Comment by quickthrowman
8 months ago
I have taken LSD and mushrooms about a dozen times each. They’re just drugs. Drugs that mess with the way you perceive things, there’s nothing spiritual or profound about any of it. I very much enjoy hallucinogens but any ‘meaning’ or ‘spirituality’ about the experience is nonsense. I still think the experience itself has positive effects overall.
Meaning and spirituality are personal experiences, seems close minded to deny what others avowedly profess as their true first person experience.
It might be close minded, but it doesn’t mean I am incorrect. I’ve done enough varieties of drugs (multiple types of every class of recreational drugs) to know it’s just altering your brain chemistry to make you perceive things differently. There’s no higher meaning or purpose to tripping. Other people may believe there is, but I think they’re wrong and misinterpreting their experience due to what they’ve read and heard about hallucinogens.
Staying grounded when you’re doing powerful psychedelics is a good idea.
As an experiment, next time you trip, write down your ‘profound’ thoughts and then examine them after the trip is over.
My thoughts were that relationships and love are the true key to happiness and fulfillment in life. Those thoughts were integrated for sure.
Seems like you’re lost in the thought that scientific rationalism and spiritualism can’t co-exist. Look at definitions of the words meaning and spirituality and ponder why they’re universal across all “wrong” religions in your view.
I think It’s because those are true human experiences, regardless of their detachment from established religion or tropes. I don’t believe any religion but I do believe people have genuine awe and wonder and label it spirituality.
And to just go deny other people, sounds like a bummer to be around while tripping.
First, your experience is your experience.
Second, how do you define `meaning’ or `spirituality’?