Thread: Entheogen: Awakening The Divine Within

Can't believe I missed this thread last time around...I always get so much out of these discussions.

Originally Posted by Cyclic13

Nice, love that video. Very concise and exactly what I needed to hear. I've always been able to connect to RAW's words far better than McKenna's. Though they both have undeniably great ideas. I always enjoy listening to both of them.

Originally Posted by Hard_Wired

I had a communication with the subconscious ONE time....a channeling from a "oversoul" or "higher self" if you like..and that was when I awoke from sleeping prematurely. It was brief, but it was also something i definitely needed to hear.

Interesting, that's happened to me about 5 or so times that I can remember. I suddenly wake up and I'm in an intense state where I'm aware of everything subconscious. The first few times I resisted and freaked out, but the last two times it happened I managed to let go and it was a really cool experience. I wonder what causes it.

Originally Posted by katielovestrees

Yeah, unfortunately most people are too fucking disenchanted (to use a word from the film) to actually give a shit.

I was talking to my friend last night and she asked what I was watching so I told her. Her response? "even i have to say that sounds gay lol" and "omg how u watching this its soooo fucking boring lmao."

A part of me died a little inside.

Yeah, I know that game. Most of my friends would probably think less of me if they knew I was into this stuff. It can get frustrating. But its not that they think its 'gay', 'stupid', etc, they just don't understand it. As a general rule they'll see it with a bias and probably dislike it. We're not free from this either. My friends are into things I might call 'shallow', 'mind-numbing', etc but I'm just doing the same thing they are.

Its the nature of the human ego to have a limited, biased view of the world. And thus the inability to see outside its worldly programming. The way I see it, the trick is to learn to accept the environment passively as it is. No opinions, judgments, condemnations. Just acceptance of love of everything as yourself. With that comes the ability to see everything as it is, instead of as it can be or should be. It may sound rather stale and robotic (at least it did to me), but I've felt this state before and its quite the opposite. I live for it now . Though unfortunately its much much easier said than done.