Psychedelic renaissance - Are we at the gates of a new psychedelic wave?

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The hippie movement was a massive failure if you want to see it that way, or just the dumb baby steps of something bigger.
This is from Fear and loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thomson:


"There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. . . .
And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. . . .
So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”


How much should I take and how much should I save for later when there's scarcity?
I can eat it all at once, puke it and die at winter (this is fun and lead to good ideas), or I can accumulate more than what I need and can ever possibly eat, depriving others from it until they get pissed off and beat the shit out of me. (this helped humanity maintain it's genetic info and culture in the past by lineage)
The kid and the candy bar experiment kind of situation.

The sudden impulse of wanting everything at once, being oblivious/naive and making a fool of yourself, believing in unlimited resources that should be handed to us by demanding and crying like an infant.
The discovering of something good that's new and prostituting it to death.
Indulging excessively on it till everyone is numb and the most important part gets forgotten again because nobody extracted what it meant and the pendulum is already swinging in the opposite direction.

On the other side of the coin It's delusion, an old dumb fool that believes he knows everything and refuses to see the problems he generated or has been ignoring for a while.
The crazy young woman crying about how the material we've built our houses with is actually deadly haha.
Crazy until the Asbestos breaks and starts getting into everyone's bodies.
The same fools that fail to recognize when the water is already at their necks and keep numbed acting as if it's an everyday occurrence.
Also the lynch mobs burning people with weird ideas.
The cruel and brutal suppression of emerging truth.

The duality, a sustained foolishness is still it's original foolery, both parts of human experience, conservatism and liberalism and they are both contained within the same vessel, and they have their contents mixed.
It's just a tool to separate stuff but it has it's limitations.
We simply strive, fail miserably, get up and thrive.

With the psychedelic movement of the 60's it was the same, too separated dualities that failed to reach one another and marry, while the streets were love and peace in the shadows it was cold MK-ultra labs were unwilling people were forced to face the darkness of their minds.

IMO, women need to be less sentimental and use hard, precise logical systems.
I know you'll call me misogynistic but the majority of you is not very good at this and should listen to how men think and copy that.

Men need to take logic to its extreme which is the embrace of Chaos and become more sensitive.
Not faggy sensitive, but the type that has already tested itself against fire.
The kind of compassion that knows how to treat a violent beast till it calms down, dominating and pacifying it at the same time, knowing and respecting the limits of both parties.
The apparent dichotomy of soul and matter.

The waters, the collective unconscious, they will flood the surface whether we want it or not.
Because that's more "real" than our subjective idea of ourselves, whatever it is.

All cultures carry divine contents, and also primitive adaptations that are no longer suitable for the complexity of reality.

The sewer systems are saturated.
But we can choose to send voluntary missions down there to unclog, so the pressure is released in a proper more balanced manner, instead of max violent devastating impersonal pressure.
We gotta learn how to dance on fire, dance is both structure and chaos.

The ability to hold contradiction in his mind and take decisions is the purpose of the king.
When he can't do this anymore he is killed, see king killing rituals.
And it is then replaced with a new one, either coming from the same lineage or from the pit.
If it comes from the lineage it means the system had enough redeeming qualities
If it comes from the abyss or from the most marginal area then the old rule was very unbalanced and too incomplete, it simply wouldn't listen for a long time.

But it's all part of the same body, and these cycles are supposed to improve the machine every time.
It can also result in a failed amalgamation that produces quick horrors and go through a painfully decay until it vanishes.

The king means whatever predominant conscious configuration or system your ego or society has at the moment.

The lineage and kingdom is the belief system, the culture.

The pit is what the wholesome old psychotic Carl Jung called the shadow.
The shadow created by the direct shun of unequal light/consciousness over a body.

Ego death and narcissistic elation.
Those are two keys, two extremes that "lift the veil"
The door is in between
Abraxas
Ego death can be reached through masochistic states, the destruction of our identity or punishment of the body.
Narcissistic elation is often produced by sadism or the destruction of others identity/body
These are examples, you can reach both without the necessity of any external stimuli.

I recommend the books "In Praise of Folly" by Erasmus and "Imitation of Christ" by Thomas Kempis, to contrast both.
We gotta go to the pit chaps, some of us want to but it's illegal (it has never stopped us, but we need more muscle)
The structure is no longer suitable for the infernal inflow.
The contents of our reality that we haven't integrated and understood will end up eating us if we don't improve the system.
The sewer is important, but sometimes the people above forget about that and they stop sending resources down.

We shit a lot, it would help us to acknowledge our shit, and it's a massive pile of crap so we need strong solvents and acids.
There has been too much concealment, too much secretiveness.

And as a final note, if you are against occultism and alchemy because the elite uses it, I would tell you you are at a disadvantage.
Its like blaming math for nuclear bombs.
Those powers are beyond good or evil and beyond our comprehension (not the human elite, they are just rich edgy fools)

“We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "consciousness expansion" without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all the people who took him seriously... All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped create... a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody... or at least some force - is tending the light at the end of the tunnel.”​

-Hunter S. Thompson
 
Not bothering to read the HST schizo rant but, yes this does seem to be a trend people are moving towards. I see lots of shit now about how acid can cure depression, alcoholism, etc. Sounds too good to be true TBH. Reminds me when I'd hear over and over, inevitably from stoners themselves, that weed can cure cancer and shit like that.
 
Hallucinogens are pretty fun, but fuck that psychospiritual hippy crap, cannot fucking stand people who talk that shit.
Also anyone that uses the term "ego-death" oughta get their teeth kicked out.
 
Not bothering to read the HST schizo rant but, yes this does seem to be a trend people are moving towards. I see lots of shit now about how acid can cure depression, alcoholism, etc. Sounds too good to be true TBH. Reminds me when I'd hear over and over, inevitably from stoners themselves, that weed can cure cancer and shit like that.
It'll bake your brain right up. Could think many examples from Brian Wilson to Hunter S. Thompson even. There was an interesting documentary on the matter describing Vince Taylor:
 
Psychedelics are "okay" at best. I don't think they're some "magical plant" like some other potheads like to go off about when it comes to marijuana. Marijuana is a medicine, but it's not the "end all, be all", it'll help for some people, it'll NOT help others, but that's how most medication is these days anyways. The few times I've even had mushrooms I really didn't like them that much after the high came down. They make me sick to my stomach whether it's from a mushroom tea or by eating them, and the high that is considered "psychedelic" is just nauseating, confusing, and in regards for me specifically I get anxiety that can only be heightened and made worse due to said high.

I don't fucking get it and I especially don't get the retards who go off about the "experiences". Acid isn't even "acid" anymore, anytime I hear from someone about how they knew a guy who had "good acid" I'm only thinking to myself "Wow, you got lucky with a random chemical that DIDN'T ultimately fuck you up further!" It's why I even stuck to mushrooms in the first place, but since my experiences, I couldn't give a crap more about them and I leave them to the other people who are more comfortable frying up their brains quicker than just wanting to take a few bong rips and leave it at that.
 
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Psychedelics are the marvel movies of drugs. "Oooooo shiny colors this is so profound this is the greatest thing ever more shiny colors this is making me feel all of the feels!" Psychodelics users are unironically retarded. Not that using psychedelics make them retarded, but to actually believe that they are experiencing something profound while they are just doing drugs is extreme NPC behavior. Fortunately most people grow out of psychedelics quickly because they are boring. In the 1960s the feds had to astroturf psychedelics very hard but now that it's perfectly clear which chemicals are the best to achieve fully docile population they no longer have to experiment on us with le epic meme shiny color substance. Weed counts as psychedelic btw and inhaling weed is as gay as getting fucked in the ass. Instead of "psychedelic renaissance" I propose "stoner holocaust"
 
Take your drugs and your occultism and your alchemy, but I ask you just this. Can you prove to me that these are a foundational element to a society as opposed to a late addition draped atop it like a garnish or a embellishment? I say if you can make a fine society out of familial love and industry, and every late civilization has your elements added to it only while it dies, then I shall go without. I do not eat plain steak, nor do I eat a plate of black pepper burnt in butter. But I prefer the plain steak to just the additional decorations. Especially if the last guy to order the meal died eating it. And the one before, and the Song Dynasty. Especially the Song Dynasty, fuck those assholes.

The collective unconscious used to be like a river marching towards its future, now it is a cesspool whoring itself to bugs and other vermin. The multiculturalists got their vision, and the rest of the world wallow in the west and nothing in any of the Western nations' collective unconsciouses exists any more to oppose it. The racists and the other disgusted members of society are pruned and removed from the larger national unconscious by an ironic form of hysterical purity-seeking. The Great Gomorrah that came into being after the World Wars must be allowed to crumble into ruin so that something else might be there instead. That racism is seen as worse than pedophilia is incredible to me, the Chinese are hardly as open with who their children should marry but the west thinks maybe anyone should be able to rape theirs? The boomers were the real groomers and we are us all Lot's daughters today. The only real men today wait for rains of sulfur and fire fitfully in the countryside. And for the women in their families who look back to their former cities to be turned into pillars of salt.
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Man above all don't need compassion, they need honor. 25% of men don't breed, because women are the breeders of men. When they aren't idiots about it, women make a fine masculinity in surprisingly few generations which only got away from them in the late 1800s when a generation of women chose equality over their role of zoo-keeping boys. Men then rotted into whining messes, the worse of which was Wilhelm II who plunged Western Civilization into the funeral pyre that was the World Wars. Honor up to that point was the surrendering of a soldier’s sword as a symbol of being placed under arrest or of surrendering to an victorious opponent. There were rules, and codes, for life and the taking of it. People took responsibility for their nation's fate, and judged their neighbor harshly if they didn't too. Nations, like the Pakistani in England who still do, used to be held together by disgust for their least zealous. Today we westerners are all womanly, and so the women can be generals and warlords too. Why not? What more could be destroyed than would happen anyway? When will people get that it isn't the elites? Its us. We're the destructive force thinking everything is possible all at once, and a new chip flavoring as well on top. Lay's Tears of a Lonely Old Maid, mmmm! Yum yum.

Love a woman, love her heart and her sentimentalities. Mock her and tease her about them, but only as much as you do about her falling for an idiot. Take her hand, rub it, catch her gaze and hold it, and then bring her hand to your mouth and kiss a knuckle while staring into her eyes. Make a marriage, and a year later a family. That is what we are here to do, the rest is maintenance. Maintenance for living, or for a civilization which increasingly hates you and wants to destroy you only because it hates itself and you can't really hate yourself when your woman doesn't hate you. A civilization filled with man-children that will never experience the real suffering which ages them into adults. Their end will be upon them, and they'll be arguing politics in the lounge of the Hindenburg at Manchester Township.

Time is a resource. Trying to kiss, kicking, or cry for more of it doesn't work. Taking a car out into the North American Steppe of the Columbia Plateau, and camping for a few days without electricity does work. The old whore that is Burning Man does not. There are no more political solutions, enjoy the time that is given to you and worry not about the larger issues.
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The truth is that America is a trust-fund kid that the rest of the world hates, and we think of ourselves largely the same. There is no American exceptionalism but that which we put into our lives through work and organization. We instead take pills and hope that there is some cult that we might form to justify the lording over others that we intend to do anyway. I hate the coasts not because I'm better than them, but because they are my England that taxes my patience without representing me in anything of their art. It would be the most beautiful thing, comparable to my wife holding my first-born daughter, to be free of the world-changers, who never will learn the basics of life. The food, the clothing, and the shelter. The small accomplishments that ensure you are capable and worthy of the bigger accomplishments. The foundation before the vast cathedral of ego atop it. Farm and eat a week of meals made from your spices and vegetables. Wear a sweater you made. Build a deck, or a standalone pergola for an outdoor space to read in the rain or eat a meal. Hurt yourself and continue at it anyway. Suffer some sort of privation, where you cannot relieve your suffering, and not be broken by it. Make a foundation damn it, you make half-hearted churches on sand taking drugs and moaning about.

I've tried to help you. I've said, slow-living and enjoying the smell of flowers will benefit you. Discipline is best at the point of maximum freedom of choice, not more or less. Instead you take drugs to feel a great narcissistic elation that you might be the font of all mankind's everlasting renewal. You have only will, and no humility. Learn a fucking hobby, and make friends over it. Good habits, which are hard in the beginning but give a sense of accomplishment, renew the individual. Bad Habits, which are easy at the start but force greater effort to continue, cause an addiction which reduces the choices you will have to make as your life goes forward.
 
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Psychedelic imagery and soundscapes are oddly enough making something of a comeback in modern art and popular culture. Though they are rather generic and seem to lack the teeth that they had in the 60s and 70s. Its probably because, despite having less impressive drugs to take than their ancestors, modern people are so detached from reality and dissociated with themselves just as a norm.
 
I can't answer you for some reason Aby, I guess you are too old and wise for us clueless junkies replies.
but thats wut im sayiiiin doooood
I have to inform you I felt raped by reading your little love scene.

"The collective unconscious used to be like a river marching towards its future, now it is a cesspool whoring itself to bugs and other vermin."
I like that.

"Time is a resource."
What if it's also a friend.
He'll eventually eat the shit out of me, so why not enjoy my time with him?
Maybe even in an endless fall of mistakes there's joy to be experienced Mr linc, just for the fucking sake of it.

"Take your drugs and your occultism and your alchemy, but I ask you just this. Can you prove to me that these are a foundational element to a society as opposed to a late addition draped atop it like a garnish or a embellishment?"
Just do research man, Alchemy is the foundation of all religions, even Christian Alchemy is very rich.

Sorry if I miss something your post was too long and it felt like a touchy aunt.
 
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Hunter S. Thomson really was what one would call a Wordsmith, compared to a simple Writer or Author.

Hallucinogens are pretty fun, but fuck that psychospiritual hippy crap, cannot fucking stand people who talk that shit.
Also anyone that uses the term "ego-death" oughta get their teeth kicked out.

With hallucinogens, while I agree that "Ego-death" is a somewhat dramatic and inaccurate phrase, with "Ego-dissolution" being far more accurate, since the Ego reconstitutes itself.

Full Disclosure: I am consulting on a trial using psilocybin for acute suicidality. The intent is for people to experience an "Ego-dissolution" event. The reason for this is so they can experience the sensation of "dying" and via "Ego-reconstitution" they will be able to move past their desire for death IRL. The thought is that being able to experience the "death" of their Ego, and have it be reconstituted without that desire will fulfill their impulse for self-destruction. I think the theory has some genuine merit to it.
 
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Though they are rather generic and seem to lack the teeth that they had in the 60s
Maybe topsikrets knows something about that.
I can see a lot of awesome psychedelic imagery/themes and soundtrack in movies like "Mandy" or "The Void" and I think they are very solid and bold pieces of art.
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With hallucinogens, while I agree that "Ego-death" is a somewhat dramatic and inaccurate phrase, with "Ego-dissolution" being far more accurate, since the Ego reconstitutes itself.

Thanks for the share, and yeah I see how for many that word can have a better meaning.
Personally I find ego death more adequate for my own thought process, it reconstitutes itself in a more complete and healthy way but it does leave behind many "waste" that sometimes we were strongly identified with, and I prefer to give them burials in my mind with all it's implications.
Depending on your beliefs about afterlife death could also mean being born again.
I think that's the main reason I like the word ego death, it allows you to have an ego rebirth afterwards.
 
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