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onewheelwizzard:
So as many of you, particularly those who have been around these parts for quite a while and/or frequent the music forum, are aware, I am someone who uses, thinks about, studies, and sometimes goes so far as to endorse psychedelic drugs.  For the most part I tend to keep relatively quiet about this ... there's a great deal of stigma surrounding psychedelic drug use, as well as various legal issues (specifically the fact that most, though not all, of them are very illegal), and generally when someone speaks up about their drug experiences, especially if they talk about them in a positive light, others tend to find it very easy to ignore or even actively discredit them.  However, I've recently had a few experiences with psychedelics that I have found myself unable to keep quiet about, due to the overwhelmingly positive impact that they have had on my life.  I no longer feel that putting my credibility at risk (or even for that matter my physical freedom, although I must admit to not being particularly worried about that) is an unreasonable sacrifice to make in the name of spreading knowledge and understanding about these substances and what they are capable of doing to help a human being.

(In case this little intro paragraph doesn't make it clear, this is probably going to be very much a tl;dr thread for many people here ... I'm only expecting a small percentage of the forum population to take part in this thread, although I am open to being pleasantly surprised.  I take this issue more seriously than probably any other topic of internet discussion, by a pretty wide margin, so expect long-winded and possibly overly technical posts from me on this thread.  If you're not interested, no worries.)

I've experimented with a variety of psychedelics (specifically LSD, psilocybin/mushrooms, MDMA, crystal DMT, 2C-B, 2C-E, salvia divinorum, and a sub-psychedelic experience with ketamine), in a variety of situations, with a variety of people, for a variety of reasons, and with varying results.  However, it's only recently that I feel as if I've started to learn how to take drugs properly, so to speak.  In specific, several recent drug experiences I've had over the past month or two have convinced me beyond the merest shadow of a doubt of something I've suspected for years, which is that psychedelics absolutely do have the capacity to facilitate incredibly powerful healing as well as the development of extremely close and mutually supportive interpersonal relationships, and furthermore, can ultimately bring people into awareness of inexpressible spiritual realities otherwise only accessible to devout practitioners of spiritual disciplines such as meditation.  They can act as medicine, religious sacrament, psychotherapy, and performance enhancement for anyone whose line of work requires creativity, among many other things, and in many of these cases they perform in these roles better than any other agent known to man.

The rational people reading this probably now understand why I tend to keep quiet!  These are very strong statements, and while I've defended statements like these for years based on research and secondhand accounts, it's only now that I feel "qualified" to do so, having personally experienced or witnessed amazing success personally in each of these areas.

Since I'm well on my way towards writing an essay that even the most patient forumite would probably find trying, I'm going to cut myself off soon, but not before recounting a few aspects of an experience I had very recently that affirmed my beliefs in an extraordinarily powerful fashion.  On Tuesday evening, I drank tea made from some Panaeoulus tropicalis mushrooms that were grown by a friend of mine.  This particular species is known for being extremely potent, and brewing mushroom tea, as opposed to simply eating dried mushroom matter, is known to heighten the dose-response curve of the drug as well, so I knew I was setting myself up for something pretty intense.  What ended up happening was by far the most powerfully affecting experience I may have ever had in my life.  As pretentious and hippy-dippy as this sounds, I really do think I understand something fundamental about the universe in a way I didn't before, and I do believe that the depth to which this experience has affected my life for the better is something I have only begun to understand.  Believe me, I'm extremely reluctant to say something like that without allowing it to be even the tiniest bit of playful bullshit, but the intensity of the trip was such that I find no satisfactory alternative.

To fully explain the story of this experience would take at least as long as this post already is, and that would be far too long for a topic-starting post ... as it is I've probably pushed a lot of people's patience.  I'm going to hold myself back (for the time being) from writing the tracts and tracts that I would like to vomit into this thread, and see what reactions or questions are raised before going further.  But, uh, yeah, if I'm not the only person on the forum who wants to talk about this, let's talk!

Scandanavian War Machine:
have i ever mentioned that you're my favorite forumer?

anyway, i fully support this thread. psilocybin is one of my greatest joys in the world and although i've never tried any of the other things you mentioned, i've meaning to try LSD and Salvia for a while now but have been waiting for the sunshine to reappear.

i'd love to hear about your experience because it sounds pretty powerful and like it would be a great thing to read. i'm sure i'm not alone, right guys?

RedLion:
The only drugs I've done are pot and LSD, the former I found underwhelming/pointless, and the latter I found to be pretty amazing. However, I don't make it a habit of doing any illicit substances, and I generally drink sparingly as well, except for wine, which I have a glass of often. The effects of LSD are generally uniformly positive for me, as cliche as the phrase "mind-expanding" is, that's really the best way to describe it. However, I meditate often and intensely, if meditation can ever be described as such, and I prefer to reach those heightened states of awareness, insight and clarity (mindfulness) through the power of my mind, rather than relying on outside substances.

Trollstormur:
i'm headed to a local art/music camping festival called Aesthetic Evolution here in a couple weeks and I'll probably get a light fry going on while I'm there. It's mostly electronic music so I dunno how I'm gonna really enjoy myself.

öde:

--- Quote from: Scandanavian War Machine on 06 Jun 2008, 13:40 ---i'm sure i'm not alone, right guys?
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Nope!

I wouldn't call MDMA a spiritual drug from my experience of it, but it was certainly fun and nice, and I've read about it helping people. I would like some shrooms, or peyote, but they're almost impossible to get here and it's probably not the right time in my life to take them. Or maybe it is!

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