How did it help and why did it help if you don't mind sharing non-personals. Could you have gotten that way by just thinking about life differently?
Something about psychedelics causes pretty intense introspection. Removes any barriers you may have unconsciously set up in your mind. Think of the "elephant tied to a stick with a string" analogy. Some things are so common and natural to think about, and psychedelics can shake that up. I've never had any hallucinations on psychedelics either, just shifts in perception. High quality and life changing experiences, that last months to years even.
Why is it / was it a super intense crime to grow mushrooms, make LSD, etc? Yet fentanyl is everywhere now. Why aren't there "mushroom addicts" like there are alcoholics or prescription addicts?
Not that I totally disagree with you, but I think psychedelics should be of concern given the US governments long standing interest in them. I mean they took a bunch of riled up college kids who were ready for cultural revolution and turned them into drug warped hippies who became pacifists, followed by the sexual revolution and the destruction of the family. As someone who has personally gone down this road, I think they government uses its illicit status to breed taboo as a means to on-ramp the younger generations to the program.
Interesting take! I've heard this before, and can definitely see where that cultural hijacking took place. I agree with the general sentiment, especially in the late 50s-60s-70s where that designed cultural revolution was really taking off. But look at how much more effective and brainwashy early age vaccinations and prescribed methamphetamines?
Authoritarianism is what got us into this mess. Wrongful detention, drug trafficking, crime upticks in every community. Law & policing corruption, high politicians running tax money into other countries, latest Ukraine, let alone Israel. The "rules" and "laws" are not dictated by communities anymore, that's why there's vaccine mandates and schedule 1 federal standards. You're drinking from the same cup if you think:
psychedelics should be of concern given the US governments long standing interest in them.
I can see how that would happen. But that feeling doesn't last forever. I've met plenty of rasta looking militant coastal California pot farmer types that'll cut your hand off with a machete for just looking at them wrong. And even going to some of these festivals that I bump into a while traveling around in my camper I can see a lot of alternative antifa style people all riled up looking to throw bricks at anything that triggers them. they're just a bunch of druggy wastes, how sad for them. I don't think I regret my time using mind-altering substances, I learned a lot about what was good and bad in my life. I wouldn't want to spend my entire life high on something that seems very counterproductive but I was glad to have the experience.
I remember as an 18-year-old taking LSD for the first time. The visuals were beyond insane and the self-reflection was just as intense. The trip lasted for a total of 24 hours. Go deep or go home I guess right. I felt a change in my persona and perceptions. It didn't really last but it lasted long enough to make me questioned everything that was around me. Whether good or bad it made me question everything.
I was stuck in the same thoughts and actions day after day and even after the actions stopped the thought patterns and circular thinking remained. Psychedelics helped me to break away from them and get over the death of a loved one. I'm sure it could have eventually been resolved with living and time.
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.
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.
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