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When I was in the jungle, I was having intense visions on Ayahuasca and a Shaman gave me orange juice. It worked. He said to get back into the trip take a cold shower. But, I also heard that taking a cold shower can stop a trip. I know another facilitator who uses Activated Charcoal pills. He claims that it absorbs the medicine and stops the trip.

I can’t tell you how to differentiate a spiritual emergency from mental illness, but I have provided a link below to the “Spiritual Emergency network”. It provides some good information and has a link for help. https://www.spiritualemergencenetwork.org/ I have decided for myself to be very discerning on who I talk to about my inner work. Especially, in a low consciousness society, your disclosure isn’t going to be received well.

I use to dismiss cannabis as not being serious until it showed me differently. Now I realize that these medicines can work together, and you will expand in consciousness by whatever method when you are ready.

My experience is that you can go equally deep with mushrooms or Ayahuasca. It depends on the dose. Ayahuasca can be more physical but you can purge on mushrooms too. When I was in the Amazon, I took Black Ayahuasca which is physical and the strongest known Ayahausca. I felt like I was freezing and had to put a blank around me even though I was in the jungle. But, you can’t make general statements. Recently, I did a cannabis trip, after not using it for three years, and it was psychedelic and went deeper in mind expansion than both mushrooms and Ayahuasca. It is really more about yourself and your inner world than it is about the medicines. The medicines can work together.

Look at the group of Freud’s initial followers. They all broke from him and started their own psychotherapy, e.g. Adler, Jung, Reich etc., because they realized his theories were flawed and incomplete. Freud was trying to construct a model of the mind as a biological machine, which is why sex was important to his theory because it reduced everything to one simple drive rooted in biology. This model was way to limiting for Jung. If you want to read something useful from this lineage I would suggest Karen Horney. As for Jung, he had an opportunity to meet Ramana Maharshi and he turned it down. I don’t find the Western approach of analysis and theory building to be that useful.

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There are principles which cause suffering when they are ignored. Every spiritual tradition talks about them. You mentioned "truth". Yes there is truth. As for anger, you don't have to remain silent. You can talk about the hurt, the loss, and the errors that were committed, more clearly without the reactive emotions. You have the right to speak up.

People explode because they express anger and it escalates. It is a positive feedback loop created in the mind that gets triggered by what amounts to millivolts of electricity. Think about it. When you express anger improperly, it escalates and people kill each other over a millivolt. And there is a difference between being polite and being strong. If you point out someone’s error without reactive emotions, you are coming from a position of strength. And it does distort the world. In angry mode, the world becomes polarized and the other is seen as a demon that is all bad. It is a fictional interpretation. It’s much more empowering to guide oneself in an objective state – see the world for what it really is.

65-110 mg.

Do some service work. Volunteer. It gets your out of your ego and gives you a new perspective. Reading books just engages the mind in accumulating more information that doesn't do anything useful.

I haven't been doing Qigong yet, but I have been looking for information. This person has some free youtube videos.

I agree with being brutally honest with yourself. But, I think we need to be careful about expressing anger to another person. Anger, itself, is an emotion coming from a lie, because anger is always based on an underlying hurt feeling. Anger tends to distort the world. To achieve more honest communication, it is more accurate and also healing to communicate the underlying hurt.

"So you think you can tell Heaven from Hell?" Pink Floyd

It depends on the context. Our senses and reason have developed through evolution to support our survival. They help us survive but are not necessarily optimized to find truth. The Ancient Greek philosophers were concerned with truth. They were fascinated by Geometry which seem to provide a convincing system of logic that had to be true. So, they never actively experimented with nature, so didn’t develop the scientific method, although Aristotle did observe life forms. Empiricism now dominates the world through science to the extent of the emergence of scientism – the conviction that true knowledge can only come from science. Stephen Hawkings said that “philosophy is dead” expressing the view of scientism, and conveniently ignoring that science itself assumes metaphysical presumptions without proof. Science depends of the senses and can never tell us what the thing is in itself.

I do a big dose of Bufo every month with an experienced guide. But recently, i have been doing smaller doses by myself on a weekly basis. The smaller doses teach you how to meditate.

Does Sadhguru ever teach liberation? He spends alot of time trying to convince people that he has all the answers and on top of that can perform magic tricks and tame snakes. I will accept unconditionally that Sadhguru can walk on water. You don’t have to prove it to me. But that doesn’t make him a guru. A guru is someone who guides you to liberation because he has already been there.

I recently did a cannabis trip after staying away from it for two years (4 chocolates). It blew me away. It was stronger than Black Ayahuasca. I was totally merged with divinity and being showered with grace. I have new respect for cannabis. I am wondering whether my past experiences with Aya, mushrooms, and Bufo have contibuted to this.

Colors do affect your feelings, but it depends entirely on your individual mind. There is also strong cultural conditioning that affects your mind. For example, in the West, a dark blue suit has become a symbol of power. Red is used for stop signs. Green means go. This conditioning can instruct your feeling state. But saying “crumpled clothes are full of negative energy” is claiming it is an ontological reality rather than a state of mind, i.e. a statement of superstition, directing people away from the opportunity for expanded awareness.

They are called "shrinks" for a reason.

It’s important to keep things in perspective. Kanye hasn’t killed anyone or even advocated or hinted at threats or violence. He didn’t even commit defamation of a group. Why? Because he just gave his opinion – blah , blah, blah. Turning him into a monster is hysteria and not good for the principle of free speech. The media has a track record of singling out people and going after them like a school of piranha. I think this has more to do with unethical business practices and competition for advertisers than any conspiracy. That’s why the public’s level of trust in the media is at an all time low.

I heard Kayne was thinking of running for president. We have to watch out for these wanna-be politicians. "He had in him the stuff of which legends are made." (referring to Hitler) John F Kennedy

I have never heard of Kanye until recently, since I don’t listen to that kind of music. But, I watched the recent interview that he gave. I think he should run for political office. He is obviously a natural leader and has some good ideas that could provide healing to the black community.

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