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Had you practiced meditation for a reasonable period of time before having done the shrooms? Preparing the mind is crucial to using psychedelics responsibly an
by gdss 4y ago
Had you practiced meditation for a reasonable period of time before having done the shrooms?
Preparing the mind is crucial to using psychedelics responsibly and avoiding that the negative emotions that come up take over you
- slibhb 4y agoI find comments like this irritating. If someone wants to say "I dropped acid and it helped me," fine. People are allowed to share personal experiences, though it's a mistake to universalize them. But this "oh you didn't meditate enough" or whatever is such nonsense. It's a claim about these drugs and how they work that you have no grounds to make.
- joombaga 4y agoIt also ignores the potential negative side effects of meditation. It's not without its own risks.
- aatd86 4y agoWhat are the side effects? Isn't meditation just observing one's own thoughts? Metathinking if you will?
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- criddell 4y agoI had never heard of anything either so I googled it and there’s quite a bit out there. Meditation induced psychosis seems to be a particularly bad outcome. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8380174/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8380174/
- pc2g4d 4y agoI had to stop meditating for a while because of the disturbing shit that would surface during it. Still happens sometimes, but I'm more ready for it now, and see it as part of the benefit. Had to change my mindset, though.
- chimen 4y agoIt's like those people saying they're vegan when presenting themselves