Psychedelics

Psychedelic and drug experience: dosing, integration, altered states

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  1. algekalipso — trusted by 165 posters here
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  3. QiaochuYuan — trusted by 118 posters here
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  5. 5matthewdub — trusted by 61 posters here
  6. the_wilderless — trusted by 75 posters here
  7. danielbrottman — trusted by 68 posters here
  8. vividvoid — trusted by 72 posters here
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  10. christineist — trusted by 49 posters here
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  1. hello friends! i’m about to step on the plane to an iboga retreat and i’m nervous. i’d very much appreciate any well wishes, metta, prayers etc. you’d like to send my way 🙏 hope you’re all doing well (QiaochuYuan) — 37 likes
  2. If your interior design isn’t such that someone tripping on psychedelics would feel comfortable in your home, then - on a subtle level - it might not be comfortable for you either (TylerAlterman) — 31 likes
  3. Remember: in higher dimensions you rarely get stuck in local maxima - usually it's a saddle point masquerading as a cul-de-sac. This is why experiencing higher (phenomenal) dimensions on… (algekalipso) — 31 likes
  4. The reason we don't have a good name for the meditation-psychedelic-neuroscience-individuation religion that most of us follow is because it's still Alive, it hasn't ossified into a regulating… (vividvoid) — 30 likes
  5. I haven’t taken acid since 2019 but last night I dreamed I was back in that altered state of mind, a high fidelityt reproduction, indistinguishable from the real thing I wish I had good advice when… (RichDecibels) — 29 likes
  6. interesting to think about major quality of life improvements. surprising list, like: - loving wife - meaningful work - quit gluten - psychedelics - noise cancelling headphones - good friends what’s… (RichDecibels) — 28 likes
  7. I took mdma yesterday and I met my anger and she is so beautiful (christineist) — 28 likes
  8. alcohol is a shit drug and i wish everyone would just acknowledge this (eigenrobot) — 27 likes
  9. A non-neurotoxic version of MDMA that you could take every day like coffee would represent, not only a watershed moment for *human wellbeing*, but also, perhaps less intuitively, it would entail a… (algekalipso) — 27 likes
  10. i don’t remember if i told you guys this but the medium dose of acid thread led directly to one of my mutuals paying off their student loans, getting their first job, and escaping their abusive… (QiaochuYuan) — 26 likes
  11. next time you're on mdma and your jaw is clenching, consider the possibility that is not a "side effect" but an invitation into a somatic process (RichDecibels) — 26 likes
  12. psychedelics have frequently hit me with big insights like "you should meditate more" and "go for long walks" (loopholekid) — 25 likes
  13. 1) harry potter and the methods of rationality 2) acid https://t.co/5fKjxedQ8q (QiaochuYuan) — 25 likes
  14. a few days ago i took a medium dose of acid and wrote for several hours straight and admitted some things to myself, mostly about money let's start here: last august my mom gave me $100,000 for my… (QiaochuYuan) — 24 likes
  15. For all my new followers: Guys, you remember how anesthesia was discovered and then _not used_ for about 50 years? Yeah, for 50 years it was known that nitrous oxide, ether, and chloroform could… (algekalipso) — 24 likes
  16. oh shit: I'm not *getting new insights* when I'm high, I'm just increasing communication between rational & emotional, so the rational picks up on insights that the emotional has figured out (DefenderOfBasic) — 24 likes
  17. ok genius so how do you integrate this peak experience? not so hard really you must be a creative agent in the initial context-setting process you may experience temporary behaviour change at a… (RichDecibels) — 23 likes
  18. Tomorrow is my 33rd birthday. As a present, forget about flowers and chocolates, letters and perfumes. The biggest gift you can give me is to *consider* taking 5-MeO-DMT to try to figure out what's… (algekalipso) — 23 likes
  19. imagine renting out a sauna with all your buddies and you’re all naked as the day you were born laughing and splashing about in waters of various temperatures and also you’re all on MDMA. and also… (QiaochuYuan) — 23 likes
  20. when the homies take psychedelics thinking the insights should just integrate themselves (RichDecibels) — 23 likes
  21. I remember meeting a ~65 year old botanist and anthropologist at a conference a few years ago. His favorite activity is taking 600 to 1200 micrograms of LSD alone deep in the forest. He had done it… (algekalipso) — 23 likes
  22. joe rogan: so i took the drug that makes you quit doing startups ben shapiro: you took the what? joe: the drug that makes you quit doing startups ben: the drug that makes you quit doing startups?… (QiaochuYuan) — 23 likes
  23. Hello everyone! I'm Andrés, from the Qualia Research Institute. You may recognize me from The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences Harvard talk (2019) and The Topological Solution to the Boundary… (algekalipso) — 23 likes
  24. I've been scratching my head for a week after someone asked 'what became obvious for you after taking psychedelics?' I dunno man it seems self evident that the more primitive pre linguistic… (RichDecibels) — 23 likes
  25. What I hate about scientific psychedelic trials (aside from the abuse and gaslighting!) is the unchangeable control of method, using a ~60 year old psychotherapeutic model ignorant of current trauma… (5matthewdub) — 22 likes
  26. mainstream psychadelic therapy (eye mask lie on couch) can only ever "heal" anyone to the extent to which it anneals minds into PMC social patterns (constrained movement, desk work). mind is… (myceliummage) — 22 likes
  27. From a long conversation I had with someone who has legally administered psychedelics to 600+ people and who is one of the most self-aware persons I have ever met: Psychedelics don't treat… (algekalipso) — 22 likes
  28. oh no dmt elves might be ads (exgenesis) — 21 likes
  29. Did LSD for the first time this afternoon. 🤯 (UntilTrees) — 21 likes
  30. working hypothesis from diy therapeutic mdma experiments: trauma healing is what naturally happens if you reflect on difficult experiences while feeling deep embodied sense of safety (RichDecibels) — 21 likes
  31. wow. can’t believe someone made a movie about the alternate timeline where my mom takes a medium dose of acid instead of me https://t.co/Z01kTf9ej2 (QiaochuYuan) — 21 likes
  32. The best metaphor for psychedelics I've ever heard is that they are a helicopter tour of the Holy Mountain. You get to witness all kinds of glorious, hidden spiritual truths. Then the helicopter… (vividvoid) — 21 likes
  33. i guess that's why acid is the perfect drug for me to process this stuff with. acid was directly involved in some of what went down but also ime it's the drug that best facilitates holding a hundred… (QiaochuYuan) — 21 likes
  34. flashback to the moment we were managing a covid outbreak at an event and one of the guests sincerely notified us not to worry about them because they had been granted immunity by mother ayahuasca (RichDecibels) — 21 likes
  35. Shinzen Young, after I explained to him our models about 5-MeO-DMT, tracer frequencies, and psychedelic cryptography (PsyCrypto): "What you're doing is *really* cool, man. It actually has a bit of… (algekalipso) — 20 likes
  36. the "heroic dose" is misnamed. sobriety is the heroic choice. visit the present moment without armor, unmediated, in direct contact with your desire & pain. writhe under the touch of the animal… (RichDecibels) — 20 likes
  37. functionally a drug counts as a psychedelic if using it could cause you to quit your job. that’s the relevant point at which it becomes disruptive to the interests of capital. this is why alcohol,… (QiaochuYuan) — 20 likes
  38. Reminds me of an anecdote from Pollan’s psychedelic book that matches a few experiences of my own with inner imagery: He did a mushroom trip where he saw a big dark horrifying city/castle/thing… (the_wilderless) — 20 likes
  39. If you can drop your projections (hard!!) the range of human variability is just insane. An airport is a psychedelic trip (nosilverv) — 20 likes
  40. Pro-tip: If you're a founder and you have decided what you want to dedicate your energies on, don't use psychedelics! It will jitter you out of the hyperparameter basin you worked so hard to hone… (algekalipso) — 20 likes
  41. I'm not particularly worried about people being one-shotted by the 6D mesoamerican demon when taking ayahuasca I'm much more worried about people already having been one-shotted by the 2D infinite… (m_ashcroft) — 20 likes
  42. nobody seems to know how to say this but it is possible to make *philosophical mistakes* on psychedelics. that's why they don't automatically lead you to the truth. in fact they can significantly… (QiaochuYuan) — 19 likes
  43. A bad peyote trip? You mean toxic mescalinity? (vividvoid) — 19 likes
  44. replace "ego death" with "ego reboot" ✅ less scary ✅ more accurate ✅ gives appropriate intuitions for the benefits of doing it regularly ✅ doesn't imply you could (or should try to) function in a… (Malcolm_Ocean) — 19 likes
  45. i have a new post out today – it's all about ketamine and the Bayesian brain theory. it covers ketamine pharmacology and phenomenology from the ground up, as well as why i think it can be such an… (cube_flipper) — 19 likes
  46. psychedelics give me coordinates for cool neighbourhoods of consciousness I can later visit sober (RichDecibels) — 19 likes
  47. psychedelic assisted therapy but with pickles instead of psychedelics. who is working on this? (RichDecibels) — 19 likes
  48. when you're on psychedelics and it seems that you can solve all the world's problems if you just finish this one thought the math for the whole thing is about to make sense... but you come up short… (exgenesis) — 18 likes
  49. QRI is *literally* the only organization in the entire world pushing for research on anti-tolerance drugs to make painkillers more effective in the long term. Anti-tolerance drugs as a *field*… (algekalipso) — 18 likes
  50. You know it's 2023 when Qualia Computing starts talking about how the Waluigi effect relates to aligning DMT entities. https://t.co/zAJNLiR3TZ (algekalipso) — 18 likes

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