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In Shamanism, they are medicines. The distinction between “consciousness expansion” and “medicine/therapy” is artificial. If you still have trauma, the visions will be distorted and the product of imagination. Clearing your trauma purifies your visions. Purifying your heart expands your mind. I have gone through intense trauma release with Bufo Alvarius where there is mind expansion without visions and without stories. The release happens automatically without effort or remembering the past.

I first came across this on an ayahuasca journey where I was traveling through the veils to God. At the time, I didn't know what this meant. After the journey, I did some research and found it is in the Quran . "Between God (mighty and sublime) and creation are 70,000 veils.” “God has seventy thousand veils of light and darkness; if He were to remove them, the radiant splendors of His Face would burn up whoever (or ‘whatever creature’) was reached by His Gaze.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashf#:~:text=Hadith of the Veils&text=The nearest of creatures to,and a veil of water."

I agree that if you are determined to do something then don’t ask anybody’s opinion. Be decisive and just do it. You will either get scammed or not. Either way it’s ok. Reality is your friend. I basically offered information for other members reading this thread who haven’t committed to anything and are still open to other opinions. I don't like to see people deceived.

This link is an interesting read. The Internet is becoming a cesspool of scams and bad information along with the popup ads. https://deefunnels.com/hustlers-university-review-scam-or-legit/

Reality will just keep hitting you over the head until you learn the lesson. It is always easier to see it in someone else. This motivates me to let go of some of my own delusions.

Nuestro Mundo - Puentes Spanish lyrics https://genius.com/Puentes-nuestro-mundo-lyrics Our World (English Translation) https://genius.com/Puentes-nuestro-mundo-our-world-english-translation-lyrics Our world Divine world I love you so much With your rivers And your forests I become more aware And with my eyes I can see Your beauty With your marvellous Plants and animals In your mountains And your crystalline waters Pachamama Mother Earth Mother of all Forgive me And your children Who have done you harm Heal me And your children Who love you so much Spirit Of life Help us To heal And restore Our hearts May each and every one Live In the light To live in peace And love It is the way

Here is an interesting model: “spiritual cross training”. The approach is to combine several methods in order to dissolve the ego. That includes focused styles of meditation, self inquiry, Bhakti, psychedelics, and others. http://www.templeofauthenticdivinity.com/model-for The medicines are a tool to be used in context with other practices. They aren’t sufficient by themselves. I practice shamanism. The shamans have a word for those who make it up as they go: “curioso”.

There is a reason to withhold information from someone who doesn’t yet have the maturity or inner work to understand it. Otherwise it just turns into another silly word game.

Here is some background information. https://mronline.org/2021/04/24/tanks-and-think-tanks-how-taiwanese-cash-is-funding-the-push-to-war-with-china/

In drinking San Pedro, it helps to eat an orange slice after to cover up the taste. The last time, I felt sick for 3 1/2 hours, but then the sickness lifted and I was in a space of peace and love.

Here is an interview where Mike Tyson talks about psychedelics and the toad. The discussion of the toad starts at 9:24. At 13:05 he says that he has a shaman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPS-I1n_SOs&t=842s

My Bufo guide in Mexico knows that Shaman who did Mike Tyson. He wasn't just a trip sitter.

The title is misleading. It's "toad" not "frog" and "5-meo-DMT" not "DMT".

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Do some research on mushroom microdosing.

If you become emotionally upset by an external entity it is always useful to examine your projections onto that entity. However, that doesn't mean the criticisms of that entity aren't still objectively true. With Trump, I think the most direct way to see that truth is to do a google search of all the people that were damaged by Trump University to see what happens to people who give their trust to a con artist. With JP, it takes more work to see through his pseudo-intellectual facade.

The democrats rigged the primaries against Bernie Sanders so that the establishment candidate Hillary Clinton could win. Both the Democrats and Republicans are financed by the same financial oligarchs so that meaningful restructuring of the economy is not possible. There are only two parties, and the democrats haven't clearly put themselves on the side of working people.

He has already lost the teenager crowd. Andrew Tate says the same things without crying.

I think I have seen every reaction possible in Ayahuasca ceremonies. It is better to have outdoors ceremonies. People can make sounds and movements without too much interference to everyone else while in a small enclosed space.

ceremony + others = group healing

That was a good talk. I would only add that he was talking about the problem with neo-advaita. Your post title said "vedanta". Traditional vedanta doesn't fall into the silliness traps of neo-advaita. Just my view.

Here is an interesting article. Can Drug Dogs Smell Mushrooms? https://doggysaurus.com/can-drug-dogs-smell-mushrooms/ The article suggests that dogs could be trained to detect mushrooms, and in addition differentiate them from magic mushrooms, but it is unlikely they will be trained by the authorities. But here is a caveat: "Alternatively, there is some evidence that police dogs are trained to alert when they smell something unusual. I watched a documentary on the Discovery Channel that said dogs are trained to alert on anything they smell out of the ordinary." "Whilst most probably aren’t trained to sniff out mushrooms, that doesn’t mean they won’t smell them, given how some can also alert on unusual odors." I don't know what "unusual" means, but that would suggest that the dogs can be trained to detect a broad number of different materials or a whole category of materials, in addition to the high resolution to single out a specific substance.

His appeal for unity won't work. One of the attributes of dogma based religions is that you have to believe that your dogma is the ultimate truth and everyone else is deceived. If the conservative Christians and Muslims ever did unite then as a consequence they would become liberal.

They train dogs to sniff for cocaine. But since cocaine and mushrooms both have alkaloids, and the alkaloid contributes to the smell, could there be an overlap of the smell spectrums, so the cocaine trained dog would trigger when smelling mushrooms?

Psychedelics are low priority for customs. But, cocaine is an alkaloid. So, if the dog was trained to detect alkaloids, wouldn't it also detect the alkaloids in hallucinogenic mushrooms? I don't know the answer.