Our culture doesn’t understand that psychedelics are not a one time ceremony fix/experience fix (imoho).

Our culture also doesn’t understand that the cultural, personal, locational, psychological, etc etc etc context of the trip matters hugely (imho).

We also don’t understand the context within which indigenous communities do psychedelics. They have a steady tradition of ceremonial gathering in the same way as a medicine ceremony, without the medicine. They have, very often, group gatherings with drumming and a fire which is trance like. Their Shamans are part of the community, with good brews, experience, and love. They do not carry around to as much psychological trauma and stress as civilized people do, which is something that sometimes needs to be adjusted for.

Anthropologically we are very illiterate when it comes to the religious or healing relationship with these plants/fungi/(etc). They are not simply a distilled, isolated experience - the context of this life matters.

There is a lot of cultural misunderstanding going on here.

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On a different note, the topic of the thread:

“What is ok to talk about with the public?”

Listen and witness wholeheartedly, then respond as you feel naturally & truly inclined to. It’s that’s simple, you don’t need to tell anyone anything. You just need to be attentive. In that way, you will be aware of the subject/community/context with-to whom you are speaking, and out of that awareness necessarily follows healing relation ~