 The psychedelic renaissance is entirely about corporate greed Money has begun flowing into companies intending to monetize psychedelic therapy as new research has increasingly shown that blowing one's mind Can alter it for the better? reads a new article for the Los Angeles Times titled money is pouring into psychedelics meet the mystical hedge fund investor bank rolling the boom This scientific and commercial excitement rests on research showing that psychedelics can supercharge mental health treatment for PTSD depression anxiety addiction and other chronic ailments of the mind enabling patients to dive deep confront their traumas and a rarity for mental illnesses Return healed the article reads that goes for synthetic chemicals such as MDMA and ketamine as well as plant derived drugs such as psilocybin the active ingredient in magic mushrooms the South American plant brew ayahuasca and The West African root derived substance iboga LA Times as Sam Dean shares the personal journey of hedge fund investor Saad Shah and his involvement with what has become a multi-billion dollar psychedelics industry long before the legal Infrastructure necessary for such companies to turn a profit is in place We learn of Shah's experience with ayahuasca his interest in mystical traditions and personal growth and his Conviction in the shift that has for the last few years being known as the psychedelic renaissance And then about halfway down the article we get to the actual meat of the matter quote Shah welcomes big pharma and big institutions to enter the fray in the interest of spreading the chemical gospel far and wide He sees the financial and therapeutic potential for psychedelics not in the cannabis model Which would make psychedelics broadly available for retail purchase, but in the pharmaceutical mode Psychedelics as prescribed drugs with patent rights administered in medical settings and quote that with patent rights bit right there is behind the so-called psychedelic renaissance We've been hearing so much about Favoring the FDA regulatory route over the Oregon route as a psychiatrist cited in the article put it It's being driven not by the need to free human consciousness from the prohibition induced coma It's been under since the 60s so that we can collectively navigate through the many existential hurdles Our species is fast approaching with wisdom and insight But by the agenda to make rich people even richer by forcefully controlling psychedelic substances via the pharmaceutical industry And I'll take it a step further and say that the recent mainstreaming of psychedelics is also due to the fact that the abusive nature of Capitalism is causing a widespread mental health crisis that our rulers have a vested interest in preventing so that the slaves will keep turning the gears of the machine Terrence McKenna once said Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong But this is changing we're now seeing support for psychedelic use from the same plutocratic class and its corporate media who always work to maintain The status quo upon which their kingdoms are built Netflix has released multiple documentaries extolling the benefits of hallucinogenic substances for personal growth and healing Every few days. There's a new mainstream article or news segment about the latest study showing the undeniable mental health benefits of this or that Psychedelic substance for this or that psychological ailment So what changed? The situation changed Global capitalist institutions are acutely aware that Western civilization is in the midst of a mental health crisis That only looks likely to get worse With depression anxiety disorders and substance abuse skyrocketing on myriad fronts for years The increasingly widespread use of antidepressants has not led to an overall decline in symptoms and prevalence of mood disorders in the US Australia Canada England and other wealthy countries in America young people have been growing progressively more depressed and anxious for over 80 years and no one knows why Well, I could hazard to guess why I Would guess that continually pummeling people's minds with messaging that they are inadequate if they don't look a certain way Own the right products and make enough money is bad for their psychological health. I Would guess that hammering people with bootstrapping fallacies and telling them that they're the problem if they can't keep their head above water In a system that's rigged against them. It drives people a bit crazy. I Would guess that a non-stop barrage of mass media propaganda Shamelessly lying to people and telling them that everything's fine when it clearly isn't and that endless human butchery by the military is perfectly normal Takes a toll on their psychological well-being. I Would guess that growing poorer and poorer and having more and more of your power taken away from you as a surf under a Corporate oligarchy is alienating and depressing. I Would guess that working long hours at meaningless gear turning for an amoral corporate machine while being inundated with artificial mainstream Culture manufactured in Hollywood, New York, and Langley is soul-destroying So our mental health is deteriorating the solutions our systems have been offering are not working And in fact, it's likely that the deterioration of mental health is due primarily to the abuse of nature of those very systems But the capitalism machine still needs workers and those workers won't turn the gears if they can't get out of bed in the morning So desperate measures have been called in give the gear turners tightly controlled doses of psychedelics Enough to get them functional But not enough to awaken them to the reality of their enslavement and hopefully built some systemic scaffolding Which enables their minds to put up with the relentless mass scale psychological abuse that the status quo requires This is why nearly all of the chatter we are seeing about psychedelics is about fixing people's psychological problems instead of helping them to attain Self-actualization transformation Transcendence and enlightenment. It's not about waking people up. It's about turning them from broken cogs into useful cogs It's not to free them from the machine, but to help them better serve it Psychedelics are not useful for the hallucinations they provide, but for the hallucinations they remove At the shallower end of the pool they can help dispel the psychological illusions which feed into our depression anxiety and PTSD At the deep end they have the potential to remove our fundamental hallucinations about ego mind separation and consciousness The gamble appears to be premised on building a high fence to keep everyone playing in the shallow end of the pool where they are useful But as people often point out whenever I highlight this that plan can easily backfire You're not dealing with something mundane and predictable here. You're dealing with the most uncharted terrain in human consciousness There's a lot of wiggle room for miracles in that space If psychedelics were anything other than a threat to the status quo They wouldn't have been banned for half a century and the CAA would still be dosing the public with LSD It will be interesting to see how this thing unfolds Maybe this time they finally bid off more than they can chew