hang around the LSD sections of bluelight and other such places and you'll see loads of members claiming they have been enlightened by the experience of taking acid and various psychedelics. Many of them have this mentality which I find really comical of "me vs the sheeple who never took drugs" They seem to consider that this chemical granted them access to higher knowledge and perception (lol at the arrogance of the Psychonaut community).
On the other hand many do seem to be intelligent and quite lucid and I took LSD twice last year and have definitely experienced a feeling of change within myself, which I can only describe as a kind of widening of my perception, a step-back from the values which I had previously believed to be a-given. Basically the world around me looks different, so it definitely changed something within me. it seems a little ridiculous to imagine that a drug would grant you access to "higher perception" and seems far more likely that the effect of the drug is precisely to create an illusion of enlightenment. I suppose having your perceptions radically changed for twelve hours (basically being insane for 12 hours) would make you understand that the world around you is only as it is because of the way you decide to look at it and the Chemistry of your brain, and therefore sort of make you "wiser", or more open-minded. I'm interested in what forum members think of this, both those who have tried Psychedelics and those who have not. If you have tried them, do you feel different? Or is this just me attaching too much importance to the event of me taking it, relating everything back to it, in which case you could say that psychedelics produce a kind of monomania because you're somehow traumatizing yourself with it. I'm a bit drunk and usually speak French so excuse bad sentence structure and and mistakes. Also just in case my post makes you think that psychedelics are awesome and enlightening, I also experienced quite a few bouts of depression as a result of this perception change, I wouldn't go back on my decision of taking it, because it's bloody interesting and I'm fine now. But It also definitely made my life more difficult in many ways.
On the other hand many do seem to be intelligent and quite lucid and I took LSD twice last year and have definitely experienced a feeling of change within myself, which I can only describe as a kind of widening of my perception, a step-back from the values which I had previously believed to be a-given. Basically the world around me looks different, so it definitely changed something within me. it seems a little ridiculous to imagine that a drug would grant you access to "higher perception" and seems far more likely that the effect of the drug is precisely to create an illusion of enlightenment. I suppose having your perceptions radically changed for twelve hours (basically being insane for 12 hours) would make you understand that the world around you is only as it is because of the way you decide to look at it and the Chemistry of your brain, and therefore sort of make you "wiser", or more open-minded. I'm interested in what forum members think of this, both those who have tried Psychedelics and those who have not. If you have tried them, do you feel different? Or is this just me attaching too much importance to the event of me taking it, relating everything back to it, in which case you could say that psychedelics produce a kind of monomania because you're somehow traumatizing yourself with it. I'm a bit drunk and usually speak French so excuse bad sentence structure and and mistakes. Also just in case my post makes you think that psychedelics are awesome and enlightening, I also experienced quite a few bouts of depression as a result of this perception change, I wouldn't go back on my decision of taking it, because it's bloody interesting and I'm fine now. But It also definitely made my life more difficult in many ways.