Who are we to decide how we should educate our children?
Who are we to decide what kind of mental worlds human beings should be allowed to inhabit?
Discretion, patience, and attention to detail are three cardinal virtues one learns growing mushrooms,
which come in handy for the trip itself. But I've come to a point where I cannot see a valid distinction between the trip of the mushroom, (or the trip of any entheogen) and the trip of everyday so-called ordinary mundane human existence.
This is important to the point of this question. We will see why.
In a sane society, we would not worry about ownership rights to entheogens,
nor would we be having this purely hollow concern about other's mental health, (which is a manifestation of the former) because -
in the same way new vegetables come up in the spring, and all leaves again turn green without anyone or anything there to remind them how to do it,
young children do not need to be educated to "trip" because for them (at least up until a couple years of age before we destroy them with our hypocrisy) the experience of life as a whole is indistinguishable from what we so-called grown ups call the "goddamned real world", you know, where you got bills and responsibilities and life is tough and rough and grahhhhhhhhh I Must survive, I've GOT to go on living - that kind of thing.
I suppose in a nutshell what I am saying is this:
The question of giving entheogens to children is a bit ridiculous. Because it implies there is something the child can learn from it, and this information, because we think it is "ours", because we are of a dominator culture and subject to a terrible intellectual virus which underlies our greed, anger, desire for property, and our sense of duty and ownership, we now find ourselves on the dmt-nexus if it children should be allowed or if it's safe - and all that is malarky, something like spiritual pride. There is nothing a child can learn insofar as we feel the plant or mushroom is ours to decide whom is worthy of it's contact. Total nonsense. Makes me cringe.
Stop trying to teach children.
Alan once said that wisdom does not come from above down, but from below up.
Children. That's where the wisdom is. Just like the fresh air in the spring. It needs no guidance.
However, once we children have grown insane (that's what grown-ups are called), entheogens are indeed (in my experience so far, and that's not saying much) the most powerful catalyst of reversing the damage (called the hallucination of separation, which is the source of all so-called evil) done to our sanity by our desire to control ourselves, other people, the environment, anything that is outside of your own bag of skin - what kind of ideology is the right one. That's why all these wars are started. Because everyone is out to help someone else, to change someone else, to Teach someone else, to save someone else, to save the whole goddamn world. And it's hypocrisy.
Why can we not simply sit with ourselves?
Why can we not simply be responsible for ourselves?
The best thing you can do for the world is nothing.
Children, sane and wise, know this, but not in english. And because we insist on who they are and what our rules are, we as children forget what we come to find again (for most of us never in the course of our entire life but rather) only in our dying breath - consciousness being reabsorbed into the Light - and then we have a feeling of having been here before. Of course you do, because Everything is You.
Why can we not simply be responsible for ourselves?
Somebody mentioned fear of being responsible for someone else's psyche, that the drug if administered carelessly would cause psychosis or something. And that you'd have that on your conscience.
WelL you know we are each other. So, on the one hand we do not need to worry about this. It's not serious. In the end it all comes out in the wash. It doesn't matter what you do, because you can never make a mistake. If you are afraid of making a mistake, dosing up your kids, then they in that miracle state in their infinite wisdom will detect your lack of self-confidence, and by virtue of what Jung called the principle of transference, will absorb that feeling and therefore learn the exact same lesson, passing on to everyone they then later on contact Learning the same fear. And the whole thing starts all over again with their children. Everyone's afraid. Because everyone feels responsible for everyone else. Because no one knows everyone is the same Self. And that is Ignore-ance, which is separation, which is Suffering.
Welcome to the human world.
The point is doesn't matter. Do not seek a rule of thumb. That is for intellectual babies.
Existence is not a rule of thumb. It's more like a log in a stream.
And we're all logs in the stream. What is one log to say about another log's path down the river?
Well, anything you like - but remember they are just like you. The more you know about yourself,
the more you know about others. This understanding empowers confidence. And your own self-confidence actually, by some kind of osmosis, can be transmitted to others because they begin to feel "permission" to act for themselves just as you are. If everyone does that, you see, the question of who should receive what drugs and at what age and so on is meaningless. Making laws is trying to catch light from the sun in your hand to save it for later.
But, seriously guys, don't be giving mushrooms to children.
But, sincerely guys, you can if you want to.
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), I think the post was more meant to gauge individual people's opinions on whether they would give psychedelics to their children. I enjoy how different some of the opinions have been here; it's definitely an issue I have thought about a lot personally but haven't really read about elsewhere.
