Just got back from a trip, and it's like accessing a consciousness which can't be explained or even talked about when you return. If it did we would all have to be more advanced lifeforms with greater consciousness than we have now. The eye opens, then it closes. How to use what is inside the eye when it opens is the problem. The knowledge is there, you can see it, but you can't grasp it when you come back because it is gone, and can't be put into words or language. You can't put it into action. You can't talk about it or tell others or yourself to use the drug because it doesn't work that way. The universe is not what we thought, it's all upside down. Our past leads us to events, and we are not in control. I think you can only be pleased that such wonders exist and decide how to live your life from within, then have faith that it is there without being able to access it using logic or understanding. I don't know, what does everyone think?
I think that if both states are temporary (sober-knowledge and lsd-high-knowledge), then thoughts had while on LSD are no more valid or special than thoughts you may have any other time.
That is a well known phenomena in the area of consciousness research known as "state bound knowledge". It applies to many altered states of awareness, material is only accessible in that state but not in normal waking awareness.
Something often not considered inthese forums. All states of awareness have value, but not all are conducive to survival. read Charles Tart's work.
Yea but it's ok that they are meaningless. you can still use each state of consciousness and get something out of it. There's not any stable state of consciousness anyway. It's changing about even throughout a regular day.
my advice would be to not get addicted to the trip. It's a trip and all trip's have to come to an end. Next time you trip think of it as just another day, don't do anything really special and just notice how much you can notice and pick up about your everyday life and learn from it.
You know I know exactly how you feel. When I am on acid it feels like all my thoughts fit into place perfectly and I am connecting with my true self. After the acid has long worn off I try hard to think in the same frame of mind again. Very hard to explain! But maybe this is a good thing? It gives something to look forward to. A real treat That's why LSD is LSD......
Why look for meaning? Just experience the shit and take it for what it is, without analyzing every aspect of your trip. If you spend too much time analyzing, and not enough time experiencing, then you have wasted a trip, imo. If there is a lesson to be learned, then it will happen naturally. If you try to force it, then you'll read too much into random shit and find false-meaning in some trivial bullshit that means nothing. Also, why not just enjoy the trip? Not every trip has to teach you something. Sometimes it can just be a good time
I'm at that stage of my life where i'm looking for meaning. So finding meaning is enjoying. It makes me happy. If it didn't I wouldn't have had the trip that I did.
The point is, you don't have to look for meaning to find it. Many of the greatest discoveries in history, whether physical or philosophical or personal, were accidents.
