Questions on the Power of Psychedelics

[JosephKnecht]

I AM ON LSD!

 

I am alone

 

Its just a cycle, cycling endlessly!

 

I have been alone for all eternity.! 

 

Everyone that I hug is me,

 

Everyone that I argue WITH is ME, 

 

I have been all of you, I will be all of you.

 

There is nothing else But You.

 

There is nothing else but Me.

 

SO BEAUTIFUL! 

 

Endless LOVE!

 

Forever! 

[Consilience]

On 6/8/2020 at 0:52 AM, Nak Khid said:

On aspect to this is if you use mindfulness meditations techniques these are not intended to produce  psychedelic type experiences.  They are supposed to produce high states of awareness and clarity 
- and accidentally one might sometimes have a hallucination.  This is regarded by many Buddhists as makyō a momentary delusion, a distraction.  Not something bad but something not especially significant. 
However if you wanted to meditate and have  hallucination states that can be induced by with different meditation techniques and physical body methods.    

The value of the psychedelic state is not the hallucinations. So mindfulness techniques very much are intended to produce psychedelic type experiences if what you're valuing out of the psychedelic is the higher states of awareness and clarity. If one is using psychedelics for consciousness work, that is the value they provide, not the hallucinations. 

[outlandish]

The most succinct and meta way I can put it is that: Psychedelics work by de-conditioning and amplifying the experience of reality.

De-conditioning means that the categories we place things in become softened. The boundaries become apparent as mental constructs, and reality can become more fluid and whole/holistic. The weakening of boundaries can include the sense of "I" aka the ego, so that the self-centred perspective melts off or dissolves, temporarily.

At the same time as all of this, or perhaps because of it, experience becomes amplified. All of the channels through which we experience reality - the senses, mind, imagination, memory - are turned up way past 12, and they become intertwined. 

Having the normal clutter of categorization, measuring, judging, being "I", turned down, and the experience of it all turned way up lends itself to becoming very present in the experience of being.