the dying system- part 3

In order to see many had to 'open'....seduced were many by tales of hallucinogenic drugs, of l.s.d with their plethora of strange sounding names..'purple oms'..'m.b.s.'(mind,body,soul),'green oms', 'strawberries'..'microdots'...a strange new mind altering world...The thing is everything that led to these 'gateways' seemed cool,seemed far out , different...maybe the ultimate rebellion...something to really remove ourselves from a system which seemed to make people unhappy..strong weeds abounded,skunks with names suggestive of powerful peak experiences...I am not downplaying the 60's experiences here, but this was the 1990's, and the youth were dabbling and tripping out in droves...what often happened was that for many,that swallowed microdot taken in a dark field with strobes and lasers and repetitive beats as a backdrop for the opening mind was nothing short of an initiation...a tribal awakening...which changed the taker forever...Each person thus initiated became a future initiator of others...the eyes seemed to be the portal..strange greens,bright blues,hazel greys..the eyes awakened oft are vivid, colourful, something different from the caged, recycled air dwelling ones still within the boxes. Once opened, forever changed! There is a large section of people in the current reality that will abhor these words, linking together the words drug taker with a whole host of criminal and lowlife type thoughtforms..condemning the experimentors instantly with judgemental attitudes...but this is part of what happened/is happening.Drugs had a part in this..not for all, and not the only way either, but they are part of the equation for many, so judgements aside, let this be seen as just a part of what some people used/experienced as they opened up, to the new realities. Picture a child of the 70's/80's whose parents had beatles records in their collection, who talked of john, paul, george and ringo in fond familiar terms...these people loomed large in the minds of many...it didn't take long to discover the beatles LSD use, to see the psychedelic artworks, to hear the strange songs from their hippy years...woodstock fired our imaginations too..the whole peace and love thing really affected many of us..we wanted some of that too...it seemed simple, the message was simple...drop out..turn on tune in, drop out...oh yeah, we wanted a bit of that too, we wanted long hair and funky clothes, free love and psychedelic fun, and for the more serious amongst us, we wanted peak experiences and awakenings, we wanted mystical insights and deep connections to things that mattered to us..many felt we wanted to pick up the torch lit by the hippies in the 60's blow on it to make it shine brighter, and carry this torch through and into our own flowering times...we could see the system had survived, obviously not enough had dropped out the first time around...so we were here to swell those numbers...so many dived right in, with the burning passiona nd belief of youth...into te psychedelic cauldron!