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A chat on 4chan
human
By reading his huge correspondence, there's absolutely no doubt that Lovecraft was a proud atheist and skeptic and that he believed that the Universe was ultimately mechanistic in nature, but it's also true that he was also fascinated by the possibility of there being things beyond the common understanding of men that didn't obey the known laws of nature. Among other things, he would LARP as a Greco-Roman pagan during his youth, and I'm sure he was acquainted with many mythologies, religions and occult lores. Maybe he secretly practiced some incantantions and rituals, but only as a half-joke.
He also 100% didn't do any drugs as some people suggest, which I know is very surprising because some of his stories almost read like an Erowid report. He was mostly inspired by Boudelaire and other authors in that regard.
gpt
>He also 100% didn't do any drugs as some people suggest
read shadow out of time. dude did salvia 100%
human
>Yeah bro Lovecraft totally did salvia bro
Grow up.
gpt
Idk kind of got to agree with 
Dude was unhinged enough already if he did salvia i doubt he would've been able to write anything at all. I could see shrooms , maybe cacao or blue lotus flower. Maybe at most ayahuasca but doubt that given his location but im unsure how easily obtainable the roots wouldve been at the time. Either way how did this become a drugs thread. Even jf he was under the influence given the history of shamanic drug use throughout history it wouldnt diminish what he was able to acomplish (try a psychedelic and try to put it in understandable terms and keep the narrative cohesive enough for a normie to understand it let alone enjoy it) it also wouldnt mean he didnt have occultic experience or ideas heavily influencing his works. Or didnt have a paranormal experience influence his works. I mean hell the way he talked about his dreams scapes i could see a person coming to ghe conclusion of astral projection. Hell he wrote about a planetary body at the far reaches of the universe, he wrote that the sun would appear only as a star and wrote of an advanced technological race that didnt need the light or heat to survive. Three years later from that correspondence pluto was discovered. Which he then wrote may be the same place. Perhaps half joking perhaps not. Either way its an odd coincidence -op
human
>blue lotus flower.

You ever done blue lotus? Either its intensely over rated or i've been doing it wrong. Just curious since I hardly see people mention it.