Psychonaut exploration method

[aryaman]

Today I've done 20 mg 5-meo, insufflated. What I got was the most deep, psychedelic, enlightening outter space experience, but when I came back to earth I realized I didn't have nothing in my hands.

Like, I couldn't understand how this experience, yet so powerfull, could become a good research point, or how could I get out as much teachings as I can.

So, I know it can sound stupid, but have you guys got a little personal method to employ what you experience to your knows, and... such things, I hope what I wrote is clear enaugh

 

[Meduzz]

The teaching doesn't come from the drugs, it comes from yourself and your environment. Think of psychedelics as magnifying glasses.

Personally, psychedelics seldom taught me something directly. They made me ask questions and look at the world around me and the one inside me. They showed me things I already knew from a perspective where I didn't know them, and THAT has taught me a lot.

 

[Jamapricotica]

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[user_1919]

Its a tool to be used. I use it for exploration of my own thoughts and to directly experience knowledge I have gained from school. Hard to explain, but I bring calculus theories, astronomy, and physics into the realm of the psychedelic experience to better understand the concepts by directly experiencing them. The wisdom and knowledge will find you when you are ready, don't worry.

peace & love

 

[IJesusChrist]

Don't use them as toys in a sandbox, the brain is equal to everything you see, and when on psychadelics they have the ability to do anythiing and everything to your mind.
Enhance, calm, stress, etc...

You must realize something about yourself: when is your own mind most productive in intelligent thought, when do you learn the most?

Like User said, it is good to incorporate everything you can into a trip, this way neurons will connect that weren't connected before - this is where you gain knowledge. Usually during a trip, neurons don't gain new information, you simply see connections between things you havn't seen before - this is almost as important as gaining knowledge, if not equal.

So learn your abilities sober, so you can maximize them when under the influence.

 

[mysticwarrior]

I guess one of these tools could be an open-mind. And of course after a deep experience you forget more then you can remember. But doesn't this also happen when you read a book? And if the knowledge you have read is really in need, most of the time you memory will recall that information. I guess this does also happen to a certain degree with psychedelics.

I also think that the things you still do remember from a psychedelic experience, could probably be the most important. So think about these thoughts, maybe you will get aware of something you never have noticed before.

Greets,
Mystic.

 

[Getafix]

Today I've done 20 mg 5-meo, insufflated. What I got was the most deep, psychedelic, enlightening outter space experience, but when I came back to earth I realized I didn't have nothing in my hands.

We seem to have this assumption that all psychedelic drugs, at all dosages, are mind-expanding, whereas historically we only have data about high dosages of LSD and mescaline (which both have effects lasting more than 8 hours) used under particular circumstances, and with specific after-care, being of therapeutic use. The Iboga trip, which has a peak lasting about half a day, is another example that the longer the experience, the more one can expect emotional or psychological breakthroughs. The intensity of the visuals doesn't seem to play a significant role. They may even be distracting, shifting ones attention from personal issues towards alien and socio-religious themes.

 

[tryptonaut]

Sometimes I think that I learn the least from tripping when I desperately want to learn something. Then I return disappointed, maybe because I tried so hard to see something, that I overlooked the obvious.
And then sometimes something just occurs to me, when I wasn't looking for anything. Like one time where I lay down in the corner of my room and realized I had never looked at my room from this perspective...maybe I should more often get a different perspective on other things as well. Sounds kind of stupid, but this actually taught me something, but that doesn't happen all the time in every trip. And like I said, the more I'm waiting for it, the less it happens.

 

[st.bot.32]

For me I guess it's just staying calm, keeping things in perspective: even a difficult thought is just that--a mere thought. Fighting a difficult thought makes a big deal out of a small deal, and it distracts from the trip IMO. If you don't block, you can learn, before you know it the thought will pass...onto the next thing, and you might even get something out of it. It's a different way of reacting to and handling emotion. It helps to keep a sense of humor about you as well, and be able to laugh at absurdity. I think tripping intuitively teaches a lot about metacognition and meta-emotions..

I also like exploring creative processes as much as I can while tripping.. I hear music in my head all the time.. and I just like using my imagination, exploring my senses, etc