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@Jeroen said:
Yes I find it very interesting that many people of the sixties and seventies had their interest in meditation sparked by psychedelics. Sam Harris said “psychedelics provide a glimpse of the end state of meditation, freedom from the ego, and without knowing that that state was possible I wouldn’t have been nearly as motivated to try meditation.”

I suppose after the glimpse, the next logical step is to seek it in greater and more sustained ways which meditation seems to provide.

Certainly that these experiences can be so positive for depression, addiction and other mental health conditions just shows that they are key to many people’s wellbeing. But i also think it was telling that in many primitive cultures these experiences are regulated by shamans and ritual and taken only rarely.

A perfect underline of the need for legal oversight by knowledgeable people vs the haphazard current approach. Maybe once the scientific community moves beyond the prejudice of not being able to measure these experiences with current scientific tools. Or maybe when such tools to measure it are developed.

Yes I find it very interesting that many people of the sixties and seventies had their interest in meditation sparked by psychedelics. Sam Harris said “psychedelics provide a glimpse of the end state of meditation, freedom from the ego, and without knowing that that state was possible I wouldn’t have been nearly as motivated to try meditation.”

Certainly that these experiences can be so positive for depression, addiction and other mental health conditions just shows that they are key to many people’s wellbeing. But i also think it was telling that in many primitive cultures these experiences are regulated by shamans and ritual and taken only rarely.

Arsenal seem to be spending considerably on their new attacking line…

^^^^^ Judiasm isn’t Christianity , haha…..I hear you tho. Problem is those others aren’t the churches with the money and power. It’s the huge southern baptists doing this.

The Handmaid's Tale

I watched the first series. It was grim.

The anger that @federica expresses and others also send us is skilful or wrathful. America is a nightmare for some. Unsafe.

@Vastmind said:
And last, but not least…..Fuck the Christians in this country. I’m no longer agreeing to disagree. If you don’t have the same morals and values that I do….go to hell. Figuratively or literally. I don’t care which one.

… remember some Christians will support civil rights and will be in solidarity …
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/religions-support-abortion-rights-leaders-are-speaking-rcna27194

A work of fiction televised in the UK.

"The Handmaid's Tale
2017 ‧ Sci-fi ‧ 4 seasons
The Handmaid's Tale is the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society in what was the United States. Gilead is ruled by a fundamentalist regime that treats women as property of the state."

I'm sorry. Did I say Fiction?

Rdiculously bad joke time:
Overheard somewhere:
Be good. If you can't be good, just what are you? A poitician?
It has been said that politicians are the ones making the laws that then apply to
everyone...except politicians.