Learning to Trust the Trip

I'm happy too, despite the mythos of LSD, college is definitely not the place to do it especially not in 2013. 1963, maybe. But one has to be aware of set and setting, and macro-level culture is a part of that. Tripping in an environment where tripping is outlawed both legally and cognitively, and you are emanating a certain energy, and energy which is discouraged, is not a healthy place to be, while being that energy.

 

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So glad you are having a good trip, D.J.! Sending more positive vibes your way!
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I entirely agree with you, and find myself constantly at odds with even some of my more enlightened friends when discussing this. The degree of separation is immeasurable; all the same I think there is no such thing, where 'we end' where 'it begins' must surely be the point of contention and is to my mind entirely illusory, even missing the point, so to speak. I guess it is always simplest to talk about it in the most basic language, nursery rhymes and children's stories, 'life is but a dream' comes the closest to summing it up, I think!!

Curiously enough, I am re-reading the first copy of the Holy Qur'an that I ever bought, I started from the beginning about a week ago and have been reading roughly 1/2 of a juz (or 1/30th equal part, suggested by the Prophet in order to complete it's recitation in one month's time) every night, sometimes a bit more, before going to sleep. The book is an enigma, because indeed it contains some of the most beautiful and clear poetic song of love for the creator and, repeatedly, expounds on the very nearness of God that you are speaking of in mentioning one of the relatively oft-quoted verses. The Book is intense and demands either total submission and reverence (from a Muslim) or a position similar to where you and I come from to even attempt to approach it, as it is the most challenging of the major works.

It's funny man, how long we've known each other, and in what way we've communicated, you are among a few people I often think about when I'm out and about and wish that I could live closer to, to spend time with you IRL. I don't know if I remember having a dream with you in it, haha, most likely I have though. Your one of the coolest dudes I know, and I imagine that where we to get together sometime, shit would be intense If I ever come up across the border, I'll be holla'n at you for sure!

 

Brotherly Love flourishing on HipForums!

I love it.

 

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By the way, I did not mean to derail this thread, I only made a passing comment and did not want to take the discussion away from the OP's question, it's just that what was shared seemed to me to be so glaringly at the root of the discomfort and future hesitation, and while that may very well be the case, it may very well not be, certainly some people (many, even most??) are not directly concerned with the nature of reality and the God question, at any level. It just seems to me that a conviction like "I am an atheist" is arbitrary and generally contrived, as Writer pointed out, as a reactionary position, while "I felt very disoriented and started to worry about things like "what if god isn't real" is actually existential experience in the raw, a menacing question that can send the mind spiraling down if not quickly subdued or temporarily resolved, and I thought I'd be a sanctimonious little bitch by pointing this out arrogantly, smiling, and obvious only to those of us who know me by my old screen name, knowingly Sometimes I forget that to the people who started posting here after '09, I'm a newb.

 

There's that ego. Sorry. Just browsing through..