i dont really see it as telepathy...its more about understanding that we all come from the same place...and you can experience what its like to be in the other persons shoes...and then you understand how they are feeling...its more like being one entity and understanding your different sides(other people)pay attention to how people respond to things...just pay attention..that is all you have to do..
That just sounds like empathy, a normal human emotion. Empathy has to be learned and practiced too but it is inside everyone, you just have to use it. Like most emotions, empathy is magnified by psychedelics to where it becomes a part of every thought.
I wasn't talking about general empathy, my experiences that summer were specific and detailed. Not just understanding someone else's point of view or feelings.
A good example is when I (or any of us) would think, or feel, that my friend "
Mike" wanted me to meet him in the parking lot of Burger King, at 9:15. So I'd go there at 9:15 and there's "
Mike", waiting for me, for one reason or another.
This was not just random feelings and understanding.
What I experienced was straight up communication!!
Also, these effects did not come from taking LSD one or two times.
It started to show itself after about a month, to a month & a half of taking LSD
regularly. It was like every Fri, or Sat we would take LSD, then maybe, 1 or 2 other days during the week.
You can't really do acid two days in a row, unless you more than double the dose, which is a waste. So at the most, we were doing this good, clean LSD every-other day, although most times we would wait 2 or 3 days between doses so the full effects would be felt.
Also, most of us would take 2-to-4 hits at a time, at least. There is a distinct point in LSD dosing (
just like with DMT) where a low dose is nice & visual distortions are occurring and it entertaining etc...
But there is that line that a large dose crosses.
With DMT you reach the "breakthrough" point & end up in a totally new dimension.
With LSD however, that point seems to give the user more control over the experience & their surroundings. When I would take a single hit of good LSD, I would feel as if the experience was
happening to me. But when I would take 4 or more hits of that same sheet of LSD, I could feel it as it started to go through me and then begin to lift me up and open my consciousness so I could literally control it with precision. More like the experience was
happening with me.
Like I mentioned, this was back in 1993, when I was 19. To this day, I still think about the strange & powerful things that happened to us that summer, at least a few times a week.
When I've gone back home to visit, there is still this bond between myself & certain people who were involved with the
group mind and noticed it happening. There were a lot of us involved, but only a few of us really noticed it happening,
as it was happening. And those of us who noticed it, didn't really say anything about it until late into the summer, because it seemed (
to me at least) like crazy, acid thoughts, even when we could still use it with no LSD in our bodies for weeks.
No one wanted to be the guy who said, "
I can talk with you guys in my thoughts" for the first time!! Although we all knew, that we were all thinking about it!!
Hows that for a giant pink elephant in the room?!?!? So when someone finally said it out loud, we all felt so relieved that we were not the only crazy person having these notions of telepathy.
Then we started trying to control it and purposely use it and had much success!!
I know how nuts this sounds, it sounds nuts to me as I write about it. But I know it happened, I remember it like it was yesterday. It was one of the strangest, most profound things that has happened in my life and definitely effected the way I see, think & feel about the world around us and how our physical body & consciousness fit into it together!!
I have also read about other small groups of heads having similar things happen, enough times now to
know that it wasn't just our imagination running stoned & wild.
Once again,
The Electric Coolaid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe was like a report of
our summer, 1993. But it was written sometime in the late 60's/early 70's, and I didn't read the book until 1999, six years after we had our own little
summer of love
I can't imagine that I'm the only one on this forum who has had this direct, telepathic effect from regular LSD consumption.
Am I?
I've read about it over & over again in books and web sites on LSD effects etc...
Sorry I keep going on so long about this....
WS
Wish I'd been part of your psychedelic gang