This is a poor study.
But, I have been microdosing over the past few years.
Happy to answer any questions.
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Be excellent to each other.
But, I have been microdosing over the past few years.
Happy to answer any questions.
Holy hell, yeah that'd blow the roof off for sure.
I do not say this to gatekeep - but experiences have taught me that, absolutely, meditation and the path of spirit is very hard, dangerous and arduous work. Helping others through derealization and psychosis has taught me this lesson time and time again.
In my metaphor, meditation in the psychdelic context is a machete because it is the blade to cut through all the psychedelia, all the woo, all the false notions of personal loftiness from spiritual insight, all the ideas of being healed, all of the mind mess. It simply is the mechanism that you use to cut through, and then "become here and now", to allow yourself to heal beyond stories: depressive stories, happy stories, and into a state of mind that is resilient to the suffering of the times.
For small doses of psilocybin, it is - both in my experiences and in a lot of scientific contexts - considered very, very safe. Greater doses, 2.5 dry grams, you start to introduce risk triggering latent psycho-affective disorders.
For most people with common neurotic conditions, anxiety, depression, etc, it is very low risk. Out of 100M, I'd say .1% is at risk having a very negative experience due to significant, untreated issues like schizophrenia.
All of things things require support. Community, a guiding hand, will truly improve the outcome.
My city produces many laboratory grade mushrooms.
Look! https://www.magicmushroomsdispensary.ca/
There would be a significant variance in potency if we were nibbling on different parts of the fruiting body when measuring a dose. But first, you grind it into powder, measure it on an electronic scale, and then take it.
If you stick to the same supplier and the same type of mushroom, this keeps things very consistent.
Your body does build a tolerance. But there is a common misconception that the "psychedelic" presentation is where you find the efficacy. In most microdosing stacks, you combine Psilocybin with lion's mane mushroom and vitamin B12. It is usually 5 on, 2 off. Even if you do not feel any upwelling, it is working.
The process of neurogenesis is very subtle, and that is the mechanism which, when combined with other tools, will help you get over depression when microdosing. It takes time, it is a gradual, slow, re-wiring. The affect of the psychedelic experience can provide creative and mood benefits. But I believe these are separate processes with separate benefits.
Often when speaking with folks, and I notice myself, that there are no withdrawal symptoms. There is always risk of dependency when ingesting any outside substance, but something about the experience itself is resistant to abuse.
It is analagous to having a lamp in a dark forest. It won't get you through it itself, you need courage, and other tools like meditation (your machete), exercise (your provisions) and intention (your compass) to succeed. But with it, everything is easier.
Err -- AMA?
I would disagree. For many, 25mg is sub-perceptual.
Source: have done this over several year.
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Well, you know. It's been well over a year now. I walk 3 times a day and I have never left the house without these peanuty treats in my pocket. The crows have formed a parameter around my house and escort me everywhere. They come very close, have shown many, many examples of extreme intelligence, empathy and humour. But what's struck me is just how much social grace they possess. They have a crystal clear understanding of mutually sane boundaries. They know where I live, but will not disturb us in anyway. They show absolute and respectful care around "my nest".
One funny story is, after getting used to one of our common walking routes that breaks into a forest trail, the _entire gang_ showed up one day. We think there was a sort of meeting, as normally the locals in this spot around around 5-20. This day, there were 100+.
I took too long to notice, though, as I started dishing out food, only to realize... "Hey look! There are... 10... 15... 20... 40 --Fuuu-oh-oh -- Oh _shit_!" -- something like a crow tornado whirled through the street. And it's 7am! And they're loud!
We decide to turn back home (running), only to wind up crossing a road near a school -- relatively busy with commuter traffic, even during COVID -- and are followed by no less than 100 crows. The people in the cars and on the street are all staring, mouths agape, as two random people cross by surrounded by a cawing mass of grateful, hungry and black feathery insanity. Back again, as soon as we got very close to home... they went: "Ahhh, okay, well, bye!" and left quietly.
I love 'em.
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> But with the coming-of-age of IoT and ubiquitous connected services, we call them "stream-aligned" because "product" loses its meaning when you're talking about many-to-many interactions among physical devices, online services, and others. ("Product" is often a physical thing in these cases.)
Foreboding over IoT is not a strong argument against product teams. Whether it is product teams, streams, microservices, or monoliths: people have limitations on how they can maintain equilibrium and the current set of processes and tools overwhelm it at the cost of productivity.
I agree with the spirit of the argument, but I think it's counter intuitive to suggest "yet another" thought construct based on a premise of under-loading cognitive faculties.
We all want it to be better. Vegans are trying. People are trying. What good does this discourse serve?
By that I mean, this community will signup, tinker, praise, buy and complain, at a much greater rate than any other form of web traffic.
I checked for:
* Thread support (yes)
* Drag n drop images (yes)
* SSO support (yes)
* Quick Switcher (yes)
* Default dark mode (yes (!!))
There are some things missing, like search, fine grained notification controls for muting, profile editing, code snippets, moving emojis, etc. But for daily communication, I'll give it a try. Feels fast and light.
Edit: After some time, I think I will keep it around for when I am on the go and want to preserve battery. I do not think I'll use it full time because I miss some of the colourful whimsy of the Slack client.
Yes, I lost $15,000 — but if you’re going to lose money on a budgeted, high risk investment, it’s great to do so embroiled in the strangest of human/technical dramas. I am loving it.
I am grateful for this gift, and attribute to it much of my present success.
I empathize for the developers involved; I hope those that feel as I do find brighter opportunities.
The Blackberry was the peak of efficient, minimal phone usage:
* It optimized for doing things like short letter and message writing well through the keyboard.
* Blackberry messenger still leads in terms of features that can reduce noise: appear offline and availability settings, friends lists.
* It focused on productivity applications, screen size kept browsing to "as needed".
As a Canadian, I remember when the iPhone started to take over. My friends were sitting around playing Paper Toss, meanwhile my berry sat quietly in my pocket.
I have always loved games and been an enthusiastic gamer, but there was precious little fun to be had. My keyboard wary hands went through the motions, and I sat on my arse.
I sold off all my systems and found my mind open wide for reading again. Now, I have since discovered gog.com and it seems to be a splendourous portal for gamers of age. Casual, strategic, relaxing... It is much more my speed.
For me, I am a gamer — but my tastes rapidly and deeply changed with time. Smaller doses, more puzzling puzzles, and less comrades.