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There’s a part of me making, creating the perceptions which in everyday life would be bizarre; there’s another part of me which is a kind of observer. About half of the pleasure comes from the observer-part appreciating the work of the creator-part.
I smile, or sometimes even laugh out loud at the pictures on the insides of my eyelids. In this sense, I suppose cannabis is psychotomimetic, but I find none of the panic or terror that accompanies some psychoses. Possibly this is because I know it’s my own trip, and that I can come down rapidly any time I want to.
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The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world..
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Positivity Through Psychedelic Experiences?
If I were to rewind time to say 10 or so years ago, and take a good look at myself then, I would see I wasn’t always the fairly positive person I am today…at all.
I grew up with angst and anger concerning my parents divorce, and attachment/resentment issues like plenty of other people. All that stuff made me an angry early/late teenage kid indeed. Perhaps I was nice enough, but the tiniest of things would set me off into a fit of rage i now wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. I see people and know people now that have “anger issues” but they are nothing compared to the violent, abusive tornado I would often become towards my brother, my parents and anyone else who got in my way. I just wasn’t seeing the positivity, joy and love in the world, at all..and I was constantly taking it out on everyone around me.
It wasn’t until I stepped outside of my own everyday perceptions, even just through beginning smoking cannabis, that I could truly look “inside” myself, objectively as though through another lens, and see where these issues were coming from and how to let them go or work through them.
I recall one of the first times smoking just laying back on my bed, drifting through thought patterns as i looked out the window, mesmerised by the shifting of the coming rain clouds, lost in their simple and pure beauty… For one of the first times in my life I let myself go and discovered the elegance and grace nature carries itself with.. It was truly one of those “wow, I get it” moments..
From those first few times smoking, cannabis became a favourite ally of mine, something that allowed a fresh perspective on things in my life. I can’t even count the number of times I’ve faced a problem and then upon thinking about it differently and objectively, been able to work through it.
My discovery and fascination with psychedelics took those first few glimpses of positivity and compounded them a thousand fold.
I found a world filled with life and vibrancy, a feeling of connectedness and loving empathy, a wonderfully humbling sense of just being thankful to be here and now, for being able to have this human experience…
Of course the double edged sword with psychedelics is their wonderful insight into your own psyche, your own issues.. They certainly are a different lens from which to look at yourself, perhaps removing the everyday perceptual filters entirely, and for some people who don’t like what they find, or aren’t ready to work through such things, it can be all too much…
For myself though, some of the hardest times when using psychedelics have been the most valuable. The times where I’ve felt like I’m going to cry, where I have cried, or have had to lay down from being overwhelmed, where I’ve gone so far into the furthest recesses of my mind and memories that I wondered if i would make it back out, were all some of the most incredibly valuable and insightful experiences of my life.
Sure I have had times where I have had telepathic communications with an ancient tree, stared at the sacred geometry emerging from the ever spiraling carpet tapestry, watched as people got on and off a boat amidst a raging sea in a painting, heard the clearest most pronounced and beautiful songs emanating from a kettle boiling, but those things were never and will never be what psychedelics are about for me.
Every now and then if I feel something amiss in my life, or just want to think about a particular thing differently, psychedelics allow me to remove the social and perceptual filters for a while and leave me with a renewed vigor and positivity for life.
Sure they aren’t the only way to get there, but I believe they are one of the most incredibly powerful tools we have to learn and grow as human beings. And that, is just what the world seems to need to do right now..
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The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world..
Carl Sagan
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Marijuana Manifesto
What better time to confess my undying love for natures wonderful gift, than my 420th post!
For me, marijuana has been a truly humbling, life changing plant. The first time i smoked in my late teens, my grasp of consciousness, perception & reality were indelibly altered forever. My fascination with the conscious mind was blasted into hyperspace, as I first saw how powerful this plant teacher can be.
When I finally took the plunge I found my senses altered like never before. Music took on an all together new sheen, vivid imagery accompanied every note as I lay back on my bed with my eyes closed. Floating through the vast expanses of my closed eyelids I remember the profound sense of wonder, of beauty, of love that I felt that day.
Everything I saw took on a new and dream like quality. A simple peach was a gift from the gods, its exquisite textures and taste exploding with each mouthfull..I had never experienced anything like it in my life..
The complete and total opposite of the alcoholic inebration I had only known up until then, this plant ally was allowing me into the deepest reaches of my mind I had ever gone into..
Up until that point in my life I had often been an angry and impatient teenager. Lashing out at the slightest of trivial things. That was, until I was able to step back from myself, and reflect upon the person I had been and some of my actions up until that point. Smoking helped show me things about myself, and why I had been that way. Best of all, it helped me change those negative qualities, letting go of anger, resentment & hatred as I could clearly see where they had come from.
Since that first day, marijuana has been, and always will be, a plant ally of mine. I take breaks every now and then, don’t go overboard or smoke myself into a stupor every day, because I believe it to be a gift, a gift that is to be respected and cherished.
So yes,
I inhaled, still inhale, and will forever inhale.
Mary Jane,
I love you.
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Marijuana Mandala
Symbolizes the infinite healing potential of oft maligned cannabis..
Share YOUR psychedelic experiences?
So, i have a lot of followers who seem to love reading about my adventures in the psychedelic land, and some of you have already shared with me some of your experiences.
I usualy don’t post much on weekends, and I would absolutely LOVE to come back after the weekend to read about others experiences!
If you have posted them on your blog before or something and I’ve missed them you could even link me to them! I truly love reading about other peoples journeys!
Soooo please share YOUR psychedelic experiences?
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M.
