Elisabeth McKay

But I realize now in hindsight, I was honestly very covered.

I never came into agreement with...

any energies or entities or things that ultimately don't belong in my life.

And I think for that reason, it actually, it helped me a lot because I think a lot of people end up coming into agreement with things that don't have their best interests at heart.

They are a distraction.

They're a

make you think that they're something they're not, right?

They can be tricksters, et cetera.

And when we're talking about things like medicine ceremonies, this conversation becomes even more important because often people are, they're entering into these ceremonies because they're trying to connect with some sort of higher power, right?

They're trying to learn a lesson.

They are trying to transcend some sort of human pain or stuckness.

Another way to say that is they're showing up very vulnerable.

And when you're showing up very vulnerable to something like a medicine ceremony, you better believe it's very easy to get deceived and tricked into coming into agreement with something that actually seeks to destroy your life.

I'm not saying that I think all psychedelics and all medicine ceremonies are functioning this way but honestly most most are and if I hadn't have spent the last years helping people clean up from some of these psychotic breaks resulting from psychedelics maybe I wouldn't feel this way quite as much as I do but because I have been on the front lines helping people clean this up

I just feel more compelled to stand in the truth on this one.

you have to be really careful what you're opening yourself up to because the average person is even opening up to these things by way of emotional dysregulation, like in the three-dimensional space when you're sober.

So think about if you're sober and you still potentially are accessible to these things, what happens when you take some sort of substance and

And now you lose your agency and actually who you are, your spirit, your soul, whatever language you want to give that actually now gets pushed into the back seat.

Right now, you're almost like along for the ride rather than driving.

You literally get thrust back in the passenger seat, passenger seat, passenger seat.