So how arrogant must you be trying to claim that I havnt tripped hard enough because I don't agree with you?
I'm not claiming that. I don't have an issue with people who don't agree with me, I have an issue with many of the statements you have made though.
I wouldn't try amanita because it's a shit drug. I've used salvia orally and wasn't impressed.
See, this is what I'm talking about. A shit drug? Again, you prove you have no idea what you're talking about. how could you possibly know its a "shit drug" if you haven't tried it? I apologize but I've got to call it like I see it, you are ignorant and arrogantly so. Not a good combination.
What do you understand by the term "ego-death"? It has so many different meanings to people that they call pretty much any powerful experience while tripping "an ego death". And Leary certainly made up the term in reference to psychedelics. If you're trying to say all religious experiences before were also ego-deaths then we're in cloud cuckoo land. For a start I imagine most sober "ego-deaths" were either by people who were barking mad, delusional or lying to furthur their religion.
Ok, so if it has so many different meanings how do you know there is no legitimacy to it? The difficulty here is that mystical experiences are very difficult to talk about and you are not helping matters when you call things "garbage" or "bullshit" based on nothing than other than your own opinion.
I have given you the opportunity to explain yourself throughout this thread but you haven't really posted anything to back up your claims other than "this is what I think and I've tripped a lot therefore I must be right".
Forget the term ego death specifically, my point is that not only Leary but many other psychedelic researchers such as Stanislov Grof (people who have tripped with hundreds if not thousands of patients) have noted that this theme of death and rebirth is a recurring element in peoples experiences (as well as in ancient religious myth right up through Christianity).
You are the first person I have ever heard just brush off this whole element of human experience and all these respected researchers, apparently because you know better. I want to know why I should listen to you, some arrogant sounding guy on the internet who makes lots of very ignorant statements, over folks like Stanislov Grof who has dedicated his life to the study of the human psyche and the effects of psychedelics and been a major influence on my thinking about them. If you really had something to offer with your perspective, I would listen, but you haven't shown me that.