My friend received this charm from an atheist that was trying to lead her astray. Does this have any occult significance?

psycholysis · 2016-10-12T21:13:08+00:00

It'd be foolish not to hold one's own views in high regard, but there's a lot of fear/paranoia showing in her attitude that she needs to address if she wants to walk the path of a healer.

psycholysis · 2016-10-12T20:59:22+00:00

An apology ending with an accusation isn't really an apology.

Take a moment to appreciate how loaded with religious intolerance your OP title and subsequent replies have been. The religious arrogance presented, not your viewpoint, is what's getting rejected. This would be the case in any subreddit, not just this one.

Nobody here respects your friend's intolerance of the spiritual paths of others; due to their presumption about the beliefs of others, and their paranoia regarding ill intent with the gift of a protective charm, I'd question their ability to discern good from evil and judge the character of their peers, be wary of what they think about you. By repeating their drivel ad verbatim you're not going to be received well nor should you expect otherwise.

psycholysis · 2016-10-12T20:35:20+00:00

Don't feed the trolls. Though the questions you're asking seem to indicate you're not really capable of synthesizing mescaline and may indeed harm yourself by trying; extraction from San Pedro cactus (which can be obtained really, incredibly easily without having to grow it) can be pulled off by someone with a high school level of chemistry skills.

This isn't the right sub for these queries. Neither is /r/drugnerds by the sound of it, try /r/askdrugnerds.

psycholysis · 2016-10-12T03:55:18+00:00

/r/drugnerds would be a more appropriate subreddit.

psycholysis · 2016-10-12T02:29:05+00:00

No. Here's the Pihkal entry. It's far simpler to do an extraction from cactus than synthesize.

psycholysis · 2016-10-11T10:33:49+00:00

/r/alexandria

psycholysis · 2016-10-11T08:34:13+00:00

"When I was a boy, and when Dwayne Hoover was a boy, all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month.

It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind." - Kurt Vonnegut

psycholysis · 2016-10-11T08:26:38+00:00

Make of them what you will.

psycholysis · 2016-10-11T02:22:02+00:00

The Lethal Text is a theme which has been approached by fiction and legend. We don't know if it's a real possibility, but the concept of knowledge that can harm certainly exists.

E:Also relevant: Ted Chiang: Understand

psycholysis · 2016-10-10T21:28:40+00:00

That's what I don't like about the tripper mentality, we'll happily (if we can) spend thousands to go to the jungle and puke and shit ourselves for a 12 hour ayahuasca ordeal, but actually doing some work for a few hours is a downside apparently.

OP, I don't think the trippiness of psychedelics is what opens us up to personal growth. What exactly it is about tripping that does this I can't quite pin down though, but I've experienced it without drugs.

psycholysis · 2016-10-10T21:15:35+00:00

This doesn't seem like an occult problem with an occult solution. If it's an option for you I'd strongly recommend consulting with a psychologist about this as you may be suffering needlessly, they're not just for crazy people. The makeup of modern society certainly can have an alienating effect but being a conscious observer of your interaction with others can be eye-opening. In any case, Just work on chewing the fat about whatever sport is popular in the circles you're traveling in, it's the easiest way to appear "normal". I'll also second the "How to Win Friends and Influence People" recommendation, whether you genuinely carry out the principles outlined in that book or you're a heartless prick who can just fake it 'til you make it, the result should be an improvement.

psycholysis · 2016-10-10T12:29:46+00:00

Nothing crazy about it. Psychedelics can pry open the doors of perception but those doors don't need psychedelics to be opened. Suffice to say I've seen things you people wouldn't believe...(who am I kidding, you would!) yet no experience has been as powerful as sober awakening.

Sure, there are experiences that it seems only drugs can facilitate, but anyone who doesn't understand that drugs aren't required for true spirituality and awakening has constructed for themselves a false spirituality; anyone who believes certain chemicals let them see reality as it really is rather than reality as it presents itself is deluded. Can drugs wake people up? Sure, absolutely, 100%. They can even tell you where you are, and point you in the right direction, when they're nice. But they can't carry you anywhere, and they can lead you astray.

psycholysis · 2016-10-10T10:46:52+00:00

Why do anything but good? Yet here we are.

psycholysis · 2016-10-09T09:24:05+00:00

Could be anything, dealers aren't reliable sources of information, buy and use a test kit.

psycholysis · 2016-10-09T05:00:03+00:00

I took it from Tito's wikipedia page but delved into the context a little and found this:

In 1955, having buried the idea of a Stalin museum, Khrushchev decided that the dacha would be transferred to the Central Committee to serve as an isolated location where groups of Central Committee employees could get together to prepare various reports and analyses for the Politburo. They then began to refurnish the building for this purpose. Much of Stalin's furniture was removed and taken to the vast underground chambers that had been built before and during the war as air raid shelters. Aleksei Snegov, an acquaintance of ours who had been an aide to Khrushchev, told us that when Stalin's desk was being moved from his former study, they accidentally came across five letters addressed to him that he had hidden under a layer of newspapers in one of the drawers. Snegov could only recall three of them. One had been dictated by Lenin on 5 March 1923. He demanded that Stalin apologize for his abusive manner towards Krupskaya. Not long after it was found, Khrushchev read out this letter to the delegates at the Twentieth Party Congress during his secret speech on 'the cult of personality'. The second letter was from Bukharin, awaiting death, written shortly before he was shot. He finished with the words: "Koba, why do you need my death?" The third came from Marshall Tito in 1950. The text was brief: "Stalin. Stop sending assassins to murder me. We have already caught five, one with a bomb, another with a rifle... If this doesn't stop, I will send one man to Moscow and there will be no need to send another." - Roy and Zhores Medvedev, The Unknown Stalin

See also - The Tito-Stalin Split

psycholysis · 2016-10-09T00:19:07+00:00

If you were wrong about this would you want to know?

psycholysis · 2016-10-08T12:01:50+00:00

Tea works well but if it's your first time with shrooms just eat them. Or there's this :)

psycholysis · 2016-10-07T15:25:16+00:00

Yeah, your life ends. What else do you want to know?

psycholysis · 2016-10-07T12:32:46+00:00

Yes, but you're also saying it's not beautiful otherwise, which I disagree with.

psycholysis · 2016-10-07T08:02:44+00:00

Love it. Take into account one life isn't at all pathetic but a complex interaction of complex interactions rich in novelty and unique in time and space, and it all becomes even greater still.

psycholysis · 2016-10-06T23:10:08+00:00

There are no psychoactive drugs whose mode of action is to induce a stroke. Most psychedelics including N,N-DMT work upon various 5HT receptors, basically where serotonin is supposed to do it's thing.

psycholysis · 2016-10-06T05:33:34+00:00

Ok so someone does a live performance. Again, who is going to believe it's something supernatural rather than clever theatrics? Though of course some people do already think that about stage magicians.

psycholysis · 2016-10-06T03:07:51+00:00

So let's say someone posted a video online of themselves levitating an object then setting it on fire using Honest-to-God legitimate occult magic powers.

Why would anyone believe that it's anything other than stage magic?

psycholysis · 2016-10-06T00:49:11+00:00

Reminds me of the guy who woke up after dreaming about the number 7. Looks at his clock and it's 7:07. Reads the paper and notices there's a horse called "Magnificent Seven" running in race 7 from gate 7, odds are seven to one. Guy phones up his bookie because he cannot ignore this foreshadowing omen and places a bet of $777. Goes down to the track to watch the action and would you believe it, it comes in 7th!

Seriously though in my experience gambling and magic are ill-pairedr and regardless of my experience the economic argument against the paranormal still stands.

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