#psychoactive substances

I’ve heard that there’s multiple gay couples and there’s mentions of being not cis within the bible within the cultural context is that just a modern misinterpretation?

2nd and last question— when people who take psychedelics and experience spiritual/ out of body experiences is that just drug induced psychosis or is it possible that it could be spiritual in nature? My partner had a recently bad reaction to a gummy and said that he experienced what it was like to die and he understood a lot more. What’s your thoughts on that?

For your first question, I'm going to recommend this article:

Now, to address your second question. First, substance-induced psychosis is not the same thing as simply experiencing effects from taking a psychoactive substance. It sounds like your friend experienced what would commonly be referred to as a bad trip.

From everything I've personally gathered about psychoactive substances where it pertains to spirituality, such experiences don't seem to be any more or any less reliable than near-death experiences, hypnotic trances, astral projection, etc; and everything I can find on these phenomena suggests to me that these experiences are generated primarily (if not wholly) within the minds of the people experiencing them. I feel like it's important to note here that these experiences can be extremely profound and transformative, but they overall do appear to be subjective.

Forests don’t have a leader.

No single tree decides who grows, who thrives, or who falls.

They communicate underground, share nutrients, warn each other of threats.

The forest is a living network.

What if our medicine communities could work the same way?

In my new article for Reality Sandwich, I explore a vision of plant medicine centers connected across the world — each autonomous, yet united like roots beneath the soil — through a DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization).

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Read it here:

https://realitysandwich.com/medicine-dao-decentralized-like-the-forest/

Would love to hear your thoughts — could this be the future of plant medicine?

The Tao is not in the sutras.

It’s in the bucket you just filled with vomit,

in the mosquito biting your ass

while you pray for visions.

Spirits don’t arrive on cue.

They’re already squatting in the outhouse,

laughing as you run there for the fifth time.

They whisper in the diarrhea,

they rattle in the leaves,

they don’t need your gratitude journals.

The five senses are useful for trade—

to buy rubber boots,

to smell if the fish is rotten.

But they cannot measure the vastness.

One ayahuasca fart under the maloka roof

carries more truth

than a thousand professors at Harvard.

What hides the Tao?

Not the jungle—she’s naked,

sweating, swarming, stinking, alive.

What blinds you is the idea of being pure,

the mask of “I am holy,”

the stiff face of “I understand.”

Better to shit honestly

than meditate falsely.

To return to the real is simple.

Stop searching for visions.

Open your eyes:

the jaguar has already licked your soul clean,

the vines are already twisting through your veins.

Sit still, puke,

and laugh when the bucket splashes back.

That splash is the Tao.

Healing is not a shiny miracle.

It’s vomiting your father’s voice,

shitting out your mother’s fear,

and then dancing barefoot with the frogs.

Integration is not a certificate.

It’s remembering that the jungle spirits

don’t give a damn about your enlightenment.

They only ask:

can you walk home with humility,

with shit on your sandals