Tripping For Days

By about the third day it feels a bit like you are in some sort of half cartoon half crazy reality, by this stage feeling not sure if its worth proceeding or not.
It does feel like sanity is on a razors edge.
Although not the entire marathon trip has always been 100% pleasant, I have always felt an awesomely cleansing sense of rebirthe envelopes me in the weeks afterward....I feel almost new again!
Hopefully i will be reborn again sometime soon

 

I might actually have to pass on it, its been a dream of mine since i first tripped on acid when it was 18birthday, but i might actually have to move on with my life and forget about my acid dreams.....I just spend way too much time thinking about it for a 19 year old, i want to get my drink on...Id say the next time i go near the stuff ill be in my twenties,maybe for my twentieth birthday,thats only if i go near it...Shrooms and pot here i come lol.

But damn it would be a lovely trip right now lol.

 

itsallgood....just trip whenever u want 2, but dont redose and trip for days. i know its cool to think about what would happen if u dosed for a couple days straight but personally one trip is enough for me. you dont have to drop specifically at night or day and plan your trip out. i find that just eating a dose at a random time is the best. ex 2 in the morning.......sunrise.

 

My days of marathon tripping are over.....I hope.
Once you have done it a few times its been there, done that, got the t-shirt.
I feel now its better to enjoy the minute rather than turn it into a psychological endurance test.

 

On 10 hits of lsd i thought i wasn't coming back for 3 days. I thought i was gonna be one of those hippies from the 60s who just lost it for 3 days. I was like oh shit its been almost 12 hours and the room still looks like a cathedral from inner space.

 

Completely not necessary to be tripping for more than one day I think. I don't dig the nausea and bathroom issues shrooms give me. Acid is like the better version of shrooms to me.

 

my acid dreams usually consist of doing a thumbprint. i think i need to be a little more ready for it though. but that's kind of a null point since you can never really be ready for a thumbprint.

i'm totally not done with epic week long trips either though. :seeya:

 

Back in the day when I was around it a lot I spent the better part of a couple of months on acid. Dropping daily or every other day anywhere from 1-6 or 7 drops got to be an exercise in futility, just didn't have the same effect any more. By the end of that period of time I was left with an aversion to any psychedelics, kind of like when you get really sick from tequilla and can't even look at it or smell it with out be repulsed by it.

 

so then smith, what exactly did you do back in the day? go to alot of dead shows? live music? tripping with friends?

what were you involved in when tripping becomes involved? you have to have some kind of story to tell.

 

one way to trip for multiple days is D.O.C if you take a large dose you can trip for quite awhile but be careful i know a few people that did it and never completly came back.

 

The period of time when I was doing a lot of acid was from about '76 thru to about '80. After that the source dried up and I only did it maybe once or twice a year.
I and a few other friends were "distributing" it. The majority of activity was like '77-'79, went thru a LOT of vials. It was a time when I could get just about anything illicit you wanted within 24 hours at most, had lots of connections.

During that period of time I was also very much into eastern philosophy, meditation, mysticism, physics, and a little occult as it relates to the others mentioned. The summer of '77 is when I tried to stay high on acid, I had a lot passing through my hands and it was essentially free for me. I was young, late teens, and did a lot of different substances, as well as dealt a lot too. I read a lot of new age writings as well as religious writings.
Most of my tripping was alone, I prefer to explore inner space without the encumbrance of dealing with others. But I also did a fair amount in "party mode". That time period was high energy, go,go,go, party, party, party.

Then in the fall of '80 I had been talking with a friends wife who was a Pentecostal Christian. She kept telling me the Spirit was really all around me trying to get my attention. I finally agreed to attend a bible study led by her father-in-law. Now I thought that I was fairly well versed in spiritual things and had experienced a wide array of things, both drug induced and through meditation and mysticism. Astral projection, lucid dreams, I could see auras when meditating regularly etc. and was pretty open minded regarding such topics.
I get to their house and introductions are made and I go into the room where we were going to gather, there was about 8 people I think, and sit down on the coach. When I sat down I had the sudden sensation of something coming down and covering me, kind of like if someone had laid an invisible blanket over me. Weird, in all my experiences this was truly unique. The evening progressed and got to point when everyone was just kind of quietly praying or whatnot, and Darby, the man leading the study, opened his bible and read this verse; Romans 8:9 "But you are not in the flesh but in the spirit,if so be that the spirit of god dwells in you. Now if any man has not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his." When I heard that a shock ran through me unlike anything I've felt before. He repeated the last part again and again I was jolted from inside. He then asked if anyone felt that applied to them, I reluctantly said I did because I had been at a place where I thought I new all the truth and such, but now realized I didn't know what I thought. He asked if I wanted the spirit of Christ in my life and I said yes. he and a couple of others came over to me and Darby laid his hands on me and started to pray in tongues. He told me to start praising God and I stumbled over my own tongue to start and he told me to just start speaking and thanking God.
Then BAM all of the sudden a presence/force/spirit something that was totally from outside of me flooded over me and through me and I opened my mouth to praise God and started singing in another language. The more I allowed myself to sing in this strange tongue the more it flowed through me.
It was and is still the most joyful and elated experience I have ever felt.
I now understood all that I had heard and read about conversion, being born again, filled with the Holy Spirit and such. It was very real and very much had it's source from other than me.

I continued on as a Christian for a number of years but have drifted from it for a variety of reasons. But it still remains forefront in my mind because there is simply no denying the power that I experienced that night and many other times after. That was the event that really "opened me up" to the reality of the spiritual side of existence. I still would have to say that I'm Christian in my base fundamental beliefs, but have and continue to integrate other experiences and thoughts into that base as I continue to grow and learn.

There does that give you are clearer picture of who I am and what paths I have walked? Maybe more than you anticipated, but that is a good part of my story, and you know I'm a long winded old fart anyway.

 

^^^ good post !

 

Good post Smith....sounds like a crazy perod in your life .
I was brought up a christian until I was around 11/12. Although the fellowship and worship and the emphasis on good living is a positive thing, at my latter stages of church going I was disturbed by the level of fakeness I could see and sense all around me...a sort of hypocrisy.
Around the time I began to experiment with marijuana and lsd I found myself strangely drawn to the spirituality of Buddhism, so I would read any information I could find and was also lucky enough to attend a few gatherings where monks were teaching in Belfast. I felt a sense of unity and peace in Buddhism and Buddhists that I never felt in a church or christians quite as often. I have always held Buddhist beliefs close to my heart.( I later spent quite a while in Thailand which reinforced this)
Quite a few years later I was working night-shift as an engineer for an aerospace company and became friendly with an older born-again christian. We had been working night-shift for a few months and had many late night passionate discussions about religion. One night he brought me in a book called 'mere christianity' which I thought was just another standard 'Jesus' book. This book brought tears to my eyes....it explained christianity in a way that was not new to me but how its fundamental principles linked it to all other religions in a way that was. After reading the book I had never seen all the religions and all the people of the world so closely knit.
I gave the book to a friend around six years ago and by all accounts it has been passed on a few times.
Religion and spirituality are funny old things.....i guess people go with whatever is familiar or comfortable to them. Too many people spend too much time pointing out the differences in todays religion which is what causes many of our modern wars. If people would sit back and engage and educate themselves about other religions they would find out that many of our fundamental beliefs are all actually very similar.

 

yea, i was brought up christian. although that made me inherently not christian. silly roman catholics and their dogmatic beliefs. giving mass in latin is probably one of the most corrupt and outrageous ideas to breach christianity. i wonder how close to heaven all those corrupt holy men really got...

it's the church that is corrupt, not christianity itself. even though today's idea of christianity -- even if it's not taken from the church -- is pretty damn far off of what was originally intended. the church has twisted the religion so far that it's hardly even a fraction of what it used to -- and should -- be.

there are many viable spiritual roads to walk.

good story smith.

 

Moachana, Mere Christianity is a MUST read for anyone even remotely interested in Christianity. It leaves aside all the dogmatic and doctrinal bullshit and as the title says , presents Mere Christianity. All of C.S. Lewis' work is great. You should also take a look at The Screwtape Letters. I also do see the similarity in all religions, but that is to be expected because they all deal with the human condition. Christianity is unique among them though mainly because of Jesus and who and what he said he is, no other religious founder made the same type of claims about themselves and a lot of those actually stand up to scrutinity from a secular historical point of view. Don't really want to get into that whole arena here though.

Desos, sometimes being "raised Christian" is more detrimental to understanding what it's truly about then coming to it from the "outside". So I understand what you mean.
Like I said I have experienced a LOT of different "supernatural/spiritual" things in my life, but none have had the power and impact that the "baptism of the Holy Spirit" has had.

I will say though that all the things you see some of these guys like Benny Hin do (although for reasons not to be said here he is full of it), healing, people getting plowed over by the Spirit and prophecy, etc. etc. is real. I've experienced all the above and I am disgusted that those gifts are used as side show stunts to rake in the cash.

But I won't judge the merits or validity of Christianity by those fools, thats all I ever ask anyone to do in regards to any religion. Can't throw the baby out with the bath water ya know. It should stand or fall based on it's own merits, not based on those who practice it. You will have saints and sinners in any religion and to judge a belief system solely by the practioners is narrow sighted.

As I type this I am forced to ask myself why I diverted from it as I have.
Thanks for for positive responses, I felt like I was really putting myself out there with that bit of personal history in this forum. :cheers2:

 

agreed. it's like religion itself is a perfection. but humanity, is not perfect. thus in humanity's practise of religion what we end up with is something inherently different from the 'perfect religion.' you can't practise something that is perfect in an imperfect society. because what these 'practioners' are really practicing is not the true religion.

then you also need to take into account that there are infinite ways to interpret the same experiences. i.e. the holy spirit.

every now and then the perfection shines through, but it's one in a million. you can't just expect everyone in society to be enlightened.

"There are 8,400,000 species of life -- including aquatics, plants, birds, beasts, insects, and human beings. Of the human species, most are uncivilized, and out of the few civilized species only a small number of human beings take to religious life. Out of many so-called religionists, most indentify themselves by designations, claiming "I am Hindu," I am Muslim," "I am Christian," and so on. Some engage in philanthropic work -- giving to the poor or opening schools and hospitals. This altruistic process is called karma-kanda. Out of millions of these karma-kandis, there may be one jnani ("one who knows"). Out of millions of jnanis, one may be liberated, and out of billions of liberated souls, one may be able to understand Krsna. This, then, is the position of Krsna. As Krsna himself says in the Bhagavad-gita."

"Unfortunately, people have no information of the actual truth. Indeed, 99.9 percent of men in all walks of life are persuing untruth only, in the name of truth."

-The Science of Self-Realization his Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

 

The girl who started my dreadlocks accidentally dosed ~3000 hits of liquid LSD.. Her story was very interesting, she "tripped" for a few months..


I wish I could say that I could manage that, but I don't think I'm that strong.

 

holy cock

 

my neurons can hardly fathom what that was like

 

She must have been as far as far can be, speaking of that whats the farthest that can be reached? lol