Enoon wrote:I've heard many people suggest that lsd is not as spiritual as mushrooms or dmt, however I find it is an excellent tool in psychological investigations of the self and can be very spiritual if the trip is properly prepared.
Hi Enoon, nice to meet you
thanks for the welcome.
When I think back, the majority of my LSD trips were definitely when I was much less aware of the importance of set & setting and I probably ruined any spiritual aspects which may have occurred through wrong set & setting.
I'm still open to the idea of trying it again and preparing properly for the inner journey but only if the universe presents the opportunity to me.
Enoon wrote:In any case I'm interested in how you see yourself in the position of teacher. Do you see yourself as a translator from the universe to a more humanly understandable language?
I think the term "teacher" probably confuses a lot of people. Everybody on this planet is a teacher in some way, shape or form. Simply the act of you living your day to day life can teach other people whom are observant a whole world of things.
The way in which I view myself as a teacher is simply thus; I seem to be able to absorb knowledge of all forms fairly easily and quickly, and I have a tendency to retain the majority of it. I would also say I have decent communication skills, have the ability to get along with all kinds of different people easily, and have a deep desire to simply help others in any way, shape or form that I can.
Add this blend into a few psychedelic fueled inner journeys where I've been shown my role in the grand scheme of the universe (don't get me wrong, I'm no guru or shaman or spiritual leader or some supreme teacher, I'm an insignificant spec of dust in the end) and again added into my personal experiences of people randomly drifting to me in life, people of all colors and religions and ages and asking me all sorts of questions, I have come to the realization that I am here simply to teach. This doesn't make me some supreme intelligence or above anybody else, I believe everybody is a born genius and we're just taught how not to be through our various layers and multiple years of conditioning.
My main fuel for wanting to teach people is a combination of the suffering I have had to endure in this incarnation and more importantly the suffering that I have had to watch others endure. I used to be in the worst place mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually to the point I would have loved to kill myself if I had the balls to do so.
After my own personal "awakening" (de-conditioning from society to some extent) I realized that the source of all suffering in people is misunderstanding, ignorance, a simple lack of information. I believe that I can share some of this information that people are lacking and help to expand their viewpoints on whatever personal issues they're going through as I have had to do the same for myself and various friends etc.
I can also teach people about "metaphysical" things in the sense that I can share my personal experiences and my personal beliefs and nothing more. Take from that what they will it doesn't bother me in the slightest. In that sense I suppose you could sort of say I can translate "higher" knowledge into "lower" forms of human expression, but that's not particularly my personal viewpoint.
Pandora wrote:Many things I disagreed personally with but I certainly respect your opinions and that you took the time to express them in a very readable form. I cannot help but wonder what you may have to teach me as a nearly 45 year old woman, but I am wide open to suggestions - I've learned a lot from folks half my age here.
Nice to meet you Pandora! I greatly respect the fact that you are capable of independent thinking and that you're not ashamed to let me know that your personal views are not in alignment with my own, and yet you are even more respecting in the sense that you didn't pass judgement, something I greatly appreciate seeing in a community.
Who knows, perhaps in time even you may have something to learn from me, I can tell that I have things to learn from you
Pandora wrote:Please take a good look around - there's a HUGE amount to see here. . .
By the way, ever extracted your own DMT? If not or even if so, check those links (such as wiki for extraction teks) in the upper right hand corner of your forum pages...
I have been a long term browser of the nexus, only recently have I decided that perhaps I may have something to share with the community and so here I am
There definitely is a wealth of information here.
I am yet to extract my own DMT, funny you should ask as I am currently in the process of trying to learn about which Acacia's I may be able to find in my area and how to properly identify them, and I thoroughly believe if I am meant to find it then it will come to me, whether it be through the form of a recently destroyed tree from a storm or a car crash or some beautiful branches that have fallen off due to animal or human activity etc
I am currently in the process of reading through some of the extraction teks on the wiki to get a general idea of how the overall process works, having a very limited understanding of chemistry. It is quite intriguing to me, and I cannot wait until I have the opportunity arise to extract and create my own DMT.
Alright I've rambled on long enough I think, lovely to meet both of you and I hope to see you around
Love & Light