hi there
we may come from a similar past, i got to know mckenna when i was 14 (will be 19 soon), it was a very trans-formative few years until the mirror of dear mckenna had broken, he was right, but he was wrong too
the singularity isn't in the mushroom, the mushroom is in the singularity
it was hard to come to terms with it at first, there was some lingering delusions that had to be let go of, when you accept that the singularity manifests in much diverse ways (other than the psychedelic experience or in this case, the mushroom), suddenly the mushroom (or anything) isn't so important, or special, anymore
this also opens up a new door, dissolution is possible without help, yet it is not inevitable without help (almost never happens, you might say)
this serving, its a primal principal, you serve that which contains you, which is larger than you
but that is not the mushroom, the mushroom is for you, if you will
there is a difference between becoming dissolved in the singularity by practice and focus
and actually becoming the singularity, there is no effort there
becoming might not be the right word, remembering feels closer to the truth
this feeling of being lost, it comes from the idea that, "i should not be here", but that is not true, no part of the whole is mistakenly there, it only seems that way when you loose sight of the whole
the shortest way out may just be, to silence this idea, this claim
we all know why we are the way we are, you mentioned that, you're not the type to go out or be with people, is that true really? or is that a learned attitude
sometimes indulging in comfort brings the greatest discomfort, if that was not the case, the world would be much darker than it is
the idea that, one "has" to do something, that there is this "emergency" or "necessity", its just preposterous, and it drains us as long as it lives
we all need a cycle of silence in our lives, maybe a month away from everything, in the forest, in a cave, no words spoken, no heed taken seriously, all attention directed towards what isn't made up by you, the world
when we are lost, we are not really, we only desire to be somewhere else, somebody else, something else, we cannot accept something
i heard somewhere, that repetition has more than 1 dimension, we repeat things in such diverse manner that it feels like something unknown and we feel lost, yet take an step back and reduce the importance you give to you and how you feel, you will see the layers like an split onion
maybe you don't need to do anything, maybe satisfaction is what you willingly deny yourself, these are hard to consider, even if not true, they may expand the threshold of your understanding
as humans, nothing brings us more happiness and satisfaction than how we treat people and how people treat us, and since this is 2018 and not the dark ages, we have the world of psychology to cement that fact for us