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Your feelings are understandable and basically true.
May I suggest that your resorting to the use of the word "playing" ..... is playing by you.
And secondly I started using LSD at times after graduating from college/Economics in '68, then coming back from my Army Security Agency work in the Army, and thirdly reading extensively from medical journals and other publications on the study and use of LSD.
I also studied the behavior of friends who were already using it.
Only after all of that did I decide to try it. It was very beautiful and tremendously meaningful.
Take this for what it's worth.
PS -- All my life of 72 years, I have loved to watch snow fall ..... meander down on a still, chilly night under a street light.
Luckily, the first time was a night like that. These very big beautiful snowflakes fell for hours through the street lights of Oakland, Pittsburgh, PA. The colors in those flakes were fabulous.
Those colors are always there. Some folks just never get to see them.
Big Beautiful Snowflakes,,,
Interesting.
Similar. Dropped acid maybe...12(?) times. Mushrooms a handful (hah). Many psycodelics are, and have been, used by lots of religions, including several native american tribes (peyote). Throughout history, supervised, deeply ceremonial use is well documented. Ram Daas...
Done right, it can be life changing, for the better. I’m proof.
Now, the harder core stuff is simply different. Opiod abuse is horrible, and certain pharmaceutical companies (one in particlar) have loosed a monster. Sure, good for pain for some people, but the addictive properties are insanely powerful. Legal opiods lead to heroin, fentanyl...death. Meth can be used by military, but again, so addictive as to be another monster let loose.
But mushrooms? Jeeze. The ignorance of these types of psycodelics shown right here on this thread is typical. People need to do research, talk to people with knowledge and experience, but their minds are closed, period.
Some people will look past the surface of a lake and see the lakeweeds and the crayfish walking on the lake bottom and the fish swimming. Others will say there is only one reality, just the surface of the lake, and if you're claiming to see fish and whatnot, you must be some kind of libertarian kook that should be driven off of FreeRepublic.
“Those colors are always there. Some folks just never get to see them.”
The pictures of Masaru Emoto depicting thoughts bound in water came to mind. He labeled bottles of water with different thoughts and stored them where he could see them and reinforce the thought printed on the bottle. Then he froze the water and took slices from which he made photos. The photos are awe inspiring, and a basis for understanding our civility, as we are 97% water by composition.
“Those colors are always there. Some folks just never get to see them.”
No, the colors are not there ever.
It’s a subjective experience due to distorting normal neuronal processing with toxins.
Others may see only black or hear sounds etc...
Your “wow isn’t everything so beautiful” is a mindset of a juvenile who smoked pot or took mushrooms for the first time.
Laughable.
Back in the day I did not understand Richard Schultes comment that these drugs and experiences were no big deal.
You’ve made it in to your religion.
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I’m curious, why aren’t you a liberal?