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> Be careful with thinking that deep work, expanding your mind, culture, emotional and spiritual literacy, philosophical, psychological and political understan
by blaser-waffle 5y ago
> Be careful with thinking that deep work, expanding your mind, culture, emotional and spiritual literacy, philosophical, psychological and political understanding will make you better.
After watching my friends go to Peru to trip balls with shamans (or just go to Burning Man yearly) and "expand their mind" -- but not really change their lives in any meaningful way -- I'm highly skeptical of the "deep understanding" school.
- penjelly 5y agoconsider perhaps that your perception of your friends may be incorrect, their lives may have more depth then you can readily perceive. Or any other possibility that doesn't put you on moral highground. Its odd that you even bring up drugs, neither OP nor parent comment mention psychedelics at all.
- ffhhj 5y agoDid they drink Ayahuasca? [1] I know a person that changed their personality with it, and a shaman that was poisoned by another shaman with adulterated ayahuasca and almost lost his mind. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayahuasca https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayahuasca