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LSD saved my life

endlesseulogy

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in the past few weeks lsd has done for me what psychiatry has been attempting to do for 10 years and was never nearly successful.. i have been on anti-depressants, lithium and all sorts of other meds which never really worked.. ive been to therapy groups and sessions.. spend countless hundereds of dollars for very little improvement.. i imagined myself under clinical conditions when i took lsd.. i wasnt doing it for a kick.. i taylored my own treatment session. i designed the setting in my own personal way.. and this worked.. and i cant get over it.. i have gone from being a depressed, anxious, angry, frustrated individual to being someone who is contented, happy, not anxious and calm.. each trip has made me realise that the world isnt as bad as it may seem.. it has made me realise the true potential in my own brain and how amazing it is.. it has made me become more self-confident in my abilities to learn, understand and experience.. i have been able to concentrate and come up with better ideas at school.. i show proper emotion now.. i can relate to loved ones and family much better.. i am finally living.. it is truely amazing and i really dont understand why psychadelic therapy with lsd was banned.. if taken for the right reasons the risks associated with lsd are no greater then the risk of taking an anti-depressant, which by the way are handed out like candys..and which really messed me up...i cant even put in words how much i have improved.. its like im a new person.. a person waiting for an oppertunity to come out.. and lsd has done this.. it was my miracle cure.. thank you dr.hoffman.. i encourage people everywhere to fight this ban on lsd.. we need to have way more research done on this substance.. we need to put it in the hands of users who are willing to learn from their experiences without getting dependant on it..
 
yea, a good mushroom trip really helped me out against one of my bouts with depression. generally, i've always gotten more out of the introspective theraputic effects of shrooms than the purely aesthetic and physical effects.
 
Wow, sounds almost exactly like my life with LSD. I was in forced psychotherapy for near 5 years from the age of 9 to 14 and on all sorts of medications during that time. I took a visit to the adolescent mental ward shortly before my experiences with LSD and got even more fucked up from the dribble they fed me in there. I used to mutilate my body, lie, steal, and had anorexia; only feeding my body ephedra and surge (the soda). I was willing to give myself over to anything by this time. Then a new friend who has turned out to be the best friend and lover I've ever had introduced me to LSD and pot. A slow but sure recovery ensued with the support of an off the wall psychonaut in need of some of my naive love and a solid ground to build his future on. We became muses to eachothers muses. LSD was our tool to explore the universe and our relation to it. He's still my good friend, but we're no longer long time lovers.

I found an undying respect for life I hadn't had since childhood. I slowly built up the strength to rebuild relationships I'd broken down with myself, my family, and the world. I saw a blossoming relationship and put my all into it once I realized what I could accomplish with this person. I invested all my college money just to find real life experiences with him and I don't regret a minute of it. I rediscovered my body sooner or later and started to understand the natural evolution of the self in terms of understanding knowledge and growth. So far I'm turning out to be a pretty groovy person, I'm still an over-achiever, I still have a very dark side, and still anxious, but I've got time and a life to live still.

I don't think I'd be here today if not for LSD or my life shaking experiences with other drugs like mescaline and DMT. I've tried every major drug out there and never got hooked because of many things, but I'm sure that first true taste of myself I cherished with LSD played a part.

I hope they'll bring LSD back into the healing field too. I agree that LSD and other psychs and oneirogenics absolutely need to be explored and someday probably will be. In order for us to further our species out of this big box we're constantly putting ourselves in we need to understand more subtleties about the mind and soul rather than just the physical, mental, and logical properties of the self. Thanks for sharing your story. :) I really enjoy hearing such positive responses. Where would we be without what we tapped into on LSD? I think I'd still be floating out there with my head stuck in my arse.

I'm going through a very rough time in my life, but everything after my experiences led me to believe that obstacles are no biggie unless you make em' so. Life is happening right now and you can choose to accept it and find something positive within it or not, but you've still got to move, so you might as well feed your soul some o' that good ol' strengthening love and happiness. BTW.. still workin' on that one ;)

-Jaymie
 
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The most beautiful thing I've ever read on Bluelight. Period.

(I wonder if they would publish this on DrugFreeAmerica.org if you sent it to them ... hehe =D )
 
Awesome! I too don't understand why LSD psychotherapy was made illegal to the people who could really benefit from it. I have talked to a good amount of people who have all benefitted from some way or another in its use.
 
Well, think about how much less money there is for pharmaceutical companies in therapy that costs a couple dollars a dose and only requires a few dosings... versus addictive psychotropics that you take every single day for the rest of your life to force your brain into normalcy... Just because they sell "Medicine" doesn't mean they have your best interests in mind... they do NOT.

I think it's a pretty easy situation to understand. But that doesn't make it right.
 
Hmmm... I sure hope that your Hotmail account doesn't have any personal information available on you! I don't trust those Anti-Drug people, they'll do anything to keep drugs illegal!
 
i checked out the lsd section on drugfreeamerica.com WHAT A DISGRACE?! a chemical that is probably the most profound discoveries of the last 100 years has about a 1 paragraph blurb regarding its negitive effects.. so what does this tell us? everything has negitive effects.. certain people are allergic to strawberries and shellfish but does that mean we must ban them? it seriously dosnt make sense to me.. this stuff has helped me more then anyone can imagine and they unleash this bullshit about it :S
 
The more I hear about LSD (never done it), the more it sounds like a-MT, something I've done many times and loved every time. I may have to get some of this famous LSD one day.
 
Check out www.drugfreeamerica.com's peice about LSD... hmmm negitive negitive negitive.. however what i find strange is the fact that they dont put anti-depressants such as paxil on there aswell.. which took me a year to withdraw from and made me miss out on school ( i had to drop out ).. which made me sick as a dog.. funny world we live in eh? but we wouldnt want the drug companies to miss out on that extra private jet would we now ? :)

What are its short-term effects?
The effects of LSD are unpredictable. They depend on the amount taken, the user's personality, mood, and expectations, and the surroundings in which the drug is used. The physical effects include dilated pupils, higher body temperature, increased heart rate and blood pressure, sweating, loss of appetite, sleeplessness, dry mouth, and tremors. Sensations and feelings change much more dramatically than the physical signs. The user may feel several different emotions at once or swing rapidly from one emotion to another. If taken in a large enough dose, the drug produces delusions and visual hallucinations. The user's sense of time and self changes. Sensations may seem to "cross over," giving the user the feeling of hearing colors and seeing sounds. These changes can be frightening and can cause panic.

What are its long-term effects?
Some LSD users experience flashbacks, recurrence of certain aspects of a person's experience without the user having taken the drug again. A flashback occurs suddenly, often without warning, and may occur within a few days or more than a year after LSD use. Most users of LSD voluntarily decrease or stop its use over time. LSD is not considered to be an addicting drug because it does not produce compulsive drug-seeking behavior like cocaine, amphetamines, heroin, alcohol, or nicotine.





They forgot to mention this :

"After last night.. i have come to terms with my spiritual self..

3 double dose blotters.. dose..

i wanted to go for that earth shattering experience.. and i got it.. i really wanted to learn about my spiritual side this time..and i learnt.. and learnt and learnt.. i had a peak religious experience..

Comming up was rather chaotic and intense.. i was with 2 other people.. 1 one of them wasnt tripping, the other was on the same dose as me.. i find being around 3 people a bit hard.. i dunno.. once the 3rd person went to bed.. me and person 2 had such a better time..

We put on some trance music.. had heaps of energy and started to dance. felt good as usually.. decided to go into the dark bathroom and experience some sensory deprivation.. this was kind of weird because it felt asthough i was a voice with no body and head and i felt as if i existed in a spirit relm.

Started to get really really good Closed EVs.. these were great.. so many patterns and combinations of colour and light.. amazing.. i didnt know this was possible..we went on our usual walk to the store to get some food.. the world is breathing and humming and throbbing.. everything is alive and well at this point in time. we get back and start looking at some psychadelic posters with those kewl designs on them.. this was kewl.. i was enjoying this experience but it was nothing compared to what was about to happen..

My friend has a sofa bed/futon fold out setup in the lounge room so we rolled that out and had a lie down.. it felt as if the whole bed was a raft and we were floating on some great ocean.. as the carpet was waving and morphing at this point.. like water.. the boat was going up and down with the waves.. we were both experiencing this.. it was amazing.. we could see animal life swimming in the carpet and i felt asthough i was really on the open sea.. wind blowing us around.. bobbing up and down in the water..i began to realise it felt so good just to lie still on the raft.. and it if concentrated enough on being totally still.. it felt as if i was sinking into myself? or like i was melting into a mould? its hard to explain.. but it feels so right... after awhile i started paying closer attention to the carpet.. upon closer inspection the whole sea was filled with letters!.. everywhere i saw letters of the alphabet in random patterns and combinations and spiraling in and out up and down flowing like water.. i got closer and closer to the 'water' and i saw more and more letters.. they got thicker and thicker.. it was like those fractal things they use in math.. never ending.. it felt amazing just drifting there..

After that we start to lie on the other side of the bed and on the carpet on that side were cd's.. all my cds were there and it totally changed the mood.. it was like the cds reminded us of reality.. we didnt like it at first.. but then we started to ignore the fact that the cds were full of music.. we started to notice the right reflections on the cds.. and playing with them.. it felt amazing seeing the light..

This is where it starts to get interesting : After my previous trip id become interested in buddhism.. I burnt some buddhist and new age chant music onto a cd and stuck it in.. i just wanted to see how it would be.. and i realised instantly this was the best music id ever heard in my life! ever... this was it.. so simple.. and soothing and relaxing.. we began to lie there and a buddhist chanter began singing..we BOTH at the same time started sweating! we felt so warm just listening to it.. it was a really really nice heat.. comming from the inside out.. it was bliss.. better then sex.. better then anything id ever experienced.. we just kept sweating.. it only worked with this particular chant though.. it was really overwhelming...we slowly started to realise that we were in tibet! it was like we were really there..i could imagine the monestary and the monks praying peacefull, not harming anyone.. i felt so happy, and complete it was amazing.. i felt nothing! no emotion but this pure bliss.. satisfaction.. i wanted nothing but to be in a room .. an empty room.. just listening to that music.. i wouldnt even have to see the speakers.. thats all i needed! nothing else mattered.. something as simple as a peice of bread was enough.. it felt like an entire meal.. the smell the texture was amazing.. i could taste through my nose!...

We continued to feel asthough we were in tibet.. we could imagine everything.. i brough a book about buddhism along with my as i was reading it at uni the previous day.. i flipped open to a map of tibet.. and i realised as tears came to my eyes.. that it was home!! ive never felt so drawn to a place before.. it was like it was the home ive been searching for all my life.. even now its hard to come to terms with this..the simplicity and the peace of buddhism was just moving me so much.. i felt so good! so emotionally flat line.. if aliens came down into the room at that moment i would embrace them.. not fear them! which is what i would normally do..

we had been in our buddhist world for 2 hours now.. i felt like a chinese monk.. i went and looked in the mirror and i looked chinese.. i felt like eating vegitarian food.. no meat. simple foods...

over the past few weeks due to tripping ive noticed that my sex drive had decresed.. its very low now.. but the thing is, i dont really mind.. im kewl with it.. its better then being horney all the time and not having any release.. after you xperience what i experienced sex is put in perspective bigtime! its not that big a deal for me

The sun was starting to rise at this point and my friends appartment is overlooking a major freeway here in melbourne.. and it was peak hour weekday traffic at this point.. this was a wonderfull view.. we saw a almost empty freeway burst into activity.. people going to work.. it was like everyone was in a panic .. rushing rushing rushing.. i felt like walking down to the freeway and just telling everyone to stop and relax and hug each other and realise so much more.. we felt like 2 enlightened beings looking down on a chaotic world, however we didnt look at them as lower beings.. we felt sorry for them.. i began crying again.. and i said. "the world is so beautiful" why"? why do people fail to see this? we are the ones that create the shit in order to avoid the so called shit.. its an endless spiral of self denial..

All the while we were still in Tibet!.. we lay there and saw amazing visuals that played really well with the meditation music.. as i closed my eyes i saw brilliant light.. white and pure.. i saw mountains, snow, valleys.. rivers.. nature.. it was amazing.. i was so relaxed !!! i cant emphisise how great this felt.. this went on for 2+ hours .. meditation.. we slowly began to drift into a deep peacefull sleep... the amazing thing is that when my non-tripping friend woke up he took a picture of me sleeping.. and i had fallen asleep with a smile on my face!!.. i still feel really great right now.. i feel contented.. i feel ive had a peak experience.. no more LSD for awhile because i wouldnt want to get bored of this because of repitition.. its so special.. so so special.. if everyone in the world experienced the same thing we went through, believe me.. there would be no fighting.. all you have to do is have an open mind in terms of your spirituality and LSD will lead you in the right direction.. we as a world are beautiful.. we are beautiful.. there is no ugly.. only ugly thoughts... that is how im going to end this one.. i hope i have had an impact on someone with my thoughts..

peace to you all and i wish everyone on this site all the best!"

"Emmett
 
So glad you wrote this thread because LSD saved my lie too in every way possible.

I was going to start a thread of my own but need not to.

LSD made me see what and wasnt real and live for what was honest. I believed that the truth would win in the end and although I sometimes challenged this I was right.

Now I have a beautiful life (not without problems -no - but I see that as a good thing).

From what I had before I discovered LSD to what I have now I am almost terrified at the prospect that my life could have turned out like.

The end.
 
Someone please print out this page and send it to George Bush.

Oh wait, he can't read!

Umm ... right, well send it to the drug czar.
 
This thread almost brings me to tears. LSD has opened windows in my mind and led to what I am studying now. I was shown things on many different occasions that I couldn't make any sense of but I knew was important. I went to my friend one day and told him the things I had seen. He sat there in aw while I told him. He told me it was amazing to him the things I just said. I was talking about the flower of life and the 13moon calender. At the time he and I were from totally different crowds and I had never even heard any of the information before. He recommend I read these books as I do you:

"the ancient secret of the flower of life" by Drunvalo Melchizedek
"Time & the technosphere" By Jose arguelles

As I read these book I started to notice I was being shown these things since my first trip. In my first LSD experience (a very heavy one) a "guide" was showing me around the afterlife and telling me how it worked. Five years later I find these books and low and behold, everything he was telling me was WORD FOR WORD in the book. It was amazing. I highly recommend everyone read these books! they will change how you see the world for the better.
 
I love all you poeple who know and have realised thse things because now I now I am not alone and even though I am surrounded by unawareness at least I can take comfort in unitity!

Halle - fucking - lujah!
 
I also believe that psychedelic drugs (especially ayahuasca) have more or less cured me of my manic depression. I no longer take medication and have not had an episode in a couple years. In fact quite a number of people have commented recently on how I am extremely even tempered.

What psychedelic drugs have allowed me to do is to recondition my mind so that I react differently to the same stimuli. Sometimes my brain and body do seem to be acting strange, but I do not become either depressed or manic. I say to myself: "hmmm, that's just my body" or "my brain is trying to convince me that there is something to be upset about, but that is just an illusion."

My current theory and the theory of one of my professors (who is an expert on meditation and trance and their effect on psychotherapy) is that psychedelics increase plasticity in the brain and therefore allow for the learning of new behaviors at a deep level. Moreover, in my view, some chemicals (such as the 4-aco-det and 4-aco-dipt) allow for a kind of "insight" concentration that is similar to Zazen meditation and can help the user to realize the illusory nature of the self among other things.

These insights can then disarm potentially harmful behaviors. One may still have the same feelings to some degree, but one will not have the same knee jerk emotional responses. A some months ago I had an experience on ayahuasca that showed me (after 12 years) how to quit smoking. I was able to identify the feeling of fear and anxiety that caused me to pick up a cigarette and begin to smoke. The response to the feeling appeared to me in the form of a demon.

When I came out of my trance, I knew just what was kicking of the chain of behavior that caused me to smoke. I could point to it. With this knowledge the chain was broken. I never felt like smoking a cigarette again. I still have had the same fear/anxiety feeling, but it no longer automatically "lets the demon out."

I very much believe that psychotherapy in the future will look alot more like shamanic healing rituals, and I am not at all alone in this expectation. Psychedelics, trance, and meditation all can be elements of a holistic cure.
 
it would be kewl if people posted about their health benifits from LSD.. i cant overemphisise how it has helped me..

I have never felt this sane in my life...and all this has happened in the space of 2 months.. normal psychotherapy can only hope to achive these results in years!
 
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