{"id":9137,"date":"2021-07-16T12:01:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T10:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mapsofthemind.com\/?p=9137"},"modified":"2021-09-11T00:58:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T22:58:30","slug":"liberate-psychedelics-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mapsofthemind.com\/2021\/07\/16\/liberate-psychedelics-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Legalize Psychedelics for Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"
The first cage is the mind.<\/span><\/p>\n Psychedelics break the shackles. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong. When you let go of every opinion, belief or conviction that you are consciously or unconsciously holding onto, you have the opportunity to finally be free.<\/span><\/p>\n From a blank slate, you have the possibility of consciously deciding which beliefs or frames you wish to adopt. You have agency in the perspectives you want to hold. Do you want to see reality from those that will support you, that are conducive to the life you want to lead?<\/span><\/p>\n Everything comes down to perspective. How we perceive reality comes down to the perspectives we take. Two different people in what looks like the same experience from the outside can be going through two totally different lived experiences. \u201cTruth is subjectivity\u201d as Kierkegaard once said, and there is no denying that our internal experience plays a central role in our experience of life and reality.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.\u201d As humans our ability to create meaning, to find it in our experiences, is what makes us unique. It’s what makes us who we truly are. Victor Frankl is someone who underwent an incredible atrocity, but yet still was able to find meaning, freedom, and purpose in his existence.<\/span><\/p>\n Psychedelics ability to enable us to see things from a new angle and offer a new perspective is ultimately their greatest power. It gives us a real chance to see difficulties or hardships from the past in a new light and find meaning and purpose in them. It also allows us to see new connections, sparking our creativity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cPsychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.\u201d
\n\u2015 Victor Frankl<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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