The MAPS conference (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) was protested by indigenous people for colonizing their medicine practices. Their po

The MAPS conference (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) was protested by indigenous people for colonizing their medicine practices. Their point was about what you're touching on here: These tools were developed to address the problems of the world, not to play into the individualization of collective harm. They were for helping the world, not simply self. A great test of whether or not these methods are colonized: does one come away with the ability to envision decolonial anticapitalist ways forward and then choose to enact them? If not, probably colonized medicine. Decontextualized wisdom is a form of ignorance and typically leads to harm.