• @BangelaQuirkel
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    My first lsd trip told me stop smoking. Another trip told me to stop smoking weed, too. My last trip told me to stop edibles.

    Learning to meditate now. Breathing is what it’s really about, yo

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      ahh it’s such a funny thing to be able to say “the drugs told me to stop doing drugs”.

      my first lsd trip told me to love myself more; quite literally too, i was just about to fall into ego death and i saw a second myself in the dark void of mind who faced me and said “love yourself more”. One hell of a first trip ngl

      goodness how much better the world would be if shakes fist the US government! didn’t stop psychedelics research, we could have proper psychedelics assisted therapy by now. An LSD trip on its own already feels like doing 6 months of normal therapy but in the span of 8 hours, and when you intentionally therapise yourself during it? Make that a year of therapy in 8 hours. Imagine what we could achieve if there was a trained professional there to assist you.

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        I get that. I don’t think I’ll ever go fully vegan but I’ve become much more conscious about what I eat. Much more lentils and good rice and dates and stuff like that. See what happens.

        Did you also have the impression while tripping how obviously wrong, bad and really unhealthy heavily processed stuff tasted? Or more like a philosophical experience?

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          51 month ago

          It was a purely philosophical experience in which I lost all believe into gods and artificial distinctions between humans and other animals. I cannot come with any reason, why eating humans must be wrong, but eating a cow should be okay. So I decided, that harming either of them must be wrong and my ability for compassion had to extent further than my own species. There is no God to tell my how to be good. I have to decide for myself and I decided to inflict less harm on my fellow earthlings.

          Also, there is no free will.

          • @BangelaQuirkel
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            21 month ago

            You can also come to the conclusion that eating humans is okay haha. I joke, of course. Interestingly, I’ve never really believed in any deity because it never made any sense to me. Now I’m inclined to worship Gaia, the God we live in. I’m not religious, but worshipping our ecosystem just makes sense.

            Free will is an interesting concept and I think the way it’s usually used is just wrong or misunderstandable. I don’t think there is a free will, but I get the sense there is some kind of will inside me and I have to find out what my inner self really wants, or better: needs. I think the freedom to pursue that inner will is what “free will” really means.

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              You can also come to the conclusion that eating humans is okay haha. I joke, of course.

              It did cross my mind, but i won’t be declaring myself food, so this is easily dismissed. 😆

              but worshipping our ecosystem just makes sense.

              Or at minimum handing it over in good condition to the next generations, instead of wreaking everything left and right.

              Free will is an interesting concept and I think the way it’s usually used is just wrong or misunderstandable. I don’t think there is a free will, but I get the sense there is some kind of will inside me and I have to find out what my inner self really wants, or better: needs. I think the freedom to pursue that inner will is what “free will” really means.

              What i wanted to say is, that choice is an illusion.

    • @motor_spirit
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      Breathing exercises, gut health, sleep, diet, activity = freedom

      Lean into that meditation and breathing! It’s made my sleep issues all but go away

    • @Alwaysnownevernotme
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      There’s actually a Timothy Leary quote about this.

      “Once you get the message hang up the phone.”

      • @BangelaQuirkel
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        Great quote. Really feels like a journey that’s destined to end sometime in the near future.

        • @YaDownWitCPP
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          About breathing? I’m just not that into it.

            • @Passerby6497
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              I’ve tried, but eventually I pass out from withdrawals and end up using again while in out. Sleeping me refuses to kick the habit, so here we are.

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                Check out Fatal Familial Insomnia. It’s just a cute little prion you can get that will let you never fall asleep again. Maybe that would help with the withdrawals?

                Side note: it has been determined that prions are not terrifying, actually. No, that is not the prion speaking, don’t be silly.

      • @BangelaQuirkel
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        I will hehe. But in all honesty. For me, a trip doesn’t feel like a drug but like a deep conversation with the core of your inner self and what it means to be you. And I don’t want to be dead, that’s for sure.

        Interestingly, the looming threat of your own immortality is much easier to accept on psychedelics than in real life, I feel.

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          there’s this person with their divine experiences and then there’s me talking to tiles in the toilet and getting scared of a faucet

          • @BangelaQuirkel
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            Ngl I’ve admired tiles in a community toilet on a Dutch camping lot before. A trip is a long and varied experience and just admiring pretty colors and movements and seeing stuff in things is definitely part of it