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Every Entrepreneur Should Try Magic Mushrooms

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Re: Every Entrepreneur Should Try Magic Mushrooms

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Post by michaelwww »

NhanH wrote: post #29

As a young 20-ish who've never partaken in any kind of drugs. Does anyone have a NEGATIVE story to share? Not the type of "he got addicted and ruined his life" but "hallucinations after all are just hallucinations, and the profound effects are fake etc."

One should always be prepared for a bad trip. They do happen and were a known risk often discussed back in the early days. A bad trip can be pretty terrible and there really isn't anyway to stop it short of going to the emergency room for a shot of Thorazine. Many people have had them and chalk it up to a bad setting or a bad mood and then go on to enjoy good trips, but if you don't think you could handle one (One friend described hers and riding a roller coaster through mud for 8 hours) then I wouldn't recommend it. Also, if there is a history of mental illness in your family tree then I would be especially cautious. I did have a friend lose it and end up in the psyche ward for two weeks, but I'm sure it was a latent condition that got triggered.

http://www.erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_LSD_Bad_Trips.sht...

Re: Every Entrepreneur Should Try Magic Mushrooms

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Post by MoreConsiderate »

kephra wrote: post #72

I've collected Spitzkeglige Kahlköpfe (Psilocybe semilanceata) for several years, and send more then 100 people on a trip. So some advise from an old hippy, in random order: Its easy to confuse Psilocybe semilanceata with Düngerling (Panaeolus papilionaceus), that is growing on same meadows, but at different times. Its less dangerous to collect magic mushrooms, then to collect mushrooms for food, because most mushroo…

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Re: Every Entrepreneur Should Try Magic Mushrooms

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Post by MWil »

kephra wrote: post #72

I've collected Spitzkeglige Kahlköpfe (Psilocybe semilanceata) for several years, and send more then 100 people on a trip. So some advise from an old hippy, in random order: Its easy to confuse Psilocybe semilanceata with Düngerling (Panaeolus papilionaceus), that is growing on same meadows, but at different times. Its less dangerous to collect magic mushrooms, then to collect mushrooms for food, because most mushroo…

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Re: Every Entrepreneur Should Try Magic Mushrooms

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Post by kephra »

MWil wrote: post #83
kephra wrote: post #72

I've collected Spitzkeglige Kahlköpfe (Psilocybe semilanceata) for several years, and send more then 100 people on a trip. So some advise from an old hippy, in random order: Its easy to confuse Psilocybe semilanceata with Düngerling (Panaeolus papilionaceus), that is growing on same meadows, but at different times. Its less dangerous to collect magic mushrooms, then to collect mushrooms for food, because most mushroo…

What is a quark?

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Re: Every Entrepreneur Should Try Magic Mushrooms

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Post by dbbolton »

I really take issue with this title and the general attitude it stems from.

Advising everyone in a certain group of people to take any kind of drug should be frowned upon in my opinion. The fact that we are talking about a Schedule I substance, and the fact that author then admits he thinks everyone should try them, make this situation even worse.

I guess if you happen to get caught with them you'll have plenty of free time (five or more years) to fine-tune your startup idea in a federal prison.

A much better title would have been "one entrepreneur's positive experience with magic mushrooms". I'm not saying that nobody should do drugs or that psychedelics can't benefit people, but telling everyone to use a drug because you had a good outcome with it is downright juvenile.

Re: Every Entrepreneur Should Try Magic Mushrooms

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Post by robotresearcher »

wsr wrote: post #15
salimmadjd wrote: post #10

I went to a school with many friends who experienced with hallucinogens regularly. But they always followed these rules: 1 - don't look at a the mirror 2 - cars are for real 3 - you can't fly

Can you please elaborate on the point "don't look at the mirror"? What would the person see?

I saw two people looking back at me. The faces spliced diagonally across the face. Both were me, but there were two distinct people. One eye each. It was a challenging experience.

Re: Every Entrepreneur Should Try Magic Mushrooms

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Post by hamsternipples »

cnp wrote: post #18
wsr wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you please elaborate on the point "don't look at the mirror"? What would the person see?

I always find looking in the mirror to be extremely interesting.

me too. I've never actually taken shrooms with other people (yet). only by myself. I've done them multiple times, but the last time, I didn't measure the dose, and I took, easily what would be a VERY intense trip for someone (maybe 5g) and I was highly agitated and couldn't continue my meditation. I had to move around get into nature, etc. but then I had this great idea to go look in a mirror. when I looked into the mirror, I totally fell in love with myself, and felt so much calmness and security, I literally must have been there like a half hour.

I just kept staring at my eyes. they kept getting more and more blue, and more and more deep, and some sort of strange peace came about me and my body all over. I knew myself. from that experience on, my whole way of thinking changed and I decided to stop doing stupid shit. since then (been a few months now), I've only been able to focus on getting what I wanted out of life -- for myself and everyone around me too (no matter how awful they might be). I like to say encouraging and uplifting things, only rarely do I see the world in sadness. I can quickly get out of sadness now too. it's all perspective after you've seen without filters

I highly recommend shrooms. prepare though. be mentally ready for a mind expanding experience. if you do meditation, do it in a dark room, and try to get as deep as possible before the effects kick in. and then later come out if you want, but always remember you're still you, just you without a lot of those extra filters (that you yourself have constructed!).

Re: Every Entrepreneur Should Try Magic Mushrooms

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Post by hamsternipples »

if you have done mushrooms (or are considering it), and are a programmer, I really highly recommend this video by terence mckenna. it's called "Shamans among the machines." :D

he explores the next big step of evolution for humanity will probably be coming from, "programmers on shrooms" :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx6P6Nq8JoY

Re: Every Entrepreneur Should Try Magic Mushrooms

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Post by dllthomas »

MWil wrote: post #6

If you are the author: ctrl + F for "I put up a serious of large whiteboards"

Maybe "serious" should be the collective noun for large whiteboards. A murmuraton of starlings, a richness of martins, a wunch of bankers, a serious of large whiteboards...
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