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Paul Stamets on the interrelationship among mushrooms, consciousness, and nature

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Re: Paul Stamets on the interrelationship among mushrooms, consciousness, and nature

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Post by dezmou »

andai wrote: post #148
dezmou wrote: post #56

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I started microdosing psilocybin since 3 years, sometime every day, sometime once every 1 or 2 weeks. When I take it the morning, I am very focused on my work, but also I am less stressed and anxious. I had a Tinder period with lot of date and psilocybin really help to build confident with women.

Interesting, when I was microdosing LSD I was much more social: less social anxiety, more outgoing and more friendly. (A nicer person, as far as I can tell!) Also I was able to consistently keep an early bedtime for the first time in my life. The most interesting effect for me was that it became impossible to procrastinate. (I normally spend 99% of my time procrastinating.) I would go on YouTube or Reddit but the who…

Same here, I am a a big procrastinator, ang with microdosing I am constantly doing something and if I can't find some task to do then I became very angry, I am very rarely angry without microdosing.

Re: Paul Stamets on the interrelationship among mushrooms, consciousness, and nature

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Post by erikerikson »

netcan wrote: post #88
erikerikson wrote: post #86

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> it's a lot safer than many sports and hobbies. What is the basis for this claim? How do we measure mental injury? What quantities are we talking about?

Is the only allowable statement one that can be backed by quantifiable analysis? I didn't even specify which hobby, so lets go with alpine mountaineering. Hard to be more dangerous than this. Gridiron football has some good quantification, with ways of measuring mental injuries. sheesh.

I certainly had no intention of precluding non-quantifiable basis for the claim. I had no idea what basis you were basing your claim on. Beyond that I really couldn't begin to imagine how the attributes of the bases might be compared to one another.

In different words I asked because sports and hobbies seem like apples to the oranges of psychedelic experiences. In that context I wondered how one would build the basis for comparison, not to mention generate the confidence to make such a bold assertion about the end result.

It would probably be easier to say that the inferential distance was too high for me to follow and I was curious about how you got there.

Re: Paul Stamets on the interrelationship among mushrooms, consciousness, and nature

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Post by throw_this_one »

dezmou wrote: post #150
throw_this_one wrote: post #123

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Do you take the psilocybin specifically before the date? Or just in general, the microdosing has made you better with women

Every morning of the day of the date, but surely in general too, I feel like upgraded in every field possible with a long terme cure.

Yeah I tried for the first time. Was roughly 300mg? For the first hour I was a bit off, but then it cleared and I felt very straightforward and open emotionally all day. Could definitely see it being useful for a date.

What's your dose, is it extract or raw material?

Re: Paul Stamets on the interrelationship among mushrooms, consciousness, and nature

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Post by dezmou »

throw_this_one wrote: post #153
dezmou wrote: post #150

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Every morning of the day of the date, but surely in general too, I feel like upgraded in every field possible with a long terme cure.

Yeah I tried for the first time. Was roughly 300mg? For the first hour I was a bit off, but then it cleared and I felt very straightforward and open emotionally all day. Could definitely see it being useful for a date. What's your dose, is it extract or raw material?

It is raw dried B+ magic mushroom, I mix it to obtain a powder. I don't know the exact gram of dose, it is about between 0.5 and 1.0 cubic centimeter of powder

Re: Paul Stamets on the interrelationship among mushrooms, consciousness, and nature

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Post by Out_of_Characte »

travisjungroth wrote: post #132
Out_of_Characte wrote: post #37

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mcg, I presume. But 200mcg is a really high dose. 10-20 would be a microdose for most. I hope you test your stuff and have the right potency because your comment doesn't sound right.

They’re talking about milligrams of cubensis mushrooms (cubes) not micrograms of LSD.

My bad, tracked the wrong parent comment by mistake. I thought he was talking about consumable microdose lsd cubes. Makes alot more sense now.
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