Not necessarily. There are a variety of well paying jobs in health care that only require 2 year degrees.

I am getting to know Iboga and Kambo better right now. I am trying to connect to them on a deeper level and understand them better. After I am done, I will be running my own private ceremonies(legal in my country btw). On the side, I have been training moksha yoga for 7 months and I am going to get my teachers training by the summer. Then I will become a yoga instructor and finally(4 year plan) I would like to open my own retreat that uses yoga and entheogens for healing.

That is f**king EVIL!!!

Care to name drop this company?

I think that DMT would not narrow or cut out any career options. I work in private wealth management for one of the major Wall Street firms, a choice that I'm happy about.

DMT and other plants/ molecules that I've worked with have been important in my personal studies to illuminate the operative patterns of reality at large, and operative patterns of our perceptual human reality. Working in my field allows me to use these insights to attract value towards my own will.

At the same time, I'd love to have a plot of land in the tropics and grow some teacher plants, or open up an Iboga clinic. My college degree is in biology, so both of these ventures are attractive, and hopefully feasible. I'm going to attend the Psychedemia Conference in Philly and get some insight from people working with the the plants and molecules in clinical, or otherwise professional settings, to see if there are blue ocean opportunities in psychedelics in the near future.

Also, psychedelic use permeates the finance world. Not very much so, but still.

I'd like to go to that conference as well. I doubt that I'll have the time though.

The statement that Psychedellics don't fit in with "well educated people" and more intensive careers I believe couldn't be further from the truth. Yes, of course we will fall into all fields, but I know personally it's Psychedellics are what caused me to persue the direction on astro physics (still in school). To me there would be nothing more rewarding than learning the intricacies of our universe and our place in the scheme of everything.

I am still in education after failing to get into a psychology and philosophy i went down the route of health and social care which i think will be a lot more practical for giving some much needed healing to some people in the future by my hands (i hope lmao). I think we all have dreams of what we would really like to be but how could we ever know?

-Technique

I am stuck on this too. Couldn't pay to finish college and I'm jobless now, looking for restaraunt jobs but doubt I'll get hired, and then I'll never have enough money to buy what I need to extract and smoke dmt. I used to want to be a writer but I never write anymore. I would love to train to become a shaman with a trained shamon in peru but I don't know how to make that dream a reality, also I am a little bit afraid of it. I have no idea what my career will be, but I'm an anarchist and I hate capitalism but I need money, alas.

I fix things. Anything. I just found a place that pays well. If I get bored, ill find another job fixing things. I've been lucky to be born with the gift of understanding how things work.

Ethnobotanist?

Really? The Nexus itself has several PhD scientists, an MD doctor, several others with masters degrees and a whole host of people who are either still in college or freshly out of college.

I'd actually go so far as to say that I see the educated psychedelic users, using them in much more productive way's than those of lessor education. OF COURSE THIS IS JUST A GROSS GENERALIZATION. I feel like the nexus is pretty much proof that the psychedelic community is pretty diverse.

But seriously...plenty of educated people use them. We just keep it on the D/L and don't let it effect our jobs in the 'real' world.

BTW What stops you from getting an education and getting out of retail if you want to? I'm not sure where you live, but in most western countries if you really want to go to college you can get grants or loans (I racked up 50K getting my PhD...it was WELL worth it). It's never to late either. I didn't start college until 22...and I was there full time for 8 years. I am now far better off than if I had not made that decision.



The biggest difference between those that become rock stars and those that don't is that most rocks stars believed they could. Maybe rock star is a bad example, but you can certainly take many different paths in life. Money and finance are a hurdle that many use as an excuse, but there isn't anything stopping someone with enough courage and will power.

BTW Yes I'm generalizing. Obviously people with serious health or mental problems are not on a level playing field. I'm not talking to them though. I'm talking to someone that I can tell is very educated from his posts here. Pick a path in life that makes you happy and go that direction friend. Just believe you can and then do it.

After all one thing psychedelics have certainly shown me is that our potential is essentially unlimited....in fact the only limit really is our own self doubt.

Peace

I completely agree with Joedirt on this one. Although many nexians may frown upon it, I work in the business world, and I feel I can apply what I've learned from entheogens on a daily basis.

Making money to make money and buy more crap is not productive for your soul. However, working hard to make money so you have the freedom to learn more and help heal the world is very rewarding.

I don't feel there is any age where it is "too late" to pursue higher education. Many people try to degrade the importance of higher education because they know so many people who have gotten a degree and still appear to be uneducated. The thing to focus on is getting a degree is a key to a better future, not the end goal.

Employers know that someone who has taken the time to get a 2, 4, 6, 8 year degree have the vision and foresight to understand that the most rewarding things in life take time, blood, sweat, and tears. You may end up getting a degree and working in a field that doesn't even deal with what you went to school for. This is fine. A degree is what allows you to stand out in the crowd.

If you feel stuck working in a job you hate, making less money than you would like, then bust your butt to make a better life for yourself. You can create the life you want. Granted, you can go to a festival at anytime and find a bunch of "braindead hippies" bragging about how much LSD and 'shrooms' and 'molly' they can eat, but those are not the people that use these tools to change the world.

Good luck on your journey

I'll be frank.

My dream job is to own a pharmaceutical company that specialized in brain chemistry and developing a class of drugs I dubbed "super psychedelics". What is a super psychedelic? Imagine taking a molecule that lasted about as long as a DMT trip 15 minutes or so, but to the user you out there in hyperspace for years, eons even. A trip to the farthest depths of space, and by the time you get back you have libraries of experiences that you've brought back with you.


Of course very few will be ready or willing for such an experience.