by Katrina Fox
The first time I took LSD I did so with the intention of broadening my mind and having a new experience.
The trip started out as fun: my friend Mandy and I watched TheWizard of Oz on video and thought it was sheer magic as we went into and flew over the rainbow. Then I had a sense of what I can only describe as timelessness; it was as though time as I knew it no longer existed and as this happened I felt that I became something else - my whole identity as a human being in a physical body on an everyday plane of existence began to evaporate, as though I had become energy or my consciousness had left my body. The room was flooded with bright white light and a feeling of serenity came over me, as though who "I" was didn't matter anymore.
Then I was filled with a sense of joy and amazement as I experienced cosmic consciousness: a sense of all things in the universe being interconnected. Everything felt so right, so perfect as I realised that the planet was alive and time and distance were irrelevant. I understood that no matter where we travel to on the earth, we are already spiritually connected to the entire universe - but our lives and society are constructed so that our attention is taken away from this feeling of belonging.
I was finally enlightened to the fact that although we spend our lives trying to achieve something - wealth, happiness, or to get somewhere, it is the journey itself that is important; in other words, life itself is the ultimate "trip".
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