Sometimes you have to look at things from a different perspective in order to understand them better. Sometimes you have to stand in a different part of the room to get an angle (a view), you would have never been able to see from where you currently stood. Introspection is highly necessary for the type of machine we are—one that runs mostly on heuristics and not exactly severe rationality. I think that’s the value of #psylocibin. It allows you to see the parts of yourself you had never seen before. It allows you to remember and understand traumas that you had forgotten long ago, but that still dwell in the subconscious and have been affecting you for a while without your conscious knowledge.
In my latest journey I understood that I am in a constant battle with myself. There is this part of me that is destructive, cynical, that wants to watch the world burn. There is another part that is in constant battle with that monster, that doesn’t want to let it win. And I finally understand why. It is protecting the child inside me; the traumatized little boy that went through so much long ago, the pure essence of who I am today. He must be protected at all cost.
What important lessons have you learned in your journeys?