Kaizen Asiedu

As someone who's been in a lot of spaces that are very plant medicine friendly, I can also see what happens when people are basically just treating them as drugs without the proper set and setting and integration. So I get why there's some fear, but there's so much tremendous potential for healing. And it's funny to me to hear, I think RFK was a heroin addict, as you said.

It's funny to hear some of these drugs like ayahuasca considered a gateway because I'm like, No, once you do these medicines, like those become less appealing because you actually get in touch with a thing that you're using those drugs to address. So I think it's absolutely fantastic that he has a plant medicine friendly agenda.

It's funny to hear some of these drugs like ayahuasca considered a gateway because I'm like, No, once you do these medicines, like those become less appealing because you actually get in touch with a thing that you're using those drugs to address. So I think it's absolutely fantastic that he has a plant medicine friendly agenda.

It's funny to hear some of these drugs like ayahuasca considered a gateway because I'm like, No, once you do these medicines, like those become less appealing because you actually get in touch with a thing that you're using those drugs to address. So I think it's absolutely fantastic that he has a plant medicine friendly agenda.

Of course, there's ways that we need to structure systems so that it's used responsibly. But I think that can be hugely transformational and even go deeper than helping people who are in extreme scenarios like drug addicts and PTSD. I think just helping people

Of course, there's ways that we need to structure systems so that it's used responsibly. But I think that can be hugely transformational and even go deeper than helping people who are in extreme scenarios like drug addicts and PTSD. I think just helping people

Of course, there's ways that we need to structure systems so that it's used responsibly. But I think that can be hugely transformational and even go deeper than helping people who are in extreme scenarios like drug addicts and PTSD. I think just helping people

call it evolve their consciousness or just be themselves or be more at peace internally because i wasn't in some situation where i was like i need to break some massive addiction i was more i guess mentally ill in the way that everyone is mentally unhealthy to a degree um and i think it can help tremendously with that people fear changing their minds because it feels like losing a part of their identity

call it evolve their consciousness or just be themselves or be more at peace internally because i wasn't in some situation where i was like i need to break some massive addiction i was more i guess mentally ill in the way that everyone is mentally unhealthy to a degree um and i think it can help tremendously with that people fear changing their minds because it feels like losing a part of their identity

call it evolve their consciousness or just be themselves or be more at peace internally because i wasn't in some situation where i was like i need to break some massive addiction i was more i guess mentally ill in the way that everyone is mentally unhealthy to a degree um and i think it can help tremendously with that people fear changing their minds because it feels like losing a part of their identity

Yeah. So I think one of the earliest insights I had about myself was I'm not my thoughts and I'm not my mind. I have my mind, but if my mind changes or my mind has bad beliefs, it doesn't make me a bad person. It's okay to change your mind because you're not your mind. And the mind is where the ego lives, right? The mental construct that we call I, that's ego.

Yeah. So I think one of the earliest insights I had about myself was I'm not my thoughts and I'm not my mind. I have my mind, but if my mind changes or my mind has bad beliefs, it doesn't make me a bad person. It's okay to change your mind because you're not your mind. And the mind is where the ego lives, right? The mental construct that we call I, that's ego.

Yeah. So I think one of the earliest insights I had about myself was I'm not my thoughts and I'm not my mind. I have my mind, but if my mind changes or my mind has bad beliefs, it doesn't make me a bad person. It's okay to change your mind because you're not your mind. And the mind is where the ego lives, right? The mental construct that we call I, that's ego.

So when people have to change their mind, they view that as ego-threatening. They're not literally thinking that, but it feels ego-threatening. It's threatening to the I, this thing that we hold on to, your ideas, your concepts. And then that becomes even scarier when your I has a role in your tribe. So again, we talked about being a lifelong Democrat.

So when people have to change their mind, they view that as ego-threatening. They're not literally thinking that, but it feels ego-threatening. It's threatening to the I, this thing that we hold on to, your ideas, your concepts. And then that becomes even scarier when your I has a role in your tribe. So again, we talked about being a lifelong Democrat.

So when people have to change their mind, they view that as ego-threatening. They're not literally thinking that, but it feels ego-threatening. It's threatening to the I, this thing that we hold on to, your ideas, your concepts. And then that becomes even scarier when your I has a role in your tribe. So again, we talked about being a lifelong Democrat.

If the I, who is a Democrat, changes to independent or, God forbid, Republican, then I risk losing my status in the tribe that I had before.

If the I, who is a Democrat, changes to independent or, God forbid, Republican, then I risk losing my status in the tribe that I had before.

If the I, who is a Democrat, changes to independent or, God forbid, Republican, then I risk losing my status in the tribe that I had before.

so that's why changing mind is so hard because it feels ego threatening and only when you get touched with a sense of self that is prior to any ego identification like the real you or you call the highest self authentic self your god self whatever you want to call it can you create enough distance between you and your ego to be willing to change your ego or abandon your ego temporarily