Your internal battle of selling vs sharing struck a chord with me. We want to support ourselves and our families, preferably in comfort, and so the things we create have a dual purpose, to bring us meaning, and to help us survive. I'm not surprised you were fretting. Selling feels disingenuous, yet its an inherent part of the modern sharing process. And yet paying for something brings true meaning and value to the purchaser... just think of the "free gifts" we sign up for and discard, even though they often provide useful information. Allowing others to pay money for our services is a gift in itself.
All the best for your book. I look forward to this next decade as the cultural shift in which I can finally talk about my embodiment insights and experiments using marijuana, and not be dismissed as merely a "stoner". These substances, in conjunction with a self-aware and creative mind, allow the body to educate itself to toward joy and self-expression.
Your book is one more bulldozer facing the cultural roadblocks of the past 60 years. Thank you for writing it.
Yes. The traps of the material world. Sell sell sell. Suck cesspools!
I imagine you've read the teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda.
The 4 enemies of man are
FEAR
CLARITY
POWER
OLD AGE
I'd take a guess that your tripping over power at this stage? Stay strong! Stay focused, but not on your book sales necessarily. What do I know....shit that's right ...nothing and everything!
I am so excited that this book exists! Thank you for taking the time to explain why these experiences can be so profound. My entire sense of the divine was born from a mushroom at age 17, and it is the realest thing I’d ever experienced but not necessarily something I’d be able to write a book about. So grateful you have!
My long awaited copy arrived yesterday and I spent a good 4 hours on the sofa devouring your words and nodding yes, yes, and yes. The world is desperately in need of change, we are in crisis, individually and collectively. I'm a mental health occupational therapist, we treat holistically but still it's not enough. Poverty, loneliness, racism, lack of opportunity and basic needs, no amount of medication will fix this. Your book is opening my mind to other possibilities, thank you.
☯️🦋 By keeping quiet,repressing nothing, remaining attentive,and by accepting ‘’Reality’’, taking things as they are,and not as i want them to be- by doing all this, unusual knowledge has come to me and unusual powers as well, such as i could never have imagined before. I always thought that when we accept things they overpowered us in some way or other. This turns out not to be true at all, and it is only by accepting them that we can assume an attitude towards them. C.G. JUNG
Your internal battle of selling vs sharing struck a chord with me. We want to support ourselves and our families, preferably in comfort, and so the things we create have a dual purpose, to bring us meaning, and to help us survive. I'm not surprised you were fretting. Selling feels disingenuous, yet its an inherent part of the modern sharing process. And yet paying for something brings true meaning and value to the purchaser... just think of the "free gifts" we sign up for and discard, even though they often provide useful information. Allowing others to pay money for our services is a gift in itself.
All the best for your book. I look forward to this next decade as the cultural shift in which I can finally talk about my embodiment insights and experiments using marijuana, and not be dismissed as merely a "stoner". These substances, in conjunction with a self-aware and creative mind, allow the body to educate itself to toward joy and self-expression.
Your book is one more bulldozer facing the cultural roadblocks of the past 60 years. Thank you for writing it.
Yes. The traps of the material world. Sell sell sell. Suck cesspools!
I imagine you've read the teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda.
The 4 enemies of man are
FEAR
CLARITY
POWER
OLD AGE
I'd take a guess that your tripping over power at this stage? Stay strong! Stay focused, but not on your book sales necessarily. What do I know....shit that's right ...nothing and everything!
Good times to you regardless!
☯️☮️
Damn, raccoons are cute! I know you are still working on this book, but the next needs to be a memoir about your raccoon relationships.
In all seriousness, wonderful essay, congrats and here’s to a booming success for you, the book and the important message it has for the world!
Gorgeous. Congrats. May it be read, felt (and lived by many, if that's what is best for them)!
¡Felicidades! Can’t wait to dig in. I’ll be there on the 29th.
Congrats man! Pumped for you
I am so excited that this book exists! Thank you for taking the time to explain why these experiences can be so profound. My entire sense of the divine was born from a mushroom at age 17, and it is the realest thing I’d ever experienced but not necessarily something I’d be able to write a book about. So grateful you have!
Thanks Isabel!
Alexander, will the online event be recorded? I'm working that day so can't attend.
It will indeed
My long awaited copy arrived yesterday and I spent a good 4 hours on the sofa devouring your words and nodding yes, yes, and yes. The world is desperately in need of change, we are in crisis, individually and collectively. I'm a mental health occupational therapist, we treat holistically but still it's not enough. Poverty, loneliness, racism, lack of opportunity and basic needs, no amount of medication will fix this. Your book is opening my mind to other possibilities, thank you.
What wonderful words to read, thanks for sharing and glad you’re enjoying it!
☯️🦋 By keeping quiet,repressing nothing, remaining attentive,and by accepting ‘’Reality’’, taking things as they are,and not as i want them to be- by doing all this, unusual knowledge has come to me and unusual powers as well, such as i could never have imagined before. I always thought that when we accept things they overpowered us in some way or other. This turns out not to be true at all, and it is only by accepting them that we can assume an attitude towards them. C.G. JUNG
Most of my trippy friends "turned on and dropped out" and no-platformed themselves.
We definitely need a spiritual revival. Take a look at: https://mindover.substack.com/ which is a rational entry point to spirituality.