Psychedelic Drugs

trudatness · 2013-12-07T09:46:29+00:00

Yeah, I've experienced intense states of self judgement while on psilocybin. Every negative feeling you're able to ignore in life, is unavoidable while tripping. It forces you to think about what's making you feel that way and how you can fix it.... kinda like an EXTREMELY intense therapy session.

trudatness · 2013-12-07T10:04:52+00:00

Eh... There are limits to everything.

Steve Jobs tripped on acid. I'd wager that had something to do with his visionary ability. However, I don't think he went on acid trips during his actual tenure as Apple CEO.

Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.

Well Steve was bullshitting somewhat, seeing that his offshoring policies had zero to do with putting things into the stream of history and of human consciousness and everything to do with paying people $1.50/hr to make $600 phones. Steve was cold-blooded ruthless when he needed to be.

I certainly can attest that using LSD a handful of times when you are college-aged can reveal some otherwise unknown truths to you. However, if you make LSD a recreational habit there's probably a good chance you'll end up hurting yourself in some fashion. It's not wise to soak your brain in that chemical excessively. I'd say anything more than 5 trips in your lifetime will cease having any beneficial effect and become a very risky roll of the dice in each instance.

When you are young you want to explore all mysteries and the drug mystery is one hell of a journey. You fashion yourself some sort of intellectual Aldous Huxley or Jim Morrison quoting Nietzsche and Blake as you obliterate societal constructs while traveling on your road paved of excess.

Then something happens...

You find yourself all of a sudden surrounded by darkness. The precepts of the social contract erode dramatically. After all, this was the effect you sought out. You wanted to smash through the barriers a corrupt society has placed in front of you - and succeeded in doing so - what you find on the other side is alarming. It's the freak show. It's not fun like the circus. It's a dark, soulless existence driven by pure unadulterated reactionary compulsion. You see it in every individual sharing your scene. You sought to free yourself from hypocrisy and corruption and now find yourself in a world dominated by hypocrisy and corruption - drug dealers, thieves, liars, addicts - all black-hearted hustlers of one sort or another.

You can't believe it. You have better origins than the filth you've come to be a part of, but you become stuck in it like a tar pit. It stains you. It intrudes into your being. It changes you. Eventually, it corrupts you.

I can tell you this much... If you survive relatively unscathed and after the necessary cure, manage to thrive... You will be the exception to the rule - the statistical outlier. Drugs are a heavy gamble when seeking wisdom. Even a successful gamble will still extract a price from you. Be cautious. It can be a tightrope akin to a razor's edge. Carry with you a healthy respect for the damage it can do to your life.

jsl2837 · 2013-12-07T16:34:39+00:00

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What is this?

ArtilleryCamel · 2013-12-07T17:18:31+00:00

You can assume anybody who doesn't think using psychedelic drugs can help with self improvement has never tried to. They can connect you to your inner self in ways that aren't otherwise possible. It can really be an eye opener and taking them moderately can increase your IQ and creativity but obviously too much is no good and you could end up with a lazy eye and talk to yourself regularly, with LSD anyways. And it's easy to become a lazy stoner if you smoke every day. Just don't take too much at one time, too often, or think that you're going to find God if you trip hard enough, and you'll have a positive experience.

ozymodeus · 2013-12-08T00:48:05+00:00

I have done psychedelics in the past and have a profound appreciation for them but I am worried they cause people to focus too much on emotion than logic. If you think about it psychedelic use exploded at about the same time feminism started picking up steam. Pretty much all of the hippie flower children were feminists. It is human instinct for men to care about womens emotions and women to care about womens emotions, and it is my strong opinion that acid exaggerated this. Rational thought is put on hold when you're tripping balls and the emotional connections stay pretty strong for long after you come down.

I recommend only doing psychedelics when you are completely alone and you don't have to worry about what other people are thinking of you. You wouldn't want a whole bunch of friends and strangers sitting in on a therapy session would you? There are great benefits to be had from exploring your psyche in the intense way psychedelics offer. But they are a terrible party drug and should be approached with a highly critical, undistracted mind.

christiefrontdrive · 2013-12-07T21:41:59+00:00

DXM has been by far the most beneficial psychedelic/disassociative drug I've ever taken and has improved my life tremendously. Don't let the lolrobitussin crowd fool you, it's serious shit.

nuferasgurd · 2013-12-08T16:16:49+00:00

Be sure to check out /r/drugs before you make the plunge!

Radical_unit · 2013-12-07T10:41:53+00:00

Drug induced state is not a self improvement. Will you call drinking coffee or alcohol self improvement? Ha ha

Title	Psychedelic Drugs
Author	dawg826
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Date	December 7, 2013 6:01 AM UTC (12 years ago)
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