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My experiences
I honestly think the experience I am about to share with you is a result of many changes in my life. Safe, limited use of psychedelic drugs, frequent meditation, and extensive reading have all been a catalyst for these changes.
The other morning, I was sitting in the DMV. I typically avoid places like this due to their overwhelming ability to frustrate me. However, this morning was unlike any other. I sat patiently waiting for my number to be called. I lost my sense of time as I observed details with the a curious passion that I have never known. I watched people, their faces, their interactions. I listened to sounds. They were all blissful. Naturally, this created a euphoric feeling in me.
This experience happened yet again as I sat in my History of Civ lecture hall, waiting for the proctor to begin. As I observed people and studied their faces, I felt as if my judgment had been totally suspended. They were no longer "ugly" or "good looking", they were just entities that I could observe objectively.
Have any of you had experiences like this? It is said that LSD temporarily inhibits part of your hippocampus, more specifically the part the uses "shortcuts" to go "small furry object, must be a cat" in an attempt to run more efficiently. Because this area is inhibited, the most mundane of things will seem newer and score higher on the "novelty factor"....
The other morning, I was sitting in the DMV. I typically avoid places like this due to their overwhelming ability to frustrate me. However, this morning was unlike any other. I sat patiently waiting for my number to be called. I lost my sense of time as I observed details with the a curious passion that I have never known. I watched people, their faces, their interactions. I listened to sounds. They were all blissful. Naturally, this created a euphoric feeling in me.
This experience happened yet again as I sat in my History of Civ lecture hall, waiting for the proctor to begin. As I observed people and studied their faces, I felt as if my judgment had been totally suspended. They were no longer "ugly" or "good looking", they were just entities that I could observe objectively.
Have any of you had experiences like this? It is said that LSD temporarily inhibits part of your hippocampus, more specifically the part the uses "shortcuts" to go "small furry object, must be a cat" in an attempt to run more efficiently. Because this area is inhibited, the most mundane of things will seem newer and score higher on the "novelty factor"....
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Im sorry to say that your path to enlightenment is not so ingenous.
Drugs would only lead you to a false sense of advancement and eventually attachment.
I've seen it , whether its with the Hare Krishnas in the west, the Ananda Margis or with the Rajneesh disciples.
The most prominent exponent of that idea was Timothy Leary , a former Harvard professor, in the 60s. He just turned into an old grumpy sod belonging to a fringie society who left this world with no obvious practical contribution to the society at large.
Dont use it, besides drugs are illegal.
What Timothy Leary promoted was a world of people, young and old, living in some sort of utopia while under the influence of psychedelics. I took a drug, went on a trip, and came back with an experience. Disingenuous or not, that's my story...