?Not that there is anything wrong with using or not using psyches, but what is...?

[PROZ4C]

But what is par for the course as far as usage and age?

I mean what is the typical age for using, and stopping psychedelic drugs?


I mean there is a huge pull from society to "be clean" and not use anything... but in my personal experience psychedelics have had nothing but a positive influence on my life.

I don't see myself ever being "too old" to trip...

Any thoughts?

 

[Survived Abortion]

I don't know what other people do, but I don't see myself stopping tripping until I physically die. It's a lifestyle for me, probably the most important aspect of my existence in terms of how I connect back to source. It's such an important aspect of how I live, I feel truly free with the gift of being able to alter my consciousness in such radical ways. I don't consider it to be something that only certain age groups are privvy to. The way I see it, the alteration of consciousness is something that all animals of all ages, from birth to death, engage in, because it's just completely and utterly natural.

 

[thoughtsUnThought]

its tricky too say when the youngest one should trip is....

its easy to say one should hold off til one's brain's done growing (or so they say 18-20ish)
however, i felt in my own development, that my early trips from 16-18 were pivotal in nudging my brain growth in the right direction. not to say i wouldn't have wound up decently intellectual without psychedelics...but i always had this feeling (once i realized the true personal-evolutionary properties of psychedelics) that i needed to 'expand my mind' a lot before i was done growing. and i can't say i'm disappointed in the way my intellectual facilities have developed.

it seemed i could feel 'where i was going' in my development, and it felt as though my drug choices were apart of who i knew i needed to become....(my drug choices being not only psychedelics use, but also absolute abstinence from alcohol, pharmaceuticals and ecstasy)

part 2: when is too old....
i always had a feeling of sometime it might be necessary to 'get off the carnival ride' and let my self solidify once and for all....but that thought was mainly prevalent when i was tripping weekly. as i've toned down my use of psychedelics and become more reverent and ceremonial in my usage of such, i feel that there isn't necessarily a time that i won't ever need to evolve myself again.

i guess it depends on the person, and their personal reasoning for using psychedelics. if one is tripping for recreation, i see it more likely to 'grow too old' for the experiences...not to say that that would happen, but i think that is the usage which is conducive to growing out of it.

for those of us who partake for healing or evolutionary purposes, it seems more likely that the time to 'never go back' to psychedelics isn't as easy to determine as being too old for it...it would come down to one's individual life quest, and the necessary ingredients to make the most of such quest which in that case, it would have to be 'taken day to day' in terms of deciding if it is right.

i don't see myself ever declaring 'never again'...unless i am told to do so by my higher sources(don't ask don't tell ), it would take the the obvious understanding of the effect of abstinence being more harmonious, in which case i could never go back, to server higher harmony and purpose :D

 

[Solipsis]

There is a key demograph of trippers I think, begin twenties on average, males, tendency to be into science / philosophy / psychology, could be that an above average IQ. Parts of this I have actually read and others I have noticed myself over the years. I am only talking averages so don't go hating.

I feel like my glory years are over, in part because I feel that heavy use of some chemicals weighs heavily on my bodily health (by that I don't mean it's not possible to use psychedelics responsibly, most of the drugs that I think have been harmful to my health are not psychedelics!).
On the other hand I can't see myself saying 'its enough' any time soon, instead I'd like to pick up tripping again wherever my new more moderated lifestyle lets me.

So beginning is mostly 18-22 I think. Of course some are younger or older but I don't think its good for your personal development to start before 18, on the other hand if you start after 25 you might lose the opportunity to let the psychedelic experience have an impact on your brain and personality development, at least the final stages of getting that settled.

Quitting, well I think there is a slope-shaped graph you could imagine... most might quit in their late twenties, because of bad experiences, because of moving to new phases in life that cannot incorporate tripping or other new responsibilities like getting a full time job and a partner and kids with just no more time left to do it.
But of course, there are those who push on into the thirties and forties, and a group who continues up into the older ages.

Ideally I would say that I never stop tripping but the frequency lowers each year, until settling more and more near or on a final frequency.