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It is analagous to having a lamp in a dark forest. It won't get you through it itself, you need courage, and other tools like meditation (your machete), exercise (your provisions) and intention (your compass) to succeed. But with it, everything is easier.
Err -- AMA?
How does this get commercialized? I can't think of anything that's inherently cheap and easy to produce that you use for a few weeks and then never again that is also a financial cash cow the way most pharmaceuticals are. Disclaimer: I work for a pharma.
The shrooms community has known about this for a long time, and now it's just about recreating the knowledge in peer-reviewed studies. Although there is a lot of "woo woo" on shrooms usage in the online communities, I do hope that researchers can extract the useful bits. This isn't like an SSRI. 25mg psilocybin isn't something you can just pop at the beginning of a workday. Your setting and "head space" matter a lot…
> This isn't like an SSRI. 25mg psilocybin isn't something you can just pop at the beginning of a workday. Your setting and "head space" matter a lot for how your "trip" (which we will now rebrand as "treatment") will go. This needs to be accounted for in future studies. This is what I worry about. It's likely great, when done in the care of a licensed and trained therapist . It's not the mystical panacea many will m…
Have a lot of experience with microdosing psilocybin, as well as with psychedelics like Ayahuasca. My experience with both as a means to remedy depression have been significant. It is analagous to having a lamp in a dark forest. It won't get you through it itself, you need courage, and other tools like meditation (your machete), exercise (your provisions) and intention (your compass) to succeed. But with it, everythi…
Are there any negative effects on your off-cycle days? i.e less creativity or feeling down
Have a lot of experience with microdosing psilocybin, as well as with psychedelics like Ayahuasca. My experience with both as a means to remedy depression have been significant. It is analagous to having a lamp in a dark forest. It won't get you through it itself, you need courage, and other tools like meditation (your machete), exercise (your provisions) and intention (your compass) to succeed. But with it, everythi…
Regarding machetes, wow. I'd say meditation is more like the calm and the observation of the dark forest, not a machete. A machete is a constant necessity to hack through tough issues. Meditation is the art of doing nothing, of simply noticing what is occurring. In that way, it's more like standing still and observing the jungle, not hacking it.
I like Sam Harris's analogy best. Meditation is taking a calm sail boat ride to wisdom, whereas psychedelics are like being strapped to a rocket. Both will get you places, but one is more likely to crash.
The shrooms community has known about this for a long time, and now it's just about recreating the knowledge in peer-reviewed studies. Although there is a lot of "woo woo" on shrooms usage in the online communities, I do hope that researchers can extract the useful bits. This isn't like an SSRI. 25mg psilocybin isn't something you can just pop at the beginning of a workday. Your setting and "head space" matter a lot…
> 25mg psilocybin isn't something you can just pop at the beginning of a workday. I would disagree. For many, 25mg is sub-perceptual. Source: have done this over several year.
I want to work where you work. I hope it doesn't involve heavy machinery.
Have a lot of experience with microdosing psilocybin, as well as with psychedelics like Ayahuasca. My experience with both as a means to remedy depression have been significant. It is analagous to having a lamp in a dark forest. It won't get you through it itself, you need courage, and other tools like meditation (your machete), exercise (your provisions) and intention (your compass) to succeed. But with it, everythi…
My main question is, how does one get anything like a regular, precise (micro)dose of the psilocybin? Volumetric dilution with LSD seems simple, because I know how much each tab contains and can plan accordingly. Are mushrooms really that regular in compound content?
Have a lot of experience with microdosing psilocybin, as well as with psychedelics like Ayahuasca. My experience with both as a means to remedy depression have been significant. It is analagous to having a lamp in a dark forest. It won't get you through it itself, you need courage, and other tools like meditation (your machete), exercise (your provisions) and intention (your compass) to succeed. But with it, everythi…
As somebody who sometimes "treats" severe multi-decades-long depression with psychedelics, I'm not surprised that they'd have a positive impact but the news seems too unclear to my simple mind to make sense of a few things: 1- why is a private group on the stock market doing this, instead of public research & universities? vested interests in seizing a market of illegal drugs in a legal way worry me, because it's eas…
I'm curious, do you work with a talk therapist? If so, do you feel like the therapy + psychedelics is better than either alone?
The shrooms community has known about this for a long time, and now it's just about recreating the knowledge in peer-reviewed studies. Although there is a lot of "woo woo" on shrooms usage in the online communities, I do hope that researchers can extract the useful bits. This isn't like an SSRI. 25mg psilocybin isn't something you can just pop at the beginning of a workday. Your setting and "head space" matter a lot…
> 25mg psilocybin isn't something you can just pop at the beginning of a workday. I would disagree. For many, 25mg is sub-perceptual. Source: have done this over several year.