After reading the definitions/explanations of the options I chose 3. I use them as tools, and I spend a big chunk of my time thinking about my experiences and writing about them in my notes. I take the experiences very seriously. What I've learned from them has changed me radically. But I don't like to apply the word spiritual to myself, it's not my thing. I like to think of my use of psychedelics as an "intellectual" endeavor or as informal experiments.
I've always loved learning things, particularly when self-taught, so psychedelics give me a lot of joy. Growing as a person, discovering interesting and useful information, that's my idea of fun. So I was initially going to choose recreational. But not recreational if that means you're flippant or frivolous about the experience or don't take it seriously. I think mushrooms are better for sheer pleasure than heroin or cocaine. The low doses where things seem funny and music is way better are pleasurable, but the high doses where the universe opens up to me and my brain becomes supercharged so I can figure things out I would never have figured out otherwise in a million years is far more pleasurable. I do it because I like it.
I think in general I would rather trip with people who are recreational than spiritual. I'm sure this doesn't apply to people here, but most of the people I know who are 'spiritual' take themselves way too seriously. For me learning is fun, and if I didn't think it was I wouldn't do it. My first priority in life is to enjoy myself.
I've always loved learning things, particularly when self-taught, so psychedelics give me a lot of joy. Growing as a person, discovering interesting and useful information, that's my idea of fun. So I was initially going to choose recreational. But not recreational if that means you're flippant or frivolous about the experience or don't take it seriously. I think mushrooms are better for sheer pleasure than heroin or cocaine. The low doses where things seem funny and music is way better are pleasurable, but the high doses where the universe opens up to me and my brain becomes supercharged so I can figure things out I would never have figured out otherwise in a million years is far more pleasurable. I do it because I like it.
I think in general I would rather trip with people who are recreational than spiritual. I'm sure this doesn't apply to people here, but most of the people I know who are 'spiritual' take themselves way too seriously. For me learning is fun, and if I didn't think it was I wouldn't do it. My first priority in life is to enjoy myself.