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sophieinwonderland · 1 year

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Okay... we need to have a conversation about coercion and consent...

[Warning: Discussion of Cults]

So this is obviously another really disgusting smear from the anti-endo community. Absolutely no one is being "forced into a dissociative state" by tulpamancy practices.

Expeiences that can be classified hallucinations or dissociation are not only trauma responses but play major roles in many religions. Speaking to gods and spirits, Astral projection (and other out of body experiences,) spirit writing, voluntary possession states and many other spiritual experiences could be classified by psychologists as dissociative or hallucinatory.

These are not only normal parts of these belief systems but are often even considered transcendent spiritual experiences that are highly sought after.

Cults coerce. They force. They torture and abuse. They isolate you. They often try to gain financial power to make you dependent on them. They lie and keep secrets to manipulate you. I shouldn't need to explain this but gross comparisons like this from anti-endos make it necessary.

The tulpamancy community empowers. We provide resources free of charge for those who seek these types of transcendent experiences. (Though most tulpamancers see the experiences as psychological rather than spiritual.) Everyone knows what they're getting into and many longer guides will include warnings and questions to ask yourself before making your first tulpa to make sure you're certain it's right for you.

And each practice is completely optional. It's a personal choice. You can pick and choose what you want to learn.

Tulpamancy is not about taking control away. It's about giving you control. If you want to learn how to let your headmates better project themselves as external hallucinations, there are detailed imposition guides for that. If you want to learn to dissociate to switch with your headmates, there are guides for that too.

Or you can learn none of it. Not everyone wants to learn these skills and that's okay too. Again, the practices one learns from tulpamancy resources are a choice.

And you don't even need to be a tulpamancer to make use of tulpamancy guides. Many other systems have made use of Wonderland and inner world guides to better immerse themselves, and I assume imposition guides would be just as effective.

Comparing intentional and informed psychological and spiritual practices to abusive cult behavior is incredibly gross and harmful to not only the plural community, but many spiritual and psychonautic communities as well. It also comes off as incredibly manipulative in a community with so many people with trauma from cults to try to play on those trauma responses by associating cults with tulpas endogenic systems to breed hatred and hostility towards us amongst survivors of this sort of abuse.

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ylespar · 8 months

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"In lucid dreams (LDs), people maintain consciousness and can make predetermined actions while asleep. Since the 1970s, electrooculography and other sensors have been used to send signals from LDs into reality. In this study, we test whether electromyography (EMG) can help transfer melodies from LDs, which can expand our abilities to transfer information from LDs into reality. Software was developed to translate EMG impulses into sounds. Four LD practitioners were trained to play musical rhythms by straining their arm muscles, which had EMG sensors on them. Then, these volunteers were asked to induce LDs and repeat the task under polysomnographic observation in a laboratory. Each volunteer induced from one to three confirmed LDs. Three of them were able to transfer musical rhythms into reality, as the EMG sensors detected electrical spikes in the arm muscles despite sleep paralysis. The researchers heard the sounds from the dreams in real time and in recordings. The results prove the concept that people can transfer rhythmical EMG impulses from LD, which could be potentially useful for transferring sounds or music from LD into reality. As one practitioner failed to transfer proper EMG signals, the method needs further investigation. Since LD practitioners sometimes create original music in LDs, it could be possible to transfer these insights into reality. These melodies can be broadcasted via the Internet, TV, or radio in real time."

Raduga, M., Shashkov, A., Gordienko, N., Vanin, A., & Maltsev, E. (2023). Real-time transferring of music from lucid dreams into reality by electromyography sensors. Dreaming. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/drm0000244

#lucid dreaming #oneironautics #psychonautics #indexluciddreaming

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mixotrophics · 1 year

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bodies made of other bodies (2023) by me :] chimaeras and siphonophores are the same, they are creatures made up of components that are, in themselves, other creatures. I recently read Victor Olegovich Pelevin’s The Hall of the Singing Caryatids and when the Archetypal Mantis spoke of life being this river flowing through itself, going on entertaining jaunts as “individuals” who rejoin the whole upon death... yeah. pathologic Udurgh is painted on my jacket for a reason. that is understanding.

#chimera #chimaera #greek mythology #siphonophore #psychonautics #my art #art #surrealist art #surrealist collage #lmao sounds like youre a shroomhead Ok sure buddy. but also yeah #miaow

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psychonautics · 1 year

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Psychoactives

A psychoactive substance is a chemical substance—other than a nutrient or essential dietary ingredient—that alters brain function to produce temporary changes in sensation, perception, mood, consciousness, cognition, and behavior.

Psychoactive substances have been used by humans for a variety of purposes since recorded history (e.g. as medicine, for recreation, as entheogens, or for research.

The Psychoactive Substance Index (PSI) is designed to catalog and provide relevant, accurate, and unbiased information for any and all mind-altering substances known to humankind, with a special focus on those with potential applications as mind-expanding tools.

The individual articles detail not just the history, chemistry, pharmacology, toxicity, and legality of each substance, but also its user-reported subjective effects (i.e. phenomenology). This is achieved in accordance with a standardized system of definitions and terminologies proposed in the Subjective Effect Index (SEI).

#psychoactive substances #psychonautics #psychonautwiki.org

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fandom-cereal · 6 months

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Conversion of CBD to THC with citric acid and water-based extraction

from reddit. this guide for informational purposes only.

thanks to u/fried_oreo_420

Before we start - my intention with this guide is to show people that possessing basic cooking skills and equipment qualifies you to turn CBD into THC! For too long, the person who just wants to chill out and get stoned has been forced to exchange excessive money for THC, but no more! CBD is generally available for sub-$1/gram and can by converted to THC like 90% efficiently using relatively common cooking ingredients, techniques, and equipment (and some lab ware!) Thanks to inspiration from this sub to get me started and my brothers in science who have inspired me to apply my knowledge to the age old problem of “how do I get stoned with less labor?”.

This technique strives to be as simple and as approachable as possible. I'm not a chemist, I'm just a tinkerer who hates overpaying in general and especially for THC. I think this technique is about as simple as can be, it was important to engineer a process I couldn't screw up and could perform with minimal equipment. To keep this safe, we only use food-grade ingredients and you should only eat the product, you should be able to eat any ingredient at any step of the reaction and get irritation at worst. If you perform this technique, you'll have incredibly pure THC that doesn't cost much more per gram than your source of CBD.

Ingredients and ratios:

CBD isolate (isolate preferred, distillate acceptable also, higher purity is better). “hemp depot” has good prices, you can get CBD for less than $1/gram if you look hard enough

as-of May 2022, you shouldn't pay much more than $600/kg for CBD isolate

Food grade citric acid (start with something on the order of 100-500 grams)

Baking Soda (get a container at the grocery store)

Pure water (use distilled water if you’re unsure of what this means or how to measure water quality, you’re looking for water with fewer than 50 PPM of total dissolved solids)

You’ll want ice cubes, a few ice cubes should be enough but make sure they’re made of pure water

You'll need to boil some of this eventually, make sure you can heat and handle the boiling water without contaminating it. A clean GLASS cup should be enough

Equipment (this will change as your batch size changes, I normally cook ~10 grams at once this is the equipment setup that I think is most rational, adapt these to your use case):

Scale with .01 gram precision (at least 100 grams of max capacity) - $20

Labasics 200 mm graham condenser with 24/40 joint - $20

The water jacket should accept ½ inch tubing

24/40 glass stopper - $10 optional

A small submersible water pump (like 5 watts)

make sure you get enough lifting height, if you're not sure try to get at least 1 meter of lift height) for your setup

get a half-inch nozzle if you follow the condenser recommendation (you’ll want to match your water pump nozzle size to your condenser’s water nozzle size) - $5

½ in plastic tubing - $10

Container to hold water and your pump (shoot for at least 2 gallons) - note that this won’t be exposed to chemicals, you can use a mixing bowl or VERY LARGE tupperware

24/40 boiling flask (I got 250 ML, you’ll want to use less than half the capacity - 125 ml is enough space to convert ~70 grams or so)

Your choice on whether to get a round bottom or flat bottom

A stand to hold your equipment (consider United Scientific SSB6X9)

Clamps to hold the equipment (consider EISCO CH0688)

You need at least one, but ideally two: one for the boiling flask and one for the condenser

Heating plate-

You’ll want something with magnetic stir capabilities, the most basic hot plates with the stirring are $60-$80, you’ll need to figure out how to measure the temperature of the solution inside the flask if you do this though

Heating plates with thermal control capabilities start art $200, buy once cry once - you’re going to make THC for sub-$1/gram - you probably pay $20-$40/gram for it now, just invest in the good equipment now and recoup the savings in the future

Magnetic stir bars (if not included in with your hot plate or you want more sizes)

Stainless steel strainer

Bowl (you can use a clean kitchen bowl that’s glass or non-stick, just wash it well before using it for food)

Glass or silicone containers for the final product

silicone spatulas for handling

Coffee filters (optional)

IR thermometer - $15, just useful to have to check temperatures

Procedure

Vision for the process: When CBD is exposed to acidic solutions, the CBD molecules undergoe isomerization which means they are reconfigured into THC. There are multiple types of THC, the process first converts CBD to THC-delta-9 (the type most commonly found in plants, most people prefer this type) and ultimately to THC-delta-8 (a less psychoactive variety of THC). After isomerizing the CBD into THC, we will neutralize the acid which converts the citric acid into sodium citrate and use water to separate the THC from the sodium citrate.

Steps:

Set up your equipment

Find a spot for the heating plate, put your flask on top of the plate, and ‘test fit’ everything without loading any material in the beaker

Put your condenser on top of the beaker, use plastic tubing to attach the water pump to the water jacket of the condenser

Pro tip: attach your pump to the lower water nozzle on the condenser, this will ensure your pump fills the condenser and the condenser works as effectively as possible

Prepare the reaction

It’s very important to get the right mixture of ingredients here

Even ~7% less citric acid than required will reduce your reaction efficiency dramatically

Using too much citric acid will make extra sodium citrate which means for filtration later

You need to use Water and Citric acid in a 1 gram water to .15 gram citric acid ratio regardless of how much water you use

You should use at least 2 grams of water (and .3 grams of citric acid) per gram of CBD you want to isomerize

You can use more water per gram of CBD but make sure you use .15 grams of citric acid for every gram of water, you should only do this if you’re reacting fewer than ~3 grams of CBD or so, after 5 grams, there should be enough water normally that this is reasonably easy to handle

Select however much CBD you want to convert (this process should be around 90% efficient at converting CBD to THC)

For each gram of CBD, measure out two grams of water and .3 grams of citric acid (15% solution)

For 10 grams of CBD, use 20 grams of water and 3 grams of citric acid

Put the measured amounts of CBD, water, and citric acid in the flask, the order doesn’t matter

Put the flask between the condenser and the hotplate, heat the solution inside the flask to boiling and run the magnetic stirrer between 200 and 1000 RPM (or, as high as possible without the magnet flying out of control or splashing your solution)

My hotplate has a temperature controlled heating pad, I set the pad to ~130 degrees C and put the flask with the solution on top in a round bottom flask with a lot of foil to conduct and insulate heat

Run the reaction

After your solution is boiling and getting mixxed, run it for ~8 hours while under reflux (boiling under the condenser) where it’ll have a ~50/50% ration of delta-9 and delta-8 THC. Running the reaction longer will convert the delta-9 THC to delta-8, after 12 hours or so, it should be entirely converted to delta-8.

Neutralize the Acid

Tip: At this point, I normally stop the heat and pull off the condenser apparatus and drain it/set it aside, and keep the stirring going while pouring in the baking soda

Pour in 1.31 grams of baking soda for each gram of citric acid

if you’re following along for 10 grams of CBD, that’s 3.93 grams of baking soda

I normally don’t pour in all the baking soda at once, I start by dumping in ~90% of the baking soda and adding the rest slowly, if you pour in baking soda and there’s no fizzing, it may mean the acid is fully naturalized

Check the PH if you can, add baking soda to fully neutralize solution

Get ready to separate the THC and water / sodium citrate

Put your ice cubes in a stainless steel mesh strainer

put strainer over a bowl to catch water

pour the contents of your beaker out over the ice slowly - the goal here is to pass as much water as possible over the ice so that the THC will crystalize

70-80% of your THC will congeal together (this will be bound up with sodium citrate) in the stainless steel mesh

Your choice on how much you want to filter and try to conserve the THC in the water/sodium citrate, it’s best to discard the fluid down the sink or run it over a coffee filter and try to operate out the THC

Solventless extract

Right now, your THC is bound together with sodium citrate, you need to separate the two. Luckily, sodium citrate is water soluble and THC is not, we’ll use this property to separate out the two

Begin Loop until you have something clear (3x to 5x rinses)

Pour your hot THC (read: liquid) THC into a stainless steel mesh with ice cubes, pouring directly on top of the ice cubes

With your THC in the stainless steel container, remove the Ice cubes

you can rinse the solution over the sink with cold water if you want, briefly, this helps a little, discard the rinse

prepare to catch hot THC and water under the stainless steel mesh

pour boiling, pure water over the THC and stainless steel mesh - the boiling water liquifies the THC allowing sodium citrate to dissolve in the water

If your THC / water solution gets cold, you can put it in the microwave, just be careful not to let the THC get above 220 degrees or so

this was your first rinse, congrats!

To repeat, Pour your hot THC (read: liquid) THC into a stainless steel mesh with ice cubes, pouring directly on top of the ice cubes

When you’re finished, just take your THC crystals/solution and put it in a container and let the rest of the water evaporate

Finished! Now dab it or eat it

Technically, you can eat this before this is neutralized, but best to neutralize the acid before eating

#psychonautics #weed #science

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cartoonscientist · 4 months

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I wanted to write a post about how a few days ago I was resting on my bed and started focusing on a cryptic phrase I don’t really remember from a song lyric or something, and my brain just like, idk, clipped out of the map of consciousness, and I was like “oh okay this is how koans are meant to work, I get it now”, but I started typing it as “so one time I actually koaned myself” and now I can’t get over that

#psychonautics

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ylespar · 11 months

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"You can ask any question in your conscious dream — and receive an answer in just about any form. It may be written on the wall, spoken to you from the sky, or a new dream scene may materialize before your eyes. The answers provided by the inner self may sometimes surprise you, coming from an extraordinary hidden secondary awareness."

— Rebecca Turner

#indexluciddreaming #lucid dreaming #oneironautics #psychonautics #anomalous experience

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