What was your most profound psychedelic experience?

[ArthBH]

Before I start, I'd just like to comment on what a great site and community this is. Its fairly run and there seems to be a lot of respect for one another

Now, onto my personal most profound psychedelic experience. I have taken a number of psychedelics, ranging from hawaiian baby woodrose seeds, to liberty caps, to Peruvian torch cactus, and to LSD. But the most incredible psychedelic experience I have had has been on salvia. I've had some wonderful, beautiful trips on psilocybin mushrooms, and I have a taste for high doses of them, so some of the experiences have been quite intense, and I would probably say that shrooms are my favourite drug. However, I have also done a lot of salvia, and it was a salvia trip that sticks with me most strongly. It wasn't even the strongest trip I've had. I once smoked a bowl of salvia whilst stoned and on LSA and I reached a level 5 trip. But it wasn't even close to being as profound as a salvia trip I had whilst sitting in some woods, in the middle of summer. I toked it up and then I fell onto my side. I could see everything around me and the energy running through it, as if it was a conveyor belt of time. I felt as if I knew it all so well, and that I was being let back into the spiritual world where all my old friends were. I felt as if all matter around me contained constantly travelling spirit and I knew the spirits better than anyone I knew in my life, and they were welcoming me back. I felt like THIS was the reality, and life was the illusion, a dream that we enter after eternity spent as spirit. I can't help but wonder if this is how it feels to die. As the trip started to subside, I felt as if I was an astronaut that had just landed on the planet for the first time, and I felt intensely aware that I was simply a man standing on a smallish planet, in a giant universe. I saw the world around me afresh. It felt as if I had been cleansed, reborn even. Since then, even thinking of the experience can sometimes bring a tear to my eye. It was just so intensely beautiful. I am not a spiritual person, and had been atheist for all my life before this trip. After-woulds I realized that whether God exists or not is merely a question of language and what you define as God. 'God' is simply a word, and the truth is far too profound, complex and beautiful to be encapsulated at all.

So there you go

Whats yours?

 

[IJesusChrist]

Sounds very enlightening. I've had similar experiences, but usually they only happen when I'm sober or just on some low quality shwag. Very easy thinking.

I've had my first experience on mushrooms, a very dark, deathly, paranoid trip. It was a hardship I had to endure and it set me in a mindset I wish no one could ever experience. I felt disconnected and "above" reality, as if I was constantly walking on water, while everyone else was flopping. I thought I was insane, sick, problematic. I thought everyone else was stupid, foolish, ignorant - that I knew all and no one could touch my level of understanding. It was a veil I wish never to perceive through again. That trip led me to this board some few years ago, and led me to the much more humble understanding of what and who I am.

Besides that trip, I'll say the strongest trip I've had was salvia. However, the most enlightening were small amounts of DMT.

DMT was my first psychoactive that showed me love. It was the first time I didn't want to be sober - I didn't want to come down. I was in my bed, hugging my pillow, crying for the beauty that held me. I was so mystified and transformed, a wedge of love to displace my previous dark ways.

I was in the middle of space, pink and blue surrounded me. I said "I want to be loved. I Want to be loved." A wave of warmth washed over me and I couldn't stop smiling. I felt almost retarded in how stupidly in love with life I was. I felt blind to all chaos, all hate, all prejudice and judgement. It was just me and the engulfing love of a mother's embrace, a holding to the bosom of life and God.

Although the come down was not very potent, or the trip didn't seem to last or turn over into my every-day, it implanted the seed which has come to overcome my pessimistic past. I loved that day, and I love all of you

 

[dirk.bruere]

http://www.neopax.com/Artemis/words/Travels/words.htm