What follows is not fixed, the discussion is open and the perspective is not authoritarian
what follows is concerns of an individual, no acclaims of truth, only personal experience
what follows will contain ideas such as:
1-delusion of free will.
2-actual dangers of consciousness exploration and the idea of implementing preparation, such as madness, unhand-able pressure on individual structure and etc.
3-semi-elitist idea that consciousness exploration in its full spectrum might not be for everybody, such as people who aren’t equipped with primary tools of exploration.
4-spacyness of the psychedelic community and overflow of delusional states of mind, simply ungrounded.
5-possible recognition of corruption brought by crude philosophies of consumerism and materialism into consciousness exploration by western explorers, such as using micro doses of these substances for “innovation” and “productivity”.
6-targeting certain valued individuals by the masses as unknowingly misguided in the sense that their state of being propagated difficulty and hardship rather than harmony and subtleness.
caution: if the individual reading this is prone to intellectual baiting and insulted by mere theory being placed in public, please refrain from reading.
a word with people who too feel the same way about exploration:
your input and your criticism, your perspective and last but not least your experience is welcomed, valued and most of all, needed
please, dedicate a portion of your free time to respond if you feel strongly for this.
The General Blocks and Dangers of Consciousness Exploration:
1-personal blocks
“initiation of ordinary person into consciousness exploration and tools regarding it”
language function “adjective and noun, verb and adverb”:
the first and most fundamental block, language, seems to be a very deep rooted ideology that creates resistance in acceptance of the idea that, the real world does not follow conceptuality and language function, acceptance of happenings without cause, separation of thing and process, and resistance in acceptance of thing/process unity.
linear time:
very common situation in psychology is individual’s attachment to past which causes rigid series of mental conditions, mainly depression and derivatives and anticipation of the future which causes volatile series of mental conditions, mainly anxiety and derivatives.
discrete notions in linear time:
precise awareness of time, such as milliseconds, moments, lack of continuous notions of time such as flow, lack of space/time bound notions such as regarding here and now as the same concept, which causes separation themed mental conditions, mainly schizophrenia and derivatives.
“ideologies that are prone to backfire into an individual’s mind”
sociopolitical blocks:
ideologies as innovative consumerism, ungrounded expectation focused on the tool rather than the center, in other words escaping responsibility by leaving it to the tool/plant:
idea of self-improvement, innovation and its toxic imprint on human psyche is not a recently found process in which many individuals are trapped, many of those whom initiate with consciousness exploration and the available tools come seeking improvements, as if they were incomplete, sick or broken, or that there is somehow an standard of what they should be, sincere and modest as the notion is, that is only the layer of disguise, imagine ones frustration, sense of being lost, self-blame and all sorts of self-destructive processes taking place simply because one cannot accept themselves as what they are, because what they think they are is only a delusional image.
ridiculousness of current culturized movement of micro dosing for productivity and innovation:
recently people at M.A.P.S and some others regarding them, which by the way all of whom have extended experience and academic backgrounds, have started implanting these tools into self-destructive ideologies in pursuit of silly innovation and productivity(ultimate goal being legalization and vaporizing the stigma around these tools), as if the human psyche is a machine to be squeezed for product, this simply goes against the very idea of peace, if the individual mind cannot be at peace, then the collective cannot be at peace.
“consciousness exploration viewed as a race”
seeing the end of it:
lots of people, more often beginners than veterans, trying to see the “end” of it, exposing their psyche to insanely violent forms of exploration at insane doses, long-term ignorance of the psychedelic community around cultivated mental problems caused by these practices, people easily slipping into states of polarity and depression / mania completely ignored cause that’s just a Sunday morning these days.
Dangers:
1- the doors of perception opened, not cleansed:
to discuss this, I’ll have to make some circumstantial definitions
first, one’s awareness here is considered a self-reflection of the universe on itself
second, this awareness is spacial, hence the doors of perception regarding in what layer does the universe desires to perceive itself
third, there are infinite doors, and few actually open, and not all necessarily cleansed
of course, plants and artificial substances are mere tools (with their respective features and extent) that are usable by anybody, that is to say children can use it as it has been so in the amazon and many backward savage tribes that aren’t engaged in the psychosis of our era, that is to say all men and women, at any age can use these, with any mental condition, anyone can use these tools, not because its their birthright or they should because people are shit and we need to change, but merely because these are tools, and it is in nature of tools to be used, now by this perspective we come to a layering of issues
-when is it wise to not use these tools?
its often said by people who have extensive backgrounds into using these tools that people with mental problems must not use psychedelics, sometimes with the mention that guidance of a professional might make it possible for them to use these tools beneficially, but mostly the issue is avoided, possibly because no one that is talking is actually equipped to help these people or in other words, equipped to show them their insides clearly so they can figure it out themselves.
-its of course clear that people with mental illnesses can greatly benefit these tools, yet not all do and some healthy individuals by practice fall into difficult states, how is the circumstances leading to this categorized and dealt with?
aside from professional advice on who should make use of these tools, certainly portions of people give lighter than 2 feathers of care to what a professional says and do use them, which is where we get these miraculous events in which mental conditions vaporize and people fall into equilibrium, the probable cause of this avoidance is that observations aren’t really being made on these individuals hence any professional doesn’t have sufficient data to work with, which is also the same factor contributing to people who by misuse and practice of these explorations cause themselves difficulty.
-when are the masses going to let go of the silly notion that people under 18 or 21 should not use these psychedelics as infrequent usage of them has hardly any potential to cause harm at all, and will coming of age rituals be implemented in our families and communities?
starting ages of coming of age rituals range from 9-10 years old to +50, so there really isn’t a line to define what coming of age actually means in terms of age, it simply is a way to catalyze maturity and probably renew the sense of wonder/mystery in one’s life, hence you see, teenagers avoiding life is the most huge cry for help the world has seen in this era but since their parents are basically old looking children too they get no help, which means they either have to figure it out with great difficulty in most cases or waste their life away in confusion.
-when and how the community is going to take responsibility for people whom have in practice harmed themselves and locked themselves in not so healthy states of mind?
in Amazonia shamans and medicine men are proficient in their art, which means this is nothing impossible, and the main barrier is probably foundational differences between the Amazonian and the modern civilized man if civilized means anything, that is to say a very fast and efficient (efficient being what modern man is obsessed with) is to actually go and learn from these people, and stop being a bitch, people assume as if they are denied guidance.
-making sure people understand what capable of traveling with these tools means, and to understand that contentment also applies to consciousness exploration, this is not an authoritarian approach, its simply stating that the individual themselves may want to accept that there is a “enough” in consciousness exploration too and when they notice it they won’t ignore it.
this is the part of the subject I personally feel touchy about, it is very true that challenging experiences are main source of learning and expansion/growth, but as a double edged sword it is also a destructive force depending if the individual’s structure allows it, just like John C.Lily presented it, self-destructive processes that are released to destroy the self, and exist in everyone at a subconscious level, so my take on the matter is that it really comes down to the individual’s judgement, and if they got none, they better get some.
2-inflation of a delusional mind
delusional people in psychedelic history:
Tim Leary, Terence McKenna, and some others that will make this article too long to read if mentioned:
not to yuck anyone’s yum, but hear this out
couple of ambitious people discover powerful tools of consciousness exploration
they talk about it, fall into the persona, get paid for it, come to accept it as reality
for sure a lot of their work was groundbreaking to western society and literally changed the culture, but the culture was delusional, it still is delusional, and the gnostic non-belonging of McKenna’s tone was also delusional, this is the world of man, and everyone belongs right where they are, it’s just a matter of surrender and acceptance, so in reality these empowered individuals fueled their delusional perception, and fueled a whole generation’s delusion too, it’s easy to believe we speak the truth, and that has proven to be false since the dawn of language, so take Aristotle’s word for it and avoid poets, or if your kick is moar in the far east, lao tzu feels the same about the matter.
basic principles of delusion and free will:
the process of universal self-reflection which is supposedly any fragmented awareness, such as us, when this sort of fraktaline cycle is ignored, there emerges the idea of free will, which means one is separate from the universe and has his own influence on the world, just like the tao te ching way of explaining it, free will is alike swimming against the current as fish, you’re carried anyway
delusion however has a more complex nature, it is created by the individual if individuality means anything beyond fragmented awareness, hence its nature is fed and will persist as long as the individual persists to create it, which sort of blurs the line between reality and delusion, hence the constant advice of “shut up” from numerous spiritual and mystical teachings.
this material is open to add opinion and content to, and I will edit this with your perspective provided it contributes to the discussion <3