Preparing For The Psychedelic Journey
(Preparing To See Yourself ;)
You have just been given a tool, a bridge by which you may traverse fluent frequency, the currents of consciousness. But just like the tools of a carpenter, like a saw: beautiful things can be made if used by someone with knowledge and a plan -- but give a saw to a child and it can be seriously dangerous. Psychedelics can be dangerous too, like any amazing sharp tool, if used without preparation and knowledge. It needs to be used with respect...
Respect, discipline, intention, and vision are some things that make a skilled carpenter, or any tradesman. Like in those old apprenticeships, too, supervised training and hard work are part of it.
Respect - for this perceptual tool.
Discipline - learning how to control the hypersensitivity, and channel it into expression. Clarity, of mind and body -- veganism, exercise, yoga and focusing practices can help to induce cleansing clarity. In-spire, Ex-spire - the breath is both the discipline and the creative reward.
Intention - if you set an intention, it will most likely be opened by the psychedelic: a goal for your life, an image of what you wish to accomplish, or a problem you wish to solve -- all these things will get attention, and in-sight.That is to say, the perspective of great height can afford you an invaluable view of where you are, and where you've been -- but it can also help show you where you need to go; a path drawn across an inward territory.
Vision - of truth to guide you through the sedimentary layers of identity, towards genuine and vulnerable selfhood, in all its freedom and brilliance.
Let vision echo, to be revisited and revisioned again and again - in writing or music, however the inspiration wishes to flow out from you - the mediums for expression are unlimited. Capture as much as you can, though. Insights like these can hardly be contained, and fade quickly. This will be a test of your mind’s furthest capacities; for perception, attention, and retention - a precious short glimpse something not many have seen.
You have just been given a tool, a bridge by which you may traverse fluent frequency, the currents of consciousness. But just like the tools of a carpenter, like a saw: beautiful things can be made if used by someone with knowledge and a plan -- but give a saw to a child and it can be seriously dangerous. Psychedelics can be dangerous too, like any amazing sharp tool, if used without preparation and knowledge. It needs to be used with respect...
Respect, discipline, intention, and vision are some things that make a skilled carpenter, or any tradesman. Like in those old apprenticeships, too, supervised training and hard work are part of it.
Respect - for this perceptual tool.
Discipline - learning how to control the hypersensitivity, and channel it into expression. Clarity, of mind and body -- veganism, exercise, yoga and focusing practices can help to induce cleansing clarity. In-spire, Ex-spire - the breath is both the discipline and the creative reward.
Intention - if you set an intention, it will most likely be opened by the psychedelic: a goal for your life, an image of what you wish to accomplish, or a problem you wish to solve -- all these things will get attention, and in-sight.That is to say, the perspective of great height can afford you an invaluable view of where you are, and where you've been -- but it can also help show you where you need to go; a path drawn across an inward territory.
Vision - of truth to guide you through the sedimentary layers of identity, towards genuine and vulnerable selfhood, in all its freedom and brilliance.
Let vision echo, to be revisited and revisioned again and again - in writing or music, however the inspiration wishes to flow out from you - the mediums for expression are unlimited. Capture as much as you can, though. Insights like these can hardly be contained, and fade quickly. This will be a test of your mind’s furthest capacities; for perception, attention, and retention - a precious short glimpse something not many have seen.