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Psychotherapy training—at least so far as I teach it—is about unlearning. It is about deconstructing the narcissistic pretence to knowing, fixing, and having control over others' minds & behaviours. It is about stripping that back & being empathically immersed in another's world.
I must study engineering and finance so that my sons may have the liberty to pursue physics and mathematics. My son's ought to study physics and mathematics, continent terraforming, aneutronic nuclear fusion, sentient silicon, O’Neill structure urban planning, planetary ecology, and graviton manipulators, in order to give their children a right to study Alcubierre drives, astral projection, von Neumann probe optimization, relativistic interstellar trade routes, black hole computation, trans-dimensional diplomacy, quantum archaeology, reversing heat death, and getting the star forge online.
There is a deep unspoken belief among some folks that if only one could speak more precisely one could avoid miscommunication and the suffering that accompanies it - that one could be understood.
I wouldn’t go so far as to say selflessness is impossible, but 100% of the most pro social people I know got there by believing open individualism in their bones. They think they’ll have to be you at some point and so they want your experience to be good
Give Yourself Permission to:
• Do what’s best for you
• Take care of yourself unapologetically
• Say no to what drains your energy
• Say yes to what you want
• Be imperfect
• Take breaks & rest
• Change your mind
• Ask for help
• Make mistakes
• Do less
In 1969, Terence McKenna was smuggling hashish from Nepal and India to the US.
After one of his shipments was seized, he fled to Indonesia, where he became a professional butterfly collector.
The "it's only a hallucination" thing—that horseshit is just passé. I mean, reality is only a hallucination for crying out loud, haven't you heard? What we've got here [DMT], is an intelligence that is frantic to communicate with human beings for some reason. -Terence McKenna