Intent with psychedelics

unless i am at a festival and i just want to enhance my good mood, i always take psychedelics for spiritual purposes. i often meditate for about a half an hour just as i begin to peak so that i can really settle into the trip. i feel as though i receive divine knowledge and energy pouring through me. i also become aware of all other energies around me from the plants, the air, the candles, food, other people, pretty much everything. it can become really overwhelming so i usually go outside for fresh air. this is when i really connect with nature and begin to feel connected to all other living things. i feel this way usually but it gets very intense when i am tripping. this is when things become the most beautiful to me. i just seem to enter into deeper and deeper realms of understanding. at some point, the spirituality of the trip does sort of go on the backburner and i just lose myself in all the fun i am having. but i never really lose hold of it altogether. i always have this grandiose feeling of taping into ancient universal energy that backs my entire experience...even if i get side-tracked watching adventure time for a little bit =)

 

Recreational, spiritual, functional/artistic and sensory enhancement.
All of these.

 

i read that Infants with psychedelics.

 

The intent of psychedelica? It sure makes your "Self" more complete and due to your change d viewpoint of what life is all about, it will make you a better parent, a better leader, a better artist...in short a better human being.

 

I was one that needed it. Although I was a nice person when sober,I was a dumb-ass,dangerous person when using alcohol due to emotional issues of childhood. Alcohol was used extensively in my family and I followed suit. When I went to Hawaii,sent by a roofing company to work,some of the first people I met were good and fun people who just happened to be using L, so naturally I was curious--but afraid too. After all,I was 28 and pretty settled in what I thought was life as it really was. Oh boy,was I surprised. Took a couple hits of window pane,following my ingrained theory that if some is good,more is better! Survived that spooky experience and quit alcohol the next day for 20 years or so and began to understand that all was/is not as it seems. Of course,I soon learned that Hawaii was a most wonderful place to experiment and I began to consider the spiritual side of life along with the interesting visions and insights given me. I haven't taken any for some 35 years now. Wonder what it's like in this day and age. I hope for those using it these days,that the old saying-"the bad always drives out the good", doesn't apply.

 

1. Are you drinking now?
2. 35 years... is it still affecting your life?

 

Back to the OP:

At outside gatherings the intent is ecstasy-euphoria-connecting with others. That's if we count mdma as psychedelic.

Elsewhere, like when backpacking or at home, the intent(s) are illumination and understanding; experiencing who and what I really am and integrating that with my life and life in general; being beautiful and seeing the truth/beauty around me; and reinforcing the fact that I AM psychedelic.

I'm very intentional in terms of set and setting. I've come to the realization that the room I spend a lot of time in is all about psychedelic (Tibetan and other Buddhist art, pieces of wood and rocks I've picked up backpacking in the mountains and desert, books, crystals, and so on - yer basic hippie stuff). For at least several days prior to tripping I read spiritually oriented things like the Tao, the Bible, Thomas Merton, Thích Nhất Hạnh, Ram Dass, etc. No violent TV or related.

I hope to never again trip in a chaotic atmosphere where the poleece are present.