You silly boy. Can’t imagine the value of experience? It’s not her soul you need to worry about.
It’s a horse tranquiliser - so what. Warfarin is rat poison. it’s also heart medicine - it thins the blood. I mean wtf, people with heart conditions are given RAT POISON!!! horrific, isn’t it? …no, it isn’t.
LSD has no toxicity pretty much. nor magic mushrooms. nor mescaline. nor nn-dmt. research it, you’ll see what I mean. according to the World health Organisation, Ketamine has a good safety profile (anaesthetists administer it to babies in far higher doses mg/kg than recreational users take it). It is on the World Health Organization’s List of Essential Medicines, ‘the most effective and safe medicines needed in a health system’.
Random mutation transforms a molecule in the primordial soup into a self-replicator. It enumerates. Some of the self-replicators mutate into forms more likely to survive than their predecessors, so they do. They evolve over 4 billion years to become highly sophisticated survival machines. But a machine cannot make decisions… but consciousness can. Consciousness is [u]only motivated by[u] spiritual value - satisfaction, interest, intrigue enjoyment etc. So the genetic survival machines that reward consciousness for working for the survival of the DNA and punish it for not doing survive better than the rest. Have you ever seen the matrix? If you have lost sight of spiritual interest you may be terribly lost… LSD, like all psychedelics, attaches to the 5-ht receptors in the brain. Do you know what it does? it shuts parts of the brain down. just, shuts them down. That seems to be all. These parts of the brain appear to be filters for information. Like all parts of the body they are evolved mechanism designed to perform a survival function, a part of the machine. So what happens when you turn these parts of the brain off? You encounter kingdom come. Seemingly non-biological spiritual beings many orders of magnitude more spectacular and intelligent (it seems) than man, armed with symbolic scenarios seemingly rich in cryptic meaning relating to wisdom and understanding, displaying the issues of the mind and society. Attacking your anger issues, demanding sympathetic mentality, insisting on positivety and veneration, out to impress. Joy is power, only the kind may be permitted it. All others are enemies. Ask them a question, see what happens. ‘What are you?’ ‘YOU’, they say. ‘What am I?’ the acting out of a great void, everything being sucked away into oblivion… ‘nothing’. matter plus antimatter =s nothing. But the equation must balance, energy can neither be created nor destroyed. matter + antimatter = nothing, but nothing = (matter+antimatter). you cannot experience hot and cold at the same time in the same place, yet both can exist. The big bang gave us 45% antimatter, 55% matter. The harmonic elements returned to nothing, leaving us behind. I can talk, or be silent. I have the choice. Out of nothing something arises. Nothing is watching you.
Shamanism was far more common in the days before organised religion… christianity was superimposed on top of paganism. Shamanism is about accessing the alternative dimension where anything can happen, surviving death as a spiritual being. If I were a machine reliant upon consciousness considering survival more important than spiritual experience I wouldn’t want the poor captured shizophrenic fragment of the super psyche to know the party it was missing out on… it might try and escape.
What is terribly dangerous is drug abuse. It’s a technology, and like all technologies must be handled with suitable care and responsibility, else it does far more harm than good. Talk sense to your friend and express that you want her to have the most wonderful, valuable experiences, and that you hope she takes the best of care so as to gain them and not suffer. Drugs are terribly tangled up with people who have the wrong idea about them, both small minded fundamental oppositionists (the unwitting enemies of the soul, perhaps… how innocence imitates evil, forgive me for lacking the maturity to temper my frustration, it’s hard to see the sacred demonised in this way. Perhaps I am less than harmonic) and destructive, ill minded abusers. Of which their are many, unfortunately. Well, we will insist that drugs are bad. People are far more dangerous than drugs… and yet we don’t reject relationship. we respect it all the more instead, and handle it with care. or at least we should. Work is helping others, money bus service. it’s a sacred trust. I hope you can understand