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Discussion => Philosophy, Economics and Justice => Topic started by: joywind on June 11, 2013, 10:35 pm

Title: Psychedelics as Heresy
Post by: joywind on June 11, 2013, 10:35 pm
Taking psychedelic drugs may result in an alarming confrontation with the birth trauma. The more a person is committed to control, the more likely he is to avoid reminders of this ancient helplessness against overwhelming forces. The need for excessive control may be a result of that helplessness.

Those who crave having control over others tend to enter professions in which they are able to wield this control in one form or another--undertaking actions overtly "for your own good," when these behaviors are covertly essential to maintain their own psychological equilibrium.

This control may extend to defending against memories of the birth trauma via the suppression of "heresy," the form of such heresy changing with the culture and historical period. (In our culture, "heresy" means anything that is contrary to the dominant materialist, atheistic worldview.)

The criminalisation of psychedelic experience is the suppression of a heresy.