by Trobador222 » Sat Feb 13, 2021 8:44 am
Ifunkus wrote: Sat Dec 19, 2020 1:02 pm
Heigen5 wrote: Sat Dec 19, 2020 10:59 am
wushuman wrote: Fri Dec 18, 2020 10:39 pm
When you say "human-being looking". Do you mean you could see them with your eyes (like manifest in the room with you) or in your mind?
In my mind, just one old grey haired man.
I suffered psychosis and it was just auditory but it felt real, that people, like spirits were there.
All my experiences like that were from drugs. I used to go out and pick the magic mushrooms that grew in the cow shit here in the US. My first trip, when I was in college was on Peyote. I also had LSD trips back then. And I had experiences on those drugs a lot like what you and Heikki have described. But only on those substances and I was kind of able to separate those from normal experience. All my trips were kind of me, looking on from outside and being of two minds.
That is not to say, they were not meaningful to me. Hallucinogenic drugs taught me to think more and pay attention to symbolic thinking. That lead to exploring psychology and Jung, (Who I still understand only a fraction of what the fuck he was talking about.) And then Joseph Campbell and comparative mythology.
The difference it made to me was in music and writing lyrics in the stuff I was doing in the Pond days. Invoking that gospell feel was kind of deliberate and why I incorporated some of the imagery into my lyrics. It resonates with people.
Funny, it's also why I love primitive style gospel music in Americana. But I am an Agnostic in the classic definition of the word.
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When you say "human-being looking". Do you mean you could see them with your eyes (like manifest in the room with you) or in your mind?
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In my mind, just one old grey haired man.
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I suffered psychosis and it was just auditory but it felt real, that people, like spirits were there.
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All my experiences like that were from drugs. I used to go out and pick the magic mushrooms that grew in the cow shit here in the US. My first trip, when I was in college was on Peyote. I also had LSD trips back then. And I had experiences on those drugs a lot like what you and Heikki have described. But only on those substances and I was kind of able to separate those from normal experience. All my trips were kind of me, looking on from outside and being of two minds.
That is not to say, they were not meaningful to me. Hallucinogenic drugs taught me to think more and pay attention to symbolic thinking. That lead to exploring psychology and Jung, (Who I still understand only a fraction of what the fuck he was talking about.) And then Joseph Campbell and comparative mythology.
The difference it made to me was in music and writing lyrics in the stuff I was doing in the Pond days. Invoking that gospell feel was kind of deliberate and why I incorporated some of the imagery into my lyrics. It resonates with people.
Funny, it's also why I love primitive style gospel music in Americana. But I am an Agnostic in the classic definition of the word.