You Don’t Know How To Trip (yet)
By: Alexandre Porto
Tags: Self Improvement, Psychedelics, Self, Psychology, Growth

Psychedelics are used for many things, but among them, they can be a way to expand consciousness and gain a new perspective on the world. In this sense, psychedelics have been part of humanity since the beginning, in one form or another, and as an extension of that humans use these substances in various ways.

There are many ways to use psychedelics, but one of the most important is to expand consciousness. In that way, awareness grows, and with it comes new understanding. It may not be an easy journey at times, but if used right it can bring great insight into oneself.

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Psychedelics are a great way to gain perspective.

To gain perspective, however, one must first be able to put into context the things that they are seeing during their psychedelic journey. This requires a great deal of preparation in order to provide the proper environment for such an inward journey.

The preparation for journeys of this quality involves the flexibility of spirit to accept whatever perspective of reality is presented to the tripper. Self-acceptance in the face of overwhelming truth is extremely challenging for those who believe that they are something that they are not.

I remember my first trips and the biggest takeaway from these first experimentations was that I was drastically wrong about who I thought I was and to fully crystalize the lessons that the psychedelics offered me I had to give up the old way to see myself.

I had to unlearn to see myself in the way that I meticulously cultivated since I was born.

If you are not prepared for this kind of experience, the psychedelic journey will either be presented as a hellish landscape or, simply meaningless.

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Wikipedia definition: The term “psychedelic” is derived from the Ancient Greek words psychē (ψυχή, “soul”) and dēloun (δηλοῦν, “to make visible, to reveal”),[3] translating to “mind-manifesting”.

Prepare yourself by opening your mind before taking the psychedelic and only then you will be ready to start to take advantage of these powerful mind-exploring tools that nature presented to humanity.

Psychedelics are not for everyone, but those that can use them in the right way may find great personal and spiritual growth. In this sense, there is a careful balance between safety and common sense.

Psychedelics are not to be taken lightly, and neither should they be used as a means of escape. They can help one gain enlightenment, but if that is what you seek then there needs to be understanding beforehand.

Just a little note: if you use psychedelics to escape you are up for a surprise.

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Explore in Real-Time

The trouble is that you will never be satisfied with what you know prior to the trip. If you never tripped before you will never feel that you are prepared for a psychedelic journey, for there’s just no way to know what expects you. Because of this, I suggest that you go on the journey with the spirit of exploring the landscape in real-time.

Know that the changes in perceptions will be so drastic and insistent that the very fabric of reality will seem to have changed. And I am not talking about the external world, I’m talking about the internal world of who you are — or who you think you are.

This means that learning how to navigate through the world while on the effects of psychedelics takes time and work. The voyager needs to unlearn the old ways and relearn how to understand and manipulate reality in the scope of the psychedelic trip. I mean to say that to fully take advantage of the substance the tripper needs to learn the new rules of conduct and then — and only then — they will have access to the power of these natural tools.