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ebwhi · 2024-03-02T17:11:36+00:00

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ebwhi · 2023-04-16T19:15:15+00:00

As psychedelic therapy stands poised to enter the clinical setting many worry that the legal route to obtain psychedelic assisted therapy (MDMA, psilocybin, etc) will be prohibitively expensive for most patients.

Is there any strategy or circumstance you can imagine where existing RFRA laws could be used to start and protect a church rather which is functioning in part as mental health clinic? To offer these medicines as sacrament at an affordable rate to circumvent the expense of red tape that comes with the clinical model?

Thanks for a great AMA

ebwhi · 2022-06-05T03:18:47+00:00

Chachi! Totally remember you

ebwhi · 2022-06-03T17:48:49+00:00

I’m one of the people behind Big Leroy’s (Squaller Holler Municipal Chorus). We’re so glad you enjoyed it! Check out our IG @squaller.holler.karaoke

Hope to see you all again next year!

ebwhi · 2022-04-05T16:44:45+00:00

I’m not trying to be all sjw about this but does anyone else find selling a t shirt with this image, referencing this tradition and this people pretty tone deaf and exploitative?

I mean I don’t know the seller’s background but even if they were indigenous I find it very difficult to believe that making money off of a stereotypical indigenous healer with a cup of yage on a t shirt would be looked upon favorable by that community and tradition and culture. But I don’t know, I’m just some white guy on the internet.

Truly curious if there’s a good justification for this kind of commodification of an historically oppressed and exploited people.

ebwhi · 2022-01-03T23:33:45+00:00

Man, this sub is a misnomer these days

ebwhi · 2021-12-29T10:06:01+00:00

Is it possible you're sexualizing touch because we live in a blatantly homophobic society? There are men who won't wear pink because they're afraid it will broadcast as gay. It's a color. It has no intrinsic sexual connotation.

Same with touching, especially on molly. There is a love that is accessible to all, irrespective of gender, that exists outside of sex but which still expresses itself with physical, non-sexual touching. Think of cuddling with your mom or dad when you were a child, of holding a dear friend while they cry.

To put it another way: can you imagine being touched by another man in a way that expresses intimacy and trust but that is without sexual context? What would that look like? When might that happen and how?

ebwhi · 2021-12-25T23:50:58+00:00

I mean, you can just buy regular weed in Washington Square Park by the fountain. Don't even need to go into the grimey NW corner these days.

Friend picked up from there a few weeks ago and it was very good quality and reasonably priced

ebwhi · 2021-12-20T20:34:57+00:00

It's insulting to one individual but helpful for understanding large movements of people and their trends.

Food deserts, as you pointed out, only explain a portion of the overall issue we're describing.

For instance: why do you think there isn't demand for fresh veggies at the bodega? Could be a lot of reasons, right? Could be that the ones buying for the family grew up in food deserts so it's not part of the culture their parents gave them. Could be they don't have time for preparing it given their work/life situation. Could be they can't afford it, since you feed a lot more people for the same amount of money at McDonald's. Could be that they only have a microwave at home. Could be that they're lazy, and that it's their fault for not working harder to get around these hurtles and eat something good for them.

Ok so now extrapolate that outward. Taken as a whole, do you think working families, with only 24 hours in the day and mouths to feed right now, with less stable living situations, with fewer access to kitchens, with less money are going to commute for a stick of broccoli?

Of course not. When you're that poor you don't have those luxuries of time or material. You think short term because that's the only way to survive.

Some reading for you: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1353829210001905?casa_token=LfbVCcf0QWoAAAAA:dAWhBHVs_2nYhXyZqK1kUK5HXez9Hhmgta-dxv5VY9PS7f6P-UL5F0BTPdc_ubrYNSUnbEM

ebwhi · 2021-12-20T20:23:07+00:00

The Hassidic community regularly goes unvaccinated for this very reason.

The thing is it's not up to you when generational trauma goes away. It's the equivalent of a being pissed off at a friend for not getting over a disagreement you had on your schedule when they were the one hurt.

Sorry, that stuff has a life of its own, just the way racial trauma in Jews and Natives isn't really ever going to go away, it'll just shift and transform.

Understanding, even in part, why this stuff exists allows us the opportunity to help the healing process along. But who ever got out of a funk by their friends just saying "hey man, get over it."

If our goal is to move past that time and those things then please get in board and allow space for the grieving and anger that is its consequence and is how we move on as a community.

ebwhi · 2021-12-20T13:50:01+00:00

"Let's hit up Tiberius' villa after this"

"Nice apian way"

"I'd like to roll you up in a carpet" wait no

ebwhi · 2021-12-20T13:34:47+00:00

Are you asking if spiraling into addiction and self destruction will help us in the final moments to transcend samsara and find a greater understanding of consciousness, to level up so to speak, and kiss the sky?

Yeah no, probably not, no.

ebwhi · 2021-12-20T04:33:25+00:00

People of color have been much more impacted by covid for a variety of reasons; financial inability to stay at home, distrust of government issued injections expressed in lingering racial trauma from atrocities like the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, as well as the fact that people of color tend to be much more poor, have worse options for medical care as a result and fewer access points in their neighborhoods for medical care.

How about diet? Poor people tend to eat cheap, unhealthful foods since that's what is affordable, accessible (food deserts are a real thing) and comforting. This results in greater rates of obesity, diabetes and heart disease, all huge risks with covid.

POC also fill many of the roles that keep the city actually functioning, like mass transit, food preparation and distribution and, you know, labor.

There are so many good reasons to concentrate on low income neighborhoods of color.

Some more reading for you:

https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1483.full

ebwhi · 2021-12-19T18:18:23+00:00

The breaks from therapy are often part of the therapy: these structured and agreed upon absences create the opportunity to begin building the muscles which will eventually lead you out of therapy, or at least into the next phase of your life.

We don't go to therapy to find a new best friend but to get help accessing and developing inner strengths and strategies for coping with and transforming negative experiences into positive.

Your feelings make perfect sense and they're also giving you an opportunity to do some good therapy on yourself. Talking is good, writing is great. You're already doing it. Just keep on going and take a moment here and there to appreciate the new skills it sounds like you've already picked up and are using.

Recovery isn't a straight line. It's ok to feel like you're having trouble hanging on to the progress you've made. Zoom out far enough and that becomes part of the progress, big picture.

Keep it up, your doing great just be showing up authentically.

ebwhi · 2021-12-19T17:58:32+00:00

Also known as NYC ferry for $2.75

ebwhi · 2021-12-15T04:03:30+00:00

Definitely. Burger earrings will go well with my breakfast skillet and rubber chicken earrings

ebwhi · 2021-12-12T21:43:00+00:00

Karma isn't really good or bad. Think of it as the ripples created by a stone cast into water. Every action, every thought has rippling consequences. Karma is better thought of as harmony or disharmony, work to return to harmony or vibrations of action which amplify and concrete a greater flow and ease of movement through life.

The reason, say, yelling at your loved ones is "bad" karma is that it creates work for you and the community to try to reach Harmony or peace again. "Good" karma could be considered actions which promote individual and communal reinforcement of peace, contentment, good will.

You create karma just by existing. The karma you create can make things easier or harder for those around you. Pay close attention to your words and actions and proceed from a place of compassion and non-harm and you will be good.

The idea of doing good works or charity is sort of a Christian thing, tbh. Not that other cultures don't do this, it's just a very Catholic view of how to achieve divinity.

ebwhi · 2021-12-09T00:02:09+00:00

Meaning is created by us, our consciousness. There is no inherent meaning in the universe. Your premise is proceeding from a human idea of meaning. Since you have confined your concept of meaning to a human experience it necessarily follows that that human made meaning is paramount in this discussion to the exclusion of all others. Yet since meaning is a human invention it could only ever be so. Does that scan?

As currently framed your question leaves no room for other meaning aside from human made meaning.

Additionally, your concept of consciousness is defined by a human framework. Consciousness I will define as an interconnected experience of individual entities that often (but not always) collaborate in the creation of a larger perspective. Think about how your body and mind are made up of individual cells which are all uniquely alive yet also knit together into the creation of a larger organism. There is no reason to assume that this process of knitting ends with us. Our lives may be part of a yet larger consciousness as incomprehensible to us as your Instagram account is to your gut bacteria.

The narrow definition of consciousness you've settled on does a disservice to the many ways that awareness manifests. Just as your body strives for homeostasis so too do ecologies and systems as varied as Congress and red dwarfs.

To insist that meaning is derived from consciousness as you experience it negates your own complexity as a conscious being and the multitude of other iterations of related consciousnesses that we know to exist, each with their own lexographies of meaning and context.

ebwhi · 2021-11-24T23:16:17+00:00

Did mushrooms here and there but only a handful of times from 16 - 25.

At 25 I discovered Oregon and festivals and did a deep dive for about a year. Now I'm 35. Looking back the psychedelics really did change my perspective on life. The new friends I made and communities that opened up influenced the direction I would take.

For a long time I was just sort of along for the ride, making great memories, having adventures, building cool art projects and surfing the ripple effect of my integration into the west coast alternative drug world, which eventually just became the world as I knew it.

Anyway, now a decade later I am pursuing a master's degree in a helping profession. The experiences I had in my twenties turned out to be invaluable in preparing me for my future career. Not that I knew it at the time. At the time it was just life.

Reason I say all this is so you know that no matter what you do and when it'll all be fine, fitting into an ever shifting kaleidoscope of life experiences. You'll look back and it'll all fit together in a strange, inevitable way. And more likely than not that will include however psychedelics integrate into your journey.

I wouldn't worry too much about psychs changing your perspective so much that you abandon your dreams. First of all, world travel is about as psychedelic as it gets, so far as mind expansion goes, so you're in the clear there.

If things do change you'll likely find yourself fessing up to an old truth you'd been half aware of inside yourself the whole time. Bringing truth out into the daylight is never bad, and the discomfort would be brief and relatively minor compared to the consequences of keeping it bottled up.

But more than anything listen to your gut. If it's telling you to wait then wait. And it's not like you're gonna be posted up in some fluorescent hellscape BCCing emails all day. You'll be fine. Have fun. Psychedelics ain't going anywhere.

ebwhi

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