Unless Mike goes on a bad trip. Then it’s night-night, broken bones in your face adventure.
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Are you cursing here or invoking Jesus during a religious discussion? Hard to tell lol.
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A lot of what you post makes me think of secular Judaism, where you take the lox and bagels and Seder and such and leave behind the rest.
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You ever meet non-practicing Catholics? Fish sandwiches at lent, red wine, baptisms and confirmations… and lots and lots of shame.
Non practicing WASPs are my favourite. It seems like protestants that push back against a religious upbringing do so very hard. “Oh I can’t sleep with anyone but my spouse huh? Hold my beer.”
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Yep, just going to shut the fuck up.
I get the irony.
But there’s nothing wrong with being religious IMO as long the woo woo stuff is recognized as religious, not secular.
Here’s the thing about these.
People in the East never really cared for them until they were marketed as new age lifestyle products in the same vein as aromatherapy and mud baths in health spas. They are part of a modern, urbanized, high stress society where people actually have the disposable income to spend it on methods of relaxation like these. You will never see Indian migrant workers doing low wage construction jobs practicing yoga in their worker dormitories.
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You could not walk down a street without seeing alters everywhere!
My wife and I joke when we eat at Asian restaurants, aside from seeing Mexican cooks, if there is an alter inside it’s probably better food.
Eastern religion gets very weird. What’s up with the baby dolls in Thailand?
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I think that might not be giving ayahausca the credit it deserves. Every account I’ve heard, whether the experience was enjoyable or not, was described as life changing in a positive way.
I’ve never done any DMT related psychedelics but have always heard ayahausca makes you puke and give you diarrhea. If the idea is just to get really high there’s gotta be a better way than going to a different continent and experiencing those side effects.
Whether or not they see God/look into other dimensions is a different story but I’m under the impression the whole process is more than just getting high.
As far as my own woo woo stuff: I used to lucid dream a lot and get deja vu fairly often, not sure if they’re connected but the last time it happened was in the fall when I started going back to school. Stayed after class to study with a group for the first time and had some pretty serious deja vu including who was there and where they were sitting. One girl was there that wasn’t part of the deja vu experience so maybe she didn’t get into the program in some alternate universe that my dreams tap into (/s)
Also went out a few times with a girl who believed in ghosts/spirits. I think her grandma was pretty into it and she told her she was a “magnet” or something like that. After she told me about some of her experiences I said I was skeptical but didn’t outright not believe her. I had an old CD playing where 1 song always skips to the point you have to go to the next one because it gets stuck on an endless loop. I said “if spirits are with us I’ll believe it if this song doesn’t skip.” And then the song didn’t skip. 2spooky4me
It was Jesus, lol.
Forgot about shutting the fuck up.
There’s some truth to that lol. The more traditional guys will be very particular about how they create the flavors in the food since their recipes are passed down through the generations whereas others will just toss in a lot of msg.
I don’t know. There are simply too many weird beliefs to keep track of all of them.
Nah, he’s too busy screwing with US politics.
It’s essentiaoly, anytime a miscarriage occurs they make a doll and have a Buddhist monk bless it. The doll then has to be carried by them for the rest of their life. If they do well, they are blessed. If not, they are severely cursed.
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Ah, ok. That’s probably because the souls of the unborn cannot be reincarnated so they need to keep it in the doll and appease it or it will become evil.
Does this not sound like the soul of an unbaptized infant being condemmed to hell when they die?
See the similarities?
These souls serve other purposes too like stealing shit for you and harassing your neighbours. But you would have to purchase one from a shaman.
About the Ayahuasca, anyone who takes the time and trouble to travel to South America and seek out a Shaman to do Ayahuasca has already bought into it, so there may be a strong placebo effect. But I’ve heard that Ayahuasca and DMT are great for PTSD, and I’m all for clinical research into both. Might need it myself one day.
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Noooo, you keep the conversation flowing! You have to keep contributing!
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It’s like every time my friends and I went to haunted places when we were young and everyone claimed they saw something or felt a supernatural presence while I never saw or felt shit.
There’s a great excuse the Chinese have for this. There are 3 “fires” on every man on the forehead and both shoulders. When you are not afraid, your fires burn really bright and ghosts are afraid of you so they don’t fuck with you. (Which is why you shouldn’t turn your head when you hear a voice call your name from behind you or the fire on that side of your shoulder will be temporarily extinguished.) These fires grow dim when you are depressed or going through a spell of bad luck, especially on the forehead. A medium is able to see a dark shadow there in times like these.
What they’re really saying is that the emotionally vunerable are more prone to the power of suggestion. It’s like… fucking “DUH!”. People don’t travel halfway around the globe to some backward place to smoke DMT if they’re emotionally sound and happy with everything in life.
Hey! Whoa! Wait a second man. I resemble that remark!
Funniest thing I’ve ever seen at a funeral: When my dad died we did the full service thing with about 150-200 family and friends. The priest is going through the service and realizes that nobody knows what to read, when to stand, nothing, so he starts gesturing. First politely with a subtle hand gesture, but a lot of people were already smashed. So he starts really raising and lowering his arms, and finally we started to get it. Then everybody started following the front row, so it kind of turned into a wave. He didn’t need altar boys, he needed a couple of hype men for our bunch!
It was with great sadness that we downed several fifths of Bushmills and dozens of beers, then me and my brothers got arrested for drunk and disorderly. Because Wakes.
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It has a lot to do with getting outside of oneself. Breaking out of the ruts, inhibitions, and social boundaries that cause people all kinds of emotional distress.
Like a vacation, but with the intent of having a spiritual experience rather than the typical touristy stuff.
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“Ayahuasca exposes the gap between who you think you are and who you actually are. In my case, the gap was immense,”
He thought he was a pretentious journalist. In reality he was an idiot paying 3rd world witch doctors to poison him.
“it can interfere with medication and exacerbate existing psychiatric conditions.)”
Yeah. Psychedelics can cause permanent psychosis. Hard pass.
“Buddhists, cognitive scientists, and philosophers have all made persuasive arguments that there is nothing like a “fixed self,” no thinker behind our thoughts, no doer behind our deeds. There is only consciousness and immediate experience; everything else is the result of the mind projecting into the past or the future.”
Now I’m going to throw up.