Since my psychedelic awakening on the 22nd of January this year my head has been through a whirlwind of ideas and my self development hit a massive upward slope. Recently, the dust has settled, the mist of conceptions and different ideas of myself has cleared and my head space is quite peaceful. The process of individuation is running on auto-pilot and my ego for the most part is under control.

Now I am left with a sense of responsibility with my new found knowledge that I share with everyone else know knows. I cannot help but think that with this knowledge of society, psychology and what it is to be human, that I bear a responsibility to use this knowledge to better humanity. I sit and listen to people vocalize their, unbeknown to them, misconceptions, prejudices and general psychic complexes and feel a yearning & desire to free them. I sit in lectures looking at the tired, bored & baffled faces around me and wish to embrace them in understanding and dance into the next paradigm with them.

"What is one to do when he knows?" is my question. And I've heard before that someone so young should not feel the weight of the world upon them; this is for adults. But the problem is that the majority of "adults" are merely infants who have never been reborn and never directly faced the voice of dualism, the shadow, which constantly tears one from his birthright of understanding. What should we do with a truth that cannot be told? When will the movement take place?

The sense of urgency, I know, we all feel. Change is predicted to be so close, but is this the case? If not then I have an idea for the future involving the integration of the Social Sciences, including Jungian psychology into the general education curriculum. If anything, it was the Social Sciences which moved me towards awareness. I think that when more people have an understanding of the powers of society, it's influences on them and their own psyche then a new rush of ideas will come and a sense of urgency will be founded.

I could go on, but what I'm asking is, do you feel a sense of responsibility towards modern man? Do you truly believe this is the next step in thinking? And if so, what should we do with the fact that we are already there?

I don't want to be lost in this hopeless responsibility but at the same time I don't want to give in and let things go by me until it is my average mindset to simply ignore. It's a cliché, but when will we come together in organized form? The internet holds vast numbers of us, unordered and uncalculated and all that is needed is to make these people as one.

I'm young and full of hope which is ready to be nullified.

Advice: Don't get cocky. Just because you think you've seen the light doesn't mean you have

I mean that sincerely not in a mean sense. Live by example, help who you can, and enjoy your life. The weight of the world doesn't belong on your shoulders.

Yes I do feel responsibility to help the world. It would be easier if had a more charismatic personality like Joe Rogan. But... if it all seems too overwhelming, the best advice I could give is to clean your own house if you feel trapped, like you can't reach others. You will be the best person you can be for others only if you are of sound mind and spirit. Lead by example if you cannot lead any other way. If you feel overwhelmed, that's what will eminate, that's what others will take from you. If you are open and free, people will see it and you may find yourself reaching people indirectly. It may only be a small step, but at least it is a step in a good direction.

I'll start off with a piece of my story

At age twelve, I thrived off of epitomies and epiphanies and "thought/feelings" - as i described the utter sense of knowledge, and awareness there of, that I could gain from just disconnecting myself from reservations, opinions, and general feelings I might have and really taking an objective view point of myself, others, human nature and religion, and hypothetical situations and personalities and the mix.. in order to better myself and be more responsible, spiritual, fun and loving, and intellectual.

In order to disconnect myself from my own views, well wasn't that hard, one, at such a young age, and further because I was always generally open-minded, willing, and honest. I felt a sense of serenity in my calm, rationalized, spiritual, SANE, objective mind frame. To me, in retrospect, I believe I was practicing a quasi-meditative state of mind, which proves to be beneficial for me in respect to my spiritual principles. But I also believe my personality couldn't flourish under my personal objectivity, I wouldn't consciously critique and inhibit but somehow that's what turnt outward. (Remember it's hard for me to be introspective of my past introspection, just as its hard to be aware of your awarness, pure consciousness in essence, I just gotta feel my way through and be patient and keep doing what works for me)

But I guess where this issue of responsibility for others really showed through for me was with my resentments towards my parents. Anger evolving into assertive aggression is really such a self defeating behavior.. I wanna say I dismissed my feelings and therefore any possibility for impulsivity simply so that I wouldn't have any learned behaviors from my father. I detached myself from any personalized connections with him, because he wasn't capable of being intimate (honest with himself) and I wanted to gain more out of my life, spiritually and emotionally as well, then he had even known to be possible.

People aren't readily apt to change. They are who they have know to be. To coerce everyone around you would take alot energy (spiritual, mental, emotional, physical), more than humanly possible actually. It would take a power greater than yourself to do so because you would need all the qualifications of a god to precicesly follow through. The one idea that you should hold onto is that in this world, you only have control over yourself. Set an example if you may, as the others wrote and just try to live your own life to the fullest. And besides, you can awlways learn a little sumthin extra,

"Being knowledgeable is an addiction, except the high never has to fade and the supply is everlasting."

By no means have I "seen the light", whatever that vague image brings to your mind, hardly done with adolescence yet & I'm looking forward to growth. I've been away from the forums for a while, my social life has taken some turns in such a way that I was completely distracted from saving the world due to my mind being occupied by a girl - more or less complex? Heh, I'm realising that I'm simply nothingness.

MIR - Your levels of introspection are admirable. My relationship to my father is similar - this often came up in mushroom trips. He has seemed a bit more glowing since his long awaited re-union with the psychedelics on Christmas day, he took to DMT quite well.

Thanks for the advice & sorry for late replies