Kate's First Trip (LSD)

Artsy Shot: Point of No Return (© Ljubomir Trajkovski)

A post by Kate
(This blog post is also available as a YouTube video.)

 

Executive Summary

Kate takes you on her life-changing first journey to LSD-land and shares eight very personal travel tips with you. From bad mindset to healing; this honest and vivid account of psychedelic self-discovery will help you prepare for your own journey and return safely and enriched.

 

There's always a first time – even with psychedelics. But how will it feel? What awaits me? Is there still a way back afterward? Questions upon questions, all of which dissipate into thin air if you just dare. Take my hand and I'll show you LSD-land!

☝🏻 Disclaimer: Please be sure to observe our risk warnings.

 

The wrong (mind)set?

My first LSD trip was, objectively speaking, at a terribly bad time. Due to a not insignificant car accident, I literally slid – or rather crashed – into depression and felt that my house of cards had completely collapsed. But it was precisely this low point that led me to finally seek therapy. At the time of the trip, I hadn't found one yet, but I had already laid all the cards of my past openly on the table and realized what had brought me to this point in my life.

When the day of the trip arrived, I was ready – with deep trust that I am strong enough for all that was to come, and with the intention to get to know myself better and perhaps one day love myself.

 

One-on-one

Unfortunately, words are not enough to describe such a profound and potentially life-changing experience. You will understand this at the latest when you have tasted the forbidden, psychedelic fruit yourself. I at least tried in the associated YouTube video for this blog post. There, I tell you how I prepared for my first LSD experience, what I went through in the five phases, why I consider psychedelics to be so valuable, and how they changed my life afterward. Oh, and there was something else: thought transference!

Here are eight personal tips from my journey that might be particularly useful for your first psychedelic experience:

 

Psychedelic travel tips: 

  1. Start early: A journey can last over 12 hours
  2. Safety first: Have a backup contact or trip sitter with you
  3. Travel from home: Helps you arrive at yourself
  4. Psychedelics as a mind-microscope and -telescope: For zooming in and out
  5. Listen to your inner critic: But don't identify with it
  6. Let go: Whatever you want to leave behind, literally wash it away
  7. Utilize the afterglow: Integrate new behaviors and ways of thinking with it
  8. When in doubt: Better not to trip

You can find the full explanation of the tips in the YouTube video.

The last tip might come as a bit of a surprise, but it nevertheless represents the view of everyone here at the Psychedelika Club. This doesn't mean hiding from your fears and doubts forever, but quite the opposite: It's an appeal to you to engage in an honest exchange with yourself and then say with determination: "Yes, I am ready" – or: "No, I need some more time." The latter demonstrates at least as much strength, I assure you!


Psychedelics and Healing

Is it possible that a single trip can bring you as much healing as years of therapy? I can only tell you that psychedelics were a crucial key on my (self-love) journey, immensely helping me to illuminate and welcome the darkest and most painful topics. Parallel therapy certainly contributed to this and I would therefore recommend it as an additional measure.

This first experience was certainly not the only one. What has remained, however, is the wish that more people learn about this wonderful tool and experience as much healing as I did. Because therapy is not always accessible, and ultimately, some issues we can only resolve within ourselves. So, you can imagine that this first, seemingly innocent trip laid the foundation for the Psychedelika Club.

 

Outro

Meanwhile, as the Psychedelika Club, we hear about your similar first experiences almost daily through various channels and couldn't be more grateful and fulfilled by it. Therefore, I would simply like to thank you: Thank you for doing the work – by doing so, you do the work for all of us. Thank you for trusting us, the Psychedelika Club, and for making the world more psychedelic, purple, and livable with us. Thank you for being in the Club – perhaps with friends or family next time?

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