Introductions
- Who are you and what do you look forward to this Spring?
How does preexisting mentality influence the psychedelic experience? (Religion, mental health, propaganda, etc.)
- How does social acceptance affect the psychedelic experience? With psychedelics being illegal, we question if psychedelics themselves make us question our reality or if folks willing to engage in illicit activity are already apt to questioning society and surroundings
- Chicken or the egg
- Historically, did religious beliefs dictate how people used medicine or did the medicine teach them a belief system to follow?
- What about people who get dosed unknowingly?
- Why is the government willing to allow psychedelics now?
- Is it because they have found a way to use them as a tool for brainwashing or societal control?
- Laws follow the population. They cannot repress psychedelics so the law is following suit
- Free flow of information also helped made psychedelic liberation more possible. Less room for fear mongering when people are sharing their positive experiences. People are able to hear experiences unfiltered
- What can be dangerous is how you integrate your experience
- The integration can be a form of control
- What about the people that don’t have community? When people get all info from the media, how are they protected?
- Example of influence: Telling people who consume the same mushroom that they will have different experiences, will influence their experience
- Book: Lsd dreams – psycho mimetics
- Has strong influence but doesn’t control it
- Psychedelics as a gateway to spirituality
- What is current propaganda?
- Approach propaganda holding one approach as an ultimate truth
- Psychedelic gurus & retreats
- Psychedelic are not a bandaid fix to trauma
- Psychedelics are not a one and done cure
- People forget the integration piece
- People airn’t informed that there is a lot of work that needs to go into the healing process that is a hard sell to people. That is also a form of exploitation to keep people dependent of the healer
- Don’t think it started with malicious intention
- We are still a cultural learning curve
- Did you have religious visions if you had a religious background?
- Experienced God but not strictly Christian specific
- Some religious influence
- Psychedelics lift the vail so we can start questioning when we weren’t questioning before
- Rather than shape the experience it can shape the interpretation if you have the verbiage to identify the vision as something
- The Good Friday experiment
- With synthetics you are communing with the chemist vs nature in natural medicine
- If you are using something to achieve something then you are exploiting it
- Animism
- The language of teacher and making sure there is an equality or symbiosis in the relationship and language
- Tripping, drug, high as a language -> trippy = higher vibration
- Conflict over who respect the medicine more, respect olympics?
- Droog – drug = medicine
- No one can decide disrespect unless it’s the being themselves
- escaping or seeking
- Old forests: lost 40
- Allergies, we planted a bunch of male trees that release pollen with no female recipient
Topics for future discussions:
- Universal natural law
- History old school practices
- Integration