(ph)>12 is just right
In the most dangerous game...warping will only prolong your defeat. ?go warpwars -Chao <ER>
1:Chao <ER>> what the FUCK?
1:Chao <ER>> I just adverted and no one came
1:Chao <ER>> at all
1:Mantra-Slider> chao
1:Mantra-Slider> you are in the wrong arena
Panda <ZH>> ?find chao <ER>
Chao <ER> - hero
Why are you primarily subjugating drug users for identifying religion as manipulative? Anyone with half a brain can realize this. Yes, there is an underlying perception that using mind-altering drugs will expand someone's mind - but that does not have to mean 'beyond a non-drug user's mind'. This is where I believe you've gotten mixed up. Although I'm sure it's not unfathomable, I'm confident it's not the collective ideal within the minds of my fellow psychonauts.
I believe you get this idea of psychoactive drug users pedestaling ourselves above others. This is simply not true (collectively speaking). It's a misconception of you (or anyone else) probably reading discussions of us sharing our experiences with each other and describing what we were/are feeling. For you to simply think about how we felt or what we experienced...it can lead to misconstrued theories and thoughts about us. When you read trip reports or maybe you even have a friend telling you about how he saw God or some other spiritual entity, you'll just think we're nuts.
As for the comments you were saying about spiritual healing and such, I think you've got this misunderstood as well. No, psychoactive drugs will not cure or heal us (as far as we know), but it does help us realize and bring to light certain things in our life and ultimately help us.
Overall, the psychedelic experience is something that is indeed fun, sometimes it can be the worst thing in the world, but most of all it is all a giant learning experience. To have your mind opened to so many possibilities that the psychoactive chemicals produce is something very exciting. And although I am sure you can get the gist of what a psychedelic experience is like without taking any, it's not something that you can simply understand without doing a lot of contemplation.
It's very lenghtly, in fact it's 26 pages long, but I highly suggest you consider reading this trip report in your spare time. It's written by a friend of mine from the Shroomery, a great guy to hang out and share stories with in front of the campfire. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XN348QH4
Personally, I've never ran into anybody or even any posts for that matter saying drugs are good, they heal you and teach you about life, because that simply isn't true. They can help us understand things from very different perspectives, but it cannot truly teach us. If anything, it is an aid, or a guide. If you have heard/read anyone saying the first sentence in this paragraph, they are either lying, or describing it in a way that you might have misunderstood it.
An example, "[drug] taught me [lesson]" - you might have read this at some point, but for the person who wrote it, would have meant "[drug] has helped me learn [lesson]". I believe this is ultimately where the reader can either swing on the fence of "that's bullshit, drugs dont teach you anything" and "oh I understand what you mean." The end result is solely up to the reader to decipher what the author meant.
How some psychoactive drugs can aid us is, again, by bringing to light certain thoughts we have had and expanding them with different combinations of other thoughts. It can be a very interesting experience, some of the whackiest things can come to our minds (not just thoughts), and there in lies the part where we share them with each other. Our subconscious can throw some very wild visions and thoughts at us, and to the outside viewer, it looks like we are fools. But we love it.
The kind with caffeine is banned everywhere. You can still get it, but without caffeine.
I only have 9 left... my mom took one
Pandagirl!
(ph)>12 is just right
In the most dangerous game...warping will only prolong your defeat. ?go warpwars -Chao <ER>
1:Chao <ER>> what the FUCK?
1:Chao <ER>> I just adverted and no one came
1:Chao <ER>> at all
1:Mantra-Slider> chao
1:Mantra-Slider> you are in the wrong arena
Panda <ZH>> ?find chao <ER>
Chao <ER> - hero
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