‘Psychonauts’ by Mike Jay review

You say so much truth just too stumble over semantics, it really is hard to assume good faith when you literally misquote me.

>if you believe in the adverse effects then they will hold more weight on your psyche. In this sense OP's comments are doing a massive disservice.

Having a bad DMT trip will leave you with higher cortisol levels, and a little shaken, exactly, EXACTLY, like waking up from an uncomfortable dream. Having a bad LSD or mushroom trip is a magnitude more likely to be adverse in both the short and long term.

>it is impossible to OD on benzos alone, which is false.

>It's nearly impossible to kill yourself with it (benzos) alone

>nearly.... alone

>alone

Please read the guidelines about bad-faith posting.

Overdosing on Alprazolam without potentiating other medications is EXTREMELY uncommon. Look at the stats.

Speaking of stats...

>Go to erowid and study up from there, instead of taking OP's obviously projected advice.

And after you've read it, all the anecdotal evidence will heavily lean towards my OBVIOUS concise assessment; but, this is HN.

Scrape the reports, run it thru your favorite LLVM sentiement holistic, make an objective word-map, then tell me, on average, that I am not accurate in my obviously condensed assessment.

LSD has, almost universally, an uncomfortable come-up, and a "burning" cleansing feeling.

Mushrooms, objectively, make your stomach hurt, have body load, and can a much larger variance in dosage due to the nature of its procurement.

4acoDMT is better, xan+LSD microdosing is safe, and DMT is, without a doubt, the safest, most intense, life-changing, one-shot attempt of a awakening, any mortal, experienced or not, will ever have the opportunity to exerience.

The list of drugs that exist that I haven't witnessed first hand is smaller than those you could name.

Ayahuasca, while we are this note, however, is NOT something middle-aged suburbanites should dip their toes in.

That is the equivalent of a DMT trip with the length of heavy LSD trip.

THAT is the media and common conceptions yall should whitenight about.

Hi, thanks. I try to assume good faith but when the same kind of posts keep appearing, opinionated, fact free and making dubious claims which they won't back up when asked, I start to doubt.

Someone elsewhere on this thread described integration. For myself when I've experienced it it's a kind of deep sea-change in my mind, no therapy or reflection required. Something changes, snap, and I'm a newer person.

Thanks about the amnesia, no experience of this nor ever heard of it but I'm glad someone could verify it.

>On the other hand, GP is saying things elsewhere in thread that feel... insufficiently substantiated, to be generous.

>insufficiently substantiated

we are literally talking about effects that cannot, by definition, be articulated or substantiated usefully, and havent, because of their legalities.

if you are looking for a single sentence to sum it up, I don't think I have done an injustice.

LSD and Mushrooms are NOT as "safe" as culturally represented.

I don't recommended anyone who is not in the soundest of minds to try DMT, without an experienced trip-sitter, and an abort -zolam. That is the sentiment I've expressed, to a bizarre amount of mis-inference for dubious moral grandstanding by those I am sure think that they, too, know everything.

eh, this post is seriously misguided. the experience on DMT is relative; you might feel like you have been gone for days or months even if the clock tells you 15 min have gone by. furthermore, the power of DMT, with its sudden onset, can feel quite violent, literally like a drive-by shooting, or beamed up a la Star Trek.

curious people, please look into the concept of "pharmakon"; the knowledge gained from drug usage often does not come without a reciprocal cost, and the sense of elevated consciousness can be fraught with illusion and the same old tricks of the ego.

I have had many life changing experiences under the influence of drugs (one of the most powerful, under the influence of DMT), but in my opinion it extremely misguided to recommend it wholeheartedly to people without a very strong disclaimer regarding its adverse effects.

When I used DMT properly, for the first and last time, I experienced temporary ego-death. Afterwards I re-lived "my trip" every single night for almost a year, having the same dream, over and over again. In my waking hours I would sometimes find myself fusing with my environment (real-time temporal loss of self) "at one with everything".

Undergoing this process helped me "find myself", but the experience was dangerously close to full-blown psychosis - tl;dr drugs are a powerful and useful substance, be aware of the risks before taking, and do not recommend to others; DYOR and decide for yourself.

Seems we enjoy similar things :)

My last psilocybin trip taught me how to sleep better by showing how I should focus on my body sensations when I feel restless. I should tense and stretch, that's what I noticed during my trip.

Disclaimer: I took them in Amsterdam, truffles are decriminalized there.