Can psychedelics make you a better person?
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Can psychedelics make you a better person?
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#2yes.
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#3It's a pity that research on MDMA was stopped due to the drug war.
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#4It's a pity that research on MDMA was stopped due to the drug war.
Yeah just anecdotally, it did make me a better person. Not at first, but the experience of being unequivically, obviously _happy_, for the first time in my life, understanding that I was going to be okay, that I could just like talk to people and make friends, and so on — even if it was mediated by drugs, made me realize how much of my perception of how the world was, lived only inside my head. Nothing about the world had changed, but suddenly it felt beautiful and safe to me in a way that it never had before.
My perception of the world was obviously distorted in some way by the drug, but my perception while sober was also distorted by a lifetime of traumatic experiences that molded how I felt about myself and other people. I forged new relationships with people, I cut off relationships with other people that were bad for us both. It wasn’t an immediate change, I took years for me to dig myself out of the hole that I was in— but I genuinely believe that mdma saved my life.
And this was in a totally unregulated environment, where I pretty much exclusively took it at raves and all the therapeutic talking sessions were with random strangers on ecstasy that happened to be around when the mood to talk struck me. I have to believe that a professional therapist would have accelerated the process significantly.
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#5For me, definitely. The first time I took psilocybin 22 years ago shaped my views on consciousness, among other things, and led to profound personal growth. I don’t think I would be where I am today without it.
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#64 months of working with ayahuasca with some of the best shamans in the amazon cured my depression, anxiety and panic attacks. During that time I have seen so many people get cured from all sorts of different issues. It's an amazing medicine.
If you decide to do it, make sure you do some proper research on which centers are good before you go.
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#84 months of working with ayahuasca with some of the best shamans in the amazon cured my depression, anxiety and panic attacks. During that time I have seen so many people get cured from all sorts of different issues. It's an amazing medicine. If you decide to do it, make sure you do some proper research on which centers are good before you go.
For those wanting to go down this road, where do you even start?
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#94 months of working with ayahuasca with some of the best shamans in the amazon cured my depression, anxiety and panic attacks. During that time I have seen so many people get cured from all sorts of different issues. It's an amazing medicine. If you decide to do it, make sure you do some proper research on which centers are good before you go.
For those wanting to go down this road, where do you even start?
I have never taken ayahuasca, but I have seen many videos on youtube, and read many articles about to understand the nature of an "ayahuasca shaman ritual", as I might call it.
I would start with diligent research, and you will probably naturally discover the next steps "down this road" yourself. I understand that the "sanctity" of ayahuasca is revered by many people that are privy to it's "powers", and is not to be taken with any sort of cavalier attitude, as one might see with other psychedelics.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
For those wanting to go down this road, where do you even start?
I have never taken ayahuasca, but I have seen many videos on youtube, and read many articles about to understand the nature of an "ayahuasca shaman ritual", as I might call it. I would start with diligent research, and you will probably naturally discover the next steps "down this road" yourself. I understand that the "sanctity" of ayahuasca is revered by many people that are privy to it's "powers", and is not to be…
Can YouTube videos be considered research? Are they build on empirical data and peer reviewed?
Don’t get me wrong, go right a head and drink the funky tea, just don’t call monetized experiences of random content producers “research”. If you do that, then you’ll be telling me weed cures broken bones next, or warn me not to vaccinate my children.