profitism

Man, there’s so much to get out of the way before most people could pick up something like this. Its so weird how much of a different space a person can get themselves in compared to someone that wouldn’t get involved with this kind of stuff. A space where they couldn’t see things the same anymore like how everyone else sees them. I guess it’s a separate discussion altogether, a lengthy preamble that wouldn’t really go anywhere anyway.

There might be other better places to start if you still need to be convinced that drugs [as entheogens are controversially described in general] have any useful purpose to serve. If you’re in a situation where you find yourself needing to fight off a bunch of thoughts that balk at the idea of disturbing your safe, stable and sane understanding of how things work, then that might be a good place to start. Get yourself to a point where you can suspend disbelief, even just for a short while.

In fact, maybe that’s a good description of what this subject is all about. Recognizing how convinced you are of how things work. Recognizing how unprepared you are to shift your perceptions. Are you able to loosen them up just a bit. Can you handle turning your world (view) on it’s head. Not only is the earth not flat, it’s also not quite the right way up.

So what is there in this that someone who is prepared to take that step might find here that could be quite useful? Maybe it’s a complicated subject, and fraught with peril. It’s a strange situation sort of like when you’ve taken a drug and got to a point that you would like to make sense of your experience with it. It may have felt like it’s not quite what you were told it was, that there might actually be just a little bit more to it than getting trashed.

Sure there is the crowd that does this and feel it is what it is. Maybe even at some point feel the exercise has become a bit too disruptive. Its like you know what; this is not actually always that pleasant, in fact, its downright messed up. From there I guess theres a bunch of possibilities. You could turn to those that do subscribe to the current prevalent model of reality to help you deal with a bad habit. You could mnage to disconnect from it independently altogether. You could explore the subject a bit more and see what other have to say about it.

Fortunately there are people that have gone to the effort of making something available if you decide on this last option. Not that I think they would pretend to have all the answers, just that they might be able to provide a bit of direction. This context seems to fit best. It’s not 100% about convincing anyone that they need to take drugs, you would probably [need to?] have been doing that already. It’s also not 100% about saying here are all the answers and you need to take drugs to achieve understanding them.

No… it’s more like the answers were always there already anyway. The important thing is to understand that part of the answer requires a degree of effort on your part. That there are a variety of tools and resources available to you that can be used to help out in this process. If you feel comfortable including drugs as a tool then I guess this is the kind of book you might find quite useful.