Nunbuh_Chrubble said:

Peer to peer guidance is much better, IMO, than authoritative, paternalistic, and secretive guidance.

I think that festivals and gatherings are the remergence/reconstruction/refounding of a psychedelic tradition which reflects this peer-to-peer ethic. So lets focus our energies on creating NEW structures/traditions instead of trying to dig up fossils and imitate ancient traditions which we don't understand and are irrelevant to our current society.

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five glowing shrooms.

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Of course many of us have experienced this. What are the implications? Are the machine elves real or are they all in our head? My answer is, what's the difference? Maybe they are REAL IN OUR HEADS!

Often the way that we experience other people is through our own cognitive filters and biases. Perhaps we might also experience our own cognitive filters and biases as other people (or "entities").

It's really quite an existential discussion of what it means to BE and ENTITY. I suggest we approach this in a mature and skeptical manner (not as skepti-nazi's, but as TRUE skeptics of reality and "truth").

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