Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

[Yimpa]

https://www.actualized.org/insights/actualized-quotes-730

A truth so deep, understanding it kills yuh.

[TheBG]

https://www.actualized.org/insights/slay-the-spire-2

(Not @'ing since this is not important)

Which Character do you like to play the most right now, Leo?

I like all of them, of course, but I lean towards Regent. I like the star mechanic.

It truly is such a great game. I am glad to see it get some attention. Did you ever play Terraria? I like that one as well. 100% different, though.

[Leo Gura]

3 minutes ago, TheBG said:

https://www.actualized.org/insights/slay-the-spire-2

(Not @'ing since this is not important)

Which Character do you like to play the most right now, Leo?

I like all of them, of course, but I lean towards Regent. I like the star mechanic.

It truly is such a great game. I am glad to see it get some attention. Did you ever play Terraria? I like that one as well. 100% different, though.

I like Regent and Defect the least. Too much gimmickery.

I like the other 3. Necro is a great addition.

I like the challenge of Silent. It's hard.

I know of Terraria but somehow it never appealed to me.

Edited 23 hours ago by Leo Gura

[EdgeGod900]

@Leo Gura 

you still recommend a timed lockbox for someone who can ground themselves through meditation and by remembering their insights about reality, which helps keep them from acting on suicidal/harmful thoughts?

 

I also live in a high-rise, btw.

[PsychedelicEagle]

4 hours ago, EdgeGod900 said:

you still recommend a timed lockbox for someone who can ground themselves through meditation and by remembering their insights about reality, which helps keep them from acting on suicidal/harmful thoughts?

I've always thought of myself as very well self-regulated while tripping, until I had some experiences that blew me away.

If you do psychedelics long enough, eventually you will have trips that shake you out of normal behavior.

[Leo Gura]

6 hours ago, EdgeGod900 said:

you still recommend a timed lockbox for someone who can ground themselves through meditation

Yes. Absolutely. If you are doing heavy tripping.

Given enough trips, everything that can go wrong will go wrong.

Edited 12 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Leo Gura]

6 hours ago, EdgeGod900 said:

I also live in a high-rise, btw.

Install a simple padlock on your patio door, and put the key in your lock-box.

[gengar]

4 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Install a simple padlock on your patio door, and put the key in your lock-box.

this is highly irresponsible considering the case of fire brakeouts or other emergencies. just dont trip in a highrise if you're afraid you'll jump.

[Yimpa]

12 minutes ago, gengar said:

this is highly irresponsible considering the case of fire brakeouts or other emergencies. just dont trip in a highrise if you're afraid you'll jump.

I’ve hallucinated that during a deep trip, even with every possible safety measure in place taken prior to the trip.

The truth is, no matter how prepared and safe you plan things out, you will inevitable face something extremely challenging within yourself. I think the point of this work is to overcome our fear of Death/Love.

“But that was just an hallucination!” Yes. AND…. Even though that experience was a hallucination, it was 100x more real than what we consider this physical reality as a human. The silver lining is experiencing  transforming into a phoenix after I had jumped and trusted God. I was all Alone with no therapist or human to save me. It was a powerful mystical experience and reminder that I am capable of overcoming hell, and that at the end of the journey, there is only I Am.

[PsychedelicEagle]

3 hours ago, gengar said:

this is highly irresponsible considering the case of fire brakeouts or other emergencies. just dont trip in a highrise if you're afraid you'll jump.

New product idea: timed lock box with smoke detector.

Just has to distinguish regular vs DMT smoke 🤣

Edited 4 hours ago by PsychedelicEagle

[Oppositionless]

That's why I don't take acid or shrooms without a sitter. Dmt ill happily do by myself 

[Natasha Tori Maru]

Good morning Leo 

Time to slam you with a question out of pure curiosity around your process of understanding:

When you arrive at an understanding that you cannot yet articulate, do you experience that understanding as primarily tacit (something you somehow "see" before you can explain why) and then afterwards develop the explicit/mechanistic model through contemplation and analysis (reverse engineering)?

Or is the tacit understanding (or realization) largely coming from a product of accumulated knowledge and erudition?

In your own experience, how much of genuine understanding arrives tacitly, and how much is constructed explicitly from first principles?

Do you think there is a "break point" of knowledge where tacit understanding begins to manifest with more frequency?

I suppose this is ultimately a series of questions about the relationship between intuition, tacit knowledge, accumulated wisdom, and epistemic rigor. You probably experience both tacit understanding and working up from first principles.

Edited 26 minutes ago by Natasha Tori Maru