NeuroSoup's Psychedelic Book Club Schedule
Psychedelic Horizons by Thomas Roberts - August 2008
Psychedelic Horizons by Thomas B. Roberts (Professor in the Department of Leadership, Educational Psychology and foundations at Northern Illinois University) is an outstanding study of the human mind and what may actually be beneficially derived from the use of psychedelic experiences for the human mind, body, and overall cognitive process. Exploring the evidence of how psychedelic-occasioned mystical experiences may boost the human immune system, Psychedelic Horizons provides readers with an informative comprehension of Stansislav Grof's view of the mind as a way to understand art, psychedelics adding new cognitive programs to our thinking skills, and an expansive redefinition of intelligence and what it means to be well-educated. Psychedelic Horizons is very highly recommended to psychology students and all non-specialist general readers, particularly those subversive in thought, for its stimulating and progressive thought and concept of the actualities of psychedelics and the human mind, psyche and thought. - Midwest Book Review
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The DMT Chronicles: Traversing Beyond the Psychedelic
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“During the DMT uptake, one becomes concerned that they are going to die. They then remind themselves that they would not have taken the DMT had they known that they weren’t going to die. With this knowledge, peace arrives. Death is the intent.”
*Breakthrough* = Elf Contact
Trip #1 – Non-Breakthrough
A bowl of DMT was loaded into the pipe. The amount was slightly more than the tip of a match head. A time had finally come that I had been anticipating throughout all of eternity, or so, at the time, it felt like. I was so exhilarated, for something that I had wanted to meet for so long was, alas, now in my presence. I knew I was destined one day to venture the beautiful realms that DMT has to offer, and that day had finally arrived. As butterflies kept on pecking at the insides of my flesh, I tried to lower my excitation level to a minimum. I tried meditating for a little while. Eventually, the butterflies relinquished their relentless attack, and I was able to concentrate on the task at hand. I flicked my lighter and placed it underneath my little glass pipe. The DMT vaporized, and so, I took my first hit. The smoke was harsh on my lungs and tasted very indescribably odd. I exhaled the smoke and took another hit. I can’t recall the exact number of hits I took. I took a lot of small hits. At the time, I did not quite know how to smoke DMT. Hit after hit went by, and the last hit finally occurred. Little I knew at the time, and I thought that I had smoked sufficiently enough. I immediately shut my eyes, and I resumed in watching the back of my eyelids.
Immediately, I was taken to an extraterrestrial like place, one not here nor there, a place entrenched with vastness, a vastness that I never knew could possibly exist. I appeared to be in a psychedelic corridor that went on for thousands and thousands of miles. Beautiful and bedazzling psychedelic colors flittered upon the floor, walls, and ceiling. As I floated around, I observed everything that confronted me. The colors were all very pretty and had a flashy quality about them. The colors were possessed with the finest energy, a very penetrating one. I was fascinated by every quality they were imbedded with. I had only been in this area for a while, and yet, I got the feeling that I was only going to be in this area for a small amount of time. My time, I felt, was almost over. In a flash of vibrant light, the vision that once accosted me was now gone, only to be replaced by interesting Aztec styled tracers. Before I was ready, the main part of the DMT trip was over. I felt that it ended all too fast, that I only had a little taster. I wanted to return to that domain and explore its contents with more care and scrutiny. Therefore, before I completely came down from this trip, I smoked more DMT - full story...
