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> They aren't just giving people psychedelics and hoping everything turns out okay. The psychedelic dosing is combined with therapy, and the sessions are both p
by ta1234567890 6y ago
> They aren't just giving people psychedelics and hoping everything turns out okay. The psychedelic dosing is combined with therapy, and the sessions are both preceded by and followed with additional therapy without psychedelics.
And historically, that's exactly the way psychedelics have been used, for thousands of years. A shaman/guide would provide the medicine and help the people go through the experience, usually in a tight community where there's follow up and support.
Unfortunately that was suppressed, first by the Catholic Church when the Spanish arrived to America, and now more recently by making psychedelics illegal.
The idea of psychedelics being some sort of party drug is a problem of the current state of affairs, politically and culturally, where we have abandoned or forgotten their origins.
- luigibosco 6y agoMaybe just the "tight community where there's follow up and support" may help.