One thing I've taken from the LSD experience is "self-awareness". My question is, did LSD raise your self-awareness? Or awaken yourself to YOU? Did it help you understand yourself, or did it negatively work against you? Or is it a juggling act depending on the situation? I also read a quote "The goal of the universe is Self-Awareness. Awareness itself is ultimately destructive." Does this relate?
Well there's nausea and there's enlightement. I think the universe has many goals, and therefor has none. Shit just happens brah
LSD has a great potential to open one up to Self-Awareness, and yes Self-Awareness is the goal. Self-Awareness is becoming aware of who we are really are on the inside, which is pure love* *=(god,collective consciousness, ultimate reality, the inherent self of all,buddha,christ, siva) This pure love* is the source of all and the destination of all. By becoming aware of our breathing and regulating our breath(pranayama) we automatically begin to become aware of what is going on within and around us. This in turn helps us to become aware of our thoughts and feelings which are usually dominated by the idea that we are our body/ego which is a false identification because truly we are pure love*. Self-Awareness is niether good nor bad, it transcends both. It is only the inherent self or pure love* that can be aware of all things. When awareness is harnessed one becomes Aware of what is going on but is seperate from that which it is aware of. For instance your statement snocbor This would be self/ego awareness, your aware of who you think you are and the feelings that are in your head, like anxiety. Awareness is lost when we become totally attached to the situation and become that which we are aware of, in this case you became the anxiety. Self Awareness is about remaining aware of who we are, pure love*. We do this by becoming aware of everything we are not. This is counter-intuitive but is the only means if we cannot readily become aware of our own divine nature on our own. Think to yourself, all the thoughts are running through your head, who is watching them? who is aware of them? often while thinking we literally become our thoughts by identifying with them indefinitely. But if you ask these questions you can see that two factors are now in play, Instead of just the thought there is also the awareness of the thought which is that pure love* we have been speaking of. Self-Awareness is just about being aware and not becoming what we are aware of. Just as the mirror reflects the colors and is still the same mirror, uncolored and clean, so is the mystic who's awareness is "uncolored" or not attached to the events around or even inside of him. this is true liberation, self-realization, moksha, the means of life. Namaste
self-awareness doesn't begin to describe 1% of what lsd showed me . . . it showed me Awareness . . . of everything. my "self" is a hilariously tiny blip amongst all that.
Thank you shadygrove, that answers everything that I was questioning. As for Mr. Writer, yes I am aware that myself is a "small blip" of the overall awareness, but nonetheless when you're tripping looking down at yourself, or staring into a mirror, you almost immediatly become self-aware, and ponder the thought of the "self", at least in my case. Thanks again, everyone.
Yeah definetely. I've never had a deeply inwardly-focused trip, they were all outwardly* focused and about the whole universe, the human race, life, god, etc *what a ridiculous distinction anyways, especially in the midst of an acid peak! thou art that
Thinking of a another thread, you can make shit happen or wait for shit to happen but it will happen. Ram Dass has a good message on awareness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K6lD6EeGBU
i dig this thread. I get this anxiety too and I conclude that since my senses have been amplified in the post-lsd world, anything I experience will be more intense, good and bad. I have to remind myself that I'm in control of my universe and if I'm going to be sensing more, I can sense what I want and then a good thing becomes the intense input. I'm actually much more calm and levelheaded on an acid trip. Since I know it's a trip I know that I'm controlling everything I'm perceiving. In the post-acid world I tend to let things rule me because I forget that I'm still in control of my universe. The rules aren't different, they're just slowed down and real life is just a crystallized version of an acid trip. That's harder to believe when I'm not tripping.
If you are saying it then somewhere in there you are believing it, even if it is only that it is a lie.
