Quote: (03-24-2019 11:56 PM)RawGod Wrote:
If our experience has been to some extent "designed" for us, I just find it very hard to swallow that to get access to truth, to remove the filters, we need to get a specific plant (or fungus), treat it in a certain way, and ingest it. Thus adding very specific, extraneous chemicals to our neural pathways. Seems about as likely as anything else in this bizarre universe, but seriously, God or our extra-simulation overlords, lay off the mushrooms.
I think that any of the insights you get on mushrooms are available to anyone who follows their spiritual path and perseveres.
But who is willing to do that?
You could grind away, meditating, reading scripture, praying, for forty years with nothing really to show for it except frustration.
And then one day, and it wouldn't have to be anything flashy, just a minor shift in your way of looking at things maybe, and suddenly life makes sense and you are at peace with it.
Most people don't have the fortitude or the faith to do that.
When you do mushrooms, you aren't grinding away at your spiritual practice, you are taking things into your own hands and saying, I want results now.
There are upsides and downsides to doing this.
The downside, obviously, is getting hooked on spiritual revelations, and taking drugs all the time until you are like, yeah, another epiphany, big whoop.
Some things only have value because of their scarcity, so if you have the option to have a once in a life time experience once a week if you want, it loses its value.
So, that temptation is there.
The upside is, people just flat out need encouragement sometimes, they need something special to happen, they need to see that there is a reason for things, and that it all makes sense down the road.
So if you have a positive spiritual experience on mushrooms, you can keep that experience in your mind and in your heart, and later in life, when the going gets really hard, you can think back to the time the curtain was peeled back for a second and you saw how things really worked, and remind yourself that there is an end goal in sight.
When I used to play basketball with my stepson when he was little, it is certain he would have learned a lot if I always played my best against him. He would have learned perseverance and how to deal with frustration.
Except it never would have worked, because human beings need more than just cold confrontations with reality.
Human beings need encouragement.
So you have to let the kid score sometimes, when he wants to, because he wants to.
So that's what mushrooms are.
God letting you score every now and then instead of swatting your every shot into the rafters.