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hey this is Leo for actualised org and in this episode I'm going to be talking about how to use psychedelics for personal development warning the information provided here is strictly for educational and harm reduction purposes only I am NOT responsible or liable for any damage that you caused yourself while using psychedelics these substances can potentially be very dangerous and even lethal so make sure that if you do decide to experiment with them that you do so very carefully and very responsibly there are two main aims that I have for this episode which is to talk about how to use psychedelics safely I'm going to give you lots of tips for safe use of psychedelics and also how do you use them not just for fun or for exploration but for actual self actualization work so we're going to cover both these topics in a lot of depth let me be clear before we even get into that what I mean by psychedelics and what I don't mean by psychedelics when I say psychedelics I don't mean any of the following I don't mean weed I don't mean crack I don't mean mess I don't mean coke and I don't mean even MDMA or ecstasy or Molly I do not consider these true psychedelics so when you're hearing me use that word make sure you don't misunderstand me and take it as license to go do [ __ ] crack or meth that is not what I'm telling you to do so then what do I mean by psychedelics I mean things like psilocybin which is magic mushrooms I mean LSD I mean DMT I mean mescaline or peyote I mean ayahuasca which is basically also DMT I mean I boga or ibogaine I mean the class of chemicals called to see - X there's like to see B to see P and other variations of the to see class chemicals that's basically what I mean by psychedelics there's not that many of them just a handful of them these are the ones that are very useful for you in the realm of exploring your consciousness the other stuff is more recreational and is more for fun and that's not really what I'm interested in talking to you about so speaking of that let's talk about some distinctions we want to make of the different ways in which psychedelics can be used so this is very helpful for you to make this distinction it's a four part distinction so the first part is using psychedelics for fun or for escape that's one way that psychedelics can be used and in fact this is probably the most common way that psychedelics are used I'd probably estimate off the top my head that probably 90% of all psychedelics are used for this purpose to have fun to see some nifty experiences to escape from the problems of your life this is when you go to a rave or a party with your friends and people they're just passing around stuff and you try some of that or you go to a music festival and you get some substance you're not even sure what it is but you take it anyways to have fun and to listen to music and to feel love for people and and all this kind of stuff that is not what I'm talking about here that is not going to produce meaningful growth for you alright so be very careful there that's the first distinction the second distinction is people like to use these psychedelic substances for what I would call naive spirituality what is this what it is is people have many ideological and dogmatic beliefs about what reality is and what spirituality is and what God is and all these kinds of things they like to think of themselves as quote unquote spiritual people and so what they do is they take these substances these substances produced in them all sorts of very powerful visions these visions are in a sense a reflection of your own sub just mind so if you have beliefs about Jesus or Muhammad or the Buddha or you know whatever beliefs you have maybe you've got shamanic beliefs maybe you've got beliefs about spirits and ghosts and stuff or your ancestors and then you take one of these substances and then all the sudden you come face-to-face with Jesus and then you come out of that trip and then you actually believe I met Jesus and that this proves that Jesus is real and then everything that Jesus taught was correct and so what it does is that the experience the very powerful experience you have on this substance it reinforces all your existing models of reality and that can be a very very dangerous trap because basically you're deluding yourself right you're feeding that kind of naive spiritualism that you've got going that's not what I'm advocating with these substances in fact that's a very dangerous trap that I want to point out to you the third way that psychedelics can be used is for therapy or for addiction recovery now this is quite a legitimate Avenue to go down in fact there's a lot of research being done right now in universities in various countries from the US to Canada to Mexico where people and institutions are using psychedelics very effectively for addiction recovery hardcore addiction recovery like lifelong alcoholism or heroin addictions treating those very effectively with psychedelics also they can be used for therapy of various kinds for example if you have a depression if you have anxiety if you have phobias if you have childhood traumas that are plaguing you from your past then psychedelics in a therapeutic setting used with a professional who knows what he's doing that's helping you out that can be very effective but I'm not going to cover that angle here I might talk about that in the future in other episodes simply because that's not really what we're doing here with actualized org what we're interested in is the fourth way of using psychedelics which is for personal development for expanding your awareness and your consciousness and as an aid to doing non-duality work non-duality is basically working towards enlightenment so if you're following me on that and you're working everyday you're doing self inquiry and so forth you're meditating you're investigating aspects of yourself and your ego and how those are functioning in your life but you know that's a very tough road to go down that's not an easy thing to do you could spend years doing that stuff and get very little progress because it can be very challenging especially if your mind is closed to some of the very radical possibilities that you need to be open to experiencing so this is where the psychedelics can come in and be very powerful because they can open your eyes to new possibilities not that you buy a vision of Jesus but that your eyes are now open and you can see oh my present everyday beliefs and worldview is so limited until I took this substance and also you don't have to use it just for non-duality you can also use it to gain insights in your life like insights about a relationship you have or insights about the direction you want to take your business in or insights about some challenging problem you're working on at work like maybe you've got a creative challenge a technical challenge a business challenge whatever that is these substances could open your mind so much that you know you get these very powerful insights coming in and those can be very helpful also you can do personal develop in very small ways like they can help you to get rid of certain bad habits that you have or to install good habits they can get you to see the power of meditation so maybe if you've been struggling with establishing a meditation habit maybe you take some mushrooms and then all the sudden you see like wow this is amazing how can i attain this without the mushrooms and then it's like oh well yeah of course a meditation habit would be a good idea and now all the sudden you're motivated to go do that so that's what I want to talk about now what are the keys to using psychedelics and to actually get growth out of them not just for fun here are my tips for that firstly you want to under take this with a methodical approach it's not that you're just gonna go take a random mushroom at a friend's party because he hasn't happened he happens to have one and you just take it pop it and then whatever comes comes and then you're done and then you're like well I know what mushrooms are no you want to take a very methodical approach what you're really aiming towards with psychedelic substances is to get a breakthrough dose which enables a breakthrough experience when you first start taking psychedelics you should start with small doses and build your way up methodically until you get to the breakthrough dose for that particular substance and then you can try that with various substances but that should be your approach your approach should not be to try one substance one time it should be to try these substances to really see where these substances can take you a lot of times people say well leo you know I've tried I tried some mushrooms one time or I tried some LSD one time when I was a teenager at a party and you know it was a terrible experience and so now I would never touch that stuff again but see that's very different than what I'm talking about you tried it in the wrong setting at the wrong age when you were not emotionally or cognitively mature and you don't even know what you took exactly you don't know how much of it you took you had some sort of bad experience you don't know how you interpreted it you had no education you have no foundation you had no research done you didn't understand psychology or non-duality or any of these things and so yeah you had a bad experience but that tells you nothing about the power of mushrooms if you were really to take a methodical approach to start with small doses and carefully work your way up to the large doses and to actually have a breakthrough mystical experience that would be something very very different than what you experienced in high school when you were playing around with mushrooms education and research is the next tip people when they try this stuff they don't do nearly enough education and nearly enough research into the entire field of psychedelics there's so much to research there there's interesting medical studies to research there's reports from people to read both the good ones and the bad ones you've got to research what the substance is every substance you want to take you how to research it understand what it is understand the problems the side effects the complications it can have to know how often you can take it to know the kind of experiences you can expect from it see this requires weeks and months of research but most people who do psychedelics sometimes they just take a second or even know what this thing is they just take LSD and in their trip report I'm reading their trip report and it just says I don't even know what else do you want I just took a five tabs and there it is that's preposterous that's that's that's a recipe for having terrible experiences and for not getting out of grow any growth out of this process so you need to do lots of research also the next tip is you got to set a serious intention what do you want out of your trip every trip you have to want something out of it not that your neurotically controlling the trip which would also be bad you want to surrender to the experience but also you want to set a serious intention so maybe you're after truth maybe you want to know what reality is maybe you're interested in what consciousness is maybe you're interested in enlightenment maybe you're interested in figuring out some sort of psychological problem in your life like maybe you have social anxiety and you want to fix that or maybe you have fear around money and you want to fix that or maybe you've got a problem in your marriage and you want to fix that so you set that intention when you're going into the trip and then that helps to get you the insights that you're looking for that will actually be useful in your everyday life see then it goes beyond just being an interesting psychedelic experience all these psychedelic experiences they're all temporary they all pass but what can last is the the insights that you gained during that experience those can stay with you forever also what's necessary is to study and to practice psychological principles the ones that I teach you with all my content from actualise org the big problem with psychedelic users in general that I see from reading a lot of their trip reports is that they have no understanding of the principles of human psychology they don't know how the mind works they have a lot of inner demons they're using these substances to escape from their inner demons to find relief and these substances you know what they do is they open your mind they open up your subconscious mind to the depths of what's in there and a lot of people have a lot of inner demons in there which all come pouring forth and then of course that produces bad trips so you have to start to study the stuff that I'm teaching you with actualized Org like study what happiness is study what anger is study what depression is study and understand what addiction is studied understand the ego in the self and how that works study self-deception study and research what thoughts are there's a lot to learn here once you do this kind of study and you also start to practice it in your daily life what happens is that then you develop this foundation which grounds you when you go on your trip then it's hard for you to freak out because you understand like oh yeah this is just something that's happening in my brain you know I'm having these kinds of thoughts I understand the thoughts aren't actually real I understand that even visual phenomenon aren't ultimately real and so this lets you kind of calm down and enjoy the trip rather than be freaking out also you need to study non-duality this is very critical if you don't make a study of non-duality or enlightenment what's going to happen is you're going to see very powerful visions like I said before these these visions could seem religious in nature to you or very spiritual in nature to you and you're going to get lost in the phenomena of the vision you're not going to understand how your own mind is constructing this and you're not going to be able to deconstruct what the psychedelics construct for you and you're not going to be able to to really pierce through all that and to see what's really important during these trips which is the way that your awareness and consciousness works if you understand if you truly understand conceptually what enlightenment is you're going to have a much much better time during your trips because you're going to be very very grounded and you're not going to get lost in a illusory phenomenon also very important that you set up a daily meditation practice that's going to be huge for grounding you in these experiences and also a self inquiry practice I have episodes that show you how to do both of these self inquiry is what you're doing to reach enlightenment it's questioning what you are as a existential being if you set up these practices then the psychedelics you take will Wow they'll supercharge your meditation and they'll supercharge your self inquiry and they'll motivate you even more to meditate even harder and they'll motivate you even more to self-inquiry even deeper and that's going to be a huge benefit you get which most like Edel users completely miss out on because of course they don't meditate and they don't do self inquiry they don't even know what these things are the next tip I have for you is you need a quiet and safe setting if you want to get growth out of your trips don't do it at a party don't do at a festival don't do it with a bunch of friends who are noisy and loud and who are distracting you I'm talking about doing this mostly solo work you're sitting alone late at night in your house or in the morning or whatever and you take this substance and you're going deep inside yourself to explore your own subconscious mind to explore consciousness and to explore the ego the self and how all that works and you're doing it in a very palpable way because these experiences are so powerful right but you need to have a clear mind as you're going in there you need to be undistracted by things so very quiet very comfortable setting is required and a lot of bad trips occur mostly because the setting is completely inappropriate to what these substances are are supposed to be used for if you're in a noisy festival setting what can you expect it's very easy to get a terrible trip because there's all these random factors that are add your control there loud noises there are people distractions god knows what could happen also it's very important that you don't get seduced by the phenomena and the emotions of these trips these trips can really open you up emotionally you can feel loved like you've never felt before you can feel joy and bliss that you've never even imagined you can see things that you couldn't imagine your wildest dream you could see aliens you could see other beings you could see uh you know creatures from fairytales you could see God you can see Jesus you can see Buddha and all this kind of stuff but wow there's such huge potential for self-deception there it's so easy to delude yourself so if you want to actually get growth rather than delusion and regression you have to be able to see through these phenomena as reflections of your own unconscious mind and to not take them too seriously and lastly I would say that my biggest tip for you to get growth out of your trips is to leave time after the trip plenty of time to integrate what you experienced sometimes a trip can be so powerful that you will need an entire day the following day after your trip to just sit and not do anything but just to reflect and to think about it because it was so deep and you need to think about what does this mean for my life what does this mean for my career what does it mean for my family what does it mean for my finances and all this kind of stuff that's super valuable if you just take some LSD you have a raising experience but then the next day at 6 a.m. you have to wake up and go to work you're going to lose a lot of this these insights that you should be integrating that integration is actually where your mind is changing permanently you see that's super powerful so make sure that you're leaving the time to integrate what I recommend is that actually if you're going to do psychedelics do them on Saturdays if you have a standard nine-to-five job and you're working Monday through Friday the best time to do a psychedelic I think is on Saturday logistically because you can spend all of Saturday doing your trip and great then you can spend the the end of Saturday night integrating and then even Sunday morning and Sunday afternoon you could spend most of that time relaxing and integrating all the lessons that you've learned you could even have a journal a diary that you keep where you write down all your biggest insights and all that stuff that's super valuable because if you just do it on Sunday night Monday you got to go back to work and that's gonna lose you some personal development right there so those are my keys for the self-actualization now let's talk about how to do it safely so if you've never done psychedelics before or even if you have let me show you how to do it safely because what I see is that people who are even very experienced psychedelic users huh make a lot of very very stupid and obvious mistakes a lot of the stuff that I'm going to say is just very obvious but still they don't observe these rules and so of course they create very bad trips and then they don't get any growth either to get growth you first need safety you're not going to get much growth without safety so here are the safety basics first of all do tons of research on every chemical that you intend to put in your body read trip reports read and research the dosages you should know what is a threshold dose threshold means when it's just going to start to take effect on you what's the cut like a light dose what's a normal dose what's a heavy dose and what's an ultra heavy dose for every substance that you're going to take you need to know that so go do the research and don't look it up in one place cross-reference different places where people talk about dosages so that you are confident that the dose that you're going to take is not going to be some sort of heavy dose when you first start also research the negative complications and problems that people experience on these substances you want to make sure that there's nothing you don't know about these substances also of course use a reputable source to acquire your substance whether that means making it yourself which means that you're you're guaranteed to know what's in there or getting it from someone that you really know the purity is going to be high in the item that you're going to be putting in your body purity is super important don't be cheap either you don't want to be saving ten twenty bucks and getting the cheapest thing possible you want to be getting the most pure form of this stuff you can take so that you minimize any potential health problems and any freak out fear experiences you know if you're consuming a substance that you know is not pure or you're not sure what the purity is just imagine psychologically what that does to you once you put it in your body that could scare the [ __ ] out of you just that alone could cause a bad trip I would caution you to avoid taking pills of any kind of psychedelic take the psychedelic in pure powdered form because pills could be mixed with all sorts of fillers you don't know what's in there they're notoriously impure also I would caution you against using research chemicals too much and experimenting with the whole field of various research chemicals available out there because these chemicals they could not be designed for human consumption and you can get yourself into some some real trouble with taking these research chemicals so be very careful you don't really need them stick with the classic proven psychedelics that work like LSD psilocybin mescaline so forth right you don't need to go try weird untested chemicals that's just asking for trouble also avoid substances called n-bombs they can cause death and all sorts of health problems if taken too often use drug testing kits on every batch of new substance that you have drug testing kits are available online they're relatively inexpensive you can buy them legally and what they allow you to do is they allow you to to test a little quantity of the substance that you have they allow you to test it for whether it really is the thing that you think it is you can even test certain substances for purity for example you're gonna be taking MDMA you definitely want to test it for purity because MDMA is notoriously impure notoriously if you think you've taken MDMA before chances are you haven't you probably have taken a substance that isn't even MDMA so test kits are very important and make sure you test every new batch of substance don't just assume that if you got one batch and it was pure that now you're going to be getting each batch this can be just as pure that would be a bad assumption start with small doses so here is where probably most of the bad trips happen is because people take a substance that they've never tried before but they take it in way too large of a dose because they haven't researched proper dosages and or because they've already done other substances and they assume that like well you know I've done mushrooms so I can just handle LSD I'll just take a huge dose of LSD because I already know how to handle mushrooms and then from that can happen a very bad trip so you want to make sure you've started to small dosages because you're putting a foreign substance into your body if you've never done this substance before and you put a large dose in there think about how freaked out you're going to be when this substance starts to take effect that alone will potentiate terrible trips because it's like a self-fulfilling prophecy you take a substance you don't know what it really is you've never done it before you've taken a relatively large dose you know all this and now you're sitting there and this substance is starting to take effect on you and you don't know where this is going to take you and now you're starting to freak out and to have all this panic and fear but because I mean because you weren't intelligent in the way that you you did this right if you started with a small dose then you wouldn't have that kind of panic and fear and then you wouldn't have the terrible trips of course to have the right dosages you need to have an accurate scale by yourself a very accurate milligram scale thousandth of a gram down to a thousand to the gram this is a high precision scale they're relatively expensive you can buy one for $30 on Amazon but it's it blows my mind that when I read trip reports from people that they don't even use a scale I'm not even talking about a milligram scale they don't use a scale at all sometimes to measure out their substance this is the stupidest thing you can do invest in a $30 scale take only this substance buy yourself at home when you're starting off I do not recommend you invite friends over and have a party that's not what this is about take it by yourself if you want and you need security then invite one other person as a trip sitter who will be there with you but when you're taking a new substance by yourself don't also be taking it somewhere like in a park or in the middle of a city or at a restaurant or at a party or at a club or at a festival or even in the forest because you don't know what's going to happen on this substance you know you might need to throw up you might need to make an emergency call you might get hungry the trip might last for 12 hours if you're in the woods for 12 hours late into the night you know that's going to create problems for it so start doing it at home always start at home where you're the most safe and the most secure where there's least variables involved where everything is very constant and stable test it out there and once you can handle that and you really get familiar with the substance and then if you want you can go do it in the forest or something fine doing it by yourself I think is the best because it really allows you to focus there's no distractions of course there's risk with that but hey you know this whole process has risk in it clean your house as well before you consume the substance make sure that your life is put together make sure that you're not taking this substance and as you're taking it you have all these nagging problems like you didn't do your laundry your dishes are dirty your toilet is dirty uh you got work tomorrow you got a huge project at work tomorrow the kids are nagging you you know you got some important appointment to go to in five hours all this kind of stuff all this kind of pressure on you get your life in order in fact set aside the entire day for this experience so that you can prepare for it you can experience it fully without being rushed and then you can integrate everything that happens a clean house is a is just a very good like basic foundation hi dangerous objects in your house so if you have handguns weapons ninja swords kitchen knives this kind of stuff what I do just in case is I take all that stuff and I I just kind of tuck it deep into my closet so that I wouldn't be tempted to ever go in there and reach for it and play around there any of that kind of stuff so hide the dangerous objects you don't want to have a handgun lying around while you're doing one of these trips also stock your refrigerator with food and drinks because on these trips these true can last for six hours even 12 hours you know I think a long hard LSD trip will last you 12 hours so during this time you're probably gonna get hungry you're gonna get thirsty and what you don't want to do is you don't want to be like oh I'm hungry let me just get in my car and drive to the grocery store while I'm trippin you don't want that so have all that stuff prepared already in your fridge have all the food already prepared so you're not preparing food you're not cooking you're not using sharp knives and pots and pans and frying oil while you're tripping you see just like from very basic safety precautions have like sandwiches prepared or whatever you want have a fruit salad or something have a vomit bucket nearby too when you're tripping because some of these substances will make you vomit and you don't wanna be vomiting on your couch and sometimes you might be tripping so hard you can't even make it to the bathroom so have a plastic bucket there near you for vomiting also I recommend that you meditate prior to doing the trip immediately prior so spend half an hour to an hour meditating right before you're about to take the substance this will put you in a nice calm state of mind it'll slow your breathing slow your heart rate it allow you to focus on your intention the thing that you want to accomplish with this trip and it'll turn it almost into like a ritual so that you know that you're not doing this just for fun and you're not just taking it on the on a whim like oh yeah I think I'll just do some mushrooms boom it's like no I've thought about this I've planned it all out my whole day is planned out I've meditated I know what I'm doing I'm conscious I'm not using this as some escape or to like run away from a relationship that I don't want to be involved in right now you know so meditate and then consume the substance on an empty stomach not ravenous hungry but on an empty stomach because that will minimize your chances of nausea and vomiting but you also don't want to be ravenous because if you're so ravenous that you take the substance but then you're still hungry then that's going to take your attention off from the work you need to be doing when you're in the trip so maybe eat a little bit of food one or two hours before the trip like a little piece of fruit or something something very very light so that you're not hungry but your stomach is still empty I think it's very important you don't rush yourself in this process like I said set aside a whole day and I think that the best time to do the psychedelics is around noontime not in the evening because a lot of these psychedelics can give you a six to twelve hour trip think about it if it's 8 p.m. and you take some LSD and that's going to last you for 12 hours and you took it at 8 p.m. when are you going to sleep probably like by 6:00 the next morning because you're going to have the trip and then you're gonna have to come down from the trip you're gonna have all the excitement and all the insights from the trip you're not going to be able to sleep so if you take it at noontime though that will give you plenty of time for the whole day to experience everything you've got experience and then you'll go to bed at your normal time you won't screw up with your sleep schedule you won't be tired and hungover the next day right so plan this out set aside the whole day turn it into a ritual and I also recommend that the week before you do any psychedelics that you uh Nick yourself from stimulation so try not watching TV that week try not watching a lot of movies or doing a lot of web browsing and surfing because all that stuff fills your mind right if you watch a lot of TV news and you spend a whole week watching TV news of terrorism and and rapists and pedophiles and Wars and all this kind of stuff and politics and then on Saturday you pop some LSD or whatever don't be surprised if some of those some of those themes recur in your trips because after all it's a reflection of the stuff that's bubbling in your um conscious mind and also by addicting yourself una' dicta your self from the stimulation this lets you really be honest with yourself about how you're using these substances are you using this substance as a form of stimulation is it becoming a new addiction for you are you taking mushrooms just because you're bored and you got nothing else to do because that's not what I'm telling you to do here fact I'm telling you to do the opposite use your psychedelic trip experiences as actually part of your entire personal development journey where you're gonna dick ting yourself from bad food and from bad entertainment and from bad stimulation from bad information that end of itself will be huge growth for you if you can just clean your whole week up and then do your trip and you're doing that as preparation for your trip and you keep doing that week after week after week that alone will now produce a much better life for you even after you stop all the psychedelics you'll be like oh look it's so nice to be clean of bad food and bad TV and bad other stuff see also make sure that if you're going to do psychedelic that day that you're in a good mood that day if you've been planning your trip and then that date rolls around and say Saturday rolls around and for some reason you got some bad news let's say someone called you and said your friend died or something and now you're feeling terrible and now you tell yourself well you know what I'm gonna just do some mushrooms anyways cuz I was already planning to do it that would be a bad idea being a good positive cheery mood if you're in a depressive mood don't do it that day wait a few days wait a week let it pass also if you've got some very important kind of like nerve-wracking stuff that you're working on that week let's say you have a huge project at work that's due two weeks from now and you know you're crunching on it you're working really hard on it there's problems there are creative challenges all this kind of stuff you're stressed about it and then you decide to just say oh you know I'm just gonna do some mushrooms this Saturday that's probably not a good idea right wait till your project is Oh ever do it when you're calm do it when you're peaceful and you're happy don't make it harder on yourself if you do that if you do it while you're happy and your are in great mood it should take you the mushrooms whoever you're taking should take you just like to a stratospheric level of good mood don't invite friends over I highly discourage this because you're just going to be chatting [ __ ] with your friends or going to be gossiping you're going to be distracting yourself with all sorts of stuff also don't be playing the television while you're tripping and I even recommend not to play music experience the substance naturally without any other additives even music now some people disagree with me because they'll say but Leo you know music I love music I love tripping on music it's so important to my trip you can do that later after you become experienced you've really tried it out you've had a breakthrough experience on this particular substance and then you want to incorporate some music in there fine but if you're trying your first time you don't need music blaring in your ears because you don't know what kind of effect it could have it's very important you don't mix drugs and you don't mix up your psychedelics with other stuff such as alcohol or weed the combination of a psychedelic plus alcohol or weed could be a disastrous trip it's hard to predict exactly what results will happen from the combination if you're doing mushrooms for example do not do we eat and do not do alcohol at the same time because this is what creates most of the bad trips on mushrooms if you're tempted to mix and combine substances together that is telling you that you're not probably doing it for personal development you're doing it for recreation and you're doing it for escape because if you just take one substance that should be plenty enough for you know just LSD is plenty enough to have incredible experiences and just mushrooms is plenty enough you don't need anything for it if you're trying to mix [ __ ] together then what are you doing that for probably to get some sort of new kick new high but that's not why you should be doing this in the first place also be careful with cross tolerance these substances psychedelics are generally not addictive but they do lose their potency with time if you use them too often uh stuff like mushrooms mescaline LSD these all have cross tolerance which means that if you take mushrooms this week and then the next day you want to take some LSD and the next day you want to take some mescaline each trip after the first is going to be weaker and weaker and weaker given the same dosage and your body's going to build up tolerance and your trips are going to be weaker and and worse so you don't want that what I recommend is a good rule of thumb to avoid cross tolerance is to wait two weeks in between trips this is about what it takes to remove all the tolerance you build up after mushrooms or mescaline or something like LSD right just to be on the safe side also it's nice to have this kind of rule in place so that you are kidding yourself about the fact that your may be developing a psychological addiction even though these substance are not physically addictive of course anything in the world not just these substances can be psychologically addictive most likely that would happen because your normal life sucks and you love these amazing higher consciousness experiences that you experience on psychedelics and so you want to escape from your shitty life into these amazing experiences and if you're going to do that on a daily or even on a weekly basis that's not going to be growing you that's actually going to be regressing you you don't want to be escaping from your everyday life in fact you want to be having the trip coming back to everyday life and then being more in love with your everyday life if that's not happening for you then you're doing something wrong I would say that at the most once a week no more than once a week don't do psychedelics more than once a week if you're doing it more than once a week you've probably developed an addiction when you're actually in the trip how do you make sure it's a good trip it's actually very simple the number-one rule is to surrender fully to the experience and if you're doing all this proper like I said then you can also remind yourself that you're not going to die because if you did all the stuff that I said you followed every one of these guidelines then there is virtually no chance that you will die during your trip and that's a good thing to know because then that can calm you down nothing freaks you out more than the thought oh [ __ ] what did I just take I'm going to die I killed myself i poisoned myself nothing will freak you out more than that right that's why you want to observe all the safety guidelines so you remind yourself that you're not going to die remind yourself that the trip is going to pass that all this stuff is just temporary and remind yourself to relax your body open your whole body up especially when you're starting to fear any feel any kind of fear or panic setting in because you may be you're you feel like you're going down some negative flop spiral right and you think they call me and my trip is going to get so bad because I'm just I'm thinking about this bad relationships and I'm thinking about my money problems or whatever and you're just you kind of you're starting to spiral downward if that's happening to you just remember that your body can control what your thoughts are doing and the emotions you're feeling start breathing nice and slow and steady and calm and just open up pull your hands out spread your legs uncross your legs and uncross your arms and just lay there and surrender your whole body and your mind as much as you can to the experience no matter what happens if you do that that should stop any kind of negative spirals that you're done going to go down and also remind yourself that no phenomena are real if you're seeing some kind of aliens if you're seeing some kind of like nightmare scenario during your trip just yeah keep reminding yourself that these are just phenomena their visual or their auditory sensations or their thoughts in your mind this is why it's really good to be an experienced meditator and to study non-duality because then you you've already started to deconstruct these things in your everyday experience and so you will be able to keep deconstructing them when you're going into your trip and lastly what I'll tell you as a as a huge warning as a huge warning and a huge tip is do not mistake psychedelics as a shortcut for self-actualization and do not mistake psychedelics is a shortcut to enlightenment from everything I've researched and all the people I've talked to and I've talked to some very enlightened people about this issue my understanding is that you will never reach enlightenment through psychedelics never never ever ever ever the problem though is that when people know about enlightenment and then they do a psychedelic and they have some kind of powerful experience on the psychedelic it's extremely tempting to say oh that's enlightenment now I'm enlightened but that's not enlightenment you can't even fathom what enlightenment is enlightenment is so radical uh your mind can't even imagine it it's more radical than seeing aliens all right if aliens came and abducted you and flew you to another galaxy to their home planet and showed you their city and showed you everything that's going on there that experience would be less radical than enlightenment because you can at least imagine what aliens are like you see them in the movies you can imagine what a new galaxy looks like you know what a galaxy is you can imagine new planet because you know this planet and you can imagine an alien city because you've probably seen some in the movies right I know enlightenment you can't imagine it's such a radical thing that there's like there's no words that describe it and the only way you're going to reach it is by doing the really truly hard self inquiry in regular everyday life boring old life not in some sort of fantasy realm with elves and goblins and and Jesus right that is not enlightenment those can be very powerful experiences they can really open your eyes but remember to come on back to the everyday world where in the everyday world you will continue to do the work use these mystical experiences you have during your trips as fuel as motivation to do the hard work in everyday life that you otherwise probably wouldn't have done because these trips can open your eyes and open your mind to possibilities that you would have never been open to in a million years if you were just living your everyday life I recognize that psychedelics have a huge potential for delusion and what I'm talking about here is I am NOT giving you license to use these experiences to fuel your delusions or to fuel your existing webs of beliefs whatever religion you hold do not use these experiences to justify your religion do not use it to justify your ideologies do not use it to justify your notions of being enlightened already that's a very very dangerous trap make sure you remember not to do this because these experience are so powerful that they will just sweep you off your feet cognitively emotionally physically all of that and I don't want you coming back to me and writing me comments like Leo I saw Jesus and now I know everything no actually you're probably just deluded so be very careful all right those are all my tips for you make sure you stick around with me with actualised org because I'll be sharing more of my insights as I explore psychedelics is very fast field there's a lot of research being done right now and I'll be sharing research with you I'll be educating you about this topic and I'll be giving you more tips 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