I had ingested two hits of yellow micro dot about a half hour earlier

[catmandu57]

and decided the best way to kick it off was to smoke a bowl. At the time I had been reading Carlos Castenada's Tales of Power and I was convinced that I had found a place of power. It was a stand of ancient Pine trees, about thirty yards from my front door, I was living so far out in the country there wasn't any lights, or sounds, just deep country darkness and silence.

So, I go out and sit under the trees with my pipe, toking it up waiting for the show to begin, I was squatting with my back to a tree, when I dropped the bowl. I looked down to find it when something small and silvery strobed under my knees, I looked up and the night exploded.

In the stars were great gaseous clouds colored yellow, blue, and purple, light color dancing and flickering, changing shape and intensity. For the next twelve hours, I learned deep secrets of the cosmos.

It was great.

[Bunny]

1. Was this last night?

;)

[catmandu57]

2. No

October something 1975. I wish it was last night, but that was about the last year for finding clean acid.

[itsmesgd]

6. I apologize in advance......

....I was born in October 1975

[bicentennial_baby]

14. Psssst

If you can, get it from the Czech Republic, pharmaceutical grade, liquid :D

[catmandu57]

19. That would be nice

I guess they must not be as repressed about drugs as we are here.

[bicentennial_baby]

20. They use it to treat

Alcoholism and other addictions. :D

I had a bunch a few years back....Mind blowing :wow:

[zonkers]

26. Sounds like it's time for a "soft" intervention....

That's when you and your friends confront the subject, confiscate half his "substances" and do them with him.

[knowbody0]

3. the hard part is when it's over

and your body is again filled with gravity and knowbody knows what you speak of.:hi:

[catmandu57]

5. The next day

The only part i never liked.

[Burma Jones]

8. I learned to love the Cosmic Hangover

While in School, I would spend the next day sleeping in the shower.........

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

36. I agree

my issue was the trip lated too long! Wore me out............back when I indulged that is. :)

[edbermac]

4. Paul McCartney had the secret to the universe.

First time he got stoned with some grass provided by Bob Dylan, he was convinced he'd found the Ultimate Message Of The Universe. He had one of the roadies write it down on a piece of paper for him. The next day he looked at the paper and saw what he had dictated the night before:

"There are seven levels."

:rofl:

[catmandu57]

7. I could've sworn

that there were eight levels, but it's been a long time.

[edbermac]

18. True, but he hadn't taken LSD yet.

That's when he found the eighth level.

[BlackVelvet04]

9. I thought it was

"objects are closer than they appear in mirror."

[mainegreen]

10. Sounds familiar.

Too bad you can't bring the secrets back out of the fugue with you!

[catmandu57]

28. You know I think I have

The biggest one was to love and accept everyone for who they are.

[fla nocount]

11. Damn, it seems like yesterday

Camping in southern Arizona jacked up on peyote at a place called Mica Mountain for the obvious reason that the exposed granite was full of mica chips. Full moon and stars above reflected into the mica below, no time, no space, completely surrounded by stars above and below. Chilly night, good friends, sipping hot chocolate laced with Creme de Menthe, coyotes howling......

Thanks for the memory, about 1975 as well, vivid memories that I'd placed behind me. About the same time I discovered that Castenada was really a primer for George Gurdjieffs "Beelzebub's Tales To His Grandson"

[catmandu57]

17. Peyote

That was something I always wanted to do, sadly though, our paths never crossed. I've never heard of gurdjieff, makes me want to find his work now.

[fla nocount]

30. I did both .....same effect. Peyote makes you nauseous before

you get off, after that no problems. Gurdjieff, Sufi mystic, author, father of modern dance and white magician. Sworn opponent of Alister Crowley who GG considered the black magician of his age. He also thought Crowley to be stupid and bungling and never missed an opportunity to dress him out in public. Crowley got to the point where he wouldn't attend events where GG was expected and would leave if he appeared because he would come away with severe headaches that lasted for days. GG was happy to take credit for those headaches, once again, publicly. Don't know how much of that I buy, it was a mystical age.

Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson is a good read though, it's part of a trilogy and would make a good snowed-in diversion, you'll notice some novel twists on our collective myths. His writing really ramped up after a near fatal car wreck caused by him living fast and loose. It got his attention I suppose, give him a wiki, interesting fellow.

[KG]

12. tripping...

one of my fonder memories of my youth. :)

[Forkboy]

13. KG you ole dog!

Funny meeting you in a thread about tripping! :)

[KG]

16. dude!

glad to see you back amongst the living!

[Forkboy]

32. This is the living?

:evilgrin:

[RetroLounge]

15. Sadly, I never took acid...

My drug use was about darkness, depression, and wanting to die...

hence, Acid did not meet the criteria...

:shrug:

RL

[catmandu57]

21. So can you find the above mentioned book?

Gurdsjieff, I'd like to read it now. sorry you experienced the darkside, those were fun days.

[RetroLounge]

25. Which book?

Carlos Castenada's Tales of Power?

RL

[catmandu57]

31. No

Gurdsjieff " Beelzebub's tales to his Grandson" I've never heard of it, it may be time to do a search.

[RetroLounge]

34. me neither...

RL

[texas1928]

22. Here, this will help you relive it.

[catmandu57]

24. Oh yeah thanks

Is anyone elses throat tightnening up?

[mainegreen]

37. Hey, it's god!

Nice to see you god. Could you stop being so colorful? And perhaps stops the undulations?
Thanks!

[wildhorses]

23. the stars fell on alabama

and exploded in colors ...good times

[xchrom]

27. lol -- different people such different experiences -- i dropped acid

and danced my ass off at the disco.

talk about a place of power.:woohoo:

[librechik]

29. Heh--sounds like my New Year's celebration

wow--too much in the dose drop--uh oh!

hallucinations way over the top. Mine were more like precise pattern overlays, slightly pulsing, rather than big clouds.


It was great. But I forgot to toke up!

:smoke:

next time, fer sher

:loveya:

[catmandu57]

33. Smoking reefer while tripping is completely useless

They just don't mix, I was only doing a precursor, you could smoke a pound and not get any higher.

[librechik]

35. true, but when I'm floating just underneath the ceiling like Mary Poppins

a little Mary brings me right down to earth on a tether.

I used to be a cigarette smoker. Old habits die hard.

[Lethe]

38. wicked.....my fav time tripping was

taking a hit of blue shield and sitting under an overpass. It was really drizzly and misty that day and when a car would go by it would whip up a chaotic little trail of mist that would dance around in the air.

:smoke: