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First, some pics of things related to my acid trip to end all trips with Amy, summer of 92...
Here's a rock we came upon when first entering the park near 11th and Fulton... When we first saw it we were like "woah.. what's this for?" And we thought it was a monument to people who died of AIDS... then we were like "woah... are all those people buried here?" and that kinda freaked us out, and we didn't want to be walking on dead people so we moved along... (abviously not for AIDS victims, see the date at the top of the rock hehe)...
After leaving the rock, we meandered until we came to a crossroads... and I froze... in the middle of the crossroads was a vortex, like a whirlpool in the dirt... it was sucking the world into it, and we were being drawn towards it... I had to stop, and I had an out of body experience... I floated down each of the paths, each time coming back to my body long enough to see the vortex still there and feeling the urgency of moving in the right direction... eventually, I found the right path and came back to my body, and Amy said "can we go now?" and I said "yes..."
The vortex was in the middle of the five trees in the pic on the left, the pic on the right is looking at the center of the vortex from the tree on the right...
Here is one of the many areas we passed where I had visions of dead WWI soldiers among the bushes and bramble at the bases of the trees...
...and eventually, we came to a tree, one of age and great wisdom... and I was drawn to it... as we approached the tree, and I stepped upon a knot in one of its many gnarled roots, I froze and looked down... my foot was frozen in place, and I had begun to turn to stone!... in that instant, a voice in the sky said to me "find the key..." that and "go back to the beginning..." came from the heavens and I was forced into myself and visions of my past, present, and future all roiled about and around and inside me, and I had to "find the key" to escape my statuesque imprisonment...
...eventually, I had broken the spell, and was able to move again, but I was not free... I moved towards the tree, drawn to it... and I sat upon a throne of sorts created at the base of the tree by two large roots... and when I sat down, I was once again clenched and frozen into place... I looked down, and the vortex had found me... I could feel claws grasping at my flesh and soul and trying to tear me apart and pull me into the darkness... the voice came again from the sky... "find the key..." and for hours, I swam in and out of myself and visions, tracing back through every memory and every little bit of knowledge I had gained on this world, exposing truths and lies and lies of truths to myself, searching for the key...
...and eventually, as I was fading in and out between being dragged down into the corporeal deaths and being pushed out towards enlightenment, I saw a bright white light tinted with violet hues... and I began to rise into the air towards it... and I lost all feeling, and everything became just pure white light... and a new voice, a woman's voice, surrounded me in its words... "Everything is ok."
And it was... and it still is... that's the extremely short version of my experience... but that trip changed my life forever... not to mention my ability to drop acid after that hehe - LSD stopped having any effect on me aside from some slight visual hallucinations afterwards... and that trip itself lasted 23 hours from the time we started to peak until we passed out from exhaustion...
The tree as you can see is fenced off now due to soil erosion... so I took pics from as close as I could get without hurting her... also, there used to be branches a lot closer to the ground and wider out as well... you can't really tell from the pictures, but the base of the tree is probably 8 feet in diameter or so maybe more...
