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ФФФ Thoughts About Life (or Psychedelic insight) MEGATHREAD! ФФФ

loldignity. yeah kinda. puts hairs on yer chest that's f'sho.
now if only i could apply the straight face i can manage while the universe explodes around me to poker!
 
^DPT is truly an exceptional psychedelic. Whilst I need several hands to count my trips on, DPT is happy to accomadate, as well as throwing in an extra few heads and legs.
 
Raw Evil said:
This realisation is not a recent one, but one that shocked me and horrified me to my very core. I don't believe we're without hope anymore, but I still find it interesting to reflect upon.

The conscious mind is an anomaly.

The most successful carnivores in history were typically not those with the biggest brains, but the fastest / most vicious predators. Intelligence was a reaction to these big, mean predators, such that the prey animal could see a step ahead of the predator and hide before being noticed (and other such survival behaviours)..​
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Aye, but the predator has to be the smart one. The prey must only eat quick and run fast. It must have quick reactions to survive. The predator must have a plan to catch its prey. All of the teeth and muscle in the world is nothing without a sound mind to control it.

After people learned to store and preserve food, they got bored and thus entertainment was born! Great post though.
 
MyDoorsAreOpen said:
What I call 'I' is just the universe's reflexive, self-observing function. This function has manifested itself in many physical forms before, and will manifest itself in many others after the death of this human vehicle I currently, and largely erroneously, equate with the word 'I'.
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I dig. :)
 
@RawEvil..

I really enjoy your perspective on consciousness and it has a eerie similarity to revelations I've had myself whilst trippin knutzz. The only part of your little summary I could not relate to was the part where you said that as you grow older, you feel more awake. I must say that quite the opposite has been true of me. I would say I felt the most "real" when I was very young. As we grow I believe we are covered with the sludge of culture until the essence of our humanity and individuality is entirely unrecognizable. Now, you may say that this comes from an inability to "adapt" and "mature" to societies standards...which I would agree with. But I would go a step farther and say that it is ultimately "unhealthy" to be a "mature", "healthy", and "well-adjusted person. You are not a person, you are not a citizen; or an italian, or a german, or an American. You are a human being.
The problem with "civilized" society is that we've neutered our human nature. Cultural progress is something to be fiercely questioned and scrutinized brothers and sisters.

Mostly the mushroom revealed these things but I think these ideas have always been floating around in my head, psilocybin simply serves the purpose of further illuminating and illustrating these ideas in real-time. I've got heaps more to bullshit about but I've got to go....ill post again tomorrow or later. LATA!=D
 
elbroski said:
I would go a step farther and say that it is ultimately "unhealthy" to be a "mature", "healthy", and "well-adjusted person. You are not a person, you are not a citizen; or an italian, or a german, or an American. You are a human being.

The problem with "civilized" society is that we've neutered our human nature. Cultural progress is something to be fiercely questioned and scrutinized brothers and sisters.
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I don't recall where I heard this, but it struck me: "it is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society"

I also agree on your point about cultural identities... identifying as belonging to any group smaller then "humanity" or "consciousness" serves only to divide us from one another.

And yet, I even have trouble convincing myself to identify as a "human being". The body is human. The being is consciousness itself.
 
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elbroski said:
@RawEvil..

I really enjoy your perspective on consciousness and it has a eerie similarity to revelations I've had myself whilst trippin knutzz. The only part of your little summary I could not relate to was the part where you said that as you grow older, you feel more awake. I must say that quite the opposite has been true of me. I would say I felt the most "real" when I was very young. As we grow I believe we are covered with the sludge of culture until the essence of our humanity and individuality is entirely unrecognizable. Now, you may say that this comes from an inability to "adapt" and "mature" to societies standards...which I would agree with. But I would go a step farther and say that it is ultimately "unhealthy" to be a "mature", "healthy", and "well-adjusted person. You are not a person, you are not a citizen; or an italian, or a german, or an American. You are a human being.
The problem with "civilized" society is that we've neutered our human nature. Cultural progress is something to be fiercely questioned and scrutinized brothers and sisters.

Mostly the mushroom revealed these things but I think these ideas have always been floating around in my head, psilocybin simply serves the purpose of further illuminating and illustrating these ideas in real-time. I've got heaps more to bullshit about but I've got to go....ill post again tomorrow or later. LATA!=D
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i think this is different for different people. some grow more rigid in old age and some let their ego fall away more and more (the wiser ones imo ;)) seeing how much it has held them back their entire lives. while i agree the "sludge" of society or whatever covers you more iwth age, that age and the experiences you have had allow you to see the "sludge' for what it is and let it fall away, if you choose to be an astute observer. As an infant you dont have the experience to see this.
 
spaceyourbass said:
One of my most profound psychedelic realizations is this:

The world is fucking WIERD
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mine's kinda similar, except I realized that everything that seems weird isn't really all that weird, and even the normal stuff that seems weird isn't all that weird. It just is. And that isness is what makes everything so acceptable to me.
 
Hey guys. I'm on 150mg of DXM right now, and a hit of weed. This jazz music is so sentimental I could fucking cry.

I had a really profound thought I can't let go of, even though it's kind of troubling me right now. Has the presence of the media in our homes, the ever-present drone of TV and internet music, diminished our ability to dream? Did my grandfather develop a part of himself I'll never have, because all he had was a book and a mind, a tinny AM radio on which he didn't choose the tunes, and maybe an empty white wall or a breezy window to stare at while he dreamed of faraway places and things he might someday do? And did this change who he was and how he lived his life, as opposed to someone like me here and now, who can see a photoreal image or hear a high fidelity sound reproduction of anything I want whenever I want it?
 
^ Wether or not a scale has been condensed or stretched we are forced to dream of even bigger things than we could have settled for in your gradfathers time - we have more limits and more space and less energy and less time. I don't think you - particularly - have to worry about your stumped imagination. man, you could move to the country and find out?
absurd kinda crisis, there is too much to want, and like you said you have access to anything anyone else has dreamt up creatively, most of the time i struggle to genuinely want anything.

cool thread.
 
I'm quite aware this is rather late, but I'm a willing navigator. I've placed myself in Arizona, got myself accepted into ASU to keep myself busy for four (or more) years. What will I do after?
 
life is like a cigarette - all ashes behind me and a butt at the other end
watch me - i burn brightly

after taking mushrooms and hanging out in my backyard under an oak tree
 
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