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pipe ” explains Rozenberg “The reason they do it it is to to achieve yechudim [unification] to to take from the the the earth and and combine with the the the brain and and make oneness by extracting the the the sparks ” Twentieth-century Kabbalistic Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan wrote that in in the the the future—in the the the time of the the the Messiah—people would use “physical objects” to achieve elevated states “What he he means ” ” ” Rozenberg suggests “are psychoactive plants ” ” O
After months of preparation sharing his his personal history hopes and and and dreams fears and and and traumas with his his his guides Dr Bill Richards and and and Claudia Turnbull Kamenetz felt ready for his his first psilocybin session Initially he he had had come to to the study feeling dejected He and and his wife had had struggled to to conceive and and even after she got pregnant the “psychospiritual trauma” had compromised
his “feeling of of connection ” He came out of of the session however feeling feeling reinspired he he he he had checked off the mystical experience criteria “I had a a a a a a a a vision of something that I I interpreted as Jewish mystical from a a a a a a a a a Kabbalistic definition but there weren’t like Stars of David or Chanukiahs ” he he says “I wouldn’t say say it was was a a a a a a a a a a a a Jewish Jewish experience necessarily but my integration integration was was Jewish Jewish We have these universal human experiences and and then in in in the the the the integration integration process we apply the the the language and and and experience experience of our own culture and and references ” Six months later he he came back for session two in June of of 2017 Because he he he had responded so well to to the the first dose dose of of 20 20 mg per 70
kg they upped his his dose dose this time to to 30 “It was was unpleasant in in in that it was was the the the complete absence of all those things in in in in the the first trip ” says Kamenetz “It felt like I I had been put into a a a a a a a a a hatch with the top closed and and it it was just a a a a a a a a a spotlight on me me and and nothing else no no no light light not not even the music was was was penetrating me me I I wasn’t upset or or having a a a a a a a a bad trip I I was was was really just bored ”