In 1900, the average life expectancy of a newborn was 32 years. By 2021 this had more than doubled to 71 years.*
My dad turned 94 yesterday. After surviving a heart attack and cancer, he lives independently in NYC with his girlfriend who is five years older than him. They walk a mile a day.
Yes, he won the longevity lottery, but humans are generally living longer and stronger these days. We used to have one career and then hang it up, retiring somewhere around fifty or sixty years old. Now that won’t do. We would get bored during the latter half of our lives and due to our lower birth rates and longer lifespans, we need to support ourselves longer. We need to support others longer.
To live and work longer, we can’t rely on that initial inspiration that birthed our first career in early life. We need to be birthed again into our original career with new inspiration or into a new career altogether. Otherwise, we will spend 20-30 years feeling stale and uninspired.
One of the chief differences between the dawn of our original careers and rebirth at this later stage is we have so much previous experience - so many memories of trauma and earlier dramas. Our sprints are wrapped up in our previous stories. We must somehow put these previous successes and failures further into our pasts to free up space for our longer futures.
The psilocybin mushroom experience rapidly helps you see these previous struggles for what they were. It creates distance from them in your mind and offers a new perspective. You reemerge astounded by how much mental capacity and psychic space you have to recreate yourself. You have increased energy and excitement without those ghosts of your life past leaching your vitality.
This is what you need to create the new life you want. This is what you need to be reborn into the latter half of your existence.