
This is something Ive been thinking about, this sort of "wisdom over-reliance", its something that seems to happen a lot here, as I see it anyways.
Kinda feels like it misses to point a little bit.
Can relate to that Shaded. In general I am only interested in the homegrown thoughts of the individuals here. Established teachings of any nature smell a bit stale to me for some reason.
There's reason I poke holes in everything and there's a method to the madness.Smoalk more, apparently. I mean, this is about qualitative difference in the DMT experience with or without cannabis. Apparently![]()
In many instances i don't think it's relying on wisdom. Ultimately it's a personal path, each person learns and understands though their own experience, unless they want to believe without evidence. But there are instances in which we need the help of other people or we want guidance from other people including "wisdom sources". It doesn't mean blindly believing but integrating their perspective and verifying ourselves if it's true or not. Often the words of other people can describe better than we can the things we experienced ourselves. I think everyone including these wisdom sources relied on someone else at some point.This is something Ive been thinking about, this sort of "wisdom over-reliance", its something that seems to happen a lot here, as I see it anyways.
Kinda feels like it misses to point a little bit.
Way too complicated IMHO! Goes to show that what different people find helpful varies a lot.Anicca (impermanence) and anatta (nonself) are two "marks of existence" at the base of the Buddhist teaching and they're common to all schools. Nonself is related to impermamence and to "dependent co-arising". Impermanence means that nothing is fixed and unchanging, while dependent co-arising means that everything manifests and unmanifests according to the presence or abscence of conditions and there is nothing that exists "by itself".
Then with the Yogachara school of Mahayana there was a "mapping" of the human consciousness, which is described as composed by 8 consciousnesses. The last two are not present in Theravada texts. There are the six sense conciousnesses (the five senses + the "mind" sense, the one that perceives thoughts); the 7h consciousness, manas (the one that gives rise to the sense of self by grasping at the eight consciousness; this one is the closest to our "ego") and the 8th consciousness, alayavijnana ("storehouse consciousness"), that bears karmic seeds resulting from the impressions of other consciousnesses and from previous lives, in fact this is the only consciousness that survives between lives.
When alayavijnana is purified/transformed and freed from the grasping of manas, there is awakening / liberation. It becomes the "Great Mirror Wisdom" consciousness because reality is perceived as it is, free from defilements. In Chan/Zen Buddhism the Great Mirror Wisdom consciousness is identified with the Buddha-Nature that is present in all beings. This concept is also akin to the "Luminous Mind" of Buddhist Tantra.
Some people see this as a comeback of the self in a different form, but the counterargument to this is that Great Mirror Wisom and Buddha-Nature are just words to describe what is beyond concepts, so it is not a comeback of the self. Some texts use "negative" descriptions of nonself, especially in a culture where almost everyone believed in the existence of a soul, to avoid eternalism. Some texts use "positive" descriptions of nonself to avoid nihilism.
All the teachings are provisional.
Definitely, sorry for my active participation on the derailment.this thread has been derailed

Very interesting. I didn't know cannabis has GABA antagonist effect. Harmalas do, too, so maybe that could contribute to the synergistic effect in that case as well.View attachment 104936
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Have you taken any psychedelics with your pregabalin? As a GABA agonist I wonder if it dulls the trip. But it's interesting you get flashbacks with it
I've never noticed a potentiation, but it does add a calming effect.Does anyone know if CBD-Only weed will potentiate DMT?
And how about THCV+DMT?