One day I truly hope that Christians and conservatives will come to understand what a healing miracle this truly is. I see so much stuff these days especially in conservative circles about the elite doing hallucinogens to contact demons and it is such a gross misrepresentation of what a normal person experiences that I just need to push back on that.
The deep state and big pharma have buried the benefits of these substances for years as part of their ongoing campaign to suppress the human spirit.
Can any substance that can be used, ultimately be mis-used in the wrong context? Absolutely. Psychedelics provide dynamic possibility for change and an opportunity to help reshape how you fundamentally think about just about everything, and with that comes the potential for extreme benefits, but also the possibility to get yourself into trouble if you are foolish, short-sighted, impulsive, and irresponsible.
Onto the study itself:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6378413/
"Rapid antidepressant effects of the psychedelic ayahuasca in treatment-resistant depression: a randomized placebo-controlled trial" Psychol Med. 2019 Mar;49(4):655-663. doi: 10.1017/S0033291718001356. Epub 2018 Jun 15. PMID: 29903051; PMCID: PMC6378413.
Some key takeaways: "We observed significant antidepressant effects of ayahuasca when compared with placebo at all-time points."
"We found evidence of rapid antidepressant effect after a single dosing session with ayahuasca when compared with placebo. "
So, it helps patients right away, and it helps them for an extended period of time, with only a limited number of treatments. This is a long-term therapy, not a constant maintenance therapy made by big pharma which must be taken daily.
"Although nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea are often reported, mounting evidence points to a positive safety profile of ayahuasca. For instance, ayahuasca is not addictive and has not been associated with psychopathological, personality, or cognitive deterioration..."
Basically, the beginning of the experience usually includes nausea during the onset of the experience, resulting in a purge that usually includes vomiting. This purge generally occurs just after it finish absorbing into the bloodstream, and the rush of blood to the brain associated with vomiting kicks off the experience from there.
An interesting thing to note is that the study also says it is not addictive. Due to the extremely powerful nature of the concoction's ability to induce dramatic life-changing spiritual experiences, it tends not to be something that people would really want to abuse.
So, onto some commentary about my own experience. This was many years ago, over a decade.
When I had the great fortune to experience ayahuasca for myself, after the purge I looked in the toilet bowl and to this day I swear I saw the face of a demon in there. I felt as though in one consolidated chunk I had just ejected all of the evil and rot from my body in one clean purge. Then, with great pleasure, I flushed the toilet, cleaned myself up, and went to go lie down.
Even further on the subject of it regulating its own usage, there's another phenomenon that becomes apparent when you read deeper into reports about usage of DMT and ayahuasca online.
There is a strange phenomenon many people report that the more benevolent entities in "hyperspace" will actually warn you when you are abusing it too much and tell you to seek fulfillment elsewhere. That's one of the spookiest things I've ever read about it. A hallucinogen that makes you see cosmic entities that actively warn against you relying on them too much for support? The crazy part is this is a phenomenon so common they share memes about it and all laugh about it.
One final note - it is worth mentioning that in general the communities associated with usage of DMT and ayahuasca actively go out of their way to warn you not to try and contact anything evil.
Contacting evil demons who demand blood for the blood god is not something that is actively accepted or promoted by this community, and that is evident even just from looking around on the internet and reading posts on forums where they congregate.
I suppose the takeaway there is that if you truly believe the experience gives you a view into higher dimensions, you must categorically accept that you are peering into a complete and thriving ecosystem of beings, both benevolent, malevolent, and indifferent. It's up to you to be careful who you trust and take advice from, just like in the physical world on Earth.
Aside from that, however, imagine if there was a substance that could instantly cure treatment resistant depression, keep depression away forever, was already a neurotransmitter produced endogenously in your own brain, was toxic to no organs, built no tolerances, was produced naturally in plants all over the world, and was entirely able to self-regulate its tendency towards being abused?
The only major thing to worry out would be that you shouldn't let anyone who is schizophrenic or has a family history of schizophrenia anywhere near it. Other than that, it's pretty damn safe.
Sounds like big pharma would want people dead rather than let that out.
They would much rather have conservatives babbling about demons or some other nonsense. The more they can poison any reasonable discussion about this, the better.
This is why they are afraid of RFK Jr. looking into psychedelics.
I ate some chocolate months ago my girlfriend got for free from a healing fair, like free samples.
I had NO idea what it was, that is contained psilocybin. No warning on the package, no statement about what the heck this really was. I went on a trip for several hours and it was AWFUL. I don't do drugs. I didn't want it, and I couldn't stop it. Nightmare experience. Not knocking this stuff I guess... if someone is prepared for it and wants it. One of the worst experiences of my life.
It takes mindful preparation and a soothing natural environment. "Dosing" is evil, and will produce evil results.
Yes. Consent, mindful intentionality, and a safe familiar environment. Either alone, or only with people that you trust and who are supportive of your mental exploration. That is how you actually have a good experience.
I would absolutely never, under any circumstances, endorse dosing someone without their knowledge or consent in such a manner.
It doesn't matter if it's a date rape drug like GHB, or a psychedelic like psilocybin.
Psychedelics are powerful, set and setting matters, using them without proper mental preparation in an improper set and setting is much more likely likely to cause significantly more distress.
It's basically like opening up your mind for mental surgery if you want to think about like that. A strong psychedelic experience is a delicate mental operation. You don't want to throw unnecessary turmoil and chaos into that, and you absolutely want to mentally prepare yourself before going into it.
That is a basic violation of consent and bodily autonomy, and should be condemned in every instance. Getting dragged along for a ride that you did not sign up for is never a fun experience, psychedelic or otherwise.
Even as someone who has experienced it before, and could likely identify right away that I had been dosed and know fully well what I was in for, I would still be raging mad if someone had the audacity to do something like that to me, and I would definitely end a friendship over that kind of thing.
Honestly this is the type of thing I think should be an arrestable offense even if psychedelics were fully legal for recreational use. You just don't do that. That's not cool.
What if you don't know the person that well and you don't know if they have schizophrenia or epilepsy - the two main conditions that cause the most problems when combined with anything psychedelic? You could be responsible for them having a seizure. A normal person would be fine, at least physically, but if someone has epilepsy you could kill them!