I've always liked to smoke pot. When I smoke outside I feel much better than in some stuffed up old basement or crowded under a stove ventilator. In the spring I hunt morel mushrooms in the mountains around my home, and when I smoke on my mushroom trips I feel more connected to the world than any other time. Of course I feel very connected to the earth its self when I go on my mushrooms hunts anyway, but perched on a rock at the top of a ridge makes me feel so rooted. Anyone else feel mega attached to the whole world when they smoke out in the wild? Anyone do mushrooms or some other, earthly drug out in the wild world away from the civilized places that made them feel truly rooted to this planet?
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Xorkoth
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I always prefer to trip or smoke weed outside, for this very reason. It feels more natural and the way it enhances my perception of nature is far more profound and beautiful than any enhanced perceptions of somewhere away from nature. As humans we are part of nature, though we often try to set ourselves apart ideologically. and/or physically. We lived intimately with nature for millions of years, hundreds of millions if you count all the way back in our species' evolution, and it's only recently that people began spending the majority of their time indoors or in big cities. It's my belief that a big part of the reason so many people are anxious and depressed and lost is because they have removed themselves from something that is a fundamental part of who and what we are.
Never mind while on drugs, even more when sober. One summer I went to live in a mountain/fjord area and I used to go down and lie by the water every morning. And after 1 1/2 hour I would feel very high on the vitality of the sunshine, water, trees and the whole purity of the place.
Xorkoth
Bluelight Crew
Yes I made sure 6 and a half years ago that I moved into a great treehouse in the woods on a mountainside. 
I think it's important to be close to nature in life, not just on drugs.
I think it's important to be close to nature in life, not just on drugs.Great insight folks. I agree entirely, even when I'm sober I just seem to feel better when I'm outside. Its almost like we've built these walls around ourselves emotioanlly as we've built walls around ourselves physically. It really irks me when people pit humanity against nature, against technology, against wildlife, against community. WE are all the same thing. Even the internet and devices we love to blame for separating us from nature is part of it as well. In fact I would be willing to say I wouldn't know as much or be willing to experiment as much, or venture as far without the knowledge I attained by reading internet articles or buying books I wouldn't normally have access to from other parts of the world.
swilow
Bluelight Crew
Never mind while on drugs, even more when sober. One summer I went to live in a mountain/fjord area and I used to go down and lie by the water every morning. And after 1 1/2 hour I would feel very high on the vitality of the sunshine, water, trees and the whole purity of the place.
My god I fucking love Norway
Foreigner
Bluelighter
Natural landscapes are more conducive to creative thinking, I've noticed. Not many straight lines, diversity of natural colour, living bioenergy and matter, cleaner conditions, fewer harsh intrusions.
Birc0014
Bluelighter
I'm going to wander around Norther California in April, I have heard its beautiful, any insights?
Xorkoth
Bluelight Crew
Indeed, I always prefer to be outside.
Northern Cali is definitely beautiful. I've only been to the north valley/up into the mountains around Mt Shasta (and also the mountains to Mt Lassen). Oh and to the coast, driving across the coastal range. I recommend any of these places. Basically anywhere in the mountains is amazing. Check out the redwoods and if you go far enough north, the sequoias.
Birc0014
Bluelighter
Redwoods/Sequoias are def on the list, if I wasnt such a pussy I would tent up and go looking for Sentinel...I know she in there somewhere. I plan on coming down the coast from Oregon and criscrossing NC until I run out of money and then driving down to LA or possibly as far as SD to visit family and do the coastal highway. Not sure where to start but I usually just wander anyways.
swilow
Bluelight Crew
I think there is merit in what you say Eric
Especially the idea that we humans are simply another part of nature, not an ahorrence that sits beyond it. I think that dislocation is repsonsible for a lot of discontent, anxiety and deep dissatisfaction. You should read a bit about primitivism (specifically anarcho-primitivism) and deep ecology, two (incomplete/flawed IMO but valuable) philosophies that seek to redress this dislocation. I don't follow the tenets of either but take bits and pieces from both. What about Henry David Thoreau?
Like many, I feel best when I am outside under the ancient skies.
sharpmetalmulisha
Bluelighter
When I was in my late teens/early twenties I decided to break free of the norm and do what I wanted, rather than what my friends and family said I "had" to do, as if I didn't have a choice. So I quit my job, threw most my shit away and elected to live on the streets of downtown SLC and in the canyon near by. I slept on the rooftops of businesses and an old church usually with just a wool blanket. In the winter time I had a mummy bag and as long as my spot was out of sight and dry, I was okay. I loved sleeping outside, it seemed so much more natural and healthy than locking yourself away from nature and the beauty of Earth. When I eventually got my shit together I found it was very difficult to adjust to sleeping in doors, so I acclimated by sleeping on the porch instead. I love outside much more than inside.
herbavore
Bluelight Crew
My son went to a wilderness program for 3 months. Then he went to Samoa and slept in open fales. When he came home he wanted to sleep in the yard but it didn't last that long. I think he was on the right track. I sleep out in a hammock sometimes and it is glorious. My problem is that I do things (like moderate BL!) and read in bed before going to sleep, and those are hard habits to break.
Xorkoth
Bluelight Crew
I went camping last summer at a mountain river site that has literally hundreds of waterfalls. We had this huge flat river rock as the sort of "front porch" of our campsite, and I found a body-shaped indentation on the rock that fit me perfectly. I slept out there, 5 feet from the river and with a waterfall behind and in front of me. Most comfortable sleep I've ever gotten, and I was sleeping on a rock. I woke up the next morning feeling SO refreshed and supported. I wish I could always sleep outside. I guess I could, but I don't for some reason.
My god I fucking love Norway
I lived on that mountain-side for a summer and every day was like looking at a postcard. You almost couldn't believe it. But not many live that way, to put it like that. There were no shops nearby or anything. I just made sure I moved away before the winter came. I don't think that would have been as romantic.
But there is definitely a "paradise feeling".
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