LSD-like molecules counter depession without the trip

Re:LSD-like molecules counter depession without the trip by isoprophlex on Sunday October 02, 2022 @02:33AM (#33053465)

The experience is highly variable between people. I'm sorry you had such a rough time, and I'm hoping that things are at least slowly getting better for you.

About the god thing, my 2 cents. "god" doesn't always mean Christian White Old Guy on a Cloud Looking Angrily Downwards. There's a less narrow interpretation.

If psychedelics strip away your day-to-day preoccupations, and show you life with a vastly different set of mental filters in place, many people experience a transcendent feeling of belonging to something bigger than their sober selves. A connectedness to other humans and nature that goes beyond ordinary experience. The idea that death isn't so bad, only suffering is; and suffering is the price we must pay for the ability to see its opposite, beauty.

Which people then conversationally condense to "yeah you meet god"

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Re:LSD-like molecules counter depession without the trip by bowsamic on Sunday October 02, 2022 @02:37AM (#33053494)

So they just mean a transcendent, spiritual experience?

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Re:LSD-like molecules counter depession without the trip by isoprophlex on Sunday October 02, 2022 @02:39AM (#33053506)

Yeah i guess that's a lot more accurate if you want to avoid the cultural baggage of the god-word

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Re:LSD-like molecules counter depession without the trip by swayvil on Sunday October 02, 2022 @08:50AM (#33055487)

It expands your consciousness is a popular way of describing it.

Imagine a chronic obsessive cellphone gazer. One day he lifts his nose from the screen. Sun! Clouds! Birds and squirrels!

Except moreso.

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Re:LSD-like molecules counter depession without the trip by bowsamic on Sunday October 02, 2022 @04:04PM (#33059655)

But shouldn’t God be in all things, including the profound, if he’s really the Absolute? I doubt he’d be limited to our human conception of nature

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Re:LSD-like molecules counter depession without the trip by swayvil on Sunday October 02, 2022 @04:59PM (#33060201)

I prefer to observe first, theorize second.

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Re:LSD-like molecules counter depession without the trip by bowsamic on Sunday October 02, 2022 @05:08PM (#33060291)

So He is more of a Kami?

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Re:LSD-like molecules counter depession without the trip by swayvil on Sunday October 02, 2022 @05:19PM (#33060398)

That would be one of those theories.

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Re:LSD-like molecules counter depession without the trip by canadiantim on Sunday October 02, 2022 @10:01AM (#33055920)

This is a really good explanation

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Re:LSD-like molecules counter depession without the trip by avisser on Monday October 03, 2022 @10:02AM (#33067640)

For me, on one of my trips, I had a profound feeling of being part of life in the universe. Like this feeling of how vast the universe is, but it's all dead rocks, except for everything on this tiny blue world (and hopefully more). I felt like a part of that.

So no deities but spiritual like what you said.

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