TheJan- Of course drugs do not have positive effects on life, duh....Just something that nature put here for us...Some people dabble, some are terrified,some let it control and ruin their life, and some die.The end result is never "good" But that doesnt take away the fact that they really effect your brain in many ways..This is just a topic concerning the human condition...Its life, we all are on our own paths...Just because you feel like your path is the right one does not mean it is the only one...And for the record I do not do drugs whatsoever anymore...and never was heavy into it...I am just not close minded to ideas and experiences..We are all human and not all the same....

(ideas and experiences does not mean "drugs" i mean ideas and experiences FYI lol

they thrill and overwhelm me with their potential! Rollerball pens! Fountain pens! I swoon!

The Doors of Perception, Aldous Huxley's 1954 book documenting his experiments with mescaline

Wow I am reading on this now... "Huxley had written that drugs were “toxic short cuts to self-transcendence "

Connections are amazing, everything i learn and believe have been discovered in myself first, I love how everything connects in this world, it makes me secure that there is a purpose....And that I am not crazy...lol...I don't think "crazy" even exsists anymore...IDK just rambling, and sharing lil snibits while im reading...I wish i started all this earlier...Okay here are some names of people who I have learned and read about and actually FELT....Tupac, Jim Morisson, Albert Einstein, Carl Jung, Oprah, Buddha, Mohammed Ali, Mark Twain, Diane Sawyer(bc of her special on the oprah network i really felt her),

Posted By krysty2 on 11 Mar 2011 12:23 PM

WilliamPoulin,

One more thing cuz i really connected most with your post, I was always terrified to do mushrooms, i knew it was dangerous territory..FOR ME..And i just didn't have the balls to dive into it, like i said i marijuana had me goin crazy enough! And i would love to read more of your notes..They are very similiar to what i have been discovering, "sober" mindly in my later years lol i am 27 years old now. We have similar minds.

 

Hey Krysty! I'm glad someone finally commented on what I had to say!

I am at work right now but would really love to keep discussing (Will do so.)

 

Tonight I am busy, though I might have time to go through some stuff and post more here.

 

If not... Soon enough!

 

I'll try to make my next post integral.

 

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To 'thejan'

... I don't want to alter my perception of the world with a substance. I simply don't know if it is me or the substance thinking what i think then. You see, i like being me. I'd rather reach a "higher state of mind" through meditation or learning to actively activate certain areas of my mind (which can be learned) than induce it with drugs.

 

I do not believe that taking drugs brings about a new state of mind, i.e. one that is not 'you.'

 

Now of course, I am not incouraging anyone to do drugs, that is up to you.

But.

 

When I am high I do not feel that I am not myself. My perception is not altered externally, simply inhanced... For everyone reacts differently. The thoughts I think while high are not 'new' or 'induced...'

 

I agree about reaching a higher state of mind through meditation etc, whole heartedly.

 

But I know, without the shade of a doubt, that drugs have allowed me to delve deeper into myself, into my surroundings (and, of course, all these new discoveries stay with you forever... They do not simply exist for the duration of the 'high.')

 

For example mush trips. Which I have maybe every 3 or 4 months...

Everytime, I wake up the next morning having learnt something. Having gone deeper. Having felt something new, having a deeper connection to the universe that surrounds me.

The important thing is that these discoveries are not temporary. They stay.

Anyway, I shall write more about all of this soon, and what I think.

Right now I do not have my papers with me.

William

 

 

 

Huxley's my favourite author - highly recommend Island. I recently dropped acid, which was quite an experience, I've had mushrooms once...never again, OH WHAT A TRIP! I smoked the herb regularly for about three years until bout a month ago - I find that it doesn't make me dumber. My grades have been on an incline the last two years, then again I'm doing a Master of Arts with Joint Honours (ahahaha) in English and History (for those keen tomatoes who are going, an MA? 21? 2 years? I go to Uni in Aberdeen, Scotland and so am doing a 4 year undergraduate MA e.g. a US or English BA but since the university is considered an 'Ancient' I come out with an MA, oh yes, it's free too! I love the UK for free tertiary education.). What I do find is that dope makes slower as well as more introverted and introspective (which is perhaps not terrible for an ENFP... who rushes things?), however, the clincher for me is that it makes me lazy, which is why I quit.

These three years have been invaluable, I have seen things in ways I never would have. A bit like Huxley and the folds of the drapes he so lovingly articulates in the Doors of Perception, the beauty is always there we just don't always see it - unless we learn how to.

NateRigler: I don't mean to moralize here, but it sounds like you ought to get some professional help to kick the addiction. If you get seizures it's pretty serious. It's not worth it, trust me. I've worked with people who've been addicted to drugs and the brain damage and psychosis they end up with if they even survive is NOT worth it! I have first hand experience treating this. Seek professional help now!!