Carl-Richard

Probably, but tryptophan is literally converted into 5HTP before it is converted into serotonin. The only difference is that tryptophan is also converted into other things like vitamin B3 and competes for transport across the blood-brain barrier with a few other amino acids like tyrosine, so you need a higher dose for the same effect.

My dude @thisintegrated has high standards

Telling people to stay on topic and then creating a completely new dialogue tree out of that by arguing about it. You're allowed to say your opinion on whether something is off topic or not, but don't hijack the thread with it. I think it's fine to spend some time clarifying our general stances on mental health so that we know what we're talking about, and OP himself agrees with that. If we instead had started talking about something completely unrelated like nofap or dating, then maybe correcting course would be more appropriate.

You're playing cop and derailing the thread. I've told you to stop doing that.

Poor Destiny and his 10.5g first time trip ?

Nothing serious, but one time on LSD, me and my friends sat in the living room when it knocked on the front door and we weren't expecting anybody. We all looked like deer in headlights for the few moments it took my friend to answer the door. Luckily, it was just a random neighbor who had just moved in, and he wanted to let my friend know that he would be up to hang out some time (which is honestly really odd ?).

What does that mean? Do you think that your own tiny, limited, human personal thoughts, feelings and perceptions are the only things that exist? Think again.

If you have trouble keeping up, try slowing it down People who complain about too many notes usually just struggle with hearing all the notes. What Guthrie is playing is the cream of the crop in terms of creativity.

I bet that if you were to take all the big contemporary mystics and screen them for psychiatric illnesses, the ratio of people with psychotic illnesses would be the same or less than the rest of the population.

What are you doing? lol

https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Psilocybin_mushrooms I might've been thinking about LSD: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/LSD

That's great, and I believe you know how to draw a general distinction between those types of experiences and psychotic symptoms (e.g. the positive/negative symptoms of schizophrenia or the symptoms of bipolar mania). It's important to be realistic about these things. People like Sadhguru, Rupert Spira and Eckhart Tolle are not schizophrenics. They're mystics. You can have schizophrenic mystics and non-schizophrenic mystics.

@blankisomeone It's good to take breaks between trips, because the drug will have a weaker effect when taken regularly.

@puporing +1 Support and encouragement. What – are you gonna try to teleport a Tier 1 into a higher stage?

It helps to paste the link multiple times in a row.

Exploring the effects of an unbalanced neurochemistry might be good once in a while, but you'll have withdrawals when you stop taking it. At least that is what happened when I took 5HTP the day before an oral exam. I had really bad anxiety. 5HTP is just one step further in the serotonin synthesis process than tryptophan, so I bet it's pretty much the same.

Whether it's some kind of supernatural force or not is up to you to decide. If you're interested in a more rational explanation, it's the case that mentally orienting yourself towards a goal will increase the chances of you doing the right things for that goal to become a reality. It's kinda like "duh", but it's easy to underestimate the power of goals and how they shape your mind.

OMG I just discovered The Mars Volta. It's like everything I like mixed into one thing

Any peak experiences? Like a state of no-mind, cessation of all physical sensations, loss of space and time, anything of that sort?

You think?

Have you had nondual mystical experiences?

I'll just say there is a difference between momentarily lifting the veil of the personal self and glimpsing the transpersonal self, and having the delusion that the weatherman on the TV is sending you personalized messages, persistent persecutory auditory hallucinations, problems thinking using linear logic, and believing that you're a famous person who will revolutionize some important field of study etc.

I meant talking about those types of experiences to people who work in a mental institution.

If you're talking about extraordinary experiences while in a mental institution, that is an easy conclusion to draw for the people you're talking to. It's also true that most psychiatrists or nurses are not trained in making that distinction, which goes back to the practical problem solving approach of psychiatry: if you get hospitalized, there is most likely a pathological reason for that, and that is why the psychiatrist will easily opt for a pathological diagnosis. That said, if you talk to people who study the difference between extraordinary experiences and psychosis, they will emphasize the fact that mystical experiences are largely positive in nature, leading to deeper insight and clarity of mind (and you will most likely not get involuntarily hospitalized, but you might choose to), while psychotic experiences are largely distressing, confusing, unwanted etc. (and you'll often get involuntarily hospitalized).

Have you had experiences with schizophrenia? Mystical experiences and psychotic experiences are not the same. Psychotic experiences may have mystical elements, and mystical experiences may have psychotic elements, but that is about it.