the matrix is solved

[Cain]

I'm still not sure.  They used the nickname, La Purga (meaning: "you're gonna have the shits bad, boyo").  I was going to cover it in my Peru series in Literate Chaotic, but I will say one thing, don't believe the hype.  No deep spiritual experiences, no visions of the future or anything like that at all.

[LMNO]

Well, like LSD, don't you have to be mentally prepped for it?

[Cain]

Yeah.  The shamans and like do a lot of ceremonies, dancing around and chanting and stuff while it takes effect, IIRC.  And actually have the beliefs to shape the ideas more.  Being an agnostic like I am, I'm pretty much not going to interpret anything without a degree of doubt, making a self-sustaining loop feeding off my belief impossible.

[Cramulus]

Yeah.  The shamans and like do a lot of ceremonies, dancing around and chanting and stuff while it takes effect, IIRC.  And actually have the beliefs to shape the ideas more.  Being an agnostic like I am, I'm pretty much not going to interpret anything without a degree of doubt, making a self-sustaining loop feeding off my belief impossible.

So do the shamans have deep spiritual experiences, visions of the future, that sort of stuff?

[Cain]

Yeah.  The shamans and like do a lot of ceremonies, dancing around and chanting and stuff while it takes effect, IIRC.  And actually have the beliefs to shape the ideas more.  Being an agnostic like I am, I'm pretty much not going to interpret anything without a degree of doubt, making a self-sustaining loop feeding off my belief impossible.

So do the shamans have deep spiritual experiences, visions of the future, that sort of stuff?

Apparently.  Santo Daime was founded after a vision using it.  And other people have had spiritual experiences of a sort similar to some LSD users.

[B_M_W]

I'm still not sure.  They used the nickname, La Purga (meaning: "you're gonna have the shits bad, boyo").  I was going to cover it in my Peru series in Literate Chaotic, but I will say one thing, don't believe the hype.  No deep spiritual experiences, no visions of the future or anything like that at all.

This just shows once again that a large portion of what you percieve depends upon what you believe.

[Cain]

Oh, I thought I saw a UFO that night too.  But it was near Nazca, and there are a lot of bad pilots around there, supplementing their living off tourists by "other means", shall we say?

[Cramulus]

Oh, I thought I saw a UFO that night too.  But it was near Nazca, and there are a lot of bad pilots around there, supplementing their living off tourists by "other means", shall we say?

Ah yeah, abduction and probing. Supplemented my income like that for a while.

[Cain]

 

[P3nT4gR4m]

Well, like LSD, don't you have to be mentally prepped for it?

Surely acid is much funnier if you're not?

[LMNO]

It depends.

What if you prepped yourself for 100% pure LAIL?

[P3nT4gR4m]

I guess the question is academic anyroad. Whether you're psyched up or not, that first trip is prolly gonna catch you unawares 

[tyrannosaurus vex]

I guess the question is academic anyroad. Whether you're psyched up or not, that first trip is prolly gonna catch you unawares 

fact: my first trip was boring. but it wasn't shitty acid, because it was also my friend's first trip and he:

> Vanished from the living room sometime between 10pm and 3am
> Got swallowed by a tree
> Got spat out on a football field at the other end of town
> Was picked up by the police at the Post Office around 4am while dumping out garbage cans and catching the contents on fire

[guest7654]

I put the moon in my stomach for a split-second.  Took me like 10 minutes to get it there.

[P3nT4gR4m]

I put the moon in my stomach for a split-second.  Took me like 10 minutes to get it there.

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