Thanks for sharing Dthoughts. Wakingnomad, I think your story was worthwhile also, and I like the absence of pretense.
A few comments....
I agree that we are supposed to change the demons, and we have natural relationships with them. This is a centrally important part of life for everybody, whether they think about it that way or not.
I think you've illustrated though why taking DMT is not a good idea for everyone, even if it was something you needed to do. You're dealing with this demon, so far. But I think it should be obvious that a stronger demon could eventually subvert and kill you, and its still an experiment in progress to see how things will work out with this one. If you keep doing DMT it seems to me likely that you're going to get stronger demons eventually, I don't see how it could be otherwise. And someone else different than you could have more serious problems sooner.
In the past people on this site have often made a big deal of the fact that DMT is naturally occurring in the body, as if this makes consuming it healthy. But alcohol is naturally produced by the body also, and plays a vital role, and is also fairly difficult to overdose on. But it still takes a terrible toll on a lot of people. I'm not equating DMT with alcohol, obviously they are very different. I'm just saying that the "its natural so it must be healthy" argument is BS.
I think sex is another difficult subject, because its also natural, and it causes a lot of problems even in its natural dose. I've got enough lust to father tens of thousands of children, and means to raise two or three relatively well. Natural selection prefers that I have as many children as possible and let most of them die. The instinct is to a large extent hard wired, so there's really no way it can work out painlessly. Birth control helps a lot, but its still a bit of a patch, a way of trying to have sex without actually having sex. All methods have some negative long term effects, most notably on the woman's health, and not all of the effects are obvious to everyone. So we deal with it the best we can, even though for the time being there really isn't an philosophical take on sex or a practical approach that works perfectly well. It seems that most people aren't comfortable with that kind of contradiction, they want a way of feeling about it that's mostly consequence free. But seeing it in a non-ambivalent way requires some form of denial, which always comes with a price also. Personally I prefer to have eyes open, and pay the price of the stress from being conscious of and feeling the contradiction.
Here's my favorite song about demon possession. It might not be an exaggeration to say I've been obsessed with this song. Definitely it touches a nerve.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH8y1BEXWW4
I wish you the best with your 'passenger' Dthoughts. I wouldn't say that you've made the wrong choice, its similar to choices I've made and continue to make. But I'm conscious of the difficulty also, and it sounds like your situation may be more problematic than mine in some regards. Personally I think that trying to experiment safely with hallucinogens while also carrying an alien like that sounds like asking for more trouble than it will be possible to handle indefinitely. But obviously you know yourself, your situation, and who you must be a lot better than I do.
Wakingnomad, I was never Christian in quite the way you were, but I had that feeling of entitlement too, that if I lived right and treated other people well then providence would take care of my needs. "Father knows that you have need of these things". That didn't work out too well for me either. I'd say that if you try sometime, you just might find that you
don't get what you need. But providence does try it seems, even if the ends don't quite meet, and I'm thankful for what I do have. Maybe I can see that its for the best if I step back from the picture far enough, even though there's no way to make sense of it that way as an individual human with his own individual karma.
Anyway, thanks again to both of you guys for sharing, I find that kind of openness really valuable.
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