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Of course it depends on the dose but i would guess Ayahuasca is more "serious" then mushrooms and that's no disrespect to mushrooms as they kicked my ass a few times, but ayahuasca will take you to some dark-ass places. I have drank ayahuasca more than 10 times and i am more fearful of it. Both cases i would take seriously and increase the dose gradually.

well, it seems awesome

Where it could take him?

Yeah, he has a gun lol

He only said that a previous negotiation would be way better than war, which is true. The world profited from this war and applauded it. Lula is a master conciliator and that's why he is our biggest historical figure. The elites in Brazil are extremely reactionary and segregationists, they hate poor people and freak out even with small advancements as poor people being able to travel by planes or going to universities. Lula knows he has to make huge concetions to do something for the poor. The middle-class here is also completely bought-in with this hatred for the poor and that's how we have 50% of the population praising the extreme-right.

I literally cried with happiness, maybe the first time ever. Lula is a giant and Brazil deserves this break.

Well, the amount of educated and rich/high-status people who vote for ult-right politicians make me doubt we could have any sort of accurate filter. In practice, what would happen is this "filter" would favor the interest of the elite, as always. Here in Brazil, the poor people are saving what lasted of our democracy and the middle and upper classes are mostly in favor of our version of Trump.

All those do work IF in sufficient numbers to have a great impact in the big pictures. Systemic problems only are solved by systemic solutions. That's why the government should be in charge of systemic problems. One big good social program like healthcare free for all can deeply change the entire society like no other individual effort can. That's where marxists get it right: the problem is the system and we have to change the system. BUT until then, sure, help people in a small scale but i would focus on systemic changes.

How then?

I am half joking. To be honest, this political situation is triggering me a lot the last 6 years and it's getting worse day by day. Yesterday, at the election, i was really emotionally involved and, at the end, i was worried. Maybe Bolsonaro will win again and we are fucked. I am seeing Brazil gradually being taken by the ult-right and evangelics. With the support of million and millions of people, including intelligent people (mostly stage red/blue/orange) with lots of influence. I am starting to lose hope.

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Bro, you won't have any self-esteem using society standards. What you need is a intense and abnormal amount of self-love and self-belief even if you seem delusional at first, fuck other people's opinion, nobody knows what you really have been through and nobody ever will. That's the beauty of spiritual practies in my opinion: they transcend any "normal" objections like the need to have good motives to feel good and confident. Realize you can literally feel like you wish, even if the whole world says otherwise. Stand ALONE in your own power. Unshakable. One way of doing it is to meditate deeply on success, and love, and hapiness, and God. One-pointed concentratation for long stretches of time on the above objects until you feel those all the time. Start to feel delusionally good without any apparent reason.

Well, we do do that with other substances (give out freely). People can and do fuck up their lives with porn, food or videogames. I can't see how doctors or psychologists can judge who would be able to handle smoking weed or not.

Dumb/messed-up people will fuck up their life with anything they can. Psychedelics are not for those people.

maybe a kick in the mouth, but with love and light

Sorry, i am lazy, maybe someone can explain this for you.

Yes, those are idiotic ideas.

Particularly, i am way more "left" then Lula and part of the PT, he is, at best, center-left and this is clear for a very long time now for the left. BUT, it is what it is. Today i can see that this is the only way possible (until now) of having a semi-leftist government in Brazil. Even with this centrist left, with timid reforms and earned rights for the poor and labor class, we had a VIOLENT reactionary from the rest of the country, we had Dilma's coup, we had Temer which used his brief power to erase decades of progressive advancements, we had Lula's prision, we had the rise of the alt-right etc. Brazil isn't ready for true leftist ideas and Lula is the best we had and have. Lula has his succesful government to back him up. Ciro's plan will NEVER be work if he isn't capable of working with other people and make alliances (proven by his failed campain). Lula all the way right now.

like what?

Ciro would be a great Minister for Lula but Ciro is a awful leader, specially to lead the country. His resentment, his lack of wisdom, inflexibility, arrogance, excessive pride, disonest discourse etc makes him a bad choice even if there was no Bolsonaro, today, i would vote for Lula if the choice was between him and Ciro.

I understand him. Here in Brazil we have Bolsonaro and his followers, much like the MAGA movemente. It has been one of the few things that get deep on my nerves, i feel so much anger, frustration almost daily because the situation seem hopeless, people are irreversebly brainwashed and they will bring the entire country to a deeper hole that it is right now and it is impossible to envision how bad it can get. It feels like living in an insane mental hospital and being rules by an insane majority.

Why do you think this is the case for you and not necessarely for most people?