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I would like to share that I have tried ayahuasca and san pedro shamanic ceremonies with no effect. I have also taken Golden Teacher Mushrooms 7 times and nothing. To be more precise, I was only admitted once into the realm of mushroom creatures with my first museum dose of 1,5 gr dried golden teacher dose. I got to float around their world and do some small talk with the beings. Has this happened to anyone else? Is it a chemical/absorption issue? Or is there some huge mental block at work here? What do you say? I would love some insights on this, as I do want to experience psychedelics for spiritual growth but am somehow blocked. Some context: I am a 50-year-old male, married with kids. I am lean, athletic, an ectomorph, easily stressed, and live predominantly in my head. I have participated in 2 ayahuasca ceremonies and 1 san pedro ceremony. I did not experience any mental effect, only vomiting and diarrhea. Got a golden teacher grow kit from netherlands. In a time span of 6 months took (dried) 1,5gr, 2gr, 3gr, 1.3gr, 4gr, 3gr and yesterday 4gr. [only the first 1,5 gr has had any effect as allready mentioned]. Tried all manners of ingesting the mushrroms: with an empty stomach, chewing the mushrooms, powdered, with lemon, with kombucha, , with chocolate, powdered and stored in honey , with mild MAOI passion flower tea. I have stored the mushrooms powdered in honey or vacuum sealed dried [not powdered]. Thank you!

Just finished it I liked it, but have some thoughts that differ from Leo's. Thrasymachus in the fifth century BC in Greece is quoted saying: "I say justice is nothing other than what is advantageous for the stronger" from here (a better loose translation would be: moral is what the rulers deem so) How more post modern can you get? So my take is that postmodernism is not new. Rather it is something that enlightened people feel and sense and maybe advocate for in close circles. By enlightened I mean some philosophers, members of the elite and other people who do not have to labour for their daily bread. As for the others, the rest, the masses, sticking with traditional values is the best they can do to have a tolerable life. That is why Peterson likes tradition. He has seen too many depressed patients searching for meaning because the old values are dead. For me Peterson is speaking to the average person saying things like "you will feel better marrying a human than your pet", while Leo is speaking to the ultra few that can feel that marrying your pet is not that different from marrying a human. Of course I may have misjudged Leos' views… Great forum!