Mr.Peabody
Rising Star
So, first off, I'll make a disclaimer, this isn't intended to be a trip report....sort of...
I mostly just feel like blasting out there what my mind has been chewing on today. So, here goes!
So I had planned on doing a shroom trip today. I cleared my schedule, mentally prepared, and was ready. I wanted some freshies, and it's that time of year! So, I went to one of my good pickin patches I've yet to go to this year. Man, was I in luck. I really don't even need any mushrooms, I have plenty of dried ones, but there's just something about it. It's like they ask me, "Please! Please pick us!"
So, I comply.
I am very happy to see those bad boys (psilocybe cyanescens) are spreading far and wide. I first found them a few years ago in just one area, and now they are all over the place! I filled up my coffee cup in a matter of minutes. I took that as a good sign of my trip to come.
So, the very best way I have found to have mushrooms is fresh, with rue. I took about 6.5 g of mushrooms, and 2.5 g of rue. The trip was so profound. I don't even know where to begin.
I suppose, I got to thinking about the nature of beauty, and goodness. I quote from Einstein floated around my head. Well, it was more of a story. As a child, Einstein had a teacher who was claiming this and that about evil, but (in different words) Einstein contended that evil was merely the absence of good. He did this by relating it to the properties of heat, and how there is no "cold" but merely the absence of heat.
I remember talking about good, and beauty in my philosophy class a few years back. It all clicked! Beauty and good are fundamental properties of the universe, in the same way that heat is. There is no ugliness, and there is no badness, just as there cannot be absolute zero (a state where there is no thermal energy). This is the nature of the universe! What a profound and wonderful idea.
Another thought I've had quite a bit recently is the mechanical view of life, and humanity. The current view science has of life is that it is made of atoms, and molecules, which act like machines. They all have a clearly defined set of mechanics that nature decides, and thus, life in general is very complex machinery. I suppose I agree with this to a point, but I've had an issue with it.
The machine view of life by default states that I have no free will. I am merely a product of the interactions of the atoms that make me up, and cannot decide anything. That would mean, consciousness is an illusion to me. But then, if there is an illusion, that implies someone to be fooled. Which leads back to the self, the conscious mind. One of the inherent qualities of consciousness is to be aware. But how can I be aware when I am merely a product of the mechanics of my atoms?
As you can see, it's quite a mess! In short, I have decided that something must be added to the machine view, and its an age old concept. The only way to have free will is for there to be an overall force, a decider. That's the soul, consciousness, life force. To me, they are all one. They are that which makes me capable of deciding. So, my mind is not a product of the atoms that make me, the atoms in me are beholden to my mind. To a point, of course.
This all implies that I really do have free will. I just think a universe with aware beings, without free will would be horrifically stupid, so I don't accept it.
I suppose that means I'm done with that issue. I feel pretty good about that, now!
My final thought of profundity has to do with the nature of God. I find is fascinating to logically deduce what, or who, or how God is. I am agnostic, but I do believe there must be a god, I just don't know God's motives.
So my thought today was that God is the cracks in the universe. God is the thing that allows for the transition, the change. Without God, there was no change, without change there is no universe. Change from one state, one instant, to the next is one of the fundamental properties of the universe. God is the change.
Stephen Hawking said that God doesn't exist, because the universe would be created by a cause (God) and effect (God lighting the fuse). This implies time, which is one of the fundamental properties of the universe, and time doesn't exist outside of it. Thus, the cause/effect cycle of God could not exist.
But I think, that the universe is a perfect circle. A circle, when properly drawn, stands alone. It forms a relation to itself, and is self sustaining, it is self-contained. The universe is much the same way, but on a much higher dimensional scale than a 2D circle. So, I think God must like blowing bubbles. These bubbles are of infinite dimensions, and self-contained.
Our universe exists because something, conscious or not, created the ability for change.
If you have read this far, thank you. You have great stamina!
This is really just a taste of what my mind went through today. I had thoughts like these whizzing about all over the place, like a bee hive. I wish I could keep better track! Couple that with breakthrough visuals on a level I have not seen in my, not-too-long-but-still-pretty-seasoned, years of tripping, and you have a pretty good idea of my day.
It was exactly what I set out to find, it was exactly what I needed, and I am eternally grateful.
Thank you, other human brain for receiving this message on the other end of these complex set of ridiculous electronics.
I mostly just feel like blasting out there what my mind has been chewing on today. So, here goes!
So I had planned on doing a shroom trip today. I cleared my schedule, mentally prepared, and was ready. I wanted some freshies, and it's that time of year! So, I went to one of my good pickin patches I've yet to go to this year. Man, was I in luck. I really don't even need any mushrooms, I have plenty of dried ones, but there's just something about it. It's like they ask me, "Please! Please pick us!"
So, I comply.
I am very happy to see those bad boys (psilocybe cyanescens) are spreading far and wide. I first found them a few years ago in just one area, and now they are all over the place! I filled up my coffee cup in a matter of minutes. I took that as a good sign of my trip to come.
So, the very best way I have found to have mushrooms is fresh, with rue. I took about 6.5 g of mushrooms, and 2.5 g of rue. The trip was so profound. I don't even know where to begin.
I suppose, I got to thinking about the nature of beauty, and goodness. I quote from Einstein floated around my head. Well, it was more of a story. As a child, Einstein had a teacher who was claiming this and that about evil, but (in different words) Einstein contended that evil was merely the absence of good. He did this by relating it to the properties of heat, and how there is no "cold" but merely the absence of heat.
I remember talking about good, and beauty in my philosophy class a few years back. It all clicked! Beauty and good are fundamental properties of the universe, in the same way that heat is. There is no ugliness, and there is no badness, just as there cannot be absolute zero (a state where there is no thermal energy). This is the nature of the universe! What a profound and wonderful idea.
Another thought I've had quite a bit recently is the mechanical view of life, and humanity. The current view science has of life is that it is made of atoms, and molecules, which act like machines. They all have a clearly defined set of mechanics that nature decides, and thus, life in general is very complex machinery. I suppose I agree with this to a point, but I've had an issue with it.
The machine view of life by default states that I have no free will. I am merely a product of the interactions of the atoms that make me up, and cannot decide anything. That would mean, consciousness is an illusion to me. But then, if there is an illusion, that implies someone to be fooled. Which leads back to the self, the conscious mind. One of the inherent qualities of consciousness is to be aware. But how can I be aware when I am merely a product of the mechanics of my atoms?
As you can see, it's quite a mess! In short, I have decided that something must be added to the machine view, and its an age old concept. The only way to have free will is for there to be an overall force, a decider. That's the soul, consciousness, life force. To me, they are all one. They are that which makes me capable of deciding. So, my mind is not a product of the atoms that make me, the atoms in me are beholden to my mind. To a point, of course.
This all implies that I really do have free will. I just think a universe with aware beings, without free will would be horrifically stupid, so I don't accept it.
I suppose that means I'm done with that issue. I feel pretty good about that, now!
My final thought of profundity has to do with the nature of God. I find is fascinating to logically deduce what, or who, or how God is. I am agnostic, but I do believe there must be a god, I just don't know God's motives.
So my thought today was that God is the cracks in the universe. God is the thing that allows for the transition, the change. Without God, there was no change, without change there is no universe. Change from one state, one instant, to the next is one of the fundamental properties of the universe. God is the change.
Stephen Hawking said that God doesn't exist, because the universe would be created by a cause (God) and effect (God lighting the fuse). This implies time, which is one of the fundamental properties of the universe, and time doesn't exist outside of it. Thus, the cause/effect cycle of God could not exist.
But I think, that the universe is a perfect circle. A circle, when properly drawn, stands alone. It forms a relation to itself, and is self sustaining, it is self-contained. The universe is much the same way, but on a much higher dimensional scale than a 2D circle. So, I think God must like blowing bubbles. These bubbles are of infinite dimensions, and self-contained.
Our universe exists because something, conscious or not, created the ability for change.
If you have read this far, thank you. You have great stamina!
This is really just a taste of what my mind went through today. I had thoughts like these whizzing about all over the place, like a bee hive. I wish I could keep better track! Couple that with breakthrough visuals on a level I have not seen in my, not-too-long-but-still-pretty-seasoned, years of tripping, and you have a pretty good idea of my day.
It was exactly what I set out to find, it was exactly what I needed, and I am eternally grateful.
Thank you, other human brain for receiving this message on the other end of these complex set of ridiculous electronics.
