Kate Berlant has a recent standup comedy special on HBO where she says that she did a therapeutic magic mushrooms session with like a guide and she thought she was gonna peel back the layers of her ego and see who she really was while tripping but she ended up just talking about the TV show Succession for hours while crying.
Such a funny concept to be like, dang this is it? no hidden knowledge or epiphanies about enlightenment? Can’t even pretend that the weird shapes you saw in the bushes were significant messages from the cosmos?
It was Douglas Rushoff who said something like, Some people do Ayahuasca and they figure out their place in the universe. Tech bros do Ayahuasca and they are just tech bros doing Ayahuasca. That is, there is no deeper layer to them that they can access.
I have talked to a few peruvians who have taken ayahuasca, some many times. They all said the same thing. It is a medicine and if you take it while you are “healthy” you will have a trip and that will be all. No enlightenment, no self discovery. You need to be “sick” for it to be able to heal you. They also said a good shaman will talk to you a lot beforehand and if they see you are healthy they will send you away.
That’s what made me decide I do not want to take it. I have problems sure, but I am content with who and where I am in live.
Of course the shaman the tech bros go to just wants the money of rich tourists so they will do the ritual for anyone.
Kate Berlant has a recent standup comedy special on HBO where she says that she did a therapeutic magic mushrooms session with like a guide and she thought she was gonna peel back the layers of her ego and see who she really was while tripping but she ended up just talking about the TV show Succession for hours while crying.
Such a funny concept to be like, dang this is it? no hidden knowledge or epiphanies about enlightenment? Can’t even pretend that the weird shapes you saw in the bushes were significant messages from the cosmos?
It was Douglas Rushoff who said something like, Some people do Ayahuasca and they figure out their place in the universe. Tech bros do Ayahuasca and they are just tech bros doing Ayahuasca. That is, there is no deeper layer to them that they can access.
I have talked to a few peruvians who have taken ayahuasca, some many times. They all said the same thing. It is a medicine and if you take it while you are “healthy” you will have a trip and that will be all. No enlightenment, no self discovery. You need to be “sick” for it to be able to heal you. They also said a good shaman will talk to you a lot beforehand and if they see you are healthy they will send you away. That’s what made me decide I do not want to take it. I have problems sure, but I am content with who and where I am in live.
Of course the shaman the tech bros go to just wants the money of rich tourists so they will do the ritual for anyone.
Pretty much. And yeah, seeing the tourism side of it, those are just folks taking advantage of rich folks. Reckless but it is what it is.