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>Combining psychedelics with meditation opens the very real risk of conditioning one's meditation practice to require psychedelics to have any efficacy. That p
by proverbialbunny 7y ago
>Combining psychedelics with meditation opens the very real risk of conditioning one's meditation practice to require psychedelics to have any efficacy.
That parallels the story of Ram Dass, Robert Anton Wilson, and many other figureheads from the 60s.
Many of them would trip over and over again to try to figure out how to stay in that place. Then many of them realized meditation can bring them to that place, and once they realized that they stopped tripping.
Tripping is an advertisement to meditate, not the other way around.
- damirkotoric 7y ago> Tripping is an advertisement to meditate, not the other way around. This really distills the message down to its essence. Though worth pointing out that this advertisement doesn't have to be seen as spam. Rather it can be just the right channel at the right moment for some people.