I guess I just feel like sharing this. My hope is that maybe someone who's been struggling like I have will see this. There's a lot of dark places that you can trap yourself in, I know, I have a bad habit of doing that.

I'm extremely sensitive to psychedelics (as well as being a generally very "out-there" and introverted individual) and my last mushroom trip did something very powerful to me. At first I couldn't tell if it was powerful in a good or bad way, and it seems it could go either way at times, but ultimately I think it's connected me to something very important that I just need some time to settle into.

I wrote this just now. I think it sums up pretty well what psychedelics have taught me. It came about as advice to myself, but this is the philosophy that arose naturally for me just in meditating and being here, now.



Is existence really such a heavy, dreary matter? What benefit is gained by looking at it like that? If you make yourself such an important, weighty thing, you attach yourself to expectations and events. Everything then seems to happen TO YOU; *your* suffering, *your* disappointments, etc. If you lighten up and let go, things arise, they pass, and you remain still, watching them come and go. That is living! Then the true beauty of everything hits you and you wonder how everything ever got so mixed up to begin with. A smile creeps across my face just typing this.

It only took me all my life to figure this out. And I still struggle, a lot; however, I'm now aware of this level of being that I would venture to call "sanity." Bless psychedelics for the deeper perspective they give us of our lives, without them I might never have seen through to the "transcendental ground of inner peace," or whatever nonsense words you want to call it.

I feel the deepest empathy for you all, really! Good night!

Hello Bozo, i can see what you are getting at!

- I have had similar thoughts also being a similar thoughtful, introspective type.

- One thing i realised after returning to the UK after my years of travelling over Asia and latin America is this. That the way our system is laid down, is designed to slow us down and pacify us. For example, the idea of working monday to friday 9-5pm is silly when perhaps the job could be done in 3 days working less hours,etc.
Then there is you've pretty much only got friday and saturday night to have fun-or you missed out. Oh and don't tell your friends you didn't get lucky either!!

- Basically western life insults our intelligence!

-Of course you can take the mindset that yep, this kinda living only allows a certain amount of "me" time, the rest being taken up by work, or other dull tasks. Thus, if you wanna rise above this you have to take action to make your life the life you so wish to live. Leave that dull job, travel, try new things,etc...get out more, life is about making new experiences. think positive THEN DO POSITIVE, ETC...

the best way to enlightenment is to lighten-up ~Bashar

this is all you'll ever need..

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awesome link christian, I really love this one

Your words ring true to me. "Consensus society," or whatever you want to term it, is a series of traps designed to snare us in petty desires and dull our consciousness. As long as we're not conscious we have a choice, we'll continue to act as though it's not there. It's curious to me why a planet of luminous beings like us has tied itself up in such a terrible mess. Our birthright is so much more than what we allow ourselves.



I like this one.



Yes, a classic! I love McKenna. "This is how magic is done. It's done by hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering that it's a feather bed." <--

That's one of the biggest revelations for me. Death is toothless. Death is a sheep in wolf's clothing.

It reminds me of a quote from Robert Anton Wilson that I've always liked:
"There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped. We are all absolutely free. If everybody could go into dhyana at will, nobody could be controlled — by fear of prison, by fear of whips or electroshock, by fear of death, even. All existing society is based on keeping those fears alive, to control the masses. Ten people who know would be more dangerous than a million armed anarchists."

This is a good attitude to take, positivity is the key to everything.