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What up PD?

I just got back from some hiking/backpacking in SE Utah. A buddy and I spent a day roaming Canyonlands' Island in the Sky district with the accompaniment of some high quality LSD. We dropped in the early afternoon and wandered through this enchanting, alien landscape.

Deep canyons expose hundreds of millions of years of sediment.

The trip alternated between giddy laughter and austere reverence, occasionally reaching states of sublimity.

We returned to mesa arch after the tourists had all left, just after sundown, and watched a full moon rise above this vast canyon.

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SE Utah is an absolutely spectacular place...everyone should put Canyonlands/Arches national parks on their list of things to do before you die.

In the words of Edward Abbey:

"Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear—the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break. Turning Plato and Hegel on their heads I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.

Under the desert sun, in that dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The air is clean, the rock cuts cruelly into flesh; shatter the rock and the odor of flint rises to your nostrils, bitter and sharp. Whirlwinds dance across the salt flats, a pillar of dust by day; the thornbush breaks into flame at night. What does it mean? It means nothing. It is as it is and has no need for meaning. The desert lies beneath and soars beyond any possible human qualification. Therefore, sublime."
I am jealous of your life Dondante :)
 
Thanks PD.

Ever since I did some post-undergraduate traveling, I've had this insatiable desire to visit interesting places. Reading Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire put SE Utah near the top of my list, but there are so many incredible national parks in the U.S. It baffles me that they get so little attention. Fortunately hiking/backpacking is a cheap activity, so it just takes a little saving and planning to make it happen.

I'm moving to San Francisco in June, which makes some of the best parks in the country fairly accessible. Can't wait!!! Yosemite, Sequoia, Kings Canyon!

:D

DOndante, i watched the okonokos DVD recently and the song you named yourself after is epic. What an awesome concert overall.

And yeh dude, those pictures are sick.

Awesome! That song gives me chills every time.

<3

p.s. Adrian, aren't you moving soon too?
 
Spectacular pictures Dondante!! I really like them :)

I just came back from Berlin and it was great. <3 Really inspiring and interesting city, more culturally and artistically interesting rather than particularly beautiful to other European capitols. Still really cool in its own right.

Made a drawing on the way back. It really does not convey my experience there but rather things like the WWII and Berlin Wall history, the latter is one of the very last things I visited before travelling back (the memorial of the wall).

Anyway here it is:

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yo Custie how's it goin dude?

Very nice drawing Solip! That bird is intense, what with the flying through fences and what-not.
 
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yo Custie how's it goin dude?

hey buddy.. doing alright. just working hard on a lot of stuff and trying to take a breath and get my life together. not that fun but it will be worth it


ps thanks for the comment on my dub mix the other day :D hopefully i'll record another one soon but a bunch of other shit i have to take care of keeps getting in the way :X
 
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p.s. Adrian, aren't you moving soon too?

Yessir. Am moving to Madison to go to UW in August. Decided against UNC despite all my yearnings to stay near my beloved appalachians as UW has some freakin awesome research that I wanna get in on.

And backpacking is one of my favorite activities. Boyscouts showed me the awesomeness from a young age and have continued since.
 
Allium i dont generally take cough medicine/OTC droogery, as i dont ever seem to get bad coughs. the only coughs i get are from smoking.
occasionally i'll take an OTC allergy pill because methinks me has allergies..my eyes are far too sensitive, they tear up very easy and my nose is stuffy rather often
 
Turning Plato and Hegel on their heads I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.

You'd love the interior of Australia Dondante....seriously, just rock everywhere, rock, sun, sand and more rock. Maybe some more sand too. One of the more gentle mystical moments of my life was waking in the middle of the desert (not after some epic blackout drunk, I was on a pretty ttouristy expeditiotion...) Most of the visible world was just Sky. You felt like you could just dive into it and swim away...

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So after my crude codeine taper, I've not taken opiates for over 55 hours, and feel pretty much fine. I have no fucking idea why; I'm kinda worried that the withdrawal is waiting to suddenly pounce on me, but all normal metabolic signs seem to indicate otherwise....

Intense cravings- such a strange feeling, kind of like flying- suddenly all thought stops for this one huge WANT, which will always subside for a while- its odd, makes me dizzy...Feel like a kid just GIVE ME IT, but with a desire to resist. And resist I shall keep doing. :)
 
You'd love the interior of Australia Dondante....seriously, just rock everywhere, rock, sun, sand and more rock. Maybe some more sand too. One of the more gentle mystical moments of my life was waking in the middle of the desert (not after some epic blackout drunk, I was on a pretty ttouristy expeditiotion...) Most of the visible world was just Sky. You felt like you could just dive into it and swim away...

*************

So after my crude codeine taper, I've not taken opiates for over 55 hours, and feel pretty much fine. I have no fucking idea why; I'm kinda worried that the withdrawal is waiting to suddenly pounce on me, but all normal metabolic signs seem to indicate otherwise....

Intense cravings- such a strange feeling, kind of like flying- suddenly all thought stops for this one huge WANT, which will always subside for a while- its odd, makes me dizzy...Feel like a kid just GIVE ME IT, but with a desire to resist. And resist I shall keep doing. :)

That's fucking GREAT news dude! Don't give up <3
 
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