There is a story of a woman who took ayahuasca, and her life was never the same after. She had been married ten years, had 3 kids, and worked as a psychologist—pretty much a normal life.
Long story short, she divorced her husband, left her family, lost her job, and became suicidal. I have heard other downhill stories in which trips cooked the minds of those who partook in them, changing their entire psyche, often negatively.
But yeah, normies love to FAFO and risk being deprogrammed.
My experience is that anything a drug can do, you can get naturally without all the side-effects.
of course, you may need to sweat blood to get there, but that isn't going to crush you (well, unless you're the type who can't push himself to that point, but then you simply won't anyway, so still safe really.)
It also helps if you have a strong grasp on the fact that reality does not make sense inherently (i.e. it is what it is, I am that I am) and our experience is shot through with concepts and the results of unconscious meaning making processes. Life 'making sense' has mostly to do with having strong values and sticking to them, not what degree you have or what drugs you take. Never done aya but have had 40+ experiences with shrooms, mdma, lsd, dmt. Haven't had a bad trip yet but I also lived off the grid with 2 philosphy phDs for several years so...
You need to know where you stand on things before you start trying to unravel yourself with drugs. Have heard stories of people searching to reconnect with the 'supreme intelligence' after taking aya and it ruining their lives like others here have said, because for one its essentially your own deeper intelligence you're experiencing, and also because waking up to everything you're actually experiencing can be extremely difficult.
There is a story of a woman who took ayahuasca, and her life was never the same after. She had been married ten years, had 3 kids, and worked as a psychologist—pretty much a normal life.
Long story short, she divorced her husband, left her family, lost her job, and became suicidal. I have heard other downhill stories in which trips cooked the minds of those who partook in them, changing their entire psyche, often negatively.
But yeah, normies love to FAFO and risk being deprogrammed.
I am curious if you have taken it.
My experience is that anything a drug can do, you can get naturally without all the side-effects.
of course, you may need to sweat blood to get there, but that isn't going to crush you (well, unless you're the type who can't push himself to that point, but then you simply won't anyway, so still safe really.)
It also helps if you have a strong grasp on the fact that reality does not make sense inherently (i.e. it is what it is, I am that I am) and our experience is shot through with concepts and the results of unconscious meaning making processes. Life 'making sense' has mostly to do with having strong values and sticking to them, not what degree you have or what drugs you take. Never done aya but have had 40+ experiences with shrooms, mdma, lsd, dmt. Haven't had a bad trip yet but I also lived off the grid with 2 philosphy phDs for several years so...
You need to know where you stand on things before you start trying to unravel yourself with drugs. Have heard stories of people searching to reconnect with the 'supreme intelligence' after taking aya and it ruining their lives like others here have said, because for one its essentially your own deeper intelligence you're experiencing, and also because waking up to everything you're actually experiencing can be extremely difficult.
Any psychedelic dose sufficient to completely dissociate you may leave you dissociated.