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https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-06-lsd-distress-unemployed-job-seekers.html

Lifetime LSD use is associated with a higher likelihood
of severe psychological distress after losing one's job,
according to a new study published in the open-access
journal PLOS ONE by Benjamin Korman, formerly of the
University of Konstanz, Germany.

. . .

You shouldn't take a lot of LSD regardless ... it
gradually detaches you from reality. "Reality" is
what you THINK is going on and why - but long-
acting psychedelics warp that.

Much shorter-acting PS's ... maybe not as much.
Maybe stick with DMT ? DO beware, it's a BIG
blast ... but only for SHORT times.

You can see 'avatars' of the inner workings of
your mind on DMT. It's not always pleasant.

Shrooms are 'medium-acting', although the ultimate
effects aren't THAT much different from LSD except
the color tones are a bit different. IMHO, stick
to the very SHORT-acting stuff. You can get some
"enlightenment"/"interest" without totally screwing
inescapable hard-core "reality".

The Buddha said "all is illusion" - human 'reality'
is a serious post-process/speciesization of what's
really going on - bowlderized, edited, Readers
Digest, what fits our IQ and physical form/reality.

The Buddha DID admit that there was a "basic/ground
reality" - a physics ... just that WE can never
quite see it.

We are earthly meat-puppets after all. We see all
through "human-colored glasses" - no choice.
A key-hole view of "the Big Picture". Psychedelics
can kinda enlarge that keyhole ... but, in the
end, we're STUCK with it. Such drugs do NOT really
"expand", just, maybe, reveal our narrow view.

Use CAREFULLY, and NOT OFTEN - or AT ALL. Simple
reflective thought can reveal As Much.

Oh, DO look into Plato's "Allegory Of The Cave".
IMHO he says the same thing as the Buddha, just
in a different way. The REAL gist of the allegory
is what he. tactfully, LEAVES OUT at the end ...
what YOU must derive about "reality" ......

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