Excellent advice for newcomers. The willingness to surrender cannot be overstated. When in doubt "what to do" - breathe. In and out. and see everything continue regardless of mind terrors.

The undeniable interconnectivity between my inner world and my outer environment is what blasted all certainties away, even long after the trip. Being the truth-finding obsessed "individual" that I am, I made many experiments happen on psychedelic states of mind, involving other people, the purposeful direction of intent, and witnessing the effects of my own willfull shifts to provoke a reaction.

That was the moment these hallucinations became very significant, because they can be objectively varified, if you will. Often I would take a good friend of mine with my on my journey at psy festivals, one of us being in the psychedelic state of mind, the other being sober - staying present and act as witness. After the trip we would compare notes, of what happened when. More often than not he has compeltely confirmed my "out there" perceptions from his sober point of view. Which has changed everything really.

Ever since I am aware of my telepathic capabilities, to put it in a cheesy and worn way. And that all of us always have this capability but are constantly ignoring it due to our indoctrination into the non-psychedelic state of mind. The "problem solving state of consciousness" as Hanock calls it.

But after you have set out to violently break up a conversation of two people hundreds of meters away from you with sheer intent, and you observe them instantly stopping to talk to one another, looking your direction in a slightly puzzled way... I have collected so many situations where the power of the mind and the intertwinedness of inner and outer world are really tough to get rid of now.

Naturally I went to them afterwards (or my friend did) and explained what we had just been doing. and they loved it and confirmed that it felt like someone had just barged into their conversation impolitely. They loved us doing those experiments after we had explained.

I love how you point out the importance of gaining the ability for ever after to see situations in both ways. Gaining this new viewpoint is entirely priceless for my life, and has really saved me from the fear of death, the narrative that the universe is a random accident with no underlying intelligence and interconnectivity to it and that life is meaningless. It isn't. we just bought the story hook line and sinker.

And I think that may be the reason why psychedelics exist. they serve as ever present reminder of the foundation that will exist as long as physicality does.

Great post, I eagerly followed and I'm thrilled to meet you here in cyberspace and to dig through your blog <3

Much love dude