David Deida

And they could come to a place of, why do anything very early in life before success?

And their practice would be the same as the successful person's practice as outlined in the Man of Zero book.

Yes, and the key insight in that, and psychedelics altogether, is that

You said you're the same, I don't remember what you said, you're the same prick you were beforehand, something like that.

The thing to recognize is you are the same one.

Whatever that is, we don't have to call it a prick, but you actually are the same one.

So no experience changes yourself, your being.

Let's just call, it doesn't matter what we could call our deepest being,

Being or aware being, it's what's always there.

It's what there was when we were five or 10 years old, or it's what's there now in this moment, in this moment, in this moment.

Things keep changing, our experience changes, but that sense of I or being is continuous.

So if you could really recognize that, if you could use, say, psychedelics and go, I'm the same being before I took psychedelics, during the trip and afterwards, then the practice is to rest as that being.

So the psychedelics themselves may afford healing of different kinds of the body and mind.

It may give you visions of kind of parallel worlds to the one our waking state is used to.

Those can be interesting.

That could be useful.

But the one who's having those visions is the same one who...

you know, eats lunch and takes a shit.

Definitely.

so there are some cases of true clinical depression for instance biochemical imbalances that could be addressed through pharmacological means or you can go into a kind of depression because you lose someone you love or fail at something that you've spent years trying to succeed um sometimes those are