One powerful change that psychedelics offered me was what I can only describe as the repossession of reality itself. The realization that the world is no less MY world than it is anyone else's. The government doesn't own the world, nor do the scientists, or the Catholic church, or Bill Gates. Before I took psychedelics, my role in life was to try to conform as best as possible to a rigid structure that was entirely outside of my own sphere of influence. It was to strain myself to climb through the absurd and treacherous obstacle course which was the world that OTHER people had created solely for themselves -- the people, whom, by some stroke of luck, managed to find themselves the Keepers of the World! My greatest aspiration was, no more and no less, than to ceaselessly and tiresomely march forward at the cracking whips lashing from behind, lashing from the hand of the Superior.

And then, through the repeated dissolution and reconstruction of self through psychedelics, I slowly began to realize that the world isn't an obstacle, menace, or threat to me at all -- it's a gift. I, for the first time, began to see the world as a sculptor sees stone, and a painter sees canvas. Underneath the flat surface of material reality was an endless spectrum of possibility. Fundamentally, beneath all of our meaningless abstractions of ownership and property and governance, all of humankind shares everything under the sky. And, beneath our certification of "real" knowledge with degrees and doctorates and peer-reviewed studies, we all possess the deepest truth of all, which is that of our own existence! Each of our perspectives is equally valid, and none of us deserve a greater authority than the next. I don't have to feel guilty for taking control of my own life.

Psychedelics taught me that my imagination is truly the only limit on what I can make a reality.

Here's to that, for better or for worse.

This is beautiful!

Thanks for posting such an eloquent reminder.

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Great post. This is something we would all do well to remember!

Very well articulated , I am coming to the same realizations
My life has become better as a result of this new found perspective
Thank you for posting

Yes, yes, yes, yes! Related to this (my version of the message):

Teach the children well.

The world is not what it seems or what we were told. In EVERYTHING be mindfully more open minded and more skeptical.

Try to speak and act in ways that lessen suffering and increase education.

There's no time for games. Be honest, even if it hurts or feels risky.

Every single breath is exquisitely sweet.

The message is penetrating and more folks are embracing it but it is taking longer than anyone wants it to.

Secrets = fail. Transparency = win. Sharing the love includes sharing the knowledge. Again, even if it hurts or feels risky.

Trust people to find their own way and try not to condemn them for being themselves.

Peace & Love

Here here!

Break the chains of your mental prisons and realize that not only were there no chains there at all, but that you were lending your miraculous imaginal willpower to the psychotic delusions of repression that others seemed to foist on you... rather than dreaming up the beauty and joy which are your birthrights as a creative conscious being.

I'm glad that this little piece of writing resonated with you guys. =)