#001: Progress is flawed; psychedelics are great
This week, we're deep-diving into how the idea of progress has been linear, and psychedelics are eye-openers to the paradox of life
Disclaimer: This edition was written by our community member, Varun Choraria.
“If only there was a ‘save button’ at the end of every day….”
The world is materially more abundant than ever but despite that, people aren’t reporting higher levels of happiness. Sure, the pandemic year was a mixed bag- we’re closer to our families now, but yet again we’ve fallen prey to the root cause of all evils-progress. History has been witness to the many variety of ways in which humanity has hooked up with different ideas of progress.
But, in all probability- our collective species still made the valiant effort of finding light at the end of the tunnel- with a common theme-”progress”. Why? Because even in such times of peril, the entire race still wanted to keep the bubble of perception of progress and happiness intact, majorly using 4G and 5G connection.
Are psychedelic experiences just hype?
On our #general channel last week, we had an interesting conversation around psychedelics. Most members were inclined to the side that it’s time our country and people in general start having open conversations around the tabooed subject.
In fact, bright side is that the Indian Government is starting to have open consultations around this- to which one of our members recommended this wonderful summary video. To turn this up a notch, another member shared this article on how biohacking is a possibility with micro-dosing MDMA and other psychedelic substances.
This is definitely putting cyberpunk dystopia and cyborg + humanoid lovers to the shame. Also, I feel that I should start an NGO to maybe mass produce desi X-men?
Let’s geek out this weekend
Our brainiacs from the community always share such useful links and whatnot- which is why I thought- why not build our very own search directory that will outlive us? A very own Inverted Passion Library! But guess what- you can have access to it too here. We pet-named it the "Resonance Calendar"- basically anything we resonate with.
You can simply filter the views and fall down into any rabbit hole you like 😉
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