Experience With Using LSD to Correct Psychological Problems that it Initially Caused?

I have been thinking that feeling different isn't the acid's fault, but the fact that I live in a small community, mostly full of people who are satisfied with the American dream. While this is ok for them, I'm thinking a bit of sober traveling will do the trick. I guess I thought that LSD was life's most important sacrament at the time of this post.

I still can agree that abusing acid is not a good idea ever. I have seen friends use it as a party drug and get burned out and depressed to this day from overuse. It's nice when you really feel like a good trip and plan out where you will be, what you will do, and who you will be with ahead of time.

 

L2S,
It's a serious question and some serious psychonauts have weighed in here, most urging caution. Probably be worth your while to read back through the posts (a couple excepted - tripping while waiting tables, sigh - and no disrespect, either). Over time 1000s of people have said that LSD was the most profound experience of their life, so yes, think it through and check out some other resources. Here is a link to a book by people who have been involved in very serious (there's that word again) exploration and therapy for 40+ years. http://www.maps.org/books/scr/ ... and have a look at other parts of the MAPS website. Also, I'm one of the 89.
Namaste

 

Here are a few lines from The Secret Chief Revealed (the above link)

"...Okay. They've agreed to abide by this structure. I ask them to read this, a late 17th century prayer. It's the only thing I've ever found down through the years that really is the most suitable for beginning a trip. I ask them to read it quietly to themselves once and read it through a second time:

Lord, I know not what I ought to ask of thee;
Thou only knowest what I need;
Thou lovest me better than I know how to love myself.
O Father, give to Thy child that which
he himself knows not how to ask.
I dare not ask either for crosses or for consolations;
I simply present myself before thee,
I open my heart to Thee.
Behold my needs which I know not myself;
see and do according to Thy tender mercy.
Smite, or heal; depress me or raise me up;
I adore all Thy purposes without knowing them;
I am silent; I offer myself in sacrifice;
I yield myself to Thee: I would have no
other desire than to accomplish Thy will.
Teach me to pray.
Pray Thyself in me.
AMEN.
-- Fran�ois de Salignac Fenelon Archbishop of Cambray, 1651−1715,

Then we have a dropping ceremony, and I explain the cup and I have water in it and I have the capsule with their medicine in it, too. After they've read the prayer then I give it to them. I've already explained the significance of the cup as a symbol of transformation all the way back to Jesus and to earlier days and all that kinda stuff. I have them take the cup and the capsule, swallow the medicine whatever it happens to be, and drink the water from the cup.

After this dropping ceremony I ask to see their pictures. I have them organize them according to this list, their own pictures first with the youngest on top and the oldest one on the bottom. Their youngest age and the oldest. Same with the mother and father and all the relatives if there's any chronological period of time that's involved. The last one I ask them to look at is their wife or lover currently..."

Far out shit, isn't it.

 

Amazing prayer

 

If you still feel emotionally stable and can write it off as a bad trip - then go again and I really think you'll get your confidence and and be in your comfort zone again. Acid can be scary.
If you feel emotionally insecure and are afraid you'll spin out of control - hold off a while. I have seen that happen, all be it rare.
For a relatively stable person acid is a tool with benefits ie. a hell of a lot of fun. Chances are you just had a bum trip. You may have gone in insecure and come out the same way.

 

LSD is like a very beautiful magnifying glass. A lot of people get caught up with the bejewelled handle, the ornate frame, the crystal with hints of purple and blue and green . . . but it is only the decorations of the thing, the true nature of it is a tool to explore whatever you point it at (yourself). So in that sense it is what it is; a wonderful tool, and you can think it's lifes most important sacrament (I wouldn't necessarily disagree certainly is up there) or you can think "Its a drug for consciousness".

I'm glad you have "zoomed out" and noticed that your social environment is stifling you. I have definitely noticed this myself and have taken steps to change it. As soon as you're aware of it, it stops bothering you so much (well, unless you're just obsessing about how bad it is). If you are surrounded by nothing but babylon-bots then I would say it's the most normal thing ever to feel like a complete alien, total seperate, different.

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society"

You will grow and you will build your own life much more completely than the one you were born into, around you.

 

Yes, I've read about ceremonies like this. Sounds so amazing.