did LSD 3 times and weed ~1000 times, and then at one point after I discovered the concept of mindfulness, I spent a week in the mountains with my family doing active mindfulness 24/7 sober (with heavy weed withdrawals, which also meant no desire to masturbate), and at the tail end of that week, I did my 3 first seated meditations ever, and on the 3rd meditation, I awoke. The thing about psychedelics, meditation, or any temporary change in state, is that it's a so-called "disruptive practice". It disrupts habitual functioning and allows for a constrast to arise, which allows you to become more aware of deeply ingrained mechanisms. Imagine being a fish that has only been in water all of his life. The fish doesn't feel the water at all. It doesn't know what it is, because it has always been in water and is fully habituated to the constant stimuli. If the fish is then suddenly lifted out of the water, they'll experience the constrast between water and non-water for the first time, and then as it re-immerses itself, it'll become more aware of the true nature of water. That is the essence of a disruptive practice. The explanation for why I awoke when I did is not mainly the fact that I had smoked weed so many times or done LSD a couple of times, but that I had spent a week where I didn't smoke weed and also where I did something completely new (active mindfulness practice). This was in fact a massive confounding of several disruptive practices. And then on top of that, at the end of the week, I didn't go back to weed, but instead I did something I've also never done before: seated meditation. Essentially, that week was like a huge active meditation retreat with a chronic pharmacological disruption (weed withdrawal) as well as nofap (another disruption), as well as being in a different environment than my usual daily habits (skiing in the mountains), which then finally culminated in another completely new practice (seated meditation). This is what it takes to truly get underneath your own skin. You have to see how it's like without it, and sometimes you have to go to the extremes.

No, but it helps kickstarting things. I'm talking about intensive 10-day retreats where you do basically nothing but meditating. It doesn't have to be through an organization, but that can certainly make some of the practical aspects easier. Imagine taking your current experience and gradually removing all the contents. Start with the visual field, your sense of hearing, then the sensations in your body, smells, etc. What is left? That is the essence of reality: pure consciousness.