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Micro-Dosing 5-MeO-DMT for Finetuning the Ego

In the psychedelic and spiritual scene, psychedelics are generally approached in three ways:

1. Recreational Use: Partying with friends and enjoying communal experiences.
2. Healing Oneself: Using these substances for personal growth and trauma healing.
3. Finding Truth: Seeking enlightenment and God realization, often through substances like 5-MeO-DMT or 5-MeO-MALT.

Beyond these common intentions, there is a need to explore a different category: Finetuning of the Ego. With the power of psychedelics to impact the mind, one can deconstruct mental frameworks and re-emerge with a more relevant approach to engaging with the world. This process aligns with the concept of relevance realization, as described by John Vervaeke.

In spiritual circles, the ego is often seen as something evil that must be eradicated. However, this is a great misunderstanding of the ego's true purpose. The ego is essential for constructing our reality, enabling us to function and engage with the world. It is built to serve the whole, to maintain and self-preserve, and to help build a collective shared reality known as society.

Through the ego, reality is constructed. The notion of ego death is often misunderstood. Realizing that one is just a droplet in the ocean reveals that a droplet is an integral part of the ocean. Similarly, one is not merely an isolated entity in the world but a part of the universe. This realization is commonly experienced through non-dual psychedelics like 5-MeO-DMT or 5-MeO-MALT.

While trauma healing and the pursuit of enlightenment are valuable, the psychedelic field remains a vast, unexplored territory, much like our galaxy and our minds. To achieve self-actualization, it is essential to cultivate the ego as a side project. Enlightened minds often describe life as a game, a grand imagination or story, where the ego is a game character, and the mind is the game itself.

In video games, characters have different skill sets—tanker, attacker, supporter. Similarly, society assigns pre-set roles and identities, shaping who one is. Awakening reveals that all these identities are the mind's imagination. As the creator of this reality, one can transcend the ego, understand the entire map, and choose to play differently. This could mean altering the ego or completely deconstructing it and emerging with a new, unique game character.

Why condemn the ego as something negative? After all, society has long taught us how to construct a functional ego compatible with the social system through education and religion. Recognizing life as a game, why not enhance and finetune the ego? You can make yourself better.

When micro-dosing 5-MeO-DMT, the outer layers of the ego dissolve. Your skills and language may be partially deconstructed, but not the identity structure, as the inner layers of the ego dissolve at higher doses. When working, building a business, or engaging in conversation, one can have profound realizations about these activities while on 5-MeO-DMT and gain a deeper understanding of the nature of business, conversation, and work.

One could play better music, perform better in sports, become a better politician, or a more effective entrepreneur. Society is not dying because of egos ruining the world, but rather because there are not enough competent egos co-creating and building the world together.

However, most social settings in our society do not support the 5-MeO-DMT experience, even in microdoses, so be cautious. Experiment on your own first to see what works and what doesn't. When engaging in work or social settings directly, it can lead to significant anxiety, which, while not necessarily bad, can make one feel overly anxious. This anxiety arises because, while the ego is serving its mission, it is also partially dissolving.

The first 10 to 20 minutes of the 5-MeO-DMT experience involve ego dissolution. This is why choosing the right moment and place to fully relax and be alone is important. Ensure that no one will talk to you or that those around you understand your context and can support you for 20 minutes (if using a nasal spray) or shorter for a heavily diluted vape pen (though this method has not been personally tested). After ego dissolution, the mind is rebuilt into a flow state where one can function better and remain highly adaptive with the boost of 5-MeO-DMT.

Micro-dosing 5-MeO-DMT is quite different because ego dissolution on visual psychedelics (like shrooms, LSD, or DMT) happens at high doses, such as 7g of shrooms or 50 mg of DMT. In contrast, 5-MeO-DMT induces ego dissolution even in microdoses.

Micro-dosing with visual psychedelics works by calibrating the ego, expanding and shrinking it to find the ego's best spot. With micro-dosing 5-MeO-DMT, it tears down the outer structure of the mind, allowing one to view the entire map, rebuild, and start from scratch. Reading the whole map, one gains a realization of how to play differently and where to focus.

The ego is the lens, a perspective. The ego is a focus point on the whole map. There are many focus points—where is the attention? To know what matters most, one must first read the map. The ego is an image. One can have the right image but with low resolution (lacking complexity, low competence) or a high-resolution image that is irrelevant. We need the right image, with high resolution.

We need the right perspective, with deeper understanding and complexity.

A person can be intelligent but self-deceived. A person can be wise, knowing what matters most, but lack complexity and competence.

Why You Might Be Just Intelligent And Not Wise | Lex Fridman and John Vervaeke

Of course, one can "heal" oneself with 5-MeO-DMT or take high doses 200 times in pursuit of enlightenment. But we also need a functional, competent ego in this world to maintain the reality we live in. If you want to learn more about 5-MeO-DMT, please check out this link: The Difference Between 5-MeO-DMT and DMT.