My Trip Year.

Hey all. I've taken psychedelics quite a few times over the last 5 years, and now i'm into what I can only describe as my "trip year".

A year of quiet meditation, introducing some close friends to this world they never knew about, and Finding a new view of myself, and my place in reality. I'm taking two or three tabs once every 2 weeks; For the duration of the year. I'm 5 months in, and loving it! I've had some really crazy times so far, with plenty more to come, I'm sure. I'm more of an inward tripper, in that I like to shut my eyes and quietly concentrate on the space in my head during the peak of the trip, and I rarely leave the house whilst doing so. If I'm out : It will be at a friends house where we're all sharing the experience, however late at night I might walk to a nearby park or river and quietly take in the view whilst at the peak.

The results so far have been surprising. I went to my first big trip party, I've been introduced to some amazing people. I've given a sort of spirituality to a friend, who before the tabs I gave him; was only scientifically minded, and Helped another friend let go of all her fear and pain about life, and feel free for the first time she can remember. I'll be having my first ever beach trip later this year when I travel up the coast for a friends birthday weekend, so I'm definitely looking forward to that!

I've been reading some awesome books lately too which have been helping me focus my experiences during my trips. All of Terrance McKenna's masterpieces of psychedelic literature (my favorite being "Food of the Gods") as well as Rick Strassman's 'DMT : The Spirit Molecule', "The Tibetan book of the dead", and A few Tim Leary books from before he went all 'preachy' and got kicked out of Harvard. I'm considering going to a huge music festival later this year on tabs, but I'm unsure yet wether or not I could handle 40,000+ People being within close proximity! I usualy listen to a lot of Shpongle, and chilled out Devin Townsend such as 'Ki' or 'Ghost' while on it, to lighten up and mellow out the atmosphere. I try not to Watch TV or Movies whilst on it : Because I feel like its a waste of a trip. I find myself laying in the grass and watching the universe dance in the sky a lot, although I've discovered thats quite common amongst my friends and a hell of a lot more insightful that watching Charlie Sheens face melt off and someone try to claim my soul when I channel surf between Jesus TV and '2 and a Half Men' at 1.30 in the morning on cable

I know there are mixed feelings in society these days about them, but I do these psychedelics for a number of reasons.
Sometimes to go 'Out of My Head, And explore the depths of reality'
Sometimes to go 'Into my Head, And explore the caverns of my consciousness'
Sometimes to just groove my ass off and watch the walls melt

Does anyone here have experience with what they'd call a 'Trip Year'?
Any advice from some seasoned psychonauts? :sunny:

 

p.s : one of the few movies I can follow and LOVE during a trip is "Enter the Void". If you haven't seen it yet : Run, Dont Walk!

 

I wish you the best, I went almost a whole summer doing the same thing. It was great, though I was more introverted at that time and didn't want to get out and enjoy myself like I would now. It definitely changed my perception on reality and it was for the better. It made me realize what was important on life and how many things were just distractions.

 

I just got 3 tabs of WoW and am saving a gram for use with them, in the next week or few.

This has nothing to do with your thread. Just felt like saying it.

 

First time with lucy roor? Man I'd save 2g if you're taking all three hits :drool5:

 

Awesome! This sounds like an awesome idea, and I wish you the best of luck. Enjoy the experience man! If I could get a solid source, I'd probably have a Trip Year myself, it sounds really awesome! Hope you write up some trip reports from time to time ;P :2thumbsup:

 

Nah, like my 6th time, and I've also done a decent amount of LSA a decent number of times.

But I'm hoping for a more visual experience than I've been able to get with acid before, other then when candyflipping.

 

As long as I take a psychedelic during the year it's my trip year, so I think I've had Trip Years for the past 8 years. The frequency of how often I dose psychedelics doesn't necessarily lead to better results in furthering development as a psychonaut for me.

But last year I definitely tried many more new psychedelic compounds than I had in previous years.

 

At month 6, I personally would take 2 months off, or switch to once every 30 days, and in that time period see if you can put what you've learned to use. Attempt all these ideas in your head -- see how it has actually changed your life.

Have fun. Be safe. Peaceness!

 

What do you guys think of Maynard's quote?:

“I think psychedelics play a major part in what we do, but having said that, I feel that if somebody's going to experiment with those things they really need to educate themselves about them. People just taking the chemicals and diving in without having any kind of preparation about what they're about to experience tend to have no frame of reference, so they're missing everything flying by and all these new perspectives. It's just a waste. They reach a little bit of spiritual enlightenment, but they end up going, 'Well, now I need that drug to get back there again.' The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.”

 

Whoa man, I wouldn't trip at a festival if I were you. There's the big risk of being caught, plus the chance of having a bad trip if you don't like crowds. Plus there might be music you don't like, and you can hardly just turn it off.

Trip in a big, empty forest, it's the best experience ever.

 

^ exactomundo

 

Being in my room at night I feel most secure for tripping, so that's what I do. Outside is fun, but it causes anxiety at the possibilities of being caught or lost or something.

 

I think that's very interesting Shi, if I figure out how to do it I'll let ya know.

 

I think the message is a good one, I'm not sure about waiting ten years between trips. It seems like many on here that have had long durations of abstaining from psychedelics seem to go pretty hard on it when they come back to them. It seems like they feel they need to catch up on lost time with psychs or something. I think a couple times a year is good but the rest of that quote I agree with wholeheartedly.

 

I find the correlation between buddhist/hindu theories and ones from experienced psychedelic users pretty amazing! It seems people who meditate their whole life get to a very similar place that psychs can take you. Of course this is from an outside perspective, cause I haven't done either!

Lol, with my fist trip at the tender age of 26, i'm not going to go into it with this attitude, cause if I do, I'll have allooooott of catching up to do! haha.

 

As you know GB, I've recently revisited psychs after much more than 10 yrs. Since Jan (my first 2C-e experience) I've probably tripped 10-12 times, so like twice a month. And at pretty measured doses.
I like to avoid over generalizing... I'm sure there are some that "go pretty hard" in a situation like mine. But I'm also sure others don't. I think I'm somewhere in the middle, and probably wouldn't have done even as much as I have if it hadn't been for discovering RC's, as opposed to the traditionals which was my only frame of reference when I decided to revisit tripping.

That aside... it's all good. :2thumbsup:

 

Ultimately I believe in the Erowid mantra of "Know your body, know your mind"

With that being said, I am a member of a drug harm reduction site and on there, when fielding the "how long between experiences/how often should I dose" type questions, I would say if there was a 'standard' answer for a minimal interval between regular psychedelic doses it would be one month, So you would be included in the going hard at it group from the harm reduction side. It's also a do as I say not as I do type thing, as you know I dose pretty frequently and somewhat excessively at times as well. But I would supply the harm reduction type info to Shivaya and anyone else who has not taken psychedelics or just begun to.

There was an interesting thread on here a few months ago about what psychedelic(s) you would take if you could only dose once per season, that is the type of usage I was referring to when I said a couple times a year.

 

Well said, I'm inclined to agree except for twice a month being alot. Seems dose and mixes ought to be figured in there too. For instance, one could say (and I've seen it here) ... last night i did xxx mg of this, xx mg of that, and then some of this, then when i started coming down I did some more of that... mixed with xxx. And then call that "a trip". Some people have done more substance in one night than I've done in 2 months. So I suppose it's all relative.

 

Psychedelic combo's are an interesting variable, I view it as one trip still and pretty much the equivalent of taking 1 1/2 to 2x the amount of whatever the more powerful psychedelic is or the one you are centering the combo around.

This info is not really responding to your post but perhaps some info you may find interesting. Ecstasy makes up probably ~80% or so of my combos and much like how you plan for a trip, combos are pretty much the same way. I usually sort of have a premeditated way that I'm going to combine the drugs to achieve certain effects, usually doses are staggered. The drug nerd or street term for combining ecstasy with another drug is called a 'flip'.

For a candyflip (LSD + MDMA) I usually take the Ecstasy at hour 4 or so of the acid trip, that way I get some LSD trip which turns into the combo with the coinciding peaks and then they come down at the same time.

For a nexus flip (MDMA +2cb) I basically have my entire ecstasy experience (~4 hrs) then before the crash I take the 2cb and so it becomes like this ever increasingly trippy euphoric crescendo type experience, that's about the length of an LSD trip. This is one Shulgin actually recommended as useful in Pikhal.

I haven't had much luck in finding combos beyond 3 chemicals very useful personally. The 2 combo experiences often can create a gestalt type effect where the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts (2ci +2cp is one that comes to mind for me) but more then 2 psychedelics and occasionally even incorrect timing/dosages with 2 psychedelics creates a pretty murky and floored intoxication.