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Bluelighter
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Anthropology is direct experiential learning (fieldwork, lots of it) backed up by solid scholarly training and theoretical background that has been refined over the past hundred years - you won't meet a more open minded group of people than anthropologists. You're right in that there are many who go through uni without really taking much on board...but there are equally many who go through psychedelics without taking much on board.
It is easy to think of examples of philosophers or other such people who fall short of the potential. But it is equally easy to think of psychedelic users/proponents who do the same - Charles Manson anyone?
I think that psychedelics have their place, but I don't believe that they should be seen as a magic fast-track method to spiritual progress. I feel even more strongly about this when one is experimenting for such a result without a proper guide (and I don't mean some books). There be dragons...
The thing is, I am basing this on my own experiential learning - learning that came from my experience of spending years with many people taking psychedelics for spiritual progress...most of whom, after many years of such insights, could do little more than sound like a badly paraphrased Celestine Prophecy. They had never learned how to integrate the experiences properly, and so instead the experiences became self-serving and fed their egos more than worked against them. Many of them even completely overdid it and ended up as little more than zombies.
It is easy to think of examples of philosophers or other such people who fall short of the potential. But it is equally easy to think of psychedelic users/proponents who do the same - Charles Manson anyone?
I think that psychedelics have their place, but I don't believe that they should be seen as a magic fast-track method to spiritual progress. I feel even more strongly about this when one is experimenting for such a result without a proper guide (and I don't mean some books). There be dragons...
The thing is, I am basing this on my own experiential learning - learning that came from my experience of spending years with many people taking psychedelics for spiritual progress...most of whom, after many years of such insights, could do little more than sound like a badly paraphrased Celestine Prophecy. They had never learned how to integrate the experiences properly, and so instead the experiences became self-serving and fed their egos more than worked against them. Many of them even completely overdid it and ended up as little more than zombies.
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