The relationship between psychedelics and prophecy

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yom Tov Glaser’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Shalom and welcome to Practical Spirituality here in ancient town the old city of Jerusalem overlooking the Western Wall. And today we're discussing a little bit about the relationship between prophecy and and psychedelic medicines, plant medicines or chemical compounds that cause psychedelic experience in one's brain. And the and they're they're related in how we what we have to gain from this is that is that those are things are psychedelic medicines are things are psychedelic medicines are very dangerous for someone who's not ready for them. They don't have a vessel for that amount of exposure to to a reality that's the reality way beyond the reality that we are privy to. See the reality you see around you, everything you see around you, the room you're in or the car you're driving if you're listening to this in a car or wherever you are, the reality around you is not being fully experienced, quite the opposite. It's your filters that are your it's being filtered out as much as your it's being filtered out as much as possible. Not only that, but you're even helping it get filtered out. Kabbalistically, God's light's getting filtered out of things and there's much more light that's all around you, but it's being filtered right now. And that's good cuz otherwise you you know you'd I don't know what you'd probably brush your teeth on your forehead. And the and the so things are getting filtered out, but not only that, you're filtering a tremendous amount. You know how much stimulation's coming your way right now and you're filtering it so you can pay attention to me. So you're in constant filtering and

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