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Apollyphelion
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The Psychonaut
#7789508 - 12/22/07 03:44 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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The Psychonaut is such a perfect term to relate 21st century tripping in a western context. It is flashy,a high tech-techno logic term with obvious psuedo-intellectual qualties. Psychological Aeronaut or Astronaut even, if you want to get down to the nitty gritty. This is a good blanket term for the noble tradition of "getting fucked up" or elegantly contacting the spirits via traditional ritualistic, spiritualistic, generally, istics. The word Psychonaut in the context we use it in allows for so many angles it almost seems like this term is a real profession.
So I mean, I get hopped up on goofballs; LSD let us say. I then speak in metaphors describing the experience. I've met God, elves, arachnids, had revelations repackaged in many ways during many different trips. It appears that a tool perhaps a Psychonaut must hold close is language. This is not The Cell, folks, and as much as I'd like to take a Thumbprint to enter Jennifer Lopez's mind to explore her masturbation fantasies, it probably isn't going to happen. Only you can really describe your trip. If I am missing something, I may have done too many goofballs, though it seems to me this is the backbone of this Pseudo-Science of Pyschonautics is backed up by the very real science of language, inflection, body language, and all the other idiot-syncracies idiots like you and I create during the psychedelic experience. Trip Reports our essential. They are a Psychonautics claim to SOME credibility. Who's got there paper work?
There is a video game called Psychonauts. It is most surely a word with the potential to invade modern culture and collapse any hope of the word achieving any serious meaning. It DOES reek of some character class I'd play in some game. The thought of taking psychedelics and puttin' on the rosy colored glasses to look at this profession of getting spun out through the eyes of a nerd. Not just any nerd, but a drug nerd. Drug-Nerds are weird, because only Drug-Nerds can relate to Drug Nerds. You know you are a psychedelic nerd when you trip around n00bs and they think you over-dosed them because you are acting sober on the same ammount. Drug-Shaman-Nerd, a la The Psychonaut. However, these drug-nerds have their place. Some program computers, write music (Drug-Music-Shaman-Bard) The Drug-Nerd profession is a lot like a serious version Disney's Imagineers, only with the potential to lead to greater things, not just a dick in the clouds or a topless Ariel or some gay shit like that, worked in by the now Crack-Meth addicted Imagineers.
This word can be such a whore! I'm not a Psycho Psychonaut, am I not? It is defintaley a better word than "Astral Traveller" If you are an "Astral Traveller", it probably means you have at least 10 ambience albums. If you are a Psychonaut, it is such a blanket term, you could have everything from everything to everything, music wise. Specifically, a general term may be good in this case. Sky's the limit, baby. Basically, my point is, Astral Travellers are exclusive, fanatical Enya addicts. Everytime you trip it doesn't have to be set up like some guy should be overcharging you for palm-readings. Get a little crazy; get Psycho! It is also easier to say than "User of Tryptamines" which is TOO NERDY, which could alienate Macho McManjock who might want to learn more about it. Psychonaut might just be serious enough so that Macho McManjock might think where ever you learn to train for this profession could have a football team. There is: In your mind! Far out!
I ain't no Hippie, no goddamn Candy Kid, no Spinner, Skater, Punk, Freak or Goth. I'm a guy who does a lot of fuckin' drugs, that has to try to make sense of it all in a way that doesn't make me look like an out of control asshole. Generally I find if you have a nameless profession, you are probably an asshole; Even if these drugs really ARE a problem, the mere fact we can recognize using these drugs AS psychonatics is the first step to solving a problem: Identifying itI think that makes us look smarter. That is why we must write about Psychonautics! We must use our gift to help tell people about the impossible; Tell people there is another angle to life-one that may leave you smiling for as long as 10 hours. I'll call myself a Psychonaut no problem. The word has enough -wait for it- ...to go to serious to mundane, given the right context. So can psychedelics for that matter. Tell people, with pinpoint accuracy, using anyway you can-the possibilities and more with these very misunderstood tools.
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OneMoreRobot3021
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Ha. I enjoyed that, thanks for posting. I definitely agree that for me personally there is an urge and an urgency to communicate my psychedelic experiences...I don't think that's everyone's trip though, nor do I think it's everyone's responsibility.
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PoisonedV
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Apollyphelion
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Thank you very much!
I think that the urge is there in the first place seems to me to be a very deep rooted, untapped resource, for SOMETHING, ya know?
I also find it interesting and great that so many people like to read and listen about other's experiences. I know I've read my fair share of Trip Reports. There almost seems to be a link between causality, langauge, and imagination that triggers some deep rooted exploration module.
I'm not a doctor though, I'm a Psychonaut.;-)
Thank you for the reply!
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Coaster
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Re: The Psychonaut [Re: PoisonedV]
#7789573 - 12/22/07 03:59 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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psuchonaught 4 LIFE
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tosatori
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Re: The Psychonaut [Re: Coaster]
#7789601 - 12/22/07 04:03 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Had a thought..
Might be a stoned thought.. :P
But why don't we try submitting well written Trip Reports to Newspapers. It'd just take a letter with the words in, offer it to them as a valid drug experience. Even if they do put a stupid spin on it, if it was well written it'd communicate to the intelligent.
just a thought.
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Re: The Psychonaut [Re: tosatori]
#7789606 - 12/22/07 04:04 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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gl appealing to the editors
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tosatori
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Re: The Psychonaut [Re: Coaster]
#7789627 - 12/22/07 04:08 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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if you submitted to 100 papers, at least one would print.
i reckon.
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Apollyphelion
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Re: The Psychonaut [Re: tosatori]
#7789666 - 12/22/07 04:19 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Would that go in Daily Living? or in the case of Ego-Death, obituraries?
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Re: The Psychonaut [Re: tosatori]
#7789868 - 12/22/07 05:18 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
tosatori said: Had a thought..
Might be a stoned thought.. :P
But why don't we try submitting well written Trip Reports to Newspapers. It'd just take a letter with the words in, offer it to them as a valid drug experience. Even if they do put a stupid spin on it, if it was well written it'd communicate to the intelligent.
just a thought.
Your idea is perfect for High Times or any other drug related publication.
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Apollyphelion
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In my opinion I think Music is the most mainstream form of media that hints at and/or encourages Tripping.
Music, ahhhh...
I must also mention, once again, that I am in a perpetual state of cheers (I learned this while on LSD) and I'd like you all to join!
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felix4life
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Reading other people's trip reports are boring as hell to me. what the difference between a trip report and a dream? Nothing much, the experience is all subjective.
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Apollyphelion
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I think there is a little less subjectivity than dreams merely because you definitley take a drug to induce what happens.
The fact Erowid lists effects for LSD and Mushrooms leads me to believe they at least a LITTLE objective. To make it completely subjective, like dreams, what would be the difference? Why bother taking anything in the first place if they are just dreams?
The fact that these "LSD or Shroom induced dreams" have a chance of producing even a little bit of consistency is even something to write about.
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MindGorilla
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"only Drug-Nerds can relate to Drug Nerds"
think about it
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origami.octopus
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well written post.
Submitting them to newspapers! BRILLIANT
it would be a huge step toward mainstream recognition of psychedelics other than bullshit like "they make your brain bleed"
an accurate description of the mental effects would be excellent
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someone told me mdma 'makes your brain bleed' once, i told her there was a word for that, hemoraging.
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Re: The Psychonaut [Re: clover606]
#7793624 - 12/23/07 07:55 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Interesting write up
Whenever ever i hear physconaut, i just think of someone that takes phsycadelic drugs.
I like reading trip reports, i read many of them before trying mushrooms and acid.
If i hadnt stumbled across this site, i may never have experienced them.
mdma does not make your brain bleed, neither to shrooms nor acid, acid does not melt holes in your brain.
These are just myths.
mushrooms are as toxic as aspirin, probably less so, mushrooms do no physical harm to you (apart from you might through them up, it happens to some people)
mdma is a bit difference, while there is no hard proof, it is thought that mdma can damage serotin receptors (serotin regulates mood), also after dosing heavily on mdma all your seriton get used up, so there is going to be a period that you might feel depressed or just not right until your serotin builds back up.
use the internet, search google and look it up on wikipedia, wikipedia has a good deal of information on most drugs, including effects, possible dangers etc
I have heard that one about mushrooms, someone posted a while back that mushrooms make your brain bleed and thats why you trip. Dam some people are so stupid.
I highly doubt that you would be concious if your brain was hemoraging
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AlCapwn
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I think... actually, i'm going to leave it at that. I'm such a psychonaut.
No, actually, I have more. What are some good indicators so we can tell when a psychonaut in training becomes a full blown psychonaut? Enough XP?
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Divinatory
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Re: The Psychonaut [Re: AlCapwn]
#7794387 - 12/24/07 12:09 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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great write up!
I'm definately feelin you on what all you said, I could say without a doubt I'm a proud psychonaut, it has helped me become such a better person, more in-tune with the world around me and connected in ways I never would have been if I hadn't chose this path in life.
I think, for me at least, to be a true psychonaut, is to be completely knowledgable about the tools (drugs) you are using to guide yourself into the real reality, coming out of it with a life lesson, and being able to comprehend and actually put to use what had happened, but when you tell a noob or someone that's never touched a psychedelic, or basically not a "drug nerd" or psychonaut, they think you're completely insane and give you those blank stares and sympathy laughs. that's what makes me happy about being a psychonaut, preaching my beliefs and experiences and having people think I'm fucked in the head, but when you meet that other psychonaut everything seems to fit because we all connect on such a higher level.
sorry I'm rambling lol
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Skeeblix
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Absolutely wonderful, man. I know exactly the kind of message you're getting at.
The humor was enough to make me laugh even with a shitty hangover at 5 fucking thirty in the morning.
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Apollyphelion
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Re: The Psychonaut [Re: Skeeblix]
#7794757 - 12/24/07 04:27 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Thank you for da replies, peoples.
Mmmm...Coffee. Coffee is like the fuel that starts the engine of my cigarette that makes my whole drug car go!
Seriously, I plan on taking a shit load of chemicals Christmas; It's really probably going to be pretty tame.
Divinatory: I completely agree about being knowledgable about the tools that line our belts to better understand what is happening to us and other. You need to increase your awareness of what the tools can do in order for the tools to increase your awareness of everything else. Do chemicals have conciousness? I don't know, probably not, I'm hopped up on caffein, and I think it is worth pretending Mushrooms and Blotter even have some sort of awareness.
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Divinatory
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haha thats getting into a pretty deep subject. I think those 'tools' have a conciousness, I think everything, whether organic or inorganic, animate or inanimate, whatever, has some sort of awareness. drugs can speak to you, teach you things, show you things, of couse they have a conciousness, just not the same level of conciousness the human level posses. that's why we take these hallucinogins, to be aware of all the levels of concioussness to better interpret 'reality' whatever that may be to you, so that when your physical form here on earth poops out, we'll be set free in the world we've created from these 'tools', that's what being a psychonaut is for me..
basically I find this quote from Don Juan Matus(whether you think he's real or not, still a good quote) to really sum up a lot on being a psychonaut...
"The world of everyday life cannot ever be taken as something personal that has power over us, something that could make us, or destroy us, because man's battlefield is not in his strife with the world around him. His battlefield is over the horizon, in an area which is unthinkable for an average man, the area where man ceases to be a man."
he basically says that you're time here on earth in the physical body, being human, is a quest of becoming, in the end, an inorganic being, meaning energy aware of itself, acting as a cohesive unit, but without an organism. This is total freedom, a state in which awareness exists, free from the impositions of socialization and syntax. and that these natural plant tools were placed here on earth to help guide us into that total freedom.
its a good way to perceive life, works great for me!
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