All is One
When a trippy hippy says “All is One” the natural response is to roll your eyes. Yet there is no other way to say it. The universal message of a breakthrough “spiritual” experience on psychedelics is just this: the world…
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The Mushroom Apocalypse and the Kabbalah
The “mushroom apocalypse” is probably best described by Lurianic Kabbalah. Here’s a quick overview (thanks to Wikipedia). Primordial Tzimtzum – Contraction of Divinity Isaac Luria propounded the doctrine of the Tzimtzum, (meaning alternatively: “Contraction/Concealment/Condensation/Concentration”), the primordial Self-Withdrawal of Divinity to “make space” for…
Character 7
Character 7 (see The Free Guy post) is: Beyond Babylon. In the world but not of the world. Beyond discriminative thought. Free from desire. Beyond good and evil. A Mystic-Shaman. A Warrior-Monk or Warrior-Nun. A Philosopher-King or Philosopher-Queen. Holy, virtuous…
The Immortality Key 2
The first reasonable premise in Brian Muraresku’s thesis is that, as his mentor Brother David Steindl-Rast says, “Every religion has its mystical core.” The second reasonable premise is that in the specific case of Christianity, there is also a psychedelic…
Meditation
The Master leads by emptying people’s minds and strengthening their cores. Lao Tzu Why Meditate? Gary Weber has described in detail how the “default mode network” in the brain can be deactivated through meditation. He calls it the…
Waking Up
One summer twenty years ago, by the river Isis in Oxford, I had a profound experience of “waking up” from my ordinary, habitual “me” consciousness into an extraordinary “non-dual” consciousness, where I felt completely at one with my surroundings and…
the way of the holy mushroom 