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Psychedelics: The Responsibility of Knowing Your Personal Boundaries

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I recently saw a post which compared psychedelic journeys to BDSM, and referenced the tripper as a metaphor for the journey of the submissive-- taking the advice of the psychedelic (or the shaman). One thing about me is that I'm no stranger to this type of experience - even if I don't "dabble" much these days. ^[Note: if you think I am referencing your work above, please let me know so that I can check and then tag you or leave a link!] I'm often thinking about several directions that the 'psychedelic movement' seems to be headed as it gains traction and popularity. Here is a message I've been wanting to share. When a shaman helps one to undergo a transformative psychological experience, they must act as the medium - someone who incites and catalyzes things to happen. These emotional states which are provoked tend to result in mental soliloquies which therapeutically leave the individual positively and effectively changed. Sometimes the shaman them sel

Dualistic Pigeonholing

The other day, I had a strange reaction to ASMR. When I walked into the room and heard it, it felt superficial to me instantly…. this is only because it ‘seemed to be’ trying to incite a sexual feeling within me. (To me, sounding like you’re inside someone’s orifice is sexual. [shrug])   I realized with a little time that it was my own stereotypes related to ASMR, as well as the knowledge I have of how advertising works, that was creating the negative experience.   Just like with advertisements, I knew that I had realized somewhere along the line that the ASMR had the potential to put me into a state where I was suggestible, and I was not happy with it. The stereotypes I felt reflected this, and they reminded me of advertisements. Ads seemed to encourage a type of casual, pseudo-care of “whatever a person was”. Yet, instead of listening to what a person felt about themselves deep down, advertisements and stereotypes were all based upon judgments of what we were *supposed* to be. Advert

Exploring the Paradox of Banter [disclaimer: ridiculous]

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Sometimes it turns out that the most selfish people are the ones who are the least affected by societal norms and social customs, as well as authority figures who tell people what to do. This is an interesting observation, because people who will do what they want to do at any cost will often get angry when other people tell them what to do. So, they don’t have the 'people-pleasing', 'striving to be good in other peoples’ eyes even when it doesn’t go with what their soul screams', desperation that we usually see in people who are extremely empathetic. Empaths are extremely important in our world because empaths encourage collaboration over competition, across groups of people… and this is something that’s direly needed in today’s technological climate, where we are connecting and networking with greater groups of people yet daily, and we certainly don't want to be competing with that many people. Well, those of us that don't- the empaths are being targeted. P

Language as Technology

“What was the [dualistic] mechanism?” It has a personality. It seemed almost surprised, as well as eager to take advantage of, the fact that I wanted to learn more about it… It seemed honored, because nobody seems to really care on their own anymore, without being initiated into some sort of order that supposedly “knows things”. Well, not many people, at least, want to understand just for the sake of it the finer threads of the border between the self and environment; from the two things that we somehow have been either split into on a “deeper” level, or conditioned into. The dualistic mechanism itself has a personality. It seems to be the antithesis (by human standards) to The Organic Technology. Nonlinear writing (for example, code) is to The Organic Technology -as- linear, ‘ordinary’ writing and reading is to the dualistic mechanism. ‘It’ wanted me to take a hit.. ‘Come on, do you trust me?” I decided to do it, because I wanted to be the nice. For, it was then

The Dualistic Mechanism

Divine Moment of Truth The Mechanism - I saw it - it’s more horrifying than I ever could have possibly imagined.   Before having the experience, we were talking about language. The question that was asked right before I did it, which was PERFECT, was about how to escape the imprisonment of our language. I was confronted with a type of mechanism. It didn’t present itself in visuals, sounds or anything else. I just inherently understood HOW the mechanism worked. At the heart of it was a feeling, reminiscent of the propagandic conditioning that has been instilled in me so deeply, and this force which helped me to understand the Mechanism told me clearly that I should step back; that I was totally stupid for even asking. Like how it was when I was continually told that my questions were stupid, as a kid. Why even bother asking? It’s this obvious. “Duh!” They want us to think that if you ask what Existence is and find out, then you RUIN the mystery. It can’t even sustain

Parallels of Manifestation Process [December 2016 Archive]

MANIFESTATION OF ACTION THROUGH SYNCHRONISTIC BINARY OUTCOME PROCESS: Spiritual/inner world -vs- physical/outer world {binary. 0 or 1. all or nothing. action potential.} LEADS TO: spiritual conspiracy (collection of synchronicities); larger scale state change of the system at hand. Some individual parts of the equation : sodium, agency (your power in the world as well as the power of synchronized groups/organizations) CONNECTION BETWEEN PROCESS AT NEURAL LEVEL->PROCESS IN INDIVIDUAL LEVEL->PROCESS IN GROUPS OF PEOPLE (COLORS INDICATE PARALLELS FROM MICRO TO MACRO SCALE LEVEL) PROCESS AT NEURAL LEVEL: let sodium in -> changes gradient -> rise in membrane potential -> more channels open -> greater electrical current **This process leads to depolarization and an it either fires or doesn’t; if so, action potential is reached , which is then sent to the next neuron (next step) as an electrical current where the process repeats, and the brain is cl