what have psychedelics taught you?

What have psychedelic experiences taught you? This can be about big life-altering, one-with-the-cosmos, spiritually-uplifting lessons, or just simple, down-to-earth, not-too-wild, good-ol'-common-sense lessons.

For example, I've learnt that marijuana can put you in a state of mind where your creative thoughts are more lucid, and you can use that to come up with solutions to problems in your life. For example, my wife and I were having problems a while back (getting into fights more frequently than we'd like to), and one night while high on weed, I came up with an idea. I figured that, with summer time coming around the bend, we should spend Friday nights just going for walks. I brought it up to her and she really liked the idea. We did that and I really feel it helped mend our relationship and brought us closer. Thanks MJ!

Anyone else have stories about how any psychedelics helped them with life lessons or overcoming obstacles?

 

Energy Fields created by living things. It is good to wear sunscreen too.

 

Psychedelics thought me many things over the years, here are just a few, they thought me to wear sunscreen,
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be
it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by
scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable
than my own meandering
experience…I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth; oh nevermind; you will not
understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded.
But trust me, in 20 years you’ll look back at photos of yourself and
recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before
you and how fabulous you really looked….You’re not as fat as you
imagine.

Don’t worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as
effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing
bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that
never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4pm
on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing everyday that scares you

Sing

Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, don’t put up with
people who are reckless with yours.

Floss

Don’t waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes
you’re behind…the race is long, and in the end, it’s only with
yourself.

Remember the compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you
succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch

Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your
life…the most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they
wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year
olds I know still don’t.

Get plenty of calcium.

Be kind to your knees, you’ll miss them when they’re gone.

Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll have children,maybe
you won’t, maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky
chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary…what ever you do, don’t
congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either – your
choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s. Enjoy your body,
use it every way you can…don’t be afraid of it, or what other people
think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever
own..

Dance…even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room.

Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them.

Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly.

(Brother and sister together we'll make it through
Someday your spirit will take you and guide you there
I know you've been hurting, and I know I've been waiting to be there
for you. And I'll be there, just tell me now, whenever I can.
Everybody's free.)

Get to know your parents, you never know when they’ll be gone for
good.

Be nice to your siblings; they are the best link to your past and the
people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go,but for the precious few you
should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and
lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you
knew when you were young.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard; live
in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.

Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will
philander, you too will get old, and when you do you’ll fantasize
that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were
noble and children respected their elders.

Respect your elders.

Don’t expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund,
maybe you have a wealthy spouse; but you never know when either one
might run out.

Don’t mess too much with your hair, or by the time you're 40, it will
look 85.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with those who
supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of
fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the
ugly parts and recycling it for more than
it’s worth.


Or maybe that was just a song I heard one time and psychedelics haven't thought me anything that I didn't already know and I believe that people that feel they require psychedelics to learn things about themselves and the world around them are looking for an easy awnser and/or are just kidding themselves. But trust me on the sunscreen.....

 

This is basically the biggest truth I have gotten from psychedelics, but I wouldn't have worded it in such a blunt way lol. Besides this, it has instilled the belief in impermanence in my personality.

 

nothing is true, everything is permissible. Actually me and a friend both had this revealed to us during the same week, but we didn't find out about that synchronicity until we talked the week later. He did when he burned a dime bag of weed at once, and I did with sinicuichi.

 

Psychedelics have taught me everything. I just can't remember it all

 

Sure, if you spend your life chasing another dimension and not keeping one foot on the ground in this world, then it's your fault you fucked up on earth.

You have to live in this world before you can try and live in another.

I am one with the cosmos all the time. Psychedelics were very life altering for me.

I'm sorry you feel this way about psychedelics.

Moral:

Keep your eyes on the stars
Keep your feet on the ground



Your not showing respect to something that is VERY powerful. Don't do this just because psychedelics didn't help you.

Psychedelics by themselves, say in an isolation tank, will not fill your head with bullshit, like a mixture of LSD and the X-files can do.

Media and psychedelics are a bad mental combination.

Your just out of touch. I'll send ya 40mg of too see e and then we can discuss what's real and what's not.

So using psychedelics to travel to another way of thinking and obtaining knowledge that can help you prosper in this world is a joke? I'm not laughing.

 

they taught me that all nature has a meaning and has a deep beauty.

and that being inside is so over-rated. go outside and enjoy what the world has to offer to ya!

 

to be careful what i put in my mouth...heheh...

 

-----Generic Sexual Pun Inserted Here-----

 

That's a great quote, Synth. Can I use it in my sig?

I agree with it wholeheartedly. I rarely ever believe in all the fooey my mind comes up with while stoned - at least, I don't usually bring it back with me when I sober up (sometimes it's hard not to believe things when stoned . I enjoy the insights and experiences of visiting another world for a short while, but when I return to this world, a lot of those things have to stay behind because that's the only world in which they are valid (i.e. they just don't hold water in this world).

What I find useful about psychedelics is learning how these mental changes that the drugs put you through can be used to your advantage. It doesn't have anything to do with believing or learning new Truths. For example, if I'm feeling miserable, and I'm struggling with some negative thoughts and perspectives on the world (the glass is half empty kinda thing), I can use pot to loosen up my thoughts and tap into some creativity. I then use that creativity to invent new ways of looking at the world, perspectives that I had never considered before. On top of that, everything on pot seems so much more inspiring, and that can be used to reinforce these positive thoughts (i.e. I end up valuing these thoughts more - even after I sober up 'cause it seems this inspiration does have more of a tendency to survive as it's brought back into the real world). Another example is extacy. Extacy can be used to bring people closer together. If you're having relationship problems, extacy can open you up to your partner in so many ways. In fact, extacy was originally a prescription drug use in marriage counciling before it became elligal.

In short, there are many ways in which drugs can teach you things about life, reality, and your own mind. It doesn't always have to be about "one with the cosmos" experiences. It's mainly about what you make of these psychedelic experiences. The drugs just give them to you. You decide whether they can be put to some use or not.

 

I am! mwa-ha-ha-ha

 

Psychedelics have taught why people say Ommmmmmmmmmmm when they buzz on life

 

Of course!

 

They've tought me to be more content with the nothingness even then before, to notice beauty in almost anything; they helped me get to realise who I was better then before.. and best of all on a beautiful mushroom trip I got rid of a phobia that had me quite in its control prior to that.. so that a trip killed my fear.. just wow.
Psychedelics drugs tought me how not to worry too much.

 

hahaha... so good... and so true.

 

What was the phobia?

 

how to make money on the stock market

 

they taught me how good my own farts smell

and that fat girls need lovin too

and also that it feels good to sweat when you take a shit

 

Contageous illnesses, like flu's, colds and anything else common but I was also affraid of less common things.