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"Science-based lifting" is to use scientific studies to conclude which ways to train are the most optimal. It's a term primarily used in a setting of hypertrophy/bodybuilding training, and it's here it is often the most problematic. Why it is problematic can be boiled down to essentially one phrase: "moving your body is not like swallowing a pill". People tend to point to the scientific rigor of so called "high quality research designs" like randomized controlled trials by saying that is how we develop drugs and medical treatments, and these have been shown to demonstrate real effects that map on to the world accurately. Well, firstly, let's explore even that for a minute: SSRIs have been shown to be only 2% more effective than placebo. And that's assuming that the study design is accurate and can tell us something true about those effects, which can also be questioned. After all, who are the studies conducted on? Are those people's characteristics always applicable to any given scenario? Are they always relevant for you and your bodily functioning? Maybe not. That aside, you also have the problem of the replication crisis which affects all of behavioral science, not just psychology or the "softer" social science disciplines like it is often portrayed as, but it affects medicine, biology, biotechnology, pharmacology. And why that is the case could boil down to simply "humans are complicated". And what is even more complicated than humans popping a pill? That is humans moving their bodies, and maybe especially lifting weights for hypertrophy. Lifting weights is not just lifting weights. It's every cell in your body coordinating to produce complex movement patterns. To even conceive of this theoretically, forget about the empirical problems for a moment, is a wild assertion of confidence. You would essentially be claiming omniscience like a God. And that's what science-based lifters have essentially done to their analytical mind and by an even more painfully wild and confident extension their empirical capability, not just in interpreting science but in claiming to have produced valuable and truth-uncovering research designs. And this ties into the second but related problem of ecological validity and external validity. Lifting weights is not just lifting weights yes in this sense that that phrase belies an immense world of complexity that is generally not appreciated for what it is, but it's also in the sense that the weights and the movement patterns are not the only thing that is part of your training. It's the gym, the surroundings, the people, the knowledge of the person lifting the weights, the motivation and rigor of the person lifting the weights, the shape and size of the body of the person lifting the weights, the length and width of the limbs; any characteristic that you could describe as merely tangentially related, is deeply intertwined in the outcomes of training. And this is where the "soccer moms in an 8-week study" critique comes in, and it's not a trivial or merely funny or facetious critique. Do you honestly think it is a good idea to base your idea of what is "optimal lifting" on people who are on average and certainly compared to the average hyper-obsessed gym bro 1. not at all knowledgeable in lifting, 2. not at all motivated to lift (at any considerable level of intensity or rigor), 3. not the same size or shape as you, and 4. maybe most importantly generally lifting in a controlled and alien setting where a scientist is standing behind you shouting "start", "stop", "start", "stop", at every rep, where some designs use absolutely unheard of training setups like using one technique with one arm and another technique with the other arm for those 8 weeks, where even quantifying states like "true failure" vs "3 reps in reserve" is mere hocus-pocus philosophical conjecture? And you then compile various of different kinds of studies like this that mostly contradict each other in terms of the overall conclusions and you end up with a marginal number of "51% in favor of this training method over this". And this is what is "most optimal". It is an absolute charade, a circus, pure pseudo-intellectual masturbatory, below AI-slop levels of investigation and conclusion. It's not to say that all of exercise science is pseudoscience. There are valueable studies on e.g. best ways to improve VO2 max which are much more similar to a physiological "pill-taking" mechanism where dose and response are much more simply controlled. But movement patterns, hypertrophy training, based on female mid-40s RCTs, compiled into a sludge of marginally favored conclusions, and then presented as "the most optimal way to train", is not as much a pseudoscience as it is a failure of analytical thinking and logical inference. Science-based lifting is not really as much a science as it is a kind of metaphysics, a theological doctrine, that more interprets and concludes based on a set of assumptions rather than based on the actual observations. That is why "The Church of Science-Based Lifting" is a fitting and ironic name. Because that is also the kind of thinking that is associated with it: "what does the science say?" "what does the book say?" "what is the most optimal way?" "what is the answer?" "what is the thing we should follow, the one true way, the path, the one espoused by the Churchmen with the P and the H and the Ds?" It's ironic that the more "science-based", the less thinking you seem to have to do, the more you just have to listen, deny criticism, bow to authority. What is the true and honest way to train, is philosophy-based lifting; being aware of the assumptions underlying your thinking, not making poorly justified conclusions based on observation, and simply working with what you have, which in the case of hypertrophy is mainly yourself and your own experience, your sense, your own body and mind.

But what if that were the truth? That some truths are unfindable because you're a human and not an alien or a spider or a fifth dimensional being or who knows what. Contemplate you'll never know how it feels like to be a woman, have breasts, pussy, the period, being pregnant, giving birth, giving milk to your child... You'll absolutely never know the inner truths of that, unless maybe you die from this form and somehow be in another form with other limitations.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-10-08/cristiano-ronaldo-is-first-football-billionaire-after-saudi-al-nassr-deal So..Ronaldo became the first billionaire football player ever. And at the launch of his YouTube channel he was battling MrBeast about who's gonna become the fastest YouTuber to gain maximum followers in the shortest time . Anyways..so after Messi won the World Cup in 2022...that was a game changer in the GOAT debate . This is the World Cup ..its no trivial trophy . But what I'm noticing ever since that ..is that Ronaldo is getting blowjobs from everyone on the interent . Everywhere you look you see some Propaganda about him and a kind of hyping him up as the GOAT without a doubt. I mean he is the top scorer in the history of football..but let's not forget that Messi is a fucking Alien .the ball is simply stuck with his feet like a magnet. So it's not so simple as everyone are hyping Ronaldo to be the best . Is there anyone else who notices a hyping up for Ronaldo especially after Messi won the World Cup ? I mean he is literally a fucking Billionaire right now so maybe he uses money to infect the media.

@kavaris So they even used chemicals, wow nice, such fascinating people Egyptians were. It's really a compliment to their ingenuity to think their pyramids are of alien origins, if you think about it

A reason, absolutely; but not the reason. There's likely many advanced alien species that maintain non-intervention. Some in pity, as though looking over a child in the process of FAFO; others in derision, tuning into Earth like a trash-tier reality TV show. But there are far more considerations in maintaining the universal balance than collective human sanity or our whole existence. An intelligent civilization could easily deem that such a mass hysteria event is good to shake us up, or that cleansing the planet with a heliobeam (like the one Nazis wanted to build) is in order, or due to their own twisted evolutionary trajectory they somehow became interplanetary while remaining imperialistic and selfish, and they'll be balanced out in due time, but not before enslaving and exterminating us. Awakening doesn't really grant much additional predictive power when it comes to specific events, instead it cements the certainty of not-knowing. Not the boring, static kind, but one stemming from an overabundance of seeing infinite perspectives. Think Yhwach's 'The Almighty' in read-only mode.

No, the evidence suggests that it was actually around 30 000 skilled workers and off season farmer workforce transporting and assembling millions of blocks over the course of 20-30 years. It wasn't really even a slave force like Leo suggested, they got fed, they got taken care of relatively well in terms of healthcare for the times. Which, I mean, makes sense cause you don't want your workers to die or be weak from malnutrition and bad treatment, that would saboutage the entire project; you also want your farmer part of the workforce to go back to fields during season. I do think 30 years is enough time to construct something like this, and archeological evidence overwhelmingly suggests that this was the case, seeing as we discovered places where the workers likely lived and tools they used during construction. Meanwhile, alien conspiracy theorist got next to nothing, no evidence

It was obviously alien tech.

Quick update and overview: I have changed the names once again to make them shorter and more fitting. Also, I came up with names for the new ones. Modes Taxonic (order, object, matter, external, autism) Old: Hyloexonic Animonic (spirit, psyche, emotion, fantasy, senses, internal, HSP) Old: Phenoendonic Semionic (symbol, conformity, meaning, story, identity, social, togetherness) Old: Semiosynconic Holonic (whole, holistic, interconnected, big picture, dyslexia, systemic, dialectic) Volonic (will, power, action, movement, passion orientation) Paraonic (chaos, absurdity, surprise, comedy, paradox, openness, contradiction, novelty) Geonic (alien, beyond human grasp) I scrapped aesthetic being since beauty is a symptom of modal alignment, not a seperate mode (in my conception). Radom insights Creativity is Paravolonic: Action out of openness, leading to something unexpected and novel. I think schizotypy might be Animaparaonic Other Ontonic (existence, non-duality, being, self, neutrality, ontological, phenomenon, absolute, contemplation) all modes are just different illusory manifestations of this one mode (?). Amodal (Sunyata) (not accessible to a being) Transmodal (nirvana, transcendence, enlightenment) (accessible to a being) Modally aligned (love, fulfilled, existence, self, flow, beauty) Modally disaligned (fear, emptiness*, non-existence, no-self, depletion) Omnimodal, something with all modes *not sunyata, used as opposite of fulfilled. I plan to never use the word "empty" for sunyata I think.

Truth is, if we had not being conformist of what each word in a sentence mean and had all sharing the same learning of this writings we would look to this scribblings and see nothing but hierogliphs. You knew no writing before coming into life, you was born like an alien in an alien world and had to be indocrinated into this thing of languague. Otherwise you would be just like a dog barking. Imagine being not able to understand any of this writing. Like, looking to english writings and would be no different than Mandarin to your eyes? I think there is a mental condition where people forget their own language.

if i can quiet the struggles around food and anxiety.... now i'm actually excited for the days to come, getting to know the new city and everything. it'll be good. feeling this enthusiastic is so alien to me.

"The master-stroke of the Jew was to claim the leadership of the fourth estate: he founded the Movement both of the Social Democrats and the Communists. His policy was twofold: he had his 'apostles' in both political camps. Amongst the parties of the Right he encouraged those features which were most repugnant to the people—the passion for money, unscrupulous methods in trade which were employed so ruthlessly as to give rise to the proverb 'Business, too, marches over corpses.' And the Jew attacked the parties of the Right. Jews wormed their way into the families of the upper classes: it was from the Jews that the latter took their wives. The result was that in a short time it was precisely the ruling class which became in its character completely estranged from its own people. And the Jew's second instrument was the Marxist theory in and for itself. For directly one went on to assert that property as such is theft, directly one deserted the obvious formula that only the natural wealth of a country can and should be common property, but that that which a man creates or gains through his honest labor is his own, immediately the economic intelligentsia with its nationalist outlook could, here too, no longer co-operate: for this intelligentsia was bound to say to itself that this theory meant the collapse of any human civilization whatever. Thus the Jew succeeded in isolating this new movement of the workers from all the nationalist elements. More and more so to influence the masses that he persuaded those of the Right that the faults of the Left were the faults of the German workman, and similarly he made it appear to those of the Left that the faults of the Right were simply the faults of the so-called 'Bourgeois,' and neither side noticed that on both sides the faults were the result of a scheme planned by alien devilish agitators. And only so is it possible to explain how this dirty joke of world history could come to be that Stock Exchange Jews should become the leaders of a Workers Movement. It is a gigantic fraud: world history has seldom seen its like." ~a direct quote from one of Adolf Hitler's speaches. You could apply what Hitler was describing 100years ago to today as a fun comparison and see how it matches.

About the insane Social-Symbolic-Alien Language non-Truth-Sensitive-People use Do you also hate making presents? Since forever, my family hates on me for sucking at making presents. And I beat myself up for it. They say I'm not empathic enough, too egoistic bla bla bla. My best explanation was, that I'm an only child and I've never properly learned it. Theory break: According to me, there exists a kind of neurodiversity I call "Truth-Sensitive-Person" (TSP). I believe, that TSPs exist on a spectrum between object-sensitive-person (OSP) and subject-sensitive-person (SSP) (this model is a work in progress. In previous posts, I used TLP). What all TSPs have in common is a love for absolute truth and a disdain for and a lack of understanding of social truths. More on that below. I have an alternative explanation now. My grandma told me that she is always super thrilled and happy when she receives little gifts like cake from her cleaning lady, and she is disappointed that me and my mom (also SSP) would not engage in little acts of affection like these too. What I've noticed is that this (happiness about gifts from others for their own sake) is not the case for me and my mom at all. Which means that even if we were lazy and egoistic (which we are not) we are at least not hypocrites. In fact, we are always annoyed by gifts from other people, when they are not useful to us. You might now say: "Of course you are. Why would you be happy to receive a gift that you have no use for?" If you believe this logic, you might be on the TSP spectrum. Because for a non-TSP, this logic does not apply at all. When they receive a gift from someone they love, they are super thrilled if that gift is well-meant. The crucial thing to understand, and it is hard to understand for TSPs, is that non-TSPs are not thrilled about the present itself. They get most of their pleasure from the gesture. The present is a symbol to them. This is because non-TSPs speak a completely batshit insane kind of social-symbolic-alien language they picked up and learned passively through conformity like their native language and are super confused about anyone who struggles to speak it, like TSPs, who only care about information (or spiritual truth if you are HSP) and struggle to pick up on these social symbols. Expecting a TSP to implicitly understand this social symbolic language is like starting to talk to some random person on the street in chinese and then being mad and confused, if they don't understand the fuck you're saying. And non-TSPs do that all the damn time! This leads TSPs to develop social anxiety, low self-esteem, etc. People who are TSPs naturally struggle with social situations, especially competitive ones because of this. They will genuinely start believing they have to learn tens of hours of pickup theory and do thousands of approaches to be successful without ever understanding, that they are not meant to engage in this alien language, the same way someone with an IQ of 80 is not meant to study thermodynamics. (If you think you might be TSP, you don't have to worry, just seek out other TSPs irl. They understand you perfectly and vice versa) I want to give another example from my life. I once dated a girl with heavy ADHD. This made her relatable to me, but she is not a TSP. One day, she was kind of in a bad mood, and she asked me: "Do you think I drink too much water?". I answered by dumping her with all the information I knew about the topic "how much water is too much water". After that, she was pissed and said: "What does any of this have to do with the question?". I was stumped. What did I do wrong? You have any ideas? I thought, that she wanted to know if she drinks too much water. Big mistake. See the mistake? If you don't or struggle to answer, then maybe you are a TSP too. It took me some time to figure it out, but I think I got it. She did not want to know if she drinks too much water. She wanted to know if I think that she drinks too much. She just wanted me to affirm that I accept her for drinking so much water. When you dig deep enough you will realize, what she actually asked was: "Do you approve of my existence?". This is at the fundamental reason for all social interactions between non-TSPs. This is why they need social interactions, because without them, they wouldn't know whether they exist. To TSPs, this logic makes zero sense. When we are faced with questions or insecurities regarding our existence, we would NEVER even THINK about going to a cleaning lady for affirmations (nothing against cleaning ladies). Because what the fuck would they know about existence???? What we do instead is we study philosophy if we are more on the autism side, meditate when we are more on the HSP side and do both if we are hybrids. In case this did not get clear enough: The reason why TSPs are here on this forum is because we are genetically unable to be satisfied with answers about our own existence from our cleaning ladies. Or positively reframed: We are not stupid enough to believe that receiving gifts from our cleaning lady is sufficient to affirming our existence.

Ha. Hey thx, and yes, vry true. Oh, nd i jus listened to something/experienced something highly unusual, but beautiful. I fell asleep listenin to Whatever the fk this video was from like 9 years ago (it started AFTER i was asleep, so you might say, we were on the same very alien path of myth and mystery), And omg did this take me to the strangest of Prometheus spacecrafts over-an-ever-changing-painting-of-scenes Dreams. Like, this is a gr8 example of something, which on the surface doesnt follow the *ideal like, emphatic typeve description or like the ideal collection of clauses (XD) but Woh, i cannot believe where i went. And alls i did was very slightly open up to ostensibly somethin that wouldve made no sense to me since, but it actually in the long run has made more sense to me now (outside of ancient greece, that part wasnt featured in my dream since it took *new form), and im not quite sure if it would *fit in that thing i wrote. Like i sortve put myself to shame by way of experiencing this like, Little Mermaid of Disney Scenescape -typeve things, over this like mythic seashore horizon?

Let's keep it a buck about Leo, He made many extreme claims that we are all supposed to forget about or something, and now take his logic and rationality very seriously, The pinnacle was the moment he claimed to be able to transform into a physical alien on camera, and that he only needed to find the correct camera. Let's take a moment to analyze this claim and its ramifications: -He was never able to do it -Imagine being able to do it, or at least, not being able to do it but thinking that you are (which is probably the case, which would already qualify him as being psychotic at the time), and actually contemplating putting your transformation on the internet. let's analyze this premise: (We are assuming that any vfx experts watching the video would be able to discern it's authenticity, which would be the case in an actual alien transformation) You release the video online. first, the forum community watches it in horror and disgust, and amazement, realizing they are looking at an actual video of their favorite Youtuber transforming into a real life alien. They share it everywhere around the internet, and it quickly starts to go viral. CNN and other major news networks start to pick it up and it goes insanely viral around the world. VFX experts announce its authenticity. the virality of the video starts to grow and grow and people on the news are talking about it and Leo. Everyone wants to speak to Leo because this is the craziest thing that has ever happened in the history of mankind. People start to look for him in real life and maybe even threaten him. Chaos ensues around the world. I mean, this is literally the scenario that would unfold. Total chaos. And yet he still posted about it, contemplating posting it like it would be some minor happening. Are we supposed to believe a man of his intelligence would not foresee these events? Keep it real with us Leo. Were you having an episode of psychosis at the time? and what happened with the portal that opened in your head, and the realizing of the consciousness field of the earth, and speaking with it? I believe this all happened around the 2nd half of 2022. You suddenly had these esoteric episodes, distinct from your regular Oneness awakening, God realization, metaphysical philosophy. And I mean, like I described, you literally contemplated putting out an alien transformation video like it wouldn't be the craziest thing ever shown on earth. And of course you weren't able to do it, which makes me think you went through some kind of psychosis around that time. Are we supposed to sweep all of this under the rug? You literally never explained any of these episodes any further. Never gave us an apology or nothing. It feels so blatant to talk about transforming into an alien on camera and then just never talk about it and talk about other serious philosophers like they are nothing and don't know anything, while you hold the secrets of the universe that no one else has ever figured out. It honestly feels like some master level trolling which I don't like to claim from you. I hope at least it was some kind of poison pill or something, to test us. If it wasn't, I can only expect suspect psychosis. Thinking you're getting away unscathed with sharing your alien transformation video online is more psychotic than anything Connor Murphy went through. It's a true disconnect with the realities of society and the world. It would be a literal Black Mirror episode and people would go looking and hunting for you. And this is already assuming that a transformation like that is even possible. It's disrespectful to your students to make these absolutely bizarre claims and never follow through on it or take them back. A simple explanation that you had a psychotic break would be plenty. But you never did. It's quite enraging actually.

The problem is that Actualized.org is Leo's mind on a evolution cycle. His teachings became advanced to the point of extreme abstraction. We see here on the forum the lack of basic normie self-help. People just parrot "God this, God that, Alien this, Alien that" but they are living in their parents home. This is not Leo's fault. It is just evolution. People need to wake up. Back to the basics. Agree 100% w/ yourself.

Language as an alien parasite. Crazy theory! 🤯

The problem with these stage green idealists is that they seem to kind of ignore cause and effect. Why would it follow that the future is inherently anti-capitalist and a communal pseudo-anarchy at the same time? There has to be a cause resulting in said vision. Certain things are not possible due to the limits of human nature and survival either. Like, I don't see humans dividing into smaller and more independent settlements for any reason if it's not caused by some kind of effect. Like maybe you'll see fairly technological/self-sufficient settlements temporarily crop up during the colonization of an alien planet. By the way, that doesn't follow that these settlements are necessarily going to be more peaceful than what we have today, especially if these settlements individually are more resource poor (IE. cause for conflict). It's also not possible to abolish capitalism since trade is part of human nature. You would only really see that diminish through some kind of post-scarcity inducing technology diminishing the need for trade as a whole. Again, there has to be a cause to get the effect. Pure idealism ends up just being a bunch of fantasies if your not careful, or a projection of a far flung future where technology has rendered today's survival challenges obsolete. Like for example environmentalism. We currently can't survive without pollution. Notice how these green ideals cannot be generally realized until we reached a certain point technologically and socially. It's not a practical way of thinking to fantasize about a future where our problems have already been solved somehow.

Not on this planet lmao. Sexy alien girlfriend never been so in demand

Alien Love creates Man then the Magic Wand is unleashed

We can easily agree on the experience of chocolate because it's a tangible thing. The nature of experiences are not. With chocolate, we can point to the same object, confirm we're eating the same thing, compare notes with some confidence. "Infinite Love" has none of that. Words cannot grasp experience of things in the abstract. So how can you know your experience of "infinite love" matches Leo's experience of it? You can't, yet here you and many others are saying that you know EXACTLY what Leo means when he says "infinite love". How do you know it was "infinite" and not just really big? Is it really big, "infinite" or boundless? These are different things. For all I know, I've experienced it myself but never put a label on it, because I'm not gonna map Leo's labels to my own experiences - that would be a mistake. I'm betting a high percentage of Leo's followers unquestioningly adopted the idea of "Alien Consciousness" as well. Saying things like "I can't wait to discover Alien Consciousness", as if they already know it's a real thing. Then, one day, you have a deep trip on 5meo and experience something that fits the label, then you show up on the forum talking about you know with 100% certainty you experienced Alien Consciousness. "You'd know if you knew" is a great self-sealing epistemological bubble. Concept introduced -> pre-accepted -> experience interpreted through concept -> reported as confirmation. No different from religion and cults. I'm not knocking anyone for making this error. I made it myself with Leo's work when I was younger.

Post it if you like, we all have the guilty pleasure of watching public meltdowns/freakouts. But in the end you'll have to decide what is your highest priority — having fun or getting the message across; there are tricky & delicate ways to do both, but the secondary must necessarily be sacrificed and compromised in service of the primary. And no, I don't think it's justified even if what you say in the next paragraph is the reality of the situation, because I hold myself to certain standards of emotional maturity, which includes maintaining self-control even in (or rather, especially) the face of offense. More fundamentally, your interpretation could simply be wrong. The content of his comment is irrelevant, whether it's factually true or not is not the issue. Consider that people feel justified trolling your posts because they're presented in a way conducive to that. What you perceive as a serious, albeit dishonest argument, in reality is nothing more than a snarky offhand comment (there's also the possibility that what each of you defines as a 'hobby' differs drastically, but there's not enough time in the world to explicate such nuance). Leo has made multiple asinine and vulgar comments on this forum over the years, but what of it? Think of the entirety of Actualized.org as a building — the rooftop is the channel videos and course(s) where you breathe pristine air of philosophy, middle & ground floors are the blog/booklist, and the forum is the basement — a testing ground for new ideas and a platform to connect to like-minded people on the best of days, but usually just a cesspool of spiritual ego clashes, repetitive & trivial platitudes, shitposting, whining and venting about politics or dating or whatever. Even if you start a serious discussion presented in a proper manner, it likely still won't get any significant engagement, while the garbage has dozens of pages, but the quality of posts in such threads will itself be garbage. The truth is that we're not as different from other communities as we like to believe. Didn't Leo say time and time again that humans do not care about truth, that not caring about truth is corruption, and that he's still not above corruption? Connect the dots, there's your answer. I say this while having my own disagreements with the guy, particularly regarding the imprecise and inefficient ways of administering psychedelics he continues to promote (sometimes even using toxic masculine rhetoric) without realizing they really only work so well due to his uniquely sensitive genetics but yield mediocre results for the average person, or his repeated failures to deliver on courses promised (alien awakening, subconscious reprogramming). He doesn't even reply to my posts anymore, which I briefly used to take personally, but it obviously isn't, and even if it were, I don't care; in fact it was a healthy and necessary experience to unburden myself from dependency on approval and attention of someone I look up to. What's the solution? In the former case, I say my piece, lay out the arguments, and move on; whether it's taken under advisement is neither my concern nor responsibility, as I'm not the one wasting my trips/substances, sharing my knowledge is contribution enough. In the latter, I take it upon myself to develop and implement these techniques from scratch, and if the courses finally end up materializing, I'll still take them and find positive synergies that'll create something greater than the sum of its parts. Sovereignty of mind, interpretation, recontextualization, content vs. structure, self-awareness, truthful perception, holistic & strategic thinking — all these core teachings are at play here. Instead of focusing on Leo's inadequacies, which is a distraction, treat it as an opportunity to test how much you actually understand and are able to effectively utilize these principles. Speaking from experience, chances are you're in for a rude awakening, which is why that's the last thing anyone wants to do. Your responsibility is to hold yourself accountable, not him. That's the real work. The standards of integrity and truthfulness you're demanding are so high that this ironically makes them untruthful. And here's the test of your love — are you willing to sacrifice the need to maintain your current incoherent communication style, as a start, in order to practically impart your insights on ND? If not, well, that's just the current extent of it. But it gets worse. This year I'll create the most extensive guide to psychedelics to date, which will require at least 100 hours of work and performing several potentially life-threatening experiments on myself, all the while being fully aware it's quite likely to fall into obscurity or get straight up disallowed because it's "too dangerous" or something. That's how truth and love interrelate in the relative domain — you must clearly see that the vast majority simply won't care no matter what you do, not judging them for it, and yet have faith that just a few will get the message and spread the love in whichever ways they're capable. Which is what Leo has been doing all along, so appreciate and get inspired by it. Well, I suppose you are inspired, but the execution needs a whole lot of adjustment, and that starts with taking a step back and reflecting, not doubling down.

I don’t really even understand the ultimate point behind this debate around the concept of gender, to be honest. They’re going to claim that it doesn’t exist, that gender shouldn’t be a binary, and that it’s just self-expression, that anyone should express it however they feel like. But then these sorts of people only express it in binary ways; mostly as a rebellion against convention: some males dress the way women conventionally would, and some women dress the way men usually would or whatever. Character traits and behaviours get swapped as well, again in rebellion against how men and women are perhaps expected to behave. Okay fine. A very small number of extra strange people might get weird bodily modifications to make themselves look like an alien or something. But what’s the point ultimately? This all just seems hollow to me. “You are free to express yourself in whatever way you want,” as if that’s some great liberation from something. It seems to be relevant only for a fairly small segment of the population; otherwise, it’s just a waste of brain capacity to be thinking about. "B..b..but you are such a boring POS if you don't subscribe to this!" That's fine by me. I'll be a boring POS no problem

How i see it is that (nature understands nature) and has been perfecting and adapting / evolving in harmony to find balance and equilibrium in all life and all living beings with the environment. The harsh chemicals in natural things don't effect us or as seen as foreign to our bodies as synthetics, and our bodies usually have developed defenses and evolved and adapted to be able to handle and know what to do when too much of something naturally toxic has been consumed to prevent premature death. Of course there are quite toxic things out there, but you'll often find are actually nowhere near as toxic as we've been spoon fed to believe. I've been bit by venomous insects, spiders, even a snake once, and nothing serious ever happened. I've ate a bunch of amanita mushrooms and never had a bad experience, in fact I felt amazing, i observed the animals, how they ate them, i followed and discovered somethings, of course I wouldn't touch death caps, we all know about them, but even if i did, next to them grow milk thistles, the cure for mushroom poisoning, nature has it all figured out, we just need to open our eyes and senses and become properly re-educated. This is also because I stay close to nature and do not artificialize my immune system with modern medicine, pharma drugs, synthetic substances and supplements, false foods and vaccines, so when I do get exposed to something toxic, i still have a naturally functioning immune system that knows how to do its job. You often find people who are raised more artificially who then go out into nature and die of the smallest insect, and its the same for a natural man who was raised in the bush, if they all of a sudden are dropped into the modern environment we live today, they get very sick very quickly and often why indigenous people had some of the highest rates of deaths and bad reactions from the covid vaccine, its entirely alien to their systems. Another example would be fluoride and sodium fluoride, one is toxic that our bodies see as a "foreign substance" and one is not as much, because its naturally occurring, but also at quantities 100 - 1000x less than they put in our tap water or toothpastes. Or Lets say Apricot seeds, they have been very beneficial for their abilities to target and kill cancer cells, and yet its the naturally occurring cyanide in them that does it, but take too much artificial cyanide or selenium, its probably your life, and yet eat all the brazil nuts and apricot seeds you want, the body seems to know what to do with the excess and has natural indicators that signal us to stop when its enough or too much, unless of course we salt and roast them which then tricks us further. This is where people get into trouble, our entire system is backwards from the natural way unfortunately. Or here's another example, CBD oil works wonders for most people, and yet once my friend was taking meds the doctors gave him for a surgery he had, and i wanted to help him out with some CBD oil, and he had a very bad reaction, because his body was flooded with all these artificial medicine there was a clash in the system of competitiveness. It was a very (wake up call) experience for me, because I know it has helped him before. Same thing for Ayahuasca and MAOIs ect... far less likely to have bad reaction with natural herbs but take it with MDMA and you can die.

No, not the kind of Alien Mind (Mouse) Leo talks about. Rather a less advanced version of it, more practical than spiritual, a liminal space between human cognition and something otherworldly. Still, it's majorly distinct from regular states of consciousness. Over the past 2 years, I tried 60+ psychoactive substances. For the most part, they're different flavors of the same thing, but a few really stand out. I'll discuss one such chemical here, its effects are so unique I couldn't replicate them with anything else. It is O-PCE, a dissociative, a class that isn't discussed much if at all here, and that's unfortunate, since they can be as powerful, if not more so in some aspects, than classic tryptamine/lysergamide psychedelics. I don't expect many people to follow up on this or even be able to find it (it's very rare outside the EU), but that's okay. First I'll list some of the main effects I got, and then describe the technicalities. Crossing games like sudoku, chess, and others, and coming up with the best moves for each within the combined board/grid. Entering a black void where there's no sensory input/output, concepts arise directly in the mind. Paradoxically, this is where true visualization can happen, Tesla-level. A twisted multimodal way of thinking wherein asking a question like "What would Jesus do in a given situation?" shows the number 4 arising out of the darkness, and an octahedron forming from it. The answer is decoded as "something that a human can't conceive of". Multifold amplification of recall ability. Being able to retrace paths I hiked perfectly, along with what thoughts I was thinking or what I was listening to at the time. Same with car routes and the like. Enhanced mapping where I can bring to mind customs regulations of multiple EU countries, create a map with nodes, find similarities, connections, and ultimately business opportunities within those. Something like this. Multi-window perception of time (past, present, future), as well as of various avatars/parallel realities. This has ripple effects such as fractured causality - events lose their before/after relationship. A conclusion appears in the mind before the premise is formulated. A good visual example of how this feels like: Stepping out of own's identity and introspecting objectively, as if you were reading a book, largely solving the ego entanglement issues. Dimensional folding - existing between two spaces, as a flat plane with no third dimension. A bit like Funny Valentine. Similarly, spatial inversion, I 'look' within myself to 'see' the world, it's kind of like headspace, but more warped, akin to a Klein bottle. Naturally, neither language nor my use of it are capable of faithfully describing such things, but that's what we have to work with. Now for the other information. The optimal ROA for this chemical, the only one to produce such effects, is vaping. All the others are nothing like it, mostly similar to your regular dissos. I use an e-mesh to vape it, that is the best way, but people also have success with simple oil burners (meth pipes). I'll only be talking about the e-mesh here. User maxpechura has left very comprehensive instructions regarding the mesh in this thread, big props for that. You can also see this video. The optimal mode I found is power, with the wattage range of 13-17W. If you've crushed the crystals into fine powder well, you won't really need to go above 15. I typically do 14. Set an setting matter very much, it is a fickle chemical. It almost demands you being in complete darkness and silence. Also a clean mesh is crucial, I change mine basically after every session, the difference in intensity is major. Do a deep inhale, keep the vapor inside for ~20s, exhale, wait a little and repeat if you want to go deeper. Close your eyes. For someone without a tolerance (which can build quickly), even 15mg might be enough to dissolve into hyperspace, so start cautiously. The dosages for insufflated ROA on PsychonautWiki map quite accurately to vaping. Final miscellaneous notes, it's not a physically addictive substance, but can be psychologically so, so make sure to take sufficient breaks. Similar to MDMA, over time some of the 'magic' can be lost if you abuse it. Plus, being a salt form (though one that vapes really well), you don't want a lot of it in your lungs, it leaves a nasty residue. Haven't tried freebasing it, could be something to consider. That about does it. I have some exciting things to share regarding psychedelics, when the time is right - if I live to tell the tale.

@LambdaDelta I'm not against going to alien dimensions of consciousness , but I think I'd like to deepen my nondual awakening first . Thanks , I would have assumed it could be vaped / similar to ketamine / could be weighed accurately on a scale otherwise .