After the vision: share your pets journey

[Heretic.Ape.]

The following quote from panthers007 comes from another thread and I've decided to give it a thread of it's own.

Most who go back to the early days of psychedelic exploration value the insights achieved with them. But have moved on for another look to figure out: "What the Hell was THAT??" And the answers were about the same - that was a good look at how the human mind operates. Where the angels and the demons dwell. And what they are there for - the knowledge that "there are no accidents in this business." From there came (also part of human nature - curiosity and elucidation) the desire to define and structure the experiences gleaned - starting with seeking out road-maps from earlier (pre-psychedelic scholars and writers) works that give insight into what the psychedelics laid bare.

Some turned to religion for answers. Some towards psychology. Some to atomic physics. And all went towards everything that presented itself. All roads were taken to find the answer that was true. And, aside from a few flakes, it was found that all answers are true: There is no one simple and profound truth or map that shows you everything. There is no word to describe the full and undiluted - through ego - view. This view is what Aldous Huxley referred to as being "ineffable." "To describe the ineffable is impossible." Look it up somewhere. So this all boils down to psychedelics being important and useful portals into a realm where one is aware of more then one was previously. Then one understands that the psychedelic didn't put anything there that wasn't there before. So the psychedelic acted as a catalyst nudging one to explore this issue of "more" more fully. And it was found that psychedelics were limited in their scope. This may be hard to believe, but it's true. If one wants to know more about all these wider places within one's psyche, then one must move on to other methods of finding out what lies within. It's rather amazing how quickly the quest for knowledge reveals that taking a drug that seemed miraculous a little while before - is now boring and lacks challenges. "So that was fun, now for the REAL look."

So if one has a bad go with the psychedelic approach, then move on. Onwards but not abandon the plan to find out the inner realm's seeming secrets. There are plenty of other portals available to something as inquisitive and ingenious as a human mind. If one is curious what some of these portals may be and how to approach them, please start a new thread in the proper place and we all can relate tales from the trenches of the hidden frontier within.

Now, I'd be very curious to hear other little monkey's, bunny's and assorted adventurous animals tale's concerning their ongoing adventure to find out "what was that?"