Quote:The mushroom told me recently, and very specifically; "The shaking, nervous tension you feel when getting ready to partake is all of your stress and worries, all of the body armoring you carry around, the psychic and real wounds, all of this is your body getting ready to let go of that stuff."
This makes alot of sense to me. If only to trick yourself into getting into hyperspace in a positive and less fearful mind-state (not to imply thats what your doing at all, just how i see myself in that situation). Set and setting for me is the most important factor, mind state being the key thing to focus on. However, thinking of that fear as a release of all the pent up emotional garbage we carry around resonates deeply with me, and have felt exactly that after returning from a journey at times. Its ok to hurt, fear, hate, etc. Just don't bottle it up or it will flow out in peak expirences that force you to feel, whether the catalyst is drug induced or not. It happens to people all the time.
Its all about preparation for something you cannot control. That almost always involves fear no matter who you are, or what you are undertaking. If you learn to follow the yellow brick road, it will lead you to oz, a wonderful and mysterious place, but unknown nonetheless. You control everything up to a point, beyond that your not in control. If you can teach yourself to deal with that concept it can be a very powerful skill when exploring hyperspace.
Personally i find it very difficult, and spice is like a riddle to me. I have to put it down, come back with a different state of mind and try again. Eventually it will reward you, but you have to be patient, and humble, lest you get a hyper-bitchslap
. I had to learn that the hard way. It makes what tmk said about him only vaping dmt a few times a year, totally understandable, and for me, great advice that has been very rewarding when put to practice.
"let those who have talked to the elves, find each other and band together" -TMK
In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult to learn the truth about the activities of governments and corporations, about the quality or value of products, or about the health of one's own place and economy.
In such a society, also, our private economies will depend less upon the private ownership of real, usable property, and more upon property that is institutional and abstract, beyond individual control, such as money, insurance policies, certificates of deposit, stocks, etc. And as our private economies become more abstract, the mutual, free helps and pleasures of family and community life will be supplanted by a kind of displaced citizenship and by commerce with impersonal and self-interested suppliers...
The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.” - Wendell Berry