The fuckeduppest thing for me with meditation was that I was able to attain this high you're talking about seemingly too easy, and it felt great, but for some reason my stupid self just couldn't get bothered to do it regularly so it's been years since I've done it. At least the booze in my neck of the woods is (presumably) cheaper than in Tokyo.
I can confirm that even across the pond, the 90s was exactly like this. Literally everyone I knew liked something. Everything was more pure and high strength. I believe I experimented a great deal more than the author. I tried all kinds of stuff. Ecstasy was an every Friday night, going to the club deal. Shrooms, acid, mescaline, constant. Pills weed and beer. I sobered up at 19 after a pot possession charge landed me in rehab. By 22, mental illness was on my heels and I started to self medicate. I didn’t know that’s what I was doing. After several mandatory stays for my mental health, I completely cut everything illegal out again. Drinking became a problem, and while weed was never a problem, it’s always been around on and off.
In the USA, 9/11 stopped that super casual drug scene. In 1999, I was buying my ecstasy from a guy who’d fly to the Netherlands, buy millions of pills, put them in a backpack and fly home. The airways were incredibly easy ways to move drugs. When airport security tightened up, most drugs disappeared, or became harder to get. My friend who’s fly to the Netherlands ended up in prison after a routine traffic stop. When he happened to have 3million ecstasy tabs in clear plastic bags in the back seat. Not even a blanket over them. Anyway, point being that the 90s being looked back on as the 60s were, is dead on.
Ecstasy was literally a thing that brought people together and it shouldn't be illegal. Not imho. Fact. They are using it in therapy to treat people with all kinds of depression and it's working wonders. But recreationally too, how is it worse than booze!? Honestly though I'm glad I lived through the 90s just a bit as a kid who was old enough to break the law
👏👏Well done getting to a natural meditative state, surfing thru life. That’s something I’ve only gotten glimpses of and an 8 week period of bliss when I read Power of Now everyday and really got into. My thinking mind eventually rebelled and I had to return to my default state of daydreaming most of the time to pull out of a surge of physical anxiety. Suppose a form of withdrawal as daydreaming provides me with so much dopamine. Thanks for sharing your experience 🫠
Sounds like your daydreaming is a super power! I made it sound like I'm the next Buddha in my piece but honestly I'm really terrible at mindfulness. I can only do it if I also keep a diary. It's a lot of work, but I enjoy it.
The fuckeduppest thing for me with meditation was that I was able to attain this high you're talking about seemingly too easy, and it felt great, but for some reason my stupid self just couldn't get bothered to do it regularly so it's been years since I've done it. At least the booze in my neck of the woods is (presumably) cheaper than in Tokyo.
Psychedelics are a trampoline, not a ladder.
I can confirm that even across the pond, the 90s was exactly like this. Literally everyone I knew liked something. Everything was more pure and high strength. I believe I experimented a great deal more than the author. I tried all kinds of stuff. Ecstasy was an every Friday night, going to the club deal. Shrooms, acid, mescaline, constant. Pills weed and beer. I sobered up at 19 after a pot possession charge landed me in rehab. By 22, mental illness was on my heels and I started to self medicate. I didn’t know that’s what I was doing. After several mandatory stays for my mental health, I completely cut everything illegal out again. Drinking became a problem, and while weed was never a problem, it’s always been around on and off.
In the USA, 9/11 stopped that super casual drug scene. In 1999, I was buying my ecstasy from a guy who’d fly to the Netherlands, buy millions of pills, put them in a backpack and fly home. The airways were incredibly easy ways to move drugs. When airport security tightened up, most drugs disappeared, or became harder to get. My friend who’s fly to the Netherlands ended up in prison after a routine traffic stop. When he happened to have 3million ecstasy tabs in clear plastic bags in the back seat. Not even a blanket over them. Anyway, point being that the 90s being looked back on as the 60s were, is dead on.
Ecstasy was literally a thing that brought people together and it shouldn't be illegal. Not imho. Fact. They are using it in therapy to treat people with all kinds of depression and it's working wonders. But recreationally too, how is it worse than booze!? Honestly though I'm glad I lived through the 90s just a bit as a kid who was old enough to break the law
I couldn’t agree more.
👏👏Well done getting to a natural meditative state, surfing thru life. That’s something I’ve only gotten glimpses of and an 8 week period of bliss when I read Power of Now everyday and really got into. My thinking mind eventually rebelled and I had to return to my default state of daydreaming most of the time to pull out of a surge of physical anxiety. Suppose a form of withdrawal as daydreaming provides me with so much dopamine. Thanks for sharing your experience 🫠
Sounds like your daydreaming is a super power! I made it sound like I'm the next Buddha in my piece but honestly I'm really terrible at mindfulness. I can only do it if I also keep a diary. It's a lot of work, but I enjoy it.