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LSD on the mountain
    #28390031 - 07/09/23 07:10 AM (6 months, 17 days ago)

It has been over 15 years since I last tripped in nature.  Most of the time these days I just trip at home.  But this time my girlfriend offered to tripsit and help with the uber, remind me to take breaks and eat snacks etc.  I was really looking forward to it because now that I’m older I have a greater appreciation for nature and for psychedelics.

I take a tab estimated to be 100ug and call the uber.  The time from taking the tab to actually arriving at the park was about 45 minutes, so I feel the comeup as we’re in the car.  The more the driver talks, the more my own thoughts start to spiral out from what he is saying.  One thing that stuck with me is when he made a joke about taking the scenic route from the GPS because he just goes where the AI takes him.  So I start thinking about the effects of AI on society both good and bad. 

By the time we get to the park I’m feeling the acid enough to be confused and a bit disoriented, but not really tripping yet.  I’m usually the one who guides hikes, but I’ve been helping my girlfriend learn how to make sense of trail markers and maps to prepare for this.  My girlfriend admitted she was doubting her abilities to be the one to guide, so we go over our pre-planned route once again.  It takes me a few minutes longer than normal to make sense of the map and trail markers :lol: but we worked it out together. Throughout the trip I was able to regain control enough to help her make sense of the map at certain confusing trail intersections.

The further down the trail we got, the more intense things started to become.  I hit around a strong level 2 trip, verging on level 3.  The echos from the previous thoughts about AI re-surfaced and I felt the true nature of reality starting to show its face.  Everything around me is a simulation and the AI of the universe was showing me what I needed to see.  It was a warm AI, but stern when appropriate.  Usually when psychedelics first start to hit me, my mind gets bombarded with everything that can go wrong, my fears, and everything that I am doing wrong in life.  I have learned that if I try to rationalize anything during this stage, I will dwell on it and have a bad trip.  Like Kyle Reese says, it can’t be bargained with and it can’t be reasoned with.  But if I just accept what is being shown to me, then I die in a metaphorical sense and just go on to exist in the present.  My girlfriend helped me get through this with some breathwork.

The rest of the trip went smoothly and I had a big grin on my face the entire time.  The hardest part about climbing the mountain was trying to maintain focus to get to the top.  I kept wanting to stop and look at everything.  The geometric patterns in the bark, the birds and chipmunks that seemed to be following us, flowers, berries, mushrooms, spiderwebs, bugs.  Even with all of this life, I saw a decomposing skunk and felt bad for it at first.. but then I saw the beauty in it disintegrating back to the source.  I even found the beauty in the benches along the path, including one where someone carved the word “TURD” and there was a trashbin with a picture of a dog taking a dump.  I just found this hilarious and we referred to it as the “turd bench”. 

My girlfriend knows a lot about plants and birds so she would point something out and then I would notice it throughout my entire vision.  For example she points out a fern, I see ferns everywhere.  I found it so absurd that we had raspberries in a plastic box inside the backpack when there are berries all around us.  I always wanted to learn how to forage, but I realized that I will never learn if I don’t get started.  So the next day during the afterglow I walked around in the backyard trying to identify all the plants to get started.

I thought we were walking around in circles at one point because I kept seeing the same plants and flowers in the exact same configurations and getting deja vu, but instead of retracing my steps I just reminded myself that I came here with my girlfriend because I trust her and continued to follow her lead.  The repeating patterns of nature just left me in awe.

On the way up to the top, every time I saw someone walk by I said hi in an attempt to be friendly but everyone was in their own little world.  It made me a bit sad that we as human beings are so shut off from eachother.  One woman was walking down screaming and swearing into her phone so loud that we continued to hear her voice echo up the mountain long after she passed us.  I felt bad for her, she was in this gorgeous place but she couldn’t enjoy it.

When we finally got to the top, we sat down and looked over the peak of the mountain in awe.  The sun was shining, I saw rainbows in the clouds, hawks spiraling out into space.  I truly felt like I was in the presence of a god.  There were people in religious outfits at the peak and groups of people speaking different languages and I was reminded of a verse by Jedi Mind Tricks where he speaks of a near death experience:

“I see my childhood, I'm back in the arms of my mother
I see my whole life, I see Christ, I see bright lights
I see Israelites, Muslims and Christians at peace, no fights
Blacks, Whites, Asians, people of all types
I must have died, then I woke up, suprised I'm alive”

This felt like heaven and was pure bliss.  This is what life is supposed to be.  Everyone was here from different backgrounds at the top after completing the same goal and just vibing in peace.  My girlfriend and I find a quiet spot at the top to massage eachother and make out for a bit. 

The way down was a lot faster because we just wanted to get home and fuck in the shower :jiggy: I was still tripping when we got home but around 6 hours had passed so I was coming down by this point.  The rest of the night was just vibing and hitting the gravity bong to bring the trip back as it was wearing off.


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Re: LSD on the mountain [Re: Zymosis]
    #28392744 - 07/11/23 05:42 PM (6 months, 14 days ago)

Some notes from the afterglow and integration. 

Walking through the path was like being an observer of nature.  Every time we stopped to take a rest, it was like picking a new spot to call home and becoming one with it.  No different than the house that I call home, it’s all only temporary and just a piece of land that Mother Nature owns.  Nesting down and building a place to call my own is no different than a bird building a home out of twigs.  Nature will eventually reclaim what is hers. 

I overheard a hiker telling a companion about how this huge pile of rocks we were looking at was from stone mining operation over 100 years ago, and someone tried to climb it falling 200 feet to his death when one of the stones gave out.  I thought about how we try to tame and conquer nature, but nature doesn’t fuck around.  You try to fuck with nature, it fucks you right back.

How can we co-exist with nature while still making a place for ourselves?  Humans are so obsessed with having the perfect yard, pumping it full of chemicals in an effort to tame it but killing all sorts of life in the process.  We kill “pests” and pull weeds.  Why not let the lawn grow and seed itself in the spring?  Why not mulch the grass back into itself and mow the dead leaves instead of using chemical fertilizers and raking leaves to be taken away in bags?  Instead of obsessing over having a constantly even and mowed lawn, can let it grow between trims so the plants remain strong.  Instead of hiring pest control companies we can use natural repellents.  Spiders, centipedes, snakes.  We try to send them away but they help keep things under control.

A lot can be recycled for a garden.  Instead of throwing out fish guts after a fishing trip, they can be used as fertilizer.  Egg shells.  Grass clippings.  Scraps from the kitchen.  Rocks painted as strawberries can prevent the birds from stealing from your strawberry plants.  Hot peppers have natural pest control.  Can build a worm bed for my own replenishing source of bait, worm casings, and fresh soil.  Again, scraps from the kitchen can feed the worms.  All of this is stuff I have heard over the years but never tried, so don’t take any of this as advice or fact.  Just compiling my thoughts and things I want to start incorporating into my life.  I’m reminded of when my father buried the family dog in the garden and continued to grow vegetables.  I didn’t put two and two together as a kid, but the dog went back to the earth and enriched our soil instead of wasting away in a plot sectioned off as a grave site, or being burned into ash as a mantelpiece.  There is something beautiful to be found in my old dog’s death. 

I’m inspired to forage and to build a garden.  I haven’t been fishing in way too long.  I’m inspired to build a birdhouse for the birds that build a nest under my deck every year.  I’m inspired to build a bat house for the bats I see swooping over my deck to eat the mosquitos attracted to the overhead lights. All of these projects can be fun bonding activities with the family and we can share the memories for the rest of our lives.

I always wanted to learn how to draw but suffer from “I don’t know what to draw syndrome”.  Nature provides an unlimited resource for references.


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Re: LSD on the mountain [Re: Zymosis]
    #28396020 - 07/15/23 06:16 AM (6 months, 11 days ago)

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Zymosis said:
Some notes from the afterglow and integration. 

Walking through the path was like being an observer of nature.  Every time we stopped to take a rest, it was like picking a new spot to call home and becoming one with it.  No different than the house that I call home, it’s all only temporary and just a piece of land that Mother Nature owns.  Nesting down and building a place to call my own is no different than a bird building a home out of twigs.  Nature will eventually reclaim what is hers. 

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I like this observation of finding and making home when you stop moving.


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Re: LSD on the mountain [Re: redgreenvines]
    #28399605 - 07/18/23 10:43 AM (6 months, 8 days ago)

It really did feel like home every time we stopped.  So many rocks and logs that made perfect temporary chairs and other rocks that made good tables to set our bags.  Everything we needed.


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