I agree with 90% of this. Howrver, I've personally had numerous experiences where psychedelics did the healing with no intervention needed from me. I think the work is 80/20 on the human but when the 20% happens, it's pretty magical.
That's such a great point, GV. I feel like sometimes the number could be higher than 20 and sometimes lower, depending on the person, the reason why they're taking psychedelics, and which psychedelic they're taking. Plus, even in that 20%, integration work may prolong the benefits. What do you think? Thank you so much for reading and commenting!
I definitely think it correlates to some medicines more than others and also the amount of previous work the individual has done, and in my personal experience, is highly dependent on the maestro. Either way, durability is dramatically increased with integration.
Nearly everyone leaves out that society is what needs transformation - healing, if you want to use that word. Psychedelics most often are assisting in transformations of individuals adapting to ridiculous circumstances imposed by society, groups, relationships, and those are usually a result of our current societal structures, obligations, and political economies.
So yeah... they do catalyze... peer support is valuable when one can garner what one needs in that area... it's usually costly, but not always... but like psychedelics should also help us see that we're in this milieu that we're told "we can change," but what usually must change is the individual to circumstances that we feel we can't alter all that much.
So I urge us all to consider how do we build the infrastructure of relationships and will to transform that which is not serving our fellow beings and ourselves.
Thank you for the space you create by publishing your writing here and allowing us to comment.
Kiya, I like and appreciate what you have said. We DO need to consider and Act On building structures/cultures/societies that will truly serve our fellow beings and ourselves. Structures such as this very format/substack. It has also been my deep experience that I can not control much of anything outside myself. Not hurricanes, droughts, car accidents, stock markets, new inventions. And not in any OBVIOUS way, who I meet, and how they treat me. It seems to me that I DO have at least SOME control over how I respond to everything I experience. All of the above circumstances plus poverty/abundance, illness/health, sadness/joy, anger/acceptance, fear/trust and so on. It seems to me that how I process what comes to me actually changes my ability to respond to each incident and the impact it has on me. When I do that work FIRST I seem to be better able to find pathways leading to better bridge building and improved serving. I too am very grateful for the availability for a space such as this to connect and share with others about such urgently important ideas.
I agree with 90% of this. Howrver, I've personally had numerous experiences where psychedelics did the healing with no intervention needed from me. I think the work is 80/20 on the human but when the 20% happens, it's pretty magical.
That's such a great point, GV. I feel like sometimes the number could be higher than 20 and sometimes lower, depending on the person, the reason why they're taking psychedelics, and which psychedelic they're taking. Plus, even in that 20%, integration work may prolong the benefits. What do you think? Thank you so much for reading and commenting!
I definitely think it correlates to some medicines more than others and also the amount of previous work the individual has done, and in my personal experience, is highly dependent on the maestro. Either way, durability is dramatically increased with integration.
Nearly everyone leaves out that society is what needs transformation - healing, if you want to use that word. Psychedelics most often are assisting in transformations of individuals adapting to ridiculous circumstances imposed by society, groups, relationships, and those are usually a result of our current societal structures, obligations, and political economies.
So yeah... they do catalyze... peer support is valuable when one can garner what one needs in that area... it's usually costly, but not always... but like psychedelics should also help us see that we're in this milieu that we're told "we can change," but what usually must change is the individual to circumstances that we feel we can't alter all that much.
So I urge us all to consider how do we build the infrastructure of relationships and will to transform that which is not serving our fellow beings and ourselves.
Thank you for the space you create by publishing your writing here and allowing us to comment.
Kiya, I like and appreciate what you have said. We DO need to consider and Act On building structures/cultures/societies that will truly serve our fellow beings and ourselves. Structures such as this very format/substack. It has also been my deep experience that I can not control much of anything outside myself. Not hurricanes, droughts, car accidents, stock markets, new inventions. And not in any OBVIOUS way, who I meet, and how they treat me. It seems to me that I DO have at least SOME control over how I respond to everything I experience. All of the above circumstances plus poverty/abundance, illness/health, sadness/joy, anger/acceptance, fear/trust and so on. It seems to me that how I process what comes to me actually changes my ability to respond to each incident and the impact it has on me. When I do that work FIRST I seem to be better able to find pathways leading to better bridge building and improved serving. I too am very grateful for the availability for a space such as this to connect and share with others about such urgently important ideas.