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Psychedelic Mushrooms Hit the Market in Oregon

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Post by elwell »

explaininjs wrote: post #74
elwell wrote: post #55

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What does it mean when you say "Jesus saved me"? This is an earnest question, not instigative.

You're asking me to summarize years of reflection and several near-death experiences into an internet message board comment, but I'll try to scrape the surface. In short, I had lost all faith in the "official narrative" of creation/existence/whatever as taught in schools/society/etc. that I had grown up believing (growing up I'd have called myself atheist, then agnostic). You might call this an anti-science view, but…

Can you expound your experience(s) with the Holy Spirit? What does/did it feel like? Was it auditory or a feeling, or was it a series of life experiences? Was the communication one-way or two-way? Were you ever wrong in attributing something to the Holy Spirit, and you found out later?

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Post by explaininjs »

elwell wrote: post #281
explaininjs wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're asking me to summarize years of reflection and several near-death experiences into an internet message board comment, but I'll try to scrape the surface. In short, I had lost all faith in the "official narrative" of creation/existence/whatever as taught in schools/society/etc. that I had grown up believing (growing up I'd have called myself atheist, then agnostic). You might call this an anti-science view, but…

Can you expound your experience(s) with the Holy Spirit? What does/did it feel like? Was it auditory or a feeling, or was it a series of life experiences? Was the communication one-way or two-way? Were you ever wrong in attributing something to the Holy Spirit, and you found out later?

A general feeling of guidance to do a certain thing, followed by a full-body feeling of euphoria when doing that thing. Sometimes accompanied by "coincidental" positive interactions surrounding that thing.

Ephesians 5:18 instructs us to "not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit". And it is indeed accurate that the feeling is a higher high than wine or weed will take you. I suppose molly or heroin might be superior but I have no experience with those. And there's something psychologically nice about feeling good because you are doing the God-ordained right-thing, versus simply hijacking chemical receptors. And the Holy Spirit has no "come-down", which is nice.

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Post by sixQuarks »

fivestarman wrote: post #276
sixQuarks wrote: post #186

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This thread found me at the perfect time I swear. A friend of mine just gave me a huge amount of shrooms. I've always been excited about microdosing, so I tried my first .4 grams the other day and felt a great layer of good vibes that day. I was going to increase the dose, knowing it's not really microdosing and figuring I could do this on a regular basis. I'm now taking this thread as a sign to slow my roll.

over a year ago, on this platform, you were praising how amazing elon was. do you still think so?

Dude, you're obsessed with Elon. Give it a break.

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Post by sixQuarks »

kemayo wrote: post #216
sixQuarks wrote: post #186

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This thread found me at the perfect time I swear. A friend of mine just gave me a huge amount of shrooms. I've always been excited about microdosing, so I tried my first .4 grams the other day and felt a great layer of good vibes that day. I was going to increase the dose, knowing it's not really microdosing and figuring I could do this on a regular basis. I'm now taking this thread as a sign to slow my roll.

For what it's worth, from my understanding, you've got a lot of room before that even hits what's considered a "normal" recreational dose -- which I think is around 3.5g of dried psilocybin. Broadly speaking, if you don't have a history of bipolar / schizophrenia, it sounds like you'd be pretty safe from lasting consequences. Separately, "bad trips" mostly seem to happen when you go towards higher than normal doses,…

I've had a bad trip once where I took too much, but I realize it was because of the amount I took. Do you microdose daily?

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Post by dopidopHN »

Denatonium wrote: post #271
dopidopHN wrote: post #139

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Heck, It’s grows in many part of the country!

More like most parts of the country! There's at least one species of psilocybin mushroom for most states. The Shroomery is a great starting resource.

Thanks for pointing that out. Yes. This is a abundant resource, people should be aware of that. It’s also colonize various subtrates and thrives.

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Post by aurareturn »

TylerE wrote: post #198
aurareturn wrote: post #39

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They said the same thing about weed - that you don’t have any physical dependency. A quick search on Reddit would show you countless people who say they’re physically unable to function without weed anymore. Withdrawal symptoms include insomnia, depression, brain fog, lack of appetite, lack of energy, shaking, etc. This is especially true of people who started using it when they were young and people who use high THC…

Those are MENTAL withdrawal symptoms, not PHYSICAL ones. Basically the worst the happens is "Man, I really wish I had some weed right now", not hallucinations or the shakes or seizures, as can occur with alcohol or opiods. That's what people mean by physical dependency.

Weed has all of those physical withdrawal symptoms you mentioned. Just a very quick Reddit search:

* https://www.reddit.com/r/leaves/comments/17fhb1y/intense_phy...

* https://www.reddit.com/r/leaves/comments/17fazp4/sweating_in...

* https://www.reddit.com/r/leaves/comments/yt9sud/cannabis_doe...

Thousands more examples: https://www.reddit.com/r/leaves/search?q=symptoms&restrict_s...

Also, I'd argue that brain fog, low energy, insomnia, lack of appetite, night sweats, shaking are all physical symptoms, chest pains, heart palpitations.

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Post by perfecto_maduro »

davmre wrote: post #19
swalling wrote: post #3

What's missing from this article is that people are reaching for this because the standard medical treatment for these disorders, SSRIs, are pretty terrible. In the mild case, the common side effects are blunting of your emotions and sexual dysfunction. So you don't have panic attacks, but you live in a gray fog and your relationships suffer. In the worst case, they cause suicidal ideation. Psychedelics also have psy…

Counterpoint: SSRIs were transformative for my depression. Side effects were minor and manageable (eg, Wellbutrin worked well to prevent any sexual dysfunction). I was on them for several years and had no problem tapering off. My understanding is that this is a pretty typical experience. Rhetoric like this was actively harmful in dissuading me for years from trying what ended up being by far the most effective treatm…

How did you decide to stop? I’ve been on Escitalopram for a few months now after suffering depression and anxiety that affected (and was affected by) my work relationship. My GP tried to get me down from 10mg to 5mg but I felt terrible again. I’m now on 7.5mg and feel ok. But I can’t imagine stopping. Like ever. I wonder how I could stop. Or perhaps just accept and take them forever?

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Post by asow92 »

cryptonector wrote: post #265
asow92 wrote: post #163

I'm not a very spiritual person, but mushrooms are as close to "talking to God" as I've been able to muster in my lifetime.

I've heard this from people I know and trust. Idk why you got downvoted.

People get uncomfortable discussing such topics. I completely empathize with them. Downvotes don't affect the truth of my lived experience.

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Post by icepat »

travisjungroth wrote: post #280
icepat wrote: post #257

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Ayahuasca contains monoamine oxidase inhibitors compounds too, those are the cause of the interaction. Dimethyltryptamine itself does not carry the same interaction risk. It's a mix of monoamine oxidase inhibitors and dimethyltryptamine to prevent the stomach acid decomposing active drug.

I’m just clarifying because you said it was low risk and there’s at least one case of it being high risk.

I'm meaning the drugs themselves, rather than drug mixtures. But this is correct, and a unique case given that it is a drug mixture. You have the same problem if you ate St. Johns Wort.

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Post by dang »

simonvc wrote: post #46
explaininjs wrote: post #30

Been there, done that. Have the postcard. I got to experience the even more fun version where you feel like your death is imminent, you watch your surroundings stop rendering chunk by chunk, and your long term friend is telling you it is indeed all a simulation that everyone but me knew about, and I really was dying (more accurately: going "offline" for an upgrade, and my "spirit" wouldn't be persisted across version…

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Religious flamewar isn't ok here, so please don't post like this.

Ditto for any flamewar, but the religious kind is particularly bad and also easy to avoid.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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