Originally posted by ChronicLeakyHahaha, nicely summed up. I think psychedelics should be used with shamans, not just willy nilly at parties and so on (though i totally accept that this is amazingly fun!) I'm keen to try fasting and drumming to attempt to achieve these experiences without the use of drugs, though having said that i do occasionally like taking short cuts. 😉
I think in retrospect I'm with you on the salvia issue (and I'd agree even more if I'd fallen sideways!) and not your housemate. That said, it was my first trip and I think it's a good introduction to psychedelics because it is short and manageable but also eerie enough to warn one that some aspects of digging around in one's like mental plumbing with a chemical tour guide are to be taken a little seriously.
Read Carlos Castenadas' " The Teachings of Don Juan" at least to the point where he stops using the drugs, Somewhere in the second book.
Things to remember for using LSD:
Be with real good friends.
Predetermined location before ingesting, hopefully someplace you can be loud or free enough to take your clothes off.
Stay away from acid, pure lsd is better, sometimes its' cut with speed.
Serious group discussion can be enlightning, once you can get passed the giggles, which takes self control, possibly meditation.
Take a lot of vitamins, you'll need to replenish energy afterwards.
Dropped acid 'several' times in my life...aged 15-19...don't touch anything (bar the alcohol, national stereotypes aren't often wrong 😵) these days.
If your state of mind is in any way inclinating to negativity/depression, don't even bother. Dropping acid on your own is an extremely poor idea too. LSD gave me my best experience, but I've seen it hit a guy badly...
The 'worst' was salvia. I had a housemate who sold the stuff (legally) at festivals. Not being fully aware the potency (and having scoffed at its supposed 'power'😉, I took perhaps the strongest band, having been drinking...at a point in my life where I had taken no marijuana/LSD/pills etc... for years.
Naturally, I got caught out, and fell into an unreality where I believed that I had regressed to a single-cell organism. Multiplying out. I got both the bad and the good trip. In fact, it was in the 'bad unreality' that I believed I was being taken from Earth for having not fulfilled my potential - a little like a Red Dwarf episode! Except, damned scary. 10 minutes later, good unreality kicks in. Very difficult to describe.
Of course, some of the usual "perfect visions of the past" (in which an old dwelling/setting/conversation/page in a picture encyclopedia is remembered in surprising detail) associated with tripping occurred, as well as some paranoia/mistaking a friend for a dead old friend, profuse sweating, and 'profound visions'. Very embarrassing, I will never touch psychedellic drugs again. Good servants, but bad masters - the lot of them.
Horribly humiliating to get done over by salvia.
Originally posted by Bobson 94My favorite is Brake Cleaner, available at your local auto supply. I'd advise Everyone to try it.
Dropped acid 'several' times in my life...aged 15-19...don't touch anything (bar the alcohol, national stereotypes aren't often wrong 😵) these days.
If your state of mind is in any way inclinating to negativity/depression, don't even bother. Dropping acid on your own is an extremely poor idea too. LSD gave me my best experience, but I've seen it hit ...[text shortened]... d masters - the lot of them.
Horribly humiliating to get done over by salvia.
GRANNY.
Ah yes, to be at Woodstock again. We had our ways to Change the world; like dropping acid while rolling in mud containing our own bodily fluids. Listening to words of wisdom sung by 'Country Joe and the Fish'. We were sooooo cooool! Good thing non of us ever became politicians. La..lala..lala!
GRANNY.
There are many varieties of LSD and the one you chose determines the experience. The more arsenic in it, the more brilliant colors, but you get a back ache with it. Unfortunately today does not offer variety. In fact, most of it is just cheap speed and whatever else is at hand and they call it acid. I'm an old man now, but I am ever grateful to have been able to experimented with and enjoyed acid in its day. A git of window pane and usually a hit of blotter (any kind) and you had yourself a great experience. Stay away from the crack. Its bad bad stuff.
Originally posted by Evil Pawn 666Yes indeed how i miss the arsenic! I've actually turned to chasing rainbows and autumn leaves to get the same affect. It makes my stinkin miserable life more bearable. I've even taken up white water canoeing to help me make it thru the day, but it can't compare to sitting on my dead az dropping arsenic and, like, groooving.La..LALA..LALA
There are many varieties of LSD and the one you chose determines the experience. The more arsenic in it, the more brilliant colors, but you get a back ache with it. Unfortunately today does not offer variety. In fact, most of it is just cheap speed and whatever else is at hand and they call it acid. I'm an old man now, but I am ever grateful to have be ...[text shortened]... any kind) and you had yourself a great experience. Stay away from the crack. Its bad bad stuff.
GRANNY.
Originally posted by shavixmirOther than that it was a great trip, right?
Yes.
Not anymore.
When I was waaaaaay younger than I am today (living in Crawley of all places), I used to drop acid. It never really done much. Low quality English crap, basically.
Then when I returned to Holland... oh, way before you were born, I got some LSD, took it and ended up tripping the light fantastic, talking with Gandalf and...
Well ...[text shortened]... fought with a brain eating alien for eight consecutive hours.
Never repeated it after that.