You just… jump right in! :)
Here are some of my favorite thinkers for you to delve into… and there are quite a few:
Deepak Chopra, Eckhart Tolle, Thich Nhat Hanh, OSHO, Alan Watts, Khalil Gibran, Terence McKenna, Ram Dass, Timothy Leary, Galileo, Nikola Tesla, Aldous Huxley..
Read about them, read their writings, hear their lectures, absorb their knowledge and go from there!
That’s a problem so many people seem to have. They just kind of run with whatever system of beliefs they were brought up with without ever exploring other ideas and creating their own way of thinking. I’m glad you are branching out and opening your mind. :)
Religion is a manmade thing. It’s various sets of rules and dogmas, and all religions seem to conflict with each other— each claims to be “right” and dismisses all others as incorrect. This is what I find inherently wrong with belief systems. The duality of it. One is right, one is wrong— it’s a competition. This is not the nature of the universe.
The universe is about collaboration, cooperation and coexistence. The flow of energy, the unfolding of things as they should. Religion has created violence, a sense of separateness and superiority, and hatred and has proven itself repeatedly to be more detrimental to society than beneficial.
I see divinity as something indescribable. It’s within all of us, it’s this earth we live on, the earths we have yet to discover, the energy of the wind and rivers and the sky and stars. It’s all the same thing. Being free, open and aware, exploring the self not as something separate but as a part of the whole.
Society has created this notion that we’re all separate— we reside in houses with walls, work in divided cubicles, are constantly put in competitive situations, whether it be work, school, sports…
This just perpetuates the power of the ego. To live egolessly, to experience and just BE, to not constantly be comparing and worrying and competing and consuming, but to rather let yourself fill with love and light and allow things to unfold in each beautiful moment and to be in constant awe of the nature of the universe… that is what I see life as being about.
LSD is non toxic and should be done minimally, but it CAN BE and IS a tool for enlightenment. Syd Barrett used to an excessive and unnecessary extent. The idea of gaining spiritual insight from a psychedelic isn’t readily accepted in western culture, and that’s completely fine, because enlightenment can be attained without any drug use. But LSD and other hallucinogens do allow for an unparalleled exploration of the mind and its incredible potential. Where Syd, and so many others, go wrong, is that they don’t know how or when to stop. Say you gain incredible, illuminating insight from one of your trips—wonderful!! Now stop doing the drug. Go venture off and explore what you’ve just learned, and apply it to real life. Give your mind a break—the mental tool has done its work and wants you to learn from it. LSD allows people to more easily see the eternal Light and energy of the universe, to feel the connectivity of their own nerves to the nervous systems of plants, to the molecular structure of stars. It’s a beautiful thing that I believe people should consider experiencing. It truly is life-changing.
Thank you, love! :) Of course. Some of my favorites are:
The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts
Be Here Now by Ram Dass
Food of the Gods by Terence McKenna
Peace is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh
The Shadow Effect: Illuminating the Power of Your True Self by Deepak Chopra
Meditation: The First and Last Freedom by Osho
If you’re interested in religious texts, I suggest the Bhagavad Gita and the Tao Te Ching. <3 Namaste :)
