Source: Persuasion
by Jules Evans
“The psychedelic underground was a niche subculture, with its own rituals, terminology and sacred sites, its heroes, and its Dionysian ethics of altered states, blurred boundaries, and psychedelic polyamory. When harm, misconduct, rapes, or deaths occurred, they were rarely reported and generally accepted. This was the jungle, literal or metaphorical. What’s happened in the last five years is this underground has gone overground and attracted millions of newbies, and it’s now set to become part of mainstream U.S. mental healthcare. The question is: can psychedelic culture shed the Dionysian ethics of the underground and become professionalized, bureaucratized and normal? What would be gained by that? And what lost?” (02/25/25)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/psychedelics-go-mainstream-kind-of