Are drugs helping us to see the light?

[FlyMeHigh]

ya before i started doing drugs i was kinda uptight and very scientific minded. Now i am alot looser, and even though i still like science i think of it in a more philisophical and open minded way. So to me i do feel as though drugs (some) are helping me see the light, but like my original post said, how am i to know if this is not all a false reality covering the truth. I guess since we cannot know for sure we have to accept what we are feeling as being good.

[FlyMeHigh]

A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets,
some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can
and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.

- - - W. H. Auden - The Dyer's Hand - - -

this quote makes me think cus i almost believe it, but i don't want to. (I'm interpreting this quote as calling drugs the canned food, you can share your interprtation...) it makes sense to me and i don't want to be that guy downing the canned food. Any thoughts on why they aren't the canned food?? (i can think of a few, such as many drugs are natural...)

[Nero]

my impression of it is that it is society eating out of the can and the people using psychodelic drugs are eating the gourmets.

I feel that psychodelic drugs do help someone to get around their carved in beliefs and biases that they have aquired over time. The problem with it is that their new view doesn't always mesh nicely with societies capitalistic ideals, which I feel are important however.

[5HT]

all I know is that after doing LSD, shrooms, salvia, and cannabis for about 6 months now, I make better use of my time. I practice guitar and piano combined at least 4 hours a day. Prior my drug use all I did was play video games all day and watch fox news beating off to GW.

[Sentinel]

The most amazing hours of my life have been spent on acid and mushrooms just understanding the world and being at peace with everything. The first time I ever did shrooms the first couple hours were fun and giggly, but later on as I was walking back to my friends house I talked to myself for about half an hour analyzing every aspect of life and making complete sense of everything, talking like a professor explaining life. I went back inside with an extremely sobering feeling. I believe that psychedelics have changed the way I am as a person in a good way and will continue to use them. I have decided I will stick to acid and mushrooms though. And I dont think that psychedelics really change your beliefs, its not like a voice talks to you and tells you certain things about the world. (Well maybe for some people thats what happens.) I find at the end of a trip you just have a more positive, forward feeling towards everything. Sadly that feeling mostly goes away by the morning.

[Pyramidsonmars]

Drugs won't help you see the light, however they do give you a chance to see things from a different perspective.

Every time I do mushrooms I see myself for what I really am and there's no lying to yourself under that kind of mental state. I've learned a lot about the ego and how seeing things for what they really are is key...however I apply this knowledge to myself in a sober state to make sense of it. Doing drugs everyday will cloud your mind (I believe)...make you slower whether you know it or not...doing drugs as a chance to see under a diff light however can be helpfull if you're true enough to search and make sense of a trippy situation hah

[Killa.Kali]

I didnt read this whole post but do you mean in a religious way? or just a spritual way? cuz I dont believe in any religion but i do get kinda spiritual or "deep" if im in the right mood with the right environment

[gildong.]

sorry to 6 point joint, i dont even know you or nothin but i have read posts from you and your "thug" ways or w/e...and if you are like the way you post...im gona have to agree w/ pyramidsonmars...good for you for being a thug..but you dont have to let the world know that you will kill them if they say what they think..and if pyramid thinks you are whatever he thinks you are and you find that very negative and wrong..that does not mean you have to come here and threaten him..for what he says about you is what he thinks and you are the only one who knows whats real and whats not true..so..please think before you post...if he says something bad about you...dont come up in here and say you will track him down and kill him..just say that he is wrong..and give him reasonable reasons why...killing or threatening doesnt solve a thing

[Pyramidsonmars]

sorry to 6 point joint, i dont even know you or nothin but i have read posts from you and your "thug" ways or w/e...and if you are like the way you post...im gona have to agree w/ pyramidsonmars...good for you for being a thug..but you dont have to let the world know that you will kill them if they say what they think..and if pyramid thinks you are whatever he thinks you are and you find that very negative and wrong..that does not mean you have to come here and threaten him..for what he says about you is what he thinks and you are the only one who knows whats real and whats not true..so..please think before you post...if he says something bad about you...dont come up in here and say you will track him down and kill him..just say that he is wrong..and give him reasonable reasons why...killing or threatening doesnt solve a thing

I'd like to think that this is what I would've said, but then this guy got quite hostile and I wasn't in the mood to be nice...but yeah, well put

[gildong.]

yea man...hate those ppl who come online n threaten the shit out of other ppl...i uno if that makes em feel big n shit but..w/e haha