The moment when you sit and listen. There is a keen sense of awaiting the next sound, the next sound in the air uttered by other living beings that make up the cosmos at large. Not a person. No persons. Just breathing human beings. And nature, if I have to put it into words, which I do in this format.
The psychedelic experience has been the utter eye-opener for the importance of the immediacy of experience.
These days I find more and more that the absence of the psychedelic experience within a human being's awareness and history is a blind spot to understanding what a human being's relationship to life is. Yes I said it.
Am I saying every human being ought to have a psychedelic experience in their life? No. The path is not for everyone and saying so has nothing smug about it. Quite the contrary, there is huge merit in playing out the limited identification with a person construct for as long as possible. If only to make the thrust into awareness more worthwhile when it finally happens.
And this is the point.
After an awareness-shifting psychedelic experience - after only one that really counts - you will not only see the world with different eyes... you will also always have the luxury of getting with the moment you are in, in remembering the time when you saw it all happen live around you. You can bring that mode of awareness back because you lived it once before. That immediate experience which needed no translation. Appreciating the quality of the totality that is unfolding right in front of you (and simultaneously inside of you) in a way that words cannot describe to anyone who simply has not had the experience ever.
I love to reference the analogy of eating a strawberry. You probably had a strawberry in your life, and know what it tastes like. Now try to describe that taste - that experience - to someone who has never had it before.
Words are not cut out to be an accurate representation of any experience.
So when we talk about different levels of awareness that come into play with the psychedelic experience, we cannot fathom what they are like without any experiences of our own.
Try to explain what swimming in the ocean feels like to someone who has always lived in a desert. What skydiving is like to anyone who has never jumped out of a plane. We can only use our limited experiential frame of reference to try and imagine it, but really we have nothing close to compare it to - as seen from a standpoint of someone who has done it and knows from experience what it is like.
The merit in this is huge though, because there are days and situations when the immediacy of experience just comes back in full force, your senses are sharpened and you become an utter witness to the totality going on around you. Human chatter becomes like the chirping of birds, a car rushes by and you hear some children laugh in the distance with a dog barking. A bee comes flying near the window in the story above you and someone in the house is cutting something with a knife in the kitchen.
Just as mundane and common as these things occur to us in our every-day state of consciousness, they become mindshatteringly thrilling to get with in the more aware state reminiscent of a psychedelic experience. They are constant reminders of how amazingly marvelous life is, how incredibly inexplicable and magnificently crafted.
You realize it all means something or rather: It all IS. It all is just another expression of the totality we witness in separations, objects, individuals. Bits.
But really it all goes together. What a blessing if we have ever been in a situation to actually see it for its glory.
And I feel the more we are moving ahead with our human story, wherever it is we are going with it in these strangest of times - the value of such a psychedelic experience has never been higher than now.
The more we are led away from our own true self, our insight and witnessing of the totality that flows through everything and ourselves in perfect coordination... the more we are likely to find ourselves in an age where the fear narratives that try to hold us captive have succeeded. I do not see this happening in my life, and I know I will not force anything upon anyone. I just want to keep reminding you out there that the psychedelic experience is just such a failsafe reminder about your own greatness. There is nothing to be afraid of. And if even a few people make that experience their own in these times, the fear narratives will no longer find any resonance within us as we remember who we truly are and that it was all simply a badly written horror movies without any substance.
It really is time we grow up, and for all who feel called or who have had an interest in experiencing psychedelic states of mind for a while, I say: Do go on that journey with someone you love and trust who knows what he is doing. It will be such a profound day in your life that has the capacity to change and override everything that you think is holding you back.
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