So LSD helped this Whole
Foods dude to become a successful capitalist who made how much $$$ selling out to Jeff Bezos? Be still my heart…wait, no, bring me a bucket. I don’t need ayahausca to puke. All this breathless high-rolling enthusiasm is sickening. I’ve done MDMA and Ketamine for trauma healing (and I had big time childhood trauma). Basically, while I benefited from the experiences, they were in no way the panacea described here. And what about sexual abuse within The Movement? Oh, wait, don’t mention that, we must do everything to protect the psychedelic/capitalist juggernaut. My experience? Yes, it was fairly positive—but at most it was a (very) expensive way of confronting me with unpleasant truths about myself. I kept journeying again, hoping for a different outcome. At most, my use if psychedelics speeded up a very difficult personal process a little bit. I am not at all convinced it was life-changing. My involvement in a (gasp!) completely cost-free 12 step program has given me far more toward healing my trauma than many hours of tripping. But that’s not sexy, is it?

(Yes, you’re “glad” to hear that I “found the help I needed.” So no need for a condescending reply…I saved you the trouble)

And don’t get me started on this whole breathless movement to usurp plant medicine from traditional, indigenous cultures as if these medicines are merely heaps of lifeless chemicals? In the end, the plants will have the last laugh. And it won’t be pretty. But how many desperate people will the Rick Doblins of the world allow to be thrown under the psychedelic bus in the meantime?? (Referring to sexual abuse in a MAPS trial)

Welcome to the shitshow.