This is not a prescription for enlightenment, nor is it a guide on how to decorate your life with spiritual ornaments. It is about something much simpler, but also much harder: stepping out of your own illusions.

For many, psychedelic experiences begin with fascination: colors, shapes, visions. But sooner or later comes the pressing question: Now what? What follows is often a chaotic maze of borrowed ideas, misleading teachers, half-digested philosophies, and a desperate attempt to turn confusion into wisdom.

I have seen it happen many times. People replace one cage with another, one doctrine with a shinier version. Instead of freedom, they polish the bars of their prison. Instead of clarity, they load themselves with new rules and dogmas, swapping one illusion for the next.

The real trap is not the outside world. It is the baggage in our own minds: desires, fears, ambitions, borrowed truths, and the endless chatter of opinions. All of them pretending to be important, all of them demanding attention, while hiding the simple fact that freedom does not need decoration.

To be free is not to gain divine powers or to become a mystical expert. To be free is to stop being enslaved by the nonsense in your own head.
The illusions never vanish, but you can step outside their grip. You can finally see them for what they are: fleeting, hollow, and not worth the devotion you once gave them.

There is no guru, no sacred book, no ultimate system that can deliver this to you. At best, they point in directions. At worst, they drown you in noise. The work is yours alone. And the reward is not some cosmic medal. It is simply the ability to live, without begging reality to confirm your beliefs.

🔖 P.s. These reflections are drawn from the voices of experienced people, from books, from countless discussions, and from my own encounters with psychedelics and illusions. I write them as signposts for those who wish to move beyond illusions and walk freely. 

To be continued.

This is not a prescription for enlightenment, nor is it a guide on how to decorate your life with spiritual ornaments. It is about something much simpler, but also much harder: stepping out of your own illusions.

For many, psychedelic experiences begin with fascination: colors, shapes, visions. But sooner or later comes the pressing question: Now what? What follows is often a chaotic maze of borrowed ideas, misleading teachers, half-digested philosophies, and a desperate attempt to turn confusion into wisdom.

I have seen it happen many times. People replace one cage with another, one doctrine with a shinier version. Instead of freedom, they polish the bars of their prison. Instead of clarity, they load themselves with new rules and dogmas, swapping one illusion for the next.

The real trap is not the outside world. It is the baggage in our own minds: desires, fears, ambitions, borrowed truths, and the endless chatter of opinions. All of them pretending to be important, all of them demanding attention, while hiding the simple fact that freedom does not need decoration.

To be free is not to gain divine powers or to become a mystical expert. To be free is to stop being enslaved by the nonsense in your own head.
The illusions never vanish, but you can step outside their grip. You can finally see them for what they are: fleeting, hollow, and not worth the devotion you once gave them.

There is no guru, no sacred book, no ultimate system that can deliver this to you. At best, they point in directions. At worst, they drown you in noise. The work is yours alone. And the reward is not some cosmic medal. It is simply the ability to live, without begging reality to confirm your beliefs.

🔖 P.s. These reflections are drawn from the voices of experienced people, from books, from countless discussions, and from my own encounters with psychedelics and illusions. I write them as signposts for those who wish to move beyond illusions and walk freely. 

To be continued.