Tuesday Brunch: Instagration (n)
Some things should stay between you and your God
Synonyms: McGregor (v) - to gush online in the days after a psychedelic experience while still in an ungrounded expanded state. ‘I went to the Amazon and then the day after I McGregored all over social media.’
Every drug we take these days, we take in combination with another mind-altering substance - the internet. It’s never just LSD, or psilocybin, or DMT, or ayahuasca. It’s LSD + the internet; psilocybin + the internet; DMT + the internet; ayahuasca + the internet. And that combination can lead to some messy results.
One adverse event (adverse for your audience anyway) is when people go straight onto the internet after an ecstatic experience and spill their guts out about how amazing it was and how they are so in love with the world omigod everything is just glittering and wow I feel so 5D and seriously seriously if you’re out there struggling I just want to tell you EVERYTHING IS OK FOREVER.
I have been there. When I briefly converted to charismatic Christianity in 2012 (relax, I’m not a Christian anymore) I went straight onto my newsletter to tell the world that I was saved. This was a bad idea for all sorts of reasons, mainly because I had not really landed yet, I was still high, and making sense of a powerful and potentially transformative experience is best done in private. But what does private mean these days?
You can’t serve two Gods. Either you serve the God Within, or you serve the God Without (ie the God of Social Media). These are very different gods. One cares about what is happening deep within your soul. The other cares only about how you look to others. Choose the God Within!
This Wednesday 18th, come to our free online event on (ex) Mormons and psychedelics, featuring four great speakers. Tickets here.
If you’re struggling with post-psychedelic difficulties, check out our short guide to coping with them. And come to our free online peer support group on Sunday March 29.
After the pay-wall, former finance minister of Greece charged for using MDMA 30 years ago; OpenAI tries to use Elon Musk’s ketamine use against him in $134bn fraudf trial; Aubrey Marcus warns of ketamine addiction; psilocybin helps 67% of trial participants quit smoking; a new study finds AI outperforms CBT therapists; and…could AI therapy provoke another ‘recovered memories’ Satanic panic?
