Rav Arora

New essay published on my MDMA therapy session last year — a 6-hour voyage into the tyranny of obsessive goal-setting and hyper-ambition. It’s taken me a long time to unspool and understand it. Thanks to @jordan.b.peterson for the words of wisdom ahead and after the trip (more on that soon). I go into the psychedelic realm once every year or two years when I feel a bit stuck in life or the need to resolve something in my psyche.

As a very ambitious person, it’s hard to let go of goal-setting but the trip revealed how this internal narrative had become so suffocating and unbreathable.

At one point, it showed me an alternative: living more from peaceful presence and authentic desire than inner pressure and pursuit of validation.

Thanks to @carsonkivari and my therapist Xiva for facilitating this illuminating journey. This was one of the most profound experiences of my life — making the integration extremely difficult!

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