Just wondered how you feel about psychedelics impact on your life? For me it's an absolute good. Like an eternal geyser of life that I can draw strength, laughs and wisdom from. Connected me to nature in a way I never thought possible. Without psychedelics I wouldn't say life wasn't worth living, but I'd be looking forward to dying a lot sooner.
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Esoteric Psychedelics effect on your life?
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MedicinalUser247
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I think the number one thing it changed in my life was how I perceived Music. I understand that Music can become a ride. I also understand pulling a Spiral out of my Forehead with my Fingers and also having Orgasms in my Brain when I was really peaking on Acid. Oh... I just love the memory of it all. 
I remember my Palm slamming into my Forehead and I was like WOW !!! My Brain had an Orgasm !
I remember my Palm slamming into my Forehead and I was like WOW !!! My Brain had an Orgasm !
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I understood a little of what other psychedelic users had experienced.
Most notably hippies.
That was good.
Bad was that it set me up to like things that simply mostly weren't happening anymore in my day and age.
It made me wait for a miracle that never came.
Most notably hippies.
That was good.
Bad was that it set me up to like things that simply mostly weren't happening anymore in my day and age.
It made me wait for a miracle that never came.
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Good to see you, you are the music ambassador! I hope you are well. And I totally agree, that notion that music can become a ride is at the top of my list of reasons.
Priceless. That’ll be probably the best response we get in this thread. I had told a friend the other day I was just waiting for a miracle, and he replied, isn’t every day a miracle? (Yeah yeah, it is, I’m just cranky.) This friend that said that it went through some pretty bad periods for some years, so it was sort of ironic. Guess he’s feeling better these days.
I’m not gonna have to say anything because all the posts will just say it for me.
I've always had the sneaking suspicion that psychedelic users -especially LSD users- had kind of a cheat code to society, and later on in my life I met such people and my suspicion turned out to be true.
But I couldn't do anything with it, and I'm surrounded mostly by people who understand nothing of this.
Nonetheless it was useful.
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I love LSD.
About the only thing that helps me stop thinking about heroin for 12 hours. lol
I don't know what I'd say about it though. LSD can feel profound but it also feels very recreational. The stimulating aspect of it. Shrooms don't have that for me.
I do not like mushroom trips at all. Too much body load, confusion, less euphoria, at least for me anyway. And the nausea of having to digest hard ass mushrooms.
DXM trips have brought me to some special places as well. Even gave me an out-of-body/near-death-like experience once unexpectedly. It was scary while it was happening, I thought I was really dying. But when it eventually came down, I felt such a renewed gratefulness to be alive & sane.
I think the positives that psychedelics and dissociatives have brought me is too complex to list. But they surely made my life a lot more magical.
About the only thing that helps me stop thinking about heroin for 12 hours. lol
I don't know what I'd say about it though. LSD can feel profound but it also feels very recreational. The stimulating aspect of it. Shrooms don't have that for me.
I do not like mushroom trips at all. Too much body load, confusion, less euphoria, at least for me anyway. And the nausea of having to digest hard ass mushrooms.
DXM trips have brought me to some special places as well. Even gave me an out-of-body/near-death-like experience once unexpectedly. It was scary while it was happening, I thought I was really dying. But when it eventually came down, I felt such a renewed gratefulness to be alive & sane.
I think the positives that psychedelics and dissociatives have brought me is too complex to list. But they surely made my life a lot more magical.
in the 1970s I felt a void in my life, I was not content I felt there was more to life because I was not happy. I read books about LSD and psychedelics before I actually tried them. So I had an idea what to expect except it wasn't like I expected.
I got a glimpse into my future living in the moment and for the next fifty years I held on to bit of insight until it became a reality.
Of couse this sort of transistion does not occur without a cost. Enter psychosis which in many ways were similar to psychedelics, being able to see yourself objectively and being able to make significant changes in the way you perceive yourself and your role in life.
Although psychedelics did not directly impact my life at time of use, they gave me something to live for and to look forward to. I waited and I got everything I imagined and more.
I got a glimpse into my future living in the moment and for the next fifty years I held on to bit of insight until it became a reality.
Of couse this sort of transistion does not occur without a cost. Enter psychosis which in many ways were similar to psychedelics, being able to see yourself objectively and being able to make significant changes in the way you perceive yourself and your role in life.
Although psychedelics did not directly impact my life at time of use, they gave me something to live for and to look forward to. I waited and I got everything I imagined and more.
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Every damn time I take a psychedelic some kind of emergency seems to present itself where I am shouldered doing something I really shouldn't be while tripping.
Something absolutely worth experiencing and mind expanding. By the 30th time or so idk if you gaining any more perspective. (kind of random after the first few)
Something absolutely worth experiencing and mind expanding. By the 30th time or so idk if you gaining any more perspective. (kind of random after the first few)
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Interesting question... I think overall it's been positive. I must admit that right now I'm a bit cynical about a lot of stuff that I used to believe, though... While I can recall times that psychedelics imparted a genuine enthusiasm for life and renewed appreciation for my friends and family and whatnot, somehow I didn't properly integrate these lessons, or ended up forgetting them later. I think there was a definite element of "spiritual bypassing" during the times that I was doing a lot of psychedelics, in that the renewed appreciation for some of the fundamental and ever-present aspects of life made me somewhat complacent about properly dealing with other problems that I had at the time, and not dealing with these problems more urgently appears to have had a more persistent impact on my current general state of mind than the cumulative effect of whatever positive experiences I had from psychedelics. Also I can't say honestly that psychedelics themselves imparted any definitive insights about actual steps to take in my life to properly deal with any actual problems, most of those insights I needed to arrive at during periods of relative sobriety. Psychedelics tend to impart fairly vague and nebulous lessons which can be interpreted in a helpful way... "life is actually pretty amazing", "isn't it great that you know people you love", "nothing you're worried about is actually that big a deal", that sort of thing... and make it easier to accept certain situations or find joy in the small things, for a while... and these insights can surely be leveraged more usefully than I mostly have ever been able to... but speaking as someone with some kind of pathologically avoidant tendencies I must say the impact has also been somewhat mixed, I don't think it's actually been negative or anything, I just think perhaps there have been points I've mistaken the general amazingness of the psychedelic experience for something that is surely so magic that it cannot help but solve all my other problems, purely by virtue of having experienced it, hah... which obviously just isn't true. I hope though there'll come a time in the not too distant future where my current tendency to profound cynicism will be replaced by an unbridled enthusiasm for psychedelics again.
Psychedelics can be engines of insight, but they can't really produce something out of nothing. Your experience is your own, and what you get out depends on what you bring in. If you are young or otherwise naive, then the insights you have are a lot less likely to be grounded in reality. Psychedelics cannot directly teach you how reality works, physically or socially.
I also think that much of the psychological experience of taking psychedelics and of having taken them in the recent past arises as a kind of simplified rationalization of deeper processes that the drug initiated. By deeper processes, I'm not even really talking about psychological things but things like modulation of inflammation and initiation of repair and reconditioning processes throughout the brain and body. Unless temporarily interrupted via dissociatives or something, our psychological persona is necessarily rooted in our sensory and somatic experiences, which in turn are dependent on our nervous systems and the vast amount of sensory information that they process. Psychedelics cause rapid changes, not just in the neurological signaling but possibly in the topology of the nerves themselves. I hypothesize that this process is most active early in the experience, while coming up and in the period leading to the plateau. Our psychological selves initially become disoriented by all the sudden changes, but as the psychedelic begins to wear off (at a time that may actually feel like "the peak"), new patterns of signaling begin to consolidate. As this consolidation occurs, our psychological selves are eager to take account of the extensive changes that have occurred, and this is where many of these seemingly profound but actually vague insights arise from. On a certain level of psychological functioning, these insights aren't vague at all. They accurately summarize the results of the processes we went through earlier in the trips, but of course these insights they tell us very little about how to live our life differently.
On the other hand, the consolidation process keeps going long after the "trip" wears off. During this window of courage, changes to behavior and habits can be made more easily. It is a time to act with intention, to establish new habits, to study something novel, or engage in any activity which benefits from greater mental if not physical flexibility. Always understand that real changes require dedication and discipline over time, and one must have the wisdom to know what changes are actually appropriate. Intention setting is a very dangerous business.
The best way to get the most insight out of using psychedelics is to complement them with knowledge and the kinds of experiences that cultivate wisdom.
I also think that much of the psychological experience of taking psychedelics and of having taken them in the recent past arises as a kind of simplified rationalization of deeper processes that the drug initiated. By deeper processes, I'm not even really talking about psychological things but things like modulation of inflammation and initiation of repair and reconditioning processes throughout the brain and body. Unless temporarily interrupted via dissociatives or something, our psychological persona is necessarily rooted in our sensory and somatic experiences, which in turn are dependent on our nervous systems and the vast amount of sensory information that they process. Psychedelics cause rapid changes, not just in the neurological signaling but possibly in the topology of the nerves themselves. I hypothesize that this process is most active early in the experience, while coming up and in the period leading to the plateau. Our psychological selves initially become disoriented by all the sudden changes, but as the psychedelic begins to wear off (at a time that may actually feel like "the peak"), new patterns of signaling begin to consolidate. As this consolidation occurs, our psychological selves are eager to take account of the extensive changes that have occurred, and this is where many of these seemingly profound but actually vague insights arise from. On a certain level of psychological functioning, these insights aren't vague at all. They accurately summarize the results of the processes we went through earlier in the trips, but of course these insights they tell us very little about how to live our life differently.
On the other hand, the consolidation process keeps going long after the "trip" wears off. During this window of courage, changes to behavior and habits can be made more easily. It is a time to act with intention, to establish new habits, to study something novel, or engage in any activity which benefits from greater mental if not physical flexibility. Always understand that real changes require dedication and discipline over time, and one must have the wisdom to know what changes are actually appropriate. Intention setting is a very dangerous business.
The best way to get the most insight out of using psychedelics is to complement them with knowledge and the kinds of experiences that cultivate wisdom.