BundleflowerPower wrote:In a world in which many people had these experiences, it would be good news for the goverment, as more people would become much more responsible, leading to lower social costs and a drop in the amount it costs for the goverment to function.
Certain corporations however, would fair much worse. eg. Media companies. The people profiting off of our
Un-healthiness would begin to see reduced profits as well.
Corperations such as health food stores, bookstores and perhaps cruise companies would see increased profits as people become healthier, more interested in obtaining knowledge and begin to explore the planet.
Just imagine a free market system in which most consumers have had a breakthrough experience on one of the entheogens.
Well-said! Coincidentally today I spent the afternoon at a major urban shopping mall in New Zealand. It was one of the only times I've been inside one since experiencing Ayahuasca over two years ago. The experience of being around thousands of overweight Kiwi consumers carrying Hollister sacks and McDonalds food, a consumer-fetish culture imported to them from America, really dragged my energy down. Remember Pixar's
WALL-E? This mall was like being trapped on board the space station with the obese humans shopping at
Buy-N-Large.
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I reflected back to an earlier time in my own life when buying things in shopping malls gave me some false sense of purpose or temporary happiness because that's the 'aspirational living' that was handed down to me by my religious Mid-Western parents and the media culture. Nowadays I see people buying things they don't need, eating food that was scientifically formulated and taste-tested to promote over-eating, and it makes me feel like an alien on this planet.
As a side note, I saw Interstellar for the second time (that's why I went to the mall). If you haven't seen it yet, it's certainly worth a look. I'm quite certain that the director, Christopher Nolan, and some members of the animation crew, experienced DMT. You'll see.
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
—Socrates, vegetarian humanist philosopher sentenced to death by suicide for the 'crime' of challenging Greeks to question their beliefs
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens."
—Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist who explored his subconscious through awareness-expanding plants to create 'The Red Book' and theories of how archetypes influence human consciousness