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RE: Psychedelic Plants Links To Our Past And Potential To Shape Future Society
Another excellent post sir.
The most startling observation I've made over they years - and with enough different experiences to make it, as I see it - a valid observation.
The more authoritarian a person is in outlook - the more fear they express in the taking of psychedelics.
The same people (if they decide to take them) have two very different outcomes.
One has a bad experience, and it doesn't alter their perceptions of the world, once back in the 'real world'.(fear of losing control?)
The others? - It changes them totally - and over time lose their authoritarian perspectives.
I've seen this happen enough times, with enough people, to notice the pattern.
I would have to agree with your observations. It's that fear of losing control that hinders the experience for people. People who have identified with their ego and mistake it for their true selves seem to have the hardest time with psychedelics which tend to dissolve one's sense of ego. They mistake it for losing their minds and get really frightened.
I have done lots of psychedelics and tried my hardest to purposely use them to destroy my ego and, like weeds, it keeps growing back. But I also have access to another part of myself that lives outside the ego so it was never frightening to me to witness the ego perish and I could just retreat to that other place and watch it like watching a movie, knowing it would return once I came down.
When you let go of the feeling of having to be in control and let the mind wander in this new pool of information it feels like an oasis to take refuge in and is quite enjoyable. I'm giggling now thinking about it.
My experiences have been 90% partying! -(not to say not spiritual experiences - far from it.) But very little 'searching for anything'...
I'm giggling to! lmao.
Searching for my keys perhaps.
@luzcypher Things are so strange in the world my husband and I are so glad we know all this is an illusion. What era did you grow up in? You may be younger, not sure. I have great memories.
I'm 55. Raised as a free-range kid before the internet.
All right! I am 63. Raised in a crazy time and long before the internet.
Here's a story you might like of days before the internet.
https://steemit.com/story/@luzcypher/hitchhiking-naked-down-the-lost-coast-of-california-s-highway-one
since I resteemed your post earlier I will have this. So will read it later today. I clicked over and saw it was about hitchhiking too. It used to be fairly safe to hitchhike.
My husband hitchhiked all over the country. He has lots of stories. Thanks for the link.
@luzcypher I just finished your post you referred me too. Glad you survived...there are so many stories .. good thing your friend happens to be driving by.