That was truly beautiful, thank you. I can't pinpoint exactly which button you hit in me, but my hunch that the universe guides, teaches and holds its protective hands over us was being given form in what you've said.
“You don't need DMT”… this is just a silly, confusing statement since you are who you are and where you are now because of these experiences. It was all a part of your journey; there is no “you should” or “you shouldn't”. Everyone is unique. Peace & Love.
What we think is reality is not reality. The human experience is not real. In the matrix Morpheus says " How do you define "real"? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then "real" is simply electrical signals intepreted by your brain..."
I agree. I love psychedelics. But. I’ve also have come to the realization that all that I experience and learn during the trips is never really gone once I come back down to base reality. It’s like the saying “As above, so below”. You kind of come out of it realizing you are the same entity in the psychedelic headspace as you are in base reality. Before you take psychedelics you have these grandiose expectations of what’s gonna happen during and how you are going to come out of the experience and be but you realize that the thing you are searching for is already inside of you but to get that thing is to completely let go of trying to obtain it. After going through an introspective psychedelic experience you come out of it changed and yet nothing has changed. It’s simply a shift in perspective and perception that results in profound realizations that helps orient oneself in their experience of life to live with meaning and a purpose to give one’s life to others.
DMT is the only psychedelic where my normal thinking and reasoning could stay fully intact. Whereas mushrooms and LSD generally come with more emotional fluctuations. It's biggest gift to me was the ability to trust myself. I'm honestly amazed that I can still be a sane human on this earth after 100s of large doses, but after enough times I did notice some distinct patterns. As a little test I'd ask some entities that presented as omniscient beings really basic math questions that I knew I did not know the answer to. None of them could, they'd just smirk and disappear. It became pretty clear that even though I was intensely tripping, I still had the capacity for imagination and that's what the "presence" had been. Only 2 out of the hundreds of trips were utterly different, which was especially odd because the dosage was not increased at all. I have moved on from DMT now. No secret logical knowledge or truths can be brought back, its pure experience. I gave a tiny dose to a friend one time and it sent them to the psych ward. Take your own risks and don't assume it is a medicine for all minds.
“I’m not supposed to have access to all that wisdom right now” brilliant. I could never put in words why I stopped. It made the mind and soul TOO FAST to be here and experience THIS REALITY. Sure it feels amazing to know, really know in your soul that you hold infinity inside you…. But, you don’t fit in your spot anymore! Coming down was always such a relief because everything fit again! This is MY SPOT. Only I belong here and we don’t belong out there. We can visit. We will return. But we will miss everything given to us in this life if we stay there. Brilliant analysis thanks!
I started with lsd and mushrooms at ages 13. I used them heavily for 20 years then started up again when I was unexpectedly introduced to dmt in December 2019. It was profoundly life altering . By March of 2020 I had tried legal ayahuasca in Kentucky. By May I was growing mushrooms. One year later I was in a Buddhist Monastery in Vermont for an 30 day apprenticeship. Did Ayahuasca again in In 2021 then flew to a legal resort in Mexico and did 5meo in 2022. I'm still microdosing once a week with and the occasional macrodose and just turned 60. I struggled with addiction all my life and been in a dozen rehabs. The last in 2014. Since 2019 psychdelics have been real harm reduction for me. I got sober again just before that first dmt journey and stayed that way for over a year. I've struggled since but got sober again last December with Ayahuasca and recently was able to go back to work driving after after 5 years and two back surgeries. Real tangible results over time. Thanks for reading this and thank you for this video! You're right I was definitely supposed to see this and grateful to you. ❤
My psychedelic journey was over a few years ago and I just ran across your video and I just want to say that this is a great video with a lot of dope insights and perspectives. You don’t need DMT, reality is the dopest trip, I felt that, my 7th or 8th DMT trip, about a year after my second 5MEO trip, while on DMT I interacted with a female, mother like energy who at first was so powerful and godlike that I got scored and in my trip I got on fetal position, and she told me, ahhhh, you’re still a baby, and the trip took a weird turn and I just felt loved and understood, felt like home, and she kept hugging me, loving me and told me, you don’t need this, you’re doing just fine and I’m happy and excited for you, I’m proud, you don’t need to come here anymore, and since then, I’ve never taken any psychedelics and I’ve been more present than ever before, I found peace with the idea of myself and my loved ones dying at some point because I have the deep believe that we’re all infinite. Thanks for sharing this man!
You get all these insights as life goes on. Maybe not these specifically, but the ones relevant to you. There's rarely ever a great reason for indulging this much in psychedelics, or anything potentially harmful for that matter.
I'm just wondering, would you have come to these realisations if you didn't do DMT in the first place? Because I think if you already had these realisations before first using then you wouldnt have done it. I used Changa through lockdown & I have to say my life changed in a major way for the highest good, integrated much of what I learnt through the experiences & now have no need for it. I think that's the purpose of psychedelics, to go within, change what needs to be changed & move forward in a different & more intentional way, they are a tool, a key to unlock parts of ourselves that we didnt know we needed to. They are not a recreational plaything. Just thought id add my bit 😁🧙♂️
from psychonaut to psychonaut i couldn't agree more on the first point. What most people don't know (or for the sake of sour grapes, act oblivious to) is that you can get a psychedelic headspace and the introspective qualities through meditation. Reader, you don't have to go through the herculean task of hyperfocusing on one sense or feeling for 1 hour a day, just do 10 mins, and forgive yourself if you get sidetracked :)
The thing with psychedelics is that people do then too often. Once or twice a year for a strong psychedelic (or once or twice a month for cannabis) teaches you a lot and is not overwhelming to integrate. DMT everyday for a month is really, really insane
I completely agree in the matter of alcohol. Psychedelics are great, one of the best means to human development, you learn a lot from then. Exactly for that reason it is problematic to do then too frequently, it's too much to digest, and you must digest, do some self-reflection, and integrate the experiences. Otherwise you run the risk of getting drown in amusement, loosing yourself and doing these drugs only recreatively, for the fun of it. This recreational use is frequently bad for your mental health and is not much more justifiable than using drugs that are bad for your body. These are powerful, powerful medicine.
Yeah, I wasn't considering lower doses when I wrote the answer. But still, I would not recommend doing it daily for anyone. It's too disrupting. I think the best use of DMT is more sporadic. Conversely, if you are going to do a drug everyday, small doses of DMT are probably the best after like, coffee ashausha. But it's generally recreational users who want to use shit every day and doing that to DMT sounds like toying with your soul. Best regards
Also, I use Psilocybin for depression... every 1-4 weeks. When I need a booster in between doses, that's when I break out a single 20-30mg dose of DMT, and I'm back in the moment in 10 minutes. The key is using it every couple of weeks, in a single moderate dose... don't chase brealthroughs. I was aphantasic before I had ak NDE... That occasional dose, has imcreased my ability to form mental pictures.
Excellent insights. I’m 71. Used to do psychedelics occasionally. Clean and sober now for nearly 37 years. Still learning. Appreciate your share so much!
You are still a young man Tristan but your awareness is on par or beyond that of many people I've met who have been on their quest for many decades. As such, I agree with you that one doesn't need to take DMT or other strong hallucinogens but, let's face it, it DOES accelerate the awareness process…many times over. Yer, as for everything else, there is a price to pay when you accelerate so much: integrating it in a simple, grateful lifestyle can take a long and often painful time. Thank you for your clear explanation and for sharing the light of your consciousness. Bless you son. 🙏🏼
Well said.. When I started the video, I kind of expected to hear some shallow trivial observations due to the young appearance of Tristan. But that was quickly dispelled listening to him talk with a maturity that underscores the lessons he presents.
“We’re always in a conversation with God.” As a Christian, this is really interesting. If everything I do is being observed by Him and if I know this, then everything I do is being communicated to Him. Everything he created (everything) is constantly reflecting patterns of His own creation back to itself. Beautiful
@@ooOPizzaHeadOooIt’s ok though, because God is Love. 1 John 4:8. You are forgiven no matter your wrong doing, and you are always loved and never alone!
I hady first trip the other day. Definitely can confirm. You don't need to smoke it. Amazing experience. Don't get me wrong. But it was unnecessary. I realized immediately I'm already alive. I didn't need to be there. I was welcome to be there, but it showed me that I've been doing much better and should just keep doing what I've been doing to prepare for whats next. I'm just excited to be alive. I am very grateful that you have had the experience you did, and I'm so happy you shared.
Yes! I can feel that you received the message loud and clear. Thanks for sharing I'm happy you wrote this. I'm also excited to be alive! Lets go live our best lives and be an example for the world :)
brilliant talk ! I am grateful for you sharing your experience. I was floored when you mentioned this is your first video; you absolutely have a propensity for speaking in a deft, composed manner on camera. One recommendation I have is, experiment with adding time stamps. I just finished the vid and in an attempt to recall one of your previous lessons, it hit me to shoot you my feedback. Keep creating! I would love to dive deeper into your cultivated perspectives.
Thanks so much 🤍 I love the response it's been getting! Been meaning to record another soon. And totally, I can add time stamps thanks for the reminder
For as true as it is that you do not need to smoke DMT… I’m not sure I’ve seen anyone articulate these fleeting and formless and abstract thoughts as well as you have. This vid, your vibe, and your channel are awesome.
Cheers on your exploring spirit! If done right, do the work, there is no "short cut" with dmt. Dmt is here and is part of reality, part of us. It's supposed to be here at this time for us to work with. For me, it is one tool in the tool bag. 16yrs of yoga/ breath training has been essential for me in this path
. We already are ourselves. Animals are fully here. They aren't enlightened. DMT can't show you what Buddha taught. When you realize everything is conditions and identity is a bad dream then you begin unweaving the mind as in Bahiya sutta, Ud 1.10 .
Thanks for sharing. Great advice as well. You talking about synchronicity reminded me of my limited DMT experience. The gist of it, ran across this guy I was friends with but haven’t spoken to in like 15 years, twice in 2 weeks. Very random spots I never go. We connected instantly on T McKenna and psychedelics. So we end up linking and he shared his stash with me. Wicked experience but that’s not what I’m here to talk about. The day after smoking with him I got a strong feeling/message saying that the beings I met in the experience were behind those synchronous events. So after work that day I went to a typical spot I go to ground and play guitar after work. I typically park in the same place but had a desire to change it up and parked a little further from my normal spot. Got out of the car and on the curb next to my rear tire had graffiti ‘DMT :)’
Not only is it OK to fail, it's essential in order to learn the most valuable lessons in life where you know something because you experienced it and not because you heard it or read it from someone else. And congratulations on getting so many views and comments with so few subscribers. Your presentation style is concise and effective without any unnecessary filler that goes off topic or is designed to self-promote.
I stumbled onto this video thinking i'd be entertained with nonsense. the main reason being, i feel i am more keen to spirituality than most (without the use of drugs). But this dude is absolutely right. About everything lol. great video.
This is great wisdom you have shared but if you didn't take the mushrooms/dmt then you would not be so wise and aware of everything around you, therefore even though the first point makes sense your life would also be a lot more different if you had not taken those substances to ground yourself
fuck yeah man, definitely anyone whos done enough psychs has resonated to your message and experience in some capacity. Thank you for sharing, i hope the good finds its way to you!
yeah but you only realized you did NOT need DMT after smoking it many many many times... That's pretty good evidence you DO need to smoke it... AT FIRST, otherwise you really don't have a clue about how much it can show you..
I had two or three bad mushroom trips, and for me, the greatest thing about it is how they force you to mature faster. There's no way you'll see reality and people the same way after passing through such an experience
I really appreciate this video man, i couldnt put into words the experience of having so much wisdom and knowledge beyond the spot i am supposed to be in. It feels like I took a shortcut and mentally im 10 years ahead of the life i should have lived. Im not grounded anymore and im battling my own brain to stay grounded in reality
same shit mano but push yourself to do more meditation and contemplating natural patterns outside, also push your limits even physical it may realign some of those base lower level energies
hey man, I really vibe with your balanced take on life. It is refreshing to hear someone speak so honestly about psychedelics and their place in people's journey through life. It is a tool, like anything else can be, to help us become more aware of ourselves and thus connect more to our infiniteness. Anything in life can be that tool too. Anything in life can also distance us from that as well. It depends on how we use our God given awareness and what we choose to focus on. I am saying this from a place of still learning how to do that better! I love your ability to be real with all of this. Thank you.
Without DMT, I can only take the words you have to say on faith. Why call it non-essential when it appears absolutely essential in grounding your lessons? I had no means of perceiving the universe as an on-going conversation with God in any tangible sense pre-psychedelics, only by doctrine. I'm not being intentionally obtuse, I just seek and advocate for a world where these types of perceptions become common place, and it isn't happening under the consumer capitalist scheme for my money without some kind of push, necessitating my advocacy.
I relate/agree with everything you have to say! So lovely that you felt like sharing with everyone. Feels like this came exactly when it needed to! Best of luck with everything you do next ❤
That was your first video!? Damn man, bravo. Well shit, I'm subscribed. Can't wait to hear what else you have to say. I stumbled here because of DMT but I just want to say that I and I think many others would love to hear more about your views on life in general. Not necessarily in direct relation to DMT. (If you're wondering what direction this channel should take). Best of luck to you man!
Appreciate it, yeah been recording more music recently so haven't taken the time to sit down and record/edit a video but will do soon! Thanks and best of luck to you too
This medicine helped me tremendously in my early recovery of addiction. It intuitively led me forward in the right direction helping set a healthy new path of life. It's not a cure-all but accompanied with the right therapy and hard introspective work has done wonders for me. Forever grateful for figuring out if you can literally make and bake a cake you can access this medicine. Determination and intentions create manifestations! 🙏
The depiction of Jesus as a white person is a result of artistic interpretation and cultural influences over time. It is important to note that Jesus was born in the Middle East, and historically, people from that region have a different physical appearance than what is typically portrayed in Western art. The exact physical features of Jesus are not described in the Bible, so it is difficult to determine his specific ethnicity or skin color.
@@bblueangel2each culture has their own depiction of Jesus to conform to their cultural perspectives (in African cultures Jesus is depicted as black, in Asia he has Asian features, etc) but yes- no one really knows what he looks like but def had a middle eastern feature.
Very well said, my friend. It's even written in a good book: be wary of those who lead you astray. As you mentioned, your shaman or teacher was more concerned with validating himself as a self-appointed shaman than with truly caring about you. Back in college, I experimented with acid and mushrooms and had my share of really bad trips. I received the same message: don’t mess with things you don’t understand. During one of those trips, a demon appeared to scare me away from shortcuts to knowledge. It became clear that the higher powers disapproved of my attempts to shortcut my way to understanding. As a result, I’m dealing with these bad trips. I turned heavily to alcohol to cope with the flashbacks and residual damage from the trips. It was through alcohol withdrawals and crossing the line into delirium tremens that I experienced a spiritual awakening. Synchronizations began occurring, and the same message you mentioned started echoing in my mind: everything you need is in reality. It took 25 years of heavy drinking to start listening to my spiritual self. By the way, if you’ve never experienced delirium tremens, thank God you haven’t. It is the most horrifying, realistic trip you could ever imagine. Just ask any alcoholic who has gone through this experience; it puts any bad trip to shame. You can find plenty of accounts of this on RU-vid. In a joking way, I would remind myself to take it slow. Ever since then, I’ve found peace within myself. I no longer need alcohol or drugs to gain knowledge. It's all here. We just need to be aware and study our surroundings. The universe is around us.
Yes that's a great quote, it's where discernment comes in and being able to recognize if it's not your path. Because it's important to have no fear and trust also. Thank you for sharing, its inspiring to hear how you overcame your difficulties and established a clear connection to reality again.
So enlightening, and soo soo refreshing not hearing someone on youtube covertly begging for us to like and subscribe at the end. So for that reason i did!🎉
Great video. Thank you for sharing your light. Your insight deeply resonates with me. You came at the perfect time. May you always be blessed. Thank you for blessing us. Thank you.
What a lovely video. You have very enjoyable serene energy! Very good points you made, I have not yey tried dmt or heroic doses of shrooms/lsd and I can't wait to experience them, but I also already know that I don't necessarily need them! Hahah, life literally is a trip!
The only thing that is eternal, is consciousness itself, the being comes and goes (as with all living things), passed on through sperm for the next body to have the experience that the consciousness needs to experience the eternal moment. Plant life is slightly different as they don't have sperm, but is passed on by the female plants. That is my humble opinion (and I'm only 3:30 in to the video!) And Ive not done DMT.. haha
That shit is like smoking powdered Ouija board's. When I found out the whole space program being nonsense and the earth not having any observable curvature I stopped all drug and alcohol use except for cigarettes and coffee products. You need to stay very sharp in this place.
Def resonated bro. I think it would be helpful if you shared more of your experiences. I’ve done many different psychedelics many different times and my last “medicine” of choice is was ketamine. I feel you what you said about discernment. Something was telling me it was ok to do it as often as I did but my body would take a day or two. Even more to recover. I’m almost a month off of it and staying strong. I’m clean off heroin and alcoholic. I have heavy trauma I’ve dealt with. I have memories of my soul team. I came here w 5 others. Anyway. I learned some things from your video and your sharing helped me out. And I’m sure you have much more to share. Thanks
There's also the question of what else one does other than using psychedelics. Two very different scenarios: a person that blow his or her own mind with psychedelics out of curiosity or trying to find shortcuts for enlightening his or her consciousness will not go very far and run the serious risk of going astray or mad. The other scenario is someone with a established spiritual practise, who meditate and takes great care of oneself and live a full, round life, both internally and externally. For this second scenario, psychedelics can be the tools of a wisard if used sporadically enough for the teachings and experiences to be well integrated and for life not to be left behind. You cannot make real progress while your life is beckoning for you to realize your earthly potential
Loved this. You're super well spoken and i feel like you articulated your experience really well, i definitely got a lot out of it. Stoked for more videos!
Dang! You're my New Best friend! Even though I'll NEVER meet you -- You, And the Father, Are One , and i am proud to respect you with the Greatest of defference! P.s. if you haven't read the book by neurosurgeon Eben Alexander, lll. Its title is PROOF OF HEAVEN. all Best wishes to you. Gregg Oreo Long Beach CA Etats Unis
Taking psychedelics is like having a dream. An important dream once every now and then can be insightful and motivate growth. An important dream every night will crowd your headspace and distract you from the majority of what you’re learned. Slow and steady brother.
You can’t learn these lessons without DMT, to try it for a month and then say “you don’t need to try DMT but I learned a lot from it” is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard
DMT was a game changer for me. In 2020. Reminded me that I had an NDE in 2007. Life changing. But - he’s right. It’s not necessary. (Breathing is psychedlic and meditation is key). “[P]sychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various ways of meditation in which drugs are no longer necessary or useful. When you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope; he goes away and works on what he has seen.” - Alan watts
cool explanation w speed and width of consciousness and psycadelics... I def experience something similar after my ayahuasca xp. Huge cognitive dissonance and inaction. Like the "creating responsibly". Cheers
its absolutely beautiful coming to these realizations after all these years of using the medicine. i relate heavily to your path on this video. i was a floating head day in and day out. being rooted and grounded again feels incredible but the detour is most definitely necessary. long live the side quests 👾👽
5:38 I’m gonna stop you right there when it come to speeding up reality. As an experienced psychonaut learning to integrate experiences, I can assure you that if your DMT experiences are speeding too fast, you’re taking the medicine incorrectly. DMT is meant to be slow…WAY SLOW, like slower than turtle speed. You gotta slow that train down. -You don't buy a Ferrari and go full speed, that is reckless.
I don’t really agree with your advice. You are essentially telling people that they don’t need psychedelics (specifically DMT) and to just trust you. Well, how did you come to these insights? Through the use of psychedelics right? Most people need their own experience(s) rather than blind trust/faith. Similar to Sam Harris, without psychedelics, I would have never discovered that there is a landscape of mind worth exploring. It opened my mind and I became very interested in meditation, philosophy, and religion. But without my experiences with psychedelics, I would have thought meditation and exploring the inner landscape of mind is a waste of time. Psychedelics provides that spark and insight to delve deeper into the mysteries of consciousness. Just my 2 cents! 😊
Great perspective, thank you for sharing. I've done DMT years ago when I was first experimenting with LSD, Salvia, and research chemicals in my late teens and early 20s. After I had my first divine experience encounter with an entity, I took a long break from psychedelics, returning 8 years later just a bit over a year ago with mushrooms which are so different from LSD. LSD was very helpful when navigating my early traumas but ended up getting tied into its own scarring event that took years to heal from. Mushrooms have cured, truly and wholeheartedly, my depression, my anxieties over trauma, and my baseline response to fear has been significantly repressed. I even regained hearing loss and have gotten better at singing than I was when I was studying music. I'm wondering how a DMT experience would go, now that I have much more life and psychedelic experience under my belt.
Never had a “good trip” tbh, low doses can be somewhat euphoric but that’s all you should be doing any drug for. Euphoria. Thats it. “Tripping” is just turning yourself into an idiot and it causes more problems than you would think.
Science pulls, and sometimes science needs to be pulled by real intuition, as in Ying Yan. This is already optimal in reality and reality alone, where the dance of discovery unfolds in the vast theater of existence. Thanks for sharing this useful experience, Tristan. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Thank you so much for sharing your experiences! It'll be great to dive deeper into Lesson No. 2. - I also experienced that, but still can't believe in the eternity of the soul or consciousness since I explain it to myself like: Yeah for sure, the Ego dies, therefore it feels like real dying, but my brain is still intact so I'm not fully dead and my consciousness is still on. If one could understand what I mean. Like the pure fact of my ego dying and I'm still able to be aware, doesn't convince me because my body and my brain is still alive even when my ego dies.
The ego lives in the brain and since we don't need the ego anymore we can turn that off, the real intelligence and knowing comes from the body. When you connect to the infinite wisdom of your body, what does your intuition tell you about death?
I thought this was very informative. I’ve gone on shroom trips here and there, so I could imagine DMT being a crazy experience. I went looking for some sort of wisdom, enlightenment, and freedom and I tend to overlook how beautiful it is being here. There was one time I felt like an ALIEN! I truly understood myself as someone wearing a space suit. lol.
Idk man. I think everything is as it has to be. The way I see things after all the experiences I’ve had is most easily explained by saying mathematics is reality. We haven’t learned all there is to learn not will we ever but reality is every mathematical function working in harmony. That’s why everything exists and happens. If anything happened differently, the equation would change. What happened needed to happen because math. If that makes sense. lol Including doing DMT. You didn’t necessarily need it, in hindsight. But you only have that hindsight because you did it. It was inevitable. The universe needed that to happen. I did it a handful of times years ago, trying to find a lot of answers for things in my life. And what I experienced scared me and I ran away from it. But I left knowing that I’m scared because it’s something I need to face. I’ve felt like I’m in weird limbo, half awake state, not quite conscious, just kinda floating by. But I know if I do it again, it’ll force me to actually start living and be present in this world. But to accept the fullness of what this reality really is is intense, it’s difficult. Idk. All of this is kinda aimless rambling to say that I think if DMT calls to you, then you should do it. It’s a part of what this world has to offer and it’s a very valuable perspective on life, I think it offers values this world could use right now.
You have learned the way of the impeccable warrior. Knowing it’s all illusion, God’s dream, yet knowing your role as a human being and playing along. Well done. 😎
I don't know man. You are saying that you shouldn't have smoked DMT. Yet you came to all of those conclusions using DMT. Sounds like it brought do a better place of understanding your reality. You have gained a lot of wisdom, so it's kind of contradicting what you have said.
Yes that’s right, you can take 30 time DMT and still not get it. However, you only need to take once e.g. 5 MEO DMT with the correct intention and integration and you can hang off the phone. Sadly many unconscious people misuse this sacred molecules and for this reason it’s still illegal in most countries.
I'm sorry,man. Poor input-psychedelics>poor output. Taking shrooms and expecting it to act as stimulant, shows your ignorance. Shrooms are not a meth. So that you know. And don't do drugs.
There's an interesting theory of consciousness that we have microtubule structures in the nucleus of our cells, that actually enable information to be sent back in time. I find that comes to mind when you describe that on DMT it is like you are 'living faster'... Likewise considering DMT is the same substance our brain releases when we dream... Perhaps there's a linkage between DMT and some form of consciousness bound/non physical time travel.
Hi man...so this video made me think of Frank Zappa's songs...I'm thinking that there are some people who just read that, and would think that statement came in from way out in left field...but here is why I think this video made me think of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention...Frank was against the use of drugs...and I made an analogy of some of his music...to me some of it, maybe a lot of it, was like taking a trip...the difference in taking drugs to go tripping, is that once you take it, there is no turning back, and you pretty much have to ride it out, figuratively speaking...but if you are listening to a Frank Zappa song, and it turns out you don't like the trip it is taking you on, and you find it way to disturbing, you can always turn it off, but once you are on a drug trip on something that causes you to hallucinate, and it turns out to be a bad one, you cannot stop it until it subsides. There is this specific Frank Zappa song video that this youtuber was doing a reaction video on, and it had a bunch of freaky claymation images going on in it, and he really liked the musical depth and skill it took to execute playing that piece of music, but did not like the claymation images...anyway, rambling on, here...thanks for the video, and hope you and yours are doing great!
