Lessons you've learned from psychedelics

[Leprechaun]

We are forever the interchangable, connected, complex, intertwining components of an infinite wholistic conciousness that is itself each component.

 

[MDMARI]

I've gotten a lot more confidence in myself after doing a lot of acid this summer. I used to think that I could use drugs like ecstasy and acid to help me to overcome my shyness and approach new people. Now its a lot more natural to me. Almost like the openness without the visuals and the body high. I've also learned after a shroom trip recently that we are all "wierd" in our own ways. Someone mentioned to me that listenin to techno and classic rock at the same time is wierd. Not at the same time but you know what I mean. Tripping also helped me to realize that puttin yourself at risk sometimes is better for you and makes you stronger. Oh and on a final note, tripppin isn't about gettin fucked up as much as possible and seein all sorts of visuals its about openin your mind to new ideas, but we already knew that rite

.peace
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"We're just two lost souls swimmin in a fish bowl, year after year"- Pink Floyd
"Squirrel says bitch"
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
- Jimi Hendrix

 

[fairnymph]

Thanks for the new signature, Leprechaun!

 

[bomb]

It is true that most things you learn on psychedelics you already know...
but it is kind of like "I know drinking and driving is wrong"
but not in the same way that a drunk who ran over a family knows that drinking and driving is wrong.
so maybe the question should be "What did psychedelics show you was more important than you even imagined?"

 

[Brainrape]

You cannot learn anything, because you already know everything, you cannot know everything, because there is nothing to learn.
There is no wrong, there is no right, there is no black, there is no white, Mother Teresa and Hitler are one and the same...
"Language is a virus..."
"All the kids will eat it up, if it's packaged properly..."
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Lying on the stained wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin, we could plan a murder or start a religion...

 

[zApo]

ive learned:
to be more objective...different perspectives
everything in the world has a complex structure of simple things (ie: atoms, letters, laws)
not to fall asleep while youre trippin' on foxy

 

[PottedMeat]

The TRUTH is out there.

 

[character_zero]

these are the main things that have been reinforced (not introduced) in my mind through some type of hallucinogen:
1. there is no absolute truth in this world, only individual truth
2. harmony definitely exists between humans and nature, you just have to learn to look for and appreciate it
3. music is probably the most beautiful thing in the world besides the world itself
the thing that is the most intriguing about hallucinogens is the fact that one loses all sense of ego and the restraints of society. for a short while, it is possible to just exist, and the only voice that influences your actions and reactions is your own.

 

[vibr8tor]

What I've learned from psychedelics is more of a feeling than a lesson I can put into words. Basically, they've helped me to just let go. Let go of all the stuff and feelings that I thought mattered, but actually don't. I mean, everything matters to a point; I realize that. But tripping hard helped put things into perspective, somehow. Although it was terrifying at the time, the day after all that was left inside was a sense of peace and calmness. And it's something I can look back on and reflect on and even carry on to some extent. The realization of how scary and overwhelming things actually CAN be, if you allow it, makes you realize that every day stuff isn't that bad. I think that as far as everyday stress goes, like job and relationship related, I'm a lot more layed back now.

 

[theLoneRadikal]

I dunno exactly what I learned from these odd sacraments. They came to me at a time when I was transforming...and it is a simple fact that they were so cataclysmic that I'm not exactly sure who and what I was before...and not just psychedelics...amphetamines and opiods and nicotine with friends are all, to me, just as spiritual and revelatory. And sometimes so is drinking water, and taking a shower, and laying down or standing up.
I guess if anything they showed me to deeply accept everything, I mean everything as an experience...I feel very much that my life before acid resembled all too strongly the feelings of the main character Camus's "The Stranger". Now the resonate more closely with Valentine Michael Smith in "Stranger in a Strange Land" or that pothead kid in American Beauty, or maybe even more precisely like the imperfect icon of McMurphy in "one flew over the cuckoo's nest." yeah, that's right, fucking Kesey and Heinlein were turned on bright.
That and that all are one (that's why I cried just as hard for the dying afghans as I did those who died in the WTC, I guess) and that peace is the only true happiness...it also destroyed what vestiges of catholicism and atheism were battling in my brain and replaced them with something a lot more hindu and a lot more buddhist.
I fucking ramble like someone who's used drugs, too, god, it's only been two years, well, closer to three, but it's been so much CHANGE...
"Angel headed hipsters burning for that ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night..." pretty much sums up the whole culture that envelops spiritual psychedelics.
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Come on, dance with me, move your body, your life is free.

 

[Ochlocrat]

My lessons from psychedelics:
Lisa: Perhaps there is no moral to this story.
Homer: Exactly! Just a bunch of stuff that happened.
PS: Howl has nothing to do with psychadelics.

 

[acid_raver]

I have learned from an intense trip involving 3 igloos, and a quarter of shrooms, that your purpose on earth is to cooperate with humanity, and help EVERYONE. that is my purpose.

 

[DJ Yianni]

Lisa: Perhaps there is no moral to this story.
Homer: Exactly! Just a bunch of stuff that happened.
Lisa: Yes, but the stuff is all the same stuff.
Homer: How do you mean Lisa?
Lisa: Well, you know that time you went into space, and the time you were the monorail driver...
Homer: Uhhh...Yeah.
Lisa: Well they were all the same thing really...
Homer: Uhhh...
Also note the episode in which this took place...
Homer: Lisa, Bart is not a horse!
Lisa: Yes he is Dad, and the horse is Bart
Homer: Uhhhh....
And so on...

 

[bliss99e]

from tripping i learned:
some staunch anti drug people will just never change. when im shroomin I can feel the negative energy coming out of these types of people - and that it probably wont change.
we're all spiritual beings trying to get back where we started. we travel on different paths but our ultimate goal is the same. some people get knocked off before they can hit the finish line, and others make it.
the minds of modern academia will never know it all. they cant.
i'll never know it all.
there is way too much bullshit that clouds reality - i think that shrooming lifts the curtain and allows you to see life without the bullshit. i dont mean that trees usually turn into people, but its just the overall feeling that theres no reason to be mean to people, money means shit, love is what its all about.
you're an idiot if you think this world is it. i believe that while shrooming i can block away all the worldly bullshit and feel a divine or supernatural force that has been and will always be there, you just need to open your eyes to see it. tripping definitely affirmed my belief in God.
[This message has been edited by bliss99e (edited 17 October 2001).]

 

[Blowmonkey]

for posterity's sake