• slowtrain33@lemmy.ml
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    13 hours ago

    Ayahuasca helped me quit drinking. I was drinking 12-15 40ml servings of liquor per night for about 10 years. Tried to quit 4 times on my own, but always wound up giving in to the cravings again. I could feel death approaching, and decided to try Ayahuasca as a last ditch effort in 2022. I’ve been sober ever since, without even the slightest desire to drink. I also started a daily meditation practice, stopped prioritizing money over people, and stopped eating meat.

    It completely changed my life, to put it mildly.

    • LurkingLuddite@piefed.social
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      8 hours ago

      I don’t agree, at least on principle. Especially when such drugs are included. Pretense tends to melt away into motivating force, which may or may not be the driving mechanism behind someone’s behavior. With a strong enough psychedelic, even the densist dummy can begin to question why they do things.

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        8 hours ago

        Maybe, but I look at some people who come from affluence and they may use things regularly and still do not achieve transformation. It’s mostly those kinds of people that I’m referring to.

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          2 hours ago

          Well just because they question why doesn’t mean an affluent person will arrive at an answer more than, “because I can”.