The pull into the abyss of your mind through altered states of consciousness. That pull can feel like your being enticed gently. It can feel like someone yelling for you to take the leap. It can feel all consuming. Like enlightenment is just one trip away. Happiness is right around the corner! Right? Well... that's the pull.

How about the push? Feeling like it will be all to much. I am not ready, I have uttered to myself at times. Not right now. Fear? Not so much that than something that just says stay away. Unwelcomed. Sound familiar to anyone? Shut out? Treated harshly? Maybe even some boredom? So... that is the push.

I cannot encompass what the pull and push is for me through my life with any words. It is something that is very deep. A feeling that is indescribable as many psychedelic journeys I have had. I can't place my finger on it.

I feel like it is about integration. New lessons will not be presented until old lessons are learned. I have quite a bit of psychedelic experience and have felt this pull and push the entire time. It is not disconcerting to me at all. I understand it in my own way. I get it.

I would be interested in hearing about the pull and push psychedelics has in your life. Please share with me what you can make of it. What does it means to you? Do you go balls to the wall with the pull? Are you on break from psychedelics from the push?

This topic interests me. I would really like to hear what you all think?

Breathe in, breathe out
Heart contracts, heart expands
We speak, we listen
We love, we argue
We sleep, we run
Psychedelics push, psychedelics pull
The music plays and the music stops
And we are left listening to the silence
Framed by the sounds that preceded it
Or is it the music that is framed by the silence?

Psychedelics are just portals or windows into that great breathing something living beneath the surface of the Earth, or that great singing thing from outer space. Sometimes we need to hear its call, and other times, we need to sing back, back into the rhythm of our lives.

Very nice. It's the yo-yo of it. RS references the tidal nature of it all. Every thing is rhythmic, some faster, some slower. Polarities come to mind. Always a push-pull between opposites, which indeed define each other.

With psychedelics a useful metaphor has the individuated, embodied, ego-dense, meat-man at one pole. Whilst the other(pole) might be referenced as unitive, disembodied, ego-less, spirit-man. It is twixt these "points" that our lives unfold, typically more proximate the former during consensus states of awake consciousness. Like EVERYTHING in manifest reality, it must exist on the spectrum betwixt poles to have CONTRAST. For some reason(Western perspective?), I reference the former "left" and latter "right", just a convention.

What I have found interesting is that the "pull" into the psych informed state seems to grow between sessions. As I've aged the, "push" becomes stronger after an intense journey. Satiating the pull, often for many months, or even a few years.

Another fascinating sensibility I often experience is that as a strong trip is initialized, I'll be pushed strongly to the left pole, becoming acutely aware of my biologic morph and it's functioning. When this sensibility is strong it often heralds an intense journey unfolding and with it, fear/apprehension/anxiety/reticence toward the impending "rocket launch" toward the right pole, ego-dissolution!

Peace