Quote Originally Posted by pgardn
There is beauty without purposely altering your nervous system. Yeah people have been at it for a very long time, and I think it does probably does bring out some creativity in certain cases, but it's not something I would personally rely on. If the alteration serves some purpose for some moment, I guess I get it. I'm not a naturally angry person and I don't get horribly bothered by things. So no preaching because I have not walked there, just attempting to get a grip on understanding.

Most of these nervous system modifiers in plants and such are really meant to mess up predators. They do have medicinal uses, but bottom line, they were "meant" to screw with a predator by an organism that does not "want" to be eaten. Try exercise possibly. It's a modifier as well. Supposedly smooths things out. It just helps me think more clearly when heavy concentration is required. But that may not be what you personally are after.
love this response... great work man!


for me, doing psychedelics is more therapeutic than recreational considering i do them twice a yr or not at all. used to do a bunch of lsd when i was younger and treated it strictly as a drug and it came back to bite me in my ass the last time i took it. i played with fire and i got burnt to a crisp if you get my gist.

driving to work daily, i love staring at the sky with its crazy cloud formations and wondering what all this is really about. not claiming i am some one on some deeper level of thinking than anyone else. however, i do "day dream" often about too much i will never get an answer to.

traveling down to acapulco when i was 25 yrs old was a real eye opener and the views were just amazing while driving through the mountain side. there's no drug that has made me more in awe with the beauty of this world than that trip.

psychedelics on the other hand, thrust me into a -like world(i trip harder than 99% of those i know and with way less ingested) and by coming out of that chaos i always feel a bit stronger mentally. again, i am just a dude having a human experience which is no greater than the next man. i just think i dwell on this experience and what it is about more so than others.