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Is that a picture of you wearing goggles while sitting down and playing air guitar at a skate park or an empty swimming pool converted into a skate park? Or are you meditating; just curious because I zoomed in on your picture or whatever they call it, and I am baffled.
I was telling a story after riding around on an abandoned parking garage with my friend. He shot that with expired film and happened to get that strange artifact over me. I wasn't meditating, just shooting the breeze with an old friend and getting into some story or another. So - not far off for sure!
Also what psychedelics are you using or recommend for me trip on, I mean meditate and become one with God's great Universe? Also do I need trip goggles, special lighting and what music do you recommend? Does wearing any special outfits help?
I don't recommend any specific substances to anyone as I'm not the expert of you/don't know your background or what things you might be sensitive to.
That said - the things that I have had positive experiences with:
1) Mescaline - san pedro (preferably t. bridgesii) has been the entheogen that connects me with the divine more than any other in my experience. I've grown cacti since I was 17, though only first tried an active dose of mescaline in my mid-to-late 30s. I was in a pretty dark place in my life at the time and while it didn't instantly 'cure' me - the lessons I took from that (and subsequent) experiences have been a big part in who I have become in the years since. I find mescaline to be very easy on the mind, while still allowing for difficult lessons to be faced.
8-12hr with some residual stimulation given that it's a phenethylamine (related to amphetamine/dopamine)
2) Psilocybin - pretty widely agreed to be one of the safest drugs out there. Easy to grow, forgiving as far as dosing to a degree. I find the trips to be magical and thought provoking, though it can be difficult on the come-up. Ginger tea can be helpful with this. 4-6 hours, can be sleepy at times. Higher doses have some residual stimulation but much less than mescaline. This is a tryptamine which is similar to serotonin in structure.
3) If you wanted to go the chemical route - 4-aco (or -ho)- MET and 2cb
Ghost Potion - a visual and emotionally provocative trip with good body high and very little mental confusion. Excellent for social trips among friends. 4-6 hours - I usually dose 1:1 on the 4acoMET and 2cb (10-20mg of each) - contains both a tryptamine and a phenethylamine
Also do I need some special guided imagery type of cd playing or do have to hire a hippie self appointed therapist/ specialist to guide me while tripping my balls off; I mean a trained guided imagery therapist to become one with the empty swimming pool/ I mean swimming converted to a skate park. No I mean the universe.
I like electronic music - DJ sets by Four Tet or Jamie XX are favorites. I also like Jazz - Miles Davis - In a Silent Way is an all time psychedelic favorite for me
Boards of Canada if you want to get into a strange headspace
Brian Eno has done some interesting work on music for psychedelics as part of the psychedelic therapy movement - might be worth looking into
Others may recommend Sphongle or Grateful Dead - but that's less my lane
Also can I use my back porch/ deck that over looks a pond. Also since I am paranoid about skunks, raccoons, Opossums, wood chucks and The Boggie Man; can I have loaded gun on me while tripping and meditating. Actually that would be a bad idea, I might start hallucinating badly and see cobras or worse robots.
I would avoid loaded weapons of any kind while tripping. All it takes is one misread of a situation to make a mistake that can have grave consequences. No one wants to explain to the police why you were firing a gun while their faces are melting.
Better yet two of my good home defense semiauto shotguns loaded with high velocity 1 ounce deer slugs. That will be for robots and second one loaded with

, what size shot, number 4 or maybe a 3inch magnum load of bb shot? Buckshot really isn't good for imaginary cobras.
Maybe a fence or some citronella candles? lol
Actually because I don't have 5 acres and don't live in hillbilly land; it would be best not to have loaded guns.
Agreed
But, my trusty Daisy Red Ryder bb gun, would not cause a problem and since I am imagining the cobras and robots( I am tellin' ya, robots are evil, even imaginary ones. They can ruin a great nightmare, and once robots get into your dreams bed time will be ruined).
Maybe get a big cat to be your psychedelic guardian
But if I image that my trusty lever action Daisy Red Ryder bb gun is a lever action Winchester 1894; that is chambered in 44 magnum or 45 long colt with 330 grain bullets, the p+ ones for maximum power. Perfect.
So can I trip and meditate on my back porch with goggles and a guided imagery cd or YouTube probably has some. Or do I need to hire a hippie ( hopefully they won't reek of b.o., patchouli oil, weed, and sour milk)
I am wary of hippies - YMMV
Also what about lights, will my flood lights out there work?
I like colorful lights/christmas lights/LEDs...depends on what makes you feel comfortable
Also what psychedelic drug(s) do you recommend?
See above
Most importantly can I have my trusty Daisy Red Ryder bb gun with me in case of imaginary cobra or worse robots? Or will this interfere with me becoming one with the Universe? I wonder if I hired a hippie therapist; they would be scared of a bb gun?
Oh well what do recommend for meditation and you said people who use opiods for pain, does that affect the choice of what I would use? What should I do as I am confused and completely ignorant, about meditation?
Start without psychedelics for sure. If you're in an area with meditation meet-ups, take advantage of those. Youtube has a plethora of guided meditations for various purposes if you're more interested in doing it on your own. I do strongly suggest guided in-person meditation even if only a few times. It's a good way to get a feel for it and have someone else take the wheel so you can focus on the experience.
One of my favorite simple meditations that I use for folks in therapy is: 5/7/8 breathing - Start by finding your breath, breath normally for a moment, and then do a few rounds of 5 second inhale, 7 second hold, 8 second exhale (slow exhale!) - adjust if you have diminished lung capacity. Can be helpful for improving your breathing as well.
Then switch to a body scan: Start at the top of your head and slowly scan down to your jaw, front of your face, look for tension you're holding, relax. Scan to neck, shoulders, down arms to hands (relax), then to chest/upper back, follow your spine into your torso/abdomen (relax), into your hips and waist, to your thighs, (relax), then down your legs past your knees, to your shins/calves, ankles, feet (relax). Do a scan back up your body, looking for any tension you may have missed.
Final step is a sensory check-in - you can do this either in your mind's eye (picture a place you like being that makes you happy/feel relaxed - sometimes people with use the beach or the forest) - check in with what you'd see, then what you'd hear, then smell, then taste, and then physical sensations. After that, let all senses become active in your mind, and just let yourself be there.
Alternately, you can simply check in with each sense in the same way, but in your current environment (so sitting on your porch, take in what you see and just observe, sounds around you, then notice the smell of the air around you, trees, rain whatever, then any tastes you can detect, and then finally how your body feels there).
Hope some of this is helpful
