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What valuable lessons have you learnt since the beginning of your DMT/psychedelic journey ?

TheCrimsonElephant

TheCrimsonElephant

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Hello there ! šŸ¤ 

I would like this discussion to be a place to share wisdom and positive thoughts.
Sum up in a few simple sentences what you have discovered in your life in general since you began using DMT and others psychedelics.
Some understandings that stuck with you and that are essential to you now.

I'll start with some of mines to give an example :
Hate always leads to more hate.
Give without expecting in return. You'll be able to enjoy free gifts from life and the others.
Whenever you can help or be nice in any way that doesn't cost you anything, you should do it.
Don't have high expectations and accept that the worse could happen, that way you won't be disappointed.
Dance under the rain, life is beautiful even when it's hard, appreciate it's value.

Your turn ! šŸ’•

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I sometimes will be in a place of thinking both sides of my thoughts or concepts simultaneously, the Yin and the Yang.
One time while in this place, my questing making me feel a bit full of myself and superior...
A slap in the face saying, "You're no better than anyone else."
But also immediately...
"And you're no worse than anyone else." And knowing that to completely accept the one, I had to completely accept the other.

I got Yin Yang out the yinyang.
 
Quit worrying about death. It is going to be okay. We will return to where we were before birth.
Ignore the culture. It works to point out differences and divide. In fact we are All One. We are souls of light encased in flesh for a short and hopefully beautiful run.
Be careful and discriminating about to whom I offer DMT initiation.
Give up the personal illusion of control.
Jettison expectations when meeting a novel situation. Be ready for anything.
Stay calm when things get dicey. Don't let the fear be your MISTRESS, make it your informant.
 
I resonate deeply with all of those shared above. Ever since I started working with psychedelics (LSD, specifically), I learned a few things about life and myself that can be summed up in the following way:
  • Nature is everything; it's a living, intelligent, indescribably complex entity that we can barely understand. LSD showed me Nature in a light I had never seen before. It made me irreversibly fall in love with it on a viscerally deep level. With that, of course, came a lot of pain when I realized all the damage we as a species are inflicting. But that's a different topic.
  • There's a lot more to life than is apparent at first glance. That thing we call "reality" is a layered and unimaginably complex structure, and using the right tools in the right way can allow us to peel the layers off and take a sneak peek beyond. This realization made me obsessed with "finding out more". Going back into those realms, deep, and just searching, not for some all-encompassing truth, or the Philosopher's Stone, but just for the experience of life on a different plane of reality. It's like hunting for intellectual/spiritual artefacts, and I've taken it up as a life quest of mine that, albeit on a pause right now, will be resumed quite soon I hope.
  • I learned the power of forgiveness - for myself and others. The reason I started working with psychedelics is, put quite simply, I had nothing else to lose (or at least that's how I felt at the time). During my first experience ever, alone up in a beautiful mountain forest in the middle of summer, soaring on some 150 mics of LSD, I realized that forgiveness is one of the most powerful tools I could learn. And I tested it right away. Forgiving the person that caused me so much pain and suffering liberated me from a weight that would have otherwise sunk me. It freed me from chains I had lamented for years. And it has done so time and again.
That's of course just a few of the things I've gained from walking this amazing path, but there's a lot more to learn and experience. Life is beautiful that way, isn't it? :)
 
What a cool topic. Really enjoyed reading others summations. In no particular order here are some of mine that I can think of:

Life is what you make of it. It is a beautiful life giving place and it is terrifying darkness, it is both and it is neither. Where do I want to live?

In every moment there can be a myriad of choices but the ultimately boil down to a choice between life/death, growth/decay, order/disorder.

We aren't bodies, minds and souls we are bodymindsouls. Each facet reflects in the others.

Thoughts are tangible things, it matters what we think and that it not only makes an impact on our day to day but our thoughts can, on some strange level, also able to be perceived (the vast majority of the time subconsciously) by others.

My thoughts aren''t me and are in many way a kind of sense or perception that is as much about external factors as internal ones.
An extension to the last 2 is that these "others" aren't always physical and sometimes they're hungry, so it's very important to keep boundaries on where I let my awareness go in day to day life.
I'm trying to find the right metaphors for those last 3 but probably just sound psychotic to people with no frame of reference for them, so I think that's enough for now šŸ˜‚
 
TheCrimsonElephant said:
Hello there ! šŸ¤ 

I would like this discussion to be a place to share wisdom and positive thoughts.
Sum up in a few simple sentences what you have discovered in your life in general during since you began using DMT and others psychedelics.
Some understandings that sticked with you since and that are essential to you now.
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To expect the truly unexpected ~ experiences that you could never have imagined as being remotely possible, haha. Stuff that leaves you thinking, that's impossible by any normal standard, but it happened anyways...
 
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I resonate very strongly with everything you wrote above, and I have learned many similar lessons and many others :ROFLMAO:
One of the most important experiences in my life was my first trip on LSD, before this trip I was a standard normie who went to a boring office job for 8 hours, came back home, played games on the console and smoked a lot of marijuana, did not believe much in my own potential, I always thought I was too stupid to be able to learn and develop, but that experience changed everything. After this experience, I started reading a lot of books about psychedelics and spirituality, I started meditating a lot and self-development, I gave up alcohol and other substances that were harmful to me (the whole process took a while and still continues).
Now, 8 years after this experience, I am in a beautiful place in my life, I have a job that I love, which allows me to develop and gives me a lot of pleasure, I have loving and wonderful people around me, I no longer consume any substances that had a negative effect on me influence, I practice yoga and meditate a lot, I can enjoy every little thing. If it weren't for that first experience with LSD, I certainly wouldn't be where I am today. I am very grateful for this and for the fact that I can experience the miracle that is life. šŸ„³
 
I am learning each and every day. Safe to not come to set conclusions or generalizations about pretty much anything. Treat others like I want to be treated. Focus on humbling myself during times of turmoil. It's okay to just be and not hold myself up to anything. Don't be so hard on myself for learning the ropes of life. Provide time and space to process complex emotions. Acknowledge that not everything can be explained and fit within my understanding.
 
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