In recent years, singularity has become a pretty hot topic, and especially the issue of transhumanism (H+), the possibility of enhancing our bodies through the means of merging it with technology – bionic eyes, wireless “telepathy”, an internet connection straight to our brains, etc.

However, in my opinion, a lot of the promoters of the so-called H+ miss the point that the Buddha understood thousands of years ago – it is not our bodies that are responsible for our suffering, it is our minds. It does not matter how much gadgets will we connect to our bodies, how sophisticated they will become, or how many “super powers” will we acquire in the process – it is our minds that make us miserable or unhappy, it is our thought patterns that keep us believing something is lacking in our lives, that we need something more in order to become happier, smarter, better.

And thus, I suggest it is our minds that we must first transcend. Not our intellect, but the way our consciousness operates, what drives our suffering and misery. And the answer has been known for thousands of years – it is the way we identify ourselves with our thoughts and egos, it is the way we cling to things that are pleasant and avoid things that are unpleasant, or in short – it is the way our mind tries to enforce itself onto reality instead of submitting to what is.

Our world is in a grave situation, consciousness-wise, it the age of ego unlike any other – self over other humans, self over animals, self over nature. And to go back to where we began – H+ is the peak for this ego-centered existence – we must make OURSELVES better, no matter the cost!

And there has been an answer to this, for thousands of years. The classic answer, the Buddha’s answer, is meditation. Meditation as a means to train our minds to be more accepting of what is, to become more calm and still in the face of the utter chaos that is our lives. However, sometimes meditation on its own is not enough, especially in a world as ego crazed as ours. While meditation is the slow dripping of water that dissolves a rock over a long time, sometimes you just need a fucking sledgehammer. And that’s where psychedelics come in.

Psychedelics have been with man for a long time, by some estimations much longer than meditation. Some even believe that the “discovery” of psilocybin mushrooms led to the revolution in consciousness that led to cave drawings and eventually written language. Although I’m not the most experienced psychonaut myself, from the little experience I do have, I believe psychedelics to be powerful tools for the transformation of consciousness, from the ego-centered, suffering-laden consciousness of the contemporary westerner into something softer, healthier, more “expanded”.

I believe every psychedelic substance is a different tool in the quest for transconciousness, and I’ve noticed that I’m slowly identifying and characterizing them in my own pursuit of a calmer, quieter, less ego-centered life. And this is what this blog is about.