I agree with this! Psychedelics are amplifiers. They can make your patterns so big for you that you can’t help but notice and cope, or they can push you as far down the rabbit hole as your personal narcissism allows. That’s why I find his MAGA hats so emblematic, hyperbolic and ultimately psychedelic, but definitely the creepy part of the tea party.
I think there may be people who have mad hatter essence. I have been in altered states around some truly creepy operators who were only more emboldened. They figure out how to navigate and then use the knowledge for manipulation.
One of the most certain things I’ve come to believe about psychedelics is that they don’t make people into better versions of themselves; they simply turn up the volume on who they were all along. Narcissists are in danger of becoming even more self-aggrandized; people prone to conspiratorial thinking and evidence-less beliefs could experience a kerosene fire of delusional ideations and obsessions after the ceremony’s over.
A person like Elon Musk is known as a Deva or Hungry Ghost in Buddhism, or a Wetiko in Native American traditions. These terms refer to beings incarnated to relentless selfish pursuits of lives spent eternally racing from one drama to the next in a never ending quest to fill their psychospiritual void. That void that will not diminish until he can sit with his emptiness and remake himself, let go of his imagined self-importance, and transform into a selfless servant of the collective good. People like Elon are the antithesis of the Buddha—they are beings seeking to create more suffering and chaos in the world through escapism, with him literally escaping to Mars rather than accept and deal with the problems of Earth such as they are.
As within, so without; as above, so below. His words and deeds and treatment of others is a living example of how he feels about himself. Psychedelics only amplify a malignant ego.
Grant’s comment is spot on and well conveyed—as is this post 🙏 For most of the population, cannabis is the most accessible psychoactive plant medicine-both literally and in the broad understanding of how man has manipulated its potency beyond nature’s intent. The results are summed up by old timers’ comments about missing the old weed you could smoke all day a la “Bud Light Weed.” Whether it’s breeding CBD and other minor cannabinoids out of genetics or increasing the THC to unnatural levels, we’ve been forewarned of the consequences when humanity asserts it’s way into the natural order. With report cards since age 6 as record, I’ve long been recognized as an avid daydreamer, and when 21st weed came into my life, it took me years to recognize my daydreams were veering into delusional. And hormonal shifts in women exacerbate this likelihood. Thanks for keeping the conversation around plant medicine rooted in reality.
I agree with this! Psychedelics are amplifiers. They can make your patterns so big for you that you can’t help but notice and cope, or they can push you as far down the rabbit hole as your personal narcissism allows. That’s why I find his MAGA hats so emblematic, hyperbolic and ultimately psychedelic, but definitely the creepy part of the tea party.
I think there may be people who have mad hatter essence. I have been in altered states around some truly creepy operators who were only more emboldened. They figure out how to navigate and then use the knowledge for manipulation.
One of the most certain things I’ve come to believe about psychedelics is that they don’t make people into better versions of themselves; they simply turn up the volume on who they were all along. Narcissists are in danger of becoming even more self-aggrandized; people prone to conspiratorial thinking and evidence-less beliefs could experience a kerosene fire of delusional ideations and obsessions after the ceremony’s over.
A person like Elon Musk is known as a Deva or Hungry Ghost in Buddhism, or a Wetiko in Native American traditions. These terms refer to beings incarnated to relentless selfish pursuits of lives spent eternally racing from one drama to the next in a never ending quest to fill their psychospiritual void. That void that will not diminish until he can sit with his emptiness and remake himself, let go of his imagined self-importance, and transform into a selfless servant of the collective good. People like Elon are the antithesis of the Buddha—they are beings seeking to create more suffering and chaos in the world through escapism, with him literally escaping to Mars rather than accept and deal with the problems of Earth such as they are.
As within, so without; as above, so below. His words and deeds and treatment of others is a living example of how he feels about himself. Psychedelics only amplify a malignant ego.
Grant’s comment is spot on and well conveyed—as is this post 🙏 For most of the population, cannabis is the most accessible psychoactive plant medicine-both literally and in the broad understanding of how man has manipulated its potency beyond nature’s intent. The results are summed up by old timers’ comments about missing the old weed you could smoke all day a la “Bud Light Weed.” Whether it’s breeding CBD and other minor cannabinoids out of genetics or increasing the THC to unnatural levels, we’ve been forewarned of the consequences when humanity asserts it’s way into the natural order. With report cards since age 6 as record, I’ve long been recognized as an avid daydreamer, and when 21st weed came into my life, it took me years to recognize my daydreams were veering into delusional. And hormonal shifts in women exacerbate this likelihood. Thanks for keeping the conversation around plant medicine rooted in reality.