The symbiotic ecology of the psychedelic realm

Quote:What I want to suggest here is that many of the thoughts and feelings we experience as ‘our own’ are not really our own at all, but genetically alien, quasi-independent selves, which exist in symbiosis with the ‘native’ aspects of our conscious lives as described in the Abhidharmic analysis. They are those mysterious and mischievous beings that have been called at various times gods, spirits, angels, demons, elves, archetypes, mass-delusions, aliens, neuroses, and so on. They constitute a rather heterogenous collection of forms of consciousness that have their own psychologies, their own moral principles, their own likes and dislikes. But like the microbiome in our guts, they serve prophylactic and other functional purposes that we are deeply dependent on. If we welcome them as full citizens of our psyche, we will be all the stronger for it.

I agree with the above in totality, having experienced this as myself many times.

What scares the crap out of me is that some weekend seminar therapists think they can manage and manipulate people using drug therapy. These people are not actually qualified, and will likely never be qualified, and have no clue what they are doing. They are not shamanic, so without any insight into this type of awareness. 
We are not here for them to experiment with, and they seriously have no clue what this part of our being is capable of.

For those who are wondering, read the article in the beginning of this post.