The Hedonistic Eddy
And sometimes it feels so good that some people who do these practices and take these drugs get stuck in a hedonistic eddy. I mean, singing and dancing and molecules that open your heart and make you love everyone including yourself? Beautiful. Why not just do that? You could get stuck on that high and not ground back into the world. You could get stuck on the high and not do the shadow work.
I want to urge you as you read through these modalities, these stories and experiences, to not stop at a perception of hedonism. It is possible to get stuck in any modality, which is selling these tools far short of their full potential.
The difference between medicine and poison, literally and figuratively, is all about the dose and the context. All of the tools and experiences I’m going to share with you are for use with intention- in conscientiousness, with aligned people, in helpful environments. Otherwise they are only about the party. The party can be great, everyone loves a good party, but that can be an escape.
An escape and a quest are not the same thing.
As we progress in opening, and the tools have served their purpose in helping us get underneath the conscious mind, to get below the ego layer, to pry open the plastic casing of trained cultural conditioning, or at least loosened that casing, then we should be able to set aside these tools, or at least hold them lightly, and be free within our own being, with no external assists.
So, don’t get stuck in the feel good or the numb out. We are going next level here.
So, are you ready to take a trip together?