Alright i exactly belive in this , i do what feells good ... not caring what might happen... hey im a teenager. I smoke marijuana sometimes , becasue i belive everything in life is good in small moderations. I was wondering in if this is the religion i would call my self? I belive that psycodelics i belive if you take them they might open your mind and show you , another dimension. I belive 'existance' has millions of dimensions other worlds etc. That we just didnt see yet untill we die.
why do you have to call yourself anything? why not call yourself everything, or nothing? personally i choose everything... there's more to explore...
the problem with doing whatever feels good at the time, not regarding the consequences that might follow, is that it's a trend of gambling with your consciousness. true, if you always do what feels good, you might be one of the lucky few who makes it through their whole life riding one wave of sensory gratification after another and dies in bliss, but if you believe in karma, then this is because you already have much good karma coming towards you. however, this is not always the case, and when we blindly follow instinctive notions of what 'feels good,' we often find ourselves in a pickle. for example, it feels good and natural and high to have lots of unprotected, wild sex with someone if you're physically and emotionally attracted to them. its a natural animal impulse, which we are all encrypted with as humans who have to reproduce. however, this will often lead to unwanted pregnancy or STDs, which will handicap your future ability to 'have a good time.' another example is the reckless use of psychoactive drugs, especially narcotics which produce a feeling of 'nodding off,' or apathetic paradise. what feels perfectly wonderful for a bit may work against your cause and cause even more suffering for you because of the consequences it entails. this is why the 'do whatever feels good' philosophy doesn't work, and no one has to worry about whether or not it has been fully explored; everyone wants to do what feels good forever and never have to worry about anything else. a further complication is that when we have good karma coming towards us, and i use the term 'good' meaning things that produce joy and peace, we should use this as motivation to act in such ways to bring more karma like this to us in the future. however, if we turn the natural joy into a means of selfish sensory gratification, then we not only use up all of our good karma without fully enjoying it, but produce much more bad karma for us in the future. an example of this would be if we found ourselves in the company of good friends whom we love and trust, and we are all in good health and comfortable and everything seems beautiful. the best way to handle this is to experience the joy, share it with others, and act on more wholesome deeds (not motivated by superficiality, selfishness, greed, manipulation, etc) in the future which would bring more times like this into being. the worst way to handle this occasion, would be to abuse ourselves and others and act as if we're trying to suck the joy out of the situation for our own moment to nod off and desert our work on ourselves. it could be thought of as a contrast between "i'm glad i'm here with you guys," and "good times dude, lets get wasted," (although drugs alone really have nothing to do with it). think of it this way: your life is a precious opportunity for your consciousness, which is currently in the form of a human who can consciously choose its own path, to fully realize itself. you can do this, or you can dwell in sensory gratification (which also includes being a hedonistic masochist, always gratifying yourself with a fetish for your own pain thinking that it is helping you), and waste your life trying to achieve something that is imaginary. my advice is to devote your life to working on yourself. if you use marijuana, don't use it to have a party. use it to see past yourself and realize your own essence more. if you have sex, see it as a mini-celebration of life and the life process. when you eat, eat with the mindfulness that you are fueling your body so that your body can go on and do more work for your consciousness. eventually, you will gain more and more insight, and when you lose your fixation with satisfying your ego (social/personal/imaginary self) and become selfless enough to want to only do work on yourself, you will finally attain the kind of happiness and "good feeling" that you always thought you would by doing things the opposite way. this sounds horribly complicated and not very much fun, but its really all you can do. everything else leads to the path of spiritual growth; its just a matter of how long it takes you to get sick of all the other stuff and show up. if you get confused, or are at all interested, read Ram Dass's "Be Here Now," Lao Tzu's "Tao Teh Ching," or "Advice From a Spiritual Friend" by Geshe Rabten and Geshe Dhargyey.
Hedonism - if you want to know what it really is about. The Renaissance: studies in art and poetry by Walter Pater is a book of immense importance for merely 4 or 5 pages of sheer unadulterated hedonist sentiment and philosophy - everyone person under 25 should be made to read it. Walter pater was a professor at Oxford University, He taught Oscar Wilde, and a few other notable geniuses. The conclusion to the book made him a few enemies amongst oxford schollars and he was almost barred from teaching. Read the seminal work of modern hedonism here http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=4744&pageno=100
