Reply #18: Halucinogens are a sacred tool indeed [View All]

They have a place in self-discovery, and unfortuntately, their legal
status, has made education regarding proper use rather thin.

The various chemical means, serve to stop the internal dialog, that
one is in direct communion with ones enlightened inner awareness.
This can be very disconcerting, if the person is living a huge lie,
and often, this can cause a casual user a bad trip, if they have not
respected the "experience". In this regard, taking shrooms and
heading off to a night of drinking at clubs can be a misuse,
unfortuntately such things happen when all substances get lumped in
to the category of "drugs" that get you f**ked up.

Yet if one respects the spirit of the substance, and the sacredness
of inner exploration, tripping can change one's life. It certainly
did so for me, once upon a time, realizing that there was so much
more to human awareness than i had thus far awakened to; and that
the lucid states of tripping are frankly more sane than the mental
trips people live in most of the time.

Cannabis, can as well, be a soft-trip, for someone who finds the
harder trips too strong. So much depends on the weed, and the sprit
of its growing, and harvesting. Best if a very conscious person has
grown the plant from seed as a sacrament. Consciousness being very
vey very subtle, the vibes from the cannabis plant can affect the
trip. Mostly, though, this does not count, unless the taker of
said drugs s already treating the whole thing as very sacred.

In india, before a yogi partakes of a chillum (cannabis - very strong), they say "Bom Shiva". "May the god of illusion awaken
me". It seems that our trash culture has taken the drugs out of
their sacred setting and rather quaffs them down between bottles of
lone star. (not you indigo, but culture).

For a meditator who feels their life stuck in a rut, i would
recommend a shroom trip. Take a trusted friend to a sacred wilderness
area where you will encounter no people. Have your friend block all
people from access to you while you are tripping, as people are
toxic with their mind-states. Then offer a prayer to awakening that
may the benevolent forces of the universe, god, nirvana, or whatever
you call it, guide you in your vision quest... as you take the
substance.

One following this path will get 1000 times more out of tripping, and
may not ever do it again.... its a real life changing thing if
respected well... very positive, profound and intense.

We agree indigo, what concerns me more, is that ANYONE can read
these threads, and misread them, if we are not careful to warn folks
to treat sacred consciousness altering substances as just that.
People (some) have great respect for firearms, and yet the same
respect somehow is culturally lost when it comes to consciousness
altering..