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>>56181324
0 replies wtf

>>54779082
>watched too many retards think god is speaking to them.
I'm going to give you an anecdote as a counterpoint. I do not condone the use of psychedelics in general. They are very powerful, potentially dangerous, and must be used with great care.

I was le edgy militant atheist in my teenage years, also depressive/suicidal and knew I had some issues to sort out. I took LSD after reading about many religious experiences described in vivid detail by very intelligent "former atheists". Maybe, I thought, there was something there for me to find. I did plenty of research on the proper way to take it in order to illicit the particular experience. With a little luck, I entered a meditative trance, my consciousness left my body, and I "talked to God". Whatever that means, right? Perhaps it all was just a pretty hallucination, I'll give you that. But never have I felt such an overwhelming sense of love, power, order... the voice had a sense of being not only my own but that of all being itself. The subject-object dichotomy completely broke down, as did space and time, and for all of what was perhaps a minute of time in the "real world", I felt the essence of eternity.

To shorten the rest, it basically told me what I already knew I needed to do to overcome my mental illness, but in a way where it sank into the depth of my soul. I came out of that experience wondering what the fuck just happened, but sure enough within a few months of concerted effort I had pretty well overcome a decade of depression and suicidal ideation, something that therapy and antidepressants couldn't do. If it were all just a psychotic illusion, well... so be it. I'm still not religious, but ever since I could no longer call myself an atheist.

>>51479544
i have everything ive ever wanted in death