Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights — Page 29
This guy took datura and his trip was still going 2 months later.
Legend has it he's still tripping to this day, haha.
Datura is psycho-actively the same as Belladonna, which was used by witches in medieval times to make flying ointments. So witches got their magic powers from Datura.
Datura was used to make lethal poison in the Middle Ages. Datura was also used to enslave women into prostitution.
"All hallucinations on Datura are a result of changes in the brain stem. The brain stem controls dreaming. 'Reason' is not something the brain stem understands, and hallucinations reflect that. Hallucinating with that part of the brain 'in charge' has the possibility of leading in many different places." — Erowid
This guy's life is utterly disgusting, but damn entertaining to listen to.
Note: I am not sharing this to glorify drug use. Do not become a drug addict! This is totally different from serious spiritual use of psychedelics. I am extremely against any kind of drug addiction, including weed. If you think I am a drug addict, you are completely wrong and you will ruin your life. There is nothing cool about drug addiction. It's pure zombie mode. This is antithetical to all Actualized.org values. This video is an example of everything not to do.
I had a friend in high school who got into drugs like the dude in this video. He wanted me to get in it with him. Of course I refused. He ended up shooting himself in the head. Do not screw around with drugs. It's not fun.
This documentary is great and authentic. It gives insight into Osho's early beginnings in India which the Wild Wild Country documentary didn't cover.
As you can see here, all these people gathering around Osho were into fake spirituality. They were not doing serious inquiry, they were chasing Osho as a pivot to socialize and have fun. Osho created a spiritual circus, luring in foolish Westerners with promises of marrying sex and enlightenment. This is an irresponsible way to teach Awakening. The collective survival and circus atmosphere will make serious consciousness impossible. Beware of any teacher or teaching that tries to make Awakening sexy. It is not sexy. It is hard solo work. Awakening cannot be mass-marketed. Doing so will turn it into childish shit.
As soon as anyone starts using you for free labor, you know it's wrong. Never work for anyone full-time or even half-time without pay. The surest way to know you're in a cult is when they expect you to work full-time for free. If you see this, tell them to go fuck themselves and leave. If anyone ever asks you to work for him full-time without pay you should spit in his face. This is utmost disrespect of you. They are taking you for a fool.
This is also a lesson in how politics works. Whenever you have a group of 100+ people living together, politics and power games will become the dominant force driving the collective. And I can guarantee that no one in that group will have a clue about what politics is and how to navigate it consciously. So the whole thing will quickly devolve into unconscious devilry. All the evils of politics in society at large will be recapitulated inside the micro-community. All the problems of collective survival will resurface because they were never solved. This is why creating spiritual communities around Awakening is so dangerous and should not be done without utmost mastery and intelligence. I never created such a community because I am not masterful nor pure enough to manage it. And I would never trust anyone else do it properly.