In Albert Hofmann's famous LSD: My Problem Child, he discusses his own puzzlement at discovering that LSD had become a widely used recreational drug. When I first read his book, I had only experienced a single acid-trip, and thought he was a bit naive not to see the recreational appeal of psychedelics. Having experienced more varied and intense since that time, it took me very little time indeed to come to sympathise with Dr Hofmann. This is true for many friends and fellow psychonauts who have experienced these chemicals more than a few times. I hesitate to even call them drugs, for they don't get me stoned or inebriated: they simply seem to be prying the hinges from my consciousness.

This is simply a post intended to ask who else feels this way. I have long since given up trying to 'have fun' on psychedelics; I have no idea who would want to party on acid; and so forth. The intense and revelatory experience of travelling through the diaphanous exhalations of my own brain are more important to me than partying with others, which frankly seems to be utterly masturbatory. I do indulge myself with marijuana, but I've given up any other kinds of inebriation, namely alcohol, in the wake of my psychonautics. The last of these is consistent with LSD-use, but my real question is whether others have experienced a similar phenomenon: introduction to psychedelics through drug-culture, followed by subsequent dissociation from the drug-culture through psychedelics. I'm curious, because, as I said, I can't bring myself to call them drugs any more.

In Albert Hofmann's famous LSD: My Problem Child, he discusses his own puzzlement at discovering that LSD had become a widely used recreational drug. When I first read his book, I had only experienced a single acid-trip, and thought he was a bit naive not to see the recreational appeal of psychedelics. Having experienced more varied and intense since that time, it took me very little time indeed to come to sympathise with Dr Hofmann. This is true for many friends and fellow psychonauts who have experienced these chemicals more than a few times. I hesitate to even call them drugs, for they don't get me stoned or inebriated: they simply seem to be prying the hinges from my consciousness.

This is simply a post intended to ask who else feels this way. I have long since given up trying to 'have fun' on psychedelics; I have no idea who would want to party on acid; and so forth. The intense and revelatory experience of travelling through the diaphanous exhalations of my own brain are more important to me than partying with others, which frankly seems to be utterly masturbatory. I do indulge myself with marijuana, but I've given up any other kinds of inebriation, namely alcohol, in the wake of my psychonautics. The last of these is consistent with LSD-use, but my real question is whether others have experienced a similar phenomenon: introduction to psychedelics through drug-culture, followed by subsequent dissociation from the drug-culture through psychedelics. I'm curious, because, as I said, I can't bring myself to call them drugs any more.

as i discovered most of these compounds while following the Grateful Dead, i have a very hard time imagining them without recreation being involved... dancing off 10 pounds in an lsd frenzy, to actual vibrating strings, followed by a quiet molecule session at the tent, with maybe a balloon too... having a high time, living the good life...

as far as i know, there is no law natural or otherwise against spirituality & fun inhabiting the same headspace... i find them to be incredible partners, in fact...

For me shrooms and acid are both recreational, I've never had anything even close to a spiritual experience from either of them, i normally spend my mushrooms trips wondering about in fields with my mates and acid just makes me think about stuff in strange ways. I do them both for shits and giggles.

I don't put either of them in the same league as DMT or Aya, i do neither of these for shits and giggles as they scare the begeezes out of me and they have both shown me ineffable things that I can't approach in a recreational manner.

However I haven't done shrooms in 7-8 years so that might change next month when the little fellas start to pop up.

spirituality can mean a lot of different things to different people; but yeah, a psychedelic experience doesn't necessarily have to be a spiritual experience.

I can only speculate how we are given such reportedly divine gifts as the fabled "Soma", and somehow, even though it became an integral part of ancient religion for thousands of years, dissapeared out of history without even so much as its main ingrediant still identifiable.