Disregard Everything I Say

A common thought throughout many trips that I’ve had is that if I could somehow take a single print screen of what I am currently seeing and post it online it would forever change the world and probably be considered a more amazing image than any work of art ever produced by a human being.  

The reason I think about this quite a bit is because if we were capable of showing the normals a completely accurate recorded image or video of the psychedelic experience it would be so mind blowing that it would be enough to forcibly kick start a psychedelic revolution across the entire planet as it would entice the curiosity of so many into experiencing these things for themselves as well as completely changing the face of Psychology and perhaps Philosophy.
However, although such a recording would look unlike anything most people had ever seen before I think it’s unlikely that it could ever look completely the same as the real thing because the psychedelic experience is also accompanied by many mental effects that change the appearance of the visuals such as the removal of our sensory filter that allows us to comprehend the positions and appearance of different parts of the closed eye visuals across our entire visual field all at once instead of just the tiny fraction that the centre of our vision is focused on which is what our sober selves experience usually and would continue do so while looking at the recording.

Although the technology is obviously not anywhere near this level yet it is being developed and scientists as recently as last month releasing a video that shows low resolution Hollywood movie trailers that were reconstructed using the memories of the video itself picked up by an fmri scan.

This is a big improvement from the ongoing studies in the 90’s that tested technologies on the brain of a cat to reconstruct its vision into watchable form but in a much lower resolution than what we are capable of now.

It’s worth noting that the milder open eye visuals and distortions between level 1 and 3 could easily be replicated easily by somebody out there who’s better than me at photoshop although the replication of these visuals would not be as groundbreaking as the replication of closed eye visuals.

Many of fractal like visuals such as the ones seen in the sort of places salvia takes you have already been unintentionally replicated by people playing around with fractal generation software. For example videos like this and this are very similar to certain salvia trips I’ve had and according to this poll is experienced by 44% of salvia users.

The evolutionary advantage of our species having a brain that under certain conditions can generate something based on a very particular field of mathematics is something that I think should be looked at, perhaps even more so than the abstract imagery of regular closed eye visuals.

I know this is all hypothetical but a tool like this could have some awesome applications despite the fact that most of the people developing these technologies are probably not considering this as a potential use. 

On one hand your own personal experience is the greatest indicator of what is true and false and not the numerous rumours and hearsay of others making you the smartest person you know but on the other hand you are just a talking monkey whose species can’t even get its shit together enough to stop destroying the earth beneath our feet instead of arresting stoners and shooting each other in the desert

On one hand its your current sensory experiences that make up the entire perceivable universe and your species along with its technology is the most complex and cutting edge of what is happening in the known universe right now but on the other hand you are a tiny speck in an uncaring universe that will have completely forgotten about you in a generation or two.

For some reason the theme of most peoples self image is contradiction and judging by the people I have asked in general we feel both intelligent but retarded, both special but insignificant, both free but confined and we live lives that feel both short and long. Even if there’s no implication to this at all it’s at least worth pointing out to people and maybe its better to just run with your sense of contradiction instead of letting your personality be confined to one end of the spectrum or a middle ground, this sort of thinking lets you do go ahead and do things while preventing you from starting to take yourself too seriously.

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Culture by its very definition is something that moulds your behaviours and personality to fit into a particular style that was determined for you at birth by your geographical location and the people around you. Psychedelics allow us to get past this near permanent conditioning that holds every one of us back in life. The power of psychedelic compounds to remove us from our cultural filter stems from its ability to produce states of consciousness so radically different to what we are used to but still very much based in the themes of reason and introspectiveness. It’s from this position that we can judge the world and ourselves from an unbiased almost third person perspective.

However, the permanent removal of the cultural filter is something that generally results in varying levels of alienation from friends and family as you begin to realize that the already high percentage of your loved ones who are concerned exclusively with trivial bullshit is surprisingly even* higher than previously thought. To me choosing culture before alienation is the same as adopting an ignorance is bliss mindset and although difficult to manage becomes much easier if it is possible to drag a few willing close friends along as you descend into madness. Knowing that the people around you act the way they do because of the conditioning society has placed on them rather than a conscious choice can also help us to understand them and not feel too alienated.

*WTF Right? It was always almost all of them before this happenedanywayfuckthisshi

Induced happiness and genuine happiness are two altered states of consciousness that can be bought about in an individual by various different drugs. However genuine happiness does not depend on being brought about by a drug in the same way that induced happiness does and can be indirectly reached through perfectly sober means.
Many drugs such as opiates, stimulants and certain anti depressants all chemically alter the brain in such a way that forces happiness on its user regardless of their circumstances in life and emotional instabilities; it’s these sorts of drugs that deal with the symptoms rather than the causes of depression and should therefore be avoided as a means of coping.
Drugs such as psychedelics however do not force a meaningless state of euphoria on its users and instead act as mood enhancer that forces them to look at and deal with their personal problems. It’s this sort of thinking that can lead to intense states of genuine happiness into its user that can be experienced throughout sober life by means of a radical switch in perception and should therefore be used as a means of introspection throughout society.