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ctindel t1_j30pv9l wrote

Reply to comment by machined_learning in New York lawmakers want to legalize DMT, psilocybin, and mescaline by Character_Mall_1966

There’s literally no way anyone can know what the juice tastes like without having tasted it. It’s a bad analogy to prove your point but it’s a great analogy to prove the inverse haha.

There’s no way someone can know what psychedelics are like without trying them.

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machined_learning t1_j31qasx wrote

Definitely don't want you as my therapist lol

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ctindel t1_j31x2br wrote

I remember trying guava nectar for the first time as an adult when I went to Hawaii. I had never tasted anything like it. There’s no way someone could have described it to me in a way I’d really understand without having tasted it myself.

I dunno maybe great therapists can imagine what guava nectar tastes like without having tasted it, but I really doubt it. The most they could do is ask “how did that make you feel when you drank it?”

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machined_learning t1_j33eowy wrote

Well the original commenter I was responding to had a great insight, which was that even if the person used psychedelics it would be difficult to compare their experience to my experience and even know if they are similar enough to be useful in a therapy setting.

In essence, if everyone's experience is so different anyway, why not just look for someone who has opened their mind to the experience and maybe studied it or worked closely with other people who have. A mind open to possibility and understanding could be more in line with what I would want, rather than a mind that deals in absolutes like "there is literally no way anyone can know what the juice tastes like..."

I see what you are saying though. Psychedelics are hard to imagine without having tried them.

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