Why do you use psychedelic drugs?

I have often asked myself this question, especially in the early days, usually while I was tripping. "Why I am I doing this?" I think its some sort of combination of all those up there, and it varies from trip to trip. Sometimes I really don't know. Lately I've just been enjoying brief escapades into the surreal for its own sake.

EDIT: I forgot to add artistic inspiration up there, but I can't edit the poll anymore. Damn.

 

hmm i have only used salvia divinorum and mushrooms before, but here are some reasons im interested in using psychedelic entheogens...

-spiritual enlightenment
-to see things from different perspectives
-to be free
-to keep myself creative
i voted the first option

 

well of course: "all of the above"

 

Maybe this question should be changed to "Why do you mostly psychedelic drugs?"

 

I haven't tripped too much, but the reasons in order of importance for me would be:

Rekindle some creativity/art
Try and figure myself out
Fun
Spirituality

Spirituality I haven't gone into much yet, but I want to get into meditation more and maybe do something like Peyote Walk or something like that someday...

 

Except "to be wild" all of the above... more or less...


I started drugs, because I was curious.
I continued, because it was fun.
I still went on, because I wanted to find out more about myself and my dark sides.
I became an expert, because I wanted to use drugs to improve myself.
Now I use them for spiritual completion.
I love them, because they allow me to see "behind the things".

 

if i picked 'other' it would probably be that tripping allows one to experience a part of themselves that no non-tripper could ever imagen. i feel like i have a more complete picture of conciousness and such than i ever would if i never triped. "30 years of zen meditation or a couple hits of acid." so-they-say.

i used to crave to leave this planet and its ways, to experience something completely different and new, like i could never imagen... then i ate some mushrooms and was grateful.



Edit: haha wow that sounds stupid... but.. yea </edit>

 

i use psychedelics very rarely....maybe once or twice a year...usually at festivals...i gave up doing them in my friends condos because i alwasys feel restricted.....its all about being outdoors with people you love...wide open spaces....just feeling it....the first time i did it, it was for fun....now its for many reasons.....but i don't do mushrooms anymore, they don't agree with my body or mind...its all about acid....

 

To find the answer that was there all along.

 

i have a personal goal to drive myself as insane as possible before i die...lol, no, for me its about freedom of mind and spirit, and the psychedelic expirience is a powerful teacher

 

I just enjoy exploring inside my own head now and then!

 

I feel at home here. I wish this website could be a town full of people who understood or at least were trying to understand. That would be great. I love you all.

 

Why do people live? Why do we think, or ask questions? Not only because we can, because we want to find out. There is certainly definitive answers and those answers are more questions. The exploration of one's mind and power only leads where? We are God, prime creator, we are. Now you can search the internet high and low and critisize anything and everything you want, you can even tell me to chill out, but you know what, the truth is you cannot stop anything. We are experiencing, and those capable of handling psychedelic mind expanding drugs, let them percieve ancient information and creativity that they may take anywhere in their lives here and there after this physical life. Without physical limits the mind would not experience emotions the way it does, thus making something real in the universe that gives us purpose, we experiment, there is always more that we don't know than that we do know. And if when we feel we know everything we cannot be aware of it. Its everything and nothing. Opposites, ying and yang, we are just everything in between that makes it infinite. What lies beyond that, ask more questions.

 

to meet with the ulternate spirits and to learn what they teach then TELL THE WORLDyour now entering Psychedelia

 

But what if the ulternate spirits end up telling you that theyre heartless bastards?

 

well they aren't spirits from the past they are spirts representing earthly things and they teach me how the world should be without all this human interuption.

i'm going into a trip right now and i will be explaining more about the Psychedelia spirits

 

i smoked a bowlpack of salvia, about a half an hour ago, i am pretty down now but i still feel a little buzzed.but heres what happend.

i met with a tree named oshk (not sure how to spell it but he pronouced it O-SH-EK) he said he was the watcher and kepper of all woods and forests.
he talked to me about how when people are walking around in the woods they do not care for the ants along the path that they might be stepping on, most humans will travel unknowingly killing thousands of things. he put all the things about ants in a perspective i have never thougt of.. we do not know much about the behavior of ants, he put me in the place of an ant and i felt the feelings of human relationships in this ant form. i was showed my friends and fellow workers that i had a strong connection with, i was told that i had died by a child with a magnifine (sp?) glass and now all those ants that had an emotional attachment had horriblely sad feelings and i had to feel them and i did. the moral of this trip is respect every living thing because we really do not know anything about them personly. Oshk was narrating (sp?) the whole time and i soon feel out of the ants life and saw oshk and he said that if you were to imagine the daily life of a small creature with such precision as our memories you would take care of every little living creature.

 

I do it because I've been doing it all my life besides that I have no other reason.

 

i pretty much beieve that, when we trip, we're telling ourselves these things and making all of what happens up in our minds. we're just able to make up worlds and personalities to convey what our minds "want" to "tell" us. for instance, i was walking through a flattend corn field and when i looked down, all the husks n stocks n stuff looked like faces of old corn wizards (or whatever). so i felt bad about stepping on them at first, but then i told myself that they didn't give a damn, it was just a part of their life. other animals would step on them and we wouldn't condemn them for it, why should i think i'm any different. ...anyway, i figured this must go for all things that we step on and disturb. it became so clear to me, almost like i was being told this by a more "powerful" being or something.

on my first mushroom trip i layed down in a patch of grass and felt it moving around under me. so i thought of all the insects that have their world in the grass and dirt and how it didn't really effect them that i was there because they're so small that they can just crawl though the slightly compressed blades. the thought made the sensation tickle and feel amazing.

oshk (O-SH-EK) - that's wonderful

 

i chose other. i take mind changing drugs in order to understand psychology (human or otherwise), and to use lateral thinkning to create and concieve new ideas for myself and others with art and science and philosophy. It is an intellectual persuit. Its also really fun of course. but ive not been graced with trying many drugs so ive still go a long way to go.