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> I've conversed with many people who have done this to themselves, and they present as drug addicts to me, not as fully-functioning, let alone super-functionin
by azhu 8y ago
> I've conversed with many people who have done this to themselves, and they present as drug addicts to me, not as fully-functioning, let alone super-functioning, humans. Rather than grow as human beings, they're growing as some weird alien species.
An alternate hypothesis to explain the weirdness of these people is that perhaps those who have taken their place of mental residence too far closely overlap with those who lack the social awareness to know that presenting psychedelics as an integral part of routine life in today's society will get you regarded as insane. This can happen to people, and those who have this happen to them are particularly noticeable while I suspect those who have deeply moving experiences and are able to successfully incorporate them into their daily lives to positive effect keep those pieces of their backstory under especially stringent wraps.
Anecdotally, I was able to implement an enormous increase in my function as a human being resulting from my reflections on my psychedelic experiences. In all areas from mental health to human relationships to technical skill development. The current state of my own experience of my life and the experience of all those who are part of it confirms. The primary psychedelic experience that spurred on these changes occurred about 3 years ago, and was the result of a recreational trip gone very wrong. Today, I continue to microdose 1P-LSD to subjectively beneficial effect.
- mason55 8y agoSimilar to how people say that transgender folks don’t ever pass. It’s not that, it’s that you only notice the ones who don’t.
- fapjacks 8y agoI call it "washing my mind out"... I use mushrooms and MDMA "regularly" (perhaps once or thrice per year) for variety of reasons, but all of them some form of improving myself as a human being. To your point about bad trips, for me, I think the bad trips are as integral to this improvement process as the astonishing religious experiences. But more to the point of the grandparent you quoted, I have always considered myself something of an alien in human skin. I mean I've always felt like I'm not even on the same planet as most people that are considered outsiders. I had a big thing typed up, but it was just too weird-sounding and too revealing, so you'll have to trust me when I say that. The whole process of life and living on a human planet is weird for me, and it's just always been that way. But what these psychedelic experiences have done for me is make me more human. I'm not quite middle aged, but thanks to my experiences with mushrooms and MDMA -- and a small handful of generous people that have joined me in some of the experiences -- I finally feel comfortable and even enjoy the biology of being a human being, and that's to say nothing of what it's done for the quality and depth of my human relationships.