"... I don’t really know how interested you are, reader, in this subject [psychedelics]."
I for one am very interested in that, and in particular the intersection of psychedelic & contemplative practices. Your experience in these domains is deep, and I look forward to your writing more about this. Mysticism, too.
I have many sources I turn to for politics (too frequently, I'm afraid) and so that is not really why I am here, though I understand that readers might be. And of course there is a growing overlap of psychedelics and politics. This may quickly get stranger and louder with RFK, Jr, and so your voice will be important.
While I think psychedelic and contemplative practices can be transformative on personal and small-scale interpersonal levels, I have little hope that they can shift the trajectory of human history writ large. On this I often resonate with Robinson Jeffer’s strain of “inhumanism”:
The mind
Passes, the eye closes, the spirit is in passage;
The beauty of things was born before eyes and sufficient to itself;
the heart-breaking beauty
Will remain when there is no heart to break for it.
"... I don’t really know how interested you are, reader, in this subject [psychedelics]."
I for one am very interested in that, and in particular the intersection of psychedelic & contemplative practices. Your experience in these domains is deep, and I look forward to your writing more about this. Mysticism, too.
I have many sources I turn to for politics (too frequently, I'm afraid) and so that is not really why I am here, though I understand that readers might be. And of course there is a growing overlap of psychedelics and politics. This may quickly get stranger and louder with RFK, Jr, and so your voice will be important.
While I think psychedelic and contemplative practices can be transformative on personal and small-scale interpersonal levels, I have little hope that they can shift the trajectory of human history writ large. On this I often resonate with Robinson Jeffer’s strain of “inhumanism”:
The mind
Passes, the eye closes, the spirit is in passage;
The beauty of things was born before eyes and sufficient to itself;
the heart-breaking beauty
Will remain when there is no heart to break for it.