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 Can pyschoactives assist in decyphering reality ? 
#871144 - 09/09/02 02:38 AM (22 years, 3 months ago) |
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On my last trip, I got a lot of insight into the inner workings of everything, and at one point in the trip, I proceeded to tell my sitters how reality worked, but I could not find pen/paper and I lost the vision I held. I know this idea of using pyschoactive compounds which alter ones perception or consciousness to discover things is not new, but I would like to get everyones take on it, and their own personal experience. I feel we have much to gain by paying close attention to the things we are made aware of while in an altered state of consciousness.
A lot of what I , and many others like me, know about computers and technology today is from experimentation, now I would like to experiment with reality. Whatever methods, tools, anything you've encountered which made you aware or gave you insight into how reality works would be apperciated dearly.
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Re: Can pyschoactives assist in decyphering reality ? [Re: The_Greater_God]
#871146 - 09/09/02 02:41 AM (22 years, 3 months ago) |
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they halped me i think, speeded up processes and what not, but thats just me, maybe in some folk pyschoactives are no good
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 Re: Can pyschoactives assist in decyphering reality ? [Re: The_Greater_God]
#871149 - 09/09/02 02:47 AM (22 years, 3 months ago) |
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The next step is to maintain the inner insight while sober so that information is readily available..mental trip
dmt during a mushroom trip is nice 
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Re: Can pyschoactives assist in decyphering reality ? [Re: The_Greater_God]
#871155 - 09/09/02 02:51 AM (22 years, 3 months ago) |
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What you speak of is the greatest illusion of psychedelics. The truth, the enlightenment, is almost within grasp. One can taste it and feel it, yet one comes back empty-handed time and time again - endlessly chasing the will-o-the-wisp.
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Re: Can pyschoactives assist in decyphering reality ? [Re: Swami]
#871160 - 09/09/02 02:54 AM (22 years, 3 months ago) |
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Could you expand on that ? Comming up empty handed ?
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Re: Can pyschoactives assist in decyphering reality ? [Re: The_Greater_God]
#871323 - 09/09/02 07:37 AM (22 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yes the next step is to get to these revelatory points without the use of outside chemical catalysts... Learning to meditate is a good way to start, lucid dreaming / astral projection is also a good method to explore reality.
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Re: Can pyschoactives assist in decyphering reality ? [Re: Shroomism]
#871349 - 09/09/02 07:58 AM (22 years, 3 months ago) |
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like Ram Das said in Be Here Now, the LSD would take him to heaven, but no matter what, it couldn't be maintained through drugs. it just gave you the vision of what things are/should be. maintaining it is something that is a serious life choice involving much learning and discipline...
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Re: Can pyschoactives assist in decyphering reality ? [Re: Swami]
#871409 - 09/09/02 08:46 AM (22 years, 3 months ago) |
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empty handed..? have you never returned from a trip with a greater understanding of something? i always seem to. everyone else i know usually seems to. not everything is an illusion, many things yes, but even the illusions can help you understand something that is real...
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Re: Can pyschoactives assist in decyphering reality ? [Re: The_Greater_God]
#871425 - 09/09/02 08:57 AM (22 years, 3 months ago) |
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Good post.
I think psychoactives CAN assist in deciphering reality, but I don't think the effects of drugs are in any way divine or magical. They are just chemicals that cause your brain to work in a different way for a while. This can create, as Swami said, the illusion of some divine guiding light affecting you through the drugs, but it's just your brain being pushed around.
The insight from psychoactives comes from the ability to view the environment around you from two (or more) different mental angles (sober and drug-affected), so that you can better gauge just what it is you are seeing. It's the same principle as seeing with two eyes instead of one. With one eye closed, an index card in the foreground can look to be the same size and distance as a billboard in the background, but when viewed from two different angles (two eyes), one can immediately dispell the illusion that they are the same size.
Perpetual sobriety is seeing the world with only ONE eye; to think that the 'sober experience' the 'real' reality is presumtuous. I think our default state of mind is no more or less delusional than a drug-induced state. We're just not as used to functioning in drug states so it can feel debilitating. But I think every state of mind, both drug-induced states and otherwise, can let us see reality from a unique perspective, allowing us access to insight we are normally denied.
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Re: Can pyschoactives assist in decyphering reality ? [Re: The_Greater_God]
#871473 - 09/09/02 09:41 AM (22 years, 3 months ago) |
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You arn't going to maintain any permanent version of reality in this society except the one the masters allow us. Doesn't matter if you are the greatest zen student on earth if you have to go to a day job and work 14 hours a day with people hassling you, it ain't gonna last. You arn't going to be the Buddha at the end of a long shitty day in the office. The only permanent reality that exists for westerners is chasing money.
It's like the story of the greatest meditation master in the whole of India, worshipped as the most divine being alive, when his students took him down from his cave and into a busy town for the first time, someone bumped into him and he lost his temper.
Unless you're going to live in a monastery in an environment designed to support you in your meditation forget about "permanently" achieving any state of mind. The states we reach through psilocybin are gratuitous graces. They give us hope and insight into the true meaning of life. As our everyday life gradually drains us of hope they exist as shining beacons to the truth.
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Re: Can pyschoactives assist in decyphering reality ? [Re: Swami]
#871486 - 09/09/02 09:45 AM (22 years, 3 months ago) |
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What you speak of is the greatest illusion of psychedelics. The truth, the enlightenment, is almost within grasp. One can taste it and feel it, yet one comes back empty-handed time and time again - endlessly chasing the will-o-the-wisp.
This is so far removed from my experience. I've always found the exact opposite to this.
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Re: Can pyschoactives assist in decyphering reality ? [Re: The_Greater_God]
#871590 - 09/09/02 10:25 AM (22 years, 3 months ago) |
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Whatever methods, tools, anything you've encountered which made you aware or gave you insight into how reality works would be apperciated dearly.
I hear those Koosh balls work pretty good.
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Re: Can pyschoactives assist in decyphering reality ? [Re: Xlea321]
#871782 - 09/09/02 06:29 AM (22 years, 3 months ago) |
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In reply to:
Unless you're going to live in a monastery in an environment designed to support you in your meditation forget about "permanently" achieving any state of mind. The states we reach through psilocybin are gratuitous graces. They give us hope and insight into the true meaning of life. As our everyday life gradually drains us of hope they exist as shining beacons to the truth.
My post was not about devoting ones life to meditation, rather it was about increasing awareness, so that some of our greatest questions concerning reality may be answered.
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Re: Can pyschoactives assist in decyphering reality ? [Re: The_Greater_God]
#871949 - 09/09/02 07:53 AM (22 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yeah I know what you mean, but can you really increase awareness when you are working 8 hours a day in an office? Isn't having awareness in a culture like that only going to increase your anguish? Surely the people most likely to achieve inner peace in the west are those happiest being selfish, ignorant and not having any "awareness" whatsoever.
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Re: Can pyschoactives assist in decyphering reality ? [Re: Xlea321]
#872135 - 09/09/02 09:22 AM (22 years, 3 months ago) |
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Well alex, have you ever heard the phrase " be in this world, but not of it" ? I don't believe that you have to work an 8 hour job and do things you do not desire to in order to prosper. But who says that could stand in the way of discovery and for lack of a better term, enlightenment ?
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Re: Can pyschoactives assist in decyphering reality ? [Re: The_Greater_God]
#872361 - 09/09/02 11:12 AM (22 years, 3 months ago) |
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Well if you can find a way of combining the two opposites of making money and finding enlightenment then you're very special.
It's hard to devote yourself to making money for 8-10 hours a day, 6 days a week and then do 20 minutes meditation a night and think you're on the road to enlightenment. Maybe if we worked 20 minutes a day and meditated 10 hours it would be easier...
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#872417 - 09/09/02 11:36 AM (22 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yep - that's why they have monasteries. It's no use having a profound experience and then having to go and sack someone in the office. You need a loving supportive environment to capitalise on the insightful experiences you have.
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Re: Can pyschoactives assist in decyphering reality ? [Re: WhiskeyClone]
#872792 - 09/09/02 03:06 PM (22 years, 3 months ago) |
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In reply to:
I think psychoactives CAN assist in deciphering reality, but I don't think the effects of drugs are in any way divine or magical. They are just chemicals that cause your brain to work in a different way for a while. This can create, as Swami said, the illusion of some divine guiding light affecting you through the drugs, but it's just your brain being pushed around.
Yes but making your brain work this way might be the catalyst for these divine or mystical truths/understanding.
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Re: Can pyschoactives assist in decyphering reality ? [Re: chrispc]
#874081 - 09/10/02 06:53 AM (22 years, 3 months ago) |
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That's exactly what I meant.
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Re: Can pyschoactives assist in decyphering reality ? [Re: WhiskeyClone]
#874247 - 09/10/02 08:22 AM (22 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yes but that doesn't mean it is an illusion.
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Re: Can pyschoactives assist in decyphering reality ? [Re: chrispc]
#874392 - 09/10/02 09:32 AM (22 years, 3 months ago) |
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I meant the direct-connection-to-God-feeling, not the insights it may trigger. I don't think eating certain funguses in any way summons divine higher powers to your mind.
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Re: Can pyschoactives assist in decyphering reality ? [Re: WhiskeyClone]
#887763 - 09/17/02 08:03 AM (22 years, 2 months ago) |
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I have found the mushroom to show the greatest insight into how everything works and what is beyond this common reality. Their are those people who don't believe but I know they are not using the mushroom right because if they were they would be seeining and learning the same as myself and others. The mushroom has been used for thousands and thousands of years.
A part of the India race know how to use the Mushroom correctly. They called the entity that was between them and "god" Soma. They deleted everything they had on Soma. Once that culture of the race was gone they didn't want anyone else to know about this great thing. They knew if used right what a common man can learn and apply to reality.
If used right you can take yourself on journeys into other realms... See what really is out there..
Everytime I trip I call my glimps of knowledge "Insanity". Not the insanity you people know as going Coo-Coo" but through my Insanity I am able to what one of my mentors call it "Break on through to the OtherSide".
I know things and comprehend things I could never really grasps while "sober" I know this because my friend heard me rant and rave during one of my mushroom trips he was sober and he understood everything I told him. The trick is to learn to bring that back with you once you return to reality. That's the tricky part..
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Re: Can pyschoactives assist in decyphering reality ? [Re: nezshoo]
#887775 - 09/17/02 08:07 AM (22 years, 2 months ago) |
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Nice post nez. Aldous Huxley said you had to co-operate with the "gratuitous grace" of the entheogenic experience in your everyday life.
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Re: Can pyschoactives assist in decyphering reality ? [Re: The_Greater_God]
#887831 - 09/17/02 08:22 AM (22 years, 2 months ago) |
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Enthogens unlock your Sub-Conscious and your Sub-Couscious is a link to your Astral Body which is link to your soul. Your soul knows everything. That is why you understand what you understand. It's your soul thinking. The tricky part I was talking about is making your soul think like that without the drug. That's the part I'm working on now.... 
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