Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "The Psychology of Psychedelics | Roland Griffiths | EP 167" video.

  1. I always theorized that you take out of a hallucinogenic experience what you take into it, whether you know you're packing baggage or not. I always felt like it tore down the walls between conscious and sub-conscious. Whatever ends of worms there are buried in your mind can be seen and dealt with. Those worms can also give you a "bad trip." I think the standard wormy bits revolve around existential angst. We can bury thoughts of death MOST of the time, but it's always percolating under the surface, which is why there were so many stories of "Jesus freaks" in LSD circles. They can't hide from the abyss when these drugs bare their subconscious. I had a bad trip of my own, but somehow realized at some point that I was projecting my own fears on the world around me in that state. I'd beware using them around the "wrong people," and determining who the right people are can be problematic. I wrestled with my own demons at what started out as parties, many a time. Some people were toxic, some were vulnerable, some were contemplative. Nobody really knew what they were doing, and some had "bad trips." IMO, nobody set out to mess with somebody's head, but a lot of that took place. Under the influence, I could read a room like nobody's business. I KNEW things about people I had never met. iMO, it was because my subconscious picks up on clues that my conscious mind doesn't. Ordinarily, I'd just get a feeling about somebody, but not be able to put my finger on why, even though that feeling eventually proved to be correct.
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