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this is only ever a temporary experience. total ego death looks like: actual death, catatonic schizophrenia or alzheimers. one of the unheralded advantages of psychedelics is not that they take you there - but that they wear off quickly and bring you back. talking of the mystics ramakrishna is...

i think that's great! no problem with that afaiac. if i could get away with smoking cannabis i would.

i always feel bad saying negative comments about things people point me to. i'm going to watch the whole thing (about 2/3 of the way through) i'm thinking lots about plants at the moment so it's definitely interesting. though - ha ha ha - one of those hats @sufi will remember how i wore a...

i don't understand why he thinks that what he describes as mushroom intelligence is somehow the property of mushrooms? it's clearly, whatever you want to call it, the elan vital or cosmic consciousness. it's not bound to mushrooms. so from that perspective he's a bit of a bore - going on and...

yeah that's a balanced assesment.

for the record. i have absolutely no scientific evidence for this - but - eating a bit less meat (or even no red meat) can't be a bad thing right?

i just use amazon 😞. for the liquorice the pukka 3 liquorice tea is good - there's probably something still better. i'm going to check out @pattycakes_ lions mane or the other. oh. and half an ounce of DMT please.

@constant escape and yes there's plenty to be grateful from science f'sure.

my pet hate is people trying to justify spiritual or religious beliefs with science. like scientologists, or christian scientists or quantum spiritualists. or anyone who does controlled trials on psychedelics or meditation. all total rubbish.

no. not an adult one, no. it's generally an extremely facile way of thinking. just measuring stuff. if they can't measure it apparently it doesn't exist. lol.

the precursors in this instance are the ingredients the body needs to make its stuff. to make dopamine. so if you introduce too much dopamine precursors into the body - you get too much dopamine. and with dopamine you have a sweet spot. too much dopamine and you have mental illness.

science is boring - as a method. and pointless. but chemicals? that's like saying nature is boring. chemicals are just stuff, right?

science, man. WHAT A DRAG. it's always right at the back of the pack isn't it. scurvy and vitamin C, just for instance, a control group of 6 - no placebo (even if Lind interpreted the results incorrectly...)

it's like a big soup isn't it. inputs and outputs. certain physical processes affecting that soup. my current pet theory is that meat (especially red meat consumption) is one of the big issues behind the growth of mental illnesses in the west. BECAUSE (drum roll) meat and fish contain the...

...and there was me hoping to avoid talking about myself AT ALL!

oh sugar. i'm sorry. you keep telling me this. MUST REMEMBER.

it's only my view on the brain. but i'm not exactly a scientist. just an ill-eductaed hunch 🤓

yeah it's one of those insider knowledge things. very good for "grounding" supposedly. i liked it.

he only did it once! fair play i guess. but i meant more broadly - psychedelics.

there's lots on the DMN (default mode network) and psychedelics and meditation. biofeedback is a very interesting area too. there's a new book "the culture of feedback" by daniel belgrad too. i'm not so taken by all the brainwave stuff. i reckon it's all about the chemicals in the brain...