I made this comment in another thread but I want more of your eyeballs on it, maybe somebody has something useful to say.

I have some serious anxiety about the fact that modern civilization is all of us in a bus driving towards a cliff, with the driver’s foot firmly on the accelerator pedal. Therapy is available to me, but what the fuck are they gonna say? Tune out?

  • BigDaddy [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Oh sure! While I'm kind-of embarrassed about expressing my opinion about psychedelics, I'm infinitely fascinated with them. Stanislav Grof, Ram Dass, Tim Leary, Mckenna, Paul Stamets, Bruce Damer, Gabor Mate, etc., have all been big influences on me. It's hard to be "out of the psychedelic closet," especially as I'm still in school, but I'd love to pursue psychedelic therapy work in the future. Even (or particularly) MDMA has exciting potentials for healing. I guess I feel some hesitation being a white male, as I have deep respect for the indigenous practices/shamanism, as well as great respect for the intensity profundity such substances induce.

      • BigDaddy [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah, knowing the healing potential of such substances first hand, to not integrate these two approaches to health would be doing humanity a disservice. A lot of healing needs to be done, a lot of perspective shifting..