Timestamps: 3:20 - Overdosing 7:10 - Physical harm 9:46 - Bad trips 13:06 - Facing fear and trauma 19:23 - Confusion about reality 20:00 - interactions with mental illness. 23:22 - Interference with pursuit of success, career, etc. 28:37 - Using them as escapism. Have your basic survival figured out first 32:18 - Becoming too isolated 33:24 - Making rash decisions. Don't make any big decisions for at least a week after a trip 35:36 - Demotivate you from meditation bc it will never compare. Resist this and maintain your daily practice 39:24 - Falling into chronic usage. No more once every 2 weeks but even 2x/month is not enough time to fully integrate 42:05 - Misinterpreting visions and insights. Your ego will try to corrupt these 46:51 - Pain of being disconnected from God in your day to day life 50:33 - Suicidal thoughts. 53:00 - Legality 56:56 - Taking the wrong substances. Know what it is, the source, the dosage, etc. 57:56 - Toxicity from impure substances 1:00:42 - Bad interactions between psychedelics and medications 1:01:27 - Mixing substances 1:02:48 - Gateway drug 1:04:09 - Chronic weed addiction 1:05:12 - Tripping at clubs, parties, out in the woods. Do them in a room where you won't be disturbed. 1:05:57 - Research chemicals 1:06:56 - HPPD Hallucinogen persisting perception disorder 1:09:08 - Extracting or synthesizing yourself 1:10:24 - Online scams, shady dealers, etc. 1:10:53 - Driving while intoxicated. Don't do it. 1:12:27 - Majority of these dangers can be easily avoided. 1:16:45 - Top mistakes psychedelic users make 1:21:40 - Closing thoughts
I probably had a 100 trips before you were born. I never thought about integrating it into the Non-Dual path. This channel got me back into psychedelics and non dual teachings 3 or 4 years ago and my trips are nothing like they were 20 or 30 years ago. Psychedelics are a tool.
How Did your psychedelic experience changed over the years? The human Brain ages, I ask me how this affects the psychedelic experience in a positive or negative way
After a certain dosage level tho is it just balls to the wall for everyone? Like regardless of whether you go into wanted some teaching or fun. Its just a blast off to another realm either way basically right? Orr, will it differ at the high doses too. Never up that high so idk.
One of the sad things for me is, you have a life changing experience on psychedelics, become more genuine and loving and people that knew the old you think you’re weird.
@Max Payne that’s a good thing… not being able to fight it means you have no control if it gets bad. you need to be ABLE to fight it and CHOOSE not to fight it, that is objectively the safest most productive way
This whole video is such a good reminder that just because you've taken psychedelics doesn't mean that you're special, chosen, above everyone else and have life figured out. I see it way too often; someone takes psychedelics a couple of times, and they act like they are now enlightened and better than everyone else. My ex did this, too, after he took a few hits of LSD. At least he didn't act like a guru, but on the other hand, he tried to convice me that he had more knowledge and experience than a shaman who's dedicated his life for over 20 years working with plant medicines.
In my experience most people who took psychedelics become enlightened only in their own eyes. Nothing really changes for better or worse in their attitude toward others, they do not become smarter, deeper or better in any way. But they often think otherwise🤷🏼♀️
I pop on you channel from time to time to listen to what you have to say. This video hit home. I am a woman in my 50s. Kids are grown. Just me and my elderly husband. For the past two years I've been interested in mushrooms. I got interested because my husband has cancer and we thought it might help with his death anxiety. He didn't care for the experience but I jumped in head first. The worst trip I had was on 3 g of mushrooms. I took them because I was bored. I had my husband take me to the thrift store just to get out a bit. I walked the aisles of the store morning all the obsolete items no one wanted anymore Then I began mourning myself as an obsolete item. Being bored is the worst reason to do mushrooms. That was about a year ago and I still have trouble finding meaning in life. That trip left me with Simi permanent nihilism.
But you had this nihilism in you even before shrooms. You tried them out of boredom. They show you what was already there. You have no serious hobbies, goals or interests go figure
I have manic bipolar depressive disorder (type2 or sumn I think) and I've done numerous psychedelics in varying amounts, having studied every substance prior and set out with intentions, and they've only helped me understand myself and life from various angles at one time. Dope episode man.
TYSM for making this Leo. The part about getting your material life together before you delve into the spiritual realm really hit home. I'm currently 19 studying at a prestigious university, so I believe I've got a good chance of being financially secure. The problem I'm facing is that I'm too academic, too theoretical. I really need to develop practical skills like cooking, mastering the opposite gender, creating a fashion sense for myself, looking after my nutrition and appearance, developing my language and communication skills.
Just had a bad LSD trip last night by combining it with SSRI. Perfect timing, thank you Leo. I’ve been overconfident with what I could handle based on how much practice I’ve done. Needless to say, even a bad trip is a lesson learned.
@@ElDiariodeJavierSuarez ignorance and immaturity along with impatience on my development. Needless to say I realized I was Leo as I was watching him and he berated me for being so stupid with such a strong chemical
Here we go again. 1. Classic psychedelics and SSRI are not dangerous. In opposite, psychedelics effects are reduced or even cancelled, because of the SSRI blocking the 5ht2a-receptors. If anyone can link me a report of someone taking a psychedelic tryptamine with fluoxetine/citalopram/sertraline and similar substances and having trouble that clearly results out of this combination, feel free to do so. 2. What is dangerous is combining an SSRI or MDMA with an MAOI, which is the ingredient in Ayhuasca that makes the DMT orally active. There are also some MAOI medication against depression, but they are rarely prescribed these days. @@luckydueces5873 Which SSRI did you take? Chances are high that it wasn't the SSRI that caused the bad trip. You can find thousand of reports of people taking psychedelics on SSRIs without problems except reduced effects.
@@light_of_existence very interesting. I’m relieved to know it wasn’t the Prozac that caused it. Perhaps it was just the overwhelming onset of the LSD. It had been a while since I took it and I overestimated how much I could handle. But I know one thing, from the two tabs I took, it seems highly unlikely that medicine made it less potent.
I recall commenting on Leo's videos about non duality around 2015, saying that what he was talking about was just what it felt like for me when I tried psychedelic mushrooms,, and his reply was something to the effect that "only losers use drugs." Fun to see where he's at now...
And you feel good to attack an individual for changing their mind whilst you were growing? I see where you’re coming from and you can feel that way because you are but- that’s the best you could do insulting ones ignorance?
Franky Kray. Quit crying clown, he should’ve never called the guy a loser in the first place. that’s rude. Especially if he walks around here with his big bald head like magneto trying to HELP people
This was a great video… as someone who has lots of experience with psychs I wish my younger naive self fully took all of these dangers into account. I have hppd and it’s not as nonintrusive as it sounds… visual clarity goes a long way in making someone feel grounded and present in reality. I’m taking a long break now from all psychs
@@haggridhinglehorn I gained a lot of self awareness from my first trips. Started out as a bad trip, hearing thoughts in my head and seeing old memories through a bird's eye. I saw my whole life, beginning to end in a very condensed compilation of mental imagery and conversations. Saw I was being toxic in every aspect of my life, that I had let my ego swell and saw a different world than others. When I saw my world through their lens, under severe persecution by my own brain or perhaps even God I wondered at that point... It was then I learned the only way to cure anxiety is by being a better person. By creating an attainable goal, I was able to take control of a mental war, and avoid being folded in by the sudden pressure to better myself. Wisdom gained; psychedelics aren't always fun, but a bad time can be turned into strength. Strength earns wisdom.
@@alegotronnortogela7695 I like it. Perhaps truly earning something implies that a cost must be paid. You tripped out, reflected, and earned your slice of wisdom. Well done!
Realizing that life is meaningless - if you really “get it” - is not at all a nihilistic vision. Doing to simply do has no meaning, no “why”. Doing to do rather than doing to get is actually a very joyful, liberating, and enlightened way to live and create.
Finding meaning is also very liberating. A point on your healing journey you feel the pain of the world without getting angry like before. It’s kind of like experiencing Happiness without any joy... best of luck searching for Truth.
@@eXpas04 “Meaning” is an element of a fabricated equation between a decision, a result, and a reason (why). Inherent in that equation is the abdication of one’s personal power and responsibility. The “why” is fabricated after a decision is made. When one takes full responsibility for his or her decisions, there’s no need or desire to fabricate a “why”. The “why” is that little lie that socks people into their minds, leading to a life filled with mental garbage.
I have to say psychedelics have helped me tremendously with my depression i trip about 3 times a year and I always become a better person after every trip just my opinion and experience
50:00 U mention 'mundane life' being boring and seeming uninteresting compared to being close to God when tripping. What helped me was seeing the Beauty that is 'hidden' in the mundane and realizing how much Beauty is in this life and how unaware most of us are of this Beauty that surrounds us. Very simple example for me would be the sky, the Beauty you get to witness every single day at sunset, the beautiful combination of deep orange and baby blue; It's something that we literally see every day, and personally it never gets old. Beauty and God are synonymous in my mind so for me I am always surrounded by God, and the feeling of appreciation I feel for the fact that I got put in this place and get to see all this Beauty and feel this Love is incredible. Same with beautiful Humans, Nature, Animals. Sometimes I feel like this life is like a tour through Gods Museum, the biggest and most versatile Art project ever created.
Thank you so much for talking about this. I've been worried about a friend who trips regularly and I have noticed a personality disorder arising in them. It scares the hell out of me but they believe that it is helping them. I think it's great to experience every so often but a lot of people have a bit too much praise for the substances and ignore the potential dangers.
Bird to the wise Leo it should be expressed that knowledge by experience and research done properly before a first encounter happens is a foundational key I can grasp. Good content as always appreciated much, a big thanks your way bro!
The only time I had a bad trip on mushrooms was when I watched a horror show with a few friends. I wasn't trying to prove anything, but I completely underestimated just how much it would take over the whole room. Everything you choose to watch feels like it pulls you in. And I have no interest in jacking up the dose and bragging about it. It's a personal experience that has to do with my own spiritual growth. Also, I'm so tired the next day, I couldn't possibly do it that often. Maybe once a month. If I feel like I'm avoiding responsibilities to have a trip, then forget it. I'll put off the trip until it feels like the right time. And if someone thinks they need psychedelics to elevate their consciousness, then I wonder what their mental state is. Mushrooms have reminded me of the beauty in aspects of life that I appreciate so much more even while being straight sober. It's like a dial. They wind you up, but then the dial does go back down, but not all the way back.
@@SpiritualPsychotherapyServices because, people like to accuse Leo of not being careful with his teaching's and causing others to harm themselves by either suicide or many other ways Leo covered in this video. Very childish behavior on the forum somtimes.
You should warn people of the very real danger of eating more than 7 grams of mushrooms and pooping your pants or jumping out of a second story window. Not that I know about either of those things. No way. Never happened. I swear
@@lloydmiller3150 haha Mike Tyson is such an amazing human being. I'm honestly not that big into social media but I want to see 'iron' mike whoop the older Paul brothers whole ass so bad.
Idk about shutting myself I ate 7g of shrooms and I was watching the walls burst from being full of water. No I was not anywhere near an body of water.
Thank you ! Very powerful video ! Took DMT (Ayahuasca) myself and ended up at mental hospital after that... the dose was way too much .. thank you for sharing this video because it's very needed to make people aware of the danger !!!
wow, i actually used psychadelics in the way that i would do them, have a bad trip, and then rebuilding myself up, picking myself up, accepting the shadow and so on, it was really helpful, but now it would be hell of a slow for my development,thank you for this vid
Nope, that is NOT the only dangerous part, I took 6 lsds and punched my mother and got locked up a long time. So, you have to be careful because you can hurt yourself or others and then your life won’t be as great.
Stupid people are the reason this video had to be made as they are telling every one to go do psychedelics by themselves. Even stupider people quote Terence McKenna like he was some kind of prophet.
derealization and depersonalization is one of the scariest feelings i have ever experienced, everything around me felt as if i was in a dream like state. my heart was racing really fast and my vision felt distorted, i couldn’t grasp my thoughts or my mind. as leo said i felt like my life didn’t matter, i felt disconnected and distant from everyone including my family, i felt like i was going insane, i kept trying to tell myself i would be fine but no matter how many times i tried to calm myself down negative thoughts overcame the “positive” ones. i told my brother how i was feeling and he also called me crazy, so that didn’t help either. at one point i was sitting there wondering if anything before my eyes was actually real, or if i was just imagining it. i kept hearing and seeing things out of the corner of my eyes. everytime i closed my eyes and tried to fall asleep i felt like i was going to die. i convinced myself that i was dead bc nobody understood me. i cried and cried feeling so hopeless as if i was stuck in this mess forever. time was going by unnecessarily slow, i remember looking at my clock after only 5 mins went by but for me it felt like an hour. i am better now but sometimes i slip back into these states of feeling unreal. always take psychedelics srsly, take EVERYTHING seriously at all times.
@@leocarbaugh5074 I think "waking up" is just realising how little you know and how limited your perception of the world is. So life is just a journey of learning new things and old things.... So why should you stop taking psychedelics? You can always learn new things. Dig deeper. Enjoy yourself...
Experience is the keyword to using psychedelics. A mature approach with an understanding of your own body's reactions to psychedelics based on experience, is what actually works.
It's good to see you back to reality, I remember when you did that 30 day 5-meo-DMT experiment and you definitely lost your mind for a while. You seem rational again now which is good!
Thank you! This video is really important. Psychedelics are not toys. They can be really dangerous and I'm tired of how it's mostly used in a positive manner. I've wanted you to make this video ever since your 30 days retreat.
As someone suffering from HPPD, that is a major downfall. The benefits of psychs don't out weigh HPPD. I'm just glad I don't have it as bad as others and I'm still a functional person. However I had a taste for what could happen to your brain if you abuse them too much and it's horrible. All my use of LSD has just made me realise that I didn't need drugs including psychs. I'm saving psychs for when I'm old and I've accomplished everything in my life I want to do first. You're brain is very precious, don't fuck it up by doing too many psychs - it's scary as shit.
Wow Leo!!! I got this video at the perfect timing. I know I've feeling you on a few things. But I thought I was ready for a DMT trip it was absolutely horrible and terrifying. I kept having this very negative feeling that loop around in circles. It was like I couldn't grasp my thoughts and I felt so Doom and Gloom it was to the point where I couldn't sleep it off I just had to sit and endure it I thought I was totally healed from losing my brother my sister my father and nephew. I have been searching Truth for the last 20 years. It all began with the question of the afterlife which I realize There Is No Death there's only transfer of our conscious energy but this trip was so repetitive I even spoke my thoughts on my recorder on my phone and everything was jumbled I was saying that I could almost see and feel my thoughts swirling around me and I would think of something and it was gone the next Second and this horrible Doom feeling came around about every 30 seconds I really felt like I was in Hell of how I perceive it. But in the back of my mind I knew it was just an experience and that I was either on a lower frequency or experiencing it. And everything you are saying about the psychological effects are so damn true. This happened two days ago and I'm still thinking about it but I don't see it as a negative thing Drake but I am hesitant to try that again but I know I really feel like I need to
My initial reaction was that I don't need to watch this, because I've been researching psychedelics for a while. But there are some valuable lessons in here that I needed to hear. #stayhumble 🙏🏼 💚☯️
I am legally blind and I've been this way my entire life but I have taken psychedelics hundreds of times maybe not as many but mushrooms and LSD on top of MDMA. I wouldn't say that they're the strongest psychedelics at all but they are still psychedelics I would like to tell my story but I feel that people might not be interested in hearing about a legally blind man taking psychedelics you my personal experiences with them.
On my first LSD trip my mind was cleared in the beginning. I was with a couple of close friends and then I started getting paranoid. I went to the bathroom and started pooping uncontrollably. That was from my anxiety. I thought my organs were going to come out of my rectum and i was going to die. About 30 minutes later I calmed myself down and joined my friends again. We were listening to psytrance and my friends were staring at me everytime I looked away from them. I genuinely could not tell if they were actually doing that or it was my paranoid mind playing tricks on me. It was strange because I dont get paranoid when I'm sober. My mind constantly kept going from paranoid to relaxed. One thing I learned about myself that day is I need to trust people I care about more. DONT TAKE LSD IF YOU'RE NOT MENTALLY PREPARED. If you read this thank you :)
I have been having a problem similar to what was mentioned in this video regarding motivation. I, however, haven't done psychedelics for 4 years now. Even then, after my trip my family said that I was a "fundamentally different person" and the like. I understand what they mean. The me that was once there is a distant memory. Along with losing that me, I also lost a lot of the things holding me back, like my reliance on others and weed. But also, I lost motivation and disconnected with my fellow man. It feels like I am so far removed from everyone and everything. Like he mentioned earlier, once you feel that all encompassing love nothing else can ever hope to amount to that. Same with the level of consciousness you achieve. In comparison, love and relationships, as well as working towards making "meaningful changes" in the world feel meaningless and without reason. Its almost as if the world is just one big joke. I want to do something deeply beneficial for humanity that will elevate our base nature and bring us into higher forms of being, but I realize that is pointless. Our cyclical nature proves so. We are stuck where we are because this is the extent of human experience. Always was, always will be. It makes me feel like trying to do anything that I feel would achieve such a goal is truly meaningless. Although it feels meaningless, I also feel that to not do that is even more meaningless (as paradoxical as that sounds). It doesn't matter if I try to help humanity free itself or whatever I dreamt of doing because in the future people will fall for the same tricks that I would have spent my entire life exposing and creating counter-measures to prevent exactly that. If that's the case then what is the point? Why bother? But to just sit still and to let it happens also feels like a horrible waste. I don't know what to do. The inevitability of the reversion of my efforts make them laughable at best, and deathly disheartening at worst. I am having trouble finding what I should actually do with my life and more importantly finding meaning in it. And then there's relationships. I comprehend the flaccid nature of our emotions potently. Part of what made me not do psychedelics again after 4 years is the profound effect they had on me. I am still learning many things from that experience. I couldn't imagine dropping every day.
I really appreciate you writing this honest way that you feel. I think a lot of people feel it. I haven't been on any profound trips and am no where near enlightenment, but I too feel that lack of meaning sometimes. I am almost 50 and have many many years of hard work behind me, and well.. I needed to work for survival, but the job kinda was really tough. During times when I don't know what my meaning in life is.. I soothe myself by just being basically a kind and nice person to the people around me.. Sometimes I take food to the homeless people.. I reckon that even if I can't alleviate their hunger, then I still added a good deed to the world and hopefully one day, when that person is able, then they will pay that good deed forward again. I dunno if it counts, but it helps me get off my arse! 😂 Good luck bro, keep the meaning 🤗🤗
@@GloryDaze73 thanks for your kind words. And I hope you as well have found true meaning in your life. I'm only 22. I'm certain there's plenty more hardship to come for me. Especially considering the current environment. There's so much going on and the future has never been more elusive. I trust that things will work out. For both of us. Thank you for reaching out.
Psycs definitely killed my rat race motivation early. I don't really care other than economically it's been difficult to make ends meet. I feel like I am living life as close to the way I want to live it but that comes with more financial consequences of having more low stress jobs. Life is short. I just wanna not be miserable chasing jobs and some number. The numbers are never gonna add up sooner you realize that the better.
Brooo literally how I feel . Sometimes I feel kinda left out , but really like that other girl said just find some hobbies and interests and just cultivate them , try to have human experiences and yeah love . What else there really to life
Leo: “Alright, that’s it. I’m done here.” Me: “No you’re not” Haha. Love that last piece of wisdom. Usually the best part. Love your work Leo. Keep going
Your most meta videos combined with months of new experiences, serious self reflection, including psychedelics with others and alone, have completely changes my perspective in a way I find impossible to explain and extremely exciting. Your videos help me understand questions I have always wanted to ask, but not know who to whom. I have experienced a peace like I never knew possible. Looking forward to seeing how this changes my trajectory in life. Thank you.
Dear person, who reads it. Yes, I mean exactly you! Maybe we don't know each other. Still, I want to say, that I believe in you! You will certainly achieve your dreams and your happiness! Just don't give up and be honest with yourself! Now you have at least one person who constantly believes in you, which means you are fated to realize your dreams! No doubts here ^) *Best wishes for you ❤️ from a small TH-camr*
What baffles me is how people can be into various psychedelics and still be triggered by spirituality never having any mystical experiences on them seeing them just as 'a fun pass time'. The 'solid foundation' of deconstruction offered here is actually damn rare, it’s just so crucial to using them properly, couldn’t be more grateful. 💗🙏✨ “The search for Reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings, for it destroys the world in which you live.” ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
yeah I always do have anxiety, like my palms sweat even since I was young. But after my 5me0 DMT experience my palms no longer sweat and I believe it has helped my anxiety. I have also had the strength to quit my 20-year cigarette addiction on the spot, which no doubt will pay for my trip before I even know it..
@@Itswayningout if you smoked a pack a day, it can buy you an actual vacation once a year to a nice place! At least with the cigarette prices in my country which is 9$
So I would say I classify as the wreckless one, but just fresh and new to the journey, nothing crazy. I have not educated myself or watched any of your videos on psychedelics yet, I'm moreso into spirituality/enlightenment type of your videos, but feel like my mind is opening. Just want to say I'm only twelve mins in and I feel very "sobered" and humbled. Thanks 😋 *continues watching
@@anonmouse7900 I'm a bit all over the place haha like I'm gay and watched his how to make a girl squirt one LOL I'm kind of an organized chaos type person, but feel like I need to connect the dots now, still have tonnes to watch 😇
The not eating a meal beforehand is a great protocol. No afterlife hell, it's all here and now if in a low state; especially on a bad trip. A year of monthly bufo ceremonies have removed my social anxiety, cleaned up my diet & helped my OCD. Great point about meditation practice, I found I had to do hapeh with it to really enhance it to non dual.
Bro, I dead ass just did Shrooms for the second time in my life, THEN you drop this video in the middle of my trip. There wasnt anything bad with my experience (it was incredibly profound in ways I cannot explain), but its incredibly serendipitous. I choose to only do Shrooms everyone once in a while so to speak. The first time I did Shrooms, I've been Vegetarian ever since. I don't know what changes I'll make in my life this time around, but I just know it will be positive. More people need to see this type of content.
Take this mans words seriously everything he said about doses especially I made that mistake I took extremely high doses extremely early mixing drugs just trying to speedrun my way to enlightenment and now I have panic attacks every time I smoke weed or think about psychedelics it's been a year it's getting better but it's not easy
As a young man I've had some really fun trips. I took too much and had a couple really bad trips when I was 19. Almost every time I tried it again i had a bad time. I'm now 44. All those mind bending experiences haven't helped me at all from what I can tell. Sober meditation however has helped tremendously.
been battling anxiety, depression and insomnia but getting to meet *Healermanchris* on IG who sales DMT, Shrooms, LSDs and other psychedelic products. I have been effectively stable and relaxed, he ships discreetly worldwide
My favorite dose is between 2.5-3.5 grams. My max dose was 10 grams and like you said, I couldn't even remember it except that I passed out. The lower doses however enabled me to really work through some of my issues. One of these lower dose trips was far more effective than all of the therapy sessions I've gone through put together in my life. My brother however went overboard and did 15 grams of Penis Envy (generally 2-3 times stronger than regular cubes) and had HPPD like symptoms for 6 months afterwards and regretted doing that much even without the HPPD symptoms. EDIT: Also forgot to mention, I got nausea and vomiting even on an empty stomach. The only thing that prevents this for me (I still get nausea but don't throw up on tea) is to dose with mushy tea instead of eating the hard to digest chitin.
The bottom line: Ceremonial use of psychedelics with a trained facilitator/shaman and helpers. Advanced preparations and approaching these substances with humility and respect. The importance of set and setting as advocated by The McKenna brothers and others psychedelic luminaries. They are game changers. Be vigilant and stay safe! ♥️🙏🏼♥️🙏🏼♥️
Wish everbody watched this before even going close to psychedelics. I didn't. I did mdma in between ayahuasca ceremonies and got hppd. It was hell. Luckily i know energy healing and slowly managed to heal it/cope with it. Take care guys.
this is very good! a little preventative first aid. get over your self before you imbibe. there's no reward in being biggest, first, toughest, and most endurance.hopefully people will take this seriously. thank you.
As a psychologist, I'm using "plants" since many years. I am Swiss and I was lucky to meet Albert Hofmann. It obviously implies a protocol or "ritual" with deep respect for the "plant" . From my experience in healing souls, "plants" used with cautions and mindfully helps to reduce a classical conversational therapy from 10 years to less than 6 months. It's very powerful. If missused, it can harm you so badly... I fully agree with what Leo says.
Thank you. I've been curious but unsure for a while, and after watching your video I feel like this is a territory I can safely begin to navigate when the opportunity comes around 💜
After my last trip (which wasn't bad per se) I decided I abstaining from now to do any more trips until I make some self growth in a sober way. Then I'll continue. Theres so much psychedelics can do but sometimes it takes a point you have to."take it from there" and then if you do your homework sober then more trips can come again in the future to expand yourself more. It's a help, a great help, an accelerator, but its not a magic pill, you still have to do the "work" yourself and only yourself at the end of the day. The ego doesn't like this so much and sometimes it ends up using Psychedelics as a way to expect they will do it for him if does enough trips. At least that's what happened to me. Nothing dramatic happened or anything but I would say I wasted a lot of time and also the drain of energy that comes from regularly being in such high states but then "falling down" over and over to the normal sober state.
@Frank Yang is right. Psychaledics are extremely useful and efficient tools but it can't get you to truth, no external source can. It comes when you are NOT. Please understand this. I love you man, Leo. You helped me a lot but at one point I stopped listening to you and I went on my own. And that's the only way you can get to god, alone. In fact you can't get to god, god comes to you. The end of seeking is when the seeker disappear and psycheledic and so called mystical experiences are still experiences of the seeker. Leo started this channel as a self development journey and spirituality became about self development for him. That's why it was always getting to "higher" states of consciousness, but that's still part of the ego trip. The delusion that excessive use and reliance on such substances or other methods is not only regressive for yourself, it is dangerous. And when one has so many people listening to you and believing what one says they have to responsible and be ready to correct themselves. That will only help oneself and others. Do be aware of what the mind does, if it has identified itself with psychaledics, it will definitely try to reject this fact. There's no need to feel wrong, you just understood the fact and moved on. Also be careful of anyone that tells you what God is or what truth is or that they "know". They're definitely bluffing, intentionally or not. God is the indescribable reality, what is, and is beyond words and thoughts and the mind can't understand it. It is beyond conciousness itself. There are many pitfalls in the journey to awakening and one has to really attentive and in that humble, to be able to say "I don't know!" keeping aside all that you think you know at every point. To do that one must be meditative, in the real sense. It's remarkably simple thing, truth, so much so that calling it truth is overcomplicating it and everyone can get to it, or rather let it come to you, by being completely pure, tranquil and innocent.
To be fair, psychedelics don't really show you anything, but rewire your mind in a way that you come to these truths/conclusions yourself. They are a tool that lets you look within, so I am not sure I agree with this statement.
@@afri-cola1594 But the conclusions you come to are still of the mind aren't they? And when one says god is beyond the mind, it means that the mind can't get to it, that why No-mind is a very important aspect of most spiritual teachings. The very thing that comes to those conclusions is the ego so that it can get identified with it. In enlightenment, the need for conclusions, answers go away, the question and the questioner has dissolved and the seeking and seeker has ended. Then IT comes. you can't make it come, everyone that watches this channel already knows that there's no free will anyway. God is not of the mind, period.
@@midhunhari9497 But this would suggest that one can know God only when the body (and with it the mind) is dead and our consciousness has move beyond, no?
@@afri-cola1594 you do die, but what is death - is death only what happens when you physically die? Enlightenment is the end of the continuity of the self, the no self, which is death but it's also birth at the same moment. It's NOT an experience of consciousness, so the conciousness isn't moving beyond anything. It is beyond everything "you" know or can imagine or can know. In that moment and forward you know absolutely nothing, or absolute nothingness. But in understanding nothing you understand everything - because infinity and zero are the same thing - and you've come home while always being home.
@@midhunhari9497 Do you think it's possible for a human to achieve this state of selflessness , yet continue to live and function normally though the small perspective which is our lives?
Very interesting... you can see the strange loop .. leo is slowly realizing his own ignorances and how much they can hurt. Enlightenment is not what you think people... carefull what you wish for, it could come true. Only not in the way you hope....
💚💚💚 From Syria " There is no coming to consciousness without pain . People will do anything , no matter how absurd , in order to avoid facing their own Soul . One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light , but by making the darkness conscious ." " Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart .One who looks outside dream , one who looks inside awake ." " The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering ." ~ Carl Jung " As you live deeper in the heart , the mirror gets cleaner and cleaner ." ~ Rumi
I needed to watch this video. I would say I’m a relatively conscious Individual. A strategist if you talk about the Susan cook greuter model. I’ve been working long and hard on developing my business and I want to have that success even though I’m conscious of the fact that it won’t change anything in my direct experience.
It isn't about getting a high dose. I did Ibogaine for the first psychedelic. It was like a sledge hammer to my skull. It was kind of scary really. I didn't touch anything like that again until 3 years ago...several years after the Ibogaine. I had a professional help the process...ayahuasca. And it was a light dose which I remembered the whole experience...much more healing and gentle. I did it again a year after and I went to medicine with a knowledge that it is to be gentle and healing. I wasn't afraid at all to take it. It was an amazing experience and I was able to regulate how much I put in my body with confidence I could handle a heavier dose. Don't let people just say to you take the highest dose. Maybe I would be able to do the Ibogaine experience again with confidence and a lighter dose.
I’ve only microdosed with shrooms but not even enough to see anything. I want to be more educated before trying anything else, hopefully I can try them in a medical setting.
Speaking from my own experience, a medical setting would be terrifying. It would feel too invasive, sterile, fake. It wouldn't be the best. I think the best is to just do it by yourself, but find someone that you can have on stand by to call that can come and help you if you're having a bad trip. Please do shrooms (if you are at all curious ofcourse). They changed my life 🥺. It is the most important thing I could have ever done for myself. Had I not done them (a high dose is important.... but not for your first time; that's best saved for a second or third time) it would have been my deepest regret. They are so, unspeakably powerful and I bawled my eyes out at the sheer beauty of life I felt and saw. So beautiful. Please try them.... I promise you; it is more scary to have not tried them than have. I get emotional just talking about them lmao. So so very incredible.
@@kaitlinmontgomery2750 thank you! I actually wouldn’t do shrooms in a controlled environment unless it was like a retreat or something. I’ve just microdosed a small bag for the past few weeks cause I’m not ready to full on trip. I also wanted to try ketamine assisted therapy for mental health reasons, I’m curious about lsd but I desire to attract the right place & ppl to assist me through that. Hopefully sometime soon.
@@MelissaDeleen You actually have no idea what you're talking about. I'm not going to shame you or put you down for that. But I will say that. You don't understand. It's like the same thing as going to a surgeon and telling him that you know how to do it and his practice is wrong. From our perspective, it's comical and cringey. If you have never done psychedelics and have no idea what that experience is like or how it changes you for the better, you have no qualifications whatsoever to talk about it.
I use a vap, for dmt, a blast lasts 10/20mins, but you can keep vaping for as long as you like, clean & easy to use, I also surround myself with beauty colour & good vibrations & nature. What I find helpful, is putting postage notes around me, love, peace, harmony, compassion, forgiveness etc, I look at these if my mind begins to wander, in a negative direction, which soon resets my thoughts, to the positive.
@@ojpimpson3343 I buy them already mixed in cartridge, I have used pure crystals in the past, the hit is just the same with the cartridges, a good 5 sec inhale, breaks through, so much easier & cleaner, When i don't want to break all the way through(godself), I just have a small inhale, but a large inhale ALWAYS breaks through.
I have that right now, but I think it came from a panic attack and not a mushroom trip, also I got it from overdose of edibles, which is way more terrifying than shrooms, which are kinda beautiful imo. But I’ve had it for 3 years so far, any tips to get out of it?
@@alexanderulv3886 this is very subjective but I stayed away from meditation since it intensified the symptoms and got myself into working out/running which seems to have a grounding effect. but generally time seems to be the only real solution. did psychedelics recently for the first time in 3 years and it went well though
@@zakur0hako awesome, I’ve also been staying away from meditation and trying to quit all drugs because yeah I just want to go back to my normal state. I feel like I’m 70% back to normal, with minimal episodes of the zoom out effect. Also unhealthy food seems to be a trigger. Maybe 6 months more tops I’ll be cured and then I can also try a small mushroom trip maybe 🍄 Thanks and stay grounded my man, we went to hell and came back 😁
@@alexanderulv3886 the zoom out effect is not real brah just a thought tied with anxiety with the memory of the panic attack. Someone else could feel the exact same shit and not care or notice but to you it’s sooo serious because you believe in it. Exercise and grounding help for sure but next time the “zoom out” effect happens just notice it, don’t take it so seriously. Say “ahh there it is again lol” Let it even be there forever if it wants who, who cares 🤷♂️ and natural it’ll subside
@@Duck72432 yeah I’ve been kinda freaking out about that, and trying to avoid it. I’ll try to not care if it happens again, just a quick notice and then I’ll let it be, like I do with negative thoughts after a lot of meditation practice in the past. Thanks 🙏
36:53 Because you are trying to use meditation to get something out of it. Those monks may have never achieved the same level of consciousness of taking psychedelics but within their meditation practice are not trying to achieve anything from it. They do it because they enjoy it and causes their minds to be at peace. For all this knowledge you are endowing with us you do seem incredibly stuck in this idea of always improving and always getting ahead. That’s not enlightenment you grifter guru.
“Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what it is that you have never lost” There is a great joy in simply reconnecting with the being/consciousness that you are underneath the conditioned ego. And yes this is the true purpose of genuine spirituality, simply reconnecting with that dimension within yourself. The problem with “psychonauts” and their quest to find spiritual meaning within the psychedelic experience is that they get lost in content. And spiritual truth for them equates to some far out mystical experience. This is not true. Yes I have experienced ego death and God realisation with the help of psychedelics. And 15 years before I was even aware of spirituality and it’s core principles. It was the most profound experience of my life and it wasn’t until much later that I was able to realise that what I experienced is explained very clearly in the spiritual traditions. The Alan Watts quote, “ once you get the message hang up the phone” regarding psychedelics is very apt. You should not regularly take these drugs thinking that is the only way for you to arrive at the absolute. Instead of arriving back at your natural unconditioned state you get lost in experience and become even more deeply entrenched within the conditioned mind.
I have great respect for psychedelics and treat them that way. I’ve had bad trips, respect was born as the result. I use them sparingly and respectfully. Set, setting, meditation prior and setting pregame intention. A few times a year is plenty.
If you continue your journey, you'll realize that there's no such thing as mundane. It's just an interpretation. And you'll be able to appriciate both the material world and the infinite reality.
After my last and maybe 3rd or 4th LSD trip (and my first slightly bad trip) I felt 2 months later like reality was wrong (society), my mind thought of it as if I was on acid, and I felt kinda out of my self just a bit, it helped me quit social media and I started working on my discipline, and after other 6 months maybe I feel ready to take another mild trip, so I agree with you 100%.
Leo... This is Thee BEST video and topic you have done!!! 👏😮👏 I've been following you for quite sometime now, and honestly this is the most truth out of any video. Only because this is what I have fully experienced 100% I have used psychadelics for over 20 years. First 8 were at parties and being abused.. the past 12 have been alone, "shamic" for introspection and understanding and all years without alcohol. I've had far too many experiences that have just been too "convenient/coincidental" I can't understand how, but for them too happen statistically the way they did as a fluke.... I'm guessing that there's something a little more complicated that has never been fully understood... or talked about for that matter... I hope we can chat.
From your experience, I can tell you did psychedelics. I can tell you actually experienced things. Very interesting, I did all of this and more. Got me further than I could ever imagine, but doing them will either lead you into jail or killed. So true when you mentioned God, I am addicted to that feeling, would do anything to get it back. Strange addiction, but that life I guess.
When I took LSD to work on my self (it was successfull) I never left my flat, I mostly sat and contemplated. There was one point tho, where as I was thinking about life and universe and concieousness, my mind started to point thowards aliens and UFOs. I was fully aware, that if I go that way I may "get what I wish for". So I grabbed the "steeringwheel" and was like, "No thank you, maybe next time, let's get back to self and healing" xD
to whoever says that weed calms down your trips... stop saying that lmao. that ONLY applies to people who smoke weed all the time and have super high tolerances. my trip sitter was constantly force feeding me weed while i was bad tripping on LSD to “calm me down” and it only made me go further and further into the bad trip because i didn’t have a tolerance. STOP SAYING THIS!!!
I smoke during a trip to bring it on harder if I've under-dosed initially. Benzo's work but once you take one the trip is over, it's not coming back on that occasion.
Timestamps:
3:20 - Overdosing
7:10 - Physical harm
9:46 - Bad trips
13:06 - Facing fear and trauma
19:23 - Confusion about reality
20:00 - interactions with mental illness.
23:22 - Interference with pursuit of success, career, etc.
28:37 - Using them as escapism. Have your basic survival figured out first
32:18 - Becoming too isolated
33:24 - Making rash decisions. Don't make any big decisions for at least a week after a trip
35:36 - Demotivate you from meditation bc it will never compare. Resist this and maintain your daily practice
39:24 - Falling into chronic usage. No more once every 2 weeks but even 2x/month is not enough time to fully integrate
42:05 - Misinterpreting visions and insights. Your ego will try to corrupt these
46:51 - Pain of being disconnected from God in your day to day life
50:33 - Suicidal thoughts.
53:00 - Legality
56:56 - Taking the wrong substances. Know what it is, the source, the dosage, etc.
57:56 - Toxicity from impure substances
1:00:42 - Bad interactions between psychedelics and medications
1:01:27 - Mixing substances
1:02:48 - Gateway drug
1:04:09 - Chronic weed addiction
1:05:12 - Tripping at clubs, parties, out in the woods. Do them in a room where you won't be disturbed.
1:05:57 - Research chemicals
1:06:56 - HPPD Hallucinogen persisting perception disorder
1:09:08 - Extracting or synthesizing yourself
1:10:24 - Online scams, shady dealers, etc.
1:10:53 - Driving while intoxicated. Don't do it.
1:12:27 - Majority of these dangers can be easily avoided.
1:16:45 - Top mistakes psychedelic users make
1:21:40 - Closing thoughts
JJ Diaz Thank you, very kind of you to time stamp🌷
this is very helpful, thank you. And I really wish the admins of this page to do time stamp for all episodes.
He should pay you for this. Great job.
I probably had a 100 trips before you were born. I never thought about integrating it into the Non-Dual path. This channel got me back into psychedelics and non dual teachings 3 or 4 years ago and my trips are nothing like they were 20 or 30 years ago. Psychedelics are a tool.
What did integrate it into? Just pretend land that you’re “tripping”?
How Did your psychedelic experience changed over the years? The human Brain ages, I ask me how this affects the psychedelic experience in a positive or negative way
@@hans5221 it’s never negative in the long run
If it is you’re not going all the way or holding something back.
After a certain dosage level tho is it just balls to the wall for everyone? Like regardless of whether you go into wanted some teaching or fun. Its just a blast off to another realm either way basically right? Orr, will it differ at the high doses too.
Never up that high so idk.
Leo was never born
Leo really needs to start adding time stamps on his videos, it would help alot.
He has a separate channel for that. It’s highlight clips
@@amaziahyaohsharal9840 Yeah but that’s not time stamps for his different subjects for someone to choose. It’s just random snippets he chose.
@@wonderingobserver2231 true
Yes, maybe if he has the topics in advance why not. This will be really helpful for the 2-3 hour videos :) Good suggestion !
I wonder if the timestamps guy is out of job after Joe Rogan went to spotify....
One of the sad things for me is, you have a life changing experience on psychedelics, become more genuine and loving and people that knew the old you think you’re weird.
Better that than them screwing you up and no-one around you knowing what you're going through
Does it matter? Just keep being nice
Learn to differentiate. The people you knew didn't think you're weird; it's their mental garbage that thought you're weird.
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More and more I find normal peoples opinions a distraction from reality
“Its not about getting to high doses.” This needs to be said over and over.
psyched substance led me to think, that psychedelic doses should be high.
It's really not, it's more about how much you fasted before dosing.
If you aren't taking high doses you are trying to get high.
Well, taking a maxidosis has crossed my mind for deep therapeutical healing..
@Max Payne that’s a good thing… not being able to fight it means you have no control if it gets bad. you need to be ABLE to fight it and CHOOSE not to fight it, that is objectively the safest most productive way
This whole video is such a good reminder that just because you've taken psychedelics doesn't mean that you're special, chosen, above everyone else and have life figured out. I see it way too often; someone takes psychedelics a couple of times, and they act like they are now enlightened and better than everyone else. My ex did this, too, after he took a few hits of LSD. At least he didn't act like a guru, but on the other hand, he tried to convice me that he had more knowledge and experience than a shaman who's dedicated his life for over 20 years working with plant medicines.
In my experience most people who took psychedelics become enlightened only in their own eyes. Nothing really changes for better or worse in their attitude toward others, they do not become smarter, deeper or better in any way. But they often think otherwise🤷🏼♀️
I pop on you channel from time to time to listen to what you have to say. This video hit home. I am a woman in my 50s. Kids are grown. Just me and my elderly husband. For the past two years I've been interested in mushrooms. I got interested because my husband has cancer and we thought it might help with his death anxiety. He didn't care for the experience but I jumped in head first. The worst trip I had was on 3 g of mushrooms. I took them because I was bored. I had my husband take me to the thrift store just to get out a bit. I walked the aisles of the store morning all the obsolete items no one wanted anymore Then I began mourning myself as an obsolete item. Being bored is the worst reason to do mushrooms. That was about a year ago and I still have trouble finding meaning in life. That trip left me with Simi permanent nihilism.
But you had this nihilism in you even before shrooms.
You tried them out of boredom. They show you what was already there. You have no serious hobbies, goals or interests go figure
Leo has provided a VERY important video for people choosing to go down this path
I have manic bipolar depressive disorder (type2 or sumn I think) and I've done numerous psychedelics in varying amounts, having studied every substance prior and set out with intentions, and they've only helped me understand myself and life from various angles at one time. Dope episode man.
You're pretty dope , my man/woman 💪
Glad it help you
TYSM for making this Leo.
The part about getting your material life together before you delve into the spiritual realm really hit home. I'm currently 19 studying at a prestigious university, so I believe I've got a good chance of being financially secure. The problem I'm facing is that I'm too academic, too theoretical. I really need to develop practical skills like cooking, mastering the opposite gender, creating a fashion sense for myself, looking after my nutrition and appearance, developing my language and communication skills.
Yes, do all that
Just had a bad LSD trip last night by combining it with SSRI. Perfect timing, thank you Leo. I’ve been overconfident with what I could handle based on how much practice I’ve done. Needless to say, even a bad trip is a lesson learned.
Why would you do that? It's well known that combining psychedelics with SRRIs is straight up dangerous 😩
@@ElDiariodeJavierSuarez ignorance and immaturity along with impatience on my development. Needless to say I realized I was Leo as I was watching him and he berated me for being so stupid with such a strong chemical
I've never had problems with combining psychedelics with Zoloft. Booze and MDMA is a different story
Here we go again.
1. Classic psychedelics and SSRI are not dangerous. In opposite, psychedelics effects are reduced or even cancelled, because of the SSRI blocking the 5ht2a-receptors. If anyone can link me a report of someone taking a psychedelic tryptamine with fluoxetine/citalopram/sertraline and similar substances and having trouble that clearly results out of this combination, feel free to do so.
2. What is dangerous is combining an SSRI or MDMA with an MAOI, which is the ingredient in Ayhuasca that makes the DMT orally active. There are also some MAOI medication against depression, but they are rarely prescribed these days.
@@luckydueces5873 Which SSRI did you take? Chances are high that it wasn't the SSRI that caused the bad trip. You can find thousand of reports of people taking psychedelics on SSRIs without problems except reduced effects.
@@light_of_existence very interesting. I’m relieved to know it wasn’t the Prozac that caused it. Perhaps it was just the overwhelming onset of the LSD. It had been a while since I took it and I overestimated how much I could handle. But I know one thing, from the two tabs I took, it seems highly unlikely that medicine made it less potent.
I recall commenting on Leo's videos about non duality around 2015, saying that what he was talking about was just what it felt like for me when I tried psychedelic mushrooms,, and his reply was something to the effect that "only losers use drugs." Fun to see where he's at now...
He's a looser now ?
And you feel good to attack an individual for changing their mind whilst you were growing? I see where you’re coming from and you can feel that way because you are but- that’s the best you could do insulting ones ignorance?
@@frankykray.8661 he doesn’t insult, he just point out this guy had made a jugement earlyer
Franky Kray. Quit crying clown, he should’ve never called the guy a loser in the first place. that’s rude. Especially if he walks around here with his big bald head like magneto trying to HELP people
It’s a long way down from the high horse.
This was a great video… as someone who has lots of experience with psychs I wish my younger naive self fully took all of these dangers into account.
I have hppd and it’s not as nonintrusive as it sounds… visual clarity goes a long way in making someone feel grounded and present in reality.
I’m taking a long break now from all psychs
Could take a life time to get over it.
“Be careful with unearned wisdom“
"Carl Jung."
-Jordan Peterson
But did you EARN that wisdom to beware of unearned wisdom?
@@haggridhinglehorn I gained a lot of self awareness from my first trips. Started out as a bad trip, hearing thoughts in my head and seeing old memories through a bird's eye. I saw my whole life, beginning to end in a very condensed compilation of mental imagery and conversations. Saw I was being toxic in every aspect of my life, that I had let my ego swell and saw a different world than others. When I saw my world through their lens, under severe persecution by my own brain or perhaps even God I wondered at that point... It was then I learned the only way to cure anxiety is by being a better person. By creating an attainable goal, I was able to take control of a mental war, and avoid being folded in by the sudden pressure to better myself. Wisdom gained; psychedelics aren't always fun, but a bad time can be turned into strength. Strength earns wisdom.
@@alegotronnortogela7695 I like it. Perhaps truly earning something implies that a cost must be paid. You tripped out, reflected, and earned your slice of wisdom. Well done!
I’m really glad you’re covering this topic. Thanks Leo
Have you ever visited Bhārata, Mrs. Singh? 🇮🇳
spiritual simp.
Lol I thought I was the only Indian here.
@@kushbhalerao744 how? One in six people in the world is Indian 😂
@@kushbhalerao744 lol
One of the most fundamental videos on psychedelics out there
Realizing that life is meaningless - if you really “get it” - is not at all a nihilistic vision. Doing to simply do has no meaning, no “why”. Doing to do rather than doing to get is actually a very joyful, liberating, and enlightened way to live and create.
Meaning is to just experience what you want from this realm of reality.
Finding meaning is also very liberating. A point on your healing journey you feel the pain of the world without getting angry like before. It’s kind of like experiencing Happiness without any joy... best of luck searching for Truth.
@@eXpas04 “Meaning” is an element of a fabricated equation between a decision, a result, and a reason (why). Inherent in that equation is the abdication of one’s personal power and responsibility. The “why” is fabricated after a decision is made. When one takes full responsibility for his or her decisions, there’s no need or desire to fabricate a “why”. The “why” is that little lie that socks people into their minds, leading to a life filled with mental garbage.
@@Ytmusicplaylistperfect I’m not searching for Truth. Searching for Truth is like a monkey chasing its tail in circles.
Very interesting. And meaningless. Kind of a meaningful moment, hah? ;). Thank you 🍀
I have to say psychedelics have helped me tremendously with my depression i trip about 3 times a year and I always become a better person after every trip just my opinion and experience
Ikr?
Same. And never more than 2 g of shrooms
This dude f-ed himself up deeply.
Using dmt each day during 30 days. Omg.
50:00 U mention 'mundane life' being boring and seeming uninteresting compared to being close to God when tripping. What helped me was seeing the Beauty that is 'hidden' in the mundane and realizing how much Beauty is in this life and how unaware most of us are of this Beauty that surrounds us. Very simple example for me would be the sky, the Beauty you get to witness every single day at sunset, the beautiful combination of deep orange and baby blue; It's something that we literally see every day, and personally it never gets old. Beauty and God are synonymous in my mind so for me I am always surrounded by God, and the feeling of appreciation I feel for the fact that I got put in this place and get to see all this Beauty and feel this Love is incredible. Same with beautiful Humans, Nature, Animals. Sometimes I feel like this life is like a tour through Gods Museum, the biggest and most versatile Art project ever created.
Thank you so much for talking about this. I've been worried about a friend who trips regularly and I have noticed a personality disorder arising in them. It scares the hell out of me but they believe that it is helping them.
I think it's great to experience every so often but a lot of people have a bit too much praise for the substances and ignore the potential dangers.
Dude, pls take care of your friend... Personally disorders are no joke and ive heard some drugs can trigger and promote some issues
Personality disorder is something person forms in early childhood.
What do you mean by "arising"?
Bird to the wise Leo
it should be expressed that
knowledge by experience
and research done properly before a first encounter happens is a foundational key I can grasp.
Good content as always appreciated much, a big
thanks your way bro!
The only time I had a bad trip on mushrooms was when I watched a horror show with a few friends. I wasn't trying to prove anything, but I completely underestimated just how much it would take over the whole room. Everything you choose to watch feels like it pulls you in. And I have no interest in jacking up the dose and bragging about it. It's a personal experience that has to do with my own spiritual growth. Also, I'm so tired the next day, I couldn't possibly do it that often. Maybe once a month. If I feel like I'm avoiding responsibilities to have a trip, then forget it. I'll put off the trip until it feels like the right time. And if someone thinks they need psychedelics to elevate their consciousness, then I wonder what their mental state is. Mushrooms have reminded me of the beauty in aspects of life that I appreciate so much more even while being straight sober. It's like a dial. They wind you up, but then the dial does go back down, but not all the way back.
Lmao. This is MUCH needed for everyone to see. Especially those on your forums-goddamn.
Because?
@@SpiritualPsychotherapyServices coz i'm god bro dontcha no
@@gettoefl Kindly repeat that in ENGLISH, Miss.☝️
Amen brother!
@@SpiritualPsychotherapyServices because, people like to accuse Leo of not being careful with his teaching's and causing others to harm themselves by either suicide or many other ways Leo covered in this video. Very childish behavior on the forum somtimes.
You should warn people of the very real danger of eating more than 7 grams of mushrooms and pooping your pants or jumping out of a second story window. Not that I know about either of those things. No way. Never happened. I swear
Mike Tyson does them every podcast and ends up crying every damn time
@@lloydmiller3150 haha Mike Tyson is such an amazing human being. I'm honestly not that big into social media but I want to see 'iron' mike whoop the older Paul brothers whole ass so bad.
Idk about shutting myself I ate 7g of shrooms and I was watching the walls burst from being full of water. No I was not anywhere near an body of water.
@@hyperqprime apparently Mike Tyson is really chill with Logan Paul, idk about Jake but they are not on bad terms
Thank you ! Very powerful video ! Took DMT (Ayahuasca) myself and ended up at mental hospital after that... the dose was way too much .. thank you for sharing this video because it's very needed to make people aware of the danger !!!
@Gaia Barone thank you 🌻
@@ri4078 what hapened?
Thanks for reading my comment and making a video about it Leo :)
wow, i actually used psychadelics in the way that i would do them, have a bad trip, and then rebuilding myself up, picking myself up, accepting the shadow and so on, it was really helpful, but now it would be hell of a slow for my development,thank you for this vid
The only dangerous part of psychedelics is facing reality
Man wtf kinda type shit is that
@@Tylerbarber4269 the truth
Nope, that is NOT the only dangerous part, I took 6 lsds and punched my mother and got locked up a long time. So, you have to be careful because you can hurt yourself or others and then your life won’t be as great.
“Psychedelics don’t work on stupid people” Terence McKenna.
The problem is not psychedelics itself, it’s the person using it.
100%
True. It doesn't work on narcs either.
Bulls eye!
Stupid people are the reason this video had to be made as they are telling every one to go do psychedelics by themselves. Even stupider people quote Terence McKenna like he was some kind of prophet.
@@Truthshouldalwaysbetold Half the time you think you are thinking, you are actually listening 🙏
derealization and depersonalization is one of the scariest feelings i have ever experienced, everything around me felt as if i was in a dream like state. my heart was racing really fast and my vision felt distorted, i couldn’t grasp my thoughts or my mind. as leo said i felt like my life didn’t matter, i felt disconnected and distant from everyone including my family, i felt like i was going insane, i kept trying to tell myself i would be fine but no matter how many times i tried to calm myself down negative thoughts overcame the “positive” ones. i told my brother how i was feeling and he also called me crazy, so that didn’t help either. at one point i was sitting there wondering if anything before my eyes was actually real, or if i was just imagining it. i kept hearing and seeing things out of the corner of my eyes. everytime i closed my eyes and tried to fall asleep i felt like i was going to die. i convinced myself that i was dead bc nobody understood me. i cried and cried feeling so hopeless as if i was stuck in this mess forever. time was going by unnecessarily slow, i remember looking at my clock after only 5 mins went by but for me it felt like an hour. i am better now but sometimes i slip back into these states of feeling unreal. always take psychedelics srsly, take EVERYTHING seriously at all times.
I've needed to hear this Leo. Been struggling to find the motivation to do the smallest things.
I love psychedelic's and their potential but haven't used them for a long time. Thank you for finally covering this topic
dam he talking about using psychedelics no more than twice a month and I feel like if I take 2 trips a year I'm really hitting it hard haha
does seem like a lot, depending on dose
I grow mushrooms and can take 1 gram away for weeks but it makes it hard to get hungry for fast food and zoning out watching movies.
Makes me wonder, if he really "woke up", why the need to keep taking psychedelics?
@@leocarbaugh5074 I think "waking up" is just realising how little you know and how limited your perception of the world is. So life is just a journey of learning new things and old things.... So why should you stop taking psychedelics? You can always learn new things. Dig deeper. Enjoy yourself...
BWahahaha
Experience is the keyword to using psychedelics. A mature approach with an understanding of your own body's reactions to psychedelics based on experience, is what actually works.
It's good to see you back to reality, I remember when you did that 30 day 5-meo-DMT experiment and you definitely lost your mind for a while. You seem rational again now which is good!
Yeah but he's looking a great deal older...older than what I'd think someone would look like since 2016, which wasn't very long ago.
Thank you! This video is really important. Psychedelics are not toys. They can be really dangerous and I'm tired of how it's mostly used in a positive manner. I've wanted you to make this video ever since your 30 days retreat.
@Scott Summer Faye Not interested. I'm not depressed or have any interest of psychedelics.
As someone suffering from HPPD, that is a major downfall. The benefits of psychs don't out weigh HPPD. I'm just glad I don't have it as bad as others and I'm still a functional person. However I had a taste for what could happen to your brain if you abuse them too much and it's horrible.
All my use of LSD has just made me realise that I didn't need drugs including psychs. I'm saving psychs for when I'm old and I've accomplished everything in my life I want to do first. You're brain is very precious, don't fuck it up by doing too many psychs - it's scary as shit.
Wow Leo!!! I got this video at the perfect timing. I know I've feeling you on a few things. But I thought I was ready for a DMT trip it was absolutely horrible and terrifying. I kept having this very negative feeling that loop around in circles. It was like I couldn't grasp my thoughts and I felt so Doom and Gloom it was to the point where I couldn't sleep it off I just had to sit and endure it I thought I was totally healed from losing my brother my sister my father and nephew. I have been searching Truth for the last 20 years. It all began with the question of the afterlife which I realize There Is No Death there's only transfer of our conscious energy but this trip was so repetitive I even spoke my thoughts on my recorder on my phone and everything was jumbled I was saying that I could almost see and feel my thoughts swirling around me and I would think of something and it was gone the next Second and this horrible Doom feeling came around about every 30 seconds I really felt like I was in Hell of how I perceive it. But in the back of my mind I knew it was just an experience and that I was either on a lower frequency or experiencing it. And everything you are saying about the psychological effects are so damn true. This happened two days ago and I'm still thinking about it but I don't see it as a negative thing Drake but I am hesitant to try that again but I know I really feel like I need to
Wow I haven't tried dmt yet. I would definitely have anxiety because of my last mushroom trip that was terrifying but then beautiful.
My initial reaction was that I don't need to watch this, because I've been researching psychedelics for a while. But there are some valuable lessons in here that I needed to hear. #stayhumble 🙏🏼 💚☯️
Your comment doesn't make you any humble..
@@lucasm.l.echeverria2985 that makes 2 ……
U bud.
@@George-gn7lp I didn't claim that so..
I am legally blind and I've been this way my entire life but I have taken psychedelics hundreds of times maybe not as many but mushrooms and LSD on top of MDMA. I wouldn't say that they're the strongest psychedelics at all but they are still psychedelics I would like to tell my story but I feel that people might not be interested in hearing about a legally blind man taking psychedelics you my personal experiences with them.
On my first LSD trip my mind was cleared in the beginning. I was with a couple of close friends and then I started getting paranoid. I went to the bathroom and started pooping uncontrollably. That was from my anxiety. I thought my organs were going to come out of my rectum and i was going to die. About 30 minutes later I calmed myself down and joined my friends again. We were listening to psytrance and my friends were staring at me everytime I looked away from them. I genuinely could not tell if they were actually doing that or it was my paranoid mind playing tricks on me. It was strange because I dont get paranoid when I'm sober. My mind constantly kept going from paranoid to relaxed. One thing I learned about myself that day is I need to trust people I care about more. DONT TAKE LSD IF YOU'RE NOT MENTALLY PREPARED. If you read this thank you :)
You can check out healermanchris on Instagram he got DMT shrooms LDS it helps cure anxiety and depression he ships discreetly worldwide
@@kelvinmartins8560 its legit?
@@HigherDarkness Yeah,legit and sure plug
@@kelvinmartins8560 how much does he charge for LSD?
@@HigherDarkness well I'll prefer you just hit him up on his IG handle ,his prices are fare and affordable
Thank you for all the support you have provided.
This was a great episode. I'd like to hear an episode on 'Shadow Integration' in the future Leo. 🖤
What is the shadow
@@christianhorvath791 Shadow Integration is a psychological tool designed by Carl Jung. I suggest reading some of his books.
Second this! Would love to see him do that
Go go 55:50 Holism & Holistic thinking part one for a great explanation on shadow work
@@christianhorvath791 all the parts of your personality you don't like to admit are there, anything repressed/denied creates a shadow
I really appreciate the honesty and openness about your experience with psychedelics, specifically 5-meo dmt.
I have been having a problem similar to what was mentioned in this video regarding motivation. I, however, haven't done psychedelics for 4 years now. Even then, after my trip my family said that I was a "fundamentally different person" and the like.
I understand what they mean. The me that was once there is a distant memory. Along with losing that me, I also lost a lot of the things holding me back, like my reliance on others and weed. But also, I lost motivation and disconnected with my fellow man. It feels like I am so far removed from everyone and everything. Like he mentioned earlier, once you feel that all encompassing love nothing else can ever hope to amount to that. Same with the level of consciousness you achieve. In comparison, love and relationships, as well as working towards making "meaningful changes" in the world feel meaningless and without reason. Its almost as if the world is just one big joke. I want to do something deeply beneficial for humanity that will elevate our base nature and bring us into higher forms of being, but I realize that is pointless. Our cyclical nature proves so. We are stuck where we are because this is the extent of human experience. Always was, always will be. It makes me feel like trying to do anything that I feel would achieve such a goal is truly meaningless. Although it feels meaningless, I also feel that to not do that is even more meaningless (as paradoxical as that sounds). It doesn't matter if I try to help humanity free itself or whatever I dreamt of doing because in the future people will fall for the same tricks that I would have spent my entire life exposing and creating counter-measures to prevent exactly that. If that's the case then what is the point? Why bother? But to just sit still and to let it happens also feels like a horrible waste. I don't know what to do. The inevitability of the reversion of my efforts make them laughable at best, and deathly disheartening at worst. I am having trouble finding what I should actually do with my life and more importantly finding meaning in it.
And then there's relationships. I comprehend the flaccid nature of our emotions potently.
Part of what made me not do psychedelics again after 4 years is the profound effect they had on me. I am still learning many things from that experience. I couldn't imagine dropping every day.
I really appreciate you writing this honest way that you feel. I think a lot of people feel it. I haven't been on any profound trips and am no where near enlightenment, but I too feel that lack of meaning sometimes. I am almost 50 and have many many years of hard work behind me, and well.. I needed to work for survival, but the job kinda was really tough. During times when I don't know what my meaning in life is.. I soothe myself by just being basically a kind and nice person to the people around me.. Sometimes I take food to the homeless people.. I reckon that even if I can't alleviate their hunger, then I still added a good deed to the world and hopefully one day, when that person is able, then they will pay that good deed forward again. I dunno if it counts, but it helps me get off my arse! 😂
Good luck bro, keep the meaning 🤗🤗
@@GloryDaze73 thanks for your kind words. And I hope you as well have found true meaning in your life.
I'm only 22. I'm certain there's plenty more hardship to come for me. Especially considering the current environment. There's so much going on and the future has never been more elusive. I trust that things will work out. For both of us.
Thank you for reaching out.
So much knowledge as always. By all means try psychedelics but before you do, understand what you are getting yourself into.
Psycs definitely killed my rat race motivation early. I don't really care other than economically it's been difficult to make ends meet. I feel like I am living life as close to the way I want to live it but that comes with more financial consequences of having more low stress jobs. Life is short. I just wanna not be miserable chasing jobs and some number. The numbers are never gonna add up sooner you realize that the better.
yeah once you want money more than anything, no matter how much u have it’s never enough. waste of time just have what u need and have hobbies
Yes. I think same way
same thing happened to me yet i sometimes contemplate whether it's a good thing
Brooo literally how I feel . Sometimes I feel kinda left out , but really like that other girl said just find some hobbies and interests and just cultivate them , try to have human experiences and yeah love . What else there really to life
Fr I have absolutely zero competition in me anymore and I haven’t even been to college yet idk if I’m just fucked or what
That"s the most exhaustive list I've encountered so far which I was looking for quite a while.
Leo: “Alright, that’s it. I’m done here.”
Me: “No you’re not”
Haha. Love that last piece of wisdom. Usually the best part. Love your work Leo. Keep going
Your most meta videos combined with months of new experiences, serious self reflection, including psychedelics with others and alone, have completely changes my perspective in a way I find impossible to explain and extremely exciting. Your videos help me understand questions I have always wanted to ask, but not know who to whom. I have experienced a peace like I never knew possible. Looking forward to seeing how this changes my trajectory in life. Thank you.
Dear person, who reads it. Yes, I mean exactly you! Maybe we don't know each other. Still, I want to say, that I believe in you! You will certainly achieve your dreams and your happiness! Just don't give up and be honest with yourself! Now you have at least one person who constantly believes in you, which means you are fated to realize your dreams! No doubts here ^)
*Best wishes for you ❤️ from a small TH-camr*
thank you
@Bojan V and that is nice
thank you. I like that
Bless like wise to you as well - stay golden 💯💯💯
God? Is that you???
What baffles me is how people can be into various psychedelics and still be triggered by spirituality never having any mystical experiences on them seeing them just as 'a fun pass time'. The 'solid foundation' of deconstruction offered here is actually damn rare, it’s just so crucial to using them properly, couldn’t be more grateful. 💗🙏✨
“The search for Reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings, for it destroys the world in which you live.”
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
yeah I always do have anxiety, like my palms sweat even since I was young. But after my 5me0 DMT experience my palms no longer sweat and I believe it has helped my anxiety. I have also had the strength to quit my 20-year cigarette addiction on the spot, which no doubt will pay for my trip before I even know it..
@@evoprod3344 thanks friend I will!
wym pay for your trip?
@@deadeverywhere by quitting smoking cigarettes, all that money I'll save will pay for my trip!
@@Itswayningout if you smoked a pack a day, it can buy you an actual vacation once a year to a nice place! At least with the cigarette prices in my country which is 9$
@Scott Summer Faye using your depression as a shameless plug I see.
I’m so glad you are conscious about your pioneering position with psychedelics. You have the influence and you use it wisely.
So I would say I classify as the wreckless one, but just fresh and new to the journey, nothing crazy. I have not educated myself or watched any of your videos on psychedelics yet, I'm moreso into spirituality/enlightenment type of your videos, but feel like my mind is opening. Just want to say I'm only twelve mins in and I feel very "sobered" and humbled. Thanks 😋 *continues watching
Ah I use to only focus on the enlightment ones too, now I watch the very fundamental ones. Ironically I'm way better off spiritually.
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I'm a bit all over the place haha like I'm gay and watched his how to make a girl squirt one LOL I'm kind of an organized chaos type person, but feel like I need to connect the dots now, still have tonnes to watch 😇
The not eating a meal beforehand is a great protocol. No afterlife hell, it's all here and now if in a low state; especially on a bad trip. A year of monthly bufo ceremonies have removed my social anxiety, cleaned up my diet & helped my OCD. Great point about meditation practice, I found I had to do hapeh with it to really enhance it to non dual.
Bro, I dead ass just did Shrooms for the second time in my life, THEN you drop this video in the middle of my trip. There wasnt anything bad with my experience (it was incredibly profound in ways I cannot explain), but its incredibly serendipitous.
I choose to only do Shrooms everyone once in a while so to speak. The first time I did Shrooms, I've been Vegetarian ever since.
I don't know what changes I'll make in my life this time around, but I just know it will be positive.
More people need to see this type of content.
Do you meditate friend?
Man don’t let it turn you superstitious. There’s a difference between phenomena and convincing yourself stuff.
Take this mans words seriously everything he said about doses especially I made that mistake I took extremely high doses extremely early mixing drugs just trying to speedrun my way to enlightenment and now I have panic attacks every time I smoke weed or think about psychedelics it's been a year it's getting better but it's not easy
As a young man I've had some really fun trips. I took too much and had a couple really bad trips when I was 19. Almost every time I tried it again i had a bad time. I'm now 44. All those mind bending experiences haven't helped me at all from what I can tell. Sober meditation however has helped tremendously.
been battling anxiety, depression and insomnia but getting to meet *Healermanchris* on IG who sales DMT, Shrooms, LSDs and other psychedelic products. I have been effectively stable and relaxed, he ships discreetly worldwide
@@kelvinmartins8560 Sounds like my worst nightmare
Very grounded and unbiased...and in depth, as usual ☝😎👍
My favorite dose is between 2.5-3.5 grams. My max dose was 10 grams and like you said, I couldn't even remember it except that I passed out. The lower doses however enabled me to really work through some of my issues. One of these lower dose trips was far more effective than all of the therapy sessions I've gone through put together in my life. My brother however went overboard and did 15 grams of Penis Envy (generally 2-3 times stronger than regular cubes) and had HPPD like symptoms for 6 months afterwards and regretted doing that much even without the HPPD symptoms.
EDIT: Also forgot to mention, I got nausea and vomiting even on an empty stomach. The only thing that prevents this for me (I still get nausea but don't throw up on tea) is to dose with mushy tea instead of eating the hard to digest chitin.
Thanks for sharing this, my question is if you take psychedelics can you sit at one place comfortably without anything or anyone, alone?
Thanks for sharing this, my question is if you take psychedelics can you sit at one place comfortably without anything or anyone, alone?
The bottom line: Ceremonial use of psychedelics with a trained facilitator/shaman and helpers. Advanced preparations and approaching these substances with humility and respect. The importance of set and setting as advocated by The McKenna brothers and others psychedelic luminaries. They are game changers. Be vigilant and stay safe! ♥️🙏🏼♥️🙏🏼♥️
Wish everbody watched this before even going close to psychedelics. I didn't.
I did mdma in between ayahuasca ceremonies and got hppd. It was hell. Luckily i know energy healing and slowly managed to heal it/cope with it. Take care guys.
what is hppd
Dude ayahuasca has maois in it. If you mix in a serotenergic like molly you're gonna fuck yourself up.
@@bergenmatthew not mix it but i took it like two weeks before and didn't know. Never again will i touch that thing
@@beatsNstrings halucinogen persisting perception disorder
What was your symptoms visual or auditory?
this is the best talk on psychedelics ive ever heard
Supposedly so enlightened from psychedelics, but seem to be missing a loving heart like that of a Matt Kahn.
this is very good! a little preventative first aid. get over your self before you imbibe. there's no reward in being biggest, first, toughest, and most endurance.hopefully people will take this seriously. thank you.
Hit the joint everytime Leo says
"crack your skull open"
As a psychologist, I'm using "plants" since many years.
I am Swiss and I was lucky to meet Albert Hofmann.
It obviously implies a protocol or "ritual" with deep respect for the "plant" .
From my experience in healing souls, "plants" used with cautions and mindfully helps to reduce a classical conversational therapy from 10 years to less than 6 months.
It's very powerful.
If missused, it can harm you so badly...
I fully agree with what Leo says.
you can reach this kind of understanding, without psychedelics or classical meditation. Find the way, that fits your personality best.
Thank you. I've been curious but unsure for a while, and after watching your video I feel like this is a territory I can safely begin to navigate when the opportunity comes around 💜
Great episode.
I dont see a single point i would not agree with, or that´s missing.
Would love to have found this a few years back :D
After my last trip (which wasn't bad per se) I decided I abstaining from now to do any more trips until I make some self growth in a sober way. Then I'll continue. Theres so much psychedelics can do but sometimes it takes a point you have to."take it from there" and then if you do your homework sober then more trips can come again in the future to expand yourself more.
It's a help, a great help, an accelerator, but its not a magic pill, you still have to do the "work" yourself and only yourself at the end of the day. The ego doesn't like this so much and sometimes it ends up using Psychedelics as a way to expect they will do it for him if does enough trips. At least that's what happened to me. Nothing dramatic happened or anything but I would say I wasted a lot of time and also the drain of energy that comes from regularly being in such high states but then "falling down" over and over to the normal sober state.
@Frank Yang is right. Psychaledics are extremely useful and efficient tools but it can't get you to truth, no external source can. It comes when you are NOT. Please understand this. I love you man, Leo. You helped me a lot but at one point I stopped listening to you and I went on my own. And that's the only way you can get to god, alone. In fact you can't get to god, god comes to you. The end of seeking is when the seeker disappear and psycheledic and so called mystical experiences are still experiences of the seeker. Leo started this channel as a self development journey and spirituality became about self development for him. That's why it was always getting to "higher" states of consciousness, but that's still part of the ego trip. The delusion that excessive use and reliance on such substances or other methods is not only regressive for yourself, it is dangerous. And when one has so many people listening to you and believing what one says they have to responsible and be ready to correct themselves. That will only help oneself and others. Do be aware of what the mind does, if it has identified itself with psychaledics, it will definitely try to reject this fact. There's no need to feel wrong, you just understood the fact and moved on.
Also be careful of anyone that tells you what God is or what truth is or that they "know". They're definitely bluffing, intentionally or not. God is the indescribable reality, what is, and is beyond words and thoughts and the mind can't understand it. It is beyond conciousness itself. There are many pitfalls in the journey to awakening and one has to really attentive and in that humble, to be able to say "I don't know!" keeping aside all that you think you know at every point. To do that one must be meditative, in the real sense. It's remarkably simple thing, truth, so much so that calling it truth is overcomplicating it and everyone can get to it, or rather let it come to you, by being completely pure, tranquil and innocent.
To be fair, psychedelics don't really show you anything, but rewire your mind in a way that you come to these truths/conclusions yourself. They are a tool that lets you look within, so I am not sure I agree with this statement.
@@afri-cola1594 But the conclusions you come to are still of the mind aren't they? And when one says god is beyond the mind, it means that the mind can't get to it, that why No-mind is a very important aspect of most spiritual teachings. The very thing that comes to those conclusions is the ego so that it can get identified with it. In enlightenment, the need for conclusions, answers go away, the question and the questioner has dissolved and the seeking and seeker has ended. Then IT comes. you can't make it come, everyone that watches this channel already knows that there's no free will anyway.
God is not of the mind, period.
@@midhunhari9497 But this would suggest that one can know God only when the body (and with it the mind) is dead and our consciousness has move beyond, no?
@@afri-cola1594 you do die, but what is death - is death only what happens when you physically die? Enlightenment is the end of the continuity of the self, the no self, which is death but it's also birth at the same moment. It's NOT an experience of consciousness, so the conciousness isn't moving beyond anything. It is beyond everything "you" know or can imagine or can know. In that moment and forward you know absolutely nothing, or absolute nothingness. But in understanding nothing you understand everything - because infinity and zero are the same thing - and you've come home while always being home.
@@midhunhari9497 Do you think it's possible for a human to achieve this state of selflessness , yet continue to live and function normally though the small perspective which is our lives?
I really like walking around in nature with my experiences. Not saying it's for everyone but it works for me.
Ah yes, the hardest of drugs: chocolate bar
Very interesting... you can see the strange loop .. leo is slowly realizing his own ignorances and how much they can hurt. Enlightenment is not what you think people... carefull what you wish for, it could come true. Only not in the way you hope....
Power and responsibility
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" There is no coming to consciousness without pain . People will do anything , no matter how absurd , in order to avoid facing their own Soul . One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light , but by making the darkness conscious ."
" Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart .One who looks outside dream , one who looks inside awake ."
" The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering ." ~ Carl Jung
" As you live deeper in the heart , the mirror gets cleaner and cleaner ." ~ Rumi
Thanks, for your care in teaching!
I needed to watch this video. I would say I’m a relatively conscious Individual. A strategist if you talk about the Susan cook greuter model. I’ve been working long and hard on developing my business and I want to have that success even though I’m conscious of the fact that it won’t change anything in my direct experience.
It isn't about getting a high dose. I did Ibogaine for the first psychedelic. It was like a sledge hammer to my skull. It was kind of scary really. I didn't touch anything like that again until 3 years ago...several years after the Ibogaine. I had a professional help the process...ayahuasca. And it was a light dose which I remembered the whole experience...much more healing and gentle. I did it again a year after and I went to medicine with a knowledge that it is to be gentle and healing. I wasn't afraid at all to take it. It was an amazing experience and I was able to regulate how much I put in my body with confidence I could handle a heavier dose. Don't let people just say to you take the highest dose. Maybe I would be able to do the Ibogaine experience again with confidence and a lighter dose.
Iboga is on another level of healing and power than these other meds
Incredibly thorough analysis. Thank you very much 🙏🏻
Leo is literally my favorite part of reality.
Me toooo
You hit the nail on the head Leo with this1,great talk
I’ve only microdosed with shrooms but not even enough to see anything. I want to be more educated before trying anything else, hopefully I can try them in a medical setting.
Speaking from my own experience, a medical setting would be terrifying. It would feel too invasive, sterile, fake. It wouldn't be the best. I think the best is to just do it by yourself, but find someone that you can have on stand by to call that can come and help you if you're having a bad trip. Please do shrooms (if you are at all curious ofcourse). They changed my life 🥺. It is the most important thing I could have ever done for myself. Had I not done them (a high dose is important.... but not for your first time; that's best saved for a second or third time) it would have been my deepest regret. They are so, unspeakably powerful and I bawled my eyes out at the sheer beauty of life I felt and saw. So beautiful. Please try them.... I promise you; it is more scary to have not tried them than have. I get emotional just talking about them lmao. So so very incredible.
@@kaitlinmontgomery2750 you're a hippie tho lol
@ChangeUrmind I'm not religious and don't pray but Thank You!
@@kaitlinmontgomery2750 thank you! I actually wouldn’t do shrooms in a controlled environment unless it was like a retreat or something. I’ve just microdosed a small bag for the past few weeks cause I’m not ready to full on trip. I also wanted to try ketamine assisted therapy for mental health reasons, I’m curious about lsd but I desire to attract the right place & ppl to assist me through that. Hopefully sometime soon.
@@MelissaDeleen You actually have no idea what you're talking about. I'm not going to shame you or put you down for that. But I will say that. You don't understand. It's like the same thing as going to a surgeon and telling him that you know how to do it and his practice is wrong. From our perspective, it's comical and cringey. If you have never done psychedelics and have no idea what that experience is like or how it changes you for the better, you have no qualifications whatsoever to talk about it.
I use a vap, for dmt, a blast lasts 10/20mins, but you can keep vaping for as long as you like, clean & easy to use,
I also surround myself with beauty colour & good vibrations & nature.
What I find helpful, is putting postage notes around me, love, peace, harmony, compassion, forgiveness etc,
I look at these if my mind begins to wander, in a negative direction, which soon resets my thoughts, to the positive.
How did you/ what did you use to mix the dmt in the cartridge? Have you broken through using the cartridge?
@@ojpimpson3343 I buy them already mixed in cartridge, I have used pure crystals in the past, the hit is just the same with the cartridges, a good 5 sec inhale, breaks through, so much easier & cleaner,
When i don't want to break all the way through(godself), I just have a small inhale, but a large inhale ALWAYS breaks through.
I suffered from severe derealization for several years after a particularly harsh bad trip
I have that right now, but I think it came from a panic attack and not a mushroom trip, also I got it from overdose of edibles, which is way more terrifying than shrooms, which are kinda beautiful imo. But I’ve had it for 3 years so far, any tips to get out of it?
@@alexanderulv3886 this is very subjective but I stayed away from meditation since it intensified the symptoms and got myself into working out/running which seems to have a grounding effect. but generally time seems to be the only real solution. did psychedelics recently for the first time in 3 years and it went well though
@@zakur0hako awesome, I’ve also been staying away from meditation and trying to quit all drugs because yeah I just want to go back to my normal state. I feel like I’m 70% back to normal, with minimal episodes of the zoom out effect. Also unhealthy food seems to be a trigger. Maybe 6 months more tops I’ll be cured and then I can also try a small mushroom trip maybe 🍄 Thanks and stay grounded my man, we went to hell and came back 😁
@@alexanderulv3886 the zoom out effect is not real brah just a thought tied with anxiety with the memory of the panic attack.
Someone else could feel the exact same shit and not care or notice but to you it’s sooo serious because you believe in it.
Exercise and grounding help for sure but next time the “zoom out” effect happens just notice it, don’t take it so seriously. Say “ahh there it is again lol” Let it even be there forever if it wants who, who cares 🤷♂️ and natural it’ll subside
@@Duck72432 yeah I’ve been kinda freaking out about that, and trying to avoid it. I’ll try to not care if it happens again, just a quick notice and then I’ll let it be, like I do with negative thoughts after a lot of meditation practice in the past. Thanks 🙏
This video has just saved my life and cleared my blocks. Thank you
36:53 Because you are trying to use meditation to get something out of it. Those monks may have never achieved the same level of consciousness of taking psychedelics but within their meditation practice are not trying to achieve anything from it. They do it because they enjoy it and causes their minds to be at peace. For all this knowledge you are endowing with us you do seem incredibly stuck in this idea of always improving and always getting ahead. That’s not enlightenment you grifter guru.
“Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what it is that you have never lost” There is a great joy in simply reconnecting with the being/consciousness that you are underneath the conditioned ego. And yes this is the true purpose of genuine spirituality, simply reconnecting with that dimension within yourself.
The problem with “psychonauts” and their quest to find spiritual meaning within the psychedelic experience is that they get lost in content. And spiritual truth for them equates to some far out mystical experience. This is not true. Yes I have experienced ego death and God realisation with the help of psychedelics. And 15 years before I was even aware of spirituality and it’s core principles. It was the most profound experience of my life and it wasn’t until much later that I was able to realise that what I experienced is explained very clearly in the spiritual traditions. The Alan Watts quote, “ once you get the message hang up the phone” regarding psychedelics is very apt. You should not regularly take these drugs thinking that is the only way for you to arrive at the absolute. Instead of arriving back at your natural unconditioned state you get lost in experience and become even more deeply entrenched within the conditioned mind.
I have great respect for psychedelics and treat them that way.
I’ve had bad trips, respect was born as the result.
I use them sparingly and respectfully.
Set, setting, meditation prior and setting pregame intention.
A few times a year is plenty.
I know to never go anywhere near 375ug. That dosage alone on LSD is too much I made that mistake
Leo, so important video! Thanks for doing that for humanity.
I'm going through that right now, this mundane material world where nothing is real.
If you continue your journey, you'll realize that there's no such thing as mundane. It's just an interpretation. And you'll be able to appriciate both the material world and the infinite reality.
I was there. It got better tho.. after a few years.
Thanks for the honest take here Leo. Appreciate you.
After my last and maybe 3rd or 4th LSD trip (and my first slightly bad trip) I felt 2 months later like reality was wrong (society), my mind thought of it as if I was on acid, and I felt kinda out of my self just a bit, it helped me quit social media and I started working on my discipline, and after other 6 months maybe I feel ready to take another mild trip, so I agree with you 100%.
Leo... This is Thee BEST video and topic you have done!!! 👏😮👏
I've been following you for quite sometime now, and honestly this is the most truth out of any video. Only because this is what I have fully experienced 100%
I have used psychadelics for over 20 years.
First 8 were at parties and being abused.. the past 12 have been alone, "shamic" for introspection and understanding and all years without alcohol.
I've had far too many experiences that have just been too "convenient/coincidental"
I can't understand how, but for them too happen statistically the way they did as a fluke.... I'm guessing that there's something a little more complicated that has never been fully understood... or talked about for that matter...
I hope we can chat.
From your experience, I can tell you did psychedelics. I can tell you actually experienced things. Very interesting, I did all of this and more. Got me further than I could ever imagine, but doing them will either lead you into jail or killed. So true when you mentioned God, I am addicted to that feeling, would do anything to get it back. Strange addiction, but that life I guess.
Leo Gura has Terance Mckenna's essence. I love them both!
Great video. This is the 2nd video I’ve watched on this channel. Subscribed.
When I took LSD to work on my self (it was successfull) I never left my flat, I mostly sat and contemplated. There was one point tho, where as I was thinking about life and universe and concieousness, my mind started to point thowards aliens and UFOs. I was fully aware, that if I go that way I may "get what I wish for". So I grabbed the "steeringwheel" and was like, "No thank you, maybe next time, let's get back to self and healing" xD
This story holds some real wisdom tbh
We need an episode about mental hillnesses: how to accept it, how to live with it and how be more aware of it
yes i agree this would be the first and most important thing ;)
to whoever says that weed calms down your trips... stop saying that lmao. that ONLY applies to people who smoke weed all the time and have super high tolerances. my trip sitter was constantly force feeding me weed while i was bad tripping on LSD to “calm me down” and it only made me go further and further into the bad trip because i didn’t have a tolerance. STOP SAYING THIS!!!
I have very high tolerance to weed, but taking it during the LSD trips was always a bad idea. Weed is good at landing though. Not at take off.
I smoke during a trip to bring it on harder if I've under-dosed initially.
Benzo's work but once you take one the trip is over, it's not coming back on that occasion.