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Aella
@Aella_Girl
hearin lots of ppl talkin about how psychedelics can cause harm; this is true, you should be careful - start with small doses and work your way up! but psychs can also be great, i did a bunch 8 yrs ago and permanently stopped "suffering" - *without* losing contact with reality
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
For some ppl, psychedelics sort of 'erase' beliefs from your mind; the question is, is your brain the kind to fill in the erased gaps with anything (e.g., "i lost belief in materialism... so there *must* be the supernatural!") or is it the kind of brain to let them stay erased?
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
My theory is this is the thing that differentiates harmful experiences vs really wonderful experiences like I happened to have. Imo the benefit of starting doses real small and slow is you can figure out which type of brain you have before you hit big doses.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Idk if there's techniques you can learn that have meaningful impacts on this. If you haven't done psychedelics, they can be fucking intense and deity-levels of strong and if you think you can control the experience in any way you're probably gonna have an interesting time
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
So I'm skeptical (but not fully ruling out!) that certain strategies can prevent filling in your erased-belief gaps with anything else in order to preserve your brain's feeling of control. I do wonder if very gradual 'practice' with the slowly increasing dose strategy can help
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
I also sorta doubt that there's much in the realm of conscious judgment about a person that predicts psychedelic response; my guess is this is closer to a "is your brain wired in a way such that cilantro tastes like soap" thing than a "you have unresolved trauma" thing.
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