[panqueque]

“We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled the 60's. That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "consciousness expansion" without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all the people who took him seriously... All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped create... a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody... or at least some force - is tending the light at the end of the tunnel.”

- Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

[elevaet]

I know a lot more people whose lives have been deeply enriched by acid, than those who've ended up on the ends of those proverbial meat hooks.

That being said, casualties are real and can happen, it's great work that Psymposia is doing shining a light on the uncomfortable dark corners of psychedelic enthusiasm. Especially when it comes to corporate interests and influence in the space.

I hope that this time around, we can keep psychedelics in their right place as valuable tools for humanity. Not elevated to culty worship, nor demonized.

And that they stay at least a little bit wild.

[goldenkey]

What most people fail to realize is that nature isn't humanoid in any capacity. I've lived long enough and seen enough synchronicities to know that reality is far more entangled than a cause and effect standpoint would have you believe. But nature being quite tightly coupled instead of locally isolated, doesn't mean nature has a humanoid intent. It just means that everything is connected. If the universe is a spider web, it doesn't do us any favors to assume we are being taken care of by some benevolent spider.

This video is the world we live in. It's difficult to watch a komodo dragon eat a pregnant deer. But I challenge you to watch this, because this is what reality actually is: https://youtu.be/oHJuzE0k1V8

Reality is intimately connected through time and space. Reality is beautiful, dark, ruthless, dreary but it is not kind.

Living as if nature is kind does not end well.

[throwamon]

> I've lived long enough and seen enough synchronicities to know that reality is far more entangled than a cause and effect standpoint would have you believe.

I've no idea what you mean by that.

> This video is the world we live in.

Reality includes komodo dragons, just as it does kindness. You say nature isn't "humanoid" and then ascribe to it qualities like ruthlessness. You're just as biased and delusional as whoever you're criticizing.

[mjthrowaway1]

And yet we have kindness in nature as well.

[jamal-kumar]

Nice video to show people who are tripping but I prefer YouTube links to wooks giving live birth in rivers

Really connects people

[CPLX]

Indeed. The scariest concept in the world isn’t someone that hates you and wants you dead. It’s something that views you as protein.

[thucydides]

I'm curious what kind of synchronicities you are referring to

[sysadm1n]

I wish he could've elaborated about this piece of writing. Does he mean all the people who took acid in the 60s are all burnouts? If one out of every ten people who dropped acid had an enriching experience and the rest got severe mental illness does that mean the acid movement failed?

As for the 'old-mystic fallacy' of acid, there are people who actually got enlightened from the stuff without having to spend ten years meditating in a monastery. As McKenna said: 'but the ferry costs a nickel'

[the_only_law]

> Does he mean all the people who took acid in the 60s are all burnouts?

Aren’t most of the people running the country of this generation? If that’s burn out I suppose I can live with it.