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NormalOutside -> RE: Psylocybin is good for you? (7/1/2008 5:19:38 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Aynne
Keep everyone whacked out on stuff pushed by giant pharma, you know, the guys that own the gov't, but let's imprison the guys that grow a little smoke under the ridiculous zero tolerance laws. arghhhhhhhh
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ORIGINAL: Hippiekinkster
Mushrooms are easy to grow using the brown rice/vermiculite method.
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ORIGINAL: candystripper
Many Native Americans and most Vietnam Era college students could have answered this question.
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ORIGINAL: batshalom
It was beautiful, hilarious, and was definitely a mind-expanding experience.
I agree with all the above. :)
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ORIGINAL: DesFIP
I remember being offered that in college. One major reason I declined was being told that there's also a period of intense vomiting as a reaction to eating the mushroom. Not my kink, thanks.
Every food and every drug has the potential to cause some kind of reaction in your body. Some people puke when they take Advil. Some people can't breathe if they eat nuts. Some people have smelly pee after asperagus. Some people get hyper from sugar.
As for myself, I got (..get) a nauseous sensation about an hour in. I call it "hitting a sensory wall". Your mind is switching over to a totally different way of thinking, and along with that comes some altered perceptions. If it's your first time, you're probably not very good at functioning under this different kind of brain function, but it's really no stranger than any other frame of mind. Take subbie-space for example. It can be quite exhillerating and disorientating, sometimes even unpleasant, with some after-effects that require care. Similar idea with psilocybin trips. Anyway, I do hit the sensory wall pretty hard, but I find it pleasureable and simply another way of interpreting my surroundings. I have almost thrown up a couple times, but never have. And I'll mention this even though it'll probably make you discount me as a whack-job, but I never felt like I was going to vomit, per se. I did feel like I had something that wanted out, but it wasn't stomach contents. Okay, enough of that silliness. :p
As for the study, pointless. Coulda got the same results anywhere. As for 1/3 of the participants feeling some degree of fear.... imagine you're high and tripping, surrounded by lab equipment and people in white coats. Of COURSE you're going to freak a bit! Try it in you home, with some nice music and a candle, possibly with a good friend or two.
Mind expanding? Sure. I definitely benefitted from being on mushrooms. It let me experience myself from a new perspective, something not possible any other way that I know of. I saw my behaviour patterns VERY clearly and made some huge changes in the following weeks and months. It's quite a valuable experience, I find.
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