@PaulAustin3w They’re not drugs.
They’re ancient mirrors, coded in nature.
You don’t consume them — they consume you.
Strip you of illusion, burn your false self,
and remind you that “healing”
was never about becoming whole —
but remembering you already were. https://t.co/9HX4AhU8yv
@PaulAustin3w They’re not drugs. They’re ancient mirrors, coded in nature. You don’t consume them — they consume you. Strip you of illusion, burn your false self, and remind you that “healing” was never about becoming whole — but remembering you already were. https://t.co/9HX4AhU8yv
Alienation from nature and the loss of the experience of being part of the living creation is the greatest tragedy of our materialistic era. It is the causative reason for ecological devastation and climate change. Therefore I attribute absolute highest importance to consciousness change. I regard psychedelics as catalyzers for this. They are tools
... See moreBrian C. Muraresku • The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
The perennial lesson that psychedelics teach us, that spirituality teaches us, that even immersion in nature can teach us, is that separation is an illusion.
Julie Holland • How Psychedelics Can Help Save the World: Visionary and Indigenous Voices Speak Out
And the prescription could be exactly what it was in the beginning: to die before we die, with a solid dose of the religion that started it all. The religion with no name.
Brian C. Muraresku • The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
I don’t know about Emerson’s mystical experience (or Whitman’s or Tennyson’s), but mine owed to a chemical. Wasn’t that cheating? Perhaps not: it seems likely that all mental experiences are mediated by chemicals in the brain, even the most seemingly “transcendent.” How much should the genealogy of these chemicals matter? It turns out the very same
... See moreMichael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
A drug is something that causes unexamined, obsessive, and habitual behavior.