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What Have Psychedelics Taught You?

Psychedelics have taught me that enlightenment is out there, but even when found is fleeting and must be constantly sought and re-sought to keep it in your life.
 
sidestyle said:
For me, psychedelics have helped me through various stages of personal development. They have taught me about respecting each substance as an entity, for all things are alive and have their own consciousness.

I have learned about the nature of God, that the concept of God is simply (and complexly) a babushka doll. I think of myself as a cell in a larger organism which could be earth (think gaia theory), which is a cell in the larger organism that is the cosmos. This goes on for many layers, I think. And we are all bound by energy and that energy is love. I have found the importance of transmitting love to the best of my ability at all times. This, ultimately, is spirituality. Love and fogiveness.

Whatever we do to others and the world around us, we do to ourselves. This is another big lesson.

LSD has definitely been a more analytical psychedelic for me, and has not been as much of a teacher as a tool. For this reason, I no longer believe in LSD for growth and prefer plant teachers such as mushrooms or San Pedro cacti because I believe that they contain wisdom that transcends our world. Man-made molecules lack the full spectrum of alkaloids that plants contain, thus losing the full essence and spirit of the plant. It's as if someone extracted all the serotonin from my body and said "if we drink sidestyle's serotonin, we will learn all the wisdom he has to teach." You would learn much more if you were to talk to me or if you were to make a diagnosis of my full body and brain. I believe plants are the same way and the chemicals that they contain. Smoked and injected DMT, for example, hardly have the transformative effects of ayahuasca (though I haven't taken ayahuasca yet).

I have taken many RCs and they have taught me things, but the knowledge did not come from an outside entity or "source." It was simply shifts in perception.

We are all one!
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Dude, if you took synthesized DMT with a synthesized MAOI, you would have the same trip as a traditional ayahuasca ceremony. Personally I found a pure psilocybin trip better than a shroom trip due to the cleanliness and the clarity. LSD still comes from a plant, at the end of the day. Plants are merely natures chemists, there's no magic involved - psilocybin is psilocybin, DMT is DMT, mescaline is mescaline. Furthermore, "natures" way has more side effects - bufo alvarius can be toxic in high amounts, however the psychoactive compound 5-MEO-DMT has a low toxicity profile.

Shrooms, DMT, LSD, 4-aco-dmt, 2cb and MDA all changed my life for the better. Ketamine also helped (it's true about the anti-depressant qualities, shame about the addiction potential).

4-aco-dmt & Shrooms unlocked a part of my brain I never knew I had, for emotion and intelligence. It taught me to love and appreciate, not mope and be ungrateful. Also

Acid showed me we are all one in this world, and that psychedelics really can cause some visual craziness. Also a few guys who were on 2ce while I did a big acid dose were convinced I could tell the future as I finished their sentences for them. I'm probably not though

DMT showed me the light, and how to not fear death. It also taught me spirituality, and pain.

2cb & MDA taught fun and how to lose anxiety

Ketamine helped through a dark time (as did all the above). It puts everything on a pedestal and gives you time to look at it, while psychedelics are just throwing information in your face. I imagine that's lack of meditation though
 
I love this thread it's reminded me of a lot of good stuff. PDs have taught me to be more kind, to do the right thing. I've had a lot of fairly mundane insights that wouldn't be worth describing, but have been very positive and instrumental in guiding my life.
 
Psychedelics have taught me that the universe is designed to exist the way it does by someone or something which we do not comprehend. There are no choices in life in true reality except our subjective interpretations. Every thought, every person, every plant, every wave of energy, every building, every molecule, every star, every single thing in the universe simply manifests itself according to a divine design. We may better understand its nature by drawing connections but to truly understand how and why is beyond our grasp. When we make decisions we subjectively believe we are in control of things when in reality the choice has already been made and has been designed as such. And so I never chose to take psychedelics, it was all a part of the design. Whether I succeed or fail, live or die, it does not matter. What will happen will simply happen.
 
The Drugs did everything that the OP Mentioned and LONG-LIST OF LONG-TERM POSITIVE EFFECTS LONG-AFTER BEING SOBER AND OFF THE Drug.
 
Psychedelics have taught me that we are not what we were taught. Our perceptions and feelings about the world are only a condition of a very thin chemical balance within our brain. Change it the slightest and no rules can be applied any more. The common perceptions and "essence of self" in a non-psychedelic state are as "true" as any psychedelic induced perceptions, reasoning or feelings. The "common state" is the fittest for survival though.
 
Yeah me too... questioning things is my baseline state now. But when I was a kid I accepted a great deal without question, though I suppose I still questioned more than most. I suppose that's normal, as a little kid you almost have no choice but to accept the world in front of you that has been presented to you by parents, role models, authority figures, etc. But it seems some people never move past that. I agree, one of the most valuable aspects of the psychedelic experience is that it often leads people to question the status quo of their lives/beliefs. And that is ALWAYS valuable, even if after questioning you return to the same belief. Without questioning, you are simply following dogma... dogma of society, religion, etc. If everyone thought for themselves the world would be a very different place.
 
LSD gave me lessons on how DNA and brain work. Of course it let me see the Matrix, which was simultaneously scarily stunning and groundbreakingly relieving experience.
 
shrooms taught me the importance of solitude and self worth, LSD taught me the fragility of all living things, DMT showed me there really is one (or more) higher power(s) and there is "somewhere else"

Also my 2nd blastoff helped me quit watching porn
 
willow11 said:
Psychedelics helped me realise that there is no such thing as value, as good or bad, in an objective sense. The quality of your life is purely subjective. You have the choice, at all times and in all circumstances, to make the decision about how you will feel. Everything is relative, nothing is of more importance then anything else unless we make it so. We have the complete and fully-formed power to make our life whatever we want- and it is the realisation of this that will lead to actual unconditional happiness and contentedness. The only real choice we need to make is when we will take up, and use, that power. Unlike so much, it is there for everybody and at any time.
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An excellent summary, i strongly agree.
 
Psychadelics usually make me realise that I should use drugs in moderation and stop using drugs that offer little introspection such as opiates and benzo's, however this is a clarity of thought I only reach when I am tripping, oh the irony of having to be high to realising u shouldn't get high as often.

In all seriousness it has helped me become a more humble person, a person who tries to value the precious non physical things in my life that effect my emotions.
That my life will be richer through experience as opposed to wealth or posessions

Mainly I like to take large doses of psychadelics when I am at my worse moments in life, I feel it offers a removed non self centred perspective on how to address the issues

Also it's made me realise how damn beautiful mother nature is and I am literally a tree hugger a lot of the time when I am very high on shrooms or LSD
 
I went into psychedelics looking for answers. The most valuable thing they ended up showing me was how to question things for a change which for me was a perceptual change that was more valuable than any "answers" I was hoping to find. I've been able to integrate a lot of that perspective into my life as well. Something that no other kind of drug has given me.
 
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