If you can't understand why advocating taking LSD every week for 20 years is not harm reduction then I don't think you understand Bluelight.
I don't think I'm the one who doesn't understand. You are projecting onto other people because you want them to do what you do because what you do is 'right'. It's the sign of a very insecure person. You used your friends to try and explain people online you have never met and you analyzed some text on the internet, made a diagnosis (based on no evidence) and then ran with it because that equates to you providing harm reduction.
You clearly have an aversion to psychedelics. Your original post had a lot of personal rherotic in it and it evidently involves negative experiences.
Nobody knows what is going on in your mind and how you have pieced everything together to come to the conclusions you have but its fairly typical with these kinds of drugs that you tend to find those who suffer negative experiences and then seek to justify their conclusions by forcing others to see things the same way.
Accept that. It's not a problem unless you expect the world to live in the same reality as you.
Just because you have had negative experiences doesn't mean you should shit on other people. Nobody wants someone like that in their life.
You have problems with your friends and so own it. That has nothing to do with anyone else.
True, there is a lot of insight to be gained from someone's experiences. But there is nothing to be gained if that person cannot convey those experiences in a way that seperates their experiences from other people and removes their offerings of any undesirable and unnecessary conditions for it being conveyed.
We've all met people in life who tell us their experiences because it's in our best interests (according to them anyway) and it's always loaded with personal rherotic and inner conflict. You just know that this person is trying their best to convince themselves what they tell themselves is how things actually are. They need the world to reflect their beliefs because if it doesn't, their bullshit is exposed and they have to face facts.
The patronizing family member who always knows what we should do because he/she has done EVERYTHING right. Do we go to that family member for advice?
We try but eventually it gets to the point where it's pointless because it's not actually helping us and the help is toxic because we feel like shit for having asked for it.
You're dealing with psychedelics. This is a sensitive topic. You are talking about the complex inner worlds of complex human beings.
You don't know what other people are going through, or have gone through. You don't know whether they cope well or not. Whether they have a master plan and it's working, or not. What some people find solace in, you will find despair. Maybe the people you think are nuts really have their shit together. Maybe the guy talking to himself knows secrets you don't know. Maybe people who take lots of psychedelics, who you assume are hypomanic, are actually coming close to cracking a huge dillema in their life? Maybe they are close to finding the answers? Is that okay to believe? Or is that wrong and dangerous? Says who?
Maybe they have to go on this journey in order to find out whether that's true? At the end of the day, it's no different from taking any other drug. Whether you smoke weed or crack, you're on a journey.
Plenty of people take psychedelics reguarly as a form of therapy. Plenty of people take heavy doses as a form of therapy. Some people like to have their realities torn apart and put in front of them and I can see why, it can be very humbling and show you how little you know and how insignificant you think your life is, especially if you think your life and your being is the center of the universe. This is very common. And there's nothing wrong with it, unless of course, you believe there is a rule book for how people should live their life. Then you have to ask, where does this rule book come from and who is creating it? You end going on a journey and realize that you don't own the rule book and something or someone else is controlling your destiny. Then you find that person and they too were made a victim of this rule book because they too, like you, were made to believe life cannot be lived unless it is lived how the rule book says. Then you ask yourself, why the fuck is that happening? How far back does this go? You've got an endless list of people who are controlled and they don't even really know why or why they believe what they believe and how it affects them. People just mindlessly repeating bullshit. Our life stories have an incredible capacity to shape our reality. Sometimes though, we don't even know what shapes our reality. What we like to think serves us actually doesn't. What we believe in we never challenged and yet if we did, we would find many of our beliefs are loaned from beliefs of others who in turn loaned those beliefs from other people. Our lives are not really our own to live! And we know this deep down, and so we project. We are unhappy with our conditioning yet as a prisoner accustomed to our environment, we seek to defend it. We seek to control the world because we know deep down we are lost trying to pretend we are not. There are many people in life who just accept they are plain lost. At least they can. At least they are not professing they possess the rules for how life should be lived.
How crazy we can spend a lifetime living out the scripts of other people.
What we assume is reality, if we are not careful, is someone else's attempt to impress theirs onto us. You have to be careful what rules you accept and whether they serve you let alone anyone else. If you look deeper, you'll find they probably don't and they are there to protect you from something someone else couldn't face and didn't want to accept existed. There is a world view that exists you never acknowledged that cannot exist without you agreeing to all these rules. Rules that prevent you from seeing that reality exists beyond this world view. Dogma belonging to someone other than you who never freed themselves of their own issues.
Plenty of people want to eradicate psychedelics from society but it's not psychedelics they want to eradicate, it's freedom to see reality as infinite in possibility and not confined to a very restricted self defeating reality. When you look at it like this, anybody who has to believe in reality being governed by rules sees reality in the same way. You don't need to hate psychedelics to hate reality being anything other than how you see it. I think that describes many people and hence why we have many problems in the world. They subscribed to that notion and never questioned it and it affects not only them but everybody else who is pressured to subscribe to those beliefs as well. Now we have a significant problem on our hands. These are all scripts people are playing out and then pushing on others.
What they fear, even if they don't realize it, is their own reflection. And so they spend their entire life running away from themselves and then projecting this onto others as a suitable means as to how to live a life. It causes a whole wealth of issues in our society, hence why the world is only ever a few seconds from obliteration. What they don't recognize is how this has been conditioned into them. They are not sole owners of these beliefs although they think they are. It's a very deep web of beliefs being passed on from one person to the next to the next.
When you let go of trying to force the world and others to be as you see it in your mind, you can see that it's all par for the course.
People will take drugs whether you like it or not. People will do what they want. The only person who suffers is you at the end of the day.
Because you're the one trying to change everybody else while failing to look at who should be the target of that change first.
You have the problem, not them. And if they have a problem, being able to be present for them in a way in which they can open up and discuss their problem, is what you really want if you actually want to help solve the problem. That way you might actually get what you want but in a mutually beneficial way.
But telling them that how you see taking psychedelics is the right way to take them is going to punish you in the long run.
Just let people be and support them in what they are doing.
If you don't agree with it, don't support them but don't assume you know best.
That's not harm reduction. That's telling people off and putting people into boxes masked as you knowing being righteous and knowing best.
It's pretending to care while offering conditional acceptance.
You need to understand yourself before you assume you understand other people and quite clearly from your posts, you assume to know everybody else while potentially failing to know yourself and why you are making these assumptions in the first place. It's only when you see your own motives and agendas and you see you are running on your own script (and not something which is universal and applicable to everything) you can then choose to acknowledge this is so and get beyond it so you can come from a place where none of these things are compromising your capacity to understand what is really going on and your relationship to what is going on.
The map is not the territory. It is simply a reference to something. You cannot navigate the world using only a map. You have to use your conscious awareness and your senses to build a picture of the world, and you only do that by putting the map down and opening yourself up to what exists in front of you as it is. If all you are doing is looking at the world from a map, you'll never actually experience life other than in reference to a legend and the lifeless shapes and colours, text and symbols - and that's not living.
In this world, especially the way it's going, the one thing we need more than anything else is people looking at themselves before they look at others.
Seeking to understand they are responsible for the shaping of their own inner worlds and they are responsible for understanding why and how everything is in it's place as it is, even if much of that shaping was influenced by things out of their control and at moments in their life where their level of awareness was much smaller and limited.
It's kinda fitting that I'm saying all this while we are talking about psychedelics - arguably the most beneficial tool in making this happen.
So, what is the problem with people embarking on their own conscious revolution?
If they end up in a psychiatric ward - so be it.
If they end up hypomanic, as you said - so be it.
If they end up believing they are God - so be it.
If they change the world - so be it.
If they change nothing - so be it.
What is the worst that is going to happen? They lose their mind? They lose their home? They give up their 9-5 and sell all their shit and go backpacking around India listening to Ram Dass tapes? They start waking up to the bullshit of everyday waking reality and are trying to find ways to solve problems others are plagued with? Start looking for more meaningful jobs? Better relationships? Start getting into spirituality and religion to find deeper meaning to life? Start trying to live a more simpler life? Start trying to love everybody and see the divine in everybody? The worst thing that can happen is they get into danger. But all that happens then is they are rescued from that danger, provided a safe place while they recover and maybe even brought down from their high. There's only no coming back from that if that is what you truly believe. If you want someone to have HPPD for the rest of their life, that's a good way to give it them. They heal up, they move on. Life moves forward.
There are no rules for going about transforming your reality.
Sometimes the most challenging experiences are the ones which really transform it anyway.
Sometimes the most socially unacceptable experiences are the ones that turn that light on in your head.
Ironically, the experiences we are told in Western culture solve our complexes most make us sick.
If people are in a process of change, let them change.
Just because that change might be something you don't agree with doesn't mean it's not a process well worth investing in by the person on that journey.
At the end of the day, they are doing far more than a majority of our worldwide population are prepared to do and this is why psychedelics have the respect of many (secretly or otherwise) because everybody who knows knows they are powerful tools for doing work, even if those who recognize that don't have the balls to do that work.
And if there is no wrong way and if if you truly appreciate, respect and accept others for embarking on that journey - what is the problem?
100ug or 1000ug - what is the difference? Only the bickering in the background, which soon fades away anyway for far more interesting landscapes
No matter what happens they are supported, understood, valued and accepted.
As I said, I am a proponent of responsible use.
But I know what I consider that to be is largely spurious when we are talking about the complexity and vastness of human potential and transformation.
I know my opinion doesn't count for shit when it comes down to what others do.
How do you RESPONSIBLY attain human potential and transformation anyway?
Do we have to write to the chief officer of the human potential and transformation department?
Dear sir,
I'm currently seeking to transform myself and want to start the process of reaching my potential.
Here is my proposal awaiting your approval.
The chief officer doesn't exist.
Human potential is limitless as is transformation.
It's a scary thought but there are no rules outside of our imagination.
But when we think otherwise, we are in a trap.