Welcome.

As you may know by now, I recently went on vacation in Switzerland.

I went there to hike on mountains with my brother, and to:

• Test my limits

• See some cool views

• Finally go above 3.000m (10.000ft)

Before we left, I thought to myself:

What better way to compliment the trip... than with another trip?

(See what I did there?)

So I got myself 2 tabs (doses) of LSD.

I knew that would add to the experience...

But nothing could prepare me for how impactful this was going to be.

I thought it might add to the (already breathtaking) visual experience.

Maybe get me some more revelations on my thinking.

However I wasn't expecting it to change my entire attitude to life.

Fair warning:

This isn't for you if you can't open yourself up to a radical new possibility.

Got that?

Okay, now let's begin...

The Prequel

One day on a hike, I was listening to an actualized.org video.

Some of you may know him.

If you don't, go check that man out.

This one specifically was on psychedelics.

Here's the video if you're interested:

Of course I was interested to hear about it as I was soon about to trip myself.

But I did not expect him to say this.

It made my eyes open wide and my jaw drop.

My curiosity flamed up like a puddle of gasoline that's met with a spark.

What on earth could have had that effect?

Well...

This man introduced me to a whole new perspective on life.

He first explained how...

There is no such thing as material reality.

This is mindfuck #1.

The screen you're looking at right now?

The walls around you?

The floor under your feet?

"Reality" as a whole?

It's all a product of your imagination.

A (very consistent) hallucination produced by your mind in real time.

And yes, you can't walk through walls.

But that's because you've imagined that to be the case.

You just don't remember doing it.

"What? That's proposterous!"

On first notice, yes.

But stick with me here for a second.

Ready for mindfuck #2?

Here you go:

It's possible to remember.

The word goes that you can raise your level of consciousness so high that you remember how you created the entire universe and everything inside of it.

What does this have to do with psychedelics?

Well, taking them raises your level of consiousness.

And yes, I know what you're thinking now.

Has this guy gone insane?

Or...

Is there a tiny chance that he's actually legit?

Don't dismiss it just yet.

Accept this as a possibility.

I'm not trying to convince you of anything here.

In fact I'm only telling you this because I went out and tried it on my own.

So here's how that played out...

"I Have To Know"

The mere possibility excited me so much that it would have been unbearable to not investigate.

So that's what I did.

One faithful day, I find myself sitting on the lounge in my hotel room.

On the table in front of me lay 2 small plain white paper squares.

I hold one of them up into the air.

My heart beating with excitement.

I would be lying if I said I wasn't nervous.

2 tabs are not a light dose.

Those who've dabbled in psychedelics before know things can easily go south.

This is what's known as a "horror trip".

What gave me reassurance though...

Leo (from actualized.org) said that negative experiences are a result of the person themselves being rotten.

Vice versa, pure-hearted people will not get that (or at least less easily).

That made sense to me because my trips became more & more beautiful the deeper I went into my personal growth journey.

But anyways...

One tab goes onto my tongue.

LSD takes a while to kick in.

My plan was to take another half tab for each additional hour that passes.

This is called "parachuting" and it makes the come-up less sudden.

Meanwhile I'm listening to some more actualized.org content.

Waiting for the signs of the come-up.

I love this phase.

The effects start creeping in slowly.

Your perception changes ever so slightly.

Your whole body starts tingling with electricity.

Especially your stomach.

You look at something and your perspecive moves a little.

It's as if you're seeing the world through a camera and someone slightly rotated it in one direction.

It's gonna take some time to reach peak effects, so I chill for a bit.

I listen to some music.

I close my eyes and watch the colors and patterns change and dance around.

Some time passes, and eventually I get up.

I go and sit down at the kitchen table.

Here's where it starts to get interesting.

From that table, there's a window pointing out into the mountain range.

Astonishing view.

But that's not what catches my attention.

At first I'm only looking out because it's a pretty cool view.

At some point in time I'm staring at one point.

And then something happens.

The stuff surrounding my point of focus...

Starts losing its shape.

The details are disappearing.

Leaves on a tree turn into something that I can only desribe as single-color puzzle pieces.

Dark green, medium green, light green.

Boundaries start melting.

One object flows into the next one.

"What the fuck?"

Yeah.

Now this gets me interested.

I start wondering...

What if I focus on one point as hard as I can?

So that's what I do.

This is where it almost gets... creepy.

We take it as a given that the world around us is something solid and tangible.

It's been like this our entire lives after all!

That was me.

Was.

I focus so hard on that one point that it's almost exhausting.

I really try with all my force.

Up until this point, the world in front of me was merely moving & morphing.

And now it starts to collapse entirely.

Colors disappear.

Shapes and borders unify into black and white surfaces.

Objects melt away into the void.

What seemed so real just a few seconds ago...

 Vanishes into thin air.

And the craziest thing:

The entire world around me raises.

It's like I'm sitting at the bottom of a pit and looking up at it.

As if I'm sitting in an invisible elevator that's taking me down.

Through the floor.

Now I get why Leo said that this isn't something to take lightly.

He's actually speaking the truth!

At least in the part that I've been able to verify.

(Of course I will be doing further exploration work in the future.)

But the question remains nevertheless:

What are you supposed to do with this information?

What's the meaning of life if nothing is real?

Ah, see.

Here's where it hit me like a brick.

If nothing is real and all of this is imagined by the universe itself...

By you.

If it is one big unity.

"You", "me", and every other thing.

If there are no actual boundaries.

No competition, no differences, no "them against us".

If there is no "we", only "I"...

Then what else would the point of life be, except to have the most beautiful life experience you could possibly have?

And to give that to every other person, animal, and everything in between?

When I'm talking to "you", I'm one extension of the infinite mind talking to a second extension.

So here's the core lesson:

Serving others means serving yourself.

Not in a cute sense.

Not even in a selfish sense.

I'm saying it literally.

Returning to the story:

This realization lifts such a weight off of my soul.

I realize that...

Life is the most beautiful & magical thing you could have ever wished for.

I feel so in unity with everything around me.

I realize that all suffering stems from being disconnected from the universe, a.k.a. yourself!

Here's where I get hit by such an overwhelming amount of love that I start crying.

I'm not talking about a few tears here.

No.

I'm talking about literal rivers of hot, salty water.

I wouldn't have thought that it was even possible for a human body to shoot out so much of it.

But here we are.

I go out onto the balcony and I'm greeted with such beauty that I start crying even harder.

It's freezing and I'm out there without shoes on, but that's so irrelevant.

I stand there for what feels like an eternity, but realistically it must have been 30 minutes.

Just marvelling at the wonder of life.

And this is where my thinking really starts to change:

Is money really that important?

What's the point of being selfish if there's no such thing as a self?

It only exists because you made an arbitrary distinction.

Your ego needs that to survive.

That's what was necessary over the course of evolution.

But is that really still the case?

I realize that money is not my priority anymore.

Sure, I will need it eventually.

And I would be lying to you if I said I didn't want it.

But my desire to give, to help, to love, outweighs my desire for money.

One experience won't turn me into a selfless force of god.

We are all selfish in some capacity, even if we don't want to admit it.

And I am no different.

But I know that I want to work on moving up the scale towards selflessness.

Towards love for the universe.

This is why I'm currently taking a step in that direction.

Before this experience, I wanted to build out my service to get paid.

Now I want to do it because I want you to succeed.

Because I want to give.

Because I want to lead.

It's my purpose.

So I'll be offering it at no cost.

$0.

You heard me.

Want to get some free consulting?

Come slide into my DMs and I'll put you on the list.

I've also dedicated myself to creating a series of free digital products that cover the fundamentals of:

• One-person business

• Twitter growth

• Self-management systems

As for this newsletter, that's also taking a shift.

It will be more thinking-oriented & theoretical.

The digitial product series will be more action-oriented & practical.

Both combine into a comprehensive whole.

Because that's what life is.

You can't put yourself in one box or another.

You can't just be 100% logical without emotions.

You can't be entirely practical without studying the theory.

You can't have purely masculine energy, only a ratio of masculine to feminine.

Anyone that tells you otherwise is letting their ego get in the way.

Life is about unifying yourself first...

And then unifying the universe as a whole.

You're lying to yourself if you think that selfishness serves you.

I know it's counterintuitive...

But the biggest source of wealth and satisfaction is helping other people achieve those things.

And so I hope this article makes you think.

Maybe even act differently.

Either way:

I want you to know that my doors are always open if you need help or advice.

I may not know everything...

But I do have a few tricks up my sleeve.

That being said, I appreciate you reading the entire thing ;)

Hope to see you again here when next time rolls around.

Wishing you all the best,

Tym Hartwich