Some of them are coming up to the surface by defining themselves as a church. Wondering where that will go. Haven’t been, but our city has one: Psanctuary.
Thanks, Jamie. Especially apropos after a recent "hero's journey" by mountain bike while on 4g of dried Albino PE to find a vaguely-remembered local paradise I dubbed "The Inner Sanctity of Marie's." After many trials and tribulations (and a handful of prickly-pear spines), I rediscovered this hidden gem in the Timothy-Leary-imbued hills of Laguna Beach, and came to a somewhat-mystical realization that all of Life is "infinite loops of subjective experience that worked, so they keep repeating themselves." I tried to crystallize this vision further, but was prodded by my inner voices to leave Eden before my journey was over to "stop the Cartoon Antichrist before it's too late." Alas, 4 weeks later, apathy has set in, and I've already begun to justify my lethargy with, "It's cool, Kamala's got this!" and "It's okay, I understand the purpose and meaning of the universe and our place in it, but why bother trying to explain it to anyone else..." Any suggestions??
Jamie states: “The priests and the Church ladies (both literal and metaphorical—looking at you Psymposia crew), clutched their pearls and rang the bells of alarm. Tut-tutting and harumphing into the FDAs ear with just enough plausible concern to queer the whole deal.”
Yeah, Jamie, why don’t you demonize the church ladies, point fingers at them, make sure you thrown those journalists under the bus — they might have contributed to saving a few people lives, helped educate survivors about the limitations of MAPS clinical training and expose the MAPS organization for the advocacy cult and shitshow it really was …
Jamie states: We talked up Veterans and war-torn PTSD cuz it plays well to the neocon politicians and mega-donors in the red states.
I guess that strategy of using veterans as poster child for PTSD didn’t work so well. Oh, well. Back to the drawing board. How is this not going to go down all corporate, capitalistic and exploitive?
Anna, why do you sound like you're arguing with Jamie when you're making the same points?
My point? Painting psychedelics as either coal black or dayglo pink is missing the point and is unconvincing to anyone other than the already convinced.
reckon I laid plenty of responsibility on all sides in this piece? If you want to reduce it to simplistic heroes and villains I guess you can, but that wasn't the point (at all) of this essay. That kind of Manichean moralizing seems to be part of what got us into this pickle in the first place. For all the non-dual unity consciousness that psychedelics are supposed to afford, this space sure seems to be plenty petty and political! Reckon solutions are on the other side of that fence...
Compass Pathways is likely next at bat, and that lot does not give a fuuuuuck about healing the heart of a wounded humanity in time to save our planet!
#germansgonnagerman
hello, that did decrease trust points - germansgonnagerman??? in my book, that's f*cked n that context. still gonna read the rest of the article.
"Venture capitalists “called in” to disrupt the psychedelic therapy space." Hahhaa holy shit
“Long live the psychedelic underground.”
Some of them are coming up to the surface by defining themselves as a church. Wondering where that will go. Haven’t been, but our city has one: Psanctuary.
99% predicted failure rate for self-appointed hierophants trying to institutionalize (and monetize) sacred ceremony
#cincinnatus
Thanks, Jamie. Especially apropos after a recent "hero's journey" by mountain bike while on 4g of dried Albino PE to find a vaguely-remembered local paradise I dubbed "The Inner Sanctity of Marie's." After many trials and tribulations (and a handful of prickly-pear spines), I rediscovered this hidden gem in the Timothy-Leary-imbued hills of Laguna Beach, and came to a somewhat-mystical realization that all of Life is "infinite loops of subjective experience that worked, so they keep repeating themselves." I tried to crystallize this vision further, but was prodded by my inner voices to leave Eden before my journey was over to "stop the Cartoon Antichrist before it's too late." Alas, 4 weeks later, apathy has set in, and I've already begun to justify my lethargy with, "It's cool, Kamala's got this!" and "It's okay, I understand the purpose and meaning of the universe and our place in it, but why bother trying to explain it to anyone else..." Any suggestions??
Jamie states: “The priests and the Church ladies (both literal and metaphorical—looking at you Psymposia crew), clutched their pearls and rang the bells of alarm. Tut-tutting and harumphing into the FDAs ear with just enough plausible concern to queer the whole deal.”
Yeah, Jamie, why don’t you demonize the church ladies, point fingers at them, make sure you thrown those journalists under the bus — they might have contributed to saving a few people lives, helped educate survivors about the limitations of MAPS clinical training and expose the MAPS organization for the advocacy cult and shitshow it really was …
Jamie states: We talked up Veterans and war-torn PTSD cuz it plays well to the neocon politicians and mega-donors in the red states.
I guess that strategy of using veterans as poster child for PTSD didn’t work so well. Oh, well. Back to the drawing board. How is this not going to go down all corporate, capitalistic and exploitive?
Anna, why do you sound like you're arguing with Jamie when you're making the same points?
My point? Painting psychedelics as either coal black or dayglo pink is missing the point and is unconvincing to anyone other than the already convinced.
I thought calling out Psymposia here was absolutely correct. Forgive them for they know not what they do.
Psymposia = Evil
MAPS = Good
I got it. 👍
[Later edit: READ SARCASM ^]
reckon I laid plenty of responsibility on all sides in this piece? If you want to reduce it to simplistic heroes and villains I guess you can, but that wasn't the point (at all) of this essay. That kind of Manichean moralizing seems to be part of what got us into this pickle in the first place. For all the non-dual unity consciousness that psychedelics are supposed to afford, this space sure seems to be plenty petty and political! Reckon solutions are on the other side of that fence...
Thank you for responding. Have a good day.
Dolores Umbridges! More evil gets done in the name of Righteousness than anything else
Love this. Esp the last few lines ❤️🔥
Thank you Jamie, truth injection completed. Guided by the soulforce, beautifully written!
Compass Pathways is likely next at bat, and that lot does not give a fuuuuuck about healing the heart of a wounded humanity in time to save our planet!
#germansgonnagerman
hello, that did decrease trust points - germansgonnagerman??? in my book, that's f*cked n that context. still gonna read the rest of the article.
A) a joke taking the piss out of Angermayer, who, if you know him is quintessentially German
B) Germany has a four century intellectual tradition of clinical utilitarianism mixed with Uber menschy Utopianism They haven’t always mixed well.
Very