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Maybe you were confronted with your own death and that made you uncomfortable at first (i.e. the feeling of being disoriented) and then you were able to look reality in the eyes and find your inspiriation for life, your will to live, your spark within (hence, possibly, the positive change in your feelings).

I recently conducted an interview with the music group Particle and when I was speaking to the guitar player he started speaking about music as a universal language, and I agree.  Consider your experience.  Does any one have any thoughts to share on this?

[The Path]

The Path

When you find other peoples minds limiting
It's time to embark on your own
When you find your own mind limiting
It's time for inner silence
To find your own mind
A selfless soul
A real hero

For those who wish to find
Their true self and mind
I give to you these words
Search and you will find
Don't look to space and time
look inside the soul
Perceive your essence whole
Never have a doubt
For what you cannot figure out
is often beyond the rational mind

Don't get snared
by the traps of the glare
Seek a peaceful mind
And a simple life
Love with all of your heart
Speak with all of your mind
Create out of everything you are
Live with the strength of a peaceful life

Very good!
Here's one for you

Creature ranks with creature in the widths of space,
Creature follows creature in the rounds of time,
If you linger in the widths of space, in rounds of time,
You are, O Man, in realms that pass away.
Yet mightily your soul rises above them
When you divine or knowingly behold the eternal
Beyond the widths of space, beyond the course of time.

Hello all
Lets make a listing of good healing formulas and such that we all know so as to share our knowledge with each other.  I will begin.  This one is especially helpful for those who choose to experience hallucinogens.

When using ginseng for healing it is best not to drink green tea, according to ancient Chinese philosophy.  Also, after you trip, it is advisable to avoid ginseng, though green tea is very good for the day after your trip.  And of course, loose leaf teas are the way to go.

When I first started learning to consciously use my healing powers, I would practice on plants.  I had a few house plants that I kept in great condition and were always boyount looking and happy.  I would try different techniques like holding my hands near the plant and imagine a sphere of energy kept within the borders of my hands (like a fireball in Street Fighter or Dragon Ball Z).  I would percieve it to be healing energy and I would feel its effects on the etheric body of the plant as positive healing powers.  
This was me using my imagination.  This helped to sharpen my intent.  I would use my thoughts, my feelings, and my will and I would be honest with myself.  "I know I can heal."  Admitting reality, I suppose.

Anyway, does anyone else have experience in this that they would like to share?  Have you ever tried healing plants?  Animals?  Humans?  Yourself?

Anything is possible.  But it would be to deny yourself an energy source.  Eating healthy is a good idea

Anything is possible, but remember, it's all in your mind.  Don't scare yourself.  First build your concentration to where you can clear your mind and be wholly, consciously in control of yourself.  From there, you'll know that you have nothing to worry about.  Be positive.  It's yourself you are exploring.  

I agree with Stevo.

First let me say that when it comes to psychedelics and music Pink Floyd is top notch.  

About a year ago I was at the AllGood festival and had eaten a chocolate mushroom containing about half an eighth of mushrooms.  Note that I had eaten the same amount the night before and had one of the most amazing nights of my life.  

Well, this second night things gradually ascended to a very unique state where I would feel as though I were tripping nicely and that it was going to come on powerfully.  This would then be followed by a time where I almost felt as though I was coming down and that it wasn't going to work that well.  This went on for hours, and the times when I was tripping hard were getting more intense.  Finally, it was very late at night.  The Disco Biscuits were putting on an amazing set.  The music enhanced my trip.  I decided to get closer.  Once down in the crowd the music felt much more alive and animate.  Suddenly the whole psychadelic experience smacked down on me in an over-whelming and powerful way.  I went into a state of energy perception where all I beheld was of another realm altogether.  Then I began to become aware of everything around me again.  I had sat down and was sitting indian style, and my senses were completely changed.  I could see and hear the music, and we were all connected to it and to each other and to this whole experience that was purely magical.  The festival had a most amazing vibe to it.  

In response to your post Atral-G8, no I have never had Ayahuasca, though I have read about it through Terrence McKenna and am deeply interested.  I have also not had experiences with Shamans, though I am deeply interested in what they can do when psychadelics are involved.

Has anyone here had experiences of a psychedelic nature in connection with dreaming, OBE, ESP, etc?

I had a dream not too long ago.  I had listened to a hemi-sync cd not too long before falling asleep.  I have also had recent encounters with psychedelics.  

My dream was of myself and the three people I live with.  We were all in our house (though it was not our actual house, I just understood it to be in the dream).  Everything was normal, I was making some mac and cheese.  When I finished my brother came up to me and said that we had to go somewhere because of some attack or something.  I was like, "What?  Does this happen often?"  Then the other guy that lives with us came walking up and said, "Yeah, that's why I'm not going to ever live in this area again." ~(or something to that extent).  So we leave the house and we're walking along.  There's other people going the same way, apparently for the same reason.  

It's pitch black night.  We start going down ways that almost seemed familiar to me, I even thought I knew where I was at one point and was commenting to the people behind me that you have to be careful on this part because it gets steep.  The way we were taking indeed started going down steep, so steep that I had to run to not fall and suddenly it became a tunnel and got even steeper.  It almost felt as though I was plummeting down it at an accelerated speed.  

When we reached the bottom (which was really after just one trippy moment), it was hilly and still very dark.  A little grove of about four small tress stood there and I found two bottles of water sitting next to them.  I left the bottles where they were (I think).  Then we walked down a little path that led to a big opening where lots of people were all standing around, sitting, biding there time.  We took a seat.  It was just an open field with trees here and there and surrounded by hilly area with trees.  

Let me mention now that everything had a surreal, animate character to it.  Very real, very trippy.  A feeling of awake and alive more profound than is usually experienced in normal waking.  And there was information that was all around.  Information that is normally unaccessible to people's minds.  Everything was alive.  And once we were down where all the people were I looked up at the stars and beheld quite a scene of living imagination.  They were the stars but it was like I was tripping.  The whole cosmos had motion to it.  

Suddenly I went into a trance state where I was beholding and at one with this psychedelic center, sparkling and glowing like a particle as big as my body.  It was very real, and I knew it to be my psychedelic center.  It was so powerful that I remember exclaiming "Wow, this is why I don't need to do any more psychedelics for a while."  Then I started to come to, as some guy was pushing me off him (gently) and I sat up and heard my brother from behind saying "They're just trying to chill."  

We were back in the field at night with all the people.  Suddenly these automobile like things with headlights came driving fast from the opposite direction from where we had enetered the field.  They came flying by us and going north-west from where we had entered the field.  One even went flying through where I thought there were some people.  The effect of those things driving by was that of something in my feelings, my boundaries of reality, being swept away, leaving me to confront this raw element of what I know was a psychedelic out-of-body-expereince of a unique nature.  

Everything in the dream had a way of sort of sweeping me off my feet as far as my feelings went.  So after this I decided to walk around.  I went up to the little grove of trees where I had found the water bottles and once up there I sensed that one of those vehicles was coming.  I couldn't tell from what direction though.  I wondered if I should conceal myself behind the trees, though they didn't offer much cover, so as not to be seen if one of those things came by.  I decided to get out of there.  

Suddenly I was driving down a main road in my car going to the right on a gray, cloudy day.  My intention was to go to my friends house, where I figured I would be safe, and who I figured could make some sense of things.  I pulled into a cluster of restaurants to ask for directions.  I got inside and sat down in the waiting area.  Three ladies came in.  Two, I saw, were pregnant.  One sat down next to me, one sat opposite, and the other walked into the actual dining place of the restaurant.  The one next to me got up and I suddenly realized that she too was pregnant.  All three of them were!  So I asked for directions.  "How do you get to 395?"  One of them looked at me with very watery, dreamy eyes and pointed to the left saying, "You go that way for... oh, I don't know how long."  Her eyes got even more dreamy as she said this last part.  I looked at her inquisitively and was like, "What?  20 minutes?"  

Everything got weird and kind of faded and then I woke up in my room.  It was dark.  I sat up and in front of me, where my piano is, there was sitting two figures, each about a foot tall and possibly made of wood.  The one on the right was glowing an almost eerie green.  The other just sat beside it, not glowing.  I yelled and smacked the crap out of them with my right arm, sending them flying.  It made a LOUD noise!  Then I heard a door and footsteps.  I thought it was my brother coming to check on me.  The door opened and in popped a HUGE bear, who walked in on all fours and then sat up and faced my mirror (which I could not see but I percieved to be there).  As the bear sat up and faced the mirror it assumed the stance and figure of a large person, resembling much the person whom I had decided, while driving in the other part of the dream, to go see.  This friend of mine I also know to have the power animal of a bear and who is quite a proficient lucid dreamer.

Anything is possible, and in this work of out-of-body experience one certainly could come across the being that was Robert Monroe.  I'm sure he helps individuals still on Earth to attain the wisdom and spiritual action that was such a big part of his life, especially if you have studied him and are aware of him.

It sounds to me like your etheric body loosened and your perception switched to a higher perspective.  I used to do that all the time.  It's quite powerful.
    I find it rather funny that the you mention the cats were staring at you.  Cats have a natural perception of these higher matters.  
    Was there any sense of knowing? or perhaps information that was present, almost as if in the atmosphere, while you were having the experience?  If it was an amazing experience for you, then that sound like a good thing