Introduction Essay - Silo

[Silo233]

Hello Nexans.

Nihilistic thoughts have plagued my mind for the last couple of years. I keep asking myself, "Is this all there is". The knowledge I've researched on DMT has given me hope, perhaps there is something more than just material existence and I guess that's why I'm pulled towards the experience.

I feel like a complete outcast whenever I go out, like everyone is a zombie or machine refusing to search for truth. Do these people who live amongst us ever stop, and ask themselves "what am I doing, and why am I doing it". Society feels hypnotic sometimes. There's too much following, replicating other people, trying to be this. How many people stop though, and ask what is "this". This makes relating to ordinary people much more different. Even if some religious people are deluded, I feel at least they are acknowledging the questions I am trying to find answers to.

The current western intellectuals that I looked up to have lost my interest. How many of them have tried DMT? how many of them change their perceptions or states of consciousness? how accurate is their perception of reality anyways? The only way to find out if you're stuck in a dream is to firstly become aware that you are dreaming, and then to find a way to wake up. How many of these intellectuals have claimed not to be dreaming, yet never tried to wake up?

There's no point in passively rejecting an experience like that. Curiosity is natural. Any scientific mind that is serious about discovering what is cannot be narrow minded. I must consider the limits of my current perception, I must consider that I only see a puzzle piece of the picture.

It is quite amazing that technology has very recently allowed us to share information like this. I am grateful for the nexus and all it has to offer.

 

[BeyondWords]

Welcome to the Nexus my friend, I hope you enjoy your time here

What experiences have you had with DMT or psychedelics in general? It seems obvious what has drawn you to DMT and I hope that use of the substance can help you to look at consciousness in a variety of ways. It seems you already are on your way to viewing your own consciousness as something which is not easily defined.

I feel what your feeling, and I am sure a lot of the fellow Nexians feel the same way, that there is more than what our 5 senses allow us to gather.

In all honesty, I think a lot of the 'straights' have a feeling that there is something more than this life, which is why a lot turn to religion, like you rightly said, but this only gives hope, and very little sight into the beyond. After starting DMT use, my feelings of each to their own have magnified - live and let live. If the straights want to continue living in a deluded existence ridiculing the psychonauts then It is simply not my place to enforce my views on them.

Continue on the quest my friend, never give up!

 

[Enoon]

The only way to find out if you're stuck in a dream is to firstly become aware that you are dreaming, and then to find a way to wake up.

what if you're not stuck in a dream but you convince yourself you are and then continue trying to wake up your entire life only to find out that it really was as real as it could get and you didn't aknowledge it...?

Take the teachings of psychedelics with a pinch of salt and some healthy critical thinking. Curiosity is good; marveling at the depths and expanses of the universe and our consciousness is great. Just be careful not to lose touch with what is important. And what is? That's for you to know, or to find out.

The idea of classifying people into straights and psychonauts is a thing I think is dangerous to both your own ability to communicate with the rest of the world and the movement for bringing entheogens into a more positive light in our society. Just because someone does not take psychedelics, does not mean that they live a deluded existence, or that they are out of touch with you. So you have made some experiences they haven't made - guess what, they probably have lots of experiences you haven't made. If we keep trying to separate ourselves from others by invisible lines and classifications we will never be able to communicate properly nor find true acceptance. Just because people aren't obviously taking psychedelics, doesn't mean they have no existential questions or profound philosophical thoughts. And even if they don't, that doesn't mean that they are inferior in their manner of living and feeling the universal energy. As open minded people, shouldn't we be able to look beyond this kind of thing and value people for what they offer? If we keep focusing on the deficiencies of everyone else, we will never be able to reinforce or even discover the positive stuff that might be there.

Just saying...

Welcome to the Nexus

 

[BeyondWords]

I was incorrect in saying their lives are deluded, rightly pointed out. I take that back.

With straights and psychonauts I simply meant people who either do or do not take psychedelic substances. In my life I have seen the general public who do not use psychedelics simply ridicule and laugh at those who do, saying that what they 'see' is a lie and a joke. I do want more people to at least understand entheogens to try to blur the line between the two groups - the ones who do/have, and the ones who have not.

I didn't mean to come across as saying one view of existence is right or one is wrong and I fully appreciate a lot of non psychedelic users will have great exitensial questions - there is philosophy and absolutely not all philosophers are psychedelic users.

 

[Paultreselli]

The only way to find out if you're stuck in a dream is to firstly become aware that you are dreaming, and then to find a way to wake up.

what if you're not stuck in a dream but you convince yourself you are and then continue trying to wake up your entire life only to find out that it really was as real as it could get and you didn't aknowledge it...?

Take the teachings of psychedelics with a pinch of salt and some healthy critical thinking. Curiosity is good; marveling at the depths and expanses of the universe and our consciousness is great. Just be careful not to lose touch with what is important. And what is? That's for you to know, or to find out.

The idea of classifying people into straights and psychonauts is a thing I think is dangerous to both your own ability to communicate with the rest of the world and the movement for bringing entheogens into a more positive light in our society. Just because someone does not take psychedelics, does not mean that they live a deluded existence, or that they are out of touch with you. So you have made some experiences they haven't made - guess what, they probably have lots of experiences you haven't made. If we keep trying to separate ourselves from others by invisible lines and classifications we will never be able to communicate properly nor find true acceptance. Just because people aren't obviously taking psychedelics, doesn't mean they have no existential questions or profound philosophical thoughts. And even if they don't, that doesn't mean that they are inferior in their manner of living and feeling the universal energy. As open minded people, shouldn't we be able to look beyond this kind of thing and value people for what they offer? If we keep focusing on the deficiencies of everyone else, we will never be able to reinforce or even discover the positive stuff that might be there.

Just saying...

Welcome to the Nexus

Wow...so true. I've had to come to terms with my own ego and drew the same conclusion. Always embrace love and humility first.

 

[Entheogenerator]

The only way to find out if you're stuck in a dream is to firstly become aware that you are dreaming, and then to find a way to wake up.

what if you're not stuck in a dream but you convince yourself you are and then continue trying to wake up your entire life only to find out that it really was as real as it could get and you didn't aknowledge it...?

Take the teachings of psychedelics with a pinch of salt and some healthy critical thinking. Curiosity is good; marveling at the depths and expanses of the universe and our consciousness is great. Just be careful not to lose touch with what is important. And what is? That's for you to know, or to find out.

The idea of classifying people into straights and psychonauts is a thing I think is dangerous to both your own ability to communicate with the rest of the world and the movement for bringing entheogens into a more positive light in our society. Just because someone does not take psychedelics, does not mean that they live a deluded existence, or that they are out of touch with you. So you have made some experiences they haven't made - guess what, they probably have lots of experiences you haven't made. If we keep trying to separate ourselves from others by invisible lines and classifications we will never be able to communicate properly nor find true acceptance. Just because people aren't obviously taking psychedelics, doesn't mean they have no existential questions or profound philosophical thoughts. And even if they don't, that doesn't mean that they are inferior in their manner of living and feeling the universal energy. As open minded people, shouldn't we be able to look beyond this kind of thing and value people for what they offer? If we keep focusing on the deficiencies of everyone else, we will never be able to reinforce or even discover the positive stuff that might be there.

Just saying...

Welcome to the Nexus

I'm with Enoon on this one... There is no need to draw up this imaginary dichotomy in one's mind. In my experience, the "us and them" mentality has done nothing to serve me. It only creates more division, in a world which seems to be desperately lacking UNITY.