Acacaya actually started this thread. I'd say, with sidekicks like that, why would chocobeastie need any detractors from the nexus?
chocobeastie said:I was recently surprised to find Dick Khan get quite a lot of chop from Snozzleberry and Endlessness. Shouldn’t you be welcoming in this researcher? Encouraging him to participate in the community?
chocobeastie said:I was recently surprised to find Dick Khan get quite a lot of chop from Snozzleberry and Endlessness.
chocobeastie said:Anyway, something I have thought about is, what if I never got into DMT? What if I just stuck to acacia tea drinking? Or went and lived in a cave in the Himalayas? Would there be a changa section on the DMT nexus? If not, what would there be? How many more or less would have smoked DMT in their lives? How many lives would have not been changed? I can’t tell you these things, but I have thought about it.
I did level some pretty serious critiques regarding his Breaking Convention presentation and the information available on academia.edu regarding a lack of standard methodological protocol but I also most assuredly extended exactly that invitation.chocobeastie said:Shouldn’t you be welcoming in this researcher? Encouraging him to participate in the community?
dreamer042 said:If this is actually the result of rigorous study and the presentation of objective data, I'd love to start a discussion on that. If there is a pile of data however, why publish it in this book and paywall access to it? Why not publish it in an academic journal, or even better open source the raw data right here to collective databank that is the nexus?
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I applaud your desire to want to perform research, I'd just suggest you work on applying a moar rigorous methodology so that your contribution will be useful for others working toward similar goals.
In addition to utilizing moar control in your experiments, I'd highly suggest the use of this nice standardized template in cataloging your future experiences, so they are both consistent across your self-reporting and with the greater body of experience reports here on the forum. This will allow for their inclusion as part of larger scale data collection efforts analyzing consistency in experiences across multiple subjects. Just some food for thought, this community freely offers a lot of tools and peer support that can be exceedingly useful in furthering your personal, and our collective, research agendas, should you choose to engage with them.
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chocobeastie said:Snozzleberry,
I have thought at times you are rather confused and trivial in your arguments, but am aware saying that is ad hominem. I think perhaps it might be more that I live in a more intelligent culture than yours, where everything does not need spelling out literally just in case there is any misunderstanding at all.
If you had never got into DMT it would not really have made much difference in the scheme of things, DMT would still be where it is today, the world would likely have one less self promoting website and book, though that gap probably would have been filled by someone else as well.chocobeastie said:Anyway, something I have thought about is, what if I never got into DMT? What if I just stuck to acacia tea drinking? Or went and lived in a cave in the Himalayas? Would there be a changa section on the DMT nexus? If not, what would there be? How many more or less would have smoked DMT in their lives? How many lives would have not been changed? I can’t tell you these things, but I have thought about it.
chocobeastie said:I was just saying some people need 150-200mg DMT. I wasn't suggesting anyone jump straight up to that amount, but I think it is useful to keep this in mind.
chocobeastie said:Try 150-200mg of DMT, that's how much some first timers need.
The thing is that your wording is suggesting that people jump straight in. Instead of backtracking after the fact (and in another tread), it ought to have been a bunch of clearly worded disclaimers to go along with your initial claims.chocobeastie said:pitubo,
I was just saying some people need 150-200mg DMT. I wasn't suggesting anyone jump straight up to that amount, but I think it is useful to keep this in mind.
What is your reasoning (if any) that specifically newcomers need a higher dose of dmt? Do newcomers have some kind of innate tolerance that is destroyed after their first experiences so that said tolerance is gone after a few experiences? Or do newcomers often struggle to get the maoi inhibition right, and do they need a few trials to figure it out?chocobeastie said:It is the same old pattern you read on here, "I tried 60mg and then 100mg and not much is happening, what am I doing wrong?"
Source?chocobeastie said:Did you know a lot of amazonian tribal people only started to use DMT admixtures in the last few decades?