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Sobercolober
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Feeling awe inspried when shrooming....
#14109608 - 03/12/11 03:43 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I was inspired to write about this from another poster in another thread. Kind of tricky to describe. When tripping, users get a sense of awe, significance, connection, euphoria, beauty, body high, energy, depth of life and openess which sadly is by and large not possible to experience when sober or at least not in quite the same way. These things are still resident in baseline consciousness (hats off to mr McKenna for that saying) but they are not as amplified. Does this mean the psychedlic experience is with little enduring value.I appreciate that people once their minds have been opened to other way of seeing things that there can be enduring changes. But I find that rather than be satisifed I tend to want to go back for more.Feeling good afterall is kind of nice, lol. I tend to get a sensation that there could be a potential to experience these things naturally and it seems shrooms seeem to have a ntural and synergistic feel when they induce their effects. Afterall there are 2 ways of viewing shrooms:
Street Drugs: The label society has provided with all negative connotation and illegality which describes a temporary state induced by chemical interaction with brain systems.
Medicine : A more respectful term which is in synergy with chemicals already present in the brain, i.e. mimicing of serotonin.
I quote the poster (Porcupine) in the other thread:
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i find every psychedelic ridiculously enlightening when im on it, ill never understand how some people don't find them that way. however, when the trip wears off and i return to how i was before is when i question whether its really enlightening. dont get me wrong, i thinkt he states they induce are really enlightening but the value is limited if it doesnt last.
This was an articulate way of conveying the feeling, there is little of sadness and heavy heartedness that is attributed to the phenomena of post psychedelic experience and yet a seeming loss of it's tangibility when you come back down to earth. Of course anyone who values daily life as it is, is not going to want to be out of their nut every day, however it would be nice to capture more of that awe instead of waiting for the next time you are going to shroom.
I would like to hear of others feelings to the post psychedelic experience and how they integrate their experience.
Edited by Sobercolober (03/12/11 03:44 PM)
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gerryjarcia
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Registered: 05/29/10
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Re: Feeling awe inspried when shrooming.... [Re: Sobercolober]
#14110632 - 03/12/11 06:57 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Sobercolober said: I would like to hear of others feelings to the post psychedelic experience and how they integrate their experience.
great question, one i've asked myself often after a trip. i remember how after my first few trips i really looked for ways to take the perspectives and insights while tripping out of the woods and into my everyday life. i've only been tripping for a couple of years now but my psychedelic experiences thus far have really altered the way i interact with life.
it has renewed that wonder and awe in nature and life that i had as a child but was buried in all the bullshit of "growing up". it has really simplified life and put a spotlight on how utterly ridiculous the culture around me is. i laugh at things i never used to laugh at. it's beautiful.
i suppose integration of the psychedelic experience for me has really been about perspective shifts and reminding myself that the culture around me is just a weird song and dance, that the stories it tells about itself are just apparitions it projects outward and inward as a way to exist and interact with the world.
i know the integration of the psychedelic experience will be an ongoing journey. shit, being deprogrammed from 28 years of cultural programming doesn't come easy and it certainly doesn't come quick.
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"We are all intoxicated. We were born into an insane asylum, a world crazy-making. We believe what we see and hear. The real myth is the myth of sanity, of rationality: it's a disease that is eating away at the earth. All the poisons flow from our denial. We deny madness, we forget our crimes, we dismember the corpse, we imprison our children. We need poison to poison the poison, to remember the sacred nature of intoxication, the green body of the young god." ~ Dale Pendell
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