Greatings All

[traperjohn23]

I thank all of you for having such a communal standard on positive free information. I would love to join such a tight nit group of informed individuals, Ive been around exploring with entheogens for sometime now starting with my many trips to the rez and on my own. Exploring ones own mind as lead me to a state of peace that I can always grow on and studying all altered states is the key to unlocking the real you. By joining you I hope to be of great help passing the knowledge of my experiences. I'm a big medical journal nut so i read them often and am active supporter of ICEERS, MAPS, Heffter Research Institute, The Beckley Foundation, and GITA. I have these sacred plants to thank for saving my life and restoring my mind. To all of my fellow family choose to have a wonderful day.

 

[Pandora]

Hello traperjohn23,

Welcome to the Nexus, .

I encourage you to take a good look around. This place is huge and the sub-fora are packed with wonderful information. The links in the upper right hand corner of your forum pages, such as wiki and Health & Safety are invaluable.

Ive been around exploring with entheogens for sometime now starting with my many trips to the rez and on my own.

I was confused by what you meant here. Could you explain a bit more? I wasn't familiar with the term rez either.

I have these sacred plants to thank for saving my life and restoring my mind.

Would you be willing to say a bit more about this? I must admit I was intrigued. Also, which of the entheogenic plants do you grow, if any? And if you don't mind, what kinds of psychedelics have you done and how did they save your life and restore your mind?

Again, a warm welcome to you.

 

[traperjohn23]

Hello Pandora to clarify what I meant by exploring with entheogens and also how they saved my mind. I used to be in a really bad place with heroin and meth iv use started young and it just took a hold of me quick and I was at its mercy. I got to the point of doing terrable things which got me in trouble with some people and i was forced to move around from where I was. Which leads me to the rez part I ended up on a native american reservation to this day I don't know how i chose this place i still don't think i had anything to do with it. This lovely woman took me in and helped me get my weight up and i helped her take care of her, she introduces me to her brother this is where my first psychedelic trip took place with the stone people and a Yuwipi (medicine sweat lodge) My first sweat they gave me peyote and told me to drink outrages amounts of water and once i was in the lodge they told me to pray like hell haha. that first week they had me in a sweat every sunset and i was given peyote twice that week to cleanse my spirit, i stayed with these people for 8 months removing the spirits that i brought on me. After this i did some more traveling with a group of people visiting ecovillages, other communes, and ashrams its been something of an amazing experience that i would never push on anyone if that makes sense. As for other psychedelics ive tried to explore these whenever i could to dig deeper into my own self (aside from yoga and other practices) I dont do them as much as i was did before but just let them find their way to me and with that intent they seem to come around when i need them. LSA(morning and hbwr), LSD, DMT, Ayahuasca, Yopo snuff, Peyote, Mescaline, San Pedro, Amanita, various magic mushrooms and one truffle type, Bufo Toad, DOM, (2c-I, 2c-E, 2c-T-2, the NBOMe's I didn't much care for) Salvia, and MDMA that is about it on the psychedelics its been a great journey of self-discovery and these tools did aid on pushing me to look at my flaws and not hide behind labels i placed on myself. Hope this answered the question.

 

[Enoon]

Hi traperjohn23,

you have an interesting story to tell! Thank you for sharing that.

The above post however is quite difficult to read as it is just one large block of text. By using spaces between phrases you can make it a lot easier on the eyes for your fellow nexians.

I'm really glad psychedelics helped you overcome addiction and the destructivity that is involved. It sounds like you are on an interesting path now and I wish you the best for it. I'm interested - what do you make of all the eco-villages adn the likes? I have not been able to visit any myself but have always wanted. I'm often afraid that I will feel very disillusioned by them in terms of internal struggles, power structures and communication. I've seen very few idealistic people form groups and actually make something good of it, so I'd be interested to see if there are places where it does work.

I suppose having something practical to work on rather than just following political ideals can make a difference...

Anyway I'd love to hear your take on it.

CHeers