And what acid and its ilk are really doing, more than anything, more than showing you wavy dots and lines, is they're putting a filter on your thoughts where whatever else you think, you always think it's profound. Every though is accompanied by a pervasive emotion of revelation
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If you think about the sky, the sky seems profound. If you think about your toilet, your toilet will seem like a rich vein of radiant insight. And perhaps it is. But the really fucked up thing is when, instead of all that, you make the mistake of thinking about morality
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I don't even recommend thinking about morality even when you're totally sober, but under the influence of psychedelic "yellow dye", the most inane moral excretions of your mind feel divinely inspired. And if you're unlucky, it sticks after the trip is overhttps://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1195752789437120512 …
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Which brings us to the third thing people want to get out of psychedelics, which is spirituality. I think by now you can triangulate what I will say. When your every stray thought seems profound, this is indistinguishable from a spiritual experience
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And what I take away from that is that spiritual experiences are pretty cheap; you can get the same buzz from singing hymns as a part of a big crowd, and it's about as likely to cause a stack overflow and let the preacher insert new instructions into your mind as dropping acid
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The main difference is that when you have a spiritual experience in church, the preacher is hopefully going to put instructions there that have stood the test of time and that come a relatively symbiotic memeplex such as your culture's evolved ancient wisdom
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In contrast to that, when you have a psychedelic experience, the person with superuser access to your mental map is you, but not a stable version of you, oh no, a you who is overcome with childish wonder at any random thing that strays into his field of view
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This is why many psychedelic users do something they call "packing for the trip" wherein they read/watch things that they think will be comforting or enlightening before they take the drugs
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And no matter what plans you make, what usually happens is you end up replaying whatever aspirational pablum you have on your internal tape loop and you come down feeling like whatever you already thought was important is now more important than ever
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Sometimes this manifests in the form of "self-realizations" where you a mundane thing that you already knew about yourself takes on a sense of urgency: "I should be nicer to people" or my personal favorite, "I should lay off the drugs." But we've all seen how that usually goes
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Believe it or not, there are people out there who have converted to conventional religion as a result of psychedelics. I have found William James' "Varieties" to be a much better guide to the psychedelic experience than any inanity put out by Terrence McKenna or his ilk.
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