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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.

Shinzen also use to teach people with conditions like AIDS, how to live with pain. He also taught strong determination sitting, where we would sit until the pain was unbearable and there was a breakthrough from pain to only feeling sensations and movements. Shinzen got interested in Indian Spirituality and he actually did a sun dance with a North American tribe, where you dance in the sun for several days and at the end they put two knives in your breasts and hang you from a tree. I haven't heard any other teachers talk about pain. Pain is the strongest signal that convinces us that the illusion of reality is true. Have these other teachers reached the level where they can turn pain into feelings of sensations and movement, where there is no suffering ?

When I was studying with him years ago, he called it Vipassana.

When Shinzen was in Los Angeles, he practiced with Rinzai Zen master Joshu Sasaki Roshi. He is also a monk in the Shingon tradition, which is a Vajrayana sect in Japan. The meditation technique that he teaches is based on Vipassana. He is primarily a meditation teacher for advanced students. When the Dalai Lama came to visit Sasaki Roshi, Shinzen was their translator, since he speaks Japanese and had deep knowledge of both Vajrayana and Zen. Two enlightened masters chose Shinzen to be their translator.

Shinen was my meditation instructor. I had a chance to observe him over a long period of time. Shinzen is the real deal. That's the difference.

I am planning a trip to the jungle to follow a dieta de plantas. I will be in the amazon - no roads, no electricity, no internet, no phones, no books. I will listen to the shaman and the plant teachers. I see this as a valuable opportunity to heal and learn in another world completely outside the consensus reality of modern civilization.

I finally picked up a copy of Ralston's "The Book of Not Knowing", and so far I haven't found anything that I disagree with and nothing that invalidates the use of "psychedelic" medicines. In fact, they seem complementary. I find it puzzling why he and his followers don't apply "not knowing" to something of which they have a limited understanding.