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When spiritual practices create division in friend groups

Our friend group started doing plant medicine ceremonies together but now there's this weird dynamic where some of us are having profound experiences and others feel left out or like they're 'doing it wrong' and it's creating distance instead of connection. We don't know how to talk about it without making it worse.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Shared transcendent seeking has paradoxically generated hierarchy and separation within intimate community.

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