Hmmmm...
For all the "mind-expanding" that psychedelic drugs are supposed to offer, many of you seem to harbor a rather closed-minded and dogmatic idea of the psychedelic experience...
SG,
Of course I can easily see your point, and it's not a radical concept or anything, ideas of tolerance, or losing the "magic" in regards to drug use is common, but try to look at it from a different angle.
As with most anything in life, there are pros and cons to everything, much the same can be said for so called, "psychedelic abuse". "Psychdelic abuse" (What exactly is that anyways?) or what I could also call, "Intensive Psychedelic Appreciation"
can have benefits from many different angles. But, since we can't really say what constitues "psychedelic abuse" (unless you can offer some numbers or stats) it's hard to work from a common referance point, so I'll use my own...
Personally, I have had my share of experimentation with psychedelic drugs in general, and in pariticular LSD. And while, ironically, I just ended a period of self-imposed abstination from all psychedelics (I hippyflipped for New Years, before that my last use was in August) a few months prior to the abstination I had experimented with full out immersion into the psychedelic experience (via LSD). Both proved equally insightful...
Basically, a bit of controlled experimentation with LSD for a short time in order to see possible benefits to an almost complete familiarization with the experience of taking it. What I think one would characterize as "psychedelic abuse". (Extended multi-day trips, daily threshold level dosing for long periods, etc etc). The idea was to see if one were to remove the inherent "Wow" factor that accompanies a trip, is the overall experience really as profound in nature, and to what degree was the experience (and accordingly, my perception of it) altered.
For myself, the insights, and thought processess that accompany them, radically fluctuate back and forth throughout a long sustained period of use. Leaping from total hectic confusion to stunning realization at the drop of a hat, and this progressivley increased in my case, whereas others found this facet of the experience severly diminished as time went on, even with exponential increasing of doseage. My method of rationalization behind any given stimulus would also VERY gradually change during a long term experience, and overall began to lean more towards the spiritual, even for the most basic of observations (that was weird).
Observations of that nature were just a few of the many things I was able to derive from the experience, and things that I had never previously witnessed with psychedelic drug use in the past. Also a newfound appreciation for SMALL doses of psychedelics was discovered, I've found that on occasion I would prefer more to just take a hit or two, as opposed to a large doses, it can be equally as profound...
Admittedly, by the end of that summer I was a bit burnt out on LSD, and that along with other factors facillitated my abstination from psychedelics, but, the question is, have I lost the "magic"? Exactly the opposite. I personally feel that experience has given me a more fundamental insight to changes in my thought process and the manipulation of that while under the influence of psychedelics.
The point is not to argue, but to merely offer the idea that the whole of the psychedelic experience is so expansive it's pretty much a world of infinite fucking possibilites we can't even begin to imagine, let's not limit ourselves from the onset.
Brainrape
"Shamanism that is specifically rooted in the kind of experiences that are induced by psychoactive plants ... is an area that our society is extraordinarily phobic and nervous concerning, and the reason I think is not far to seek. Because modern institutions depend on the transmission of a certain world view and then willing acquiescense in the truth of that world view by the populations into which it is being exported. In other words a kind of cultural brainwashing is necessary for modern cultures to work at all. The consequences of the acceptance of this situation of brainwashing is further acceleration toward catastrophe."
-Terence McKenna
)? Also, do you feel that that often is the most beneficial amount and that you've gotten "better" and wiser about how often you use them? For me twice a year would be too little I think as the positive effects of a trip last only a few weeks for me...
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