YinYang

I wouldn't really call psychosis a mental illness, as such. It's just that those people realize they can't with any certainty be absolutely sure that what they are seeing around them is real. Think about this: if space/time is relative, then it takes time for information to travel to one end to the other. It therefore takes time to process the information you see with your eyes; for that information to first hit your eyes, be processed by your brain and relayed back to you as an image. That means you are always looking into the past, not the present. If what you're seeing around you is already in the past, then how can you be certain that what is around you is actually real? You can't. Psychosis is an extension of that. Psychedelics blur the line between what is real/unreal. Therefore people with psychosis will get freaked out more easily.

Loops explained: Usually during a negative psychedelic experience, the user can develop cognitive, physical, emotional, auditory and sensational loops, simultaneously. During cognitive loops, the user has created circular logic. For example, if Jimmy thinks that if he doesn't leave the house his parents will catch him on LSD and he will have a bad trip. But if he leaves out in public he would get arrested by police and have a bad trip. So to avoid being arrested Jimmy thinks to stay inside. Jimmy has dejavu and remembers that if he stays inside with his parents he will have a bad trip. During physical or behavioral loops, the user carries out their thoughts. Jimmy starts pacing to and from his bedroom to the front door repeatedly. During visual loops, the user sees the same hallucination repeatedly. When Jimmy is in his room, he sees blood (which is actually his own sweat) dripping down his body, his shirt drenched. This gives Jimmy the impression that he's either injured or killed someone. He then sees flashing police/ambulance lights out the windows when he gets to the front door. During an emotional loop, the user is bipolar in that he shifts from one emotion to the other rapidly. Jimmy shifts from positive to negative emotions. Jimmy feels terrified when he is in his room, but feels elated when he gets to the front door because he feels that the ambulance will save him. The anxiety multiplies each time he repeats this process until Jimmy thinks he's going to die. During auditory loops, the user hears the same sounds according to his thoughts or environment. Everytime Jimmy paces to the front door, he hears police/ambulance sirens, but everytime he gets to his room he hears his parents shouting at him from down the hallway. During sensational loops, the user feels repeated sensations on his physical body. When Jimmy is in his room, he tastes and smells blood dripping down into his mouth, and when he gets to the front door he hallucinates that he has cuffs around his wrists. The worst thing about a loop is you don't even realize that you're doing any of it. And when you do, you realize that you can't get out because you're doing it to yourself. No human being should have to go through this.

The same lessons from psychedelics can be acquired through meditation, yes. But meditation does not rob you of your senses. And that is the beauty of the beast about psychedelics: you can never be 100% certain of reality because your perception is altered externally (with drugs), whereas meditation can assist change in consciousness internally. As well as the fact that your experience can never be 100% unaffected by your ego during a psychedelic experience. Therefore, you know with absolute certainty that it's YOU and not the substance who is producing enlightenment during meditation.

There are much safer ways of obtaining such enlightenment. Psychedelics can catapult you into a psychological hell for that enlightenment, which can present psychological harm along the way. But at the same time it has a very spiritual component, despite the negativity. To be fair, there is absolutely nothing wrong with experimenting/gambling with psychedelics. Harm and wrongdoing are two very different things.

Logic. What is the opposite of temporary life? Eternal life. Only reason its not eternal death, is because there is a truth which exists that tells us that we cannot imagine nothingness, so long as we are conscious.

They can if the enlightenment is something external to life, such as heaven.

For every action there is an equal/opposite reaction. Just because we all die, does not mean that the way we die doesn't matter; it could determine what happens to us or others in the future. Everything has consequences. For example: If I murdered somebody, then it is all of a sudden much more likely that someone from the said persons family would try and murder me. What goes around comes around. And if we consider that reality may be infinite, then in a realm of endless possibilities it is possible that in the next life I could get murdered.

Psychedelics can do tremendous psychological harm, clinically speaking. It takes an open mind not to be biased and accept that. Nothing inherently wrong with it, however it can cause a great deal of sadness. Let me give you an example: someone takes LSD in search for the meaning of life. They find the meaning of life, and therefore find no reason to live anymore. As a result, they kill themselves. That someone may have friends, family or loved ones that would be negatively effected. This can happen.

Aldolf Hitler was a drug addict. Believe he was addicted to methamphetamine. Lol.

What I am arguing here is that "enlightenment" can result in both absolute bliss and happiness, as well as absolute despair and sadness. So yes it can, but not necessarily, would be the correct answer. One simply cannot exist without the other in this world. And if you are to have all knowledge, it would include the idea that you must take the bitter with the sweet as a human being.

LSD increases heart rate, blood pressure and body temperature. It's funny because I've also taken LSD, the chemical mostly responsible for putting myself and others in these loops. I hope the same has not happened to my brain; but at the same time it has given me a gift. They say you learn the most from the bad trips, I can certainly say that's true.

Usually most psychedelics don't have any permanent physical effects. I wonder which substance that was?

@Loreena Could be chasing absolutely anything, it is the structure of life and applies to everything. Take money for example. In order to acquire money someone needs to lose it.

Infinity + Yin Yang. It is like a dog chasing its own tail for eternity.

Duality still exists in infinity. You just experienced the positive side. Matter of fact, that concept of "infinity" you describe is nothing more than an emotion associated with the thousands of thoughts you are having during a short a period of time. This phenomenon is called time dilation. However, the situation becomes much different when you have experienced the negative side of that duality, spiraling down into a timeless negative loop (aka "bad trip"), as opposed to ascending into infinity. What goes up, must come down. The higher you are, the harder you fall. In order to progress your spirit, you must go through things which make it stronger; which take you higher. Yin Yang my friend. But eventually you hit a wall with psychedelics, where it either becomes no more than a masturbatory experience or a horror story about what it's doing to your brain. You could argue that without the ego there is no negativity, but your ego (including brain; sensory perception) is still apart of you and is responsible for reacting to the substance and creating the experience. That is just the insurmountable truth. Similarly, you didn't learn any more than you already know. Psychedelics just brought your attention to it. Keep using them and one day, perhaps for no particular reason (psychedelics are unpredictable), you may get caught in a loop that shows you the other side of the coin. Once you reach that level of enlightenment, you realize that you cannot escape it since you cannot unlearn what you already know, and what your own mind is doing to itself. Duality was created by that which is opposite to itself: god (for want of a better term). The opposite of 1, is 2. The cause of all our "wars" In fact, everything in this world is dual in that all things can be defined by its opposite, psychedelics are not exempt from this. Which means that once you do have such a negative experience, you'll realize that it is necessary for negative experiences to occur for positive one's to co-exist. In other words, during a "bad trip" you can get stuck in loops where positive points to negative, and negative points to positive at no end. I can see that you have only just dabbled into psychedelics; only just discovered the beauty of them. As an experienced user, I'm compelled to warn you that the brain cannot handle the beast of the experience without human repercussions, and that you are in fact limited to the physical properties of it. Every time you take a psychedelic, part of you and your chemistry surrenders to the experience. Trying not to discuss mental illness or religion here (so I will just reference it), but usually abuse or intense experiences can result in very rare human conditions such as psychosis, HPPD, or more generally being "stuck in a trip". This is not a joke/myth, and one doesn't need to be predisposed to mental illness to experience the very same visions that you can have on psychedelics. So be very careful my friend, and tread lightly. If there really is a god, these psychedelics produce alternate realities, as opposed to absolute truth and oneness. This is what I've learned in my journey through years of psychedelic use. Farewell on your path to enlightenment. Just remember that there is always a flip side, a catch-22. If you are going to continue psychedelic use, prepare yourself for the best, as well as most difficult paths to enlightenment. Because in the end, everything burns and psychedelic use ceases when you have seen all that it can teach you. All you have to do is look at people like Psyched Substance who eventually got their butt whooped by psychedelics and were forced to stop. Psychedelic use does not end well. If anyone can tag Leo in this post, I think he would be greatly interested in this topic. I'm interested in seeing his response.