I grew up in a church that treated doubt like a sin. Spent my college years swinging hard into atheism because I needed control. Now I’m just… circling back. I don’t need a label. I just need the work. When the government funds this stuff, they’re treating it like a prescription pad. But you can’t dose your way through your shadow without doing the actual sitting. Carl Jung’s theory around the unconscious works like this: the psyche dumps its material in your lap until you actually engage with it. Psychedelics just turn the volume up. They don’t do the cleaning.

I track my dreams on the new moon, mostly because silence forces you to look inward. I pull the Tower card way too often. Not because I’m cursed. Because I’m tired of propping up structures that were never stable. The mainstream wants a quick fix for trauma. Alchemy doesn’t do quick. It does dissolution. Nigredo. You burn down the ego first. Then you see what’s left.

I’m twenty-one. I work doubles at a coffee shop three miles from the nearest interstate. I watch people scroll through trauma-dumping threads like it’s entertainment. We’re romanticizing the trip and skipping the integration. That’s just spiritual bypassing with better lighting.

If this funding actually leads to legit clinical pathways, fine. I’ll take the science. But don’t pretend the compound fixes you. It just strips the paint off the walls. You still have to learn how to live in a house that’s suddenly visible.

I’m still figuring out where I stand on all this. No dogma. Just observation. But if we’re gonna treat consciousness like a puzzle to be solved instead of a fire to be tended, we’re gonna burn out the same way we always do.

What’s your take? Are we actually ready for the work, or just the buzz?

(There's a deeper dive on this in our wiki: Flow State: The Neuroscience of Being 'In the Zone' | Mystic Wiki.)