Being high...

[Apeiron]

Tears away the outside influences on the soul..

 

[ophiuchus]

i wouldn't say that. so many things happen to you while you're high (im assuming you mean marijuana) that you could never classify it as only one thing. in my experience, it amplifies outside influences on the soul, for a brief period of time, and then of course there is a recoil to that, which is basically what you described.

there's definitely a trade-off though, it's not one-sided...

being high ALL the time has a similar effect. it's very insightful and novel for the first few times and then after that you become a bit hooked, at which point those effects wear off and have an inverse effect for the period that you let yourself stay hooked (without break).

it's the same as getting high once, only on a much longer and more dramatic timescale. all things come in waves, of which there is a top and a bottom.

 

[Apeiron]

Oh no. I wasn't saying that's all. I was going to add to it as they come to me and anyone else is free to add inspired opinions as well. enthogens also.

 

[darkwolfunseen]

sometimes means just being...

 

[Iersuko]

K2 Summit
Stuk
Bayou Blaster (lol)

 

[Apeiron]

MAKES you smarter in the moment.
The return of your ego afterwards, won't let most, admit it sober.

 

[Shake]

i believe the zen approach is pretty much as close to who we are as you can get... as soon as one trys to figure things out, it becomes like a blind person searching around for a noise they can hear in the room, but the noise is them.. when they stop looking the noise stops.. the answers are not a climax nor anticlimax, not bad or good, wrong or right, conscious or unconscious... i believe consciousness and our attempts to grasp onto it into a next life are neglecting the even greater more beautiful picture of the universe.. we will all continue on, i guess you could say, we just wont remember..

 

[Shake]

and in my opinion being high is not anyway to try to see the big picture... BUT it does make you see beauty in things which would otherwise be boring.. and when the world is what you make it... make it how you want lol

 

[Crimzen]

as soon as one trys to figure things out, it becomes like a blind person searching around for a noise they can hear in the room, but the noise is them.. when they stop looking the noise stops..

THAT is a fucking beautiful thing
im going to forever remember this quote
it is exactly what i have wanted to say but couldnt do so succinctly
agreed 1000%

 

[Apeiron]

...raises and helps to sustain focus on and with the universe...

 

[Apeiron]

i believe the zen approach is pretty much as close to who we are as you can get... as soon as one trys to figure things out, it becomes like a blind person searching around for a noise they can hear in the room, but the noise is them.. when they stop looking the noise stops.. the answers are not a climax nor anticlimax, not bad or good, wrong or right, conscious or unconscious... i believe consciousness and our attempts to grasp onto it into a next life are neglecting the even greater more beautiful picture of the universe.. we will all continue on, i guess you could say, we just wont remember..

Most agreeable. People lead thought instead of letting though lead them. We are forever.