We Will Call It Pala: A Story for the Psychedelic Movement
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#3I used to live on a rez called Pala. I gave away many substituted tryptamines and phenethylamines there.
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#4Brutal honesty: You just caught me k-holed at a rave in Toronto reading this and I feel like I have just lived a lifetime. Wow. Insanely well written. Also: glad I’m not one of the pioneers, unfortunately.
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#5From a purely commercial perspective, I think we're seeing the birth of a huge growth industry in psychedelics.
It certainly feels like there's a lot of demand for alternative (i.e. non SSRI/CBT) treatments for depression. At the same time, there are countless anecdotes of psilocybin/LSD having a profound success on people with these types of mental health conditions.
My prediction is that psychedelics will replicate the success of the marijuana industry, albeit in a much more restricted/regulated environment.
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#7I loved the story. It spoke to me.
I'm optimistic. Things work in cycles. I think I know what would happen next. First, the human touch component would move out of the commodified middle class model to high-cost gentrified models and to low/no cost homebrew models.
Second, the middle class psychedelic exposure would result in hundreds of thousands more psychedelically adept humans, inspired to create meaningful, connected change. More than a cure for disease, it would catalyze cultural adaptation.
As psychedelic chemicals commercialise and normalize, new mystical rituals would develop, secular but profound. Classical civilization will continue, integrating science and spirit, commerce and consciousness. As it was, as it will be.
Capitalism does this. It moves in cycles, growing and corrupting, growing and corrupting. But in the end, with gratitude, we appear to live in a good world that offers us a beautiful future.
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#8For anyone who doesn't know it, the name Pala is a reference to the setting of a novel by Aldous Huxley - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_(Huxley_novel)
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#9For anyone who doesn't know it, the name Pala is a reference to the setting of a novel by Aldous Huxley - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_(Huxley_novel)
Can't recommend that book enough. Huxley nailed it.
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#10I loved the story. It spoke to me. I'm optimistic. Things work in cycles. I think I know what would happen next. First, the human touch component would move out of the commodified middle class model to high-cost gentrified models and to low/no cost homebrew models. Second, the middle class psychedelic exposure would result in hundreds of thousands more psychedelically adept humans, inspired to create meaningful, conn…
> we appear to live in a good world that offers us a beautiful future.
That sounds quite entitled. Sure, if you are a well-off individual in one of western democracies, or one of very few riding the success wave elsewhere. For the rest, the world is changing for sure, some things get better, many things (environment, true freedom) are getting worse.
The sentiment you describe was common for hippies too, world-reshaping change just around the corner. But then reality happened. Don't hold your breath