Psilocybe mushrooms have been the bread and butter of my psychedelic life for the past 15 years. I’ve had hundreds of experiences at doses ranging from 0.1g to 6g. Beyond that I haven’t personally found it useful for integration, but someday I may explore the possibilities. Higher doses have challenged my ability to let go to an extreme extent, the feeling of needing to stay in control of reality can be profoundly strong for some people and I am one of those people.
Staying in control, but also loosened up with mushrooms feels amazing. At certain doses, it’s like having your maximum energy at the same time as your maximum creativity. This is a big perk of most psychedelics, but it isn’t necessarily the best way to use psychedelics. I don’t believe there is a single best method for everyone, I just believe that completely letting your ego fall apart now and then is really important for human health. Mushrooms can do that really well.
Outside of major ego-destroying experiences, I find I get the best integration with low and medium doses (for me this is 1.5g-3g). These doses also make it easier to do with greater frequency, which I have also found to be extremely helpful at the right times. For me, mushrooms are a potent antidote for the superficial stress of modern living, which is an on-going and chronic issue. Mushrooms return me to the harmony and wisdom of the earth. They plug me back into the infinitely connected nature of life, which is the opposite of the typical fragmented world we live in now.
Mushrooms also open my mind up to the issues beneath the surface that are the hardest to face. It’s not easy to see what the mushrooms unveil, but when I trust it and accept it, the payoff is immense. My trips typically begin with about an hour of adjustment that I find doing yoga or other movement makes easier. Gradually my thoughts get deeper and more profound until eventually I hit a point that challenges me deeply. Guilt, shame, anger, sadness… eventually this comes up whether or not I intended it to. That’s the point where I must trust the process and go into those thoughts. This is when your ego gets challenged and can only be cured by letting the mushrooms dissolve it. This can go to very dark places, but always always always leads to enormous gratitude and joy. It is truly a deep clean from the inside-out.
I strongly believe these mushrooms were put on Earth for humans to have a convenient method of furthering their evolution (not exaggerating). Psilocybin is essentially the myceliated version of DMT, which, I believe is The Mental Gateway to nature’s universal intelligence.
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