Carl-Richard

When I do think about it, I've heard that LSD's special long duration is due to it getting lodged in the 5HT2a receptor, which is a receptor that is associated with increased cortisol. Now, if it's only the 5HT2a receptor it gets lodged in, then you will get a cortisol-filled after-high combined with downregulation of dopamine receptors and probaby also the more calm-inducing 5HT1a receptors. I agree with the "dry" feeling. One time after LSD, I said to my friends while inhaling some weed "I just feel... mentally corrupt" *stares tiredly up at a leafless early spring tree top and exhales*.

Maybe you're comparing your current life to the high?

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Just chill man. The world is like that. Have some Capybara:

There are similarities and differences. Psychedelics are like a roller coaster; slow climb, epic descent, high-energy, often challenging, sometimes terrifying. Meditation is like a slow angelic ascent into the clouds, the descent is like a fluff of pollen in a soft summer breeze. But meditation can also be challenging and terrifying. It's just a bit easier to snap out of it (unless you've gone past the point of making meditation your baseline state). Probably for some. Because it gives a concrete goal and sense of direction. If you have already experienced, if only for a millisecond, or if only in the most murky and delusional form, what you're looking for, that makes it easier to know when you're getting closer to it or when you're getting farther away for it. But still, people who meditate in order to awaken but who has not had a previous awakening experience (psychedelic or not) tend to have a strong intuition of what it is like, and that too will work in a similar way to guide them. What is usually learned when you have the full experience is not that it was completely antithetical to what you were expecting, but rather that the sacrifices and the real-life implications of embodying that experience fully, were completely antithetical to what you both were expecting and maybe also what you really wanted. Probably for some. You have form and formlessness. You can recognize formlessness (without distinctions), i.e. being nothing, or you can recognize form without distinctions, i.e. being everything.

We live in a Stage Blue forum.

The phu is going on

I used to take 720 IU, now I'm taking 1200 IU. I've been thinking about if I could up the dose. Meanwhile expert doctors in my country are writing pop journalistic articles about how you can overdose on vitamin D and that you shouldn't take more than 400 IU a day unless you're already deficient

I know it's a rhetorical question, but how would you answer it?

Boomers must die first.

This is bullshit ☺️

Realistically, how many hours a day would you spend on your marriage and kids? Some things you will actually lose on by cutting them out even if you gain more time to do "more valuable" things. For example, you can save time by not eating or sleeping, but is that really going to benefit you in the long run? Let's say you spend one hour on average of fully-dedicated time on marriage and kids every day. If you put that hour into work instead, that would be your least productive hour anyway (late in the day with high fatigue and low energy). You might be better off just resting at that time (and no better way to do that than with family; but yes, sometimes it's not so restful, but it should be most times). Also, giving yourself a break and taking in new stimuli can lead to insights and breaking through stale patterns ("disruptive practices"), which is very good if you value creativity.

It could contribute to your future in ways you are not currently aware of. And you could also just want to study it because it's interesting in itself and not just as some means to an end. And even if it's not very interesting, it's always possible to find at least something interesting about anything.

Conversations, even about ideas or knowledge, are often less about learning something new or coming across something you've never heard about but reminding ourselves what think is important and what we care about. Notice how often you genuinely learn something new when talking to someone about something.

Yes, you can develop new habits that become your new "go-to". Scrolling TikTok for 5 hours even though it's the path of least resistance might not be ideal or even restful. But sometimes you have to take the path of least resistance.

The largest effects are seen in people who are prone to mystical experiences, get a taste, get hooked, develop an obsession, meditate consistently for hours every day and make it their number one priority to merge with whatever is behind the curtain. That's my personal experience at least.

Yep, that's what that was (me saying some people need to say "it's both" more); a pointer, a reminder. And that's all we really do here (and what you did as a response to me). Most people have actually heard or understand most of the points that are being made time and time again. It's just that we are fighting the limiting scope of relevance by reminding ourselves of things we find important. And that involves presenting the counterpoint, like you did (and like I did with "it's both" to some statement), and ironically like I'm doing now by pointing out how both of the points we made fit together. Because as a pointer (when applied situationally, contextually), I don't disagree with the statement "draw more lines in the sand" at all.

What are you wishing to achieve with meditation?

If I say "people need to say 'it's both' more", am I saying they should always say it's both or is it possible that it depends on the situation? And if I'm saying it depends on the situation, am I being detached and empty or am I drawing a firm line in the sand?

👌 People need to say these two words more.

If I stop exercising for a week, I show signs of dementia and chronic muscoloskeletal pain.

Try eating healthy and bathing in sunlight and not moving your legs for 30 days, see how that works out.

Next up: going to the urologist is the best way to get your dick and balls touched.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, no.

Gl with chronic illness in your 40s.