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CaptainKirk

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Re: Trippers over 50 please come forward [Re: johnhenry]
#5541211 - 04/21/06 02:20 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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im 40,and i can tell you that my trips are 100 times different then when i was young ....and im sure i will be tripping in 10 years..my first trip i was 18...
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VirgilKane
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Re: Trippers over 50 please come forward [Re: CaptainKirk]
#5541762 - 04/21/06 05:29 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I couldn't really imagine what my trips would be like when i'm older and wiser.
And with a lot more responsibility, social conditioning, stress from social conditioning and just a lot more general bullshit baggage!
I'm 41 and only tripped twice when I was young (18-20) and both were beautiful, enlightening experiences. I started again last year because I was tired of the way that I had begun to think and therefore act...like a 40 year old!
I needed a new outlook and knew from past experiences that this was a good place to head into. BUT all the shit that has piled up in the last 20 years has to get dismantled and reassembled in some people and unfortunitely it appears that I'm one of them.
Guilt, self image, EGO and assorted other little niceities all come to the forefront and I only do small doses for the meantime after having a GREAT first 2 gram trip and figuring that since it was so nice I'd just go ahead and jump up to three...WRONG! I was not ready for the intensity, had heard about this Ego thing, but didn't quite have a grasp on it. I sure did after that trip!
I'm by no means saying that you shouldn't trip when you're older, but more like don't ever stop if you start out doing it at a younger age and give all the BS a chance to grow like I did. See the light when you're old enough to start tripping and hang on to it! 
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The wife and SWIM have a don't ask don't tell agreement about backpacking trips. She doesn't want to know how crazy it gets.
Careful how you word that, Man! The first thought that popped into my head was "Brokeback Mountain"!
-------------------- Absense of evidence is not evidence of absense... "Religion is a defense against a religious experience" Carl G. Jung "So really, ordinary reality is a kind of chemical habit, sanctioned by culture, which says it's okay to use certain drugs, eat certain foods, and have certain sexual behaviors. However, when you transcend all this pre-conditioning by returning to the original wisdom of the animal body, then you discover this immense dimension of opportunity. For some people, it is a frightening risk. To me, that's the psychedelic experience." Terence McKenna
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heterochromo
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Re: Trippers over 50 please come forward [Re: heterochromo]
#5541916 - 04/21/06 06:39 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Feelers, thank you for that info! i wonder if netflicks might have it. i can't wait to see it.
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heterochromo
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Re: Trippers over 50 please come forward [Re: rod]
#5541923 - 04/21/06 06:42 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH YOU !
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heterochromo
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Re: Trippers over 50 please come forward [Re: VirgilKane]
#5541937 - 04/21/06 06:47 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Schapper, i think what you've stated is really important. Hardly anyone will cop to the stuff that you mentioned like EGO and the building up of bullshit that is supposed to be Okay as you get older. In my humble opinion for what it's worth, it's not Okay and this is why people get unhappy I think. For the first time in my life at 50 I work in corporate america and man you don't want to do it if you don't have to. I'm just observing everything and you see so vividly why america looks the way it does today. w00w
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heterochromo
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Re: Trippers over 50 please come forward [Re: krin]
#5541942 - 04/21/06 06:51 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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krin i definitly ditto the death thing! right on!
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heterochromo
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Re: Trippers over 50 please come forward [Re: johnhenry]
#5541951 - 04/21/06 06:57 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Johnhenry LOL LOL LOL!!!!
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adamj
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Re: Trippers over 50 please come forward [Re: BlindLemon]
#5542119 - 04/21/06 08:08 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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BlindLemon said: Who ever i marry in life, they must be a tripper too.
Ditto. I Can't wait to meet her!
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winelover
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Re: Trippers over 50 please come forward [Re: heterochromo]
#5544441 - 04/22/06 03:37 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Its the only way to remain free and feel the things that matter around us. And yes you need a good woman to jell with, the revolution never stopped.
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vashroom
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Re: Trippers over 50 please come forward [Re: winelover]
#5545792 - 04/22/06 10:52 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I am 51 and I can't really say because when I was younger it was mostly good LSD and now it's always shrooms. One big difference is that I don't drink now and when I was younger when I would trip I would usually drink a lot also. I took several years off completely because I thought I was perma-fried. My thinking was that when you go to court on a drug charge tripping things have gotten out of hand. Now I look at each trip as a special event, the way Huxley et. al. did. I think it's better like that.
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gnrm23
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Re: Trippers over 50 please come forward [Re: heterochromo]
#5548344 - 04/23/06 05:56 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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in my 20s i was dosing more than a few times per month, some summers, heh...
now that i am in my 50s, a few trips in a year is a "busy" year, hehheh...
ymmv...
as to how the trips differ--well, i have more experience behind me (fwiw)...
-------------------- old enough to know better not old enough to care
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johnhenry
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Re: Trippers over 50 please come forward [Re: gnrm23]
#5550279 - 04/24/06 06:20 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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LOL Schapper. No broke back mountain scenes. Not into overweight, out of shape geezers! Just serious partying with a lot of laughs It just a good time to let go and not have someone judge your behaviour
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VirgilKane
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Re: Trippers over 50 please come forward [Re: johnhenry]
#5550453 - 04/24/06 08:44 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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It just a good time to let go and not have someone judge your behaviour
Amen to that Brother! Hard to find the older you get!
-------------------- Absense of evidence is not evidence of absense... "Religion is a defense against a religious experience" Carl G. Jung "So really, ordinary reality is a kind of chemical habit, sanctioned by culture, which says it's okay to use certain drugs, eat certain foods, and have certain sexual behaviors. However, when you transcend all this pre-conditioning by returning to the original wisdom of the animal body, then you discover this immense dimension of opportunity. For some people, it is a frightening risk. To me, that's the psychedelic experience." Terence McKenna
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suzie_girl
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Re: Trippers over 50 please come forward [Re: heterochromo]
#5550519 - 04/24/06 09:24 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I'm mid-40's. The only time I get to eat shrooms is at night. Some mexicana-a stones at about 8:30...the family goes to bed, and I go to another world. Wake up refreshed (even though don't usually get to sleep until about 3am). Can't do it very often, though. I still love it.
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