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‘Psychonauts’ by Mike Jay review
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't take xanax before the trip; and if you are really so inclined, just have the proper dosage ready nearby. The trick is /knowing/ that you can stop it. But treat it as a last resort. If you let go, the fear will melt away on its own. If it does, you'll find a level of peace and clarity. If it doesn't, even a bad trip can teach you something, if you step outside your mind and observe it like a scientist of yoursel…
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…
DMT is not so docile. It's fucked up at least two people I know. Not ayahuasca, just DMT. One of them lived 40 years of life, complete with happy marriage, before it was violently ripped away from them 15 minutes later in meat-time.
The last mushrooms I had gave me no stomach pain and no body load. It's fascinating what genetics the growers are isolating nowadays.
Methinks your bubble is still a bit small.
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#83California bill SB 58 just passed out of the “suspense file,” and actually has a path to pass. Summary An act to amend Sections 11054, 11350, 11364, 11364.7, 11365, 11377, 11379, 11382, and 11550 of, to add Sections 11350.1 and 11377.1 to, to add and repeal Section 11214 of, to repeal Section 11999 of, and to repeal Article 7 (commencing with Section 11390) of Chapter 6 of Division 10 of, the Health and Safety Code,…
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#84Maybe it’s just because I have moved to the West coast but it seems we are in a localized upswing of exploration of psychedelics.
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#85I see people giving prescriptions in this comment section. I am but a humble seeker. I can not claim to give anyone access to the best knowledge, or even lasting knowledge. Neither, I believe, can any of our fellow commenter. Anyone saying "you must integrate these lessons," or "ignore all else and read these books," are not wrong. They are giving advice that, to them, sounds good and wholesome. Perhaps they are. How…
Agreed, I didn't mean to trivialize DMT, I shoulda prefaced it by saying I tripped last night, 75mg vaporized, and managed a 16 minute torrent of geometry without ego death, which was unique (stim/dizzos).
Really, it may be the best choice for _readers here_, given it's short length, penultimate intensity, less (statistically) common cases of HPPD, and massive perspective change. That is, after all, how it has earned its informal title as the "business mans trip,"
Regarding the chances of HPPD, I have seen far more people (even adjusted for LSDs and DMT rarity relatively) blame acid for their mental discontinuity then DMT.
LSD makes you feel like you had an eureka moment; DMT makes you think you had it then forgot it, as it's nature. Shrooms....are a dice roll, especially comparivitly
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#86I see people giving prescriptions in this comment section. I am but a humble seeker. I can not claim to give anyone access to the best knowledge, or even lasting knowledge. Neither, I believe, can any of our fellow commenter. Anyone saying "you must integrate these lessons," or "ignore all else and read these books," are not wrong. They are giving advice that, to them, sounds good and wholesome. Perhaps they are. How…
Agreed, I didn't mean to trivialize DMT, I shoulda prefaced it by saying I tripped last night, 75mg vaporized, and managed a 16 minute torrent of geometry without ego death, which was unique (stim/dizzos). Really, it may be the best choice for _readers here_, given it's short length, penultimate intensity, less (statistically) common cases of HPPD, and massive perspective change. That is, after all, how it has earned…
I've never heard it called the business man's trip, but I love that. Totally agree with it. It's part of why I'm so enamored with DMT as a substance. Coffee-sized psychedelic, imo.
Also, thank you for engaging with me as productively as you have been. I appreciate the good spirit of your messages; looking back at some of mine, I wish I had taken the time to write them more personably.
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do they cover datura?
Read the repair trip reports for datura, brugmansia and belladonna. I’m fascinated by the breadth of different experiences offered by plant and chemical mind alteration, and encountered more things than most people have heard of. Reading those reports was enough to make me not want to seek out these deleriants in any way at all.
Repair == erowid
You win again autocorrect…
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#88Maybe it’s just because I have moved to the West coast but it seems we are in a localized upswing of exploration of psychedelics.
It’s not localised and it’s not new either tbh.
That said, I do think there’s certainly been renewed interest since the pandemic in some of the classical psychedelics like mushrooms, etc. Certainly a lot more people asking around for good picking spots the last couple of seasons here.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
In my experience, Datura isn't something I'd use for healing, it's something I'd use to break down myself. The experience with that is unlike others, and not in a good way.
I'd liken it to the salvia experience.
Having used both, salvia is something I’ve gone back to multiple times and find value in. If you treat salvia with respect, it’s useful.
Datura taught me a valuable lesson exactly once, about hubris.
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#90It's like we're in the Matrix. And the Matrix is a little island in the middle of a big ocean. Tripping, meditating, dreaming and a hundred other methods will get you into the ocean. Show it to you, splash around the shoreline, go for a swim, meet the people who live there... I've tripped some. Psilocybin is my favorite psychedelic substance. My favorite method is Vipassana meditation. (Also, is it just me or is the…
I do metta. I'm still wondering if meditation makes you a gullible crystal buying idiot, or does it just attract such people.
> I'm still wondering if meditation makes you a gullible crystal buying idiot, or does it just attract such people.
Maybe both?
It makes some:
It can be genuinely destabilizing to realize that e.g., the mind creates its emotional reality and it can hack that reality.[1] It's less destabilizing if you put that responsibility on some external fetish item – crystals, a guru, a retreat, an app.
It attracts some:
A lot of people are looking for an easy way to socially signal that they're good and unique. Meditation accoutrements fit the bill. See "Zen home and garden deco ideas" and "Can anyone identify this [Buddhist thing I just bought]?" posts on some popular Buddhist forums.
[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/lisa_feldman_barrett_you_aren_t_at...