POLL: Did psychedelics change your life?

[Carl-Richard]

Answer based on the first thing that pops into your mind.

Edited 2 hours ago by Carl-Richard

[Rigel]

Here’s a few ways psychs changed my life(no enlightenment)

-Gave me courage to pursue music instead of settling for the boring shit literally everyone in my life was pushing me to do for the sake of security.

-Thought me about human movement & biomechanics. I am now one of the few people on earth that understands how to walk. At least in my city lol I didn’t observe every people alive.

-Pushed me away from smoking & destroying my lungs(I smoked a pack in my entire life). Made me realize that nothing matters without health.

Psychedelics revealed the importance of those things & confirmed that they are worth pursuing. I obviously spent thousands of hours focusing & working on these sober.

[Eskilon]

Anyone who says psychedelics didnt change their lives either has some genetic condition or are seriously deluded in their self-concept beyond repair at the moment of experience.

Edited 6 hours ago by Eskilon

[Carl-Richard]

9 minutes ago, Eskilon said:

Anyone who says psychedelics didnt change their lives either has some genetic condition or are seriously deluded in their self-concept beyond repair at the moment of experience.

😂 @Schizophonia

Edited 6 hours ago by Carl-Richard

[TimStr]

1 hour ago, Eskilon said:

Anyone who says psychedelics didnt change their lives either has some genetic condition or are seriously deluded in their self-concept beyond repair at the moment of experience.

It's also an option that they just failed to integrate their experience adequately and therefore didn't get any life changing effects.

[TimStr]

@Carl-Richard This question requires way more nuance than a simple yes of no!

If you would ask me if psychedelics mindfucked me in ways I couldn't even anticipate and revealed how malluable my experience is and how few things I can take for granted in life, I would say HELL YEAH!

If you'd ask me if I undertook tremendous work to change my behavior and my attitude to life as a result of a psychedelic exsperience, I would answer: Maybe some of the times. There were many trips, that despite having them approached as a serious conscious endeavour turned out to be mostly recreationally entertaining and didn't affect some of my deeper inner mechanics in the long run.

If you would ask me if psychedelics produced any change in my life by themselves without conscious effort on my end, I would answer: Definately not!

After a solid 10 years of regular tripping at least 3 - 25 times each year, I have to admit, that all those trips produced way fewer lasting changes than I was telling myself all along. This became more and more clear especially during the last couple of months. I hate to say it but intense inquiry and meditation retreats and even just deeply educating myself on an intellectual level seem to have produced a lot more lasting changes in my life. The couple of deep trips that shifted a great deal for me were also during intense retreat settings so it's hard for me to seperate out the effect of the psychedelic from the rest.

Then again we could talk about weather life changes are even the point of tripping and consciousness work of if it's more about gaining experience or understanding.

You asked for the first thing that popped into my head. After 10 years of experience, at this moment, it's a NO. Maybe I change my mind at some point.

Edited 2 hours ago by TimStr

[Schizophonia]

3 hours ago, Carl-Richard said:

😂 @Schizophonia

People exaggerate the benefits attributed to psychedelics because they need an excuse to take them, because their system demands it for some reason; but people who change after a psychedelic experience are remarkably rare, most of the time you just return to normal after the trip, often the same day.

[Schizophonia]

3 hours ago, Eskilon said:

eriously deluded in their self-concept beyond repair at the moment of experience.

What do you mean

[Schizophonia]

Once I had a Nazi trip on LSD lol; I imagined that we white people were all united and that our destiny was to go to camps where we'd dance around a fire etc.

I had third-person visuals of myself with a girl and I was thinking, "Aahhhhh yeaaaaah, that's white sensibilityyy, the real whiteee culture," and bs like that lol, with the "psychedelic trip" context; you know what I mean.

Edited 2 hours ago by Schizophonia

[Carl-Richard]

8 minutes ago, Schizophonia said:

People exaggerate the benefits attributed to psychedelics because they need an excuse to take them, because their system demands it for some reason; but people who change after a psychedelic experience are remarkably rare, most of the time you just return to normal after the trip, often the same day.

Lol. 

Get more testimonials people! He is still not convinced 😆

[Schizophonia]

3 minutes ago, Carl-Richard said:

Lol. 

Get more testimonials people! He is still not convinced 😆

75% of liars  

[UnbornTao]

5 minutes ago, Schizophonia said:

75% of liars  

[integral]

I don't understand the question. Leo has changed my mind more than psychedelics.

Leodelics. 

Edited 2 hours ago by integral

[Rigel]

Maybe we should be asking what change even is. Then it becomes a cesspool of relativity & you’ve been ever changing eternally at the same time as you’ve been remaining the same.

[Carl-Richard]

10 minutes ago, Rigel said:

Maybe we should be asking what change even is.

The beauty of the question is in how general it is.

Edited 2 hours ago by Carl-Richard

[Xonas Pitfall]

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