The Homecoming of Psychedelics
It’s impossible to go a single day without reading a blip on the power of psychedelics. It’s the new shortcut to a happier life. Although the hype is justified and long overdue, you can also sense the undertones of desperation of the promise of a quick fix. The consistent rhetoric of the third wave of psychedelics, predominantly led by white men, is overpowered by voyages into other worlds that bring back secrets that make you better, faster, and smarter. And whereas this all may be true, it leaves out an entire other truth to these powerful plants - the indisputable truth that after the blastoff and the separation of the ego, they bring you back to yourself. Psychedelics are a mirror, your brutal best friend, or your crazy aunt who sugar coats nothing.
The truth is we’re flawed, broken, and most likely looking for validation in all the wrong places. Plants remind us that we are already whole, we’re perfect as we are, and we’re our own best healer. We have all the answers within us al…