and reality won't cooperate?

This is the ultimate dilemma faced by shamans and cult leaders.

How does one know when one's interpretation of 'reality' is correct or incorrect?

I worry that my vocabulary is missing words to properly describe all that's going on.

Besides me, how many of you believe the reality we're experiencing terminates when Dagny shuffles off her mortal coil? Aye, there's the rub!

Well, Dagny will not shuffle off due to "rapture". I know things.

Sus, you don't know half of my shenanigans!

I don't see me shuffling anywhere except to the grocery store.

Human's thread, "are you experienced?" Brought up a book treating the (purported) benefits of psychedelic drugs. To which I respond,

"Reality is for people who can't handle drugs."

Well. When most of us try to bend reality to our will it springs back and slaps us in the face, or, somewhere else more fleshy.

But for the gifted few--shamans, if you like, but I prefer"Shameless"--they have little people from the village to do the dirty work to keep things bent as they promise a future reward. A way, way, way in the future reward. It's an alpha beta world after all.

You can make a lot of money, depending on your degree of success.

You lose. I proposed, as an example, the custom soda craze that seems to be a Utah specific phenomenon. Avoiding coffee and tea in favor of sugar drinks because your God says it's better for you won't stop the metabolic disease from damaging your nerves and liver.