Am I the only one who feels pleasure from walking barefoot, usually while tripping on LSD or mushrooms. And I also feel the earth feeling good from being touched by my feet. It is because, like our genitals, so overly-sensitive from being covered up from clothes, our feet our overly sensitive form being covered by socks and clothes. Once when i was tripping and hiking i took off my feet and walked along the trail for an hour or so, my feet were in ecstacy. peace
It's only natural with so many nerve endings that are in the bottoms of one's feet. I too have discovered that wonderful sensation especially when I lived up in the north. After months of wearing shoes and socks, it was pure heaven to allow my bare soles to finally communicate again with nature. Best of all, it came without the influence of any foreign substance!!
I'm guessing that it had more to do with the trip you were on than the feeling of being barefoot...have you ever tried a barefoot hike when you're sober and can actually appreciate it?
The surfaces I am so privileged (blessed) to walk on every day are delicious beyond description to me to walk on. I can only imagine what tripping may do to enhance this, but I'm thinking I am good as is. I have posted here before (as others have) about the almost contradictory change in one's soles: your feet toughen up so's to take sharp gravel, but at the same time, the finer senses allow one to "taste" the different surfaces. For me, that's grass, pine needles, spruce and fir needles (oh yeah, there's a detectable and delectable difference!) moss, lichen, the endless amount of rocky ledge here, puddles, mud, and, under ideal conditions, snow. Unlike many of you, I don't like my soles black, but as you can see, most of what I walk on doesn't dirty my feet, or it cleans me as fast as it dirties. Regardless of the dirt thing, all of this feels exquisite to me here, except when it's very cold. Still waiting on that---
