Obviously we're intrigued by psychedelics (especially LSD). Their importance is undermined by our parochial society and it seems that they're lumped in with the rest of the shitty drugs on the black market...anyways, you good people all know the benefits of heightening and expanding one's awareness. People always mention that psychedelics alter the user's personality and i agree; psychedelics have changed me, for better and worse. I believe that they are important because they make us question what is important. It also helps us deconstruct and investigate the conflicts between our intuitive "self" and the values imposed on us by society. It also seems that they could damn near erase one's personality if abused. My question is, have psychedelics caused you to rearrange your priorities and how? First and foremost, they have deepened my love for music...i suppose this applies to the rest of you as well but are there any other musicians lurking about these parts?? I've seen threads displaying psych. inspired visual art, but what about music inspired by psychedelics? i think that once you've tripped, your creations will forever be influenced by that mind opening experience - whether or not you're tripping while creating. TL;DR: fellow psychonautical musicians- please share your creations! aaaand how have your priorities changed since using LSD?
So i think psychedelics have also made me wordy and a bit forgetful...haha. Here's a song i made. i wasn't on any psychoactives, but i don't think i would have made anything like it had i never taken LSD. pleeeeaaaaase share any music you've made! and i'd love to hear opinions on the song http://soundcloud.com/andrewslayteralbo/raining-inside
I became a stand up comedian after my second trip. I had been told that I was very funny by most people, I was told I should do stand up comedy. It wasn't until I actually started writing proper stand up bits on that trip that I realized the true potential I had. After doing comedy on weekends for over a year, I now have a decent paying hobby and side job and I get to be on stage and make people laugh. That is just one of the many things that changed about me. I also stopped giving a shit about what people think. This doesn't mean I was antisocial or anything, it just means I began just doing what I felt like. This actually lead to many people enjoying me as a person and now I have a much larger and closer group of friends.
Boom. I'm much more open to myself, and I'm also much more open to others. I don't take life so seriously any more, because I've realised how pointless it is to do so. Much better if you just chill and enjoy. Following on from that, I've realised how to actually enjoy life. Take care of the little things, they add up! I'm much more aware of how much impact my surroundings and the people I'm with have on me, so I tend to steer clear of those dodgy kinda vibes. Bummer of this is that those bad vibes hit me harder than they used to, but i'm not that fussed.. someone's gotta feel them Appreciation for the smallest details in everything.. music, art, environment, language, body language.. fascinating stuff. Artistically.. I pay a lot more attention to light and colours. I haven't really got much creativity behind it, but I think I can copy shit pretty well - and that's linked to paying attention to the details, and the appreciation of it all. Musically.. well besides the detail stuff again, it's brought a lot more genre's into my range of music than would have been present otherwise - and playing that shit is a lot more fun, I can feel the music a lot more as opposed to just playing it. Psychedelics have also completely shaken up the foundations of my upbringing.. for the better(for me anyway). I'm lucky that my parents aren't ass holes and I've been brought up fairly well compared to some, but a lot of their ideas are stale and obviously flawed, and I agreed with a lot of them until a few years ago(post psychedelics). It's interesting though.. because I'd like to see how much I'm going to differ from the younger generations in 20 years - and see how narrow minded I become/am.. if at all. We shall see! Thank fuck for trips! :2thumbsup:
Here is some music I've made and working on, some of it is demos at the moment... some of it needs vocals but heavily psychedelic influenced. http://soundcloud.com/guerillabedlam
i am a visual artist....i have used psychedelics intermittently for most of my adult life....sometimes going for years not tripping...i am 60 years old. i have found psychedelics to be most useful to me as i live with chronic depression....the psychedelic experience seems to lift me from a state of thought filled mind to a state of being...this state of being has a very powerful sense of reality satisfaction about it....i am also a regular meditator.....and have been for 20 years.....its good...its all good.
im a visual artist....psychedelics have definately had a big infulence upon the way i paint and think about picture making. i became fascinated with light....and to this day continue this fascination. my love of light i felt was something that took me a long time to understand and work with...as it can so easily loose content and narative which i feel is critical too....its a bit of a ballancing act. i sometimes paint while having an experience...the work gets more sensitive and tend to put allot more sessions and layers of paint on a picture......oh i will attach a file of my latest meditation ......its just light
Something has changed, absolutely. Before, I was just going along in life, unaware of a lot of things. The psychedelic experience (the good ones..) allowed me to remember what it was like to be a child, to be filled with wonder for the world. There's so much beauty and we gradually forget about it. I listen to a lot of music, compose, and perform in orchestral ensembles occasionally, but I do not think the psychedelic experience has done anything particularly for music appreciation or creation. My tastes for music are same. I never liked shitty psychtrance, and Led Zeppelin still gives me the chills. In a way I suppose I appreciate music more, but honestly I always have. I recorded myself playing guitar the morning after an LSD trip. I can't say it was super awesome or anything. http://soundcloud.com/tengent/afterglow also, I got into Monet post-tripping. When I saw his Water Lilies at the MoMA, I felt as if I were in heaven. Though, my aunt felt the same way, and she's avoided psychoactives.
i dunno man i prefer to think that the things that were shown to me on lsd were more like deeper expressions of myself more than they were things that were "caused" by the lsd. whatever changes or realizations are made through psychedelics were already there within a person to begin with. lsd doesn't create changes, it merely helps them along. some people might say they wouldn't be who they are today without lsd. you are who you are because you are you, not because of lsd. i'd say that lsd has provided me with tons of inspiration. but inspiration just augments what is already within a person.
I was a slightly abused child and pretty much a fuck-up in high school ("You're not living up to your potential," they'd say.). I dropped out of high school and left home at 17, hitch-hiked around the west, was a climber, drank a lot. A couple of years after high school I joined the Marine Corps. After 13 months in the infantry in VN I was a heavy drinker and was directionless and actually kind of violent. But shortly after discharge I started smoking mj and quit drinking. Over the next 6 years I took a fair amount of LSD and through the acid and my wife, pretty much turned my life around. I ended up with a graduate degree and later did post-grad work. I've devoted my life to service to humanity and have done my best to follow a boddhisatva path. I'm still an asshole sometimes, but in many ways I've transcended my karma. I am grateful to my wife, marijuana, LSD, and myself that my life has turned out like this (currently mid-60s). Though I haven't taken LSD in many years it remains very important in my life - more than an inspiration.
yes... i understand your thoughts....for me the psychedelic experience....really opens my eyes...you would not beleive what i can see...im a painter.....or i like to think "i am learning to paint.
^^For one thing I'd spent 13 months in heavy combat and everything that's part of that, so I wasn't inclined to go back to my previous life, nor was I able to associate with my previous friends, acquaintances, or activities (everything was sooo flat and meaningless) except when I was drinking and sometimes that didn't go well. Through LSD I was confronted with/experienced The Truth (we all are One, love, meaning, beauty beyond my imagination, and so on). The old was slipping away (good riddance!) and the new was beautiful and true, and I choose the Truth - but I'm not sure it was really a choice. I might have had an okay life without LSD, but okay probably would have been my maximum level of functioning As to the process of change (beyond what I've already said), I don't know and don't much care. It was >40 years ago.
hmm yea i understand what you mean there are definitely psychedelic experiences that i have had that have given me revelation.
