acid reality?

Question

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHju9HiQTvA

there's a series of lsd vids on youtube, and they did an experiment on this one guy (sorry forgot name, it's in the video)- he took acid, while another man ("normal" state of mind) sat there and interviewed him, and the man who was tripping, said he escaped to these other realities which seemed to last for months- but on tape its just a few seconds...
so...
do you think it's the "druggie effect"
or...
is it a possible indicator that there's parallel realities?
i mean what if that was the way we were meant to see things.
take insects don't they see colors we can't perceive-
so maybe we're just blind to what's 'out there' just as we can't see molecules/atoms- they're still there.
so what if colors really did speak, and sounds really were colored?
or is it a stoner's paradise?

and why did they ban lsd when it did have a positive effect on some mentally ill patients?
besides isn't it true they discovered the dna strand while they were taking acid?
what about aldous huxley and other great writers/artists?
i mean so far the only side effects i've found out about this drug is that it can produce intense flashbacks and disrupt one's perception, but that's only if there's an underlying condition...
i mean what are the government's so worried about? and what happened to "free will"
if there is a "god" he allows us to chose, but our leaders think they have the right to take that away? isn't it insulting to your intelligence to be told a man of "higher power" knows what's best for you? haha yeah right, like they know any better than any of us, they are not omnipotent.
i mean if it weren't restricted we could see beyond our noses- open up to greater things, be one with nature, instead of all this war b*ll.
sorry this is off topic, cant see why, anyone got insight?

Answer 1

We are the stoner's traped in this limiting so-called reality.



This is more easily understandable if one considers the actual scale of the components of an atom. If one takes into account the fact that the neutrons, protons and electrons of an atom actually have huge spaces between them it becomes clear that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are made up of 99+ percent empty space.

This alone does not seem too important till you add the idea that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are more of a loose conglomeration that share a similar attraction but never really touch each other.

At first glance this does not really seem relevant, but closer analysis reveals that this adds a tremendous amount of empty space to solid objects that are already made up of atoms that are 99 percent space. When so-called solid objects are seen in this light it becomes apparent that they can in no way be the seemingly solid objects they appear to be.

We ourselves are not exceptions to this phenomenon.

These seemingly solid objects are more like ghostly images that we interpret as solid objects based on our perceptual conclusions.

From this we must conclude that Perception is some sort of a trick that helps us to take these ghostly images and turn them into a world we can associate and interact with. This clever device seems to be a creation of our intellect that enables us to interact with each other in what appears to be a three dimensional reality.

I hope that helps to answered your question.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 2

You've asked a lot of questions.

First, I tend to suspect the 'government' war on drugs is about keeping the price as high as possible. About power, about feeding the criminal justice system with more courtrooms, more judges, more prosecutors and their defense buddies, more jails, more cops, more prisons, more guards, more wardens, more automobiles, more guns, More power to kick down doors, more power to examine bank accounts. More power to tap telephones. More power for passive surveillance. More property confiscations.

Follow the money in the War on Drugs leads there.

Which is to say, I don't think the government's scared of hallucinagins and what a person might learn using them.

The drug user/possessor is just the freon circulating in the air conditioner. Feeding the system with drug bucks for defense attorneys, feeding the system with drugs confiscated that never make it to the evidence locker, feeding the system with tax money to pay all the personel. ad infinitum.

On the other hand, there are some aspects of the hallucinatory experience that, while it doesn't threaten the government, it suggests there's more a person might learn from it than he's likely to know already. Generally that falls into the area of knowing you've described.

One interesting aspect of it is the similarity of certain parts of the experience, particularly involving 'places' a person might visit, describe to someone else years later, and discover they've been the same place.

This appears to happen, not just with hallucinagenic drugs, but with astral travelers. It's a lot safer from the go-to-jail perspective to explore the matter through astral travel, rather through illegal drugs.

Plenty's been written about it, plenty you can learn without having to feed the criminal justice system dragon.

Answer 3

ok, acid...is scarry. very. i mean your sitting there and you have no idea anymore what's real and what's not. there's simply no difference. your seeing spiders and feeling them crawl all over you. if you like not knowing what's going on, real or otherwise, sure...lets give it a go as a medical treatment. however, when you dont know the difference between reality and "the drug's world", people would tend to do things they wouldnt normally do, pick up a bottle of bleach because through your eyes on the drug, it says "soda". this guy was tested in safe enviornments where nothing could happen to him. maybe our eyes arent strong enough to see colors that bugs do, but my belief is that god made us the way we are, for a reason. perhaps he didint want us to see colors that bugs see. and paradise is what we make it, its not the same for everyone, and just the same, not everyone would have the same effects from the drug as the guy or girl next to him or her.

Answer 4

Have you ever considered that maybe it's just total B.S. created to perpetuate the negative stereotype of the so-called "war on drugs" propaganda which the government uses to take funding away from education and put into policing and militarization, not to mention the profits that terrorist groups are raking in because of opium production, etc... which has skyrocketed in Afghanistan ever since we became a presence there.

Answer 5

Who needs it? Check this:
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Answer 6

if there are other dimensions we can reach by ingesting drugs then i wouldn't lean toward LSD so much as DMT, or dimethyltryptamine... or maybe psilocybin mushrooms in high doses.

LSD is more introspective, and will dramatically change reality insofar as one experiences it, but i doubt it connects you to anything external or physical.

the crazy thing is that the "reality" we experience is almost entirely subjective, so when you take a drug like LSD, reality itself is completely transformed. you can learn a lot from an experience like that.

Answer 7

this is natural drug...and man like this was blind and under of to see any things

Answer 8

No.. I think its the drugs talking...No other reality is real except the one we truely live in.