tripping,and loud musicAlways wanted to know about
everything I coul ever leanr about
the price was not a big deal I said
then the mess got bigger in my headFear and weaknes sometimes touched my mind
and that's what made it like one of a kind
All the good came out of the bad side and
always some bad lies in the good rideDivine forces opened my mind
once and for all they cured the blind
Changing the direction of my sight
it will never again be only black or whiteLysergic acid diethylamide, abbreviated "LSD", is a derivative of lysergic acid which occurs in the alkaloids (nitrogen compounds) of ergot (permanent form of the ergot fungus) growing on cereals and grasses. Already in the microgram (the millionth part of a gram) area the colorless LSD crystals have a mind-altering effect. The threshold dose for slight bodily and weak psychic effects for most people is under 25 microgram; at techno parties the doses usually are 50 to 150 microgram; during the hippie area 300 microgram were prefered; within therapeutical frameworks up to 850 microgram are used. (A fatal LSD dosis for humans is not known.) On the black market LSD mostly is sold in the form of paper trips ("blotter acid" or "tickets"), or as micro tablets containing between 50 and 250 microgramm of the active substance.
After taking, LSD is absorbed by the body within one hour. Two hours later the LSD level in the blood – and with it its effect – is at a maximum. Generally the effect lasts about eight to twelve hours. Especially in the initial stage respiration, pulse rate, blood pressure, body temperature, and blood sugar level can be heightened; sometimes dizziness and a dazed feeling occur. These bodily side effects are of a temporal nature, however, they rarely have a negative effect.
Like mescaline and psilocybine LSD belongs to the psychedelic (literally: "soul-opening") drugs. It differs from other psychoactive substances in many ways: even when used repeatedly over an extended period of time it is neither addictive, nor does it lead to any organic harm. The high it triggers is being experienced consciously. With it similar states may occur as they are experienced in meditative contemplation: the feeling of effusive joy, profound inner freedom, and all-embracing love – the being one with all creation and the world, the being free from limitations, being aware of another reality and the presence of God.
Those experienced with LSD also report that memories of certain events become much clearer, and the imagination extremely vivid; creativitiy and the capability to associate intensifies. For many people the experience with LSD is so profound and confrontative that any avoidance or suppression are almost impossible. By it, a constructive and creative potential is being released which can transform a neurotic, psychotic, or addictive behavior, and make a permanent connection with natural life energy possible.
An LSD trip doesn’t always turn out pleasantly, however. Risks are:
- acute panic reactions, triggered by particularly intense alterations of perception, by the re-experiencing of suppressed traumatic experiences, or by working oneself up into a spiritual crisis.
- "flashbacks": about 15% of LSD users report that at least once drug effects return, even without taking LSD again.
- "being stuck": with psychologically unstable ("ego-weak" persons, for instance), alterations of perception, unpleasant hallucinations, and other mental disorders might occur, which can last for quite some time.
- psychological crises: now and then temporary depressions, or paranoid and schizophrenic behavior patterns occurred with people after having ingested psychedelica. Whether these present a purely pharmocological effect of hallucinogenic drugs is doubtful, however. Possibly the consumption of drugs induced the outbreak of a crisis which, sooner or later, would have become manifest anyway.
Whether LSD has such negative effects depends decisively on the personality structure of the person in question, of his or her predominant and momentary state of mind, and the environment. When all of these conditions are favorable there are (or such is the opinion of experienced users, therapeuts, and researchers) hardly any risks. Apprehensions as far as organic disorders, mutagenicities, and other bodily risks could not be scientifically confirmed.
"With other psychotropic substances like alcohol, nicotine, and opioids," American pharmacologist Robert Julien states in his standard work Drugs and Psychopharmaca, "more concern would be advisable."
Albert Hoffman, discoverer of the drug, sees the true importance of LSD in the possibitity of providing material aid to meditation aimed at the mystical experience of a deeper, comprehensive reality. Such a use accords entirely with the essence and working character of LSD as a sacred drug.
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you know how people are about you... they'll be scared shitless/intrigued by you till the day they actually try you out.i tell all my friends, "you should check out this gal, Lucy i know, she'll show you whats up"they think I've lost my mind,
all I'm talking about is peace and love for one another, unity, good times, like happiness and such....they rant and rave about babysitters confusing babies with turkey, how they know a guy thats an orange juice cup, how they heard someone flew out a window, and how one of their close buddies went blind from staring at the sun....and THEY THINK I'M CRAZY....jimm morrison
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No matter how many times I experience the all-powerful magic of lsd, they never cease to blow me completely out of my mind. Yesterday, after about a seven month break from shrooming, the time finally came to enter once more through the veil.W, L, and myself began our journey by hiking out to a secluded beach. It was a fairly clear day, but you can never be too sure what weather the Hawaiian skies might bring you. The waves were crashing beautifully on the volcanic rock, and we settled down on a pile of sand about 50 yards from the water. We mixed the magical powder into little cups of cinnamon apple sauce, (which almost completely masked the taste). I ingested seven grams, W five, and L--since it was her first time--took three.We sat on the beach, chatting a little, waiting for it to begin. Amazingly, after only five minutes or so I began to feel the effects of what would be a fourteen hour trip. The ocean and the sky were sort of merging together, jerking toward each other, then falling back into place. The sound of the waves became more stereo-like, then even sounded like sharp cracks of thunder. When their sound started skipping like a scratched CD, I knew the trip had begun.I lied back and looked at the sky. The clouds were incredibly majestic! Huge, layered, and white. They began to separate from themselves, move around in little counter-clockwise circles, then go back where they were before. Tiny rainbows fluttered all over the sky. Every wisp of every cloud took on a geometric shape. Then, to my amazement, the clouds and the sea came together in haunting, mystical, musical chords, which continued throughout the trip.I felt as though I was dying. Like I was standing in front of the veil of death, scared to go through, but knowing it was imminent. I could either go through myself, or just wait for it to overtake me. Another minute or so later, I was through.If the clouds had amazed me before, they were blowing my mind now. They were flying through the sky at what looked like about 100 miles an hour. Then they began to swirl together like a vortex. It was getting windy, but I realized that the wind was pure energy blowing right into us. I looked at the ocean. It was glimmering and full of life. I could feel the life underneath its surface.My heel was buried in the sand, and I could feel the sand gripping and sucking at it. I hoped it was okay. I knew I was about to leave my body, and was worried about it being taken care of. Would my heart keep pumping my blood? Would my lungs continue to breathe? I asked W and L if they would take care of my body while I was gone. W said he would do it. I was satisfied with that, and let the mushrooms take me even farther.I began to see faces in the clouds. Not just outlines or shadows, but real, humanoid faces. They were all men with flowing hair and beards, but they each had a different face. Their lips were moving, and I knew they were talking to me, but I couldnt hear their voices. Suddenly I realized that they were our ancestors. Still alive, looking after us. I desperately wanted to know what they were saying, and said out loud, "teach me! I want to know!" Telepathically, they told me that I would know soon enough, when the time was right. And with that, they vanished back into the clouds.W and L were talking, their voices echoing through what sounded like a tunnel. Although I couldnt tell what they were saying, I felt like they were different parts of my own consciousness having their own conversation. A couple of times I thought that L was an old girlfriend of mine, then another girl i had tripped with before, then a goddess. But in each case, I still thought she was part of my consciousness.Suddenly I became the universe. I was every planet, every star, and all of the energy-filled space in between. I knew that there were other universes, floating through infinite space, occasionally brushing shoulders with one another. I knew that all that mattered was that these universes simply acknowledged one another, and gave each other their due respect. The idea of prejudice was completely foreign to me. Each universe, I realized, was infinite and therefore purely equal.I was thrust back to earth, back to viewing the clouds. They were even more active, blowing and swirling, full of color and pure energy. At first there was simply too much going on with them to focus on any one thing, but then a massive pentagram appeared in the middle of the swirling vortex. Other, smaller pentagrams were around too. But out of the main one, in all of her surreal glory and majesty, stepped forth the Goddess. She was more exquisite and brilliant than anything Id ever seen. Her skin and eyes were like white-hot fire, and hair flowed in every direction from her head, really more like waving sunbeams than hair. She didnt speak, but sent wave after wave of pure love to me. In an almost panicked thrill I yelled "the Goddess!" to W and L (who, by the way, I still thought were parts of me.) But the exclamation caused me to lose my focus on her, and after one last smile, she was violently sucked back into the vortex.About that time the sky opened up and dropped tiny, brightly colored droplets of energy. (Kind of like that trippy Skittles commercial.) I could feel them on my own body, but could also feel them falling on the ground around me. They were both freezing cold and scalding hot at the same time. After a few minutes of this, I somehow realized it was actually raining.I was thrown again into a different mindset, and thought that I was the earth. I simply did not know the difference between "me" and "earth." Then, the weirdest tripping experience Ive ever had came to me. A portal of some kind opened up in the sky, and created a tunnel to another dimension. The opening of the tunnel was right above me, and I saw what appeared to be the inside a sci-fi looking space ship. It was full of geometric patterns and red, black, gold and purple colors. It was also full of strange beings, with large eyes, two holes for a nose, and small mouths--almost like the typical "aliens." Their skin was gray, but was also coursing with color. Some of them were sitting in black chairs, and some were standing. One of them stepped towards me with a golden cauldron full of sparkling reddish-gold ooze. They spoke to me telepathically, telling me to just be calm, that everything was all right. They then poured the ooze into my soul through my legs. It was energy in its purest form--pure love. It coursed up my legs with orgasmic pleasure right into my being, but was actually coursing straight into the planet. (I was the earth, remember.) They then communicated to me that they had seeded the earth with DNA millions of years ago, and that they were watching over us. Periodically, they would return to the earth and feed it surges of love to keep the humans from killing one another into extinction. And lsd was the tool they used to feed us that love. They bid me a friendly farewell, and the tunnel retracted back into the clouds. (I have always had a great deal of respect for Terence McKenna, but always thought he was getting a little wacko when hed talk about aliens ... either he really did have something there, or I am becoming just as wacko as he was!)The peak started to weaken, and I realized once again that W and L were there. I still wasnt sure who they were, or if they were other parts of me. W said, "do you know what just happened?" I asked him what, and he said "we just stole a sunset by the ocean." I didnt know what he was talking about, but realized that I had no idea how many times the sun had set and risen again since wed been there. He said, "dont look now you guys, but whales are breaching in the water!" I looked and saw hundreds of small whales dancing and playing on the waters surface. It was a beautiful sight, and I was filled with humility at the wonder of nature.After that, the Hawaiian sky played its favorite trick, and sent rain down right through the sunshine. A huge, vibrant rainbow appeared. Somehow, the rain gently brought me back down from the trip, something that is usually extremely emotionally hard on me. I still felt a little high, but the trip was over and everything I looked at I saw with great clarity. I felt completely fine. No headache, no draining. I was invigorated and felt victorious. I was filled with joy and love. What an incredible experience! I looked up at the rainbow and thanked the Universe. I knew that the rainbow was a sign that what we had experienced was real and was a gift of love and goodness.While on lsd, your soul is opened up to a godlike level of enlightenment. All senses combine into one and you know perfectly that all things are energy, that energy is love, and that energy is everywhere. I now know that everyone I see, every person on the street, is an infinite, glorious universe of a being. Nothing is more important than to love one another, and to respect every person for who he or she is, no matter what race, gender, sexual orientation, or religion they are. I love the pagan tradition of addressing others: THOU ART GOD, THOU ART GODDESS.Blessed be!
