I started doing drugs about a year ago. I've done all the designer drugs and street drugs and ate a lot of acid. And now Ive convinced myself that there is some great American Revolution coming and I'm gonna lead it. I actually believe this and have convinced a small handful of close friends. Does any one else see the revolution coming? I'm starting to wonder lately, but its already started. That's not everything though, in the last two months Ive changed the way I think about everything in life. I have this weird idea about out bodies and our brains and how they formed a symbiotic relationship. I don't believe in god any more but still believe in intelligent design. I think every person on the planet has a type of 6th sense, or at the very least we emit energy into our surroundings and can learn to pick up on other peoples energy. The weirdest thing though only lasted for about a month. I was convinced that my brain was turning into pure energy. That phase passed though. I have also came to certain conclusions about weird things. I no longer believe in the possibility of random events, and this is because I believe in the idea of infinity. Like The universe and time are infinite, and somewhere there is an answer for anything that happens, we just can't explain it yet. I switched from atheist to agnostic one night when I was on acid after I spent like 3 hours on research so I would know the difference. I don't believe in a soul but all humans do have an energy force like a soul, like I said before. Am I a hippie, an activist, or just crazy. I'm an Aquarius to for those of you that follow astrology, but I came to most of the conclusions a long time before I started reading about my sun sign. The revolution thing started all these other ideas. I'm an Indigo Child and I'm here to lead you all into the Age of Aquarius right? Does any one else think this way?
I have strange dilusions about random things but nothing like leading a revolution or some other grand thing. I dont think acid made me go crazy, acid helped change my perception of everything intensley and that is what i think is driving me nuts. I dont believe in god, we all were born upon this big rock and I owe my life t it so i worship that, love your mother earth. I wouldnt call myself a hippie, my dad was a hippie, more of a bohemian i guess. After some recent experiances I feel i propubly am totaly crazy.
well .... *pauses to fathom where to begin* I must admit the great thing about Acid is getting into conversations like these. As for worshipping mother earth, surely that is a little short sighted in that there is a WHOLE universe or maybe even multiverse out there which is just as worthy of worship than this little green and blue planet ay? Without all of it this rock wouldn't even be here. Anyway I digress. Thinking there is a revolution is what many peole have felt before you. but revolutions are not born out of one perosn doing copious amounts of drugs, cults are, but not revolutions. The age of aquarious in astrological terms is a few centuries away. If you're talking about the concept it was coined for the movements in the 60s. You perhaps need a new tagline? What is your revolution about or against? What qualities make you a leader? And what right do you have to LEAD others? Beware of dellusions of grandeur. And remember, LSD can help bring out peoples mental weaknesses (not just illnesses). So if you're paranoid, insecure, arrogant, etc. those things can be amplified. To be excited about how LSD or other drugs change your perception is natural. To feel the knowing satisfaction of understanding all of life and eternity that sometimes is wrapped up with LSD is something MANY MANY people have felt. However i imagine understanding your SELF at this stage to that same degree would be beneficial. LSD was intended for use by psychologists. People should always remember that.
Erm.. actually wasn't it intended to help relax some part of the female anatomy during childbirth? It was adopted by psychologists early in it's history, but it wasn't synthesized with that expressed purpose.
Not LSD 25. That was another extract of Ergot as far as I'm aware. Can you imagine being in childbearing pain and then taking a trip!? Are you nuts?! And yes it was suggested as a mind control device (by trhe CIA) but unsuccessful in that regard. What I'm saying is that the scientific and medical profession found a use for a drug and the use they found was in teh field of psychology. Considering LARGELY what you experience on LSD 25 is born of your own mind you can understand why.
LSD 25 was synthhesized by accident while trying various ergot based syntheses, it was more of a lab failure, which got rediscovered by accident when Hoffman accidently got some on his fingers while handling it, and tripped.
*hates to be a pedantic bore but can't resist... Sorry!* It was synthesised on purpose but was stashed away for five years being thought to have no known uses. It was then accidentally leaked onto A Hoffman during new tests without his knowledge and the effects of the drug discovered. Synthesis was unprecedented and unexpected but not literally accidental. The getting the stuff on him was accidental, although some may prefer to regard it as fate. [/pedant]
If it wasn't for this rock where the fuck would I be? it's cold and quite frankly most likely kinda down right sucks out there in space. There is so much to absorb here on this rock it blows my mind, dont get me started on the universe. LSD-25 was a lab failure, if you gave lsd to a woman in childbirth you'd probubly end up with a scene you probubly dont want to watch. Thats failure if you ask me, give her a dot for pain and she goes insane. How is that natural? LSD-25 was made in '43 by a swiss guy in a lab, it's a wierd and funky accidental research chem, it does wierd things to your brain, how is that natural? it's not so much excitment for me, more like a massive annoyance and constant overwhealming pain that follows me around like a little storm cloud.
sucks out there is space?!!!! *dies of shock* not to live in you fool!!! but this rock just simply would not exist if it weren't for the universe and its progression through time. VERY specific and coincidental (if you don't believe in intelligent design or God etc.) things had to happen to give this rock its atmosphere and surroundings!!!! and the length of time from the big bang to now all had to take place for this rock to be in this state now. What about the sun? and the other stars and the moon? are they rubbish too? LSD was considered a lab failure until it was discovered to have psychoactive potential. Its as natural as the wheel or bread or an umbrella just more complicated. It can be misused and has been in great detail. It can also provide inspiration and cures for mental illness and alcoholism in appropriately controlled conditions. Admittedly its a pain for some but its definitely not for others. so nah!
I think hoffman was searching for a cure for cluster headaches, but I'm not sure. And redpoppy, I completely agree about the universe, (I like leary's smi2le and 8 circuit model), but the big bang? I believe that the universe is infinitely old, not started by some big bang. shulgin has a chapter in pihkal or tihkal where he explains it quite well.
I believe existence could be infinitely old and maybe even the multiverse.... perhaps. but i'm all about the big bang in relation to our universe. Having just completed "teh book of nothing" and starting a short cosmology course I'm completely with the physicists on that one I'm afraid. Although admittedly I should read more psychedelia!
