DANGIT

these folks seemed to be doing some skillful stuff in terms of psychedelic therapy trainings and retreats

apparently that did not extend to the business side of things

not sure if it's only their USA stuff that has collapsed or also Synthesis Retreat in the Netherlands

https://twitter.com/BenjaminRamm/status/1631378665542909952

Seriously, what a mess. That could've been me, in those training programs, if I'd moved to Oregon:

https://twitter.com/PsilocybinOR/status/1632864756397907968

I'm doing a @threadapalooza on:

✨🌿ayahuasca🍃✨️
☕ 🧙‍♂️🎶😳😖🤢🤮🤪🤯🤩😭🥰😌

100 tweets' worth of unpopular opinions, personal experiences, and unusual facts about this psychedelic Amazonian plant brew.

In no particular order, except the first one 1. I've participated in over 70 ayahuasca ceremonies.

I'll be drawing from experiences in Peru, where ayahuasca is legal.

Wikipedia has some general background on what it is, and I'll sprinkle more info throughout: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayahuasca

okay okay okay

apparently it's time to start a thread of metaphors for emptiness & form

so far mostly featuring

things that are topologically equivalent to donuts?? Okay, let's start with Kegan stage 5 & guitar slides, from @Meaningness :

vividness.live/2015/11/27/emp…

@DrAnnaPease @BugQuestions So cool! This might be of interest to entomologists... it seems to be a fairly rare find.

According to this Flickr caption, translated via Google:

"Considered in some countries as a highly endangered and relict species of ancient forests."

flickr.com/photos/4224496… @DrAnnaPease @BugQuestions The caption also says that this species eats a limited diet of dead wood, including chestnut and oak trees.

(In the Latin name, "quercus" refers to oak)

*This* is a whole entire thing

It's probably the hardest part about learning / growth / blind spots / developmental challenges (in the Kegan etc sense)

How can you bootstrap self-trust? How can you trust someone to hold that learning space for you if you don't trust yourself?

https://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1220852219643297800

Gonna start off with some R.D. Laing, saying some real shit about double binds in our default cultural context:

@Timber_22 @xuenay @nosilverv @QiaochuYuan @meditationstuff Mhm! This is an active conversation with me & @Malcolm_Ocean & others.

Bringing in the model from Unlocking the Emotional Brain, it seems there are several different functions that need to be cared for.

1/ @Timber_22 @xuenay @nosilverv @QiaochuYuan @meditationstuff @Malcolm_Ocean 1) The expresser needs to be able to activate and resonate with emotional schemas

2) The expresser needs to feel received and welcomed in that revealing

For that to happen:

3) The receiver(s) need to be able to be present with what's being revealed

2/

Let's see... I think it'll be easier to make this into a thread.

For context, Matt wrote: "Kegan 5 isn't letting go of judgement, its' superpowered judgement."

I'm wanting to explore that more, especially what we mean by "judgement".

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https://twitter.com/mattgoldenberg/status/1142842516661649408

Matt, does this match your sense?

Within a paradigm, there's a clear sense of what is good and bad, right and wrong.

Partial attempts to transcend paradigms & judgement can fall into muddled, quasi-neutral states that provide no help at all in practical navigation.

2/

Ok, I'm going to attempt a really long thread in response to this...

https://twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/status/1118773759177924608

I've been thinking a lot about this today, and now it's gotten all mixed up with a bunch of reading I was doing about Vajrayana and Tantra.

I guess that's pretty appropriate!

@tasshinfogleman Ooh! I was excited to read this, because I've been meaning to write about "systematic" reliability vs. "meta-systematic" reliability!

For example, out of the categories you mentioned, some will come into conflict. 1/ @tasshinfogleman Ex: A tense interaction happens just as you're about to leave for a meeting. "Ah, I have a need and opportunity for a deep, heartfelt, difficult, reconnecting conversation -- and if I do that, I'll be late for the meeting." What do you do?
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