sometimes for me it feels like whenever i take a fair amount of hallucinogens -- or even one trip really -- that my life is introduced to a series of stages after the trip: first of all there is the afterglow. this is usually much, much, better than everyday sobriety. it puts me in an incredible upbeat mood and it feels like a unique low-key high. very smooth and joyous. i put everything i learned during my trip(s) into my everyday life very easily. the afterglow just carries my life onwards in an incredible high frequency and there is nothing i can do to stop it. its quite amazing. this usually lasts for 2 weeks or so. afterwards i still have the ability to tap into that incredible energy from the afterglow, but i have to do it consciously. i have to try. if i don't try i can slip back down into a state of mind somewhere around where i was before the trip. usually this time is a struggle to encorperate the trip into my everyday life. the way i see it is that the only way to learn truth is to live it, you can't just know it. and then this is where things get really strange. alot of the time you can't just encorperate everything that the lsd has taught you over night. sometimes it can take weeks, or months. it is a progressive act, not just something that automatically clicks on. i find that eventually when i am having a hard time living the truths that were revealed to me, my life can become quite stressful. like if i was trying to put the wrong puzzle piece into a puzzle. over this stressful period of time my inner consciousness and thoughts sometimes begin to be reflected in the real world. like some kind of lucid dream but for reality. amazing coincidences happen, i call it synchronicity. the events that happen are all quite connected and obviously reflective of the trip(s) i had. some of these events just fit together so perfectly, like a shattered jug being repieced back together. until eventually after enough time, stress, and synchonicity i will reach my breaking point. it is at this time that the trip is pretty much fully encorperated into my life and all my of the stress i had transforms into joy and love. i find myself enourmously better off than when i was before the trip, even though i might have had to pass through a little rough patch in my life to get there. i am as happy if not happier than during my afterglow except this time it isn't the afterglow holding me up, it is myself. i just find it incredible that lsd can have such an effect on my real life, that it can actually cause a rough patch in my life if i do not take to heart what it is showing me. it feels like when i take lsd it causes a wave that travels through my life until it eventually crashes, and leaves me in a better state of consciousness.
I used to be sort of like this. Now i just trip too often and never get past the "afterglow stage" lol.
i go through this same process. i know exactly what you mean, like everything comes in to play at perfect timing, synchronicitys happen to me all the time, multiple times a day even. psychedelics always seem to come around during a time when spirits are high and things are all good, then there is the celebration and exploration with acid. then things begin to become a struggle, mishap event after mishap event begins to happen, and suddenly everything you learned on lsd begins to show up on youtube, and on tv, and in your everyday life. the story plays out more, you make it through the struggle, and you a rewarded. something new and exciting begins into your life, a new door opens up, you stronger now and ready to face new challanges, and then you have another celebration trip, and usually the trip is amazing and you are showered with love, then the psychedelics move out of town again. until they are needed once more. these struggles we are going through are part of this acension. energy is changing and we a moving into another frequncy. these are test, preparing us for whats to come. the fact that pscyhedelics show up in these times of struggle could mean we were meant to take them. we were meant to go deeper then the others, we are the shamans of our societys, we shall guide people towards the love. we will all know what to do when the day comes, we have always known, it was built into us, and we shall use it to guide the blind ones.
word man. yeah, when i do that it all just builds up into one massive movement. the more trips you build into the more intense it will be.
This is why it's good to trip with someone when you're doing larger doses of the powerful stuff like shrooms lsd whatnot. you can both bounce your thoughts off each other and hopefully you are similar enough entities that what is bounced back to you makes sense and you can apply it. i was saved a lot of stress, confusion, and uncertainty because i had another being like myself beside me in the same 'place', and we could approach the lesson as a team. but i've only really had 2 lessons. the one acid gave me, and the one shrooms gave me. everything else has been either a subset of those 2 lessons or a reminder of those 2 lessons.
^^^share your lessons? i guess the main lesson i have learned from psychedelics is the golden rule basically - treat other as you would be treated. treat others as yourself. this is obviously flawed, because everyone is not you (or are they?) and doesn't want the same things. but it's a great start. one trip i had, i was feeling things that were happening to my friend - i tasted pizza he was eating before i ate any myself, i felt powder in my nasal cavity as he snorted a pill....i was getting visions of myself as other people too - a homeless man, a starving child, etc. and i couldn't imagine ever wanting to cause harm to someone else, or not help them if you could. because that would really only be harming yourself. feeling that "oneness" that psychedelics can bring is something everyone could make use of.
But by any usable definition, they are close enough to you that it should apply, so even if you don't know they are you, you know they are so much like you that this rule is a good rule to live by. They also happen to be you, yes. And you are them. This terminology is confusing. Thou art That. trying to share my lessons would be an exercise in phonetic surgery, as I try and squeeze an ocean through a faucet. Squeeze the universe that is oneness, awareness, awakening, through the grain of sand that is language, intellect, and human understanding. It would be like 2 pidgeons being told "now explain quantum mechanics"; they could coo all they like, but never get close to their goal. Unfortunately, no one can be told what the truth is, you have to see it for yourself. [/morpheus] (but for serious)
