bloodliketheatlantic
Bluelighter
- Joined
- May 8, 2002
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- 132
Why are so many people suggesting that the feeling is coming from within him and that the only way to get rid of the feeling is to change something about his life or personality? Obviously you are thinking of things that happen/have happened in the world that are very real and very disconcerting. You are talking about how you think of slavery and murder and so on, and these are things that you can't fix completely (but you can try your best to make happen less if that is your goal in life.) So maybe these are the things you should be concentrating on!
This is the feeling that many people experience: trying to hold two ideas simultaneously that are difficult to reconcile. For example, trying to feel that the world is nothing but love but remembering that a massive number of people live in poverty and all of civilization's history is filled with stories of genocide and slavery. Or, for example, trying to survive and be happy in a world that deep-down you know is fundamentally wrong and going in a bad direction (i.e. you want to be successful and make a decent amount of money to provide for your family but you actually wish that system and way of life didn't exist in the first place.)
I, for example, believe that civilization took the human species out of the system of biological evolution that had been working well for billions of years and replaced it with a destructive way of life that can not possible go on forever. We are ripping finite resources from the earth to improve our standard of living while massively increasing the number of humans on earth by destroying multitudes of other species, setting ourselves up for a massive collapse. But there is no plausible way out of it so all I can do is live my life, trying to be happy by taking care of the ones I love, and trying to do the things that I feel are productive and not destructive.
It is hard to "consume" plastic while at the same time knowing that is completely poisoning the oceans and the earth itself, but unfortunately I still use it more often than I'd like to. If I were to take a psychedelic right now I would probably like to go to place I enjoy (like a local park with a pond that I take my dog to often) and I would never have a completely "happy" trip that is "full of love" because I would walk around the lake seeing all the shit people have thrown into the water (beer cans, plastic water bottles, fishing equipment) and that would bother me to some degree because it always bothers me to some degree. Unfortunately, on psychedelics it would bother me to a much greater degree, but it wouldn't consume me because I have come to terms (somewhat) with the way I see the world and the explanations I have come up (or realized from other people.) This is why I rarely trip anymore, but loved tripping years ago when I still had a million unanswered questions zipping around my brain.
So just as you start thinking of horrible things when you take DMT or whatever, you probably think of these same things occasionally when you are not tripping. In a sense, it IS your mind that has to take a position on the things that bother you, but never forget there is a very REAL, physical world out there that is probably more important than your or any one of us. So you can either 1) let the things you dislike continue to bother you, 2) forget all about them pretending the don't exist enjoying the "bliss of ignorance", or 3) decide how you as an individual can put an end to (more realistically, minimize) the things that bother you so much.
...or maybe I'm completely wrong and your thoughts of slavery, torture, and murder actually represent a demon in your life like an ex-gf/bf that you didn't end things with on a good note.
good luck!
This is the feeling that many people experience: trying to hold two ideas simultaneously that are difficult to reconcile. For example, trying to feel that the world is nothing but love but remembering that a massive number of people live in poverty and all of civilization's history is filled with stories of genocide and slavery. Or, for example, trying to survive and be happy in a world that deep-down you know is fundamentally wrong and going in a bad direction (i.e. you want to be successful and make a decent amount of money to provide for your family but you actually wish that system and way of life didn't exist in the first place.)
I, for example, believe that civilization took the human species out of the system of biological evolution that had been working well for billions of years and replaced it with a destructive way of life that can not possible go on forever. We are ripping finite resources from the earth to improve our standard of living while massively increasing the number of humans on earth by destroying multitudes of other species, setting ourselves up for a massive collapse. But there is no plausible way out of it so all I can do is live my life, trying to be happy by taking care of the ones I love, and trying to do the things that I feel are productive and not destructive.
It is hard to "consume" plastic while at the same time knowing that is completely poisoning the oceans and the earth itself, but unfortunately I still use it more often than I'd like to. If I were to take a psychedelic right now I would probably like to go to place I enjoy (like a local park with a pond that I take my dog to often) and I would never have a completely "happy" trip that is "full of love" because I would walk around the lake seeing all the shit people have thrown into the water (beer cans, plastic water bottles, fishing equipment) and that would bother me to some degree because it always bothers me to some degree. Unfortunately, on psychedelics it would bother me to a much greater degree, but it wouldn't consume me because I have come to terms (somewhat) with the way I see the world and the explanations I have come up (or realized from other people.) This is why I rarely trip anymore, but loved tripping years ago when I still had a million unanswered questions zipping around my brain.
So just as you start thinking of horrible things when you take DMT or whatever, you probably think of these same things occasionally when you are not tripping. In a sense, it IS your mind that has to take a position on the things that bother you, but never forget there is a very REAL, physical world out there that is probably more important than your or any one of us. So you can either 1) let the things you dislike continue to bother you, 2) forget all about them pretending the don't exist enjoying the "bliss of ignorance", or 3) decide how you as an individual can put an end to (more realistically, minimize) the things that bother you so much.
...or maybe I'm completely wrong and your thoughts of slavery, torture, and murder actually represent a demon in your life like an ex-gf/bf that you didn't end things with on a good note.
good luck!

