in other words, they've cultivated a system for having guaranteed bad trips, excuse me, "challenging experiences", and trying to convince people that it's good for them. is it? maybe it is. I've had some bad trips that I did learn something from.
someone was kind enough to warn me early on before I got far enough to seriously hurt myself. middle-path has really become an important (and quite literal) method for me.
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I went just far enough to get into near-total self-destruction. Good thing, too. I did some serious personality upgrades since then, in large part out of sheer desperation.
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The bigger, more persistent issue (assuming you don't have a secular life worth preserving) is the moral hazard. People who get enlightened on this path? They're usually fairly monstrous.
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So fair enough, you can get all the attainment you want (and teh magicx), but if all it does is make you Very Comfortable with your own darkest self... ... I don't know that that's really an improvement.
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Anyway, none of that is exactly what this is about. I'll get around to it later, though.
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