Something weirds me out about identity-based or political subcommunities around psychedelics - like "PoC ayahuasca meetup" or "Smashing the patriarchy with psilocybin". Psychedelics are so identity-destroying, it feels super disorienting when they're used to affirm identity.
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You can't create something without destroying something else, for it is all change.
We can only try to steer change into a direction we want, taking decisions to shape it.
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Welcome to the world of modern marketing; if it works when you're paying $ for it, it should work when you're not? Seriously though, Christian "non-denominational" churches do this shit all the time and it brings people in it wouldn't otherwise. People are malleable... to the max
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Many plant psychedelics were indigenous ceremonial tools used to enhance tribal bonds though.
Also, the identity destroying property is a double edged sword in situations where you don't have a community to remind you who you are.
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I'm more concerned that those groups ultimately believing a bunch of new age bullshit. Every damn time. Ultimately these people are why we can't have nice things. Psychedelic use needs to be approached with skepticism by productive people. Not credulity by bums.
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The sub-communities are about welcoming new people into psychedelics. As a white woman I've been privileged to get to discover psychedelics in relative safety. We have to explicitly reach out to other communities to turn this privilege into a right for all.
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Well when you come down, you still have an identity, hopefully more understood and free. If a community-action springs out of several group trips it can have incredible synergy. If its staged its going to fall apart like the crowd at a boring lecture.