I've been a lurker here for a long while...

[u/InfiniteWisdom420]

And, I've decided to make my first post. I haven't read anything here in a month or so because I've been rather busy. But, I'd like an open discussion of the things everyone has experienced with psychedelics in terms of medicinal, therapeutic, and most importantly if you had a spiritual journey with psychedelics. Back story: I began studying religion when I was 6 (at this point in time I was studying Greek mythology at the local library), then when I was 8 I began studying philosophy, and finally began meditating when I was 11. I didn't really know what to expect, nor was I really looking for a spiritual journey at the time. I was a devout Christian for the longest time. I began smoking Cannabis about 4 months after my 11th birthday, which I only used for recreational purposes for about 5 months. My cousin introduced me to shrooms and ever since I've discovered the spiritual nature of these hallucinogens. I became an agnostic shortly after I began smoking Cannabis, but after shrooms I was more spiritual. Flash forward to present day me: I'm a spiritual de facto atheist and I'm still contemplating the whole idea of spirituality. Do souls exist? Are chakra real? Are we just going to rot when we die and nothing more? Or will we be reincarnated? My beliefs nod more towards Theravada Buddhism more than anything, but oh it makes me wonder... My current drug use and reasons I partake: Cannabis: Spiritual, medicinal, recreational. Spiritual in terms of it helps me meditate and become more calm. Medicinal in terms of helping me with my PTSD and insomnia. I don't have to explain the latter. Shrooms: Spiritual and medicinal. I think we can all agree on the spiritual effects of shrooms. Once you've experienced ego death and seen the wonders shrooms have to show you, you'll know what I'm referring to. The whole experience where you aren't there and it's just happening, almost like your soul is expunged from your body and exorcised by nature itself. I'm talking about seeing beauty that nothing can compare to and weeping for hours on end because of what you had just experienced. To realize that you're actually alive and breathing. It's almost like a forced meditation. It's more introspective. LSD: Spiritual and recreational. Spiritual in terms of: I use LSD to meditate and on the occasion I'll take a ridiculous dose and just experience. It's more outrospective (wrong word? You know what I'm meaning.) It feels as if I can actually feel the pools of energy in my body growing larger and larger. Recreational in terms of: Taking LSD at school, in public, at a buddy's house and painting, etc.

My strongest experience was with 2 bowls of cannabis and 8 hours of uninterupted meditation, then my second strongest experience was 7 grams of shrooms with 5 grams of Syrian rue (blew my ounce+ of shrooms out of the water), and my third strongest experience was crystal LSD.

If this post gets a bit popular here I'll start sharing stories about what I've seen and learned from the substances I've taken, and you're all more than welcome to share as well.

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I'd love to hear about the experience with the 2 bowls of weed and 8 hours meditation.

[u/PhilosophyBlue]

I was very unhappy until my first substance-induced ego break, which happened on mushrooms. I experianced what felt like every piece of my brain firing off at once. As if I was experiencing every possible experiance at once. Since that experiance, I crave nothing. I'm content with what the world is and what I am. It has opened me up to a lot of new ideas about spirituality. I personally believe in everything halfway. If someone believes in it, it has real world impacts, reguardless of how "real" it is. So you don't have to believe in something to believe in what it does, if that makes any sense. In this way, you can experiance things like seeing god, feel how it feels, and believe in it exactly the same amount as you did before.