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Some Vermonters turn to ayahuasca as a 'last resort' to heal

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Literally ripped out of reality. Teleported to another time and place. It totally disrupts your senses from reality, and substitutes something else. One time I recall seeing the walls growing with vines like snakes, and being transported to a place with purple light. When you emerge, you feel refreshed and renewed. Do you remember deep dream? When i first saw it, I thought we might have some kind of ML model of the h…

I also had that purple light vision. Curious if it was the same? Mine was our in space, purple and white lights all over the place, some kind of universal womb with souls.

I wonder if that connects at all to the pink beam of light that Philip K. Dick wrote about in VALIS, etc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valis_(novel)

Re: Some Vermonters turn to ayahuasca as a 'last resort' to heal

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Ok. Does he consume it regulary?

Even if you want you can't! Tolerance to hallucinogens grows exponentially. If one take a blotter of LSD, wait 24h, then take another blotter, it will feel like [¼,½] of the original dose. If one wait another 24h and take another dose it will feel like [⅛,¼] and so on. With LSD one must wait a few day between doses to feel the full effects. With psilocybin, the period of abstinence required to feel the full effect is…

Ayahuasca actually is different. There is no noticeable tolerance, unlike most other psychedelics.

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I've tried every psy except Ayahuasca: DMT, LSD, Bromo-DragonFLY, RC's from the 2c family, ketamine, MDMA, and so on. In each case, I had "profound" realizations during the experience that lasted a day or two, then I reverted back to my normal ways of being depressed in a messy apartment and slacking at my job. In this article, I see descriptors of Ayahuasca similar to those of other psychedelics (years of therapy in…

What comes after the trip is often called “integration” and it’s even more important than the trip. The medicine (and any other form of support like therapists, etc.) can only show you the path to healing yourself, the actual work of healing yourself can only be done by you. The idea that the lessons seem profound, is rooted in the idea of ego death and listening to your higher self. As the medicine wears off the ego…

Can you give an example of how the path is shown during the ego death and how one does the work of going down that path after the ego returns? Isn’t the ego the barrier to the path?
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