By Ben, on August 17th, 2010%
Note: every Tuesday I take a question from my logs or from my emails and throw it up on the site as a point of discussion. If there’s something you’d like to see discussed, send your question here. Thanks!
Today’s discussion question is a great one and touches on the sneaky relationship between different states of consciousness.
Here’s the big Q:
“Is dreaming like tripping?”
I think the answer is simple:
yes, there are definitely similarities between the two states.
In my own experience studying and working with my dreams, including taking drugs (mushrooms, etc) inside a dream in order to “dream trip”, and my own experience . . . → Read More: Is Dreaming Like Tripping?
By Ben, on December 8th, 2008%
Around the age of 21 and 22, I went through a surge of experimentation with different mind-altering substances. (FYI, I am now 28.)
One of the weirdest ones I ever tried was diphenhydramine. Because of its proximity to the dream state, I thought it’d be interesting to share my “experience report” of the time I took 400mg of diphenhydramine.
This wasn’t just a shot in the dark, it was an amount decided upon after much research on the internet, primarily at Erowid’s Diphenhydramine vault, on dosage and expected effects. (I do admit though that I should have not done it alone.)
Once I swallowed . . . → Read More: Dreaming While Awake: My Experience With Diphenhydramine
By Ben, on August 3rd, 2008%
Salvia Divinorum banned in all 50 states?
Well, it’s not true as I sit here writing this, but, it begs the question: how far away are we from such a headline?
My best guess is we’re looking at a few years.
I’d say even as early as 2010, Salvia will be illegal everywhere or nearly everywhere in the States.
Just last month 3 more states – Virginia, Kansas, and Florida – banned this unique plant, used traditionally in Mexico for something in the vein of oh – a few thousand years – and more recently since the mid 19990′s by psychoactive seeking westerners.
There is definitely . . . → Read More: Salvia Divinorum Banned in All 50 States!
By Ben, on June 24th, 2007%
Two nights ago I decided to smoke the rest of my 5x Salvia Divinorum leaves. I’ve been hanging on to the remains of this gram for 5 years! I am quite particular about using any psychedelic substances (some might say obsessively careful and extra safe) so it was a long time in coming!
It came about after reading Dan Carpenters book “A Psychonauts Guide to the Invisible Landscape,” and doing with some general research into drugs like DXM and Salvia (both legal). Now I find myself really interested in having a psychedelic adventure again.
This Salvia was so old I wasn’t even . . . → Read More: I Finally Smoked Salvia Divinorum, Again.
By Ben, on June 14th, 2007%
In A Psychonaut’s Guide to the Invisible Landscape: The Topography of the Psychedelic Experience, author Dan Carpenter makes many startling claims based on his experiences with the dissociative psychedelic DXM. (Yep, dextromethorphan – the stuff of cough syrup!)
He’s not simply having a subjective journey inside his mind; DXM actually takes him to an objective realm with other beings – some of which are the souls of recently departed friends and associates!
Yes – he’s talking about meeting the dead!
Along the way, he has out of body experiences, witnesses the seat of dreaming and memory, interacts with strange beings, lost souls, and other . . . → Read More: Part I: A Psychonaut’s Guide to the Invisible Landscape: Joining the Hive Mind, Seeing Your Dreams, Crushing the Ego and… Meeting the Dead?
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