Foreigner
Bluelighter
If you asked me this question back in 2011-2012 I would have said yes!! Absolutely!! Now, I have a mixed opinion. After suffering psychosis for 6 months because I accidentally took 1.2mg of LSD (it was improperly calibrated liquid), I think this stuff is not be trifled with. I don't buy the excuse that if you have a mental health crisis on psychedelics that you were prone to mental disease in the first place. Yeah, it's true of some people, but not of others. These substances unlock part of your mind and open your sensory perception in ways that you have to be careful of. It's not just "mental health," it's spiritual health. LSD opened psychic doorways to me that have never been closed since... and if you don't have somebody around who knows what that means, then you're fucked... and doubly so if you're surrounded by people who think that it's just crazy talk.
I used to work in HR at music festivals, mostly dealing with people who "took too much," and man, it was not pretty. I was a full on psychonaut at the time but I refused to do any heavy diving in that scene.
LSD opened my mind and awareness to things that I can never unsee. It deconstructs all your inner structures, and if you take a lot of it or too often, it does so to the nth degree until you don't know who you are anymore. It makes you more aware of EVERYTHING and some people can't shut that off again, ever. Do you really want to be more aware of how fucked up the world is, while abandoning the relative structures that were kind of helping you live in it?
I don't regret those days, I just wish someone with a lot of experience had warned me about that aspect of it. Instead I just got told "there are no side effects from LSD, it is very safe." Yeah, PHYSICALLY, but not psychospiritually!
To me, a spiritual crisis is no less trivial than a physical health crisis. The problem is that I live in a society that has zero knowledge or capacity to deal with a spiritual crisis. So I had to figure out so much shit on my own with very little resources.
And I can't tell you the number of times that patients came into my clinic (I don't do clinical work anymore) talking about their 50th ayahuasca trip and how they are doing such powerful inner work, and blah blah blah. I mean, how many fucking times do you have to deep dive before you realize you are just spiritually bypassing? Not to mention all the ayashuca folk who came in to see me who were out of their minds because their shaman insisted that they needed to drink A LOT. Then when they had nightmare trips from the body load, their shaman told them that they were just experiencing their own darkness.
At festivals I saw people face down in the dirt from taking mushrooms. I saw people who took high doses at the sound stages and they were so blitzed from sensory overload that when their friends brought them to HR they didn't even know where they were. I've seen people have psychotic breaks from mushrooms in social situations that they can't handle because they thought it would be fun to eat some just for the hell of it. I've gotta say though, mushrooms are the least problematic because of rapid tolerance.
My biggest problem with psychedelics, especially LSD, is that everyone who does them starts to sound the same... robotically saying "We're all oneness man!! It's all just God!! So don't worry about it." It erases people's functional personality identities.
It took me years to figure myself out after all my psychedelic dives. I've come to realize that ego, personality structures and identity are important to me. I can't function in the world without them. LSD showed me they aren't real, and I understand that... but I can make them real when I need them to be real because I am still a physical embodiment that has to move through this 3D reality and, you know, pay rent, eat food, survive? If you do psychedelics once in a while and at reasonable doses, then no problem. If you're into deep diving to "seek truth," then you're going to chase your tail until there's nothing left of you.
I used to work in HR at music festivals, mostly dealing with people who "took too much," and man, it was not pretty. I was a full on psychonaut at the time but I refused to do any heavy diving in that scene.
LSD opened my mind and awareness to things that I can never unsee. It deconstructs all your inner structures, and if you take a lot of it or too often, it does so to the nth degree until you don't know who you are anymore. It makes you more aware of EVERYTHING and some people can't shut that off again, ever. Do you really want to be more aware of how fucked up the world is, while abandoning the relative structures that were kind of helping you live in it?
I don't regret those days, I just wish someone with a lot of experience had warned me about that aspect of it. Instead I just got told "there are no side effects from LSD, it is very safe." Yeah, PHYSICALLY, but not psychospiritually!
To me, a spiritual crisis is no less trivial than a physical health crisis. The problem is that I live in a society that has zero knowledge or capacity to deal with a spiritual crisis. So I had to figure out so much shit on my own with very little resources.
And I can't tell you the number of times that patients came into my clinic (I don't do clinical work anymore) talking about their 50th ayahuasca trip and how they are doing such powerful inner work, and blah blah blah. I mean, how many fucking times do you have to deep dive before you realize you are just spiritually bypassing? Not to mention all the ayashuca folk who came in to see me who were out of their minds because their shaman insisted that they needed to drink A LOT. Then when they had nightmare trips from the body load, their shaman told them that they were just experiencing their own darkness.
At festivals I saw people face down in the dirt from taking mushrooms. I saw people who took high doses at the sound stages and they were so blitzed from sensory overload that when their friends brought them to HR they didn't even know where they were. I've seen people have psychotic breaks from mushrooms in social situations that they can't handle because they thought it would be fun to eat some just for the hell of it. I've gotta say though, mushrooms are the least problematic because of rapid tolerance.
My biggest problem with psychedelics, especially LSD, is that everyone who does them starts to sound the same... robotically saying "We're all oneness man!! It's all just God!! So don't worry about it." It erases people's functional personality identities.
It took me years to figure myself out after all my psychedelic dives. I've come to realize that ego, personality structures and identity are important to me. I can't function in the world without them. LSD showed me they aren't real, and I understand that... but I can make them real when I need them to be real because I am still a physical embodiment that has to move through this 3D reality and, you know, pay rent, eat food, survive? If you do psychedelics once in a while and at reasonable doses, then no problem. If you're into deep diving to "seek truth," then you're going to chase your tail until there's nothing left of you.
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