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Nitram

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65. I'm afraid my spiritual "beliefs" are of a complicated and very subjective nature.

Tue Oct 6, 2015, 09:58 AM

Oct 2015

I wouldn't be able to summarize them in a coherent way. But one aspect of my understanding is that there is no bearded white guy god. There is no heaven and hell. It is all happening right inside each of our own brains. Aldous Huxley wrote that in order to survive, our brain filters out and modifies most of the sensory input we receive every second of our waking life. People who can't filter out the torrent of information cannot function. But psychedelics temporarily open those filters, letting us experience more of what is going on outside of our minds, and more of what is going on behind the scenes within our own brains. And the brain is a marvelously complex and highly developed organ.

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I took a lot of acid one night and had a long discussion with a rock demon. [View all] Warren Stupidity Sep 2015 OP

This thread is useless without pictures. beam me up scottie Sep 2015 #1

yeah, that is pretty much how it went down. Were you there too? Warren Stupidity Sep 2015 #2

Oh yeah, I'm the girl whose head he's holding. beam me up scottie Sep 2015 #3

Oh. Warren Stupidity Sep 2015 #4

Totally worth it though. Such vivid dreams... beam me up scottie Sep 2015 #6

That must have been the brown acid Gregorian Sep 2015 #11

You were there too? beam me up scottie Sep 2015 #12

The brown strychnine has been cut with acid, Ichigo Kurosaki Sep 2015 #13

I just fell out of my walker. Gregorian Sep 2015 #14

Old is a state of mind Ichigo Kurosaki Sep 2015 #19

That's a real stinker. Gregorian Sep 2015 #23

Umm, and what's your point? Nitram Sep 2015 #5

Wait, did I insult your deeply held beliefs in rock demons? Warren Stupidity Sep 2015 #9

No, you insulted my sense of the absurd. Nitram Sep 2015 #24

I'd guess this has something to do with his point... gcomeau Sep 2015 #25

Well I have never taken complete leave of my senses on acid. Nitram Sep 2015 #27

So only partial leave of your senses then? gcomeau Sep 2015 #30

Wow, gcomeau, you must have had some really bad trips! Nitram Sep 2015 #32

I value my brain too highly... gcomeau Sep 2015 #35

I'm not familiar with that adage. Sounds rather hyperbolic to me. Nitram Sep 2015 #36

If you are under the impression... gcomeau Sep 2015 #37

Sounds like you're scared to death of psychedelic experience. Nitram Sep 2015 #38

Wow. gcomeau Sep 2015 #39

It's okay to be scared. Many people are. Nitram Sep 2015 #40

Gotcha... gcomeau Sep 2015 #41

Wrong, Prufrock, fear of shadows and phantoms is not adaptive behavior. Nitram Sep 2015 #42

FFS... let me spell this out using words of few syllables... gcomeau Sep 2015 #46

to you, G. Comeau Prufrock Nitram Sep 2015 #49

Wow you're just oblivious aren't you? gcomeau Sep 2015 #59

What you are dealing with edhopper Sep 2015 #43

Yeah, I've encountered it before. gcomeau Sep 2015 #47

I get the feeling you two are so obsessed with religion... Nitram Sep 2015 #50

Are you T.S. Eliot? Act_of_Reparation Sep 2015 #51

I assumed you wouldo know the poetry and the author. Was I wrong? Nitram Sep 2015 #53

You posted of a piece of work that is not yours without the proper attribution. Act_of_Reparation Sep 2015 #56

The words would only appear to be mine to someone who never graduated from high school. Nitram Sep 2015 #57

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwn. Act_of_Reparation Sep 2015 #58

Attribution? or are you actually John Cleese? Nitram Oct 2015 #71

Uniform Resource Locator Act_of_Reparation Oct 2015 #74

Wrong, Hopper. Nitram Sep 2015 #48

Then you are not talking about edhopper Sep 2015 #55

Did I ever say I was? Nitram Oct 2015 #60

Sounded like that edhopper Oct 2015 #61

I have elaborated in my posts above. Nitram Oct 2015 #62

okay edhopper Oct 2015 #63

I have read your posts. edhopper Oct 2015 #64

I'm afraid my spiritual "beliefs" are of a complicated and very subjective nature. Nitram Oct 2015 #65

Thanks edhopper Oct 2015 #66

Like a Lays potato chip, TexasTowelie Sep 2015 #7

You're lucky, no one had the manners to turn up for my acid trips Warpy Sep 2015 #8

I saw glowing loaves of Wonderbread. Gregorian Sep 2015 #10

I can't wait to try some ayahuasca. LuvNewcastle Sep 2015 #15

Tripped in a cemetery one autumn and spent a good hour bvf Sep 2015 #16

That explains only a small part of it. rug Sep 2015 #17

Back in college I ate a bunch of psilocibin mushrooms and played Mario Bros. 3 Act_of_Reparation Sep 2015 #18

Sometimes the profundity of the experience reveals the profundity of the observer. Nitram Sep 2015 #28

Sometimes the absurdity of the experience reveals the absurdity of the observer. Act_of_Reparation Sep 2015 #29

Ditto. Nitram Sep 2015 #33

Your rock demon was incompetent Yorktown Sep 2015 #20

Is a rock demon like a rock god, but they play guitar really *badly*? (nt) muriel_volestrangler Sep 2015 #21

There are times I have felt one with the Universe edhopper Sep 2015 #22

I took some trips myself back in the day. Act_of_Reparation Sep 2015 #31

Mores the pity that your mind was closed to insights of any kind. Nitram Sep 2015 #34

That's funny. Act_of_Reparation Sep 2015 #44

"An open mind is like a fortress with its gates unbarred and unguarded." Lordquinton Sep 2015 #45

Huh? So you prefer to have a closed mind? Nitram Oct 2015 #67

Is "closed" the only alternative to "open"? Act_of_Reparation Oct 2015 #68

They are, in fact, antonyms. You can have an open mind without being stupid or... Nitram Oct 2015 #69

An antonmyn in no way implies a word is binary. Act_of_Reparation Oct 2015 #72

Post removed Post removed Oct 2015 #70

For someone who claims to be open minded Lordquinton Oct 2015 #73

could of been this guy wendylaroux Sep 2015 #26

Rock demons. Those are my favorite. It's so easy to walk away from Cleita Sep 2015 #52

I saw many a blue dog in Griffith park Hollywood thanks to a friend of Owsley Person 2713 Sep 2015 #54