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Psychology and Dogma in General as Bunk
    #4300713 - 06/15/05 05:59 PM (18 years, 7 months ago)

Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when the patient has something to gain by abandoning or modifying his system of self-justification. -Thomas Szasz


I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.
Antonin Artaud

Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.
Thomas Szasz


Personally, I feel as though psychology is a product of a society that has no respect for the transcendental. Our culture only allows for one aspect of the transcendental, God himself, who is unattainable to the common layperson as s/he exists naturally. To be close to god according to prevalent American, and Western dogma, a person must not indulge in any natural, and fulfilling pursuits, such as Sexual Fulfillment, or experiments with consciousness altering substances.
This leaves a deep feeling of lack, in our culture, one that people try to fill with unhealthy behavior, that in a way is a self-destructive rebellion against our un-bending dogma. From over-eating, to sex and drug addiction, we as a people have forgotten the importance of spiritually integrating the psychedelic experience..

That very experience which is the only thing that could keep us sane, in this hell we are busily creating, and unhappily existing within..

Thoughts, comments?


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Re: Psychology as bunk [Re: Kalix]
    #4300794 - 06/15/05 06:25 PM (18 years, 7 months ago)

I was awakened by a psychedelic experience that only led them to call me insane and lock me up in a sane asylum. I also feel i have had plenty of experiences after that high dosage of mushrooms that keeps me going to this very day. Yet still they keep me on anti-psychotics. I'll have the day when i am aloud to leave the medicine behind and journey on a knew foot back into the psychedelic experience.

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Re: Psychology as bunk [Re: Kalix]
    #4300798 - 06/15/05 06:27 PM (18 years, 7 months ago)

I won't defend psychologists as a whole. Probably 90% or more suck and do more harm than good. But I wouldn't throw the baby out with the bath water.

And I agree with much of your post. Not everyone may benefit from the psychedelic experience. My guess though is that most would if there was more support and a proper framework for the use of these plants, ect.


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Re: Psychology as bunk [Re: Icelander]
    #4300847 - 06/15/05 06:39 PM (18 years, 7 months ago)

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I won't defend psychologists as a whole. Probably 90% or more suck and do more harm than good. But I wouldn't throw the baby out with the bath water.

And I agree with much of your post. Not everyone may benefit from the psychedelic experience. My guess though is that most would if there was more support and a proper framework for the use of these plants, etc.




That is the basis of my rant. Our culture is lacking in just that; a lack of cultural/shamanic framework to help utilize direct contact with the transcendental. It need not be psychedelic, per se, but the very act of being non-traditionally spiritually awakened is frowned at, by most. The way the people that rule this country's, dogmatic iron-fisted Christianity is headed, I could see witch-hunts being brought back en-vogue, at least long before Grof's idealistic, Utopian view of shamanistic ritual that involves anyone interested, in high school gymnasiums no less..
i just involve psychedelics in this, because they are the truest, and quickest doorway to the divine that we, as a culture, or people have at our disposal. In McKenna's words 'You can sweep around the Ashram 'til hell freezes over, but it won't teach you what you can learn from 5 dry grams...'


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Re: Psychology as bunk [Re: Droz]
    #4300945 - 06/15/05 07:02 PM (18 years, 7 months ago)

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I was awakened by a psychedelic experience that only led them to call me insane and lock me up in a sane asylum. I also feel i have had plenty of experiences after that high dosage of mushrooms that keeps me going to this very day. Yet still they keep me on anti-psychotics. I'll have the day when i am aloud to leave the medicine behind and journey on a knew foot back into the psychedelic experience.

Peace,
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  Good luck bro! I think it's abhorrent, how the mental health industry capitalizes on the sanest of us, ie people who have had seriously intense trips, or have levels of awareness that extend beyond a 'normal' spectrum. :peace: and my prayers are with you!


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Re: Psychology and Dogma in General as Bunk [Re: Kalix]
    #4301009 - 06/15/05 07:19 PM (18 years, 7 months ago)

Society has no respect for transcendental because in general it has not encountered anything transcendental. So the question is, what should the society in general have respect for? As for now there is nothing to be respected or disrespected exept some old books


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Re: Psychology as bunk [Re: Icelander]
    #4301015 - 06/15/05 07:21 PM (18 years, 7 months ago)

And how are they supose to benefit from psychadelics? In what way?


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Re: Psychology and Dogma in General as Bunk [Re: OldWoodSpecter]
    #4301019 - 06/15/05 07:22 PM (18 years, 7 months ago)

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Society has no respect for transcendental because in general it has not encountered anything transcendental. So the question is, what should the society in general have respect for? As for now there is nothing to be respected or disrespected exept some old books




Why then does society have so much regard for biblical scripture?? Has it encountered the biblical version of god? Why should a country that was founded on the freedom of religion not embrace a tribal form of shamanism with arms as open as the arms it embraced puritanical christianity with?


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Re: Psychology as bunk [Re: OldWoodSpecter]
    #4301034 - 06/15/05 07:28 PM (18 years, 7 months ago)

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And how are they supose to benefit from psychadelics? In what way?




In the way that I have I guess. :mushroom2: Read some Stanislav Grof. Maybe, The Adventure of Self-Discovery. Then you will have some knowledge of how psychedelics can help. :thumbup:


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Re: Psychology and Dogma in General as Bunk [Re: Kalix]
    #4301036 - 06/15/05 07:28 PM (18 years, 7 months ago)

well obviously christianity has been deeply conditioned into the society, so they aren't even aware of what they believe in


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Re: Psychology as bunk [Re: Icelander]
    #4301045 - 06/15/05 07:30 PM (18 years, 7 months ago)

You know, the way I see it, from experience, is that with drugs you only find yourself as you are. IF you have been a violent jerk, you will be a stoned violent jerk.

I've met a lot of people who consume psychadelics and it has only confirmed them the way they were before it.


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Re: Psychology and Dogma in General as Bunk [Re: OldWoodSpecter]
    #4301055 - 06/15/05 07:32 PM (18 years, 7 months ago)

So how to raise awareness, if the only tried and true method is a sure way to net some long years behind bars?


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Re: Psychology as bunk [Re: OldWoodSpecter]
    #4301059 - 06/15/05 07:34 PM (18 years, 7 months ago)

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You know, the way I see it, from experience, is that with drugs you only find yourself as you are. IF you have been a violent jerk, you will be a stoned violent jerk.

I've met a lot of people who consume psychadelics and it has only confirmed them the way they were before it.




Were these people using them in a Shamanic framework or just taking some little dose and going out to party? Big difference. Read the book.


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Re: Psychology and Dogma in General as Bunk [Re: Kalix]
    #4301070 - 06/15/05 07:37 PM (18 years, 7 months ago)

I still can't understand this mystification of psychadelics. People talk like it is some destiny that humans found the psychadelics and that it's going to lead into a new era of enlightenment.

Newsflash, they did find it, and it lead them into 70's, that's all  :smirk:

Awareness is the quantity and organization of information that you gather from your surrounding reality. You have your brain, your eyes and ears to collect information and thus expand awareness by making sense of it.


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Re: Psychology as bunk [Re: Icelander]
    #4301079 - 06/15/05 07:40 PM (18 years, 7 months ago)

don't you see, searching for such methods before you take drugs is a sign that you are not one of those shalow consumers, so again drugs will confirm that which you started looking for.

For your idea to be true, one would have to search for a simple party pleasure and end up enlightened, which would indicated transformation due to psychadelics.


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Re: Psychology as bunk [Re: OldWoodSpecter]
    #4301085 - 06/15/05 07:42 PM (18 years, 7 months ago)

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don't you see, searching for such methods before you take drugs is a sign that you are not one of those shalow consumers, so again drugs will confirm that which you started looking for.

For your idea to be true, one would have to search for a simple party pleasure and end up enlightened, which would indicated transformation due to psychadelics.




Maybe. Psychedelics are but a tool. Not a goal. I don't really need to know if they will change others. I am only in charge of myself.


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Re: Psychology and Dogma in General as Bunk [Re: OldWoodSpecter]
    #4301182 - 06/15/05 08:16 PM (18 years, 7 months ago)

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I still can't understand this mystification of psychadelics. People talk like it is some destiny that humans found the psychadelics and that it's going to lead into a new era of enlightenment.

Newsflash, they did find it, and it lead them into 70's, that's all  :smirk:

Awareness is the quantity and organization of information that you gather from your surrounding reality. You have your brain, your eyes and ears to collect information and thus expand awareness by making sense of it.




  The first time white ppl came into contact with psychedelics was 1560, a Franciscan friar, friar Sahagun wrote about Peyote. At least that is the first record of it. (That I know of). Psychedelics are not going to lead us into anything. They just hone individuality into being a collective ideal, instead of a materialistic greed. If you are a violent asshole, and you get stoned on psychedelics, you're ego will cling desperately to the petty individual you see yourself as, and a fight will certainly ensue.. My point is that with the integration of the psychedelic experience comes a deeper sense of peace, when the knowledge of the petty nature of the ego sinks in, personal spiritual growth is inevitable.. I have to agree with Icelander, you should read a book by Stanislav Grof! It might demystify a little bit of this idea of spirituality's' link to entheogens


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Re: Psychology and Dogma in General as Bunk [Re: Kalix]
    #4301192 - 06/15/05 08:19 PM (18 years, 7 months ago)

My point is that if you seek enlightenment with psychadelics you are already on the path of enlightenment (I can't believ I'm using these wods, I'm so against the use of those words) so nothing really changes, it only speeds up the process.

In which case, psychadelics can serve as catalizators only. If you don't have peace in yourself, you wont find it after using drugs either.


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Re: Psychology and Dogma in General as Bunk [Re: OldWoodSpecter]
    #4301216 - 06/15/05 08:26 PM (18 years, 7 months ago)

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My point is that if you seek enlightenment with psychadelics you are already on the path of enlightenment (I can't believ I'm using these wods, I'm so against the use of those words) so nothing really changes, it only speeds up the process.

In which case, psychadelics can serve as catalizators only. If you don't have peace in yourself, you wont find it after using drugs either.




There are age old techniques which enable psychadelics to catalize spiritual growth. Like for instance, just taking them, in a setting that promotes introspection. Such as by yourself, with no music, or T.V. to distract you.


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Re: Psychology as bunk [Re: Kalix]
    #4301218 - 06/15/05 08:26 PM (18 years, 7 months ago)

Our culture is lacking in just that; a lack of cultural/shamanic framework to help utilize direct contact with the transcendental.

Yes! Sweet grass and drums and rattles are very healing.


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Re: Psychology and Dogma in General as Bunk [Re: Kalix]
    #4301228 - 06/15/05 08:28 PM (18 years, 7 months ago)

I mean, follow T. McKenna's advice, eat 5 dry grams of cubensis, alone, in silent darkness, and come back and tell me you didn't have some kind of spiritual awakening...


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Re: Psychology as bunk [Re: Swami]
    #4301241 - 06/15/05 08:30 PM (18 years, 7 months ago)

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Our culture is lacking in just that; a lack of cultural/shamanic framework to help utilize direct contact with the transcendental.

Yes! Sweet grass and drums and rattles are very healing.




A ritualistic form of respect, for things like the Peyote ritual, or a mushroom lodge, is more what I am talking about.. And sweet drums and rattles are much more healing than Ice cream parlors, and television..


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Re: Psychology and Dogma in General as Bunk [Re: Kalix]
    #4301255 - 06/15/05 08:33 PM (18 years, 7 months ago)

Spiritual awakening is subjective. Anyone can claim to be spiritually awakened with his new ideas and views, but there is no way to tell what is a spiritual awakening.

Of course there is the good old argument: you just know it inside

but a shizo also knows inside that men in black are after him


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Re: Psychology and Dogma in General as Bunk [Re: OldWoodSpecter]
    #4301275 - 06/15/05 08:38 PM (18 years, 7 months ago)

Wheren't you just talking about how experience is what validates metaphysical reality?


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Re: Psychology as bunk [Re: Kalix]
    #4301278 - 06/15/05 08:38 PM (18 years, 7 months ago)

A ritualistic form of respect, for things like the Peyote ritual, or a mushroom lodge, is more what I am talking about..
So if the sick person has no respect for these things, then what?

And sweet drums and rattles are much more healing than Ice cream parlors, and television..
What do ice cream parlors and TV have to do with pyschology? Is that not what we were talking about or are you off on some tangential rant unrelated to your own topic?

Also, please show some non-anecdotal references that point to the healing power of drums and rattles or is your mere opinion sufficient?


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Re: Psychology and Dogma in General as Bunk [Re: Kalix]
    #4301282 - 06/15/05 08:39 PM (18 years, 7 months ago)

I don't thinks so.


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Re: Psychology and Dogma in General as Bunk [Re: OldWoodSpecter]
    #4301291 - 06/15/05 08:40 PM (18 years, 7 months ago)

Psychedelics have never felt 'transcendental' to me. In fact, its almost always the opposite. I realize nothing is true, and every 'thing' is a model of some distant unknowable reality.


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Re: Psychology and Dogma in General as Bunk [Re: Kalix]
    #4301306 - 06/15/05 08:45 PM (18 years, 7 months ago)

I mean, follow T. McKenna's advice, eat 5 dry grams of cubensis, alone, in silent darkness, and come back and tell me you didn't have some kind of spiritual awakening...

Yeah, that Time-Wave Zero thingie and the modifying DNA by making insect sounds that the mushrooms showed him smacks of a deeper understanding of the Universe and not some wacked out pseudo-science idea.

We need more people with these types of deep revelations.


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Re: Psychology as bunk [Re: Kalix]
    #4301369 - 06/15/05 09:05 PM (18 years, 7 months ago)



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Re: Psychology and Dogma in General as Bunk [Re: Kalix]
    #4301598 - 06/15/05 10:06 PM (18 years, 7 months ago)

There have been people like R.D. Laing, Thomas Szasz, Mark Epstein, Rick Strassman and Stanislav Grof in the discipline of psychiatry. Don't forget Timothy Leary, Dick Alpert, Ralph Metzner, Walter Houston Clark, Sheldon Kopp, Jack Kornfield in psychology; and  people such as Jean Houston and her ex husband R.E.L. Masters (who together wrote The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience), Ken Wilber, Alex Grey and others who are experts in the study of consciousness.

Psychology proper (and I minored in clinical psychology at the University of Maryland), is about obtaining the credentials to charge upwards of $1500.00 for a battery of tests that a chimpanzee could administer. Interpretations are computerized except for a handful of projective tests which are evaluated with pure subjectivity on the part of the psychologist (e.g., Rorschach, Thematic Aptitude Test, Person-Tree-House test). What people are interested in here, re: the Psychedelic Experience, is more about the field called 'Consciousness' than psychology, which is really only about 'experimental' psychology - a pawn of the medical model, and frequently about individuals who could not go to medical school for one reason or another.

When I was a biology major many moons ago, psychology hardly seemed like science. Then, when I became a philosophy major, psychology suddenly was being spoken about by other undergraduates as a science, as a rigorous scientific discipline. Ah the relativity of it all. John Watson's school dominated Edward Titchner's school, empiricism of behavior over introspectionism, a recapitulation of Aristotelianism over Platonism - and the rest is history.
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~wstarbuc/Janusweb/sld009.htm

Psychology appears to me, by-and-large, as a mere occupation. As Dick Alpert said in BE HERE NOW:
"My colleagues and I were 9 to 5 psychologists: we came to work every day and we did our psychology, just as you would do insurance or auto mechanics, and then at 5 went home and were just as neurotic as we were when we went to work. Somehow, it seemed to me, if all of this theory were right, it should play more intimately into my own life. I understood the requirement of being 'objective' for a scientist, but this is a most naive concept in social sciences as we are finding out...Something was wrong. And the something wrong was that I just didn't know, though I kept feeling all along the way that somebody else must know even though I didn't....And there was a slight panic in me that I was going to spend the next 40 years not knowing, and that was apparently the course...The whole thing was too empty. It was not honest enough."

Sometimes I experience myself as a preacher for BE HERE NOW - a back-to-the-roots 60's hippy thing that parallels the fundamentalist (which is no fun at all) Christian preachers for the Bible. So be it. People have 'consumed' the Psychedelic Experience and s**t it back out of their being, with nary a trace, let alone a profound change such as that which occurred for Dick Alpert. I recommend that anyone who reads my response pick up and read the first section of BE HERE NOW at the first opportunity. It still excites me that after 30+ years, a juicy, living, Transcendental message is still alive in that purple book. Meanwhile, if I could, I would still wax ecstatic about the mysticism that lives in me, and I for it. It may sound pathetic, but it feels profound when I say that all of these years of school and employment have been aimed at getting a place of my own and a woman who chooses to be with me, to live out the message of BE HERE NOW - to enter into those brown pages that have suspended my consciousness above the passage of time (30+ years!!!) - that has shown me life in The Heart Cave, and Whose Heart Cave it is.

Peace Out and excuse the gush  :blush:


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Re: Psychology and Dogma in General as Bunk [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
    #4302041 - 06/15/05 11:45 PM (18 years, 7 months ago)

Yes!


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Re: Psychology and Dogma in General as Bunk [Re: Icelander]
    #4302079 - 06/15/05 11:54 PM (18 years, 7 months ago)

"Psychology appears to me, by-and-large, as a mere occupation. As Dick Alpert said in BE HERE NOW:
"My colleagues and I were 9 to 5 psychologists: we came to work every day and we did our psychology, just as you would do insurance or auto mechanics, and then at 5 went home and were just as neurotic as we were when we went to work."

Should you not live the path you point others down? In my view the psychologist should be his own patient.


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Re: Psychology and Dogma in General as Bunk [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
    #4302166 - 06/16/05 12:15 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

Yeah. And he should get a second opinion. :mushroom2:


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Re: Psychology and Dogma in General as Bunk [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
    #4302221 - 06/16/05 12:27 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

true


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Re: Psychology and Dogma in General as Bunk [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
    #4302740 - 06/16/05 07:10 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

You encapsulate my point quite well, even express what I was trying to express better than I could've myself.. Well said!


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Re: Psychology and Dogma in General as Bunk [Re: Kalix]
    #4302810 - 06/16/05 08:02 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

Thank you kindly.


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Re: Psychology and Dogma in General as Bunk [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
    #4302828 - 06/16/05 08:11 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

'Indubitably!' The goal of analysis is to acquire the ability to self-analyze and leave the analyst behind [analyst behind - is that some kind of pun? :smile: ]


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Re: Psychology and Dogma in General as Bunk [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
    #4303255 - 06/16/05 10:54 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

As a psych major, I'm always being self-analytical. This may sound like a cop-out, but no one is perfect. Sanity and insanity isn't a pass/faily system. It's a sliding scale, based on the society you're in. Of course it isn't a perfect system, but it doesn't mean the entire concept of psychology should be treated as bunk.


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