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Tripping has taught me the fact that my priorities aren't really straight. That I don't pay enough attention to the people who love me (my family, my mom), and that I should show more emotion when I interact with them and with strangers. This was the main reason I was depressed about my ex for so long...I was thinking about her wanting her back, wanting her love back, when I have all the love at my disposal right there all along -- my parents, my family, people around me, and the earth itself and the incomprehensible beauty it allows us to inhabit and manipulate as we wish.
That everyone in the world is also a human being with a whole lifetime full of stories that are completely unique and worth listening to. Everyone is a vast database of unique experiental and knowledgable information, with their unique persona applied to every aspect of what's in their heads.
To be more compassionate, empathic, sympathetic toward others....I think psychedelics really just tell me to be a better person, and to not judge or have prejudices, and follow what you truly believe in.
They also made reality a lot less real. That I really don't trust what goes on in my life as "real" anymore...just an experience in a single frame among no frames without definition that is simply an ever-dynamic united, interactive mass.
I would explain I am sort of solipsist, pantheistic, and BOTH existentialist and nihilistic (although that may sound contradictory, the way I view things makes it work). That although nothing has an absolute value/meaning, there is a direct integration of every single action and change which causes a varying level of significance among whatever may be perceiving the change or action, but absolutely none (no meaning/significance) to the "dead" mass of which we (being every and all things) comprise. We're all automatic. There is no free will....but there's nothing wrong with that, except some people are uncomfortable with believing there is no free will. If there is or isn't, it wouldn't matter either way.
I also see that it doesn't matter WHAT you believe in, however you go about things, because no matter what we do we won't be inside another person's head. Each and every individual lives their own "dream", floats about in their own molded reality, and whatever allows you to feel comfortable in your reality is perfectly acceptable (so yes, that means all religions are neither "wrong" nor "right", though that is to ME. to another person their belief may be that I (me personally) am "wrong" and that my belief about such is completely wrong. That is OK).
Tripping also allowed me to appreciate certain things a LOT more, but it also had some negative effects: I'm a bit spaced out, my memory is extremely horrible, and I'm a lot more "ADD" than I used to be (although this is debatable) and I live too much in the present and have compromised some planning and forethought skills.
Honestly, tripping has never really shown me things I haven't thought about already, just made me experience the feelings that go with my personal philosophies so I actually go into action about the things I think about, and not just figure they're fantasy all the time.
I think tripping doesn't teach you shit, it's just testing you to see if you're taking in what you're receiving, and applying it or not.
But yeah I dont think my post counts becasue I've never taken LSD before, only mushrooms.
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"...it is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles. And yet when King Laugh come, he make them all dance to the tune he play." ~ Abraham Van Helsing
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