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stevestevesteve
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What is the psychedelic experience?
#18336609 - 05/29/13 02:06 AM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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The common theme I've seen professed by trippers, myself included, is that one cant know the psychedelic experience until one has experienced it.
Slowly, I am finding this view of psychedelics to be rather incomplete. When tripping, there is a sense of 'unification' one feels with other trippers, and from this, we assume we're all on the same 'tripping plane', or a somewhat similar 'tripping plane'.
Recently, upon really talking to friends in depth about their psychedelic experiences, I became aware of how different the psychedelic experience is for different people. I tend to find that I become extremely indifferent to things on psychedelics -- as in I am in a space where I can accept anything and I just feel absolutely calm -- a sense of complete stillness. I've seen other people cry on shrooms, laugh hysterically, but I cant really relate to that at all. For me, in my psychedelic plane, I become detached from my regular human experience and hit a extremely calm space.
I also tend to be very scientifically inclined so I personally don't really believe any supernatural or higher forces of any kind. I find that when I am tripping, I am well aware of when I am being delusional -- thoughts that everyone is perfect, the world has no problems, etc, etc (you know, those MDMA type thoughts).
I personally believe people too readily 'give in to the crazy' that psychedelics can generate. Again, I can only speak from my experience, as I do not know what it is like to be in someone else's mind, but I do find that the psychedelic experience isn't a singular thing that can be pinned down.
It all depends on the persons emotional and intellectual space.
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LySergenociDe
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I'd say that I experience a similar calm within the chaos type deal, but also with more extreme dosage that craziness can be a little harder to deal with as well as interpreting my own emotions and the overall visual, audio, spiritual experience.
The connection with other trippers seems to come and go, I tend to view it as we're all individual experiences, but we seem to "spark" those connections with one another (sometimes more often than not) and that would be when you're all on the same level talking about stuff, or enjoying music, or when something infinitely hilarious happens.
-------------------- I think of going to the grave without having a psychedelic experience like going to the grave without ever having sex. It means that you never figured out what it is all about. The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature. Terence McKenna
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TehMyceliumMonster
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Re: What is the psychedelic experience? [Re: LySergenociDe]
#18336774 - 05/29/13 03:59 AM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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Alot of the time i find that when your tripping with someone & u talk to them about a specific effect or part of your trip they either agree or they start to notice those effects too. Ithink maybe it has to do with the fact that everyone notices different things when they trip. Ie. Someone explains how their thoughts & what their saying out loud are becoming hard to differentiate between. You might not have noticed it before but all of.a sudden its been brought to your attention & its much more noticable now & may have been going on for hours. The observations different people make or.even the way they word things differtly than you would can make a big sifference.
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bishlap
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its all perception, hallucinogens remove mental filters and bombard the brain and senses.
-------------------- "If you're not worried that you took way to much, you didn't take enough" - Terrence McKenna There is no soul, only the ego dies. The body was never yours.
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