Salutations to all who gaze upon my topic thing.
I am here, a bit obviously, because I fancy myself a psychonaut. I am not quite there, but I am working my way up to the position. I have experience with altered states and substances which induce them. But I have not, however, taken advantage of that state to search myself and the the world from a new perspective. Here I hope to find a community who wish to search just as I wish to, who have searched and can provide guidance, and who know about the substances that bring such altered states.
I am quite confident that I have found such a community here seeing as how it is a psychonautic community. But this is a first for me, this is the first site I have joined with the intention of contributing, this is the first post I have ever made in a forum, and this is the first contact I have made with any psychonauts. I find psychonauts to be a low density population where I am. There are drug users abound, but they are only drug users, people who care only about the socio-recreational value of psychotropic substances. I for one am not satisfied with this. I want to learn from my altered states, to find some insight into myself, the world, and the human condition. And I suspect this will take much time, but I am willing to dedicate much time to this endeavor.
Technically my first experiences with altered states are, as one may guess, from the usage of cannabis. But I find that to be a largely benign experience. What I count as my first experience came not from psychotropic substances but from a odd mental glitch, I suppose. A bout of mental instability brought upon an intensely introspective and dissociative incident in which I learned much about who I am. Since then I have been preoccupied with what lays outside of normal perception and after a few months decided to begin my psychonautic journey.
I am here, a bit obviously, because I fancy myself a psychonaut. I am not quite there, but I am working my way up to the position. I have experience with altered states and substances which induce them. But I have not, however, taken advantage of that state to search myself and the the world from a new perspective. Here I hope to find a community who wish to search just as I wish to, who have searched and can provide guidance, and who know about the substances that bring such altered states.
I am quite confident that I have found such a community here seeing as how it is a psychonautic community. But this is a first for me, this is the first site I have joined with the intention of contributing, this is the first post I have ever made in a forum, and this is the first contact I have made with any psychonauts. I find psychonauts to be a low density population where I am. There are drug users abound, but they are only drug users, people who care only about the socio-recreational value of psychotropic substances. I for one am not satisfied with this. I want to learn from my altered states, to find some insight into myself, the world, and the human condition. And I suspect this will take much time, but I am willing to dedicate much time to this endeavor.
Technically my first experiences with altered states are, as one may guess, from the usage of cannabis. But I find that to be a largely benign experience. What I count as my first experience came not from psychotropic substances but from a odd mental glitch, I suppose. A bout of mental instability brought upon an intensely introspective and dissociative incident in which I learned much about who I am. Since then I have been preoccupied with what lays outside of normal perception and after a few months decided to begin my psychonautic journey.
