From: ck@iconix.oz.au (Chris Karadaglis)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: mull trips and meditation
Date: 5 Oct 92 08:52:13 GMT
Organization: Iconix Pty Ltd (World Headquarters)

Below is a file I wrote about a trip I had some years ago. I still 
trip whilst stoned, and am wondering how many other people can do 
this. I have started practising Transcendental Meditation, and during
the first group session I experienced a trip which was as visual as
what is described below. I would like to hear from anyone who practises
TM and if they've had anything similar to this.


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Well, basically, my personal experience with tripping on mull started
at a party. All it took was 1 joint, medium sized, with hash. We smoked
this outside, between 3 people, standing up. I think that definately
makes a difference, when you're lying down and comfortable you tend to
veg out, but when standing or >walking< and you have to hold it in for
about half a minute, things change.

Anyway, I went back into the party (it was in a house), and proceeded to
giggle at all of my friends for what seemed half an hour. It was only about
5 or 10 minutes. I asked a friend to escort me to his car, where I just sat
in the passenger seat. I just veged out, so he left. But as I closed my eyes, 
strange things began to happen. This was my first trip, so I didn't just "enjoy 
the ride" as I do now, but I couldn't stop being fascinated by the way all 
these great shapes started forming in front of me. Being a mathematically abled 
person definately helps. I mean, anyone can visualise helixes, spirals etc,
but to have all these mathematical equations and vectors (position, velocity
AND acceleration) pinned to these shapes is really neat...

So I played around with these shapes. I think for about the first 20% (time
has no value here) of the trip, I had no control over what came up. Then,
I realised that if I really liked what came up, I could call it up again.
Only something would be different, and by the time I figured out what the
difference was, something else "wanted to come out". The mathematical figures 
started becoming images.  I could manipulate these images too.

Physically, it was a different story. To someone on the outside of the car, 
looking in, I would have seemed like a drunk, slouched in his seat, gripping the 
door handle and seat, with a nice smile on his face. I couldn't lift my arms if I
wanted too.

What I could do however was move my head around. This was like picking up a
little glass sphere with fake snow and a miniature cottage and shaking it around.
With movement, I could change the overall direction of the trip. Although
at the time I didn't really realise this, later on I found that slowly moving 
your head seems to "shake around" all your memories and thoughts, and new stuff
emerges. Colours flash and then become shapes and then images.

Once the images came, I sat back and watched the most incredible thing I have
ever seen. This has happened to me several times since, although I can't do this
without mull. I started recognising things in the images. I could make sense
of their real contents, not just colours and shapes, but who the people in them
were, what they were doing, and where they were. The people in the images were
myself and others that I have known.

Once an image had formed, and I recognised it; the scene, the time, the people;
it changed to another. This image seemed completely unconnected to the first, 
however after a while (probably a split second) I realised the connection. It 
may have been as subtle as a similar object in both images, or it may have
happened on the same day, or it may have involved a sibling of a person I was with
in the first, or anything else. But there was always a connection, and as soon
as I realised it, before I could fully comprehend the significance of it, the next
image came up. Then the next. And so on. This seemed to go at a blinding rate, and
things which I haven't seen, felt or thought about for years and years came out.
I was running through my memory and recalling images in absolutely vivid detail,
and realising the connections between them. I was gaining an insight to how the
brain stores and retrieves information.

The whole experience was like taking a photo album and flicking the pages in front
of you very quickly. I remembered things which I thought were gone, and it's a 
very strange sensation to experience love, hate, fear, passion, jealousy, admiration
and beauty in what seems to be one second.

The other really neat thing about the trip was the detail of the images which
were recalled. They weren't flat - remember we have 2 eyes - they were in full
3d (or seemed to be) - and a billion colours. At the time none of this could be
absorbed or appreciated, although in later trips I have tried to see things in
as much detail as possible, and have confirmed the above.

A most memorable experience.

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I'd like to hear from anyone who has tripped like this on mull (hash or
leaf).

   Shckwish!
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