This is Abby Martin.

This is a disclaimer to say that psychedelic drugs do not universally work the same for everybody.

They can cause psychosis at high enough doses,

and they can be life-changing in ways that are not always intended or desired.

Psychedelics should be used responsibly and with extreme caution.

No. Psychedelics should be used responsibly and with extreme caution. You don't get what you want, you get what you need.

I don't think you're going to spend very long involved with these things at a deep level without scaring your socks off eventually.

One of the great things about these psychedelic teachers

is that they are so gentle with beginners.

And then the flip side of that coin is

they are so unforgiving with veterans.

And I don't know, I mean mean I have hard trips often and the way I explain it to myself is

you know I pretty much accept Rupert Sheldricks notion of the morphogenetic field and

feel like the psychedelics amplify the morphogenetic field of the totality.

And, you know, why shouldn't I have difficult trips?

The totality is in such a weird state of turmoil.

I mean, you couldn't pay me to take five grams of mushrooms in the present circumstances

simply because I can feel the riptides in the historical dimension just churning everything into white water.

I mean, I'd stay out of the water until it dies down a little. Um,

yeah,

down,

down,

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