Yoga and 2C-E

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#1

A while ago my good friend purchased a psychedelic known as 2C-E. For the most part I have renounced intoxicants in most situations. Part of this came about when I started practicing yoga last April and found not only the strength but a reason to quit smoking pot. (btw I have otherwise only smoked pot, cigarettes, and drank various alcohols).

The experience only solidified my belief that I need only to look inward but that is not the point of my post.

According to Erowid, an upper common/low strong does of 2C-E is 15mg which is how much we started at. I felt almost no effect which seemed to upset my friend as he envisioned the night as a real eye opener for me. At the end of the night he ended up doing about 23mg and was seeing green, and eyes (mostly in shadows and always looking back at him). I ended up doing 25mg which should have knocked me on my bum but still had a laughably mild effect.

Another quick sidebar, I did find it interesting that the eye that I faintly see every time I bring my awareness to my eyebrow center was very vivid on this night. It was also, unlike ever before, surrounded by spinning gear like hoops which to me felt like an aspect of time.

To wrap up, could my resistance be connected to my yoga practice? I have heard stories of yogi’s, much much farther along the path then I who were able to ingest ground glass, or cyanide without death or even discomfort. My friend also told me he read something about a yogi taking several hits of acid with no effect. (I think he said 8 or 13? I also do not know his source; my source is, "A Search in Secret India).

Thank you for reading :slight_smile:

#2

too little data to know. According to your account you took this only once. It could have been anything including what you ate that, your mindset coming in, your particular constitution and how it reacts to that substance, as well as the purity of the substance itself.

It sounds like you want to hear that you are so advanced in your yoga practice that this substance doesn’t affect you very much? In order to get the answer to this you must take this same substance in the same dosage over a course of time and document your results. I’m not advocating that (especially with man made chemicals), just saying that’s how you will find out first whether this is a standard reaction for you. Then if it is you can begin to consider the question you are asking.

#3

I would prefer not to take 2C-E again but you have a good point. I was not fishing for complinebts on my yogic awesomeness if that was the impression you got. It was just weird that it had no effect and the only other person I read about that didn’t feel anything fron 2C-E was on anti depressants, which I am not.

Thank you for your input

#4

Wouldn’t I have to have an idea about the definition you are using for your “yoga practice” in order to solve this riddle?

#5

[QUOTE=InnerAthlete;50848]Wouldn’t I have to have an idea about the definition you are using for your “yoga practice” in order to solve this riddle?[/QUOTE]

  Fair enough, I did not want to make my op any longer then it already was but here is a quick bit of my journey into yoga. You may skip the following paragraph if you want to skip the back story.

  Early last year I started to see a Kinesiologist for posture problems and depression. Along with many of the ways he helped me he taught me not to crack my neck. Many people had told me not to prior but he was the one that got it into my head. A little while after I had hurt my middle finger on my left hand catching a football and noticed acute pain in it whenever I cracked my knuckles. My solution to both of these habits was whenever I wanted to crack my neck or fingers I would stretch them instead; This worked like a charm. Sometime later in early April for no reason I can remember I used my bosse's yoga dvd that she had lying around the house. She did yoga for a few months a few years back and that was enough for her; I do not understand. Anyways Immediately upon finishing the dvd I realised that yoga was something incredible. We were scheduled for a destination wedding that upcoming weekend and I began to hope that the cruise that came with it would have yoga. Fortunately it did and I was able to get my first taste of class based asana practice in between wandering the ship entrenched in though.

  Back in California I talked to my doctor (the kinesiologist) about my discovery and he told me that yoga would be perfect for me. I found a Bikram Yoga studio on yelp and went in to see what it was all about. A week after I began practicing here the studio changed from Bikram to a hot yoga sequence very similar to Bikram but different enough not to pay royalties. I practiced at Purple Yoga 3-5 days a week from late April 2010 to late September 2010. At this time I was recently laid off and could not afford the monthly unlimited.
 
   I began practicing solely at home until December 2010 when I moved back home to begin a degree in kinesiology. I started practicing at the nearby YogaWorks and have mixed feelings of love and meh. I did however discover Anusara yoga which was once again hooked me after my first class. I attended the Anusara 2 class three times a week for the next month and change until the teacher reduced her classes down to one day when I would be in school.

  I now attend whatever classes fit my schedule and with the current schedule I often feel I have to attend multiple classes in a row to get the post yoga serenity I crave. My current schedule is three hours tuesdays and thursdays, and one hour on fridays with practice at home mixed in.

  I also try to live by the eight limbs of ashtanga. I have good days and bad days as far as that goes however my mental, physical, and emotional health have improved exponentially since I began my yoga practice.

  Hope this helps
#6

Thank you RD.

RD said: …could my resistance be connected to my yoga practice?

Yes that is possible.

#7

Interesting, thank you for your input.