Psychedelics are great, one time I was trippin on too much acid and I was staring at a fire pit and the fire pit turned into a mini world with little people and buildings, that was 2 years ago and it's such an experience to remember. would love to try out the psilocybin mushrooms next, just don't know where to get them, so hard to come by
just finished a trip (haven't had one for about 2-3 months) and it was a mess, it wasn't bad or good, it was weird, haven't ever had such a meh trip kept going outside for a walk, like searching for something, but never found it, I just got back from working months abroad and wanted to trip but it felt off, everything felt unorganized and I was on edge most of the time, kinda felt lonely swell, but oh well
I've never done psychedelics, but you give a good description. So it sounds like psychedelics simply mess up some of the neural connections in the mind for a period of time. So the here's is what this is, is broken off (path disruption) from here is what that means to my mind (action to take, moral value to apply, motivation or feeling to trigger, et al.) for a period of time. So you are in a state free to pondering new interpretations, and meaning. And these broken connections break your sense of prior self (awakening). The degree of disruption probably accounts for good trip, bad trip syndrome. If disruption is too much, it's may hinder retaining new connections from the experience (hippocampus), or trigger fear/anxiety (amygdala regulation). For those who have experience, is my interpretation directionally accurate?
If you’re still an materialist after taking psychedelics, you’ve got problems. Psychedelics simply show you the hubris of thinking anything is absolute. They open your mind to the possibility that everything you think you know is probably wrong. They made me realize that life is not just some fluke. Science is descriptive. Psychedelics are PRESCRIPTIVE.
I dropped acid in my early twenties, great experience until I had a bad trip. Nothing like completely losing your mind while being fully alert. After the bad trip, I never touched psychedelics again, however I cherish the experience.
I think Angelo said it in a nice way, a psychedelic trip can be a lense, a sort of glimpse into non duality and therefore can be a big motivator for the pathless path. The sense of no ego, the sense of connectiveness can be experienced on psychedelics. I still remember being on shrooms in a forrest and having that real feeling of not being separated from my surroundings. That its just that, that what i perceive as myself all the time is as much part of everything else as a tree, or a bird or a corn of sand. Just one.
I recently had an incredibly scary experience on a softer legal drug where I could see all the connections in my life that led CLEARLY to the conclusion that I was in one of those sci-fi movies where the character is in a coma and people outside are begging him to “wake up” and it took me down a dark path of how I might need to fulfill that kind of “wake up”. I’ve never had my brain make a rational case for unaliving and I don’t think I can ever do it again. At least I can now empathize with people who’s brain goes that route without drugs. That’s tough and I hope I have the chance to help someone later get out of that thinking.
the greater point to make is, if we describe brain activity as just the physical things we see brains doing, where do the qualities we mentally experience come in? Where in ion channels and neural tissue sending electricity back and forth does the quality of something like our experience appear? The fact is nothing in nature can "just appear", which is what physicalism is banging its head against currently. Analytic idealism is a good alternative framework for thinking about nature (including _our_ nature).
I will never ever eat or drink anything again while listening to you! I spit out my food and nearly choked while laughing at your description of Disneyland. Great explanation of the effect of psychedelics.
Mad respect brother. I appreciate your willingness to delve into every imaginable and conceivable concept relating to this human experience. As a regular dabbler myself who has been microdosing and gentle macrodosing for quite some time I appreciate you articulating the realities of this experience. Or the perceived realities. Based on our priors. 😉
I personally would never want to do psychedelics as I have a natural aversion to them. Would I wouldn’t mind is becoming a robobrain from Fallout. I get cool mind powers and can live indefinitely. I’d even get a literal mind eye being one albeit a robo mind eye
Back in 1997 we had a work conference (record industry- NAMM) in Orlando and one night they closed Tomorrowland down and it was reserved for us. Me and two associates dropped some LSD and had a blast. Not a ‘heroic’ trip but definitely higher than we wanted to be - no regerts lol
The speaker misunderstood Bayesian inference. Prior probability distributions are prior to any experience. Then you take your experience into account, and Bayes' Rule gives posterior probabilities that are your best guess of the current situation (and future and past). So if you want to understand psychedelics in a Bayesian framework, you need to assume that they change your prior, they change your remembered experience, or they change details in whatever approximation you are taking because Bayesian inference is impractical for realistic data. I would guess the latter, but then I run out of specific useful ideas.
I never got into things like psychedelics but lately I’ve been feeling like I have. I’ll be just suddenly staring at one of my limbs and going what is that? I can’t describe it very well at all but it feels like things are just so weird. And ditto on the feeling everything and wanting to go back into the matrix. And yet, at the same time, I wouldn’t go back in even if I was paid. Now that’s a paradox. 🤣
Your saying something very interesting here. So if I understand your logic correctly, something like hypnosis combined with a mushroom trip or just after, would be far more effective than simply using hypnosis. Is that correct? Let's take it a step further. There appears to be a direct correlation between the mind and disease. (i.e I have heard that some people with multiple personality disorder will have certain diseases such as diabetes in one personality but not another). Assuming I understand your logic correctly, and assuming the mind as that much of an effect on disease, I could apply hypnosis on a trip to reverse certain diseases. To be clear, I realize that what I am saying is very theoretical, and I say it as a question, not a statement of fact.
The idea that we are a brain inside a boney box which only knows the world through sensory nerves has a problem. How do we know that such a model is correct? To know, or even just think, that such a model is correct is relying on the fact that we a brain, inside a skull, etc., etc.. But how do we know that idea that is true - the model itself tells us that we are not in direct with things. So, we only have the idea that we are within something called a brain using nerves to contact the 'outside' world. Basically the argument is flawed because it is cyclic. It relies on the fact of us being a brain inside a skull being true in order to justify that we are a brain inside a skull! But, by defintion, we cannot know that this is true.
Definitely fits with Brain fMRI scans on psychedelics. I wonder if one day we will perceive absolute reality? Maybe once I die my consciousness will do some David Bohm enfolding into the implicate order and I'll finally understand what is reality.
Matthew 13:18-23 18 Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower. 19 When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side. 20 But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it; 21 Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended. 22 He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful. 23 But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
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