All experience can lead to enlightenment.
I don't know about enlightenment but I was surely enlightened to the awareness that I could FEEL my spinal cord when I received a spinal tap.
I was almost insulted that they didn't strap me down during.
All experience can lead to enlightenment.
Reminds me of a roomie I briefly had. About the time he made TKD green belt he took to channeling Pat Morita. Whatever the mishap---g.f. spills tequila on his keyboard, AC breaks in an Austin August, buddy gets crabs---he's smile serene and remind us, "Anyplace can be a dojo, a hall of the Way." Then one day he broke an arm in a motorcycle accident. "No, no. I coulda died!"I don't know about enlightenment but I was surely enlightened to the awareness that I could FEEL my spinal cord when I received a spinal tap.
I was almost insulted that they didn't strap me down during.
Well he wasn't wrong"No, no. I coulda died!"
& who leads.(whom?) is being led.
I used to tell my grad school roomie that carrying an old-fashioned Colt Peacemaker with 6 bullets was dangerous. 5 is safe. He didn't believe me till he dropped it one day out rabbit-hunting and put a hole in his pickup door. Your remark re: preaching at local churches is about as callow and jeune a remark as mortal hand hath writ.Sorry, I know I'm new here but here is my unsolicited opinion.
Psychedelics have been used since ancient times and we have more and more proof that a lot of the mystery religions from antiquity used them. And I'm not saying this, the academia is.
I don't condone the use of entheogens but I'm almost certain that when used under the right conditions, there is a lot to be gained. The sad affair of plastic shamans selling instant enlightenment is just that (not a jab at the OP, he probably knows what I'm talking about).
It seems to me that the question was honest and didn't target abuse or some glorified "Aquarius age" period.
My 0.02$
Off-topic:
Also noticed a few funny "drugs are bad m'kay" folk here, just a few. They usually travel on their high horse and wear their purity aesthetics with pride for everyone to see and maybe have a laugh as well. They could score more brownie points by preaching at their local churches.
And what about the second substance that you need to prolong the experience, since the brain produces DMT naturally, but absorbs it before you are likely to see any angels in enormous chairs?The process for extracting DMT into a smokeable form is mind-bogglingly simple. It can be obtained from several species of Acacia and extracted with lye and a non-polar solvent in a glass vessel. Certainly all available to the sixteenth century alchemist.
Nah I've looked into this, it's genuinely very easy. It's just part of a plant, it doesn't need synthesising or anythingAnd what about the second substance that you need to prolong the experience, since the brain produces DMT naturally, but absorbs it before you are likely to see any angels in enormous chairs?
I believe the additional substance you are referring to is an MAOi (mono amine oxidase inhibitor). This is only required to make the DMT orally active as have been used in traditional shamanic Ayahuasca brews for millennia.And what about the second substance that you need to prolong the experience, since the brain produces DMT naturally, but absorbs it before you are likely to see any angels in enormous chairs?
They're a blind alley.do you use them for magic?
i ate a shitload of mushrooms once and asked to be wiser than king solomon, to know exactly how the universe works, splendid results
pro tip: dont take psychedelics without a shaman unless you are one