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The Big And Dandy Psychedelic Realisations Thread Lool

That words are weak in expressing what is really felt and/or experienced.
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That we are all actually one. (which one time so scared me because I realised that I was actually alone in the world, though not really)
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That assigning numbers and names to time (hours, days, months, etc) is meaningless/pointless/unecessary.
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That dreams are a fun little voyage into another world all on their own.

and some other random and cracked stuff
 
ooo....and the whole our galaxy being like an atom..or inside an atom and all the little atoms that make us up also continue, being galaxies...and it goes infinitely up and down in scale like that

I actually once convinced three of my friends that this was true. Well, sure...I don't see why it wouldn't make sense.

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and remember Star Wars? "The Force"? Ya...well sure as hell something like that exists. How you can communicate with people without speaking, or how you can communicate with animals like that or how you can feel people's energy/vibe.


I'm sure I'll think of more realisations I've had.
 
This is only the beginning of a long journey. There is much I will never understand - and could never even *hope* to understand.

Nothing is eternal except energy. It never *ends* - just changes form. Eternal life is attained through the shifting of energies.

Puking isn't really that bad.
 
One thing I've learned that I'll never forget is that it's important to make sure that everyone is brought along, even if it means going back for someone or having to wait.

My experience at Yankee Hat basin in Australia told me that we all need to be together as a group along the path in order for any progress to be made. The purely personal journey, while it may seem quite valid, is similar to only poking at the heart of the cosmos, while bringing everyone along to that point seems to make more of a connection with what is really going on with both the interior and exterior universes.
 
That we are in a continuous state of flux and change and denying this to ourselves is useless; however, the majority of people will not look within and so will not find their true selves or see that everything is changing.
Psychedelics have also let grasp a deeper concept of death and it is now something do not fear with dread; instead i look forward to the single most important moment of our waking lives: the journey into the afterlife.

peace
 
I realized once exactly how it would (will) feel to face my own death, assuming I have some foreknowledge of it. I always thought I would face death stoically, but while tripping I could really, deeply imagine it, and I realized I will probably shit my pants like crazy. The finality of death is so absolute, at least for one who doesn't believe in an afterlife.
 
The external world is a big mirror and personal beliefs about the nature of reality will be reflected back by the external world.

We have an awesome power to actually create "reality" as we go along. How this works, I don't know, but it works.

One trip I will never forget: I was looking at this strange, alien landscape, a field dotted with poles, or towers. Around the top of these towers were spinning words, thoughts, and images. I realised that the field was the oneness of which we are all part. The towers were each individual's core self (or soul), and the spinning images around the tower tops were the individual egos of these souls. It made me realise that while we are all one, we are all seperate too..... and how such a dichotomy could actually work.

LSD is a fantastic tool when it comes to turning concepts into pictoral images.
 
^victor borge: Do you not feel the unity when under psychedelics in that we are in some sense connected to a collective consciousness, one that is all-loving, eternal and absolute. This for me creates a feeling that death is the ultimate trip. DMT(pineal gland) also makes me think that there is some connection within us to an external realm of infinite possibility. Foreknowledge found within my own brain while under the influence of psyches also formulates IMO that there is a force that is beyond what we are now, one that we will rejoice in union with.
I love these discussions!
 
^^ It's very set and setting dependent, and somewhat dose dependent, and somewhat drug-specific. That is to say, when I had the death-is-scary revelation (which actually countermanded many earlier revelations that death is a great new opening), I was on a low dose of 2C-B watching an execution scene on The Sopranos. Not the most deeply revelatory kind of trip.

OTOH, on a higher dose of LSD in a more contemplative setting, I have felt all that is beautiful and connected and also all that is pointless and arbitrary in the universe, and accepted it all and my part in it.

Low doses lead to one kind of revelation, higher doses to another. I think both are valid and both should be analyzed later while sober to determine their true value for the individual.
 
It's taught me that simply, the mind is a powerful thing, and it can be programmed to think in many different ways, not unlike a computer. In computer terms, these drugs are switching off and on a massive amount of different bits and bytes, affecting many parts of our consciousness, visual perception, and higher reasoning.

I find it very entertaining to try and dissect exactly how many effects mushrooms and LSD manifest while on them. I'll think of a word in my head, and notice how that word is echoed in my head, as if the information relating to that word was "fired" into my consciousness, but the firing mechanism is altered in a way so instead of being "fired" in one quantity, it was smeared out and "flanged" into my consciousness.

Even without drugs, I think about how moldable our brain "machine" really is. About how we can be programmed to be wholly convinced of something that may or may not be true (at the very least, it's true within our minds - that may be all that matters). For instance, we can create the idea of God in our minds, and believe it fully. With psychedelics, you can be convinced that you are in the presence of higher beings, because the drugs are programming your mind to think in ways that without the drug, would be impossible or beyond the range of a sober mind.
 
Indelibleface said:
I'll think of a word in my head, and notice how that word is echoed in my head, as if the information relating to that word was "fired" into my consciousness, but the firing mechanism is altered in a way so instead of being "fired" in one quantity, it was smeared out and "flanged" into my consciousness.
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^^ Do you get this on shrooms too or just LSD? I have only had the "linguistic hallucinations" on acid, I always thought this was one of the beautifully unique aspects of LSD.
 
^^^ I get these linguistic thingies on most drugs. On some drugs (a recent 2C-B trip springs to mind) it is so intense as to become annoying.

I will think, hear or read a word, and my mind will come up with all the possible meanings of the word, plus all kinds of associations and memories, and at the same time my mind will come up with all of the anagrams of the word, and the meanings and associations and correlations of the anagrams. And the shape of the letters and how the letter-shapes relate to the concepts embedded in the words.

Then I have to meditate on silence to quieten my monkey mind!!

Another thing I get on psychs that is a bit weird and a little too commonplace to be dismissed as random coincidence, is that I will think of a word and then it will happen. For example, I'll think the word "blow" and the lightbulb will go "pop!". 8o
 
That we are just another living organism on a rock floating around another rock, which is just one of the millions of rocks doing the same thing in a vast vast universe.

Not that we, humans are the be all and end all as far as living life goes, which we think we are. We are the kings of our society but the only people that that society means anything to is us!

Does that make sense, not really....

db
 
Nice thread.

There are so many ideas which I can type about, but ill try.

- I have learned that there is no meaning in life, and that is a good thing. If there was meaning, then that would be proof of fate and destiny, which means we would have no free will. Without free will, we could not explore such areas of the mind with these psychedelic substances. Well, maybe... I dunno.

- Psychedelics have helped me learn to stop thinking materialistically, and practice spirituality (meditation, yoga, martial arts). Spirituality has helped put meaning in this world, and has given me freedom.

- Psychedelics such as mushrooms and LSD remove the barriers of the ego, and create a universal consciousness between groups of trippers, resulting in pure understanding. This understanding is so deep, that words don't need to be used, just the pure experience of life, energy, and love. Since the barriers of the ego are removed, trippers often find they gain a close relationship with one another. LSD is known to make friendships last a lifetime. Even if the friendship is destroyed, the love is still strong, but the barriers of the ego have separated the connection between the people. Ego ego ego..

- Society is messed up. But this is okay, because power exists. Power is one of the things in life human beings strive for, and when the opportunity for power arises, we won't hesitate to take it. Well, most of us. Knowing this, it is easy to look at governments and laugh at the society they have created. It's just a joke.

These ideas have probably been mentioned previously, or in books, or in the internet, but the words came randomly from my mind, so that counts right?? ;)

"All I know is that I don't know nothing"
" Medicine in the hands of a fool is poison, just as poison becomes medicine in the hands of the wise." - Giacomo Casanova
 
Neo1 said:
The external world is a big mirror and personal beliefs about the nature of reality will be reflected back by the external world.

We have an awesome power to actually create "reality" as we go along. How this works, I don't know, but it works.

One trip I will never forget: I was looking at this strange, alien landscape, a field dotted with poles, or towers. Around the top of these towers were spinning words, thoughts, and images. I realised that the field was the oneness of which we are all part. The towers were each individual's core self (or soul), and the spinning images around the tower tops were the individual egos of these souls. It made me realise that while we are all one, we are all seperate too..... and how such a dichotomy could actually work.

LSD is a fantastic tool when it comes to turning concepts into pictoral images.
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Your explanation put an image in my head.

Its like the poles or towers are tall with people who have large ego's and are living life materialistically. People who understand life have shorter poles. Possibly, shamans and healers have no pole. That is when we reach the ultimate consciousness awareness, or nirvana, or whatever you want to call it.

Then, when we are tripping on psychedelics, the poles lower to the ground(or field), and the words spinning around the top of the poles disconnect, and start meeting other words. This is like what explains the mega understanding you get when your high. When you dont need words to explain something or what no.

Awsome! :)

This also makes me think deeper into a trip I once had. Once on around 10 to 12 grams of dried mushroom, a couple of buddies and I went into this cove. This was when it was dark out, with stars and a full moon. It was quiet, and everybody tured into monkey-ape like creatures (with the human shape, or course). Then the world around us started changing forms, and the sky sort of split open and was disconnecting. I then had a feeling like I wasn't inside of my body, but was viewing these alien creatures, and myself from this other dimension. I dunno, I still have much more to experience.
 
I once felt my body "disappear"....it just sort of became pure energy and my "essence" was freed of its usual constraints.

And this was during the only bad trip I've ever had...but it wasn't scary at all...it was very liberating...I felt so free...and it actually made my trip better. And for the next few days, my body felt lighter, like it wasn't really there or something.
 
After reading many of these posts, I thought some of you might want to read about a project that aims to detect a global 'consciousness". The information is intriguing, but be aware that there are many groups the deride this project as fundamentally flawed.
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Global Consciousness Project

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The mind's extended reach remains to be fully defined in scientific terms, but research on human consciousness suggests that we may have direct communication links with each other, and that our intentions can have effects in the world despite physical barriers and separations. We are compelled by good evidence to accept correlations that we cannot yet explain. It appears that consciousness may sometimes produce something that resembles, at least metaphorically, a nonlocal field of meaningful information.

The Global Consciousness Project (GCP) takes this possibility as a starting point for a speculation that such fields generated by individual consciousness would interact and combine, and ultimately have a global presence. Usually, because we are busy with individual lives, there is little to produce structure in the field, so it is random and not detectable. But occasionally there are global-scale events that bring great numbers of us to a common focus and an unusual coherence of thought and feeling. To study the effects of a possible global consciousness, we have created a world-spanning network of devices sensitive to coherence and resonance in the mental domain. Continuous streams of data are sent over the internet to be archived and correlated with events that may evoke a world-wide consciousness. Examples that appear to have done so include both peaceful gatherings and disasters: a few minutes around midnight on any New Years Eve, the first hour of NATO bombing in Yugoslavia, the Papal visit to Israel, a variety of global meditations, several major earthquakes, and September 11 2001."
 
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