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Alright. Let me just say I don't care what anybody does with their body, and I think it's a basic human right to put whatever you want into your body as long as you cause no physical harm to anyone else. Let me also just say I know that it's scientifically documented that I believe in educating people of drugs effects and the effects of addiction, rather than locking them up for their vices.
Now that that's out of the way, I have to tell you guys a secret. I have a drug problem. It's not with cocaine, amphetamines, or any stimulants. It's not with alcohol, opiates, or any depressants. It's not with tobacco, prescription medicines, or anything else like that. I don't use those drugs because, surprise, I know the facts about them, and know the physical addiction and damage from longterm use aren't appealing to me.
My problem, it's with pot and psychedelic hallucinogens. They aren't dangerous unless you have a genetic predisposition for schizophrenia or other mental illness, they aren't physically addicting, and they induce experiences you can't have by any other process. They induce experiences that allow you direct contact and contact with the concept of infinity. Some people label these experiences as religious experiences, and I guess I agree. These substances are the body and blood of christ for me. They allow me to come into contact with the divine a lot more effectively than some stale crackers and watered down wine. I advocate the education of the people in schools, rather than the misinformation and indoctrination of them, and I advocate treating the people whom are being taught about drugs as people who can think for themselves, rather than as things you can pump information into until they mindlessly repeat the rhetoric. I also advocate the widespread usage of these drugs. These substances induce experiences, which are for some reason being suppressed by the authoritative powers that be. Why are these experiences being suppressed? Why would an experience be suppressed? Once you experience it, you will understand why it is suppressed.
So. What drugs do I do? And what drugs do I advocate you all do? Well, for one, I advocate smoking the most potent pot you can obtain on a regular basis. At least once a day every day. Everyone should experience psychedelic mushrooms at least once, in doses above 5 grams in silent darkness. Salvia Divinorum, smoked in high amounts while outside, or while under the influence of other psychedelics, will allow you to contact deities directly. Peyote is a wonderful ally, allowing you contact with the spirits of your ancestors. Ayahuasca is one of my personal favorites, it is an intensely powerful brew used for millennia by amazonian shamen for healing purposes. Smoking DMT crystals will allow you to experience nonlinguistic raw comsciousness, completely unpolluted by the illusions of time and sensory perception.
Also, before you just wave me off as a pathetic waste of life whose mind is held strong by the influence of drugs, let me assure you I know this topic very well. I hold degrees in neurochemistry and psychopharmacology. I've studied the pertinent scientific literature to the best extent possible in this atmosphere of informational suppression, and can answer almost any question you would have regarding drugs, no matter how 'loaded' you can make them.
This is a discussion about psychedelic shamanism as a faith, and how to practice it, if you want to get technical.



You aren't directly interacting with infinity, you are teaching yourself an abstraction of it. You can't understand what I am attempting to describe, because words can't describe it well. You lose awareness of yourself as separate from everything else, and become completely aware of your surroundings and the way you integrate with the world. You become aware of your cosmic role, and to some it is crushing because it's not very big. They remove your ego and allow 'you' to be a part of the universe in nonlinguistic felt experience.

I agree that online it's impossible to tell if someone is credible or not, but would you like any information regarding anything about drugs? Scientific papers about the safety of pot, how it causes hippocampal neurogenesis, how it causes density of brain cells to increase, how babies whose mothers smoke marijuana while pregnant have a faster developmental rate and are self sufficient faster?
I'll give citations if you just ask.

The proper way to smoke salvia is to smoke about a half of a pipeload, keep the flame on the plant matter the whole time you are inhaling, and hold the smoke in for as long as you can. Try for over 30 seconds, and you'll see what I mean. You'll see the world begin to change from a euclidean geometry to a noneuclidean MC Escheresque mathematical jumble, and will feel gravity pulling you in different directions than down. You'll feel a rush of wind on your face, and possibly entity contact.

I believe that the substance itself should be the faith and the spirit contained within the substance should be worshipped as the 'God.' In my eyes, the experience given by these plants, in exchange for them allowing you to kill them and ingest them, is a gift given by nature and whatever ordering force created these substances that interact so beautifully with our brains. I am against forcing beliefs onto anyone, I am against discrimination of any kind, especially sexual discrimination. In fact, most of the most powerful shamen are women. Women hold the power of creation in their bodies, and in my eyes that power has been held against women by organized religion for as long as it has existed, because men feared it and wanted to suppress it. Maria Sabina was one of the preeminent shamanesses of the 20th century, and she intruduced the psilocybin mushroom and salvia divinorum to western culture openly. I know it's bad to tell someone how to contact and get closer to god, but when something exists that has worked since before the beginning of written history, and has been used to contact the spirit realm reliably even to this day, I think it's a shame to not use the right to free speech to inform people about it.
I mean, free speech is meant to protect speech that people don't want to hear, not the stuff everyone hears every day.



I added the schizophrenic clause to it because it is physically dangerous to take psychedelic drugs if you are genetically predisposed to schizophrenia or mental illness, as it will make the latent mental illness completely active instead of inactive. You say you have a genetic predisposition to schizophrenia: do you think in your current state you would need to be institutionalized? Many people who are in your current state, who take psychedelics, need to be institutionalized.
The divinity I am talking about is described as a state of samadhi, as the bodhi mind, as absolute grace, and as 'tripping.'
Your description of 'tripping' makes no sense, you are not referring to tripping. You are referring to smoking pot. If you've ever seen someone on LSD or mushrooms, you would know they don't get sleepy or get calmed down. It's different than that. It ramps up pattern recognition to the point that you become aware of the process of pattern recognition itself. You become aware of the order of things, you have a completely different perception of time and space. It's not an inner stimulus you are reacting to, it's the normal sensory perception you are reacting to, but with a different chemical process than usual.
I am referring to a oneness of all sensory perception, the unclouded experience of the now, and being aware of everything that has ever been and ever will be as a part of yourself. It's similar to being acutely in tune to the idea that your mind creates reality to the point that you can manipulate it, or watch reality get perturbed as your mind is altered.

Weed may or may not be divine, but I believe that anyone who thinks that these substances aren't divine just aren't doing them in high enough doses.

Hey, I found spirituality through mushrooms, and I view psychedelics as a sacrament in my practice.

So yeah, I hear ya. There are a lot of ignorant people out there, but don't let them get you down. Just remember: people have been using psychedelics spiritually for thousands of years before Christ was even born.

Drugs can be a fast way to show you how to get there. And once you come down, you'll remember that pathway for the rest of your life. It's not like you can only experience this while under the influence of a psychedelic ... they are teachers, allies, and friends.

Drugs can and do help with spirituality , but some people cannot handle that and are just out for recreational use, sober spirituality doesn't take 40 years like you said but it can take longer, honestly I prefer to be sober during spiritual practices so I know what it and what isn't a hallucination , but I will never forget my friend who uses mushrooms and salvia quite effectivly.

Smoking DMT is akin to experiencing what the buddha experienced while meditating after he achieved his enlightenment. Meditation is a lesser form of 'enlightenment' when compared to entheogenic enlightenment. Meditation releases only DMT into the brain in small amounts. When you take an entheogen, it causes your mindest to be forcibly changed in ways that surpass the states that meditation masters have experienced. Mescaline, Psilocybin, DMT+MAOI, these all are scales of magnitude more intense and enlightening than the states induced by meditation alone.
You can meditate to induce a DMT flash. You can meditate to induce ego loss. The facts are, though, that .1% of the meditating population will ever achieve either. You can regularly induce a DMT flash by smoking or injecting it, and you can achieve ego loss with anything ranging from 2 grams of mushrooms, to 2 lungfuls of salvia divinorum, to 800 mg of mescaline, to 4 hits of blotter acid, to 20g of morning glory seeds, to drinking a coffee cup full of potent ayahuasca.
Yes, but the difference between 0-3.5g of mushrooms and 3.5-12g of mushrooms is indescribable. If you've ever done a dose of 10g of mushrooms while in silent darkness meditating, and you experience the most intense tearing of your ego from your perceptions, you will never be the same.

You dont get it , and probobly wont , so I will explain it as simply as I can .

You know when you play a video game or just any normal game your goal is to win and have fun , but ultimatly you gain experience and learn new techniques from your attempt to win ?

Think of drugs like cheating in a game . You win . You get all the fealings that go with it , but did you get any better ? Can you win without cheating ? What if you could no longer cheat ?

Its like swimming with floats on . Your swimming , but do you know how to swim ? Do you even remotely understand the art of swimming by using such an item ? No , you dont . The minute I fire my bb-gun at your little floats you start flapping around like a retard .

Achieving spiritualty through the use of drugs is the same thing . And you must have been joking when you said our brain uses natural drugs and thus makes my statement hypocritical . Thats like saying using floats to swim takes just as much skill as using your naturally born hands and feet .



Do you know that that has absolutly nothing to do with the point ?

Psychedelics are virutally impossible to overdose on. Now, the tropane-alkaloids ... those are dangerous as hell. Hence I restrict myself to the psychedelics, which have no physical negative effects.