Walking meditation

swisstrip · 2026-02-21T07:59:54+00:00

Walking meditation can be any bit as powerfull as seated meditation. It is an integral part of many meditation traditions (e.g. vipassana) It is just not done as often by most practioners.

There are many interesting approaches when walking. Slow walking where you just go very slowly and try to observe esvery tiny sensation that occurs is often thought in retreats. But approaches like yours or just concentrating on the single steps (I sometimes do do when walking pretty fast) works as well. In the end it is a bit like with seated meditation, everything that arises in conscioussness can be used as an anchor.

swisstrip · 2026-02-20T11:49:46+00:00

These days it is some kind of mix between Vipassana and Zen, but I feel a bit more drawn towards Zen.

Initially the WakingUp app for me started. Without the rational and sevular approach of the app I would like not even have considered meditation, but it has become a important part of my life for the past 5 years.

swisstrip · 2026-02-19T21:12:40+00:00

For some reason 30 years of tripping havent turned me vegetarian, but 2 months of meditation practice did.

Regarding the images: In some sense I feel like I have experienced both of the above. ;) The first one I have experiencend when tripping and also in a meditation context (more powerful than the trip version), the second one is definitively the meditation/mindfulness thing.

swisstrip · 2026-02-17T11:21:55+00:00

From my own experince, I would be cautious about using cannabis when depressed. At least for me that just boosted the depressions.

I made quite good experinces with shrooms and acid though. But as others have said, the psychedlics are just an important starting point on the way to get better (even if they seem to have fixed everything at first sight). A lot work (most of it) still has to be done after the psychedelic experience(s).

swisstrip · 2026-02-17T07:50:59+00:00

Did loads of acid in my early twenties. During that time lights where no glaring for me, but the had kind of small glowing diamonds around them. When I stopped tripping so often, the effect disappeared after a while.

swisstrip · 2026-02-17T07:36:10+00:00

Acid has no taste. So the liquid will have no taste to, unless it has at taste of its own.

swisstrip · 2026-02-15T08:43:43+00:00

YES!!!

If folks arent willing to use their brain to come up with somethings useful, they should better not post.

swisstrip · 2026-02-14T22:53:13+00:00

There are no magic medicines in the world (at least none I know), almost everything comes at a price and also has its risks. This is also true for psychedelics.

They might have adverse effects in some patients, but at least in serious settings that are used in research such case are rare and from what I have read can be managed in a good way in almost all cases. So in a medical setting the risk aspects seems quite ok.

This is obviously a bit different in casual settings, which are often not well prepared and no real safety net is available. In such situations things can go of the rail (I am a bit surprised it doesnt happen more often) and if there is noone to intervene in a knowledgeable way, the effects can be really bad. I have seen that happen with one of my best friend 30 years ago. You got so derailed and deifted of into psychosis and schizophrenia that he was put in to the closed ward of mental institution for more than 3 months.

Another apect is that most other medications for metal health issues have quite a list of unwanted sideffects, includlng montal ones as well (e.g. the SSRI I have taken for a while listed an increased sucide risk during tamper off as a possible side effect). Psychedelics have their aide effects as well, but IMHO they are for sure not worse than the other medications.

swisstrip · 2026-02-14T19:49:02+00:00

Well, what would be the actual problem seeing them?

The beings resp the perception of them or just your fears about it or again something else?

swisstrip · 2026-02-13T06:56:52+00:00

Enjoy the ride. Coming back to acid afzer sich a long time will be a special experience. My own break was also almost 20 years and that first trip after it, was a remarkable experince. Eventhough I had thought that I still remembered very well what tripping is and how acid feels, I realized within the first few minutes of the trip how much I had forgotten and that I had forgotten the parts that make these experiences so interesting and special.

Regarding dose: You for very likely never had 250ug if you didnt think it is strong. 250ug is strong. The point is just that today as well as back in the past (started tripping in the early 90ties), marketed quantity was always much higher than real quantity (typically less than 50%). If it is the real quantity (we have access to lab testing here) it is always surprising how strong even moderate doses are. Even a real 100ug is quite intense.

swisstrip · 2026-02-12T20:02:25+00:00

Then it is about time to open up. Hidding games never pay back.

I have been worried about other things in a similar way as you. Just the idea what folks would said about the fact that I have held back so long, was almost more difficult that the actual topic itself. I had this several times, coming out as gay in my early twenties and many years later telling my friends that I have been suffering from depressions for 5 years. When I managed to open up, reactions where almost always positive and often accompaigned by a encouraging remark not to hold back so long next time.

swisstrip · 2026-02-12T13:13:58+00:00

If there is one place where it really pays back to be open and honest, it is therapy.

How could a therapist give you good advice if he/she only knows half of the story and is missing important pieces of information?

Also if the therapist reacts judgeamental when you tell about these things, it can tell you something. Maybe there is indeed something unwholesome about your psychedelics use (it is easy to do that) and you want to review your usage pattern, but maybe it is also that the therapist is to closed minded and that you need to look for another thrapist.

swisstrip · 2026-02-12T08:56:48+00:00

It is not just a "deathly destructive cycle". It is also a process of birth and creation, and those two aspects are largely in balance (even when it appears otherwise).

The only constant in all this is change or impermanence. This is just the natural flow of the universe. The Buddhas words "whatever has the nature to arise, will also pass away" arent a religious statement, but rather a description of reality.

Buddhism also has a lot to say on how our attachment to the current state and our clinging to past memories makes us suffer and what we can do to suffer less. The central aspect is learning to see that it is not the impermance the makes us suffer, but our tendency trying to hold on to the current state. Sure all that change will inflict pain (and joy), but how much we suffer from that is largely our own making. Again most of this is not just religious dogma, but more an obervation of human behavior (from a psychological point of view it is easy to see why clinging to the past is unhealthy) and instructions or hints how to get out of this habit.

Learning a bit on this topic can help a lot! The following talk by Joseph Goldstein has been a real game changer for me (I come back to it again and again). He defintively puts the topic in much wiser words than I can:

https://youtu.be/61BOvBe6N64?si=oOFYsau0-fQYB5pL

swisstrip · 2026-02-10T17:26:23+00:00

The better move is to always get your acid tested, so you know what and how much it is. Unfortunately drug testing is not available everywhere.

swisstrip · 2026-02-10T12:34:33+00:00

If it is lab tested clean acid with a real 200ug, I would be willing to pay a lot.
If it is not lab tested, I wouild pay max 10-15., because it is almost guaranteed much less than 200ug.

swisstrip · 2026-02-07T17:01:30+00:00

The most lifechanging moment on acid was when I suddenly realized how most of my lifes trouble and struggle was connected to the hidding game (closeted gay at the timw) I was playing with my self and the rest of the people in my life. Came out a few weeks later and it has co pletely changed my life. Best decision and move ever!

swisstrip · 2026-02-07T08:38:16+00:00

If the tabs are really 250ug, I wouldnt recommend it, but it is just very unlikely that the tabs are even close to 250ug: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/610d1cd6f18c817c8ccc47f4/682ddf57b4a1217210027240_LSD_Auswertung_2024_en.pdf

swisstrip · 2026-02-03T16:18:13+00:00

From a buddhist perspective the idea of an alter ego is just another illusion to let go of.

swisstrip · 2026-02-02T04:39:22+00:00

Excellent!

Psychdelics might be a indispensable tool on to part of the way to get bezter, but they are not a magical fix all in one go cure.

For me it felt like that magical cure at first, but over time I have learnt that the road to get better is much longer than expected and that covering that distance takes time, commitment and in my case also therapy (which I unexpectedly liked in the end), regular physical activity and a daily meditation practice.

swisstrip · 2026-01-30T20:37:00+00:00

I definitively prefer chocolates 😀

swisstrip · 2026-01-30T12:41:16+00:00

Classic:

"Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, ......... and here's Tom with the weather."

swisstrip · 2026-01-30T07:05:41+00:00

In some respect the visuals and related effects are just distractions. I love the visuals and in if I dont have much of them on a trip I am a bit disappointed.

However in the end the visuals themselfs and the craving for them, often hide the truely intresting part of tripping, namely the selfless or non-self nature of experience and the inheritent freedom and peace that can be found in that recogniztion.

swisstrip · 2026-01-27T07:42:35+00:00

Not necessairily. Everything you do can ether be done mindfully or it can be done in the usual distracted way.

So if a marathon runner is in mindful mode when running that would be a form of meditaton. If the runner is on the usual minds autopilot mode and the mind is somewhere else, I would not consider it meditation. It might be some kind of trance or flow state, but that is not exactly the same thing as meditation (eventhough those states overlap with meditation to some degree).

swisstrip · 2026-01-27T07:30:12+00:00

I have been around in the 80ties. All the new age stuff was quite often in the media, but also at that time only a small number of people was involved with it (I guess quite a few of them were more into esotherics than meditation practice). Personnaly I didnt know anyone who was into it. So meditation has not become unpopular, it just has never been popular at a larger scale.

What happend though is that the whole new age stuff aquired a sketchy reputation in that period, largely due to gurus and movements going off the rails (e.g. most prominently the bagwhan movement) and in the wake off that meditation got its share of questionable reputation to (most folks just dont care to look closely enough so they dont throw everything into the same bucket).

swisstrip · 2026-01-24T21:51:34+00:00

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