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Took Mushrooms On A Balcony

And it worked out all right. It was the single most spiritual and enlightening experience of my life. I wouldn't describe it as positive or negative, just bewildering and overwhelming. It was at a party and a bunch of people had already took them before me and my friends got there. I've been reflecting on the experience for the last couple of days. Here is my recount of the experience.
1Tera Melos
Patagonian Rats

At first, the effects were minimal, like a more controllable weed high, then when I stopped resisting the drug, I
began to experience some strange, ominous visuals. I was sitting on the balcony. To my left there was a huge
tree, and its leaves were sort of jagged, as were the bushes down below. The tree began to resemble a
drowning pool, and the leaves looked like hands grabbing out at me. They looked like faces at the same time.
Eventually, everything turned into various, nightmarish shades of olive green and yellow and the jagged shape
of all of the flora became accentuated, and they seemed to align with each other and dance around, as if they
were ?teasing? or ?beckoning? me. The tree to my left, seemed to part, giving way to a sort of black hole.
2James Blake
Overgrown

Then, the railing and the floorboards seemed to light up and become almost two-dimensional, like some
science fiction cartoon. They were not so much a portentous shade of green, but they were brighter ? the
railing was bright or yellow, and the floorboards closest to the edge were bright blue, and the rest of the
floorboards were bright red. It was at this point that I began to experience the cognitive effects of the drug. I
began to realize the way I had been acting, talking to people, interacting, was a façade, like a collection of
contrived social constructs reacting with others. I had begun to realize the severely dishonest nature of my
existence in modern society. I had begun to understand the superficial nature of social interaction, and the
futility of narcissism.
3Tool
Lateralus

Then I thought about the kind of person I was, and how much I was holding myself back with the frivolities of
life, and how I had become very much a product of the social system that had educated me. I felt an
overwhelming desire to escape all of it and transform into something real, something genuine. The society I
have lived in all of my life never seemed so ugly and wrong. I had my first epiphany, wherein I had to discard
my consideration for the expectation of others and leave the country, and find my own way, people I can
identify with. I no longer had any desire to create any form of entertainment, nor engage in the pursuit of
material things, social status or art. These things became completely meaningless to me.
4The Dillinger Escape Plan
Miss Machine

At one point, everything stopped moving entirely, and it was like time had paused altogether. At another point,
I thought about Syd Barrett, and I finally understood where his mind was, and the beauty of it, to be that far
above and away from society. I no longer felt compassion or regret for him, I felt total empathy. He had
escaped the expectations of a superficial society, and he had put himself into a state where he can exist on a
base level.
5Jeff Buckley
Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk

I began to feel old, and rich in the soul, and thought about the others I was with. I quickly began to view them as
shallow, young, naïve, and without any depth. I saw them as incapable of having any sort of genuine experience,
because they were so trapped under the masks they?ve been taught to wear ? ego, agenda, whatever you would
call it. Their lives seemed devoid of any genuine form of expression. I was not thinking critically, and at that point
I was totally free of all judgement, another characteristic of human interaction I began to resent (when the
experience eventually became emotional). I was simply having a moment of total understanding, and a sense of
purpose that I had never felt before. I knew that I was very alone, and yet I felt that there were people I could
connect with, somewhere in the world. I had to find them.
6David Bowie
The Next Day

Soon, I began to really understand the extent and futility of narcissism, the fact that
the things I was wearing and the way I was projecting myself was a product of the
shallow, artificial society I was living in, and I quite suddenly understood Buddhist
practices, why they shave their heads, why they strip their lives down to the basic
core and focus on their own existences. I understood what happened to people who
had travelled to India to become Buddhist monks, and I empathized with them. It
made a great deal of sense to me what they were trying to do ? strip away all of the
weight of social constructs, materialism and modern society and simply exist on a
base level. The beauty of existence came to me quite abruptly, and I felt an absolute
desire to simply be alive, and nothing more.
7Mark Lanegan
Bubblegum

I kept thinking to myself ? my life will never be the same. I felt that there was no
way to put my mask back on, having learned the things that I had learnt so
suddenly. I felt that I had travelled to a place (mentally speaking) that was so far
away from the lie of society, that there was no way I could return and interact with
them on their level, because they would never understand what I had seen and
understood, and I could never play along with the lie they were living.
8Refused
The Shape of Punk To Come

When I reached a more analytical stage of the experience, I kept thinking, ?there is
no way to describe what I have learned to anybody.? I understood that only true
understanding could be reached within a mutual experience, and in the event of this
mutual experience, description would not be necessary. There would be a simple,
unspoken understanding between the two. In what seemed to be a series of
completely genuine revelations, I don?t think that I, in any way, thought about any
sort of god, any theological deity. I had complete understanding of life and existence
and I knew that there was only life, no supreme or supernatural beings, there is only
the ongoing state of existence and nothing more.
9 Refused
Songs To Fan The Flames of Discontent.

When it came to others trying to interact with me, all I could actually do was smile or
laugh, because I had lost my capability, or my desire, to interact with others in any
way. I think it was because I knew that they couldn?t possibly understand, in their
frame of mind, what I was going through. I think that when it was really necessary to
respond, like if they asked if I was all right, or if I just wanted to think, I would try to
reassure them by nodding them or saying yes. But, I couldn?t actually look left or
right, and when my friends were hanging out around be and one girl sat in the spot
where I had focused my line of sight, I became extremely uncomfortable and
agitated.
10How To Destroy Angels
Welcome Oblivion

It was not a negative or positive experience, and I don?t feel that it was an emotional
experience. The fact of the matter is that I was not thinking or analyzing, but having a series of
profound understandings and revelations that I didn?t even know I was looking for. For several
hours, I completely transcended the human design and all of the social constructs and found my
way to an honest, genuine, pure, complete understanding. I left the experience with a sense of
purpose to start from the ground up, and through meditation, slowly strip away all of the social
constructs and experience a true, genuine existence unbridled by ego.
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