$50 of mushrooms in one trip sounds intense. How badly do I need to experience ego death?
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I’ve never experienced anything spiritual under mushrooms or any type of drug. It can be achieved with a clear, pure, experience through inner work, detaching from narratives, and deep meditation.
My experience of psychedelics is that they deconstruct my experience. Part of that is (sometimes) separation of an observer from my thoughts and my emotions. After I discovered what that was like, it made it easier to detach in normal life. Perhaps I could improve that skill with meditation, but so far I haven’t.
I'm guestimating 🤣
5ish grams. 5 if you're on the skinny side.
Prices vary.
I would say living your life without ego death is completely fine🤷🏽
Ego death seems to make people become less selfish and more open minded to people and the possibilities of the universe🤷🏽 but again you can do that meditating🤷🏽
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I've only done mushrooms once. I ate an eighth of an ounce by myself. I am not a big person. I will probably never do mushrooms again.
But gimme 3 hits of acid and I'll see you on the other side.
Acid is my #1 drug.
Those who followed me on Nostr a big longer than you have, have been with me through 3 trips documented here 🤣
Not reading this whole thread 😂 but
1) i concur, acid is an amazing thing
2) i probably will never do it again
3) i am not surprised 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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I poke the smots daily, multiple times. But the very first thing I ever did; before drinks, before I even smoked a cigarette, was 2 hits for my 18th birthday. My two best friends each bought me one as a gift. I watched the moon rock across the sky and my friend saw my giant stuffed bee walk around my room.
I also once almost stepped on the head of a 13-15' gator while tripping but thankfully, I walked away before he lunged. I didn't see him until I was down at the bottom of the levee. Ah, the teen years...
I smoke pot all day every day but I'm on a 2 week t break🤷🏽
This year for my buddy's birthday we went shooting in the desert and I did 3 hours of acid and was the best shooter out there🤷🏽
I hit a golfball off a coke can from something like 60yards away then hit it twice more while it was still in the air.
I was amazed with myself🤷🏽
I also have a picture/video of me from a couple years ago, my first time doing 3 hits at once, editing my first AK at the time too
Which I don't condone. I'm just an idiot who surround himself with people who look after me. Just as much as I think I can handle myself I got proud that look after me.
I'm terms of mushrooms people usually start with a cap, or 1 while mushie. That usually is like a gram.
An 8th is a pretty normal amount for most people. Little wiggles and nature thoughts🤷🏽
For me mushies are a day time drug and acid is the same but it's night time🤷🏽 mushies the dark make me fall asleep. Acid I can't fall asleep so it's like let's dance and get weird! But I like to garden on mushies. Water my lawn and talk to squirrels and shit.
LSD is a stimulant and psilocybin is a sedative. I once read an article which showed brain scans of people on trips. The LSD user’s brain was lighted up, while the psilocybin user’s brain was mostly dark. That fits with my experiences. On mushrooms, unless I deliberately occupy my mind, the gravity of the drug pulls me into a twilight consciousness. (I have never actually fallen asleep.) With my brain in partial shutdown, I constantly feel like I’m missing something. This condition seems to generate paranoid thoughts, though none that I actually believe in.
All this talk makes me want to dig into my stash since I'm on a THC break🤣
Wow, I need to bookmark this note. One thing I noticed early on about psychedelic trips is that I would become much more interested in figuring out other people’s thoughts and feelings, even people I was watching on television. At first that didn’t last beyond the trips but somehow, perhaps by giving me practice, it did. I think I’m noticeably more empathetic than I was before psychedelics. Or maybe I just got older, not sure. I never used to believe the people who told me that psychedelics made you a better person, because some of the psychonauts I encountered online were obviously jerks. Maybe they were worse before? 🤷
I don't like equating things to "because psychedelics" because things like that definitely made me want to try psychedelics when I was younger, and they're definitely NOT for everyone.
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Yes I totally agree, I feel like psychedelics force us to deal with our baggage first then our egos and the by product is empathy and understanding mixed with curiosity for the universe and what makes it tick.
It sounds stupid, but one of my most profound psychedelic epiphanies was when I was on mushrooms once and I was in my yard watching squirrels fight. I started crying because over and over in my life I start out fine and happy, then slowly I start to care what people around me think. My friend, coworkers, whatever. Then something usually happens a falling out and I realize people like me better when I don't care what they think and I just do what I like and what I think🤷🏽 I'm happier as a person when I don't use other people's thoughts as a balancing board and I'm m more creative and yeah. And I just started crying because I was like the squirrels are free! They don't have overloads. They don't pay rent or taxes. They run around. They jock on each other. They live free. And the universe is telling me I should live free.