/lit/ - Literature

Think what you would like about Mckenna, but there are real benefits in psychedelics. A person's mind is like a unlit cavern, in which the Self has found itself as it wanders around in absolute darkness feeling along the walls with its hands as it constantly searches for something to orientate its bearings before moving on, all while attempting to avoid the sharp edges it has fallen upon in the past.

Psychedelics, such as LSD or mushrooms, act as a sort of torch, temporarily illuminating the cave to reveal its before-unseen vastness and brilliance of the tunnel that seems to go on forever in every direction. If everything goes right, you, the Self, may take your hands off the wall and step out into the openness and take as much of it in as possible while you have the opportunity; relishing in the divinity of vulnerable but free awareness the light has gifted until happily returning to the wall as the light fades.

Other times though, the light may shine too bright and you may cling to the familiar wall with all your will, keeping your eyes shut to simulate the darkness you remember as the vastness of the cave becomes too huge to bear and you can feel its presence pushing against your backside as you are pressed against your wall. Though this may be scary, the built pressure is always relieved before your last breath is squeezed out of you as the light fades to nothingness and it is dark once again as if a light never appeared in the first place.

Psychedelics can be very illuminating, but can corner you if you let it. Be responsible and do research beforehand as Mckenna always suggested. Use a scale, test everything before ingestion, and refrain from doing it around people you do not trust completely.

>>11163499
Why only explain it when you can talk with it yourself?