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[12] Conqueror
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So, I was listening to Pink Floyd's album, Meddle, the other day. I haven't heard any Pink Floyd in years, and then it hit me.
I had a genuine "flashback" that old hippies talk about. The walls started to melt, moving objects left trails behind, and my body felt all the old sensations that I thought were long forgotten.
In my teen years, I was a modernized hippie. I smoked pot (I still do, BTW), did acid, ate mushrooms, whore hemp necklaces with glass beads, and had long hair, and basically was a total fuck-up with life. I ditched school to get high regularly. Yeah, I was "that guy" in high school that people only knew me as the guy to party with.
Those days are over now.
Looking back now, I justified my hallucinogenic use because I believed that it can potentially expand the mind, in creativity if nothing else. Hallucinogenics forces you to think about the world in ways you never thought possible. According to the US government, I've done LSD enough times to be legally insane 10 times over again. Am I crazy? Perhaps a little, but definitely not "insane" and absolutely functional as an adult in my late twenties. I might have a few emotional problems, but who doesn't?
In fact, I would go so far as to say that if it weren't for psychedelics, I would have never become so philosophical. At age 20, I took basic philosophy in College just for kicks. The truth is, I was always philosophical, long before I even knew what it was. I was always asking why, much like a child's curiosity. This one class changed my life forever, nothing in my entire life had such a profound effect on me, not even drugs.
I should probably say that I don't believe hallucinogenics should be taken by everyone. There is a VERY good reason why it's illegal, and despite the fact that something good can be gained from it, I support it's illegality. Some people can't handle it, take too much, and jump off a building because they think they can fly. Not to mention that fact that the doses are measured in micrograms, which is a millionth of a gram (yeah, it's THAT powerful). Also, there's too many quasi-chemists who don't really know what their doing. Pure LSD-25 actually requires someone with a PHD in chemistry to achieve, and even then, the recipe is very secretive because of the dangers of LSD.
I am actually quite lucky that I never took enough to send me "over the edge", because there was a couple of times when the doses were VERY strong and I was on the verge of losing my mind. The line that shouldn't be crossed is the line where you no longer know what's real and what's not. One time, the only thing holding me together was this : I knew I was at glen's house, and I knew who was in the room with me, other than that it was all just colors and patterns moving around, I could barely make out specific objects. Other than that my experiences have been nothing but a blast.
So, my question is, do you think LSD has the potential to be a good thing, or do you think it's all bad? What if it were legal in a controlled environment, where you couldn't hurt yourself or anyone around you? Also, I think a person should have to pass a psychological exam, to make sure they have a firm grip on reality, before they attempt to dissolve reality right in front their eyes. Obviously people with ailments such as schizophrenia and bipolar should be automatically banned from doing LSD.
The entire 1960's movement was strong evidence that people believe that something can be gained from doing hallucinogenics. Think for a minute about cultures around the world: Native American tribes occasionally do Peyote and Mushrooms for spiritual enlightenment, Chinese monks did opium to achieve something similar, and I believe that Irish Celtics did Mushrooms for pagan rituals and what not.
"Careful with that axe Eugene, one of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces!" Pink Floyd
So, I was listening to Pink Floyd's album, Meddle, the other day. I haven't heard any Pink Floyd in years, and then it hit me.
I had a genuine "flashback" that old hippies talk about. The walls started to melt, moving objects left trails behind, and my body felt all the old sensations that I thought were long forgotten.
In my teen years, I was a modernized hippie. I smoked pot (I still do, BTW), did acid, ate mushrooms, whore hemp necklaces with glass beads, and had long hair, and basically was a total fuck-up with life. I ditched school to get high regularly. Yeah, I was "that guy" in high school that people only knew me as the guy to party with.
Those days are over now.
Looking back now, I justified my hallucinogenic use because I believed that it can potentially expand the mind, in creativity if nothing else. Hallucinogenics forces you to think about the world in ways you never thought possible. According to the US government, I've done LSD enough times to be legally insane 10 times over again. Am I crazy? Perhaps a little, but definitely not "insane" and absolutely functional as an adult in my late twenties. I might have a few emotional problems, but who doesn't?
In fact, I would go so far as to say that if it weren't for psychedelics, I would have never become so philosophical. At age 20, I took basic philosophy in College just for kicks. The truth is, I was always philosophical, long before I even knew what it was. I was always asking why, much like a child's curiosity. This one class changed my life forever, nothing in my entire life had such a profound effect on me, not even drugs.
I should probably say that I don't believe hallucinogenics should be taken by everyone. There is a VERY good reason why it's illegal, and despite the fact that something good can be gained from it, I support it's illegality. Some people can't handle it, take too much, and jump off a building because they think they can fly. Not to mention that fact that the doses are measured in micrograms, which is a millionth of a gram (yeah, it's THAT powerful). Also, there's too many quasi-chemists who don't really know what their doing. Pure LSD-25 actually requires someone with a PHD in chemistry to achieve, and even then, the recipe is very secretive because of the dangers of LSD.
I am actually quite lucky that I never took enough to send me "over the edge", because there was a couple of times when the doses were VERY strong and I was on the verge of losing my mind. The line that shouldn't be crossed is the line where you no longer know what's real and what's not. One time, the only thing holding me together was this : I knew I was at glen's house, and I knew who was in the room with me, other than that it was all just colors and patterns moving around, I could barely make out specific objects. Other than that my experiences have been nothing but a blast.
So, my question is, do you think LSD has the potential to be a good thing, or do you think it's all bad? What if it were legal in a controlled environment, where you couldn't hurt yourself or anyone around you? Also, I think a person should have to pass a psychological exam, to make sure they have a firm grip on reality, before they attempt to dissolve reality right in front their eyes. Obviously people with ailments such as schizophrenia and bipolar should be automatically banned from doing LSD.
The entire 1960's movement was strong evidence that people believe that something can be gained from doing hallucinogenics. Think for a minute about cultures around the world: Native American tribes occasionally do Peyote and Mushrooms for spiritual enlightenment, Chinese monks did opium to achieve something similar, and I believe that Irish Celtics did Mushrooms for pagan rituals and what not.
"Careful with that axe Eugene, one of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces!" Pink Floyd
