Are you a psychonaut?

A psychonaut is someone who likes exploring altered states of consciousness or just different reaches of the mind. I consider myself a psychonaut. Are you? How do you practice? With drugs? With meditation? Some other method? What do you like (or hate) about it? What have you discovered in your exploration?

NOTE: simply tripping out on your favorite drug every now and then does not make you a psychonaut. You have to be interested in new experiences. If you do it too much, it's not new, it's just a habit.

 

Are you better than everyone else in some special way?

 

Where'd this come from???

 

nope.

i'm just well versed in psychedelic experiences, and all I've learned is that perfection is an illusion, and you can't please everyone.

 

Well, that's interesting. Did the psychedelic experience teach you this? How so?

 

by dissolving preprogrammed filters, as cliche as that may sound.

I also learned that the hexagon is a VERY stable structure, and is apparent all around us, and I sensed that the earth has its own frequency (7.83 hz), which is actually increasing...this reflects the current trend in the increase of universal entropy

 

That's pretty specific. How do you measure this frequency? What is it?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schumann_resonance

 

i would desribe myself as a trip seeker. yet to try acid or shrooms. the trippiest shit iv done are pcp and dxm. though i seek to trip.

 

you're not a psychonaut. the flow outlined the factors that makes you a psychonaut i think... and the way you described yourself does not make you a psychonaut....
this is one problem with the use of psychedelics...it makes people think theyr better then they are...sorry boss..x
i think most psychedelic users enjoy delving into their consciousness etc. not just the psychonauts...

 

Did I give off the wrong impression? What flow? How did I describe myself?

I reread my OP, and I may have given off the impression that I think people who stick to a particular drug of choice are somehow "less" than those who like to explore a variety of experiences. I did not mean to suggest this. I was only trying to outline a difference. So let me rephrase the difference: a psychonaut, to me, is someone who likes to gather memories of a wide variety of different mental experiences (through drugs or otherwise). If you prefer to stick exclusively to a few particular drugs or mental states, that's fine - nothing wrong with this - but I just wouldn't classify you as a psychonaut since you're not exploring. That's all.

 

I've tried dxm myself. Not my drug of choice. I described as "too metalic" because of how cold or hard it felt. It was like everything was made of cold hard metal - like if I sat down on my couch, which is usually soft and comfortable, it would feel like sitting on metal.

polymer,

I have one more question for you. You said you figured out this frequency through the psychedelic experience. Could you explain?

 

did he write the book on it?

didn't realize there were certain criteria one had to meet to be considered a "psychonaut"

personally, I don't think anyone is really a psychonaut until they dive head first into a DMT flash, and come out unscathed.

 

it's merely low frequency resonance, that reflects ionization energy vs. Earth's electromagnetic field... flux. I figure that the buzzing sound of high doses of psychedelics may be a sensory perception of one of these resonant frequencies, or perhaps audible harmonics of low freq. oscillations

 

Im not a psychonaut, Im just a full blown psycho.

 

Every heard of Terence McKenna?

 

of course.

and alan watts, john lilly, and william burroughs

 

go anally violate urself

 

ooookaaay then... movin' on.

 

sorry...i was bored..