Hi everyone,
I am a 3rd-year student at the University Of Bolton studying psychology, psychotherapy and counselling.
My dissertation concerns psychedelics as a mental health treatment and understanding people's journeys.
I would appreciate if you or anyone you know could help me by participating in my study.
My questionnaire can be found at: https://forms.gle/o8qfeGLCifyj4eq19
I appreciate your help with this!
Congratulations on your studies Michael. I wish you much luck !!! Psychodelics or "enteogens" as the first term was more of the 70's, are not "my cup of tea" as I do prefer what Assaglioli called "the soft path". That is meditation and development of Consciousness to arrive to the same "state".
"The experience" is in a level/layer of higher consciousness (see the difference with capital "C") and without the need of seeing things on the move or the change of colors or the interaction with mother plants or other let's say external "artifacts", the deepest "Aha" experience of opening, understanding and connection with higher realms of the psiche and the mysterious "beyond" is the very same.
That's why I do not need psychoactives to feel, recognize and experience real changes in my Conscious life (that, then, become "permanent" and non "temporary" as may be with them). Plus, I do not have the negative effects in my neurons, blood and liver.
I'm not against the use of enteogens (and much more less against the people that "intake" them). I just say that I do not use them or like them FOR ME. And yet, as an experienced Integral Psychologist I would recommed the use for those people which are soooo intellectual, so CLOSED in their tunel vision that do not think (much more less "sense" that there's anything else than what they can see, touch and hear.
I would recommed those people to read with open mind and good heart, William James, Suzuki, Assagliogli and Ken Wilber PLUS meditate (taught by an experienced meditation master) from half an hour to one hour every day during one year.
Then if they have not change anything in their inner perception of life and "things"; in their view about "reality", then and only then, I would recommed to take "enteogens" (preferably natural psychoactives like: peyote, psilocybe, salvia divinorum or the most used lately, the ayahuasca) to crack their rigid armor !!!
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