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I know Ayahuasca shamen who were drug addicts and told me that ayahuasca cured their addiction. They also told me that grandmother Ayahausca actually appeared to them in visions and told them to serve Ayahausca. They seem pretty developed to me. But they also are still taking Ayahausca. I know another shaman who confessed to me that he stopped taking Ayahausca. He said it’s a medicine and when you don’t need the medicine anymore you stop taking it. So there are two points of view. The Ayahausca shaman says that he is taking it as an ongoing relationship. But this seems to contradict their assertion that it is “medicine”. Medicine isn’t something you take for the rest of your life. Like antibiotics, when the infection is over you quit.

Keep in mind that Bufo Alvarius has no shamanic traditions. It wasn’t used until fairly recently, i.e. the 1960s. I agree that the drug addiction thing is something to watch out for. Consider an alcoholic or drug addict who switches to Ayahuasca. For a drug addict, it is actually a good move. Alcohol damages the body over the long-term, whereas Ayahuasca can actually benefit the body. So it is better to be addicted to Ayahuasca that doesn’t harm the body, with the added benefit that you can claim to be a shaman, which is a better image than “town drunk”.

I remember the invasion of Iraq because I opposed it which isolated me from the majority mainstream opinion. Keep in mind that even Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton (and Bill Clinton bombed Serbia), as well as most of the Democratic Party were in favor of the invasion. I even had a friend who described himself as far left-wing who was in favor of the invasion. The propaganda, which was disseminated by the liberal press, e.g. New York times, was uncritical, mostly false and actively supportive of the war. I believe an unspoken subtext was support of Israel. The support of invasions is a Western imperialistic mindset that benefits a ruling elite and cannot accurately be described as right or left wing.

The idea of “God” in the Abrahamic religions is patterned after the middle eastern monarch. It is a mechanism of political domination, control, and property acquisition that has little to do with spiritual inquiry. In the East, the sages recognized early on that the issue was the search for “self”, finding a path out of the illusion, and union with the one (yoga). I avoid the word “God” because of the cultural baggage and confusion it brings.

If you grow up in tough times you need discipline to survive and you are willing to sacrifice the present for the future. For example, if the father of a poor family is alcoholic, he destroys their meager resources and they don’t have any chance. On the other hand, a poor family raised with a narrow religious dogma can become prosperous in one generation. As for homelessness, I talked to a business woman last night in Mexico, who when she was young built houses for the poor with Jimmy Carter. She knew him personally and told me that power didn’t mean anything to him and he was a true humanitarian that just wanted to do good for people. Jimmy Carter seems to be a highly developed human being who is disciplined and compassionate, but many so-called American “conservatives” don’t like him. So, I think the work “conservative” actually can mean a low consciousness ethnocentrism and prejudiced mind only concerned with its immediate self. The words “conservative” and “liberal” are too loose to make meaningful categories.

I don’t know much about Kayne. He is from another generation. His style of communication is dramatic and doesn’t seem that articulate, but I agree with him on one point – the notion that all Nazis are evil is an inaccurate mental construct. Nobody says that all the followers of Stalin or Mao were evil. Nobody even says that about the followers of Hirohito. It seems to be an unspoken assumption and you are going to be punished if you challenge it. Furthermore, the entertainment industry frequently uses the evil Nazi trope in its entertainment products giving it economic importance. It is important to be aware that the institutions and mindset that still run the world today were created after World War II. They created an ideology that is expected to be believed. Maybe it’s time for young people to bury the past and determine their own truth. As Thomas Jefferson said: “The earth belongs to the living”.

Real spirituality is tough. You have to face that hating the things that you love to hate is a trap keeping you bound in an illusion. You have to give up being a victim. All your usual coping mechanisms are just gone. That is why most people fake it.

Trump has gone way to far to the right, which alienates the center. The center decides elections. Even moderate McGovern, who was painted as a radical leftist for opposing the Vietnam war, lost be a landslide. I still don’t see how Trump thought it could be an advantage to challenge the validity of the election process. This pushes him into radical territory. The only wild card I can think of is if he chooses Kanye West as his running mate. A landslide loss for Trump will just show that the system is still working the same as it has for 200 years.

The Internet has provided opportunity for speech that was unavailable until fairly recently. Now, you can get a larger audience by showing your pet hamster on YouTube than famous politicians received in the 1940s. Andy Warhol’s “15 minutes of fame” for every human being has literally come true. A free speech absolutist would say to permit everything. The other side of the argument acknowledges that bad actors who intentionally spread false information can capture a dominant attention they aren’t naturally entitled to and do a disproportionate harm.

Breathing isn’t practical, but getting three jobs and working 80 hours a week is practical. He has another video on not going to college. This sounds like another offering from the Andrew Tate “hot air, hand-waving, and high valued man” lineage.

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.

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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.