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When psychedelic exploration creates spiritual competition in groups

Our friend group started doing psychedelics together as a way to deepen our connections and explore consciousness, but it's created this weird hierarchy where whoever had the most profound experience gets to be the spiritual authority for a while. The drugs opened something up but now our egos are more present than ever.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Sacred experiences can become profane when filtered through the need to be special or enlightened relative to others.

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