WARNING - This is a long, Opinionated but Observational take on the "New Age Mystic Scene" in my area. Feel free to Scroll past - it may not be relevant to your area. I'm just passing on what I've been seeing for Years and stating my Observation - No Hate, and Sorry it's so Long......
This may be completely unrelated to the Topic at hand to an extent, but this is just a random Thought / Theory that I've been tossing around in my mind. I do feel like what I would consider the "New Age Mystic Scene" at least in my area of the World.............To be people who are Festival Heads, which I have no issue with and I think seems like a Good Time and somewhere that you would hopefully see Humans treating each other at least a little better than how your "Average" non Psychedelic / Mind Expanding Person may ignorantly act sometimes - but at least around the area that I live, this is NOT the case at all.
A large chunk of these types of 20-40 year old New Age, Mystic, Hippieish folks that I've met are still just as Cliquey, just as Greedy, just as Unwilling to Accept someone that's not like them at all.......as if because you choose to NOT eat sheets of LSD, or Smoke DMT, or insert Psychedelic Here, it makes you less intelligent than them, or not as good as them. I've even had people treat me like I'm on some Narc type shit because I don't have Dreadlocks or Long Hair. SO Judgmental!
I've met A LOT of people in this scene over the past 12 years, and I've noticed what I consider a New Trend - although it may just be New to Me - but, the New Age Hippie Scene where I live, I've had to coin a new term for a lot of the one's who choose to Provide Psychedelics to their Community.............Gippies = Definition - A Hippie who suddenly gets the mental complex that he's somehow a form of a Gangster or OG because he / she happens to sell a few Pounds of Nuggets, or has moved a few sheets at a Festival. The Hippies where I live fuck with guns, they recruit the Younger Generation to sell for them, which I find no different than the way that true Gangs like the Crips and Bloods recruit 14-17 year old kids to move their Crack or Heroin for them. It's NO DIFFERENT, it's just a more accepted / different group of drugs. This group is VERY possibly corrupting someone Younger than Them for their own SELFISH Personal Gain. Fucked up REGARDLESS of Scene or Group.
Not only that, they participate in Shady Business Practices - Taking 5-HTP at a ratio of 70/30 cutting all their Molly, taking sheets of L and cutting down the size to as to take an 1/8th of each tab for themselves for free without the customer knowing by making all the doses from that sheet the same size. Fucking HEROIN is HUGE in the Hippie scene where I live - and not just Sniffing or Smoking it.........Coke is HUGE - These Gippies will do Molly like Coke and go on multiple week Benders, having NO RESPECT for the Compounds they offer.
I mention these things because 11-12 years ago, I was down with this Scene and while I've never been a Hippie, or looked like a Hippie - I thought it was rad because back then, it was one of the first places that I met people who were different than me, but I felt like they were accepting and understanding of being different, and I appreciated that - But this whole scene has RAPIDLY DECOMPOSED in my Opinion, people robbing each other, trying to act like their Thugs when you KNOW they're Bitchmade. I feel like in the past 5-6 years is when the Scene has gotten the worst - because there was a point when the Shows and Festivals were all about the MUSIC and Creating a Temporary Community - a place where EVERYONE felt SAFE to Trip and have Fun. Nowadays I talk to people about the last show that they went to - not even 6 months ago, a person told me that there were 2 cases of DATE RAPE at the Festival that he went to..............and obviously no ones calling the Police, which this is the ONLY APPROPRIATE OCCASION TO CALL THEM! People are just getting hurt now because they have ZERO INTEREST in Educating themselves about the Compounds they choose to take. People don't even know what a Mandellin Test or Reagents are. I've tested big Hippie Hustlers "MDMA" in front of them with a Reagent and proved to them what they were moving WAS NOT MDMA - their comment............"We're not taking this batch anymore, but it's still gettin' sold".
I really fucking HATE the "Molly" craze. MDMA is a Beautiful Compound if you take it in the right circumstances, like with your Lover or Close Group of Friends - but the way people use it now..........There's going to be a fucking Generation of heads with fucked up Serotonin Syndrome from doing so much of that shit just for the Gluttony of it - and a large chunk of what the Uneducated are taking is probably some RC. Not only that - but these "Tree Huggers" don't even know anything about the Compound AT ALL. They don't know that the base compound for Synthesis is Safrole - a compound from the Jungles of Brazil that's ENDANGERED, and becoming more so as MDMA has become a more common Street and Club Drug. I just find it Ironic that the group who claim to love nature...........probably don't even realize that their favorite Party Drug is starting to ruin our Planet to an extent in my Opinion. I also enjoy asking this Generation if they know what M D M A even stands for, the say No at least 80-90% of the time, and when I tell them it's Methylene-Dioxy-METH-Amphetamine........You can see their eyes kind of widen like "This is related to METH"....??? These are people who if you offered Meth would look at you like a Grimy Junkie and shun you from their Circle. I also LOVE to ask them if they know what BLUELIGHT or Erowid is - again, 80-90% have NO CLUE about BL, whereas maybe only 60% don't know about Erowid.
I've just been around this Scene for a minute now, and I've watched it Evolve - and I DO NOT like what it's become. I'm from the Hood in my City - and these cats just don't realize what being REAL is. It's not fun or cool to grow up broke as fuck - that's why people TRULY start Hustlin' and Grindin' the Streets, not because they think it's Cool, but out of Necessity. Ask an OG - They don't want to be in the Streets, and if they came up that way - a majority of them try and instill different values in the Younger Generation - Go to College, be Legit, you'll be happier in the End - because they know. I was fortunate enough in a lot of ways to have a few true OG's teach me about how the World and the Game REALLY works, and most importantly, that it's not a life you want - it's a life pushed on You. They also taught me about Self Awareness and the Importance of it above all else - REGARDLESS of Psychedelics. You should be a Good Person who Seeks Knowledge and treats his Fellow Human Beings with Respect and Love regardless of Race, Color, or Creed. I feel like this Element of bringing up the Next Generation Right is SEVERELY LACKING in the "New Age Mystic Scene", which I basically consider to be the Hippie Scene around here - plus a few random weirdos. The Older Generation needs to Step Up and Educate.
They're just trying to be something that they aren't, and they try so fucking hard. Most of them are upper middle class White Kids who want to be Thugs for some reason. I just don't fucking get it?? It just seems like something that was really great is just getting Ruined......but so it goes. Eventually all good Underground Scenes get Exploited by the Mainstream for $$$$ - just stick around long enough and you'll see. That's why I promote to this group the concept of TRADING instead of SELLING. All compounds are like basically having a different form of Currency - the Older Dead Heads and Hippies need to get their Scene Right ASAP before it gets FUCKED. I'm an Underground Hip Hop head, so I have no reason to really care other than the fact that I see something I think they don't. Anyways, sorry for the Long Post - This thread may not even be Suited for it, but these thoughts have been rattling around in my head for a good year or 2 now and I just want to throw it out there to see what BLer's think about what's going on in My City. I'm not saying it's like this Everywhere, Hopefully just where I'm from. Anyways..........Peace - Meowfish
