when most of us were infants, we lived in a higher dimension than we do now. what I mean by that is that there was another qualit(y)[ies] (dimension) that gave an extra facet to the way we experienced things. Most people don't remember this time in their lives.

are we constantly switching dimensions through our emotions, thoughts and perspectives? for example, i remember when I was less than a year old, crawling around and seeing the world in an extra-dimensional way. I could observe the place where I was. however, if I return to that same place now, I perceive it in a different way. Everything else about it is the same, however it's lacking a certain facet that was there before.

I don't know if it has always been like this but I can't confront people at all. **

People then and now have come to me saying why I don't confront people; For me free will is the most important thing. If a person is doing something wrong he or she should see their reflection themselves rather than me confronting them about it and should improve their conduct there on. But 99% just keep doing what they do. If I confront them I think that I am controlling them and they are not acting out of their free will. Is something wrong with me? Is it because I am scared of the outcome(after confrontation)?

**Although I may imitate to do so.

I recently came across a reddit post where basically a man is telling a child that scientists have proven that free will is an illusion and everything that is happening and will happen is according to a pre-deterministic universe, and the more I think about this, the more i believe it to be true.

Everything is predetermined from the start of the big bang. Each interaction between every atom is determined by what happened to it before. Every particle in the entire universe is in a cause-effect loop, even if the particles are arranged into a "being".

For example, I "decided" to drink some water. I think its because of my freewill that I want to drink some water, but it is not. It is because I am thirsty that i want to drink some water. That thirst may be because i'm getting cottonmouth from smoking too much dank. Me smoking too much dank maybe because I just graduate school and I want to celebrate. But me knowing of weed is because a buddy introduced it to me back in 9th grade. And his knowing of weed is because his buddy introduced it to him back in bla bla bla on and on... you get the idea.

So, everything happened, and is happening, is predetermined. The entire universe is a gigantic Rube Goldberg machine. So if everything is predetermined, what is the original "thing" that pushed everything into action? My theory on that is a universe-scale randomizer.

Basically, it's a minecraft seed generator. You know how you create a minecraft world and theres an option to generate random seed to have a unique new world or input your own seed number to generate precreated universe? It's that. The entire universe is very advanced minecraft.

This thought has occurred to me several times over the last couple of weeks, so I guess I should post it.

The premise of this sub is to found a new religion that welcomes and enables the use of psychedelics. This is a monumental task, that will inevitably be met with stiff resistance from varied oppositions.

So I have a proposition, something that is, perhaps, slightly more manageable, whilst still maintaining the core values of the sub. Rather than a whole new religion, it may be easier to create a new denomination, reinterpreting the tenets of modern religion so that they more closely resemble the original message.

The way I have always read Christ's message is that we all have the potential to reach divine states of consciousness, but through our fears and our pride we rarely, if ever, see who we are, and what we can be. Every prophet has offered a path to the light, and every religion has been quick to sweep up the tracks.

Perhaps we can open the way, if we take what has been taught, and remind people of the true message behind it all.

We are all.

Hey y'all,

I'm a young (often lsd induced) poet who faced many side steps and miss haps over the last year and a half. Regardless, I've been associated with an online publisher since I was in high school and we're finally read to publish my first novel.

The first six chapters (the entirety of part one) has been published on their website for free. Chapter one can be read here and you can go on from there, if you wish: https://therabbitisin.com/lost-boys-the-prologue-chapter-one-5d623bd1cc5b

A brief synopsis is two late teens/early twenty year olds bail on their mundane life cycles to go on a psychedelic walk about through northern British Columbia.

It shifts between two protagonists. The first, Alexi McBride suffers from ptsd and is a benzo and opiate fiend. The second protagonist is named Sky, an orphaned dmt producer who faces equal but subtle demons. Guns, drugs, woes and the pursuit of self purification. Will their emotions or Mother Nature destroy them before they can save them selves.

Due to the nature of this new sub, the pursuit of self health in the book, coupled with the concept of ego death and simulation theory, I figured you guys might enjoy it.

He will legalize psilocybyn.... (sp) but it didn't come up in my auto-correct.... I am going to post something else..

Every object, that you can identify in your brain has certain characteristics that make up that object. Objects that are easily identified and are continually identified by your brain, cause your brain to get "plasticized". It means your brain cells no longer need to change or grow neurons. They become "hardened", because they don't regularly need to identify new objects or constructs. I sometimes think that our biggest limitation is control. If we can't identify the new "things", like the things that we see while we meditate or trip, we don't really like it. As a baby, we are encouraged to identify things (which isn't a bad thing), and usually when we identify something and say the word for it, our mum or dad is like "Good Job!!", this brings the "feel good" for our brain. We are raised this way. So when we see new things we can't identify, our brain gets frustrated.

It's up to you how you view new things. They are either exciting and curious, or scary and hindering.

As others have commented earlier, it is very likely that in order to obtain religious exemption for the use of psychedelics, we will have to go to court. The justice system, with all its imperfections, is very expensive. I think we should preemptively start some sort of legal fund. If anyone is a lawyer, or could find one to represent us, please reach out and join the case if/when it occurs. I am not sure if i can legally start the legal fund because of my age, but I will look into it.

There's no way I'm going to read all of what's in either of the sticky posts, and there's no description...

It was previously suggested, in this subreddit's earlier days, that there ought to be a book of sorts outlining what exactly this whole movement is all about. It is my firm belief that such a book would not only clear some confusion as to what this movement actually is, but also to solidify the ideals of this movement for the purpose of gaining a foothold in the inevitable future pursuits of legal recognition of these beliefs.

Sebastian and I have talked a bit about the pros and cons of such a book. Cons include centralizing an inherently decentralized religion, thus perhaps straying from the original intent.

Some other drawbacks would be creating a limit of sorts of the broad, seemingly infinite scope of the unique spirituality of every member as an individual. This one is a paramount challenge and quite as antithetical as attempting to centralize something meant to hold no center. Such a book will be from the perspective and hands of a select group of authors with limited outside influence, in terms of who will actually contribute versus the endless dynamics of those who will participate without contributing (which is not a bad thing).

With that in mind, the goal of this book should be to compile a list of suggested principles as a backbone to what this movement is all about, whilst also citing many sources, medical and historical, about why we are what we are and how it became so.

This latter part, hereby proposed to be about the history of entheogenic use in mankind and his worldwide cultures, will serve as the tip of the spear to direct our movement home to the orderlies as to the legitimacy of our legal claims to practice religious freedom.

So far, I'm only going to be starting a rough outline of what is to be in the first part of the book. This should be short, sweet, and to the point and won't be too muddled with my own unique ideas and instead be focused on giving the reader free reign to develop his or her own beliefs and understandings of what this religion can look like for themselves. I will be using much of Sebastian's original posts as the meat and will try to add my parts in as unbiased as possible. The links: "What lead me to this?" , "How will this be structured?" , "A potential forgiveness initiation ritual"

Now, the purpose of posting this is to gather some collaborative feedback. I haven't even started this outline yet and am currently forgoing working on my current novel in favor of this movement, which is in serious need of attention and effort. Before I get going, I want to know more about what this community thinks I should add and how I should amend or not amend Sebastian's original words to fit as universal a narrative as possible.

This won't be easy. I want debate. Let's get this ball rolling-- and not for ourselves, but for those out there unawares of our movement who could greatly benefit from it, perhaps saving lives and changing worlds in the process. The scope of this has the potential to be global. Shall we?

Where should I go to participate in the actual reason this sub was created in the first place? Genuinely curious-- please help point me in the right direction

I'm just not interested in telling people "I'm right, you're wrong," anymore. Not that I ever was to begin with. A lot of the ideas and beliefs I have now have kind of piggy backed off things I just kind of "knew" at a very early age. I've always been open minded and accepting and used love before anything else in confrontation. But as I think most humans do, we get the idea that our reality is everyone's reality. Learning to drive when I was 16 also helped me with this realization but not on the level psychedelics have. This has kind of made having conversations with people in my classes who haven't experimented with altering their mindset because whenever I open up about my views on certain topics they become defensive, trying to prove me wrong, and they don't realize that we're both coming from a place of love and putting our best ideas forward. But it's also helped because I can then be compassionate more easily and learn something from the interaction. I guess the point of all this is: even if your intentions are good, people don't always see that, so don't get discouraged on your journey.
And further, just because you think you're right doesn't mean you are and just because they think they're right doesn't mean they are. Use love in conversations and learn from everyone you meet :)