Introductions:
- What is your name and what brings you here today?
- Share a sound and we will repeat it back to you.
- Who knows someone who has struggled with psychedelic abuse?
How do you define addiction?
- Obsession
- Doing the same thing over again and expecting different results
- Something you don’t want to do to fulfill the addiction- willing to go the lengths
- Subconscious drive
- Habitual addiction vs chemical addiction
- Can be a process like gambling
- Often produced by doctors through prescriptions
- Co dependency, can’t live life without it
- Impacts your life
- High functioning addict
What can psychedelic abuse look like before, during, and after?
- Rabbit hole of needing to rediscover something
- Fixation
- Fall into psychosis
- Psychological vs physical
- Chasing that initial high- that initial discovery/wonder
- Using without integration- what is the purpose?
- Escapism
- Need to be tripping to feel normal
- Attaching to the elevated ego- addicted to the god complex thinking you have discovered something/figured it all out
- What does abuse look like to the mushroom? Abusing the Relationship with the mushroom? How does the mushroom feel?
- Not using abuse language but “misuse” – destruction vs transaction
- “Addict” can be a consuming identity
- Using language of abuse is a more equal language, you would t say I misused the animal
- Abuse animal, hormones that get released from that abuse then go back into your food so that energy exchange of harm gets perpetuated
- Misuse is a softer word- is softer better?
How does the psychedelic halo affect impact our culture?
- Psychedelic have been demonized for so long that now society is offsetting that by painting them as a holier than thou substance
- Positive stereotypes
- Toxic positivity, shadow side is ignored
- Use medicine to dodge real world challenges
- Perceiving and using psychedelics as a pharmaceutical
- Don’t trip before you’ve integrated the last trip
- Anything you can’t stop is an addiction
- What is the halo effect?