Experiences - Lsd was "My Flamingo's" therapist

[Freeconscience]

(Obviously this is "My Flamingo" recounting their experience)

"I will post videos we took on my phone during the full force of our acid trip & try to explain the compexity & depth of the experience in a later post since this is extremely over-whelming & beyond anything I could have imagined.

It unlocked many demons I had inside me & problems I never knew were a problem, because for many years since i was 13 (I am 19 now) i've been living in a world of denial & lies for reasons that stem from a deep, troubled history.

I say since 13 specifically because that was a dark changing point in my life & thanks to the LSD i finally understand this & can recognize many problems i was blind to & too scared & embarassed to face & it seems unreal because i didnt even know (like i said before) they were a problem until i did that acid & i can only be thankful.

There's far too much for me to puzzle together right now, my mind is over-whelmingly exposed, but i need a question answered & that is, is it possible that this acid has actually changed my life & it's not this whole thing about "oh it's the drugs talking, your insane, those so called understandings are unreal" is this all possible that it has cured everything for me? because i had a serious breakdown & spilled my guts & I feel 12-13 again like i'm stuck back in time, before i started lying to protect myself & built this other identity, i feel scared because now i've spoken & told what to me was impossible to tell to anyone without this acid, i can barely remember the last 6 years because many things were unpure & like i said, lies, so only truth exists now & when i was on the acid i HAD & i cannot stress enough, HAD to tell everything, as if the acid was urging me to be free & if i tell everything i'll be saved i guess & i want to believe this & i do, but i need to know from someone experienced if all this is truely possible, for comfort, so i can really start my life & look ahead. I'm sorry if it isnt well enough explained & might be hard to understand, i'm just completely over-whelmed. Please answer my question, thanks."

[terrordemon]

absolutely. i feel like the two times swim has done ACTUAL lsd (not dom) it has fixed so many things that were wrong inside my head. it was weird though because the first time it fixed some things but left a lot of things unfixed and off; so it got to a point where i felt like i needed to do it again; did, and almost everything was good (i say almost because im not gonna say everything, no ones ever perfect)

[TMM]

Originally Posted by Freeconscience

is it possible that this acid has actually changed my life & it's not this whole thing about "oh it's the drugs talking, your insane, those so called understandings are unreal" is this all possible that it has cured everything for me?

Of course it's possible. I'd be wary of saying that it's flat-out 'cured' everything, but if your flamingo worked through serious mental problems while on LSD, there is no reason to believe that the conclusions reached are false. It's of course wise to take everything learned in an altered state of consciousness with a pinch of salt, but I think it's also wise to do the same with everything learned during normal consciousness. Decades ago, research was done into LSD to see if it had therapeutic uses. Then it was made illegal. I believe the research is just now beginning to start up again. The possibilities are very real.

I'm glad to hear of your flamingo's breakthrough. Good luck in the future.

[Nagognog2]

It was for these very reasons - the un-earthing of repressed material and sorting through same - that drugs like LSD were being used in progressive psychological circles before the rug was pulled out from under.

Are the benefits real and do they offer lasting insight? How many psychologists are there in the room? But a great many would say 'yes' without hesitation.

It will take some time before we get back to using these drugs for this sort of application. But as the previous author stated, the research is slowly starting again. Let's just hope another Timothy Leary doesn't pop out of a Jack-In-The-Box and fuck everything up again.