Yes the psychedelic community remains very much a marginalized fringe, a sub cult of sort, the fact that these pursuits are illegal and carry the stigma and reputation fostered onto the straight community by the media, the church and government propaganda. so here we are, frowned upon by the main stream, misunderstood, alienated and oppressed.
On top of that the psychedelic fringe of illegal drug takers is also misjudged and dismissed by the weed smokers, the coke sniffers, the criminals the outcasts and social underclass at the bottom tiers of western society also spurns us, thinks we are weird, hippys, or too spiritual, too serious about the visions, to out there, too intellectual perhaps, but we fit in nowhere and we are spread far apart, so spending time together in any form of group setting for the psychedelic community usually seems to be non existant or limited to rave partys etc...
I have only a handful of friends that I would consider serious spiritual tripping buddies, and we rarely get together.
But psychedelic users have these amazing experiences and we want to share those tales with other in a similar way people who have a doctrine or a religion as their means of attaining peace and understanding want to share it too. it's only natural.
But I have another perspective that I would like to offer, instead of feeling hard done by and marginalized and oppressed adopt the much older and traditional stance and keep the secrets, move stealthily in the shadows, don't draw any attention from mainstream society to you psychedelic adventures, and don't feel bad about that, feel lucky, blessed, gratefull that you have found a path into the underworld of spirits and elves and entities and ghosts and angels and MAGIC.
For thousands of years people have known these things, quiet rural communities through history have used sacred plants and herbs, there have always been wizards, sorcerers, witches, alchemists, great philosophers and shaman, people that were outlawed and cast down by the church, by the ruling elite, so it was all kept secret, a sideways glance in the tavern, a sly nod of the head or a wink through the crowd in the churchyard, smugglers, black marketeers, gypsys, the traveling circus folk and now us, the psychedelic shamans on the techno age.
many many people have kept their secret traditions and knowledge of the underworld, the other, the confounding, the magical, hidden deep from the watching eyes of the kings men, phycedelics are a part of that underworld story, mushrooms hemlock belladonna datura many herbs and things we have long forgotten were used as part of this other way of having the human experience.
These experiences are not for everyone, let the ones who desire it seek it out, keep these wonderful substances as a sacrament shared by a few, those of us who know need not tell. Don't demand legalization, don't demand anything, don't tell them anything, just enjoy having this secret practice that they can't touch, the mushroom says "only the true and the good can touch this", the straight people, why they can't get anywhere near this, so stop preaching to them about how wonderful it is and how unfair it is that its not on the shelves in the local drug store and shut up about it, fade into the darkness with a wry smile, keep it private, keep it hidden, tell them nothing disappear into the shadows.
why not outsmart them, let them think they have won the war on drugs, be discrete, be smart, be carefull, dont give them any statistics, then they will go away and hopefully direct there fear and loathing towards some other marginal group of poor bastards that are standing out like a sore thumb, fuck them, the art of war requires intelligence, and cunning, they dont have that, they are ignorant narrow minded reactional brutes, surely we can outsmart them by magically making them look elsewhere, they wont even realize we did it, it's beautiful.
