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PARK MEMOIRS II

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antrocles

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so, i'm gonna chronicle the next handful of days as part of a deep chunk of work i've felt coming for a bit. starting yesterday i'm going to explore deep, ego-death journeys every day for the next week. breaking through has been a daily practice for over a year now. these deep ego-death atomic re-aligners have been coming with more and more frequency and i am coming back less and less "rocked" and more and more "clear". these guys (usually twice my normal breakthrough dose AND with a sublingual .03 dose of Caapi Copy 30 minutes prior) are MUCH more challenging to bring back. :shock:

the ego-deaths are always tougher to bring back because through the deepest, most profound part of them you are no longer an observer.... however, if i can recall one or two of the real MAJOR teachings, i am committed to writing them down the minute i get home in the hopes of sharing the wisdom and branding it deeper into my brain as well.

because i am still very much in the "both worlds" space as i write these, they may be a bit thin in terms of flow or cohesion. i apologize for that...i just want to try to get the "meat of the sandwich" out while it's hot.. ;)

WITH THE DEEPEST LOVE AND GRATITUDE...

PARK DAY 2:
.03mg Caapi Copy sublingual, GVG filled with strong sativa changahuana (approx .04 spice) and .02 fresh parmesan cheese sandwiched ta boot. ;)

woke up, had a wonderful one hour training ride with a client, intervals which always leave me extremely invigorated and positive. came home, cut open a coconut, drank it's water and ate it's flesh. i feel FANTASTIC AND ALIVE!!

one hour later weighed out the CC and put it under the tongue. went on a walk "the long way" to my beloved park and my holy liquid amber tree. arrived 30 minutes later. laid out towel, took off shoes, wiggled toes in the soft new grass, took a few minutes to say goodbye to this life and this world...

completely surrendered now and the caapi has me so filled with love i am fearless for my voyage.

torch sounds like a piece of cloth being ripped....the lung capacity of a professional endurance athlete is maximized and the entire dose is taken in one monstrous inhalation. i take off this suit and dive naked into a pool that i become a part of on entry.

no more antrocles. no more observation. no more other than the most amazing world. almost cartoon like but tangible, 3D. charicatures looked as if they were made out of shiny plastic. shiny plastic people. yellow is ALWAYS the predominant color when i go this deep. baby blues, pinks, whites and lots and lots of yellow. i am looking at a gathering of these shiny plastic "people". they are looping over and over. an old man on the verge of death, a slightly younger person, an even younger person, etc. etc. all the way down to a newborn in a crib. they are standing posed like a family portrait and all of them are opening their hands to me.

i am flying in towards their hands to see what they are "giving me" but everytime i start to get into the baby's hands the cycle loops over. like just as i'm about to find out what it is that is being "revealed", the loop starts again so it's like this continual zooming in on this cycle of birth to death that just repeats over and over and over.....FOREVER. :SHOCK:

i'm not scared, i'm not...anything. the message is being made clear that there is no beginning and no end. the forward sensation....this feeling of hurtling forward through this repeating process is almost soothing to me. through every part of the cycle...in every lifetime...the "gift" is me. what is always being given...is...me.

i'm still dead. there is no part of me that can observe...i am just a part of this flow that is so tremendous and awesome. this is no "hallucination"....not any more than this world we live in is a hallucination. it reminds me of a quote i just read in THE QUOTE ROOM:

"are you a human being having a spiritual experience or a spiritual being having a human experience?"

i am quite positive i am the latter.

a sea of faces is scattered out now and there are more faces than there are currently people in this world. it's like an amassing of all the faces of all beings over all lifetimes. it is infinite and yet i can see them all at once. i see MY face in this vast universe of identities and immediately feel a warmth and familiarity with this blue-eyed, mustached, wizard-looking structure. i love this face...but not the face....i love the "me" behind this face...

like a curtain falling down on top of a stage actor, i feel a powerful (albeit loving) presence envelope me. the message is poured like colored dye into the water. the water that i am turns a new, peach-colored hue and this color is information more complete than all of our senses MAXIMIZED could relate to our mind.

"you must feel this level of love, familiarity and recognition in ALL of these faces. don't buy into the illusion that this one face is YOU. you are ALL of these faces....all of these lives...all of these "selves". there is no difference between any of these."

a black man's face is regarded for a moment and an entire life passes through me. childhood, young adult, parenthood, old age, illness, death...a woman's face.....the same....

every face had a life and that life was mine. there was no separation.

so much more wisdom poured into me and i lay in the dappled sunlight for almost an entire hour before finally opening my eyes. a voice told me, "you want to walk in both worlds? you want to know what that is truly like? go now and feel what it is truly like then.."

almost like a robot i arose, opened my eyes, mechanically folded my towel and put it in my bag, put on my shoes, stood up....there was only one thing i was not clear on.

i had no idea who i was. :shock:

i honestly had no identity. i walked through the park as if i had never been to it before. everything was new and i found myself staring at things for eternities whilest slowly, meditatively walking along. like a strong mushroom journey...each step came with a new, profound epiphany and i made no attempt to "file anything away" or "hold onto that one"...because....well....i had no idea who would be doing the "holding on".

for 15 solid minutes i was NOMAN. i had amazing connections with smiles and nods of hello with every person i passed. i felt so connected. i even had a momentary exchange of words with a mexican man in the most fluent spanish i've ever heard come out of my mouth. i knew what he was going to say before he said it. i knew what his response would be to what i said back. there was no past, no future and yet.....there was a "knowing" that existed in "the now" that was almost as if i was making it happen as it went along. as if my very thoughts were being made manifest in "real time".

after 15 minutes i re-cognized my world. it was actually a sad moment. i found myself desperately wanting to hold on to that sacred presence i was so blessed to have known. the utter bliss and "lightness" of having no identity....it was like i had the weight of the world lifted from my shoulders. as if the actual "weight" of the world was what we gave to it in our identifying with it as real...

the sativa was helping me feel connected with what i just went through but the most "divine connection" was now retracted and i was left with a gratitude and a appreciation that only death could mine out of me.

this was profound and i will revisit this depth of exploration again tomorrow. i have a strong feeling that by week's end i may be made out of a different material... ;)

WITH THE DEEPEST LOVE AND GRATITUDE!!
 
This trip report makes you a mix of Neil Armstrong and Indiana Jones, brutha. I love the birth through death cycle that you describe, it's almost like you are surfing on the crests of human existence and dipping into depths of hyperspace at the same time. Your trips have a heavy eastern philosophical leaning to them. Do you read Buddhist or Hindu writings or dabble with those ideas in your life? It seems like you do. Or maybe psychedelics in general promote eastern ways of thinking. You know, Ying and Yang or internal and external being the same.
 
joebono said:
This trip report makes you a mix of Neil Armstrong and Indiana Jones, brutha. I love the birth through death cycle that you describe, it's almost like you are surfing on the crests of human existence and dipping into depths of hyperspace at the same time. Your trips have a heavy eastern philosophical leaning to them. Do you read Buddhist or Hindu writings or dabble with those ideas in your life? It seems like you do. Or maybe psychedelics in general promote eastern ways of thinking. You know, Ying and Yang or internal and external being the same.

my progression of spiritual identification plays out as thus: born catholic, raised without religion, identified and pursued buddhism (zen, then tibbetan, then back to zen), progressed into hinduism which is probably the existing religion i most identify with now, but in truth i have been coming into an offshoot of hinduism through my work with the molecule...i call it "unknowingness".

i honestly don't think i would have been able to be at peace with a concept such as this until i had done substantial work with a medicine that essentially annihilates your "knowing" so completely. through continual destruction of tenets i held as fact for so long, it has been my experience that there are two things that we as humans cannot be at peace with:

1. existing "forever"
and
2. completely ceasing to exist

that pretty much puts a kink in every major religion. being forever and no longer being are both more than our minds are able to conceive and our minds desperately need to KNOW SOMETHING. even if it is just that you KNOW you BELIEVE something. it all feels like desperate puppet-show antics to soothe a mind that is well out of it's comfort zone...

i have come to a place of complete peace with surrender and unknowingness...in fact, i believe that with the surrender of "knowledge", the door to the infinite is unlocked. i go into my journeys as much an empty glass as i possibly can. this is my gift and the gift just keeps on giving.. ;)

something i just remembered (HUGE!!) that i forgot to put into this report: when i was going through the whole teaching with all of the faces and the illumination that i was ALL of them, i was told OVER AND OVER AND OVER...to the point of it almost sounding like music because it just kept repeating....the following: surrender your need to want. surrender your need to want. surrender your need to want.

i was even chanting this like a mantra as i wandered nameless through the park for the intial 15 mintes back...

surrender your need to want.... :shock:

i certainly feel as if a LOT of buddhist and hindu teachings apply directly to my experience of hyperspace. the surrendering of self and attachment to illusion is a huge one. i also have had countless experiences of "differing levels" of the hyperspace architecture. almost like the different layers spoken of in buddhism. hungry ghosts, titans, animals, man, hell-beings....all archetypes yes, but i have seen these strata in many of my voyages.

i have also seen, met, and interacted with MANY buddhas, shivas and other eastern deities in my travels. maybe it is me...maybe it is what is....i don't know...

..and i don't want to... :D

LOVE AND GRATITUDE!!
 
"surrender your need to want" I must remember that - strong medicine! Thanks for sharing this, Antocles - loving the park memoirs ...
 
yeah....i simply can NOT get this mantra out of my head. i've been walking around the house all morning just saying it over and over....i think hyperspace has given me my very own seed of conscious growth in this simple koan. it really is like a koan actually....almost a puzzle....so simple and yet..

a life's work at the same time. :shock:

strong medicine indeed!!

LOVE AND GRATITUDE!!
 
I would love to transcend my need to want...but what about wanting to provide for my family? Or wanting to fry up some grouper? A life without wants seems kind of silly from my perspective.
It kind of reminds me how a lot of yogis talk about how passion is a bad thing and you shouldn't have any passion...Ha!
Interesting how we all have our unique perceptions.
 
"Surrender your need to want" seems like a mantra that can take you deeper into the experience. By truly ridding yourself of the ego you need to neutralize everything and this includes desire. Your wants, needs, and desires anchor you to this place and by shedding them you can truly be free.

I agree with House though that desires and their fulfillment bring passion and pleasure, but for the purposes of your work, Antrocles, it's important to follow your mantra.
 
It's interesting to hear how you've evolved to the point of identifying deeply with the Vedic tradition (Hinduism). I was very familiar with the Bhagavad-Gita before my spice journeys. Afterwards, it reads as a perfect manual for Hyperspace spirituality. Mahatma Gandhi's 4 sole possessions were his robe/towel, his spectacles, his spinning wheel and his Gita. For anyone interested, I recommend the translation by Jack Hawley, available at amazon.com.
 
antrocles said:
my progression of spiritual identification plays out as thus: born catholic, raised without religion, identified and pursued buddhism (zen, then tibbetan, then back to zen), progressed into hinduism which is probably the existing religion i most identify with now, but in truth i have been coming into an offshoot of hinduism through my work with the molecule...i call it "unknowingness".

That is truly my history to the letter. Hence my profile name, since all the classic Hindu deities were taken.
 
Perhaps your interest and identification with Hinduism influenced your experience? In my own work, my dreams are very often centred around, and influenced by the particular symbol system which I'm using at that time e.g. chakras, or the kabbalistic tree. Just a thought.

I admire your work Antrocles, this is work on a far deeper level than many are able, or willing, to explore. Dissolve yourself in the abyss and journey to the city of the pyramids. Infinity awaits.
 
don't buy into the illusion that this one face is YOU. you are ALL of these faces....all of these lives...all of these "selves". there is no difference between any of these.

I also had this experience once. I somehow managed to look out through the eyes of two people at once: those of mine and those of a friend. The two existences were experienced simultaneously and they didn't clash.

there was a "knowing" that existed in "the now" that was almost as if i was making it happen as it went along. as if my very thoughts were being made manifest in "real time".

This is what the buddhists call "prajna", I think.

This report of you was the most familiar to date. I honestly begin to believe that you do the work for me over there which I couldn't complete myself. You are coming to the same realizations that I came to and you will get much much further. It seems your vessel is more adequate to the task than mine. And this makes me incredibly happy. :) It's so good to know that I don't have to bear the responsibility alone.
 
surrender your need to want

Aren't you afraid that in the end you will become just a simple ordinary man, eating, drinking, mating, not caring at all about these spiritual things? ;)

(But really. This may be the single greatest hindrance in front of me. I'm afraid that if I get enlightened, I won't care any more. And what makes it worse: I won't even be able to.)
 
cellux said:
surrender your need to want

Aren't you afraid that in the end you will become just a simple ordinary man, eating, drinking, mating, not caring at all about these spiritual things? ;)

(But really. This may be the single greatest hindrance in front of me. I'm afraid that if I get enlightened, I won't care any more. And what makes it worse: I won't even be able to.)


THIS IS THE SINGLE GREATEST CHALLENGE I AM FACING IN MY LIFE RIGHT NOW. i truly feel like i'm walking on the edge of a cliff in the middle of a windstorm. going off the edge seems imminent....whether it's by my own choosing or simply the "momentum" my life's work is gathering. i'm not going to lie, it's got me looking DEEPLY at everything i am/have/think/believe. at 39, it falls right in step with the good ol' "mid-life crisis" us westerners dread.

personally, it honestly feels like i'm being slowly dissolved into something and i have awareness of it happening. it's not so much a matter of "doing" something as it is a surrendering and accepting that which is happening irregardless....

waking up- be careful what you wish for.....we all talk a lot about "letting go" and "being aware of our oneness" and even "getting out of our ego"....

but when that really starts happening, one quickly realizes that it is a path that grows over immediately behind you as you slowly move forward. the ideal of "commitment" is replaced with the inability to be anything else.

i'm no buddha. not by a long shot. this "awakening" in me has definite moments of sadness and doubt. i can't do anything about it now.

WITH THE MOST HUMBLE LOVE AND GRATITUDE.
 
Well, that's not exactly true, my friend. YOU CAN STOP AT ANY TIME. There is no need for you to "walk off a cliff" or continually push your limits. Have you thought about what it is exactly you ultimately hope to achieve with all this? What's your end game? When is enough? Because there is a fine line between truth seeking and endless psychedelic wanking, and while everyone here may be very interested in seeing just how far you can go, I'd rather see you safe and sane than in diapers with a dribble cup.

Just sayin', is all. If you end up fucked up as a result of all this, I will feel awfully responsible.
 
it's nothing like that my friend. nor is it something i would NOT want to be faced with. my option of stopping my work with DMT is not going to help me to "unsee" the things i've seen. there is no "fucked up" quality to me as a result of what i've been doing. if anything, it simply feels like i "fast-tracked" a lifetime of deep meditiation therapy.

DeepMeditationTherapy

and now i am where i am. no way i can go back and no real desire to. my sadness is not out of depression but rather out of a seeing through an illusion i have bought into for too long. a deep felt disenchantment with the shiny things that once held me distracted. everything spiritual that i have read would have me believe that i am proceeding forward towards awakening... it's just that it is so much easier to bat around as a "concept" or an "idea out there" than it is to actually feel that dissatisfaction with a false construct and actually WALK THE TALK.

so many folks we would hold as "deep" or "spiritually awake" are simply good talkers and seem to UNDERSTAND so clearly what it's all about. maybe i'm just an old reincarnated taoist at heart, but i feel that i have never "known" less and, concurrently, i've never been so close to an enlightened state. it really and truly feels as though the choice is mine to make whether or not i simply trust my feelings and make a physical shift into this new life. everything i am, all of the 'accomplishment', the "success"....it's been nearly 40 years of winning, gaining, amassing, KNOWING...and where do i stand at the end of it all?

no closer to a genuine feeling of oneness....and to be honest, a hell of a lot farther way. i was a grateful dead-following hippy almost 20 years ago now. i was young, idealistic, inexperienced and naive....but i did have something then that has progressively eroded through my "growing up": a sense of connection. after 15 years of living in los angeles, becoming the professional athlete, making my share of the pie, getting married then divorced, travelling the world and doing all sorts of "enriching" things, i have actually gone AWAY from the most important thing i didn't realize i had going for me all those years ago.

if you would feel "awfully responsible" for something going terribly wrong through my use of DMT, then i would encourage you now to shoulder equally the responsibility that you, through your introducing me to this most profound molecule, may have just as possibly set a soul free.

now then- exactly WHAT is the best next step to take to get from "los angeles athlete trainer guy with lots of possessions" to "free soul living in nature with a strong community and minimal negative impact on the planet"?

feel free to PM me your suggestions... ;)

LOVE AND GRATITUDE!!
 
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