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I wanted to share this with everyone, it's a bufo documentary about a guy who goes down to Mexico to try the toad.
Personally I think it was pretty well done, it wasn't the typical "Oh yea everything's bliss." It was unbiased in showing the good and the bad, and the host seems equanimous and grounded, objectively laying out all the possible outcomes that might arise when taking this medicine.
At 30:58, he returns to the man who served him the medicine for a post-session integration. If you watch the next minute or so, it is absolutely appalling what the guy says about sexual abuse during the ceremonies, insinuating that people who are abused during a ceremony essentially created that scenario for themselves. I don't give a shit what type of skirt you wear to a bufo ceremony, or whether or not you have any clothes on at all! That's not an open invitation to rape someone, which is exactly what the "medicine man" is implying by the comments he made. Absolutely abhorrent. I am shocked and dismayed to learn that this type of shit actually goes on.
It was so sad to see this since there is so much healing potential for these medicines, but the commercialization of the practice of serving medicine gives rise to this kind of despicable behavior.
Watching this got me really charged up and I'm sharing it here so that others can be on guard and hopefully make better informed decisions about who to choose for their guides. I don't want to scare anyone away from going on a retreat to experience a psychedelic medicine but I do want people to be informed about the darker side of what can go on.
I wanted to share this with everyone, it's a bufo documentary about a guy who goes down to Mexico to try the toad.
Personally I think it was pretty well done, it wasn't the typical "Oh yea everything's bliss." It was unbiased in showing the good and the bad, and the host seems equanimous and grounded, objectively laying out all the possible outcomes that might arise when taking this medicine.
At 30:58, he returns to the man who served him the medicine for a post-session integration. If you watch the next minute or so, it is absolutely appalling what the guy says about sexual abuse during the ceremonies, insinuating that people who are abused during a ceremony essentially created that scenario for themselves. I don't give a shit what type of skirt you wear to a bufo ceremony, or whether or not you have any clothes on at all! That's not an open invitation to rape someone, which is exactly what the "medicine man" is implying by the comments he made. Absolutely abhorrent. I am shocked and dismayed to learn that this type of shit actually goes on.
It was so sad to see this since there is so much healing potential for these medicines, but the commercialization of the practice of serving medicine gives rise to this kind of despicable behavior.
Watching this got me really charged up and I'm sharing it here so that others can be on guard and hopefully make better informed decisions about who to choose for their guides. I don't want to scare anyone away from going on a retreat to experience a psychedelic medicine but I do want people to be informed about the darker side of what can go on.
