Interesting, circular patterns. I think we can all say we've experienced this in our personal psyche. Or maybe not, I know I can say I have. I do wonder if there's a way to break out of these patterns without the use of medicine like you say with time. It heals all wounds but sometimes time takes too long and maybe this medicine is a gift from God to help us move faster to heal and move forward in life, recharged and productive once more. This might sound kind of out there but maybe this medicine could be the Holy Spirit of sorts.
If psychedelics have taught me anything, it’s that there are no shortcuts. It can be a tool and act as a mirror for your psyche, but you still have to go to work and make the gains for change to occur. I don’t believe it cures depression, but it may make it easier to mentally deal with it or have acceptance for it.You still have to incorporate the knowledge you can see in those moments. I almost think because of this, it can be somewhat paralyzing. Because you become acutely aware of your flaws and the flaws of the world as well as your place within it - it becomes a bit of a black pill because at times it all seems rather insurmountable. And if we’re being honest I never just see someone do one ayahuasca ceremony and go about their way really, people tend to seek and seek through that shit without ever putting in the work in the real world.
That's interesting. So if it really helps you figure out what you need to work out by stripping away a lot of BS. I wonder if a good month long solitudinal meditation couldn't take you to the same place. I don't mean that jewy mindfulness crap that's just cutesy putsy shit.
Changing places surely helps. How they help in my opinion is making neural pathways more elastic allowing new connections to be formed, thus changing our thought processes.
So psychedelics create new neural pathways like new neurons or just send things to different places? Like I've heard that the reason why we have hallucinations on LSD is because taste is being sent to sight and site is being sent to feel and then feel is being sent to nose so it just completely screws the body up.
I don't think that is correct or at least it is not in line with personal experience. What I think is going on is that it is encouraging the forming of new axon dendrite connections. Not new neurons, but new connections that didn't exist previously. These new paths are what reshapes our thinking. These new paths will fail or be reinforced depending on if we use them on not. This is why they are only a tool and it is up to you to make them work. Your own effort determines your success with them.
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