Mushrooms

[magicjuan]

Mushrooms, tho'...one batch gave me the ability to look behind me without actually turning around. i'd then physically turn around to check the vision was accurate (and it was).

that was more surprising than the acid-created floating clown head that tried to eat my face at an Astral Phoenix Goa night. even more than seeing reptilian features on human faces at a triptastic Brixton Academy party.


i've got a theory about the latter...it's explained in the classic sci-fi film Altered States. We basically have genetic memory of all our past ancestors, even as far back as the animal ones. psychedelics can temporarily recall such memories in a visual way so our brains can interpret and transmit this info.

There are keys for different parts of the mind. Genetic memory is the one that goes way deep. That's the 'oneness'.
Natural substances can connect us imho. The synthetic, man made ones open up the darker portals of imaginations and fears.
I love the 'bizarro' things that psychedelics bring up.

 

[chicoazul]

There are keys for different parts of the mind. Genetic memory is the one that goes way deep. That's the 'oneness'.
Natural substances can connect us imho. The synthetic, man made ones open up the darker portals of imaginations and fears.
I love the 'bizarro' things that psychedelics bring up.

Ever done the DMT Mr Juan?

 

[magicjuan]

Ever done the DMT Mr Juan?

Nope, not even sure what it is. Hardest thing I ever tried was opium and jeebus that was like weightlessness bliss.
Never done beak or horse, loved my resin, biscuits and MBS though ?

 

[chicoazul]

Nope, not even sure what it is. Hardest thing I ever tried was opium and jeebus that was like weightlessness bliss.
Never done beak or horse, loved my resin, biscuits and MBS though ?

You’re a man of great insight so I knew there’d be some mind abuse in there somehow sir.

 

[magicjuan]

You’re a man of great insight so I knew there’d be some mind abuse in there somehow sir.

Not abuse, arousing ?

 

[ically]

I was a teenager taking these in the early 80’s, most certainly the maddest drug I’ve taken and I should know I’ve taken a few !

 

[Oddball]

The meaning of being right there. One of the rare substances you have a come up rather than a come down from for days, weeks after.

I may or may not have some stashed away right now.

i believe it goes on forever, y`know...until we shuffle off this mortal coil

 

[dholliday]

Indoors unfortunately. Was mad the feeling when it came on. Was like ‘ok ok ok, back away everyone. Here we go’

Will get my mate to order some in next time I visit.

Haha defo. The rush that comes on and you realise you’ve pushed perhaps a little too far and there’s just nothing you can do now. If we’re ever in the same vicinity let’s roll! Orchards forever man.

i'm a big fan of LSD but never tried DMT. Got a theory tho' maybe yous can comment on regarding the crystal-clear pattern visuals, those fractals or psychedelic mandelbrots which a lot of users report.

yous may be aware that applying pressure to ones' closed eyeballs (not recommended, but some of us might've done this as kids!) causes similar visual patterns which DMT users report, only not so vivid or colourful. More flat grey monotone with lots of static noise.

My theory is that DMT amplifies whatever that signal is: adds colour-saturation, clarity, depth etc, even making it appear with eyes open.


With LSD i think what that does is it removes the perception-filters we've gradually developed ever since we were tiny children. Newborns, babies & toddlers don't have these filters fully-developed yet: everything is so vivid, swirling, pulsing, alive and so unbelievably fascinating to them: shapes, colours, noises etc. Reality is buzzing with magical activity. Once these perception filters are fully-developed (say by the age of 3 or 4) then reality has settled into the steady static solid realm we all know.

Look at the wide-eyed wonder of the baby observing the world, and see the same expression on the tripping psychonaut.

An adult on LSD has the advantage over the baby in that he or she has lived a life: has developed eyesight, hearing, memory and appreciation. To have a chance of having these filters temporarily removed creates in the adult that same sense of magical wonder, which we can barely describe but now we can remember it, cherish it, and attempt to reconcile it with our steady world.

Psychedelics of course do more than just mess about with visual perception. Audio too...i was once subjected to Abba while acid-peaking....truly angels from heaven!

Then there's that feeling of oneness @magicjuan also refers to. I've been communicated to, via music, that we're all gonna be ok, for before we exist (before birth) and after we exist (death) we are this other thing...a beautiful unified consciousness, which is intelligent and curious enough to split itself into unlimited parts (our lives here) purely to experience a different perspective.


Essentially, I think psychedelics give us clues that we are a bored god.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Haha defo. The rush that comes on and you realise you’ve pushed perhaps a little too far and there’s just nothing you can do now. If we’re ever in the same vicinity let’s roll! Orchards forever man.

Meet you in cowdenbeath. Bring a glass pipe.

 

[dholliday]

For VR users, there's a couple of interesting visual trips out there:

This one i recommend custom-soundtrack, i used scandinavian forest-psy, naturally:



This one is fine as it is:

 

[Billy Dean]

Took DMT once and would say it’s as close to a spiritual experience I’ve ever had. I’m fairly hardline atheist as well.

DMT is in ayahuasca isn't it? Or am I getting confused

Always been curious about ayahuasca. Never tried though.

 

[chicoazul]

DMT is in ayahuasca isn't it? Or am I getting confused

Always been curious about ayahuasca. Never tried though.

It is the active hallucinogenic in it aye. Ayahuasca is a milder but prolonged version of it, DMT in its purest form is a 10 minute trip, but forget about time as that’s gonna go out the window.

 

[chicoazul]

i'm a big fan of LSD but never tried DMT. Got a theory tho' maybe yous can comment on regarding the crystal-clear pattern visuals, those fractals or psychedelic mandelbrots which a lot of users report.

yous may be aware that applying pressure to ones' closed eyeballs (not recommended, but some of us might've done this as kids!) causes similar visual patterns which DMT users report, only not so vivid or colourful. More flat grey monotone with lots of static noise.

My theory is that DMT amplifies whatever that signal is: adds colour-saturation, clarity, depth etc, even making it appear with eyes open.


With LSD i think what that does is it removes the perception-filters we've gradually developed ever since we were tiny children. Newborns, babies & toddlers don't have these filters fully-developed yet: everything is so vivid, swirling, pulsing, alive and so unbelievably fascinating to them: shapes, colours, noises etc. Reality is buzzing with magical activity. Once these perception filters are fully-developed (say by the age of 3 or 4) then reality has settled into the steady static solid realm we all know.

Look at the wide-eyed wonder of the baby observing the world, and see the same expression on the tripping psychonaut.

An adult on LSD has the advantage over the baby in that he or she has lived a life: has developed eyesight, hearing, memory and appreciation. To have a chance of having these filters temporarily removed creates in the adult that same sense of magical wonder, which we can barely describe but now we can remember it, cherish it, and attempt to reconcile it with our steady world.

Psychedelics of course do more than just mess about with visual perception. Audio too...i was once subjected to Abba while acid-peaking....truly angels from heaven!

Then there's that feeling of oneness @magicjuan also refers to. I've been communicated to, via music, that we're all gonna be ok, for before we exist (before birth) and after we exist (death) we are this other thing...a beautiful unified consciousness, which is intelligent and curious enough to split itself into unlimited parts (our lives here) purely to experience a different perspective.


Essentially, I think psychedelics give us clues that we are a bored god.

The geometrics do come and obvs dosage has a part to play in it but then the deeper you go the more DMT transcends shapes into things and stuff that is incredibly interesting and gives some users “realisations” that are quite profound. Take enough and you can have a breakthrough experience and that’s really the pinnacle of twisting your own mind to meet entities in a realm not of this.

 

[Billy Dean]

Then there's that feeling of oneness @magicjuan also refers to. I've been communicated to, via music, that we're all gonna be ok, for before we exist (before birth) and after we exist (death) we are this other thing...a beautiful unified consciousness, which is intelligent and curious enough to split itself into unlimited parts (our lives here) purely to experience a different perspective.

Heard a lot of people describe acid a bit like that

 

[coollino]

I took DMT once and saw a lot of purple

I also set up a user here called big oil, wonder what happened to him