im starting to think all acid is, is a drug that completely fucks you up so bad that you have to relearn everything. it takes u so far from reality, and shows you things in a different way. I believe it is also a tool for music and art. All it really is though, is everything. What makes a trip good, is a good enviroment and all, its just everything times a thousand.
i dont get the reset button thing.. im still me. some things might have experienced a mudslide and a refreshing swim in the tropical ocean and then a smooth bath.. but no restarting to the OP: what do you mean that you are 'starting' to think this? what did you think before that is different?
I think it sort of wipes your slate partially clean. On the 26th I will be using it. Man it'll be insane looking back at how fucked I was when I was doing bad drugs to where I am now five months off of everything. I think it'll be a grand experience, I have been preparing myself for a few days, but even if I "prepared" myself mentally physically and spiritually for a month I'll never quite be ready to the fullest.
That's the opposite of how I feel on acid, I get an overwhelming feeling of "Ah, finally, this is the world". You wanna get far from reality, snort some ketamine.
I dig the 'reset' concept. It unplugs your mental circuits so that they are spraying sensory info everywhere like an unmanned firehose. They go back into place, but you have control over how they are rewired. It deconditions you, breaks your human habits and you can see just how much of what you do follows a habitual paradigm. You have control over whether you continue those habits afterward or establish newer, better habits. Some trips I intend to remain totally the same after, others point out areas in which I have room for improvement (some pretty obvious, others surprising). But I don't see the trip as a metamorphosis, like a caterpillar wrapping up in a cocoon, dissolving into a pool of amino acids and then becoming a different creature. In some cases, it's a reset button, other times it's simply an ON button. I always feel a lot of mental clutter purged after tripping, and that I have been dissolved and reconstituted into a newer version of myself. Not a different creature, but a reborn one. Since my first trip I've compared it to Jesus' "baptism of fire." The electric fire of lsd (kundalini?) seems to purify me the same way.
I think it just gives us a lot more perspective which allows (and sometimes forces) us to step out of our routines
after further pondering I think our reset button is already there but due to our lack of mental ability to operate it, we have to use lsd and other devises to trigger it.
