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- From: jprice@jove.cs.pdx.edu (James Price)
- Newsgroups: alt.drugs
- Subject: thoughts on LSD
- Message-ID: <941@pdxgate.UUCP>
- Date: 18 Dec 90 08:12:04 GMT
-
- Having done my share of LSD, I spose I should add my two bits to the heap.
- I have had over half a dozen sessions with acid, ranging over about 5 years.
- I have ingested roughly 10 blotter hits in this time. The last time I dropped
- was Dec 15 (or friday, whichever the date was), and second last was Dec 30
- 1987. Most recently, I started with 1 blotter at 7:39 am, took a second at
- 8:45, and a third at 4:00 pm. By 9:00 am the liquid skin disease had kicked in,
- and the metallic sweats came and there were indications of activity. By 10am
- mental activities were real white-waterish, if ya know what I mean. It was
- very pleasant. By noon I was really riding high. After the 4:00 booster, the
- effect was even more profound. By this time I had taken just below 3 blotter
- units. Acid insights galore, along with the laughter caused by profoundly
- realized revelations and humorous social-cultural reflections. Asleep by 3am,
- my girlfriend and I had a delightful, close, "bonding" evening such as the
- effects were so wonderful.
-
- With me, acid can make me devilishly-mischievous, meditatively reflectful,
- probingly thoughtful, reflective, serene, joyful, intensely happy, radiant
- of love....it tends to enhance my understanding of the cosmos. It is a way
- to travel to reality-prime, where things are not exactly as they appear, and
- things are really eternal and ordered, assuring. It is a soulful drug, a
- mind/spirit/soul amplifier of perception, not a body drug like the legals.
- It allows "the doors of perception" to be cleansed, it reminds you you are
- eternal. I once feared LSD cause I thought it would take "me" away, it would
- destroy "me". Now I know personality is indestructable, at least for those
- who have found "identification". While everything changes, "I" will remain.
- Those who have done lsd may suspect it is illegal because it causes thought
- processes that may threaten consensus reality power, it does not promote
- their "authority". LSD is a long strange journey where you walk with yourself
- and get to know who you really are.
-
- I've had some really wonderful trips, and have learned quite a lot from this
- chemical. Its perspective cannot be wrong, just different. How many times has
- it been said or implied lsd drives you crazy? Are the Beatles crazy? They
- have done more, and better, LSD than I ever will. Didn't Rock Hudson (or was
- it Cary Grant) use it? Didn't the CIA? Why must scare tactics be used to
- squash anything the gov/power-structre doesn't like? Informed, intelligent
- adults should have the powers of choice, including choice of chemicals. This
- current prohibition will be no more successful than the last one, in its
- stated purpose. It has been very successful in its real purpose. Freedoms
- must be taken if the WoD is to work, and the typical person is too afraid to
- stand up and question or comment. Places like this are indespensible resources
- for dissemination of the real truth, and the real news. I thank NetGod that
- I need not depend upon the TV for news, or our local slanted rag.
-
- While I admit a slight possiblity of having a "bad trip" on acid, this
- has never happened to me. I do see how one could have a displeasurable
- encounter with lsd if
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- 1) in bad environment, 2) with "bad" people, or 3) afraid of self, or
- 4) unable to laugh and enjoy a good humour mood
-
- But I think all the krap about emergency room bad trips is exageratted,
- dark-age hyperbole. And last time I dropped I looked out my 4 story window,
- not jumped. LSD's LD50 is evidence that it is no harmful to the body than
- water is. It is beneficial to the mind and soul when used properly. It simply
- changes your perspective, shifts your dimensions a bit. Like Alice down the
- rabbit hole, its a strange, but fun and stimulating adventure.
-
- It's not like I do it everyday. It's been YEARS since I did it before just
- recently. And thats fine with me. I was celebrating a 4.00 average for this
- term in school, and thats for Comp Sci, Math, University Honors and some
- history courses, not basket weaving. My cums up to 3.54 so I am sitting pretty
- at school, and work for those who would assume otherwise. Which goes to point
- out the ole "amotivational syndrome" is a load of myth also.
-
- Probably the worse thing about this latest War on Drugs is that it is at
- best, a hypocritical witch-hunt based on misinformation and one sided
- propaganda. It is against information, and informed-formation. It would
- crush those who would excercise their legal rights in the name of the law.
- It would put the Law over the Individual, a corrupt and unjust law. It
- demands uniformity of posture and mind, rather than unity in diversity.
- The Drug Warriors assume Judgment as their own, rather than taking stock in
- tolerance and freedom. As with the Amercian flag, the symbol has become far
- more important than that which it represnts. And this is a mistake, a grave
- and fatal error plagueing democracy --- that the citizenry will be "taken
- care of", and then controlled. Legislation can never produce moral change, or
- anything like meaningful growth. Only personal exerience can teach the lessons
- of life; laws cannot make one good regardless of number, severity, or penalty.
- Heaven must be something like a self-governed anarchy, with no laws carved in
- stone, except "to thine own self be true", and "do unto others as you would
- have them do unto you". Tolerance IS necessary for growth, laws should be
- to protect the responsible from the animal-people, not to restrict free
- movement of freewill citizens. Intolerance is indicative of narrowness, and
- prejudice. Ignorance and prejudice stand in the way of growth, they are
- unbecoming of those who would learn, and learn to know. (german: kennenlernen)
- One day perhaps we will pass out of the era of negative, forbidding laws
- to a system of positive, helpful laws, the Law of Love. When you love every
- other person as you can love yourself, and when you seek to do good to them
- and to do good for them, you will see that this is the best rule to run
- your life by. Laws (rules of behavior or patterns of response) are every
- persons duty to legislate for himself. Make the real rules for yourself;
- find your own moral code and live by it, and be true to yourself. If you
- find yourself fully self-accountable, you need not fear the trials or the
- scrutiny of tyranny. A truly self-assured soul need not fear worldly troubles,
- for the citadel of the spirit is ever unassailable. Drugs or not, find yourself
- and be yourself, and be yourself fully and unwaveringly, certain of the
- Truth you increasingly live.
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- That's all. Just wanted to share my thoughts with you all.
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- Questions or comments welcomed here or by e-mail. Feel free to quote me in
- this or any other medium. Thanks for being you.
-
- James
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