c/psychedelic-salon
Dive into the archives of psychedelic thought. Lorenzo Hagerty hosts essential conversations on entheogens, science, and the counterculture.
…just sat down and started playing with it and I ended up with the following piece now the background music is the song Babaji by the band and or artist stargarden magnatoons com. They've got all kinds of interesting other music that you should also go…
…House is a positively mundane possibility compared to this thing, which is real. It's here, it's now. You don't have to go to Babaji, you don't have to go to the himalayas. It's three toques away. And yet we argue. Is it possible? What does it mean?…
…Weird. They don't want to do it either because they say it rends your aura and redistributes your chi in unpleasant ways. And anyway Babaji said not to and on and on and on and on and on. So it's, you know, we are apparently that statistically favored…
…the way to get somewhere. You'll never get anywhere if you believe in stuff because you know it'll take you six months to work through Babaji and then you have to go on to somebody else. And life is just not long enough to give all these guys a crack…
…to turn your face away from magic because it's there in this one confined area. Now I don't know what's going on with Babaji and the Roshis and the rishis, and I suspect that what's going on is they're still spinning the bicycle wheel that was set…
…a giant snake. You can choose that path or you can just sweep up around the ashram for ten or 15 years and make sure that Babaji always has a bowl of brown rice at his elbow and he will lift you up and do the thing. And people say, well, I think…
…a bowl of brown rice at his elbow and he will lift you up and do the thing. And people say, well, I think I'll go with Babaji. I don't want to. And what it is is it's a fear of surrender. I hear you. And my concern is the original values are the…
…is the way to get. You'll never get anywhere if you believe in stuff. Because, you know, it'll take you six months to work through Babaji and then you have to go on to somebody else, and life is just not long enough to give all these guys a crack at…
…news about these psychedelic experiences is you don't have to go to India for ten years. You don't have to be chosen by Babaji. This works for most people and would probably work for you. And if you think the world has no surprises, if you think…
…basically from a debunking point of view. In other words, not for me sweeping up at the ashram, not for me the ambiguities of Babaji. And in the tack which I always took with these people was, what can you show me? You know, anything? Because talk is…
…together, lo and beholden, you would think this would lead to cynicism, because you say, well, I went and I stayed with Babaji, and he was a jackass. And then, you know, I joined the unitarian uniformitarian unifunctionalists, and that was just a scam and…