Since someone asked in a recent PM, I feel I'd better share it with you all, too.
Regarding my LSD trip (Summer of 1984 in Alaska):
Was asked what it was that the universe, or "god", or whatever it was, revealed to me:
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My words will make it sound trite, but we are how it collects information on living.
It "knows" everything about existence, but needs us to help it put it all into context, to help it understand what it is to have a physical form and be alive.
It needs to know what life is in all it's forms, and we are the conduit it uses to learn about life.
It doesn't judge us in any way, it just wants to know what it is to live in as many ways as possible.
When our bodies die, our energy, our consciousness, returns to it so it can add our life's knowledge to itself.
It brought me to the "center" of the universe, floating freely in deep space, and then manifested itself in a way my brain could comprehend.
It was a humanoid shape, wrapped in dark, flowing "cloth" that moved like gossamer in the breeze, and where the head should have been was a glowing orb of purest light. No hands or arms or feet or legs, just a basic humanoid shape.
It didn't use words, it expanded my consciousness out to to the limits of space and time for the briefest of moments so I could see everything, and know what it knew.
But as soon as I "returned" to our reality, the knowledge was fading like a dream when we awaken, except for the most basic jist of it.
That was in 1984, and it took me 20 years to come to terms with, and almost another 10 years to think about before telling anyone about it, except the friend I was tripping with.
All I could say after coming back was: "I know everything. I know why we are here. I know everything.".
That's as close as I can get to what it told me.
For right or wrong, it was a life changing event for me.
Before that, I had done 1/2 a hit of purple microdot that got me high for 6 hours, but not tripping (the walls breathed and the curtains moved on their own, and I got a little giggly, and that was it).
The second time, a month later, the same friend got some 100-microgram Orange Sunshine from an old hippie friend of his.
The first 30 minutes were more intense than the previous attempt's entire episode, and the main part of the trip lasted 18 hours, with another 6 hours of conversation with my friend as we slowly came down.
Took the LSD at 8-am on a beautiful Saturday in the middle of an Alaskan Summer, with blue skies and the occasional fluffy cloud floating by, and a breeze jostling and caressing the leaves of the birch trees, and it ended at almost 9-am Sunday on an amazing, cloudless day (we get about 21 hours of full sunlight in the middle of the Summer up there, and the sun just dips down to the horizon to make it almost dusk).
I took the acid only to trip out and have fun for 10 to 12 hours and watch the animated movie "Heavy Metal" while tripping, but got much more than I ever bargained for.
Whether what I experienced was real and true, only time will tell, but it was a beautiful experience.
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