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i have not read the thread being referred to above, and do not want to get into any of it.
i'll just tell something of my experience
mescaline is a lower-level hallucinogen.
i do not think any of them are recreational drugs, personally.
particularly if there is something going on with you emotionally, personally, affectively at the point you drop--it can be a type of brutal semi-controlled self-examination once the voyage is underway.
it is not an escape kinda thing.
it does not turn anything off in your head--except maybe some of the conventions that enable you to imagine a particular type of separation between yourself and your environment, between your ego and the rest of the psychic apparatus.
it is possible that i encountered hallucinogens at a strange moment, one during which the castenada framing (tripping as ritual, as "vision-quest" as part of a type of education) was a big deal--and that this combined with something in my disposition to create and maintain the idea that these drugs can enable you to see things/find things that could be important, either positive or negative. i say this because i do know a couple folk who treat mushrooms and mesclaine as recreation. but i do not understand that attitude myself, and would not endorse it.
if you dont know why you are doing it, dont.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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