November 5th, 2005 (04:34 pm)
current mood: amused
current song: chllout
I know where you stand to a degree. Recently I got myself into mediation and I realized that because of my prevoius experiences with drugs, I am able to recall or relive my experiences to a degree.
There is a wierd relationship between awekening your mind, and closing it in a prison of psychological addiction. From my experience, ive had some amazing insight into the mind and the body, but I know also that Ive been continously going back for the same substances with a certain expectation after that. My expectation has been, to be enligthened again and again. But the experience was kind of like reading a good book many times over, its almost like the same, its never really the same, but its nothing entirely new. To be specific, im talking about psychadelic mushrooms and extacy,2 drugs that ive been experimenting with on a more serious level. WHat i mean by that is that I never really did these kind of drugs to get fucked ( like weed and booze). I studied my reactions and my mind patterns and I really really wanted to assimilate some of the knowledge into my everyday behaviour.
In other words, after doing these drugs for a few times, I got over the initial amazing new world mind opening experience of how "everything just is", and I started going back to it for notes. I wanted to find something constant, some relationship that I could play off of to achieve a new mental level beyond the times i was high. Right now i can remember the way these drugs will warp me and i kind of feel that im ready to move on from this sector, perhaps to other drugs lol. But i do know that looking for something constant in the experiences was very difficult , if nto impossible. Change was teh only constant. I already knew that from before, but this time I really understood how it works, how if you get over something and understand it, your mind will mvoe on onto something different, and if something is still haunting you, it will reoccur to you.
When i kept doing the same drugs I was discovering amazing relationships between my ego and my subconscious, I learned to disregard experiences as just efects of the drug, and i started to trust myself inside, knowing that that is where my balance is, in my heart. But there was more. Something I dont fully understand, but it has something to do with attention. I know that there is something to be said about letting thigns go and watching them selide by. When you stare the world down, your prespective is much different. Im a very socially conscious person and I recall these kind of mental states while being on mushrooms in thailand, while both focusing and disengagin from thoughts, and shortly after that letting bad things happen, letting them just be.
Saying all this, I am still the dreamer that I always am, always looking away into the neverending horizon, or looking deeply into strangers eyes, knowing that there is a way to get deeper, much deeper than any level ive been to. I know I achieve these kind of insights pretty frequently on a conscious level, I can really just leave my body and hum through the air like a vibration. Its not an entirely mind altering experience, but its different. Different from anything that came before it. I feel that my mind needs something different all the time, routine kills it. And taking drugs frankly, became a routine. I counted on them to fill in the spiritual areas of my life, knowing that each time would be an experience. The thing is, I felt sort of like im not participating in the creation of the inner mood, that would allow me to go on such amazing mental journeys. It made me feel like its not all me, it made me feel diry and ugly. And I do like the feeling of being responsible for creating moods and atmospheres.
I guess at one point I started questioning if when i was on drugs, was i really myself?I had to take time to assimilate what ive learned and throw out other shit out the window. It was getting too chaotic at one point, too many strange experiences that I coudn't understand, which became floating and sometimes haunting visions, that pulsated in my mind like warnings. I then realized that it is important to me to put experiences in context of what they are, even if I dont understand them.
Saying this, I think the most important thing that Ive learned about drugs and experiences is not having expectations. It is the most amazing thing when you can just surf a thought through self animating landscapes in your mind. That is the true art of being.