2026-05-24
#newage #psychedelics
current thoughts on psychedelics (sent to a friend):
yooo lol i do remember saying that đ idk if they are literally demonic or not but iâve been much more skeptical of their goodness recently. my take is this:
- psychedelics seem to have some documented miraculous healing effects on people with addiction, depression, etc. i definitely cannot say they donât have individual benefit. they reduced my anxiety by a lot first time i did them and was probably the happiest and most awe-inspiring time of my life
- the cure, imo, can be considered âdemonicâ in that it can trap you in a certain psychedelic worldview, where you need to be accessing that regularly and that it is some state of enlightenment, compared to which the rest of the world seems quite mundane
- healthy cures for the same issues are usually harder but (as you prolly know) involve community support, family, adapting to work one enjoys, etc. these cures are slow burn, but long lasting, sustainable, and usually lead to a very stable and grounded happiness and fulfillment through old age
- most people i meet who were seduced by psychedelics early on either burn out and start to hate them (one guy in my church used to be an sf ayahuasca hippie then in his old age converted to catholicism and now thinks itâs demonic, i know another old guy in santa cruz who seems ultra depressed after making psychedelics his life for so many decades), or they think theyâre enlightened but have bad conduct (ram dass). i think theyâve slipped into some kind of delusion
- i canât actually say if the plant itself is demonic or not. but after much exploration of the spiritual world iâm quite confident that temporary results are often REAL but not always an indicator that the thing is good. actually, temporary results can be the worst kind of trap. itâs like being charmed by a narcissist into an abusive relationship.
- and so the way i judge things like mushrooms is to ask: what are the people that are devoted to mushrooms like at 70? what are psychedelic therapists like at 70? does it sit well with me?
- honestly bro if i met people who were really into psychedelics that i really liked i could change view, but theyâre always off bro đ we gotta ask why that is
- some normies definitely do it once or twice and are like yeah that was awesome psychedelics are good. and they donât think about them much. these people will say iâm being too paranoid. but i would say they just have a healthy balanced life that protects them from getting seduced into anything weird. iâm skeptical of them. did they really need to do psychedelics? so many people achieve happiness in other ways. why take the risk with that path seeing where the enthusiasts end up? i think for these people psychedelics just add a lot of entropy to their thinking so theyâre able to settle into a new better state. usually they arenât the types to say that psychedelics was the best experience in their life, which makes me think it wasnât necessary for them. like havenât they already found sober ways to shake things up? intense experiences? travel?
- only exception: itâs always possible tho that some people really DO need them and itâs only good for them. like for cluster headaches. if mushrooms are a cure they should definitely do them. itâs efficacy for cluster headaches and bad addictions where people do it once and donât really make a worldview out of it is whatâs preventing me from calling it wholly bad. but there are def serious risks, mainly around changing your whole orientation towards life and going full commitment-less burner hippie, that are very under discussed