Well. myself and others have experienced the world going mad around us this last two years!! In fact today I heard a journalist mention a psychiatrist being interviewed on Del Bigtree’s show when asked what it was like for him going outside in NYC in ‘lockdown’, and he said it reminded him of his first experiences as a psychiatrst in a locked ward!
I now have a feel what the times of the witch-hunts must have been like and am researching the comparisons! This is when everyone around you, even sadly family and friends become totally irrational. One thing I have learned, and still am, in these insane times is about the Germ Theory, and how the medical model is based on the theory of how there are germs and viruses always at the ready to attack us, and therefore we must trust the doctors to protect us with drugs and vaccinations. BUT there is a big problem with this, and that is that there is no actual scientific evidence for the isolation of any virus, and yet the whole world was shut down, people bullied to wear masks via relentless propaganda from the the mainstream, and social media and the politicians, and then everyone being cajoled, bribed and bullied to take experimental injections, and any questioning of all this, especially the injections, faced (and still does) you with censorship, and even people being harmed from the injections of losing loved ones are censored for talking about it in the media both mainstream and on platforms like Youtube, Facebook etc.. Meanwhile the drug companies, doctors, politicians etc deny any connection regarding injections causing harm and death!
Now as well as The Germ Theory, I found out about Terrain Theory, and this is where I see correlations with the whole mental illness myth. So, for example, people explaining this like Drs Andrew kaufman, Tom Cowan, Stefan Lanka, Sam and Mark Bailey, Amanda Volmer etc will tell you that what Virology calls ‘isolation’ is not what the word means which would mean isolating a virus so as to study it. THEY mean a claiming the ‘virus’ is in a stew they make from various substances, and then further claim ‘the virus’ is causing the death of cells. But Dr Stefan Lanka showed recently in a controlled experiment where he showed this same process to happen without the mythical virus being present and thus this controlled experiment undermines the pseudoscience which is Virology. But getting to the point for lack of space: these doctors explain that when we get colds, the flu etc this is the organism naturally expunging out toxins from the organism, and along with this there is cell debris which is eat by exosomes, and it is these which are claimed to be ‘the enemy’. IE if seen on microcopes they have had little arrows pointing at them claiming they are the viruses. But this would like like seeing firemen at a burning house and blaming them for the fire. or seening maggots cleaning a cadaver and blaming them for the kill! it is rather the intelligence of nature. But LOTS and LOTS of money is to be made for the vaccination industry blaming viruses.
So now I want to copmpare that process, as explained in Terrain Theory, with what the same medical model is calling mental illness/disorder. Like in general medicine the onus is on pushing drugs and injections which SUPPRESS symptoms. And isn’t this the same in the mental health field? Isn’t this what ‘ANTI’ ‘depressants’ ‘psychotics’ etc are all about. There is no understanding that as the body wishes for the expression of fluids etc, that in the psyche it is expression of emotions, feelings. Weren’t there sanctuaries provided for people to have space for that such as SOTERIA HOUSE, I-WARD, DIABASIS etc? And then big pharma and the State pulled the funding?
When we understand the insanity that has happened and we are in, surely it them makes sense WHO feeling unhappy, and anxious are natural responses to a very insane culture. To understand just how insane, as well as what I explained, you need to be aware of the larger agenda, the so-called ‘Great Reset’ the powers that be want. Who have said they see the ‘pandemic’ as a great opportunity. They want to literally turn humans into ‘transhuman’ cyborgs totally controlled externally and internally. Listen to their fave advisor to dig their belief system. He is called Yuval Noah Harari.
So in the spirit of Mad Pride we NEED the madness which sees their insanity so we do not fall prey to it!
In these times where people are being scared witless by the fear porn of there being a contagion alleged to be a virus causing Covid 19, and as you may know, governments, like in the UK, have actually employed teams of psychologists to make sure people KEEP fearful (and there is evidence for what I say here), why do you not mention this in your article, and call the spreading of emotions like love a contagion?
We also cannot be reduced to ‘mirror neurons’ when we feel others. It is better to understand this as both physical AND spiritual.
“And wherever people absorb this massive influx of negative emotions, you will see the madness growing. An increase of conspiracy theories…” I would immediately ask you here what you mean by that term ‘conspiracy theories’? As you may know this is a weaponized term by the CIA whose main purpose is for people not to question official narratives, This is very important to look into, because IF these official narratives are intended to cause, increase, and maintain fear, then questioning them would resolve the fear. it would resolve a fear based on ignore~ance
“We need to expand the approaches used in psychotherapy to also apply to society. Treating each other with respect is a good place to start. This means realizing that there are no enemies, and each part or organization in society is likely to add something valuable.” I would say there very MUCH is an enemy, and that is the one who has been totally causing relentless fear in people worldwide, and forcing them to take injections which have harmed and killed thousands! And faced with this genocide, the so-called experts of this society, the doctors, for example, mostly deny any harm being done to victims caused by the injections and will even tell them they have mental illness!!
SO glad to see your comment!! THIS is the only way to cure: ASK QUESTIONS!!! Anyone by now should realize this climate change alarmism is not based on true science whatsoever, and is of the same ilk as the covid 19 fear mongering! All the same players are involved too. I was very into researching all about this before the dreadful 2020/21 began. It is all FEAR PORN. They basically admit it if you understand this climate change none~sense is the plan coming from the Club of Rome!
John Coleman of KUSI: How the Global Warming Scare Began https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P5RW0Tmp-U
FOUR CLIMATE SCIENTISTS DESTROY THE GLOBAL WARMING-MYTH IN MINUTES. https://www.bitchute.com/video/nLAfO2MnNjPO/
COVID 19 IS NOT ABOUT A VIRUS – IT’S ABOUT ECONOMIC RESET & GLOBAL WARMING: THE WHO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0MKuNH-eSc
Regarding possible reasons for the madness of Nietzsche checkout God of Ecstasy: Sex Roles and the Madness of Dionysos, by Arthur Evans. In fact Dionysos, the only ‘god’ I find myself attracted to warns how trying to suppress Divine Madness, which would involve ecstasy. and sexual freedom, can cause a much more pernicious for of madness which is very destructive!
I am gay, and know what homophobia feels like, but THANKFULLY I missed the insanity of when ‘homosexuals’ had to endure torture to ‘treat’ them. Think of poor Alan Turing, he who helped crack the Enigma Code, and was an early innovator of the computer. Just for being ‘busted’ having a sexual retaliations with a young dude he gets the ‘choice’ of prison OR ‘homosexual aversion therapy’ which he chose, and it was basically chemical castration. He started growing breasts and ended up killing himself!!
You know Sam if you really allow yourself to dive deep into the ravvit hole of what is going in these surreal times, you may find that the one’s calling the shots are into all kinds if weird occult beliefs, and THEIR send of ‘order’ is literally total control of us, and that means total. The merging of us with what they think is AI and so then then can keep ‘order’. So when this is explored in the larger context of history with the mental illness myth we see all along this insane need to control people. Control their thinking, their feelings, emotions. Once we begin seeing through this we are undermining their evil myths.
I was recently listening to a conversation on Youtube where a guy who was an Evonomist was explaining about the banking system. He really explained things very well, saying how a man i eg 1600 Europe could work 15 weeks in a year to feed his family for a year, but with the rise of banking usury and capitalism, by the 19th century in the Industrial Revolution not only he, but his wife and children would have to work 100 hours a week!!
So just think of the absolute hell of that!! And of course along with these times arose the psychiatric institution!! For NOW the evil men behind that horrific exploitation of others could spin it that any ‘problems of living’ were in fact ‘mental illness’ which needed treatment. The exploited, the oppressed, in other words become the VICTIMS WHO ARE BLAMED BY THEIR VERY OPPRESSORS, and the oppressors make further profit from them by calling pathologizing their suffering. How EVIL is this!!! Of course in modern terms that would have been the ‘new normal’. IE driven off common ancestral land into satanic existence.
Then I thought of the ‘mental illness’ they labeled slaves who tried escape their enslaver, Draptomania. Well we surely can see that ALL the labels they give us, the oppressed is of the very same ilk.
I have been trying to find article talking about what is going on in the world. Yes I am talking about the ‘global pandemic’ also known as Sars Cov 2 and more popularly as Covid 19. BECAUSE looking into this, which I have been doing fervently since it began will EX-POSE the whole evil show, and reveal that it is not just psychiatry which is totally corrupted, but Medicine itself!!!
The Medical establishment that is corrupted is the one working for the government which other medically qualified people, and scientists, THOUSANDS of them, or ignored and/or censored!!
This means that scientific and medical evidence is not being respected. So what does this remind us of? The history of psychiatry.
They changed the definition of ‘pandemic’ in 2009 to suit big pharma and its vaccination project, and which of course suits them fabricating a pretext for locking down countries worldwide and abusing people’s human rights.
The very supposed virus as not eve been isolated to even prove it exists!
They have been forcing people to wear masks, including children when the evidence is they are useless for protecting against viruses, and it even says this on the boxes many of them come in, and they harm health.
They have been rigging the death stats, and now are continuing to do so about the PCR testing, and also lying about graphs which they use as fear porn to body-mind control people who watch and hear their non-stop propaganda. SO ALL OF THIS IS BASED ON SCIENTISM!!!
Science in service of the corporations and the government. There is the awful threat of forcing everyone on planet Earth to have a ‘vaccine’ that is rushed into production even though there exists vast evidence of the harm vaccinations have done to people. Bog pharma hope to make TRILLIONS in profit, along with the terrible distress the ongoing lockdowns (prison term) and ensuing loss of livelihoods etc etc will have on people whereby people will seek out ‘treaments’ from big pharma!!!
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Am not really gelling with your post. YES I am dead against the mental illness myth and the massive long abuse of people, and harm from shrinks who are basically drug pushers for big pharma, BUT you begin with claiming that people demanding their human rights in this planned scam demic are wrong? When in fact we should be showing everyone just how this global abuse of people is exposing what has happened to the so-called ‘mentally ill’ far preceding this. That is what I have been doing. I mean we are talking about these rich and powerful threatening to FORCIBLY inject everyone on planet Earth with their untested vaccine. have you looked into the history of the harm vaccinations can do, and how the drug companies not only get away with it, or the fine they pay is a FRACTION of the profits they make from their product, but they have made sure legally not to have to compensate for any harm down. People have been virtually treated like prisoners in their own homes, been told they must wear useless masks which stop their oxygen, and cause other problems to health and skin, and being threatened with quarantine, and with their loved ones a children being taken out of their home, that they cannot freely move about without having papers, etc etc etc. People have lost their jobs, businesses , all kinds of psychological distress is being caused, with huge upsurge of suicides, and we know what horrible vultures will seek to make further profit from all of this chaos right? and yet right from the get go you suggest the ‘mental illness myth’ and those affected is some kind of separate and ‘more serious issue’…? NO, it is a continuation, an EX-POSURE of the very same evil. Only this times we are seeing more and more that it is not ONLY psychiatry we need worry about but the whole medical establishment which is utterly corrupt!!
Thanks oldhead! I had the instinct not to get a mobile phone from the first, and when I began to see more and more people, all types and age groups, looking like zombies on their phones everywhere, even in the most wonderful places, even with their dogs and little children, when they shoulda been part OF that experience, I decided I never want one of those fukin things. I do have a computer, but it isn’t WIFI. I also have tried to avoid that too. NEXT breath you see they – the technocrats – want to irradiate the whole planet with 5G !!!!
THIS, what I call a PLAN/SCAM demic is very part of their eagerness to roll out 5G. It all comes together if you research the larger context of what’s going on. The extraordinarily insane Bill Gates wants every one on planet Earth vaccinated, and if you look at ID2020 you see that along with that is the design to get everyone digitally chipped so they can get complete control of everyone, and the 5G will be the infrastructure for their sick dystopian agenda. So all the ‘mad people’ of the past, called ‘schizophrenics’ etc telling others the government is spying on them. They are more like prophets and/or SEEING and FEELING what is ACTUALLY going on, all along!!! They have two common terms they weaponize for people who see and warn about such as that, ‘mentally ill’, and ‘conspiracy theorist’!
China Flu = Vaccine/Chip. Will you accept the NWO Beast System? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf0SrFCbi-k
I wish I were making it up. What has happened and continues to is the most insane sh*t I have ever experienced or even known of in history, and that’s saying something! The bottom line is they are wanting everyone tested, and digitally monitored for ultimate control. Similar to what is happening in China, and worse. So we have to take all this very seriously while we can still resist this insanity. This video is also extremely interesting because it goes into the psychological history of all this, and how it was planned a long time ago: Covid19 – Psychological Warfare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTmPDfzFp10
I WANTED to vreate and post my own blog here, but I cannot find the way to do so?? SO I will have to do it this way:
THIS COVID-19 PANDEMIC IS A ‘LIVE EXERCISE HOAX!!!:
I am amazed that people who have known about the mental illness myth, and/or are victims of it seem not aware of just how evil and pernicious and manipulatind the powers behind this so-called pandemic are. YES it is a very same mindset that has been targetting millions of people, including children and evn babies with having ‘mental illness’ and needing ‘treatment’ in the form of drugs and/or ECT. Now THAT is medical fascism and abuse is it not? IE people who find themselves sectioned/in lockdown di not have any human rights and can be forcibly drugged. Now my question is: does anyone see a connection between THAT abuse of human rights and what this ‘COVID-19’ is all about, and its agenda? Can you not see, connections, patterns, because I will show them to you.
For one it is a PLANdemic. It has all been carefully planned. You need to research ‘Lockstep’ which was connected with who esle but the Rockefeller family in 2010 planning simulation of a pandemic which ‘coincidentally’ sounds extremely similar to what we have been and continue to go through. Then about two months before this so-called COVID-19 pandemic, there was an even called EVENT 201 funded by none other than the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ALL ABOUT a …yeah, a pandemic happening, and everything happening ‘miraculously’ was acted out in that. So if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck….
Please understand that mainstream media is not your friend. it has for decades lied to you/us getting people to accept war, etc etc. And it is lying to you now. The medical mafia CDC has openly admitted that it is rigging the numbers of those suppsedly having ‘COVID-19’. Please hear what I just said!!
Although the 24/7 news propaganda-on-teroids is claiming hospitcals are ‘war cones’, independent citizen journalists have actually made the effort to go to the hospitals, and find they are note like …well empty, dead, and there are ambulance and staff just hanging around, the staff playing video games on their smart phones. It is a SCAM. You need to look WAY from that screen on the wall pumping out ‘The News’ and use critical thinking checking out other sources. Understand that the min players behind this unprecendented global scam gain to add millions to their millions, however little independent journalists, always threatened with being censored (and BEING so) from Youtube etc are doing it for us, you, the people like them!!! yet THEY get called over and over ‘conspiracy theorists..
I have a video where a doctor exposes how they have been told to rig the numbers of COVID deaths, and yet people like him also are called conspiracy theorists by people like Dr Fauci. WAKE UP!
So what is their agenda doing this? it is to more and more control us. To get us digitally impregrnated so they can track us and control us under the pretense they care about people’s health!! Can people at Mad in America not see/get/understand that the oppressive power the controllers have waged over those labelled ‘mentally ill’ is now graiadening out to include more and more/ALL of us? trying to make it mandatory for ALL of us to take their vaccination which will include devices. I am not making this up!
Bill Gates ID 2020 – PLANdemic COVID Tyranny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIWfhZAhk3Y
I haven’t read that article yet, but will look for it, but if you wanna checkout real evil checkout this video I watched yesterday! CIA POISONER in CHIEF | MKUltra MIND CONTROL | Operation PAPERCLIP 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8Lsxe0NHDc
#Just found it and read first bit. I will have lots to say in response, because I have had, for years, a deep interest in looking into the history of mythology, and psychedelics, and very well know they can be used for good or bad…like anything can. So we really need to look into this so the ‘they can be used for bad’ does not suppress their use for good. We just have to becomes aware is all, and go deep…
Very excited to read your article Shariq. For years I have warned about the medicalization of psychedelics by a warmongering and VERY oppressive system. Like that term, “recuperation” states, it is their way to try and tame the potential of psychedelics to help us see through their game. The “rigged game”. Because it would be extremely naive for people to assume that magically this move is for the sole benefit of human kind. There are a lot or PROFITS to be made, and the god of this civilisation is PROPHET. JUST that. make no mis-take. Is all about money.
I think you are wrong to think this is just a capitalist thing. No, the powers behind the curtain support all sides. Capitalism, Communism, Fascism, Socialism.
Now what is extremely interesting to find out ad know about, considering you mention ‘magic’ in your article, is that the powers that be are practising ‘magick’ themselves!! They are deeply into the occult, and they take it very seriously. They use codes involving numbers (gematria, and numerology), symbolism, wordplay, occult astrology, etc etc. The 9/11 attacks, which have been and continue to be, their pretext for their ‘war on terror’ and the increasing oppression of the peoples in America and the world, was in large part also an occult ‘sacrificial’ ritual on a global stage (The Most Dangerous Book in the World, by S.K.Bain). So what would this mean then? That behind the scenes there is a Cabal (ie their main bible is the Kabbalah) which is literally doing magick ‘hidden in plain sight’?? Well, there are levels to their codex of magick. They communicate via its language to other initiates (think of the secret Freemason handshake), and also, having dissociated the public from a deeper magical experience of nature, they then have carte blanche to coopt the dissociated ‘unconscious’ and manipulate it towards their agenda. This has been admitted in regular propaganda via such spin masters as Edward Bernays, but this more occult stuff is as said more hidden. the very term ‘occult’ literally means ‘hidden’.
This begs further questions of course such as: how would peasant/pagan/country-dweller magic differ from these ruling class ‘magick’ (spelt with a K, because these people’s prophet is Aleister Crowley who spelt it that way. I will leave this complex subject there for now, but what is being talked about is crucial for this whole debate. personally I have found the latter part of this post VERY taboo even with those in the psychedelic movement. That could be because its very beginnings, with the influence of Timothy Leary, there has been an infiltration of the occult via Aleister Crowley. There exists a video where Leary literally believes he is Crowley reborn continuing his great work!
An important first mistake, psychedelics are not narcotics. “”narcotic (n.)
late 14c., narcotik, “substance which directly induces sleep or allays sensibility and blunts the senses,” from Old French narcotique (early 14c.), noun use of adjective, and directly from Medieval Latin narcoticum, from Greek narkÅtikon, neuter of narkÅtikos “making stiff or numb,” from narkÅtos, verbal adjective of narkoun “to benumb, make unconscious,” from narkÄ “numbness, deadness, stupor, cramp” (also “the electric ray”).” Psychedelics most certainly do not make people want to go so sleep, or do they blunt the senses. Quite the mindblowing direct opposition. Narcotic drugs are the opiates, the drugs that are right now killing thousands of people in America etc.
Now your belief that the use of psychedelics in tribal societies caused them not to evolve…? Hmmm quote comical. On one had I can see what you mean regarding tribal identity, etc, but will get to that in a moment. It is actually argued that not only can psychedelics help evolve tribes, they were the key which helped evolve the human race. IE there is a mystery why ‘all of a sudden’ humans started doing art in caves, and the human brain capacity dramatically evolved…etc, and theories exist it was the psychedelic inspiration. And people like Terrence McKenna have even speculated the eating of shrooms helped apes evolved into humans known as the ‘Stoned Ape Theory’. it is a definite that in mythologies worldwide the presence of psychedelics is central, but yet hidden in text and symbolism.
In modern western culture there is lots of evidence that world-changing ideas were inspired with psychedelics.
What I think you are confusing about is set and setting and how that can have an affect of what you may tern not-evolving. But are you for one not looking at that from the perspective of a modern person who accepts a myth of PROGRESS?? That the criteria for ‘rational life’ MUST be a drive to UFOs of some shit. that we can never stand ‘still’ must evolve evolve. And true to form there is this transhumanist dream now which thinks our destiny is to merge with the machine and become ‘immortal’….? No thanks!
I absolutely love your comment!
It is more like a cult!! And in this cult they actually follow orders it is OK to hold other people down and forcibly inject them with drugs!
Yes Sam. The mental illness myth is supposed to render society invisible. YET like you say its op-press-ion is a main CAUSE of ill health in every which way, physically, and psychologically. and spiritually. It follows the same pattern as was the case in the Soviet Union where people who would/could not accept that ideology and were labelled ‘dissident’ (etymology: 1530s, “different, at variance, disagreeing,” from Latin dissidentem (nominative dissidens), present participle of dissidere “to be remote; disagree, be removed from,” literally “to sit apart,” from dis- “apart” (see dis-) + sedere “to sit,” from PIE root *sed- (1) “to sit.”
Meaning “dissenting, not conforming” is from 1837, originally in reference to an established church. Meaning “disagreeing in political matters” is by 1943.) could also find they would be labeled ‘mentally ill’, forced into a ‘mental hospital’, and forcibly drugged. Yes forced drugs which suppressed/numbed their organism and mind.
Well this is exactly the same opPRESSion in this society although the ideology is ‘different’…
They simply cannot have ‘robots/slaves/consumers’ having free will, and this is WHY they have created a toxic myth of us all being machines, and animals being machines, and nature being a machine and the universe being a machine. BEcause they depend on slaves to keep a certain small percent mindbogglingly rich from all the robbed wealth they accrue.
Freud and even so-called ‘depth’ psychologist Jung are not part of a solution, but offer false alternatives. This is what the patriarchy does. Creates different ‘alternatives’ which really just add to the sense of feeling dis-connected from our selves, bodies, others, and the natural world.
In my experience it is women authors and speakers who mostly expose the long trajectory of patriarchal thinking, because they have mostly been its victims! So it has been in their deep interest to study and expose what has gone and continues to go on to enslave us.
Anciently ‘the unconscious’ was a deeper dimensional part of the natural world and our being known as the ‘underworld’, or ‘otherworld’ or ‘dreamtime’ or ‘land of faerie” etc. A way of relating to nature in a way that experiences it as unimaginably alive and we are wholly interconnected because we ARE nature. THAT is what the toxic patriarchal myths try and disconnect us from, and this is why their is such irrational fear and prohibition against the ‘slaves’ having rightful freedom to take psychedelics, because they dramatically dis-solve the propaganda which intends to disconnects us from nature.
Hi Diana, I love the way you write. It is very unpretentious, honest, to the point! REAL.
It is so strange how Holland, which has seemed to be so liberated–in contrast the the rest of Europe, and world even–regarding the allowing of cannabis and psychedelics, and YET conforms, as you expose, to the same brutal ‘mental health treatment’ of people!!
This shows me just how prevalent this toxic reductive myth is, which has us all reduced to chemicals and genes, and treated like robots/machines.
The underlying myth which fuels this culture and its institutions like the ‘mental health movement’— has it that we are machines, other species are machines, nature is a machine and even the universe is a machine. HOW the hell could the sensitive, and intelligent and aware person NOT go mad in such an oppressive scenario? This reminds me the quote of Laing’s I was reminded of yesterday: ‘insanity can be a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.’ In the spirit of the Mad pride Movement I’d paraphrase it as ‘Madness can be a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world, because of course both terms do not connote the accepted myth that mental illness is biologically caused, but rather to differentiate the spontaneous feelngs people affected by oppression (which usually cannot even be acknowledged or ‘known about’) have, and behaviour deemed ‘disordered’ with a prevailing oppressive culture which irrationally will not acknowledge its OWN insanity as it willnilly loves and wants more and more war against others, and is exploiting millions of people, and causing mass extinctions of other species (even the Bees are threatened) and ecocide of the whole ecosphere all life, including the generations to come, depend on.
Like their ‘gatekeeping experts’ are not interested in you and your story and feelings they are not interested in all of that also! And THAT is their insanity which is ignore-ance!
I have completed listening to the whole interview now. I wish I had noted down various points he addressed that I would have given feedback on, but one crucial one I recall is when he said how the medical establishment mindset, and people blindly following its authority, understand eg ‘indigestion’.
That when suffering indigestion many will want to take drugs to get rid of it rather than understanding WHY they are having indigestion in the first place. This goes right through most of what is given us as ‘medicine’, and this of course is the pattern that bleeds into the psychiatric use of drugs. ‘Depression’? here take come ‘anti-depressants’! etc etc etc. This is the KEY to revealing the mechanistic mindset behind all of this.
We are not machines/robots, though the overall state propaganda has tried to impose this self image on us and still does. We are rather deep creative mysterious beings, living in a deep creative mysterious nature and universe, whose ‘extreme states’ of experience both spontaneous, and inspired with other forms of various inspirational activities including psychedelic experience, may take on mythical dimensions.
John Weir Perry, founder of the sanctuary DIABASIS, goes into this in his books and talks:
“Schizophrenia is a condition in which the dream takes the place of reality.” This means that the
unconscious overwhelms the ego consciousness, overwhelms the field of
awareness with contents from the deepest unconscious, which take mythic,
symbolic form. And the emotions, unless they’re hidden, are quite mythic too. ”
Where I radically differ from Perry, however, is his Jungian influence which tends to see ‘the unconscious’ as a threat to the ego. I am with Goddess feminists who strongly critique Jung on this major point. because what his is doing is carrying on the patriarchal fear OF the ‘feminine unoconscious’ and being a threat to the ‘male ego/consciousness’
In the book Myth and Sexuality, by Jamake Highwater, the author makes it clear that the prime mythical motif which reveals the patriarchal agenda over millennia is the battle between the ‘heroic ego’ versus the Serpent. This is depicted in art as an armoured male, sword raised, and usually on horseback, fighting and subduing and killing a dragon/serpent/monster. It is important with the eyes of the child -in the fairy tale who sees the emperor is naked-to directly see through this image to the truth. That it is revealing the self image of the male patriarch who imagines himself to be ‘light, consciousness, intelligence, reason’ forever fighting against what he sees as being chaos, darkness, disorder, namely women, femininity, nature, which he sees as being ‘monstrous’ and a deep threat to his ‘enlightened’ being, and how this myth bleeds into the so-called secular world we are living in today…
How else do we explain that more and more NATURAL feelings are categorized by the state/pharmacracy as being ‘dis-order’ and even having to be suppressed, drugged back to ‘normalcy and order’?
This shows that that toxic myth still permeates even those who consider themselves the most ‘rational and scientific’. And how even children younger and younger, including babies, are included victims of this toxic myth. A myth which is also extremely lucrative for the industry which pushes it bringing in BILLIONS in profit for them.
If we can begin to understand the power of mythology, and how this natural depth of humans has been used by certain mindsets to manipulate us then this is an included deeper from of helping us to disentangle ourselves from the toxic propaganda. When we become aware we see through.
It is very late here in the UK, and so I have stopped this VERY interesting interview (from the video) just short of the last 10 mins. Some of the comments I have seen here seem to suggest they have ‘heard it all before’…? Well I have been looking into this for quite a few years, and I find him saying some extraordinarily deep important things and in a very flowing articulate way.
WHY is it people, even those passionate about this, seem to think that there cannot be an ONGOING observation. get me?? For when those that try and impose toxic myths on us, what do they do? Their propaganda is relentless, and repetitive. Just think of adverts! YET when someone as articulate as this writes and talks. some react with the ‘it’s all been said’. Well GOOD!! –let us say it and say it and freakin say it again and again and again in the spirit of helping to sink this vitally important message into those hypnotized (including ourselves, who are constantly being ‘worked on’) by all the toxic myths!
And talking of ‘lost connections’, I hope to also add some insights I have about the mythological aspects of what this means which I personally see as really important to understand.
I have learnt so much from listening to one hour of his interview and wish to share it as much as possible tomorrow!
I might have shared this but for the fact that I am totally against breggin’s likening psychedelics and cannabis to psychiatric drugs and putting them all into a category of ‘neuro-toxic’ or poison. This is extremely dangerous and is I think old school ‘anti-psychiatry’, although R.D. Laing was very accepting of psychedelics. But the spokespeople for challenging the bio=medical psychiatric model have usually also accepted the total anti-drug stance of the insane cult of Scientology, who are also of course anti-psychedelics and cannabis, but have noting to say about their poisonous belief system. I would be interested to know if Breggin was of that club who embrace Scientology as being ‘friends’ against the monster which is big pharma & psychiatry. maybe people like Breggin whould look deeper and see just how neuro-toxic are the belief systems imposed on generations via various forms of propaganda. Then he may care to review the copious amounts of data which reveal how psychedelics can greatly heal people, psychologically, physically and spiritually. There is one thing I am about, and that is breaking down a wall between the understanding of socially-controlling psychiatry and its neurotoxic drugs and the potential; for healing that psychedelics offer. This who carry on this war of words and action against psychedelics I have no time for, because they themselves have not made the effort to look into this.
In this civilization with its oppressive laws, if you do anything against ‘The Law’ there is no excuse for being ignorant of the law. YET these shrinks who claim to be doing what they do for the good of ‘patients’ when in reality they are harming them, and contributing to a toxic oppressive system that gets deep down and personal, their ignore-ance of there being no medical scientific evidence to support their quackery is FAR worse ignorance than disobeying an oppressive law like picking psychoactive mushrooms for example!
I dont think many people realize just HOW oppressive this system -which is trying to impose itself all over the world– is. How deep this o-press-ion goes. So it is no wonder more and more people literally freak out!! These are the people who are human, and can FEEL the insanity of it all!!
Many are just SO sad. I read that 40 million prescription drugs for SSRIs were writ out in the UK last year. Sad little island people ey?? Oh but wait we’re all supposed be what..? content. happy, with the ‘march of progress’ as nature itself is under attack. THAT is sanity is it? Oh-I-see’
‘People die by choice, I donāt find it any different than alcohol addiction. I have no sympathy for addicts nor myself as I put myself in this boat. Not too sound to unscientific or not concerned, but people choose their own path in regard to what they do and donāt do in life.
āPeople are always going to choose to take substances to change consciousness. ESPECIALLY in a culture which is extremely oppressiveā! I would ask how you define oppressive, race, culture, family life etc. ‘
Well it is is important to know of oppression, otherwise you are basically a victim of it who is blind as to the causes of your dis-ease.
A good example is the institution of ‘school’. I found school absolutely traumatizing from first to last, but because I was ignore-ant of its history and purpose, I was led to believe it was my fault. However years later, looking into the ‘education’ system and the culture in general, I now see I was sensitive enough as a kid to understand there was something very wrong with it, and that makes me feel empowered.
Same is so for young people who get sucked into the military, and terrible things may happen to them physically and psycholgocially. Many are now suffering PTSD, and many veterans kill themselves, so it is a very serious situation. However, when you begin looking at the ‘racket’ of the war industry, etc you then get to understand, and will not join up or let your kids join up, because you have got wise.
Now let us move onto the advertising industry. They spend millions on secret research as to how to get people thinking they are thinking for themselves so they will buy stuff they don’t need and eat food that is not good for them, and liquids that are not good for them, and smoke and drink, and pollute the environment all life depends on. I say CHOOSE to know. Choose to look behind the scenes at what is going on, and then you will understand oppression over people. Oppression isn’t only overt, but covert too.
you seem to contradict yourself, and also to be quite rigid in your views, and not to have read people’s personal stories who HAVE undergone ‘full blown madness’ and yet HAVE been deeply helped by alternative help (as well as experienced therapists etc who have helped people too, such as John Weir Perry) and come off medication.
I will therefore let you believe and do what you want otherwise this will just be a back and forth empty debate.
well why are you here, let me ask that? IF you so hate and distrust people speaking of alternative ways to heal these states, how come you have ended up here? There must be some curiousity on your part, right? Otherwise you would stick to the psychiatric drug promotion sites and forums, yeah?
So what about nutrition then? Did you know that medical people (not sure now. Some are becoming more savvy) were not trained in nutrition, so AS an ‘ordinary person’ you would have to look into this yourself. And what else…? IE I fear it when we are classed as ‘ordinary’ and feel we have to cow tow to ‘experts’. In that there is great corruption, because then you fear defying their authority or EVEN daring to question it, and this is why people WILL find themselves in lifelong medication for a condition which is not really understood, and also on cocktails of drugs.
Yes some ‘mad people’ do recover and some DO know why. because they looked to alternative ways of healing. That is their choice.
‘Making alternatives available that only work for a minority isnāt good medicine and will get people like me nowhere.’
That doesn’t make any sense. For one, how you you KNOW these alternative ways would only work for a minority of people, and:
a) if that were so why is that wrong?
and b) like I say, IF others do not know of these ways or do not have access to them, how do you know they would only work for a ‘minority’ of people?
there is hardly any real knowledge what ‘schizophrenia’ is never mind ‘full blown madness’! What exactly is that supposed to be even meaning?
IF people report finding they have had ‘schizophrenia’ (etc) and now do not have to take medication any more, because they discovered alternative help, what do you see this result as, NOT a cure?
If no one has answers, how come you claim ‘there are no known cures’?
Yes we know the drugs seem to ‘work’ for some people, but what does this mean? Are they, like allopathic drugs, just addressing symptoms of a dis-ease. Is this why many people diagnosed with ‘schizophrenia’ can find themselves having to take the drugs for the rest of their lives?
At least we agree that the chemical imbalance myth theory is a myth!
I am not, and I am sure others here aren’t advoctating a ban on these drugs or ANY drugs. Anyone intelligent knows what happens when a war is waged on drugs. The situation is driven underground and the problems get worse.
No, like the people at Mindfreedom (who went on a hungerstrike to protest the biomedical psychiatric model of ‘mental illness’ encourage people to have FREEDOM to take these drugs if they want, but also to have ALL the information about them and the myth of mental illness.
I wish you would use a different metaphor for this reason. In patriarchal mythology, the Dragon slayer, often depicted as an armoured knight on horseback in actuality represents the patriarchal oppressing the Goddess and the serpentine energies of the Earth. In fact that is totally part and parcel with what psychiatry is all about. it is the violent suppressing of healing energies. So hows about then:
‘Slaying the Dragon Slaying Knight’?
so why are you here? Are you trying to convert?
Yes Bippyone, often people like you seem to appear out of the woodwork in places like this.
One wonders why you would even bother with a space that is hardly shrink and ‘drug-treatment’ friendly…? Yet appear ‘you’ do almost more beaming about these toxic drugs (for those they are) than your gaudiest US drug ad.
And I do live in the UK where docs will often write out prescriptions without looking up!
I came here, or found this article because the BBC TV in the UK is pushing the psychopathy theory in its latest Horizon documentary. Anything that is mechanistic this documentary team will push!
but to me I see it is the argument that there are ‘normal’ people and in their midst are ‘THE PSYCHOPATHS’, and they are claiming–guess what??–that they are working on a ‘treatment’ for ‘them’ (HIDE!!!).
But this to me is the classic scape-goat theory. Make out ‘normal’ civilization is good and pure, but some blessed genes just will create people who mess it all up and they have got to be dealt with by who…? The shrinks and big pharma/drugs.
I have read an interesting book in the past, and is one of those books that has had big influence on me. It is called Shamanism and the Drug Propaganda:Birth of the Patriarchy and the Drug War, by Dan Russell.
He says how the ancient term ‘Pharmakon’ originally was/is the psychedelic vegetation one actually eat, ingested and the experience inspired the communal ecstatic expression of emotions, and spiritual connectedness with others and the land.
Another term he uses is ‘Pharmakos’. The Pharmakos is meaning ‘sacrifice’ and again originally was one and the same, mythically speaking with the pharmakon, because these magical plants would be often envisaged, and personified as ‘gods’.
The ‘old gods’ who sacrificed THEMSELVES, and were ‘born again’ as the ecstatic -more than your ordinary self/ego–connected self you feel having psychedelic experience, also being described as ‘possession’ by the ‘god’. BUT what happens when this understanding and even memory, and of course freedom, is suppressed. We got lumped with the abstract literalist concept of the ‘blood sacrifice’ and the toxic myths of ‘gods’ and ‘Gods’ and ‘Kings’ and ‘saviours’ and their priests etc demanding sacrifice, be it blood, your sexuality, and even life, alive and dead!
The pharmakon and the pharmakos.
I started smoking cigarettes when I was 10!!! When I observe 10 year olds now it can be haunting to think I was led to that by the culture I was born into, but in those days smoking was EVERYWHERE. If you didn’t smoke you were getting second-hand smoke. There were TV ads, and all the ‘cool people’..smoked. So the IMAGE was it is rebellious, hip, cool ..and ‘ohhh the taste’.
So they haven’t banned it now, what have they done different than before? INFORMATION! There is a more concerted informational drive to encourage people to give up, in the West that is. In ‘developing’ countries the immoral tobacco industry are targeting mostly young people like they did here.
With alcohol it is the reverse. They promote it, there are no warnings on bottled, and cans (like they are now on cig packets), and yet the drug alcohol can and does great harm to a lot of people. We know banning doesn’t work so why not INFORMATION like with the cigarettes, and more and more with sugar (another shtty toxic drug). Instead young people are encited to consume lots of cheap alcohol.
What about illegal drugs like heroin? The BBC did a great documentary years ago. Typically they have only shown it once! basically this guy was showing that the problem with heroin is not so much heroin itself (though of course it is physically addictive) but the fact that with it being illegal the street heroin gets mixed will all kinds of impurities and it is this which causes a lot of the disease users get!
Same is so for Extasy (MDMA) which is a controlled drug. There have been more and more young people dying from just taking so-called MDMA pills at festivals etc, and later it is found they took NOT MDMA but PMA a dangerous amphetamine. Doubly dangerous because the people who think they are taking Es, expect the tablet to work quicker, and then drop another tablet, and get a double doe of PMA (or whatever other toxic mix). So will the UK government allow drug regulating facilities at festivals? Will they hell, they bloodymindedly state that ‘MDMA is illegal and a criminal offense bla bla’ even though they know this is a common thing people will buy Es at festivals. So young people will continue to die!!
This so-called ‘war on drugs’ is THE main cause of the increase of more and more refined and additive drugs. For example from the diversity of cannabis you could get decades ago to the mono choice of Skunk, and also driving people to dangerous ‘legal highs’ (now illegal and thus black market..sigggh) like Spice.
People are always going to choose to take substances to change consciousness. ESPECIALLY in a culture which is extremely oppressive!
I am a bit late, but just to say that there seems to be a growing ‘science’ calling out ‘the psychopath’. Currently on BBC TV there is an ‘Horizon’ documentary pushing this theme with ‘experts’. But mentioning capitalism, it seems it is rather the scapegoating of a ‘certain percentage of the population’ rather than challenging the very system itself which is main causer of what this culture calls ‘mental illness’. As is so with ‘The Scapegoat’, it is used to hide/make blind/disappear the general problem, the ROOTS of dis~ease! Its equation is ‘normal versus ‘psychopathy’.
Actually MDMA would be a great help for people suffering from PTSD. What I hate is when the therapeutic community, and other scientists studying MDMA and psychedelics for ‘mental illness’ is how they CONTAIN these substances within the psychiatric terms which further the ongoing delusion OF the mental illness myth: Medicalization. IE they promote MDMA and psychedelics as glorified psychiatric drugs. One recent media artile asked the limiting question ‘Is LSD the new Prozac?’
In stead there should be straightaway exposing the mental illness myth, and from there understanding that substances which inspire emotional expression, and ecstasy, can be very healing on a deep level. But this will mean them defying the establishment they are part of, and that will take courage and integrity, AND the stopping of funds. But it has to be done!
You sound pssed off, and I can feel your pain, but I don’t think you look deep enough. WHY are children more and more feeling ‘de-press-ed’? Could it be because the very ‘water’ they are swimming (or drowning) in is o-press-ive, do you think, but THAT is well-hidden behind this pernicious mental illness myth which now even targets more and more children?
Yesterday on a science programme I heard that more and more children are now feeling disconnected from nature!
I think that in history this guilting and shaming has been deliberate trauma mindcontrol devised by patriarchal elites.
How come?
Because you see their strategy used everywhere, in all areas of their oppressive matrix. It is their strategy of DIVIDE and CONTROL.
If you can divide and individual from their self, their very *being*, then you have this shuddering conflicted wreck you can control better!
With organized religions it is your born in ‘sin’, and are being watched all the time by a ‘pure God’ and his FLOCK (of sheeple), and if you put a foot wrong ‘he’ll’ damn you for ever and ever and everrr. Nice!
Don’t enjoy sex whatEVER you do, especially gay sex. oh no no no.
Now that toxic myth bleeds into ‘the unconscious’ being replaced by the mechanistic paradigm/toxic myth that we are robots, and NEED to have correct ‘chemical balance’. So there is great shame being seen to not have such a ‘balance’ and ‘normalcy’, and thus be classed ‘mentally ill’. EVEN for the children, victims of this insanity they’re born into.
With respect, too many words. As well as what these control freaks are doing, there are countless books with words words and more words. heavy laden with words are we. We need FOOD OF INSPIRATION!
‘So beware of reinforcing the script of hate by thinking the hate of evil makes you good, innocent or righteous.’ To judge evil isn’t to make one feel pure and self righteous unless you are already judging from a dualistic premise from the start. I am simple calling out the emperor with no clothes, and deconstructing mythology BASED on the duality OF good and evil. This is what mainly women authors, speakers and artists have done, exposing the patriarchy. And this is because they have been one of its main victims for millennia. Ask the slave about the master.
But yes it is ACTUAL food we need. The so-called war on drugs (how ironic hey?) very much includes war on the psychedelics, and MDMA and cannabis, and thus is a war on consciousness and nature.
When I take psychedelics, I avoid books with words, and numbers, and writing, and rather an ecstatically attracted to the sensuous world. it is THIS world the control freaks try and divide us from! They do not want us having access to freely growing plants and fungi which can inspire joy, creativity, inspiration. They say these natural plants and fungi (and substances like LSD) have ‘no medicinal value’. Well after all they ARE the ‘experts’ you know!
Great great comment!!
‘The whole industry is sickening when you break it down, but to call these poisons medicines or even legitimate drugs really takes the cake and is sadly what keeps the whole carnival show running. The researchers, doctors, and treatment providers handing out the magic pills donāt want you to see whatās behind the curtain. Donāt be fooled by what is essentially modern day sorcery masquerading as medicine.’
YES! And their flag is the Skull and Cross Bones!! It is the symbol of danger, piracy, POISON, secret society, death, genocide! THIS is the real enemy behind the curtain. We HAVE to connect the dots, and see the concerted danger all around. Over here it is attacking the young ones. Over there it is attacking the Soil, the Bees, the oceans, the very staple of life, Water. These are all interconnected problems, and the ones responsible for this are the ones who make sure to control others to be dulled down, and suppress freedom of ecstasy, and sense of interrelationship with nature, and others, including other species, and suppress critical thinking. The most pernicious part of their induced dis-ease of terrible loss, sadness, which they term ‘clinical depression/chemical imbalance’ is that many of the victims are not even allowed to KNOW the real reasons they feel like they do. UP springs the gatekeepers, the docs, shrinks, counselors etc. The ‘experts’. ‘They know’ and what chance does a child have up against this concerted evil when many adults are totally unaware of what is going on?
This is why we MUST go deep. This crisis demands we go as deep as can be and un-cover this matrix of oppression. Once we become aware of it we are already undermining it!
‘And so it becomes a means by which to enslave everyone, to the ānaturalā order of things if you will, where the spirit becomes trapped in the flesh, and no one is set free. It doesnāt belie the fact that the phenomenon actually exists, however.’
The Orphic-Gnostic belief was of spirit descending and becoming trapped in ‘matter’ /nature. But if I understand you, you mean that the toxic dualistic mythmakers are actually creating this IF you understand ‘spirit’ to not be a dualistic concept and part OF ‘matter’ and/or nature. So for example you could say that the spirit of a wild horse is broken when the cowboy ‘breaks’ it. Same is so with us. As children we are full of play, life, inquisitiveness, joy, and then we are all herded into the enforced ‘education’ system and for many of us this kills our spirit—our essential being. the prevailing mechaanistic myth is that we are electro-chemical robots living in a dead environment. That is the EPITOME of ‘trapping the spirit in matter/breaking the spirit!
But it is not really about wine. It is about a more powerful substance than wine, it is about psychedelics. Whether they mixed it with wine, and so it was a far stronger ‘wine’ than wine we know of (researchers like Michael Hoffman believe this to be the case). ALL alcohol is not the same as psychedelics, because it is a depressant.
What you say next is more what happened to the original Dionysian mysteries with the Orphic reform–EXACTLY lol. ‘Do NOT over indulge, and have wild orgies’ And as researcher Susan Harrison claimed they ended up diluting the sacrament and eventually phasing it out altogether. AND most important to understand these ‘reformers’. set and setting was drastically different from the original Dionysian mythology and cosmogony. For the former they saw nature and the physical body to be traps of the Dionysian divine spark or spirit, and had the saying ‘soma sema’ meaning ‘the body a tomb. In other words their perspective was world denying and paranoid, and a wanting to escape to an idealistic spiritual home above. Whereas the latter did no come to the sacred experience with that mental set. being connected with the Goddess mythos, nature was not divided from cosmos as was/is sacred, and that would include the more orgiastic nature one may express when inspired with psychedelic and other consciousness-changing substances.
For you even to state there is a ‘lustful being which resides within all of us’ is to reveal the influence of that ancient dualistic mindset which others what it considers is not an aspect of their own being. A being which is not an enduring substance, but more a plurality, a diversity which is utterly connected with others and the natural environment. However when you begin thinking of ideas of ‘spirits’ falling into fallen matter, and being trapped is when you create ‘monsters’ you other, and feel possessed by, and through various means want to defend yourself against, and ‘help’ others to do the same. You dualistically divide reality into conflicting opposites, eg ‘pure’ versus ‘impure’:
“Where he says, āHey, this is the part of your nature you need to overcome, before you can receive Godās blessings and, immortality.ā”
Yes, you create a ‘PROBLEM’—your nature is trapped, fallen, and death is bad.
I have the ‘SOLUTION’! I will help you become pure and then you will gain spiritual immortality. This is a typical formula used by this mindset from corporate advertizing to tyrannical regimes, false flags, etc. Hold up a promise of a static patriarchal concept of ‘immortality’ and this secures you willing naive victims who, through fear, cling to your authoritarian power in hope…
I find Gabor Matte confusing. I listened to a talk he did with MAPS about ayahuasca. he claims he himself was ‘diagnosed’ with ‘ADHD’—-no mention it is fraud disorder as has been revealed by Dr Fred Baughman http://www.amazon.com/The-ADHD-Fraud-Psychiatry-Patients/dp/1412064589 and others. he said that a ‘symptom’ –like he had–can be ‘absent-mindedness’. I would also see that as daydreaming–something I did a lot in school because I hated the goddamn place. He says that this ‘disorder’ is a ‘coping mechanism’ we use to escape extremely distressful situations. Well, yeah, school in my case. But at the end of the talk when a psychiatrist asks a question, Gabor says that he is not against psychiatric drugs, and how he was helped for his ‘ADHD’–once again sanctioning it as a bona fide disorder. I believe this is disinfo.
IF the powers that be can argue that a child is ‘absent-minded/daydreaming because his brain is harmed by childhood abuse at home and thus he has ADHD and needs drugs, then people like Gabor Matte support such pseudoscience! This really helps the ‘education’ system (itself exposed by people like John Taylor Gatto, as an oppressive system enforced onto generations of children, and in itself VERY traumatic http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/i-am-no-longer-willing-to-hurt-children.html it helps because if it can blame the child’s brain this makes the problem of school disappear! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia6OGEj6wW0
About 1980, I had an OBE. I will not give great detail because I want to speak about this article, but it included me seeing my sleeping body and on either side was a male and female. later in the experience I met close family members, but one went for me VERY VERY swiftly, and starting sucking my penis. I freaked out and began hitting ‘her’ on the back and screaming. When I thought I was going mad, ‘she’ and another ‘family friend’ who was sat impassively on a couch stood up, took of the human masks and underneath looked like Satyrs
I don’t think at that time I knew about Dionysos, but I was later to find his entourage included Satyrs!
Being gay, I became very attracted to this mythical god, and when I read J. M. Allegro’s The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, it was revealed that his mythical character was pointing to actual consciousness-changing psychedelic mushrooms—Looseners.
Prior to 1980, I was no stranger to psychedelics. In fact I first was turned onto LSD when only 15, and 1980, only in 1979 had I discovered about magic mushrooms, so there we are. LIFE is mythical!
I have never bought the tale that ancient Dionysian rituals involved eating raw flesh, and cannibalism, and mad women tearing about the country side attacking men and pulling them to bits. It is a literalism of myth. Even if it DID happen with some, then they missed the point! Real myth is not like that. When I take psychedelics now i KNOW what all the Dionysian metaphors mean–Loosener, god of Nature, of Theatre/Drama/Masks. It is the ecstasy you feel. THAT is ‘Dionysos’. THAT is being possessed by the ‘god of nature’, known anciently as ‘enthousiasmos’. It is superfluous to experience such ecstasy and feel the need to stuff your face with raw mean, or eat men–unless sexually (I am all for that lol). The Ecstasy IS IT. The rest is metaphor that has either been taken literally –like the Jesus myth–and/or it is negative propaganda against the originary Dionysian Mysteries by those who wanted to warn people off from Orgia. The pattern is of course the same in modern times with those absurd films like ‘Reefer Madness’ and showing people going ‘crazy’ after talking LSD.
If you were eating other people you are doing it wrong. The set and setting is wrong. Psychedelic insight would show you it is wrong and absurd. The essence of psychedelic experience is empathy. That includes empathy for one’s own nature and its sensuality
It was very typical that Jungians and even post-Jungians would not want to go near psychedelic experience. Of course not, because it is the REAL. it is not books, and ‘gods’, but actual direct experience. And this is BIG competition for those cults which seek to create dogma and literalization. Dionysos ‘eats’ that pretense š
I do however great respect John Weir Perry, and Diabasis. I have and have read his great book Trials of the Visionary Mind. The only problem is that because it is still so cutting edge, there is noone I can think to discuss his views about the mythical content of the visions he recorded which seem cognate with patriarchal his story. Implying that it is patriarchal civilization and its toxic myths which cause dis-ease…
Well. myself and others have experienced the world going mad around us this last two years!! In fact today I heard a journalist mention a psychiatrist being interviewed on Del Bigtree’s show when asked what it was like for him going outside in NYC in ‘lockdown’, and he said it reminded him of his first experiences as a psychiatrst in a locked ward!
I now have a feel what the times of the witch-hunts must have been like and am researching the comparisons! This is when everyone around you, even sadly family and friends become totally irrational. One thing I have learned, and still am, in these insane times is about the Germ Theory, and how the medical model is based on the theory of how there are germs and viruses always at the ready to attack us, and therefore we must trust the doctors to protect us with drugs and vaccinations. BUT there is a big problem with this, and that is that there is no actual scientific evidence for the isolation of any virus, and yet the whole world was shut down, people bullied to wear masks via relentless propaganda from the the mainstream, and social media and the politicians, and then everyone being cajoled, bribed and bullied to take experimental injections, and any questioning of all this, especially the injections, faced (and still does) you with censorship, and even people being harmed from the injections of losing loved ones are censored for talking about it in the media both mainstream and on platforms like Youtube, Facebook etc.. Meanwhile the drug companies, doctors, politicians etc deny any connection regarding injections causing harm and death!
Now as well as The Germ Theory, I found out about Terrain Theory, and this is where I see correlations with the whole mental illness myth. So, for example, people explaining this like Drs Andrew kaufman, Tom Cowan, Stefan Lanka, Sam and Mark Bailey, Amanda Volmer etc will tell you that what Virology calls ‘isolation’ is not what the word means which would mean isolating a virus so as to study it. THEY mean a claiming the ‘virus’ is in a stew they make from various substances, and then further claim ‘the virus’ is causing the death of cells. But Dr Stefan Lanka showed recently in a controlled experiment where he showed this same process to happen without the mythical virus being present and thus this controlled experiment undermines the pseudoscience which is Virology. But getting to the point for lack of space: these doctors explain that when we get colds, the flu etc this is the organism naturally expunging out toxins from the organism, and along with this there is cell debris which is eat by exosomes, and it is these which are claimed to be ‘the enemy’. IE if seen on microcopes they have had little arrows pointing at them claiming they are the viruses. But this would like like seeing firemen at a burning house and blaming them for the fire. or seening maggots cleaning a cadaver and blaming them for the kill! it is rather the intelligence of nature. But LOTS and LOTS of money is to be made for the vaccination industry blaming viruses.
So now I want to copmpare that process, as explained in Terrain Theory, with what the same medical model is calling mental illness/disorder. Like in general medicine the onus is on pushing drugs and injections which SUPPRESS symptoms. And isn’t this the same in the mental health field? Isn’t this what ‘ANTI’ ‘depressants’ ‘psychotics’ etc are all about. There is no understanding that as the body wishes for the expression of fluids etc, that in the psyche it is expression of emotions, feelings. Weren’t there sanctuaries provided for people to have space for that such as SOTERIA HOUSE, I-WARD, DIABASIS etc? And then big pharma and the State pulled the funding?
When we understand the insanity that has happened and we are in, surely it them makes sense WHO feeling unhappy, and anxious are natural responses to a very insane culture. To understand just how insane, as well as what I explained, you need to be aware of the larger agenda, the so-called ‘Great Reset’ the powers that be want. Who have said they see the ‘pandemic’ as a great opportunity. They want to literally turn humans into ‘transhuman’ cyborgs totally controlled externally and internally. Listen to their fave advisor to dig their belief system. He is called Yuval Noah Harari.
So in the spirit of Mad Pride we NEED the madness which sees their insanity so we do not fall prey to it!
In these times where people are being scared witless by the fear porn of there being a contagion alleged to be a virus causing Covid 19, and as you may know, governments, like in the UK, have actually employed teams of psychologists to make sure people KEEP fearful (and there is evidence for what I say here), why do you not mention this in your article, and call the spreading of emotions like love a contagion?
We also cannot be reduced to ‘mirror neurons’ when we feel others. It is better to understand this as both physical AND spiritual.
“And wherever people absorb this massive influx of negative emotions, you will see the madness growing. An increase of conspiracy theories…” I would immediately ask you here what you mean by that term ‘conspiracy theories’? As you may know this is a weaponized term by the CIA whose main purpose is for people not to question official narratives, This is very important to look into, because IF these official narratives are intended to cause, increase, and maintain fear, then questioning them would resolve the fear. it would resolve a fear based on ignore~ance
“We need to expand the approaches used in psychotherapy to also apply to society. Treating each other with respect is a good place to start. This means realizing that there are no enemies, and each part or organization in society is likely to add something valuable.” I would say there very MUCH is an enemy, and that is the one who has been totally causing relentless fear in people worldwide, and forcing them to take injections which have harmed and killed thousands! And faced with this genocide, the so-called experts of this society, the doctors, for example, mostly deny any harm being done to victims caused by the injections and will even tell them they have mental illness!!
SO glad to see your comment!! THIS is the only way to cure: ASK QUESTIONS!!! Anyone by now should realize this climate change alarmism is not based on true science whatsoever, and is of the same ilk as the covid 19 fear mongering! All the same players are involved too. I was very into researching all about this before the dreadful 2020/21 began. It is all FEAR PORN. They basically admit it if you understand this climate change none~sense is the plan coming from the Club of Rome!
John Coleman of KUSI: How the Global Warming Scare Began https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P5RW0Tmp-U
FOUR CLIMATE SCIENTISTS DESTROY THE GLOBAL WARMING-MYTH IN MINUTES. https://www.bitchute.com/video/nLAfO2MnNjPO/
COVID 19 IS NOT ABOUT A VIRUS – IT’S ABOUT ECONOMIC RESET & GLOBAL WARMING: THE WHO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0MKuNH-eSc
Regarding possible reasons for the madness of Nietzsche checkout God of Ecstasy: Sex Roles and the Madness of Dionysos, by Arthur Evans. In fact Dionysos, the only ‘god’ I find myself attracted to warns how trying to suppress Divine Madness, which would involve ecstasy. and sexual freedom, can cause a much more pernicious for of madness which is very destructive!
I am gay, and know what homophobia feels like, but THANKFULLY I missed the insanity of when ‘homosexuals’ had to endure torture to ‘treat’ them. Think of poor Alan Turing, he who helped crack the Enigma Code, and was an early innovator of the computer. Just for being ‘busted’ having a sexual retaliations with a young dude he gets the ‘choice’ of prison OR ‘homosexual aversion therapy’ which he chose, and it was basically chemical castration. He started growing breasts and ended up killing himself!!
You know Sam if you really allow yourself to dive deep into the ravvit hole of what is going in these surreal times, you may find that the one’s calling the shots are into all kinds if weird occult beliefs, and THEIR send of ‘order’ is literally total control of us, and that means total. The merging of us with what they think is AI and so then then can keep ‘order’. So when this is explored in the larger context of history with the mental illness myth we see all along this insane need to control people. Control their thinking, their feelings, emotions. Once we begin seeing through this we are undermining their evil myths.
I was recently listening to a conversation on Youtube where a guy who was an Evonomist was explaining about the banking system. He really explained things very well, saying how a man i eg 1600 Europe could work 15 weeks in a year to feed his family for a year, but with the rise of banking usury and capitalism, by the 19th century in the Industrial Revolution not only he, but his wife and children would have to work 100 hours a week!!
So just think of the absolute hell of that!! And of course along with these times arose the psychiatric institution!! For NOW the evil men behind that horrific exploitation of others could spin it that any ‘problems of living’ were in fact ‘mental illness’ which needed treatment. The exploited, the oppressed, in other words become the VICTIMS WHO ARE BLAMED BY THEIR VERY OPPRESSORS, and the oppressors make further profit from them by calling pathologizing their suffering. How EVIL is this!!! Of course in modern terms that would have been the ‘new normal’. IE driven off common ancestral land into satanic existence.
Then I thought of the ‘mental illness’ they labeled slaves who tried escape their enslaver, Draptomania. Well we surely can see that ALL the labels they give us, the oppressed is of the very same ilk.
I have been trying to find article talking about what is going on in the world. Yes I am talking about the ‘global pandemic’ also known as Sars Cov 2 and more popularly as Covid 19. BECAUSE looking into this, which I have been doing fervently since it began will EX-POSE the whole evil show, and reveal that it is not just psychiatry which is totally corrupted, but Medicine itself!!!
The Medical establishment that is corrupted is the one working for the government which other medically qualified people, and scientists, THOUSANDS of them, or ignored and/or censored!!
This means that scientific and medical evidence is not being respected. So what does this remind us of? The history of psychiatry.
They changed the definition of ‘pandemic’ in 2009 to suit big pharma and its vaccination project, and which of course suits them fabricating a pretext for locking down countries worldwide and abusing people’s human rights.
The very supposed virus as not eve been isolated to even prove it exists!
They have been forcing people to wear masks, including children when the evidence is they are useless for protecting against viruses, and it even says this on the boxes many of them come in, and they harm health.
They have been rigging the death stats, and now are continuing to do so about the PCR testing, and also lying about graphs which they use as fear porn to body-mind control people who watch and hear their non-stop propaganda. SO ALL OF THIS IS BASED ON SCIENTISM!!!
Science in service of the corporations and the government. There is the awful threat of forcing everyone on planet Earth to have a ‘vaccine’ that is rushed into production even though there exists vast evidence of the harm vaccinations have done to people. Bog pharma hope to make TRILLIONS in profit, along with the terrible distress the ongoing lockdowns (prison term) and ensuing loss of livelihoods etc etc will have on people whereby people will seek out ‘treaments’ from big pharma!!!
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Am not really gelling with your post. YES I am dead against the mental illness myth and the massive long abuse of people, and harm from shrinks who are basically drug pushers for big pharma, BUT you begin with claiming that people demanding their human rights in this planned scam demic are wrong? When in fact we should be showing everyone just how this global abuse of people is exposing what has happened to the so-called ‘mentally ill’ far preceding this. That is what I have been doing. I mean we are talking about these rich and powerful threatening to FORCIBLY inject everyone on planet Earth with their untested vaccine. have you looked into the history of the harm vaccinations can do, and how the drug companies not only get away with it, or the fine they pay is a FRACTION of the profits they make from their product, but they have made sure legally not to have to compensate for any harm down. People have been virtually treated like prisoners in their own homes, been told they must wear useless masks which stop their oxygen, and cause other problems to health and skin, and being threatened with quarantine, and with their loved ones a children being taken out of their home, that they cannot freely move about without having papers, etc etc etc. People have lost their jobs, businesses , all kinds of psychological distress is being caused, with huge upsurge of suicides, and we know what horrible vultures will seek to make further profit from all of this chaos right? and yet right from the get go you suggest the ‘mental illness myth’ and those affected is some kind of separate and ‘more serious issue’…? NO, it is a continuation, an EX-POSURE of the very same evil. Only this times we are seeing more and more that it is not ONLY psychiatry we need worry about but the whole medical establishment which is utterly corrupt!!
Thanks oldhead! I had the instinct not to get a mobile phone from the first, and when I began to see more and more people, all types and age groups, looking like zombies on their phones everywhere, even in the most wonderful places, even with their dogs and little children, when they shoulda been part OF that experience, I decided I never want one of those fukin things. I do have a computer, but it isn’t WIFI. I also have tried to avoid that too. NEXT breath you see they – the technocrats – want to irradiate the whole planet with 5G !!!!
THIS, what I call a PLAN/SCAM demic is very part of their eagerness to roll out 5G. It all comes together if you research the larger context of what’s going on. The extraordinarily insane Bill Gates wants every one on planet Earth vaccinated, and if you look at ID2020 you see that along with that is the design to get everyone digitally chipped so they can get complete control of everyone, and the 5G will be the infrastructure for their sick dystopian agenda. So all the ‘mad people’ of the past, called ‘schizophrenics’ etc telling others the government is spying on them. They are more like prophets and/or SEEING and FEELING what is ACTUALLY going on, all along!!! They have two common terms they weaponize for people who see and warn about such as that, ‘mentally ill’, and ‘conspiracy theorist’!
China Flu = Vaccine/Chip. Will you accept the NWO Beast System? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf0SrFCbi-k
I wish I were making it up. What has happened and continues to is the most insane sh*t I have ever experienced or even known of in history, and that’s saying something! The bottom line is they are wanting everyone tested, and digitally monitored for ultimate control. Similar to what is happening in China, and worse. So we have to take all this very seriously while we can still resist this insanity. This video is also extremely interesting because it goes into the psychological history of all this, and how it was planned a long time ago: Covid19 – Psychological Warfare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTmPDfzFp10
I WANTED to vreate and post my own blog here, but I cannot find the way to do so?? SO I will have to do it this way:
THIS COVID-19 PANDEMIC IS A ‘LIVE EXERCISE HOAX!!!:
I am amazed that people who have known about the mental illness myth, and/or are victims of it seem not aware of just how evil and pernicious and manipulatind the powers behind this so-called pandemic are. YES it is a very same mindset that has been targetting millions of people, including children and evn babies with having ‘mental illness’ and needing ‘treatment’ in the form of drugs and/or ECT. Now THAT is medical fascism and abuse is it not? IE people who find themselves sectioned/in lockdown di not have any human rights and can be forcibly drugged. Now my question is: does anyone see a connection between THAT abuse of human rights and what this ‘COVID-19’ is all about, and its agenda? Can you not see, connections, patterns, because I will show them to you.
For one it is a PLANdemic. It has all been carefully planned. You need to research ‘Lockstep’ which was connected with who esle but the Rockefeller family in 2010 planning simulation of a pandemic which ‘coincidentally’ sounds extremely similar to what we have been and continue to go through. Then about two months before this so-called COVID-19 pandemic, there was an even called EVENT 201 funded by none other than the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ALL ABOUT a …yeah, a pandemic happening, and everything happening ‘miraculously’ was acted out in that. So if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck….
Please understand that mainstream media is not your friend. it has for decades lied to you/us getting people to accept war, etc etc. And it is lying to you now. The medical mafia CDC has openly admitted that it is rigging the numbers of those suppsedly having ‘COVID-19’. Please hear what I just said!!
Although the 24/7 news propaganda-on-teroids is claiming hospitcals are ‘war cones’, independent citizen journalists have actually made the effort to go to the hospitals, and find they are note like …well empty, dead, and there are ambulance and staff just hanging around, the staff playing video games on their smart phones. It is a SCAM. You need to look WAY from that screen on the wall pumping out ‘The News’ and use critical thinking checking out other sources. Understand that the min players behind this unprecendented global scam gain to add millions to their millions, however little independent journalists, always threatened with being censored (and BEING so) from Youtube etc are doing it for us, you, the people like them!!! yet THEY get called over and over ‘conspiracy theorists..
I have a video where a doctor exposes how they have been told to rig the numbers of COVID deaths, and yet people like him also are called conspiracy theorists by people like Dr Fauci. WAKE UP!
So what is their agenda doing this? it is to more and more control us. To get us digitally impregrnated so they can track us and control us under the pretense they care about people’s health!! Can people at Mad in America not see/get/understand that the oppressive power the controllers have waged over those labelled ‘mentally ill’ is now graiadening out to include more and more/ALL of us? trying to make it mandatory for ALL of us to take their vaccination which will include devices. I am not making this up!
Bill Gates ID 2020 – PLANdemic COVID Tyranny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIWfhZAhk3Y
I haven’t read that article yet, but will look for it, but if you wanna checkout real evil checkout this video I watched yesterday! CIA POISONER in CHIEF | MKUltra MIND CONTROL | Operation PAPERCLIP 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8Lsxe0NHDc
#Just found it and read first bit. I will have lots to say in response, because I have had, for years, a deep interest in looking into the history of mythology, and psychedelics, and very well know they can be used for good or bad…like anything can. So we really need to look into this so the ‘they can be used for bad’ does not suppress their use for good. We just have to becomes aware is all, and go deep…
Very excited to read your article Shariq. For years I have warned about the medicalization of psychedelics by a warmongering and VERY oppressive system. Like that term, “recuperation” states, it is their way to try and tame the potential of psychedelics to help us see through their game. The “rigged game”. Because it would be extremely naive for people to assume that magically this move is for the sole benefit of human kind. There are a lot or PROFITS to be made, and the god of this civilisation is PROPHET. JUST that. make no mis-take. Is all about money.
I think you are wrong to think this is just a capitalist thing. No, the powers behind the curtain support all sides. Capitalism, Communism, Fascism, Socialism.
Now what is extremely interesting to find out ad know about, considering you mention ‘magic’ in your article, is that the powers that be are practising ‘magick’ themselves!! They are deeply into the occult, and they take it very seriously. They use codes involving numbers (gematria, and numerology), symbolism, wordplay, occult astrology, etc etc. The 9/11 attacks, which have been and continue to be, their pretext for their ‘war on terror’ and the increasing oppression of the peoples in America and the world, was in large part also an occult ‘sacrificial’ ritual on a global stage (The Most Dangerous Book in the World, by S.K.Bain). So what would this mean then? That behind the scenes there is a Cabal (ie their main bible is the Kabbalah) which is literally doing magick ‘hidden in plain sight’?? Well, there are levels to their codex of magick. They communicate via its language to other initiates (think of the secret Freemason handshake), and also, having dissociated the public from a deeper magical experience of nature, they then have carte blanche to coopt the dissociated ‘unconscious’ and manipulate it towards their agenda. This has been admitted in regular propaganda via such spin masters as Edward Bernays, but this more occult stuff is as said more hidden. the very term ‘occult’ literally means ‘hidden’.
This begs further questions of course such as: how would peasant/pagan/country-dweller magic differ from these ruling class ‘magick’ (spelt with a K, because these people’s prophet is Aleister Crowley who spelt it that way. I will leave this complex subject there for now, but what is being talked about is crucial for this whole debate. personally I have found the latter part of this post VERY taboo even with those in the psychedelic movement. That could be because its very beginnings, with the influence of Timothy Leary, there has been an infiltration of the occult via Aleister Crowley. There exists a video where Leary literally believes he is Crowley reborn continuing his great work!
An important first mistake, psychedelics are not narcotics. “”narcotic (n.)
late 14c., narcotik, “substance which directly induces sleep or allays sensibility and blunts the senses,” from Old French narcotique (early 14c.), noun use of adjective, and directly from Medieval Latin narcoticum, from Greek narkÅtikon, neuter of narkÅtikos “making stiff or numb,” from narkÅtos, verbal adjective of narkoun “to benumb, make unconscious,” from narkÄ “numbness, deadness, stupor, cramp” (also “the electric ray”).” Psychedelics most certainly do not make people want to go so sleep, or do they blunt the senses. Quite the mindblowing direct opposition. Narcotic drugs are the opiates, the drugs that are right now killing thousands of people in America etc.
Now your belief that the use of psychedelics in tribal societies caused them not to evolve…? Hmmm quote comical. On one had I can see what you mean regarding tribal identity, etc, but will get to that in a moment. It is actually argued that not only can psychedelics help evolve tribes, they were the key which helped evolve the human race. IE there is a mystery why ‘all of a sudden’ humans started doing art in caves, and the human brain capacity dramatically evolved…etc, and theories exist it was the psychedelic inspiration. And people like Terrence McKenna have even speculated the eating of shrooms helped apes evolved into humans known as the ‘Stoned Ape Theory’. it is a definite that in mythologies worldwide the presence of psychedelics is central, but yet hidden in text and symbolism.
In modern western culture there is lots of evidence that world-changing ideas were inspired with psychedelics.
What I think you are confusing about is set and setting and how that can have an affect of what you may tern not-evolving. But are you for one not looking at that from the perspective of a modern person who accepts a myth of PROGRESS?? That the criteria for ‘rational life’ MUST be a drive to UFOs of some shit. that we can never stand ‘still’ must evolve evolve. And true to form there is this transhumanist dream now which thinks our destiny is to merge with the machine and become ‘immortal’….? No thanks!
I absolutely love your comment!
It is more like a cult!! And in this cult they actually follow orders it is OK to hold other people down and forcibly inject them with drugs!
Yes Sam. The mental illness myth is supposed to render society invisible. YET like you say its op-press-ion is a main CAUSE of ill health in every which way, physically, and psychologically. and spiritually. It follows the same pattern as was the case in the Soviet Union where people who would/could not accept that ideology and were labelled ‘dissident’ (etymology: 1530s, “different, at variance, disagreeing,” from Latin dissidentem (nominative dissidens), present participle of dissidere “to be remote; disagree, be removed from,” literally “to sit apart,” from dis- “apart” (see dis-) + sedere “to sit,” from PIE root *sed- (1) “to sit.”
Meaning “dissenting, not conforming” is from 1837, originally in reference to an established church. Meaning “disagreeing in political matters” is by 1943.) could also find they would be labeled ‘mentally ill’, forced into a ‘mental hospital’, and forcibly drugged. Yes forced drugs which suppressed/numbed their organism and mind.
Well this is exactly the same opPRESSion in this society although the ideology is ‘different’…
They simply cannot have ‘robots/slaves/consumers’ having free will, and this is WHY they have created a toxic myth of us all being machines, and animals being machines, and nature being a machine and the universe being a machine. BEcause they depend on slaves to keep a certain small percent mindbogglingly rich from all the robbed wealth they accrue.
Freud and even so-called ‘depth’ psychologist Jung are not part of a solution, but offer false alternatives. This is what the patriarchy does. Creates different ‘alternatives’ which really just add to the sense of feeling dis-connected from our selves, bodies, others, and the natural world.
In my experience it is women authors and speakers who mostly expose the long trajectory of patriarchal thinking, because they have mostly been its victims! So it has been in their deep interest to study and expose what has gone and continues to go on to enslave us.
Anciently ‘the unconscious’ was a deeper dimensional part of the natural world and our being known as the ‘underworld’, or ‘otherworld’ or ‘dreamtime’ or ‘land of faerie” etc. A way of relating to nature in a way that experiences it as unimaginably alive and we are wholly interconnected because we ARE nature. THAT is what the toxic patriarchal myths try and disconnect us from, and this is why their is such irrational fear and prohibition against the ‘slaves’ having rightful freedom to take psychedelics, because they dramatically dis-solve the propaganda which intends to disconnects us from nature.
Hi Diana, I love the way you write. It is very unpretentious, honest, to the point! REAL.
It is so strange how Holland, which has seemed to be so liberated–in contrast the the rest of Europe, and world even–regarding the allowing of cannabis and psychedelics, and YET conforms, as you expose, to the same brutal ‘mental health treatment’ of people!!
This shows me just how prevalent this toxic reductive myth is, which has us all reduced to chemicals and genes, and treated like robots/machines.
The underlying myth which fuels this culture and its institutions like the ‘mental health movement’— has it that we are machines, other species are machines, nature is a machine and even the universe is a machine. HOW the hell could the sensitive, and intelligent and aware person NOT go mad in such an oppressive scenario? This reminds me the quote of Laing’s I was reminded of yesterday: ‘insanity can be a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.’ In the spirit of the Mad pride Movement I’d paraphrase it as ‘Madness can be a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world, because of course both terms do not connote the accepted myth that mental illness is biologically caused, but rather to differentiate the spontaneous feelngs people affected by oppression (which usually cannot even be acknowledged or ‘known about’) have, and behaviour deemed ‘disordered’ with a prevailing oppressive culture which irrationally will not acknowledge its OWN insanity as it willnilly loves and wants more and more war against others, and is exploiting millions of people, and causing mass extinctions of other species (even the Bees are threatened) and ecocide of the whole ecosphere all life, including the generations to come, depend on.
Like their ‘gatekeeping experts’ are not interested in you and your story and feelings they are not interested in all of that also! And THAT is their insanity which is ignore-ance!
I have completed listening to the whole interview now. I wish I had noted down various points he addressed that I would have given feedback on, but one crucial one I recall is when he said how the medical establishment mindset, and people blindly following its authority, understand eg ‘indigestion’.
That when suffering indigestion many will want to take drugs to get rid of it rather than understanding WHY they are having indigestion in the first place. This goes right through most of what is given us as ‘medicine’, and this of course is the pattern that bleeds into the psychiatric use of drugs. ‘Depression’? here take come ‘anti-depressants’! etc etc etc. This is the KEY to revealing the mechanistic mindset behind all of this.
We are not machines/robots, though the overall state propaganda has tried to impose this self image on us and still does. We are rather deep creative mysterious beings, living in a deep creative mysterious nature and universe, whose ‘extreme states’ of experience both spontaneous, and inspired with other forms of various inspirational activities including psychedelic experience, may take on mythical dimensions.
John Weir Perry, founder of the sanctuary DIABASIS, goes into this in his books and talks:
“Schizophrenia is a condition in which the dream takes the place of reality.” This means that the
unconscious overwhelms the ego consciousness, overwhelms the field of
awareness with contents from the deepest unconscious, which take mythic,
symbolic form. And the emotions, unless they’re hidden, are quite mythic too. ”
Where I radically differ from Perry, however, is his Jungian influence which tends to see ‘the unconscious’ as a threat to the ego. I am with Goddess feminists who strongly critique Jung on this major point. because what his is doing is carrying on the patriarchal fear OF the ‘feminine unoconscious’ and being a threat to the ‘male ego/consciousness’
In the book Myth and Sexuality, by Jamake Highwater, the author makes it clear that the prime mythical motif which reveals the patriarchal agenda over millennia is the battle between the ‘heroic ego’ versus the Serpent. This is depicted in art as an armoured male, sword raised, and usually on horseback, fighting and subduing and killing a dragon/serpent/monster. It is important with the eyes of the child -in the fairy tale who sees the emperor is naked-to directly see through this image to the truth. That it is revealing the self image of the male patriarch who imagines himself to be ‘light, consciousness, intelligence, reason’ forever fighting against what he sees as being chaos, darkness, disorder, namely women, femininity, nature, which he sees as being ‘monstrous’ and a deep threat to his ‘enlightened’ being, and how this myth bleeds into the so-called secular world we are living in today…
How else do we explain that more and more NATURAL feelings are categorized by the state/pharmacracy as being ‘dis-order’ and even having to be suppressed, drugged back to ‘normalcy and order’?
This shows that that toxic myth still permeates even those who consider themselves the most ‘rational and scientific’. And how even children younger and younger, including babies, are included victims of this toxic myth. A myth which is also extremely lucrative for the industry which pushes it bringing in BILLIONS in profit for them.
If we can begin to understand the power of mythology, and how this natural depth of humans has been used by certain mindsets to manipulate us then this is an included deeper from of helping us to disentangle ourselves from the toxic propaganda. When we become aware we see through.
It is very late here in the UK, and so I have stopped this VERY interesting interview (from the video) just short of the last 10 mins. Some of the comments I have seen here seem to suggest they have ‘heard it all before’…? Well I have been looking into this for quite a few years, and I find him saying some extraordinarily deep important things and in a very flowing articulate way.
WHY is it people, even those passionate about this, seem to think that there cannot be an ONGOING observation. get me?? For when those that try and impose toxic myths on us, what do they do? Their propaganda is relentless, and repetitive. Just think of adverts! YET when someone as articulate as this writes and talks. some react with the ‘it’s all been said’. Well GOOD!! –let us say it and say it and freakin say it again and again and again in the spirit of helping to sink this vitally important message into those hypnotized (including ourselves, who are constantly being ‘worked on’) by all the toxic myths!
And talking of ‘lost connections’, I hope to also add some insights I have about the mythological aspects of what this means which I personally see as really important to understand.
I have learnt so much from listening to one hour of his interview and wish to share it as much as possible tomorrow!
I might have shared this but for the fact that I am totally against breggin’s likening psychedelics and cannabis to psychiatric drugs and putting them all into a category of ‘neuro-toxic’ or poison. This is extremely dangerous and is I think old school ‘anti-psychiatry’, although R.D. Laing was very accepting of psychedelics. But the spokespeople for challenging the bio=medical psychiatric model have usually also accepted the total anti-drug stance of the insane cult of Scientology, who are also of course anti-psychedelics and cannabis, but have noting to say about their poisonous belief system. I would be interested to know if Breggin was of that club who embrace Scientology as being ‘friends’ against the monster which is big pharma & psychiatry. maybe people like Breggin whould look deeper and see just how neuro-toxic are the belief systems imposed on generations via various forms of propaganda. Then he may care to review the copious amounts of data which reveal how psychedelics can greatly heal people, psychologically, physically and spiritually. There is one thing I am about, and that is breaking down a wall between the understanding of socially-controlling psychiatry and its neurotoxic drugs and the potential; for healing that psychedelics offer. This who carry on this war of words and action against psychedelics I have no time for, because they themselves have not made the effort to look into this.
In this civilization with its oppressive laws, if you do anything against ‘The Law’ there is no excuse for being ignorant of the law. YET these shrinks who claim to be doing what they do for the good of ‘patients’ when in reality they are harming them, and contributing to a toxic oppressive system that gets deep down and personal, their ignore-ance of there being no medical scientific evidence to support their quackery is FAR worse ignorance than disobeying an oppressive law like picking psychoactive mushrooms for example!
I dont think many people realize just HOW oppressive this system -which is trying to impose itself all over the world– is. How deep this o-press-ion goes. So it is no wonder more and more people literally freak out!! These are the people who are human, and can FEEL the insanity of it all!!
Many are just SO sad. I read that 40 million prescription drugs for SSRIs were writ out in the UK last year. Sad little island people ey?? Oh but wait we’re all supposed be what..? content. happy, with the ‘march of progress’ as nature itself is under attack. THAT is sanity is it? Oh-I-see’
‘People die by choice, I donāt find it any different than alcohol addiction. I have no sympathy for addicts nor myself as I put myself in this boat. Not too sound to unscientific or not concerned, but people choose their own path in regard to what they do and donāt do in life.
āPeople are always going to choose to take substances to change consciousness. ESPECIALLY in a culture which is extremely oppressiveā! I would ask how you define oppressive, race, culture, family life etc. ‘
Well it is is important to know of oppression, otherwise you are basically a victim of it who is blind as to the causes of your dis-ease.
A good example is the institution of ‘school’. I found school absolutely traumatizing from first to last, but because I was ignore-ant of its history and purpose, I was led to believe it was my fault. However years later, looking into the ‘education’ system and the culture in general, I now see I was sensitive enough as a kid to understand there was something very wrong with it, and that makes me feel empowered.
Same is so for young people who get sucked into the military, and terrible things may happen to them physically and psycholgocially. Many are now suffering PTSD, and many veterans kill themselves, so it is a very serious situation. However, when you begin looking at the ‘racket’ of the war industry, etc you then get to understand, and will not join up or let your kids join up, because you have got wise.
Now let us move onto the advertising industry. They spend millions on secret research as to how to get people thinking they are thinking for themselves so they will buy stuff they don’t need and eat food that is not good for them, and liquids that are not good for them, and smoke and drink, and pollute the environment all life depends on. I say CHOOSE to know. Choose to look behind the scenes at what is going on, and then you will understand oppression over people. Oppression isn’t only overt, but covert too.
you seem to contradict yourself, and also to be quite rigid in your views, and not to have read people’s personal stories who HAVE undergone ‘full blown madness’ and yet HAVE been deeply helped by alternative help (as well as experienced therapists etc who have helped people too, such as John Weir Perry) and come off medication.
I will therefore let you believe and do what you want otherwise this will just be a back and forth empty debate.
well why are you here, let me ask that? IF you so hate and distrust people speaking of alternative ways to heal these states, how come you have ended up here? There must be some curiousity on your part, right? Otherwise you would stick to the psychiatric drug promotion sites and forums, yeah?
So what about nutrition then? Did you know that medical people (not sure now. Some are becoming more savvy) were not trained in nutrition, so AS an ‘ordinary person’ you would have to look into this yourself. And what else…? IE I fear it when we are classed as ‘ordinary’ and feel we have to cow tow to ‘experts’. In that there is great corruption, because then you fear defying their authority or EVEN daring to question it, and this is why people WILL find themselves in lifelong medication for a condition which is not really understood, and also on cocktails of drugs.
Yes some ‘mad people’ do recover and some DO know why. because they looked to alternative ways of healing. That is their choice.
‘Making alternatives available that only work for a minority isnāt good medicine and will get people like me nowhere.’
That doesn’t make any sense. For one, how you you KNOW these alternative ways would only work for a minority of people, and:
a) if that were so why is that wrong?
and b) like I say, IF others do not know of these ways or do not have access to them, how do you know they would only work for a ‘minority’ of people?
there is hardly any real knowledge what ‘schizophrenia’ is never mind ‘full blown madness’! What exactly is that supposed to be even meaning?
IF people report finding they have had ‘schizophrenia’ (etc) and now do not have to take medication any more, because they discovered alternative help, what do you see this result as, NOT a cure?
If no one has answers, how come you claim ‘there are no known cures’?
Yes we know the drugs seem to ‘work’ for some people, but what does this mean? Are they, like allopathic drugs, just addressing symptoms of a dis-ease. Is this why many people diagnosed with ‘schizophrenia’ can find themselves having to take the drugs for the rest of their lives?
At least we agree that the chemical imbalance myth theory is a myth!
I am not, and I am sure others here aren’t advoctating a ban on these drugs or ANY drugs. Anyone intelligent knows what happens when a war is waged on drugs. The situation is driven underground and the problems get worse.
No, like the people at Mindfreedom (who went on a hungerstrike to protest the biomedical psychiatric model of ‘mental illness’ encourage people to have FREEDOM to take these drugs if they want, but also to have ALL the information about them and the myth of mental illness.
Fast for Freedom in Mental Health Information
http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/act/2003/mf-hunger-strike/fast-for-freedom
I wish you would use a different metaphor for this reason. In patriarchal mythology, the Dragon slayer, often depicted as an armoured knight on horseback in actuality represents the patriarchal oppressing the Goddess and the serpentine energies of the Earth. In fact that is totally part and parcel with what psychiatry is all about. it is the violent suppressing of healing energies. So hows about then:
‘Slaying the Dragon Slaying Knight’?
so why are you here? Are you trying to convert?
Yes Bippyone, often people like you seem to appear out of the woodwork in places like this.
One wonders why you would even bother with a space that is hardly shrink and ‘drug-treatment’ friendly…? Yet appear ‘you’ do almost more beaming about these toxic drugs (for those they are) than your gaudiest US drug ad.
And I do live in the UK where docs will often write out prescriptions without looking up!
I came here, or found this article because the BBC TV in the UK is pushing the psychopathy theory in its latest Horizon documentary. Anything that is mechanistic this documentary team will push!
but to me I see it is the argument that there are ‘normal’ people and in their midst are ‘THE PSYCHOPATHS’, and they are claiming–guess what??–that they are working on a ‘treatment’ for ‘them’ (HIDE!!!).
But this to me is the classic scape-goat theory. Make out ‘normal’ civilization is good and pure, but some blessed genes just will create people who mess it all up and they have got to be dealt with by who…? The shrinks and big pharma/drugs.
I have read an interesting book in the past, and is one of those books that has had big influence on me. It is called Shamanism and the Drug Propaganda:Birth of the Patriarchy and the Drug War, by Dan Russell.
He says how the ancient term ‘Pharmakon’ originally was/is the psychedelic vegetation one actually eat, ingested and the experience inspired the communal ecstatic expression of emotions, and spiritual connectedness with others and the land.
Another term he uses is ‘Pharmakos’. The Pharmakos is meaning ‘sacrifice’ and again originally was one and the same, mythically speaking with the pharmakon, because these magical plants would be often envisaged, and personified as ‘gods’.
The ‘old gods’ who sacrificed THEMSELVES, and were ‘born again’ as the ecstatic -more than your ordinary self/ego–connected self you feel having psychedelic experience, also being described as ‘possession’ by the ‘god’. BUT what happens when this understanding and even memory, and of course freedom, is suppressed. We got lumped with the abstract literalist concept of the ‘blood sacrifice’ and the toxic myths of ‘gods’ and ‘Gods’ and ‘Kings’ and ‘saviours’ and their priests etc demanding sacrifice, be it blood, your sexuality, and even life, alive and dead!
The pharmakon and the pharmakos.
I started smoking cigarettes when I was 10!!! When I observe 10 year olds now it can be haunting to think I was led to that by the culture I was born into, but in those days smoking was EVERYWHERE. If you didn’t smoke you were getting second-hand smoke. There were TV ads, and all the ‘cool people’..smoked. So the IMAGE was it is rebellious, hip, cool ..and ‘ohhh the taste’.
So they haven’t banned it now, what have they done different than before? INFORMATION! There is a more concerted informational drive to encourage people to give up, in the West that is. In ‘developing’ countries the immoral tobacco industry are targeting mostly young people like they did here.
With alcohol it is the reverse. They promote it, there are no warnings on bottled, and cans (like they are now on cig packets), and yet the drug alcohol can and does great harm to a lot of people. We know banning doesn’t work so why not INFORMATION like with the cigarettes, and more and more with sugar (another shtty toxic drug). Instead young people are encited to consume lots of cheap alcohol.
What about illegal drugs like heroin? The BBC did a great documentary years ago. Typically they have only shown it once! basically this guy was showing that the problem with heroin is not so much heroin itself (though of course it is physically addictive) but the fact that with it being illegal the street heroin gets mixed will all kinds of impurities and it is this which causes a lot of the disease users get!
Same is so for Extasy (MDMA) which is a controlled drug. There have been more and more young people dying from just taking so-called MDMA pills at festivals etc, and later it is found they took NOT MDMA but PMA a dangerous amphetamine. Doubly dangerous because the people who think they are taking Es, expect the tablet to work quicker, and then drop another tablet, and get a double doe of PMA (or whatever other toxic mix). So will the UK government allow drug regulating facilities at festivals? Will they hell, they bloodymindedly state that ‘MDMA is illegal and a criminal offense bla bla’ even though they know this is a common thing people will buy Es at festivals. So young people will continue to die!!
This so-called ‘war on drugs’ is THE main cause of the increase of more and more refined and additive drugs. For example from the diversity of cannabis you could get decades ago to the mono choice of Skunk, and also driving people to dangerous ‘legal highs’ (now illegal and thus black market..sigggh) like Spice.
People are always going to choose to take substances to change consciousness. ESPECIALLY in a culture which is extremely oppressive!
I am a bit late, but just to say that there seems to be a growing ‘science’ calling out ‘the psychopath’. Currently on BBC TV there is an ‘Horizon’ documentary pushing this theme with ‘experts’. But mentioning capitalism, it seems it is rather the scapegoating of a ‘certain percentage of the population’ rather than challenging the very system itself which is main causer of what this culture calls ‘mental illness’. As is so with ‘The Scapegoat’, it is used to hide/make blind/disappear the general problem, the ROOTS of dis~ease! Its equation is ‘normal versus ‘psychopathy’.
Actually MDMA would be a great help for people suffering from PTSD. What I hate is when the therapeutic community, and other scientists studying MDMA and psychedelics for ‘mental illness’ is how they CONTAIN these substances within the psychiatric terms which further the ongoing delusion OF the mental illness myth: Medicalization. IE they promote MDMA and psychedelics as glorified psychiatric drugs. One recent media artile asked the limiting question ‘Is LSD the new Prozac?’
In stead there should be straightaway exposing the mental illness myth, and from there understanding that substances which inspire emotional expression, and ecstasy, can be very healing on a deep level. But this will mean them defying the establishment they are part of, and that will take courage and integrity, AND the stopping of funds. But it has to be done!
You sound pssed off, and I can feel your pain, but I don’t think you look deep enough. WHY are children more and more feeling ‘de-press-ed’? Could it be because the very ‘water’ they are swimming (or drowning) in is o-press-ive, do you think, but THAT is well-hidden behind this pernicious mental illness myth which now even targets more and more children?
Yesterday on a science programme I heard that more and more children are now feeling disconnected from nature!
I think that in history this guilting and shaming has been deliberate trauma mindcontrol devised by patriarchal elites.
How come?
Because you see their strategy used everywhere, in all areas of their oppressive matrix. It is their strategy of DIVIDE and CONTROL.
If you can divide and individual from their self, their very *being*, then you have this shuddering conflicted wreck you can control better!
With organized religions it is your born in ‘sin’, and are being watched all the time by a ‘pure God’ and his FLOCK (of sheeple), and if you put a foot wrong ‘he’ll’ damn you for ever and ever and everrr. Nice!
Don’t enjoy sex whatEVER you do, especially gay sex. oh no no no.
Now that toxic myth bleeds into ‘the unconscious’ being replaced by the mechanistic paradigm/toxic myth that we are robots, and NEED to have correct ‘chemical balance’. So there is great shame being seen to not have such a ‘balance’ and ‘normalcy’, and thus be classed ‘mentally ill’. EVEN for the children, victims of this insanity they’re born into.
With respect, too many words. As well as what these control freaks are doing, there are countless books with words words and more words. heavy laden with words are we. We need FOOD OF INSPIRATION!
‘So beware of reinforcing the script of hate by thinking the hate of evil makes you good, innocent or righteous.’ To judge evil isn’t to make one feel pure and self righteous unless you are already judging from a dualistic premise from the start. I am simple calling out the emperor with no clothes, and deconstructing mythology BASED on the duality OF good and evil. This is what mainly women authors, speakers and artists have done, exposing the patriarchy. And this is because they have been one of its main victims for millennia. Ask the slave about the master.
But yes it is ACTUAL food we need. The so-called war on drugs (how ironic hey?) very much includes war on the psychedelics, and MDMA and cannabis, and thus is a war on consciousness and nature.
When I take psychedelics, I avoid books with words, and numbers, and writing, and rather an ecstatically attracted to the sensuous world. it is THIS world the control freaks try and divide us from! They do not want us having access to freely growing plants and fungi which can inspire joy, creativity, inspiration. They say these natural plants and fungi (and substances like LSD) have ‘no medicinal value’. Well after all they ARE the ‘experts’ you know!
Great great comment!!
‘The whole industry is sickening when you break it down, but to call these poisons medicines or even legitimate drugs really takes the cake and is sadly what keeps the whole carnival show running. The researchers, doctors, and treatment providers handing out the magic pills donāt want you to see whatās behind the curtain. Donāt be fooled by what is essentially modern day sorcery masquerading as medicine.’
YES! And their flag is the Skull and Cross Bones!! It is the symbol of danger, piracy, POISON, secret society, death, genocide! THIS is the real enemy behind the curtain. We HAVE to connect the dots, and see the concerted danger all around. Over here it is attacking the young ones. Over there it is attacking the Soil, the Bees, the oceans, the very staple of life, Water. These are all interconnected problems, and the ones responsible for this are the ones who make sure to control others to be dulled down, and suppress freedom of ecstasy, and sense of interrelationship with nature, and others, including other species, and suppress critical thinking. The most pernicious part of their induced dis-ease of terrible loss, sadness, which they term ‘clinical depression/chemical imbalance’ is that many of the victims are not even allowed to KNOW the real reasons they feel like they do. UP springs the gatekeepers, the docs, shrinks, counselors etc. The ‘experts’. ‘They know’ and what chance does a child have up against this concerted evil when many adults are totally unaware of what is going on?
This is why we MUST go deep. This crisis demands we go as deep as can be and un-cover this matrix of oppression. Once we become aware of it we are already undermining it!
‘And so it becomes a means by which to enslave everyone, to the ānaturalā order of things if you will, where the spirit becomes trapped in the flesh, and no one is set free. It doesnāt belie the fact that the phenomenon actually exists, however.’
The Orphic-Gnostic belief was of spirit descending and becoming trapped in ‘matter’ /nature. But if I understand you, you mean that the toxic dualistic mythmakers are actually creating this IF you understand ‘spirit’ to not be a dualistic concept and part OF ‘matter’ and/or nature. So for example you could say that the spirit of a wild horse is broken when the cowboy ‘breaks’ it. Same is so with us. As children we are full of play, life, inquisitiveness, joy, and then we are all herded into the enforced ‘education’ system and for many of us this kills our spirit—our essential being. the prevailing mechaanistic myth is that we are electro-chemical robots living in a dead environment. That is the EPITOME of ‘trapping the spirit in matter/breaking the spirit!
But it is not really about wine. It is about a more powerful substance than wine, it is about psychedelics. Whether they mixed it with wine, and so it was a far stronger ‘wine’ than wine we know of (researchers like Michael Hoffman believe this to be the case). ALL alcohol is not the same as psychedelics, because it is a depressant.
What you say next is more what happened to the original Dionysian mysteries with the Orphic reform–EXACTLY lol. ‘Do NOT over indulge, and have wild orgies’ And as researcher Susan Harrison claimed they ended up diluting the sacrament and eventually phasing it out altogether. AND most important to understand these ‘reformers’. set and setting was drastically different from the original Dionysian mythology and cosmogony. For the former they saw nature and the physical body to be traps of the Dionysian divine spark or spirit, and had the saying ‘soma sema’ meaning ‘the body a tomb. In other words their perspective was world denying and paranoid, and a wanting to escape to an idealistic spiritual home above. Whereas the latter did no come to the sacred experience with that mental set. being connected with the Goddess mythos, nature was not divided from cosmos as was/is sacred, and that would include the more orgiastic nature one may express when inspired with psychedelic and other consciousness-changing substances.
For you even to state there is a ‘lustful being which resides within all of us’ is to reveal the influence of that ancient dualistic mindset which others what it considers is not an aspect of their own being. A being which is not an enduring substance, but more a plurality, a diversity which is utterly connected with others and the natural environment. However when you begin thinking of ideas of ‘spirits’ falling into fallen matter, and being trapped is when you create ‘monsters’ you other, and feel possessed by, and through various means want to defend yourself against, and ‘help’ others to do the same. You dualistically divide reality into conflicting opposites, eg ‘pure’ versus ‘impure’:
“Where he says, āHey, this is the part of your nature you need to overcome, before you can receive Godās blessings and, immortality.ā”
Yes, you create a ‘PROBLEM’—your nature is trapped, fallen, and death is bad.
I have the ‘SOLUTION’! I will help you become pure and then you will gain spiritual immortality. This is a typical formula used by this mindset from corporate advertizing to tyrannical regimes, false flags, etc. Hold up a promise of a static patriarchal concept of ‘immortality’ and this secures you willing naive victims who, through fear, cling to your authoritarian power in hope…
I find Gabor Matte confusing. I listened to a talk he did with MAPS about ayahuasca. he claims he himself was ‘diagnosed’ with ‘ADHD’—-no mention it is fraud disorder as has been revealed by Dr Fred Baughman http://www.amazon.com/The-ADHD-Fraud-Psychiatry-Patients/dp/1412064589 and others. he said that a ‘symptom’ –like he had–can be ‘absent-mindedness’. I would also see that as daydreaming–something I did a lot in school because I hated the goddamn place. He says that this ‘disorder’ is a ‘coping mechanism’ we use to escape extremely distressful situations. Well, yeah, school in my case. But at the end of the talk when a psychiatrist asks a question, Gabor says that he is not against psychiatric drugs, and how he was helped for his ‘ADHD’–once again sanctioning it as a bona fide disorder. I believe this is disinfo.
IF the powers that be can argue that a child is ‘absent-minded/daydreaming because his brain is harmed by childhood abuse at home and thus he has ADHD and needs drugs, then people like Gabor Matte support such pseudoscience! This really helps the ‘education’ system (itself exposed by people like John Taylor Gatto, as an oppressive system enforced onto generations of children, and in itself VERY traumatic http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/i-am-no-longer-willing-to-hurt-children.html it helps because if it can blame the child’s brain this makes the problem of school disappear! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia6OGEj6wW0
About 1980, I had an OBE. I will not give great detail because I want to speak about this article, but it included me seeing my sleeping body and on either side was a male and female. later in the experience I met close family members, but one went for me VERY VERY swiftly, and starting sucking my penis. I freaked out and began hitting ‘her’ on the back and screaming. When I thought I was going mad, ‘she’ and another ‘family friend’ who was sat impassively on a couch stood up, took of the human masks and underneath looked like Satyrs
I don’t think at that time I knew about Dionysos, but I was later to find his entourage included Satyrs!
Being gay, I became very attracted to this mythical god, and when I read J. M. Allegro’s The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, it was revealed that his mythical character was pointing to actual consciousness-changing psychedelic mushrooms—Looseners.
Prior to 1980, I was no stranger to psychedelics. In fact I first was turned onto LSD when only 15, and 1980, only in 1979 had I discovered about magic mushrooms, so there we are. LIFE is mythical!
I have never bought the tale that ancient Dionysian rituals involved eating raw flesh, and cannibalism, and mad women tearing about the country side attacking men and pulling them to bits. It is a literalism of myth. Even if it DID happen with some, then they missed the point! Real myth is not like that. When I take psychedelics now i KNOW what all the Dionysian metaphors mean–Loosener, god of Nature, of Theatre/Drama/Masks. It is the ecstasy you feel. THAT is ‘Dionysos’. THAT is being possessed by the ‘god of nature’, known anciently as ‘enthousiasmos’. It is superfluous to experience such ecstasy and feel the need to stuff your face with raw mean, or eat men–unless sexually (I am all for that lol). The Ecstasy IS IT. The rest is metaphor that has either been taken literally –like the Jesus myth–and/or it is negative propaganda against the originary Dionysian Mysteries by those who wanted to warn people off from Orgia. The pattern is of course the same in modern times with those absurd films like ‘Reefer Madness’ and showing people going ‘crazy’ after talking LSD.
If you were eating other people you are doing it wrong. The set and setting is wrong. Psychedelic insight would show you it is wrong and absurd. The essence of psychedelic experience is empathy. That includes empathy for one’s own nature and its sensuality
It was very typical that Jungians and even post-Jungians would not want to go near psychedelic experience. Of course not, because it is the REAL. it is not books, and ‘gods’, but actual direct experience. And this is BIG competition for those cults which seek to create dogma and literalization. Dionysos ‘eats’ that pretense š
I do however great respect John Weir Perry, and Diabasis. I have and have read his great book Trials of the Visionary Mind. The only problem is that because it is still so cutting edge, there is noone I can think to discuss his views about the mythical content of the visions he recorded which seem cognate with patriarchal his story. Implying that it is patriarchal civilization and its toxic myths which cause dis-ease…