Mnboardin said:

Answers to what?

What isn't "just in our heads?"

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2Cents said:

all of life is connected my friend

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OutThisLife said:

2Cents said:

all of life is connected my friend

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Yes I've seen that. But that fucks up the mystery to life.

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Mnboardin said:

OutThisLife said:

2Cents said:

all of life is connected my friend

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Yes I've seen that. But that fucks up the mystery to life.

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It may "fuck up" a "mystery to life," but it does not shed light upon the mystery of life.

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zak007 said:

ive asked myself this same question:

i answer it with another question: how can it all be in our heads when were all making the same shit up?  If our thoughts and feeling after a trip are purely random and made up wouldn't we make up different shit.

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because we are one and the same, all of us! 

LSDreamer said:

Psychedelics do not show you anything that isn't already in your head.

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guruu said:

Exactly, they show you the whole universe!

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OutThisLife said:

Are the answers we receive made by ourselves when tripping?

Is the 'everything is connected' just in our heads? Or is questioning the connection the doubt that we should stay away from?

O.o

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I'd like to point out how funny it is that you assume everyone knows the "everything is connected" feeling, yet you still question its validity.  It's only natural though.

Peronally, I think experiencing life subjectively through this singular body is "questioning the connection".  Tripping is like going back to the original thought - the connection.  Without the subjective viewpoint there is no ability to question, and be separate from the answer.... this is why the connection while tripping seems so real - you are not asking the question and waiting for an answer, you are receiving both at the same time.

Maybe that makes no sense to some people, and certainly one's trips can be full of answer-less questions and question-less answers, but I feel that basically tripping brings our subjective reality closer to "the source" or the underlying connection in all things.

I don't have any doubts about the feeling of connectedness while tripping, because I had a bit of that feeling/knowledge before I ever tripped. 

During my first real experience with shrooms, I saw that life was as I had always thought it was - connected.  I wondered why I didn't see it like that all the time, and really felt more sober than drugged out or tripping.  I remember my friend asking me, as I was pondering the same thought, "Why don't we see like this all the time?"

I don't question the experience because it was direct experience of connection.  Literally everything I experienced that day was experienced as a deep connection between everything.  There was no question in the experience, and in hindsight I could shrug it all off to "drugs" or my mind, but I feel that would be disrespecting the lessons I learned that day.  Whatever caused the experience is really irrelevant to me... in my head or not, walking forward in the wisdom that was shared with me has been most rewarding.

So to answer your first question, I think is kind of rhetorical.  Yes, the answers we receive while tripping are made by ourselves... the connection we see is seen and interpreted by our mind alone.  But if you really experienced connection, then you know that yourself is much more than just your mind, regardless of what your mind has to say about it...