Mother Ayahuasca: “Trip” Report, Part 7 (Advice)
Nothing I have said in this series should be interpreted as an endorsement of Ayahuasca or DMT…
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Mother Ayahuasca: “Trip” Report, Part 6 (The Verdict)
So, is this Ayahuasca/DMT thing for real? Is it a scam? An escape from reality? Does it have legitimate therapeutic value?
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Mother Ayahuasca: “Trip” Report, Part 5 (The Bad Trip)
While the Ayahuasca experience is ultimately non-transferable, here is my humble attempt to share a rough timeline and highlights from “ceremony #2”, which turned out to be “the bad trip”…
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Mother Ayahuasca: “Trip” Report, Part 4 (The Good Trip)
While the Ayahuasca/DMT experience is ultimately non-transferable, here is my humble attempt to share a rough timeline and highlights from “ceremony #1”, which turned out to be “the good trip”…
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Mother Ayahuasca: “Trip” Report, Part 3 (The Setting)
After a suggested week-long preparation consisting of a restricted diet, abstinence from alcohol, drugs, and sex…
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Mother Ayahuasca: “Trip” Report, Part 2 (Arrangements)
Intrigued by the potential therapeutic benefits and satisfied that the health and safety risks were acceptable, I committed myself to “do the experiment”…
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Mother Ayahuasca: “Trip” Report, Part 1 (Background)
It all began with my three times rule…
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Epidemics
Everything you do—or not—casts a vote for what exists in the world…
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Carrots & Sticks
The threat of punishment or promise of reward… might get you to “behave” yourself,but neither one can transform youinto a moral human being. Continue reading Carrots & Sticks
Aversion Therapy
World wars, “civil” wars, genocides, ethnic cleansings, witch hunts, inquisitions, crusades, colonialism, the slave trade, final solutions, the killing fields, extermination camps, and ground zeros…
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Ode to Agnosticism
The entire universe, and our place in it, is beyond mysterious…
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Free Will
I don’t seem to choose my thoughts and feelings…
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