Hypocrisy & Lies

I had my first experience with LSD when I was 15. I'd been brought up, starting at the age of 13, to use marijuana as a consciousness-expanding (the popular phrase of the times) tool and had been cautioned about experimenting with LSD. 

In my early twenties I traveled to Mexico where the local children outside the town of Palenque 

Photo from Britannica

brought us the magic mushrooms and gave us the correct amount. Over the decades as my career and partners took precedent, I rarely had access -- let alone the time -- to utilize psychedelics. An "average" trip usually lasts from 6-12 hours. I put the word in quotes since, with psychedelics, there is no such thing as average.

From 1968 to 1972 a friend was incarcerated in a Tennessee penitentiary for possession of two joints. So while the article below is about psychedelics, I'm incredulated and disgusted by the hypocrisy. It makes me wonder what other lies they're telling us.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/psychedelics-could-be-the-future-of-psychotherapy

Speth's *Angels By the River*

This sorta follows on the prev post.

Convinced that my time had run out and that I'm likely tuh drop at any moment, I ramped up my readings by and about folks who I thought might offer insights. Our culture, lacking in so many ways, offers even less in: how tuh die.

I think it was in Muraresku's The Immortality Key (The 1st half is interesting with many references to archeological sites, but then devolves into the history of christianity.) that I saw mention of Speth. I got his memoir and in the last chapter he gets specific. Herewith...

Cameron is his spouse.

For those who haven't indulged, allow me to commend Maslow to you. His stuff is, nowadays, kinda olde hat, but if you haven't read it, it fits nicely against the scientific dichotomies THEY so enjoy. (Maslow seemed to know that if you watch the experiment it skews the results. It took the scientists a bunch more years to prove it.)And his Religions, values, and peak experiences dovetails with the resurging interest in entheogens.

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