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Hello.
I am a person who has used psychedelic drugs for more than a few decades. I've read this forum here and there for years but I have never considered myself able to write well and have never been interested in posting in a forum like this until recently.
My use of psychedelics including DMT has inspired me to explore different avenues of artistic expression and recently I decided that writing was a form of creativity that I had always neglected to delve into. I wrote this little hypothesis about paying attention and I wanted to share it with you all here because this is the most interesting forum I have run across so far:
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How important is it to pay attention in life?
Most people are familiar with the importance of paying attention in life. If a person does not pay proper attention during the hustle and bustle of life's day to day affairs often enough then they are bound to miss out in some way shape or form.
Whether it be missing out on some bit of basic knowledge or a complicated detail, it is still missing from the consciousness of the person who's attention span failed them in one way or another.
It could be a once in a life time opportunity coming along or maybe it's being present enough in the moment to be in the right place at the right time, the ability to pay attention seems to be sort of an ultimate pre-requisite for the continuous survival of life in many form including humans and this is of course true in every sense.
Most people would agree that the ability to pay close attention in life is an important skill to possess. In spite of this very few people are actually taught HOW to pay attention in life they are merely expected to do so. The ability to pay attention seems to be looked upon by society as more of a natural talent than a skill....an either you have it or you don't sort of thing. Society even classifies certain people as having an "attention disorder", I was one of those such people.
Growing up I always had a great deal of difficulty paying attention in school, was very disruptive in class, was extremely hyper-active and was eventually diagnosed with "severe" ADD. Later in life when I began experimenting with psychedelics I realized that this so called "attention span" could actually be manipulated and disciplined to extremes that I had never dreamt of.
It also occurred to me that along with the distorted sense of time that psychedelics brought about came an immediate alleviation of the wide range of undesirable sensations I was accustomed to feeling in my everyday life such as boredom, nervousness, restlessness ,edginess and so forth.
Gradually, I came to the conclusion that my habitual and illusionary sense of everyday time and space was the actual culprit of my existence and the source of my so called "attention disorder" because it caused me to become very easily bored.
My flawed perception of time and space seemingly resulted in a constant struggle that I my self waged against my own boredom that demanded I spend my life living in an unsatisfactory state of mind. A perpetual state of being that is similar to the discomfort most people feel while waiting in line at the DMV for hours.
Psychedelics allowed me step outside of my illusionary box of non-existence long enough for me to grasp the concept that I quite simply was not paying attention to anything in life the way that I should be. WHile on psychedlics I also realized that whenever I allowed my self to pay very close attention to my surroundings something miraculous would happen, life would become an amazing, astounding and wonderful thing.
For me personally, one of the ultimate revelations revelation that using psychedelics have provided me with was that that life can either be a living bounty of joyful wonderment or a tiresome and self-defeating struggle depending on not only your point of view but the degree to which you are able to pay attention to your surroundings....
To me the human "attention" is comparable to a microscope or a periscope in that we ultimately control the resolution that we receive and we are equally able to navigate and or magnify our individual perceptions according to our desires.
In today's world is painfully evident that ignorance is a destroying force parallel to almost nothing besides.
Could it be simply that these "ignorant" people just do not understand how to "pay attention" properly in life? The ability to pay attention could be easily equated with the ability to appreciate.
In my humble opinion one of the major and most notable differences between psychedelic users and people who do not use them is the degree of appreciation for nature that is there among those who take psychedelics and the apparent lack of appreciation for nature that seems to be predominant among people who are against "getting high". This difference could be summarized by saying one group of people are paying very close attention to nature and one group of people are not.
The people who are not paying close attention fail to understand the real magic in nature and therefore will not hesitate to destroy nature in order to serve their own shallow purposes what ever that may be.
Those are my thoughts for now...
---- Thanks for reading my intro
-mo-
I am a person who has used psychedelic drugs for more than a few decades. I've read this forum here and there for years but I have never considered myself able to write well and have never been interested in posting in a forum like this until recently.
My use of psychedelics including DMT has inspired me to explore different avenues of artistic expression and recently I decided that writing was a form of creativity that I had always neglected to delve into. I wrote this little hypothesis about paying attention and I wanted to share it with you all here because this is the most interesting forum I have run across so far:
***********************************************************************************************
How important is it to pay attention in life?
Most people are familiar with the importance of paying attention in life. If a person does not pay proper attention during the hustle and bustle of life's day to day affairs often enough then they are bound to miss out in some way shape or form.
Whether it be missing out on some bit of basic knowledge or a complicated detail, it is still missing from the consciousness of the person who's attention span failed them in one way or another.
It could be a once in a life time opportunity coming along or maybe it's being present enough in the moment to be in the right place at the right time, the ability to pay attention seems to be sort of an ultimate pre-requisite for the continuous survival of life in many form including humans and this is of course true in every sense.
Most people would agree that the ability to pay close attention in life is an important skill to possess. In spite of this very few people are actually taught HOW to pay attention in life they are merely expected to do so. The ability to pay attention seems to be looked upon by society as more of a natural talent than a skill....an either you have it or you don't sort of thing. Society even classifies certain people as having an "attention disorder", I was one of those such people.
Growing up I always had a great deal of difficulty paying attention in school, was very disruptive in class, was extremely hyper-active and was eventually diagnosed with "severe" ADD. Later in life when I began experimenting with psychedelics I realized that this so called "attention span" could actually be manipulated and disciplined to extremes that I had never dreamt of.
It also occurred to me that along with the distorted sense of time that psychedelics brought about came an immediate alleviation of the wide range of undesirable sensations I was accustomed to feeling in my everyday life such as boredom, nervousness, restlessness ,edginess and so forth.
Gradually, I came to the conclusion that my habitual and illusionary sense of everyday time and space was the actual culprit of my existence and the source of my so called "attention disorder" because it caused me to become very easily bored.
My flawed perception of time and space seemingly resulted in a constant struggle that I my self waged against my own boredom that demanded I spend my life living in an unsatisfactory state of mind. A perpetual state of being that is similar to the discomfort most people feel while waiting in line at the DMV for hours.
Psychedelics allowed me step outside of my illusionary box of non-existence long enough for me to grasp the concept that I quite simply was not paying attention to anything in life the way that I should be. WHile on psychedlics I also realized that whenever I allowed my self to pay very close attention to my surroundings something miraculous would happen, life would become an amazing, astounding and wonderful thing.
For me personally, one of the ultimate revelations revelation that using psychedelics have provided me with was that that life can either be a living bounty of joyful wonderment or a tiresome and self-defeating struggle depending on not only your point of view but the degree to which you are able to pay attention to your surroundings....
To me the human "attention" is comparable to a microscope or a periscope in that we ultimately control the resolution that we receive and we are equally able to navigate and or magnify our individual perceptions according to our desires.
In today's world is painfully evident that ignorance is a destroying force parallel to almost nothing besides.
Could it be simply that these "ignorant" people just do not understand how to "pay attention" properly in life? The ability to pay attention could be easily equated with the ability to appreciate.
In my humble opinion one of the major and most notable differences between psychedelic users and people who do not use them is the degree of appreciation for nature that is there among those who take psychedelics and the apparent lack of appreciation for nature that seems to be predominant among people who are against "getting high". This difference could be summarized by saying one group of people are paying very close attention to nature and one group of people are not.
The people who are not paying close attention fail to understand the real magic in nature and therefore will not hesitate to destroy nature in order to serve their own shallow purposes what ever that may be.
Those are my thoughts for now...
---- Thanks for reading my intro
-mo-
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