Thread: Entheogen: Awakening The Divine Within

Good find! I'd just like to highlight some points made

Self-realization comes before a merging of consciousness. Each person must work on themselves before they can hope to unite with others and transform the world. That's why self-examination is so important for every human being. Aldous Huxley once said something suggesting that people who search for evil in others will often manifest it themselves, and that usually people who search to improve themselves do much better at improving the world around them.

Psychedelic drugs do not enlighten someone all by themselves. They may give you a taste of this communion with the divine that is possible but as soon as one returns to our materialized culture they fall back into their old habits. That's why it's important to work in solitude and put oneself in nature on a regular basis in order to retain and share this state of mind. Hippies during the 60s disconnected themselves from the main community in order to enjoy a more mystical worldview without interruption, but this only promotes further disconnect between science and spirituality, between the subjective and objective experience. As hard as it is to relate to people who are proudly locked within the main, narrow worldview, we can't win by getting the "dominators on the run," we can only win by sharing our worldviews together and coming to an eventual shared mindset.

But there is something funny about how people with purely objective worldviews today are very anti-church, when their refusal to acknowledge the value of the subjective experience is a bargain made with the church. Science couldn't take the reigns of mankind altogether, so secularists had to separate life, Science would take place purely as the exploration of an objective universe. The scientific method is all about escaping human bias to find truth. They allowed religion to continue to have control of subjective life, of the other side of duality. Then, instead of re-exploring and trying to merge this other aspect of existence, they simply decried it doesn't exist at all. Instead of reconnecting the two sides of duality, they denied one side altogether. When people found psychedelics and reconnected with this other aspect of life, they became outcasts.

This video also mentions how ancient societies shared their dreams, not just for fun, but as an integral part to preparing themselves for the day ahead. They believed each other's dreams held key insights for their experiences as a group.

So I challenge others willing to watch this film, who claim there is some objective universe ruled purely by causation. Please explain what value the subjective experience has, or does not have, in our society.