Expanding your mind

Do you think it's possible to exspand your mind through drugs er whatnot? The quesion came to me during science the othe day when we were wearing these glasses that show you all the colors being reflected....... Is that possible in normal life?Do you follow? The thought of capacity exspancion facinates me and I want to test it now. Any thoughts?

 

I'm sure there's some super power mind hindus from india that can.

 

oh, its not even debatable. drugs make you use different parts of your brain. that's what they do.

 

no question about it

 

Yes, drugs definitely do expand your mind. If you decide to try it though, especially if you have expanding your mind as a reason you would do it, the way you think about things will change. I'm assuming you mean psychedelics, because most other drugs won't. Pot may change you slightly, but I doubt it makes any real difference...but be careful...expanding your mind is something you have to be ready for...just think about it, and make sure you can take reality completely changing in front of you and your ego being so completely broken and then rebuilt...
But I've had wonderful experiences with it, so if you want to, I reccomend it for sure...

 

Not even fucking close. Drugs are fun, but they aren't pill-form wisdom.

And anybody who thinks so needs to wisen up.

 

Probably descompressing the rainbow whit some part of your brain?
Its probably possible, i think.
maybe you can drive the little motor of your head and find its multiple mysteries

Duende

 

if you want to expand your mind, read a book

 

that was lame

 

That sounds like anti-drug propaganda

 

i love drugs, but i dont like to rely just on them to expand my mind...i do believe that reading books can help. reading books on drugs maybe...i never read books, so im braindead

 

drugs show you their reality... they bring you into their realms. Everyone whos had a trip on shrooms or LSD will tell you the same kind of stories from them... but which reality is to be taken in consideration? ... drugs aren't "all that" to mind expansion.

 

What you see on drugs is, by definition, not reality at all.

 

yep. i used to think they got me wiser in reality and all, but bah... was i wrong.

 

Of course, back in my heavy mushroom and acid and well pretty much everything I could get my hands on days I wasn't searching for enlightenment.

Just a good time.

 

what you see off drugs is by definition, not reality at all.

we don't see what's really going on, anyway. we perceive an illusion. this desk isn't actaully solid in the way that i think it is. it's entirely made of practically uncountable and undetectable other things and those other things get even more complicated with their own other things. they're even moving around and a lot of scientists speculate - and feel that they have proven - that they're randomly dodging in and out of our universe, among other things. we're not even sure if it ends there. when i look at this desk, i precieve something that i assume exists in the way that i experience it. is that not the ultimate illusion?

the whole feeling of mind expansion during or after a trip, for a lot of people, is how you've finally learned not to think that you know exactly what reality is. i think this is because you've just experienced a whole new reality (wich i think is the right of every human being to do and i just feel weird around people who haven't). there are no rights and wrongs or "way things are". not only is it all in your *head, butt no one can wisely claim to truely be sure of anything.

another part that i would attribute to be a form of "mind expansion" is the focus on detail that tripping can give you. i've taken it into my sober life and i still haven't gotten totally used to it. it's something i'm very thankful for.

"But they all do sort of the same thing, and that is rearrange what you thought
was real, and... hmm... they remind you of the beauty of pretty simple things.
You forget, because you're so busy going from A to Z, that there's... hmm ...
24 letters in beetween... "
You turn on... tune in... and you drop out...

* Timothy Leary *


fnord key: (fnords don't have keys. but this one does. so maybe they do. or maybe this is not a fnord. but a dronf)

*head butt

 

but, like with anything, it depends on the person doing it.

ever hear the story that when acid tests were being widely conducted, some scientists went to a zen monastery and, with permission (i assume), dosed a bunch of monks and the monks acted exactly as they would have under normal conditions? they continued gardening and going about their daily activites completely uneffected.

no one has told me this story is bunk, yet.

there was a zen monk that, after takin acid for the first time, said something to the effect of... you can practice 30 years of zen meditation or you can drop some acid.

again, not de-bunked in my world, yet.

 

You know what, just because you didnt get out of drugs what some people did, doesnt mean you have to deny what they felt....

 

When they're glamourizing a drug as enlightenment, then yes, I do. If people seek out drugs, then go ahead, its your life. But encouraging people to take harmful drugs with detrimental long-term effects for a false concept? Sounds fucking shady to me.

 

Don't give me this pseudo-buddhist bullshit.