Hello fellow explorers!
So i decided to join the forum
i've only visited the site a handful of times over the past couple months as this is the year i finally started exploring my consciousness. Seems like a great friendly community. I am a member of a few non psychedelic forums and you guys definitely set a great example that everyone should follow. I should also mention that some of you are freaking poets
the way you describe your experiences suggests that whatever you are ingesting certainly helps with creative writing!
So a bit about me. Grew up in Scotland, a dark rainy place most of the time. Lived in a small town where there was and still is nothing to do! So we spent most of our time smoking cannabis and drinking very heavily, in fact by the time i was 17 my doctor told me i had alcoholic tendencies. Abusing herb and drink the way i did on a daily basis took its toll on me, the alcohol physically and the herb mentally, leaving me in very deep hole of a life.
When i was 20 i had an opportunity to escape to a life in France and i took it. I went from living in a small flat working a depressing store job to working with my hands outside in a beautiful climate (most of the year
) I started living a natural lifestyle which is what i had always wanted and what i needed at the time to quiet my mind. I spent over a year living on my own in a field surrounded by forest in an old gypsy wagon. Cooking on the campfire, laying in the hammock under the stars, that sort of thing! This time was a detox for me, a time to reset and get my head on straight. I will never go back to that lifestyle i had in Scotland, i no longer enjoy alcohol like i used to. I hardly touch it unless i am back in the UK visiting friends and family. I will however always love herb! I restrain myself to smoking only a few months of the year though otherwise i find it too easy to slip into a abusive relationship with it.
I had always wanted to try psychedelics. Liberty caps grew all over the golf course where i lived as a teen but i never made the effort. I was kind of afraid of them. I know better now but at the time i had been given a false representation of what a 'trip' actually might involve. After leaving my field camp i converted a small woodshed into a home, only a 5 minute walk through the forest surrounding my field. AND NOW I HAD INTERNET ACCESS! I had always been into conspiracy theories as a teen but over the past 5 years i have been heavily into ancient civilizations, especially the lost high civilization i believe existed on this planet. To cut things short as this is becoming a rant and a half, i noticed all ancient civilizations used and venerated psychedelics. This is a subject category of its own and it became a branch off of my fascination with these cultures. These plants, fungi, cacti ect all seemed to be a major part of life back then, as much so as alcohol is to western civilization today. So why are they outlawed? Well i have to quote the great Terrence Mckenna here, i'm sure you are all very familiar with the quote:
“Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.”
I firmly believe ancient civilizations were far more aware and spiritually evolved than we are today and their use of visionary states may be a key to understanding why that was. And possibly how they achieved some of the things they did. I also considered myself a spiritual person but i craved a spiritual experience. So in March this year i turned 26 and with that decided i wanted to delve into the time tested world of psychedelic fungi. By mid April i had procured and proceeded to munch down some shrooms and have been doing so at least 3 times a month since. I LOVE IT, AND THEY LOVE ME. At some point soon i will create another thread to detail some of my experiences, how its benefited me and how it has changed my outlook on life. But for now, i think that will do for my introductory post.
Cheers guys and if you got this far then thanks for taking the time to read my brief life story
