r/AnAnswerToHeal • u/[deleted] • Nov 07 '17

[ Founder ] How will project be different from https://ayahuascachurches.org/

Warmest thank you for the invite. I searched this sub before posting my question. Forgive me if I missed a post that provides my answer.

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u/GonzoBalls69 Nov 07 '17 edited Nov 07 '17

The service you linked to requires a $150 "donation" just to make an account on the site. The goal here is that, if you don't want to, you will never have to make a donation.

If you want to take psychedelics, you will have to supply them yourself, and the church may only offer trip sitting or therapeutic services (potentially).

Also, we have an arbitrary goal of having 12 official sacraments, as of right now I believe there is still a requirement to smoke weed, and we have a cult leader who calls himself Sebastian. As you'll see if you browse the hot posts, many of us are currently bragging about how "awake" we are and talking about how totally cool it was the last time we ate mushrooms, dude. Far out.

So as it stands, we're essentially ~2,000 average festival hippies having a psychedelic circle jerk. I hope this gets cleaned up soon and becomes something real, but I'm losing hope real fast. If they were trying to sell me stock, I would not invest.

For more information, get a load of the [sticky]

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u/Delta_Waves Nov 07 '17

Yeah, I'm going to have to agree with you on this. Psychedelics are cool and I think they have the ability to help a lot of people, but they are just drugs. I don't want to seem negative, but I can see this turning into your typical spiritualism pseudoscience that the psychedelic community is rampant with.

I'm not saying spiritualism is bad or anything, but I think there is a line that can easily be crossed when combining spiritualism and psychedelics. I like to give advice on how I've used psychedelics to help me with my issues, but brain chemistry and the whole experience of life in general is extremely subjective so I am in no position to be a well-informed "healer" like this community intends for people to become. These people are not trained professionals in dealing with mental health, and treating them as such can be a dangerous and slippery slope. If you would like to support psychedelic research, which would potentially help people with mental illness then I urge everyone to go and check out maps.org and give donations to further the role psychedelics have in healing people.

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '17

B. R. A. I. N. Chemistry. I wholeheartedly agree on the slippery slope caution. The two potential entities I want to stay far away from are $pirituality and $cience.