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Nathanael Hunter's avatar

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.

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Bryan Winchell's avatar

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!

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Malika's avatar

Gorgeous. Congrats. May it be read, felt (and lived by many, if that's what is best for them)!

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Gibrán X. Rivera's avatar

¡Felicidades! Can’t wait to dig in. I’ll be there on the 29th.

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Scott Britton's avatar

Congrats man! Pumped for you

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Isabel Cowles Murphy's avatar

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!

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Alexander Beiner's avatar

Thanks Isabel!

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Rose Kourie's avatar

Alexander, will the online event be recorded? I'm working that day so can't attend.

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Alexander Beiner's avatar

It will indeed

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Rose Kourie's avatar

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.

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Alexander Beiner's avatar

What wonderful words to read, thanks for sharing and glad you’re enjoying it!

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Arjulaad's avatar

☯️🦋 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

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There and Where's avatar

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.

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Arjulaad's avatar

☯️☮️

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