TheAppleCore
Rising Star
One powerful change that psychedelics offered me was what I can only describe as the repossession of reality itself. The realization that the world is no less MY world than it is anyone else's. The government doesn't own the world, nor do the scientists, or the Catholic church, or Bill Gates. Before I took psychedelics, my role in life was to try to conform as best as possible to a rigid structure that was entirely outside of my own sphere of influence. It was to strain myself to climb through the absurd and treacherous obstacle course which was the world that OTHER people had created solely for themselves -- the people, whom, by some stroke of luck, managed to find themselves the Keepers of the World! My greatest aspiration was, no more and no less, than to ceaselessly and tiresomely march forward at the cracking whips lashing from behind, lashing from the hand of the Superior.
And then, through the repeated dissolution and reconstruction of self through psychedelics, I slowly began to realize that the world isn't an obstacle, menace, or threat to me at all -- it's a gift. I, for the first time, began to see the world as a sculptor sees stone, and a painter sees canvas. Underneath the flat surface of material reality was an endless spectrum of possibility. Fundamentally, beneath all of our meaningless abstractions of ownership and property and governance, all of humankind shares everything under the sky. And, beneath our certification of "real" knowledge with degrees and doctorates and peer-reviewed studies, we all possess the deepest truth of all, which is that of our own existence! Each of our perspectives is equally valid, and none of us deserve a greater authority than the next. I don't have to feel guilty for taking control of my own life.
Psychedelics taught me that my imagination is truly the only limit on what I can make a reality.
And then, through the repeated dissolution and reconstruction of self through psychedelics, I slowly began to realize that the world isn't an obstacle, menace, or threat to me at all -- it's a gift. I, for the first time, began to see the world as a sculptor sees stone, and a painter sees canvas. Underneath the flat surface of material reality was an endless spectrum of possibility. Fundamentally, beneath all of our meaningless abstractions of ownership and property and governance, all of humankind shares everything under the sky. And, beneath our certification of "real" knowledge with degrees and doctorates and peer-reviewed studies, we all possess the deepest truth of all, which is that of our own existence! Each of our perspectives is equally valid, and none of us deserve a greater authority than the next. I don't have to feel guilty for taking control of my own life.
Psychedelics taught me that my imagination is truly the only limit on what I can make a reality.
