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I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics
#5333835 - 02/24/06 12:55 AM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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Does anyone else know what I mean by this?
Was I part of the generation before mine, I would have lived through the heyday of the counter-culture movement, the saturation of the nation (like so very much blotter paper) with LSD, the almost mainstream topic of psychedellic drug use and enlightenment.
But, being born when I was... it took me 18 years of my life to even learn how to get ahold of mushrooms... and I had to grow them myself. LSD is hard to come by unless you've made the right friends, mescaline must be self-made by an involved (but fun) extraction process. Mainstream society brands psychedellic drug users as a notch or two above the insane. There is no flourishing culture of accepted use of psychedellics. There are pockets everywhere, but no real significant culture that wields much power.
We don't come together en-masse to voice our opinions and excercise our rights. We may participate in our own communities, but we're no longer a nationwide presence, more like a conglomerate of somewhat affiliated local societies.
Oh, to think of what I've missed out on
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: Konnrade]
#5333842 - 02/24/06 12:58 AM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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No.
im starting a new revolution.
you are just in time.
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: sui]
#5333846 - 02/24/06 01:00 AM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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If you ever need a chemist...
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: sui]
#5333849 - 02/24/06 01:02 AM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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honestly, tripping on Haight street in SF. Made me realize how possible it is. Honestly.
People want it.
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: Konnrade]
#5333850 - 02/24/06 01:02 AM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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I think in a couple of decades there'll be a new drug-culture/music movement like the hippies of the 60s.
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: sui]
#5333856 - 02/24/06 01:04 AM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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its closer than you think.............
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: Konnrade]
#5333861 - 02/24/06 01:07 AM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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Create what you want. Use psychedelics like they mean something to you.
We can do it. Hell they never really accomplished much back then. Perhaps we could actually do something, but if not, who really cares, we can always exchange stories.
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: mecreateme]
#5333866 - 02/24/06 01:09 AM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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and we have the shroomery, thats such an asset.
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: sui]
#5333867 - 02/24/06 01:10 AM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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suimush said: its closer than you think.............
no its not... we dont even vote... you think we are gonan make a revolution? before any revolution starts people need to get off their ass
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: sui]
#5333872 - 02/24/06 01:12 AM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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suimush said: its closer than you think.............
This is what I've believed for a while. The Psychedelic revolution hasn't even started. I'm under the belief that within 10-20 years research will turn up psychedelics that make LSD seem like childs play.
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: Jadian]
#5333873 - 02/24/06 01:14 AM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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Jadian said:
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suimush said: its closer than you think.............
This is what I've believed for a while. The Psychedelic revolution hasn't even started. I'm under the belief that within 10-20 years research will turn up psychedelics that make LSD seem like childs play.
i believe its already started again, a new movement is comeing.
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: Konnrade]
#5333916 - 02/24/06 01:48 AM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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To be honest with you all, I sincerely feel that given the opportunity I could make myself a very beneficial person to the psychedellic community.
I've always known I had the capacity to do something great... I just never was presented with the opportunity, or if I did... I failed to recognize it.
But, given the resources... I would love to sow a few acres of land with peruvian torch, bury a shipping crate, and start doing large scale extractions to produce mescaline on a scale that would allow it to be distributed in small quantities around the region.
But that's a pipe dream for me, nothing more. If I beleived it was feasible to actually do it, I wouldn't be talking openly about it
LSD Chemist would also be a lovely occupation. But I wouldn't dare claim that I intended to be one... I like to dream about it, however.
I'm of the opinion that there are two major circumstances that need to be met for another revolution to begin. Number one is that we all need to come closer together, and unite as a single community that takes part in society as a whole to exert our influence and claim our rights. Number two is that we need to rebuild a network of honest men to distribute the substances to the people, make them available to those who seek them, share them in an honest and progressive manner that can allow others to benefit from their power. If that happens, we may indeed start to see some changes occur.
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: Konnrade]
#5333929 - 02/24/06 02:05 AM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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Konnrade said: To be honest with you all, I sincerely feel that given the opportunity I could make myself a very beneficial person to the psychedellic community.
I've always known I had the capacity to do something great... I just never was presented with the opportunity, or if I did... I failed to recognize it.
But, given the resources... I would love to sow a few acres of land with peruvian torch, bury a shipping crate, and start doing large scale extractions to produce mescaline on a scale that would allow it to be distributed in small quantities around the region.
But that's a pipe dream for me, nothing more. If I beleived it was feasible to actually do it, I wouldn't be talking openly about it
LSD Chemist would also be a lovely occupation. But I wouldn't dare claim that I intended to be one... I like to dream about it, however.
I'm of the opinion that there are two major circumstances that need to be met for another revolution to begin. Number one is that we all need to come closer together, and unite as a single community that takes part in society as a whole to exert our influence and claim our rights. Number two is that we need to rebuild a network of honest men to distribute the substances to the people, make them available to those who seek them, share them in an honest and progressive manner that can allow others to benefit from their power. If that happens, we may indeed start to see some changes occur.
Go read my post about "What the *bleep* do we know" if you haven't already seen it. I'll bump it if you haven't, I don't remember if you took part in that conversation or not. But that's EXACTLY what my goal is. I'm determined to be part of this revolution and unite the world.
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: Jadian]
#5333936 - 02/24/06 02:19 AM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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I remember seeing the thread title, and being curious... but I don't think i ever got around to reading it.
I'll search for it.
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: Konnrade]
#5333947 - 02/24/06 02:25 AM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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if you plan to start a "revolution" based around one that has already happened (that whole late 60's drug thing) then it isn't a revolution. Cultural revolutions aren't something you expect or plan for, they just sort of happen, and then a few years later it's assimilated into popular culture so that it is properly crushed and destroyed. Much like the early 90's grunge music revolution. It was revolutionary for music that encouraged an attitude of openness and honesty in peoples feelings. Oh course within 5 years it's soul had bee sucked dry and it failed like all trendy drug/music revolutions ultimately do. In order to have a meaningful "revolution" people have to revolt in a fashion that the mainstream won't except at first. That way it cannot be assimilated and diffused. It has to be an idea of feeling that only certain people feel, because otherwise everyone latches onto it because it's hip and the meaning is lost, watered down, or tossed aside. So trying to recreate flower power and all that shit won't work because it's just a trendy fashion show...hell look at the wookies who travel around with jam bands..not much enlightenment to go around there, just a lot of shady homeless "hippies".
And what did those few years in the late 60's accomplish anyway? There was some sort of magic back then for sure, but it just never got there. It turned into a fashion statement, fizzled out, and then the world had ten years of disco. Nothing changed. In fact, the hippies were the ones who ended up changing, rather than the system. Most of the old ex-hippies just had families and adapted to the status quo. So maybe drug revolutions aren't the answer? Maybe there's something else everyone is missing.
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: JonnyOnTheSpot]
#5333951 - 02/24/06 02:30 AM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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It wasn't really my intention to mimic the counter-culture movement, if a revolution were to come... it would come and just focus on the goals that needed to be acheived. The means would be decided upon as things developed, but they would most certainly be peaceful and cooperative.
At most I would want things to just draw a bit of inspiration from the counter-culture movement. And also to learn lessons from it, such as how to avoid losing the meaning of what you stand for, like some of the "hippies" eventually did.
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: JonnyOnTheSpot]
#5333952 - 02/24/06 02:31 AM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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yes. Depends on the definition of the revolution. Definitely (from my history teacher) a revolution is basically the taking over of the government. And as far as I no, there aint no U.S. Big revolution for psychedelics becoming the norm. Look around, region to region differ greatly. You just gotta group up. We can all reproduce. Now what? We all frolic and play till the next empire falls right? Or psychedelic machine guns tearing down governement officials with super armor and 100x lives.
The law needs to change before this stuff truly infects the mindless/mindful mainstream. Either way you look at it, we got our freedom.
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: JonnyOnTheSpot]
#5333956 - 02/24/06 02:32 AM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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interesting. Very well done post.
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: stayrea]
#5333959 - 02/24/06 02:35 AM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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all people need to do is vote, sign petitions, and make petitions...
thats it!
but do they do it?
before you become the next che guevara, before large marches begin, before the hunger strikes, first try voting
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: stayrea]
#5333972 - 02/24/06 02:47 AM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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We don't need a "revolution" so to speak. I'd consider it more of an awakening. People need to realize that seperating each other and everyone being out in this world only for themselves is harmful to our society.
And it's not a drug revolution just because a certain drug seems to evoke these thoughts more than normally. A catalyst is only one part of the reaction, albiet an important part in most cases.
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: Jadian]
#5334036 - 02/24/06 03:20 AM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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It's too late for that shit now... dominator society is too powerful and too set in its ways. We're digging ourselves into a hole which it's far too late to get out of. A few of us can join together and try to climb up the sides a little like in the 60s, but the majority will eventually drag us down and make us dig.
Maybe im wrong a some kind of new culture movement or wonder drug will turn everything round... but the unconditional love and empathy that came with the E/dance generation failed... the peaceful unity and open-mindedness of the psychedelic movement failed... if love and understanding have both failed then i really dont know what else we can try.
Just my pessimistic 2cents...
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: Dfekt]
#5334049 - 02/24/06 03:33 AM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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I don't believe it's too late, but I think if people sit on their asses saying "well it's too late, so I won't do anything" then "too late" is bound to come eventually. Probably in the form of nuclear war.
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: Dfekt]
#5334054 - 02/24/06 03:37 AM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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who said it failed?
It just planted the seed. Its not about the drugs, thats what we have to come to realise, they are good tools, but they arnt the be all end all.
we have to figure out what needs to change and take the steps to change it. Simple as that.
It can be done, we just have to do it.
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: Jadian]
#5334055 - 02/24/06 03:37 AM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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We're the RC generation.
Tons of relativley unreasearched psychedelic chemicals availible to buy online... people will look back at 1995-2006 and say "shit... remember when RCs were all easy to get online? now you can't get them anywhere".
Until all the sites get shut down and the grey areas in the law removed, this is our summer of love.
Or maybe not.
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: Chikitta]
#5334090 - 02/24/06 04:11 AM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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You can still get RCs online? I thought they had already been wiped out by the man...
The trouble is, as i see it, for significant change it takes time... a lot of time. We cant just go planting seeds and expect them to grow overnight, we need to nurture them for years to come, to teach our values to the next generation and make sure they grow old and strong like a big wise tree. The movements we've witnessed tend to last for a decade tops before they flop and wither like a malnourished plant, getting incorporated into mainstream or beaten down some way or other by opression in favour of the status quo. I think what im trying to say is that the best WE can hope for is to establish our roots, probably pave the way for things to come, make things better for the next generation or the one after that, as a generation we probably wont be around long enough to personally reap what we sow... but i guess it's a start. *IF* it's not already too late.
Edit: i think i need to lay off the metaphors lol
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: Dfekt]
#5334122 - 02/24/06 04:45 AM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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Nah, keep the cryptic metaphors coming!
Yeah you can still get RCs online from a number of reliable sites.. in fact I think I gave you a few of the better ones on MSN a while back.
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: Konnrade]
#5334148 - 02/24/06 05:42 AM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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Successful revolutions almost always start from the top and go down. We live in very strange circumstances today: an oligarchy. A great first step would be to have the majority take the power back, and have Congress reassert itself and actually begin representing the people they're supposed to, not self-serving political ends.
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: Konnrade]
#5334189 - 02/24/06 06:50 AM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics
Too late? Konnrade you're not late: we need you NOW!
When the hip underground broke through to the mainstream youth culture, it got destroyed. Look at the Shroomery forums and you see the diversity and the problems that come with it. The sixties revolution got snuffed and what happened then?
We've watched ammonia, vinegar and iodine destroy a generation.
But end 80s, beginning 90s the ball got rolling again. The psychedelic revolution that rekindled now is beyond any government control. Nowadays we have an unlimited supply of 4-HO-DMT, our beloved mushrooms, which can supply the psychedelic revolution which is happening NOW with as much psychedelics they need. The era of Pickards and Owsleys has passed. We live in a time where you can produce your own psychedelics, growing on rice in a jar.
Read my article I attached. One of the problems of the 1960s that there was a chronic shortage of fuel, which was LSD.
Our current fuel, 4-HO-DMT, is a catalyst because when you produce it, it creates potential to produce more.
Two spores can turn a bale of straw into a thousand doses and two billion spores.
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Mainstream society brands psychedellic drug users as a notch or two above the insane. There is no flourishing culture of accepted use of psychedellics.
Konnrade: this is the exact same situation as in the 1960s. You can bet that three quarters of the people at woodstock were OTD-ers. The hippy ideal was wiped out the moment hip culture became mainstream.
Most hippies were all about getting fucked up, only they decorated that with hip talk. The core of the hippy movement had to see how their ideals were taken down not just by the government but more hurtfully by great multitudes of "hippies" whom absolutely did not care.
In 1969 teenage girls whored themselves out for LSD which they injected along with heroin. And what was up with "hippies" who boo'd and humiliated their brothers and peers who had fought and survived the Vietnam war? It wasn't all groovy in the 1960s.
The majority of the youth culture is *not* idealistic, not in the 1960s and not now. Don't fall for a romanticised image of the hippie era.
Konnrade, the Revolution needs you *now* and not in the past. Look for the thing you can do, and proceed doing that. One of the things I can do is be a moderator at the Shroomery, one of the frontline trenches in the War on Drugs, and that's precisely what I'm doing
Don't worry about LSD synthesis, thats being taken care of. Don't weep about the demise of the RC's, they weren't that great and the ones that are will forever be with us. The catalyst of the current revolution is 4-HO-DMT, homegrown in grain jars, on compost, woodchips or collected from the wild.
If you want to be a person fueling the revolution, distribute sporeprints to hand-picked people willing to start growing.
The Movement is on steam in North America, Europe, Japan and Australia so focus on Africa, Asia and South America if you in any way can.
But the 1960s have shown that Psychedelics are vital, but not (like said) the be all, end all. Psychedelics are NEUTRAL, you must remember that. You can bet KKK people have vivid technicolor daydreams of lynching black people when they are high on LSD.
One of the HUGE mistakes of the 1960s was that they though LSD would make everything right for all. It was tragically naive and partly to blame for the era of vinegar, ammonia, iodine and disco that followed in its wake.
Psychedelics won't "turn you on" to what's righteous and good, but it can bring you in tune with yourself and through that the world, if it is used right.
Ultimately Psychedelics are mostly beneficial when they are taken with the right attitude. and THAT has to be cultivated more than psychedelics need to.
If you try to make people "see the light" and succeed than you are more valuable to the revolution than an elfspice merchant.
Now, in 2006, we are partly above and partly underground. We need to get back to the grassroots of what started the Psychedelic revolution: turning people on one by one in your livingroom or in nature. Be a warrior of words, spreading the Light in conversations you witness or are part of, writing a letter to the editor. Teaching friends how to cultivate, giving away Salvia and Cactus cuttings to everyone who wants to have one, whether they will use them or just like them as a pretty houseplant. Start a website, or enhance one like you are doing right here.
Gather a close circle of friends and do enlightening psychedelic Sessions together, working at each other's personal and spiritual growth.
Don't flee into a past that never was: Konnrade, we need you NOW!
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: Asante]
#5334194 - 02/24/06 07:01 AM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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nice post Wiccan.
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: dblaney]
#5334262 - 02/24/06 07:50 AM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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Shit man, Chikitta i didnt even realise who you were!
Edit: Wiccan
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: Dfekt]
#5334298 - 02/24/06 08:07 AM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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ya i feel ya man... just viewed "Festival Express" and "...Live in Pompei" last night and ya i was thinking the same thing
but don't worry, one day the revival will come (hopefully before we are old dustballs)
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: swampthing]
#5334444 - 02/24/06 09:54 AM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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the politics did not come from psychedellics luckily the boomers were in a relatively rich and indulgent social matrix, only a few were killed for protesting on campus, but drugs did not make them rebellious. (many more collided at Tiananmen Square)
youth itself sees hypocracy, youth itself declares: "Hell No We Won't Go!"
this comes form inside because we are nauseated with what we see, not because of the more splendid nausea of drugs.
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: Konnrade]
#5334527 - 02/24/06 10:38 AM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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I had this little theory once (well still do sort of)
The baby boomers became the largest and most influencial demographic when they came of age. Therefore they were the main force behind any change and whatnot. Psychadelic movement, hippies, good music, etc.
But now the baby-boomers are retiring. The largest demographic behind them is.. ta da! The Echoes (children of the baby boomers) I'm hoping the Echoes bring about some sort of change. What it is, I don't know. We'll just have to wait.
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: Asante]
#5334906 - 02/24/06 01:31 PM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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"Gather a close circle of friends and do enlightening psychedelic Sessions together, working at each other's personal and spiritual growth."
I love this line, because honestly I think this can be the most amazing and enlightening thing you can do with the right people and the right circumstances.
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: Jadian]
#5334937 - 02/24/06 01:37 PM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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Thats a damn good quote man... That gets me all giddy inside. The era will come back, Peoples spirits will grow and it will come again. I promis.
-------------------- "All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be" -Pink Floyd. Memories make up our lifes as we know it. Our souls are lost between time and space.
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: Asante]
#5334952 - 02/24/06 01:42 PM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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Well damn... that was a very educational post, Wiccan...
Now I need to go think about this some more.
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: trevorda8]
#5334954 - 02/24/06 01:43 PM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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Nah that era won't come back, but there's an even more important era ahead. There's a movement coming like none before, and you're likely to see several members of this community involved.
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: Jadian]
#5334980 - 02/24/06 01:48 PM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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I getcha. I can feel the movement already. The air seems more fresh. the trees seems more green. and the smell smells less toxic. Things are getting cleaned by the rain.
-------------------- "All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be" -Pink Floyd. Memories make up our lifes as we know it. Our souls are lost between time and space.
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: trevorda8]
#5335005 - 02/24/06 01:57 PM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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Yea, my car.... I haven't washed it in ages... but it got a rain bath last night.
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: Konnrade]
#5335021 - 02/24/06 02:01 PM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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I think there is another side to this you haven't considered.
Yeah, they had a little movement in the 60's. There were also a bunch of things they DIDN'T have. Such as:
the internet techno music cheap japanese sportscars air conditioning in every building free music movies and software personal computers video games mdma, 2cb, and a bunch of other chemicals only recently discovered more lenient drug laws (in the 60's you could get 20 years for a joint!)
So, if I had the choice to go live in the 60's, I think I would stay right here.
The only reason generation x is prone to thinking the 60's were soooo much better is because our parents and other boomers always glorify it so much. I have a feeling that the time period wasn't nearly as good as its participants make it out to be.
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: DoctorJ]
#5335054 - 02/24/06 02:14 PM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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I would hate living in the 60's. There was more accessible LSD, probably, but meh? There's LSD now too, and a lot of other shit we didn't know about or use as much back then. I agree with Doctor J basically.
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: Spenny]
#5335109 - 02/24/06 02:41 PM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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A revolution is coming - a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough - but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character, we cannot alter its inevitability. - JFK
This is going to be a revolution with not just hippies or metal heads or any other sub category of the counter culture. We will unite not only fighting for freedom of drug use but, for freedom of expression in any which way a human being want.
We just have to wait for this emo shit to blow over though.
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: Konnrade]
#5335192 - 02/24/06 03:06 PM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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dude i agree we missed the psychedelic revolution
nowadays most people dont even really know what LSD is anymore its too hard to find for most people, doses are too weak, there is no culture left to support acid or its ideals anymore...etc etc
LSD's day is done
I just wish i had been alive when things were interesting
oh well i dont trip anymore so i guess it doesnt matter
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: Help on the Way]
#5335369 - 02/24/06 03:56 PM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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Quote:
Slipknot420 said: dude i agree we missed the psychedelic revolution
nowadays most people dont even really know what LSD is anymore its too hard to find for most people, doses are too weak, there is no culture left to support acid or its ideals anymore...etc etc
LSD's day is done
I just wish i had been alive when things were interesting
oh well i dont trip anymore so i guess it doesnt matter
Ha...hahhahahahaha....HAHAHAHA.
Funny fucker you are.
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: Jadian]
#5335379 - 02/24/06 03:59 PM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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fur realz man...
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Re: I always get the feeling I was a generation too late for psychedellics [Re: Konnrade]
#5335417 - 02/24/06 04:14 PM (18 years, 27 days ago) |
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Konnrade said: Does anyone else know what I mean by this?
Was I part of the generation before mine, I would have lived through the heyday of the counter-culture movement, the saturation of the nation (like so very much blotter paper) with LSD, the almost mainstream topic of psychedellic drug use and enlightenment.
But, being born when I was... it took me 18 years of my life to even learn how to get ahold of mushrooms... and I had to grow them myself. LSD is hard to come by unless you've made the right friends, mescaline must be self-made by an involved (but fun) extraction process. Mainstream society brands psychedellic drug users as a notch or two above the insane. There is no flourishing culture of accepted use of psychedellics. There are pockets everywhere, but no real significant culture that wields much power.
We don't come together en-masse to voice our opinions and excercise our rights. We may participate in our own communities, but we're no longer a nationwide presence, more like a conglomerate of somewhat affiliated local societies.
Oh, to think of what I've missed out on
people have been using hallucinagenics for CENTURIES how can the only time that it was good was in the 60's??? times are a changing my friend...
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