Mystic Mushrooms

[yeahwho]

Just read this article on Psilocybin on the CNN health web (http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/07/10/psychedelic.research.ap/index.html). Pretty interesting, the past 40 years research came to a halt due to widespread abuse during the 60's and 70's.

40 years of study dropped due to windbags like Reagan. The article goes on to mention do not try this at home, which I whole heartedly agree with, I'm just amazed that a drug so powerful can be shoved on the shelf and left alone by scientists for 40 years.

below is excerpted from the above link,

Psilocybin's effects lasted for up to six hours, Griffiths said. Twenty-two of the 36 volunteers reported having a "complete" mystical experience, compared with four of those getting methylphenidate.

That experience included such things as a sense of pure awareness and a merging with ultimate reality, a transcendence of time and space, a feeling of sacredness or awe, and deeply felt positive mood like joy, peace and love. People say "they can't possibly put it into words," Griffiths said.

Two months later, 24 of the participants filled out a questionnaire. Two-thirds called their reaction to psilocybin one of the five top most meaningful experiences of their lives. On another measure, one-third called it the most spiritually significant experience of their lives, with another 40 percent ranking it in the top five.

About 80 percent said that because of the psilocybin experience, they still had a sense of well-being or life satisfaction that was raised either "moderately" or "very much."

[Dr Deaf]

i <3 'shrooms.

[b i o n i c]

i did shrooms a few times and LOVED it. the day after i felt like i’d taken my brain out and cleaned it, i felt new. i wish I could still get em.

[Bob]

i've only done it once, but i loved it. really really loved it. it was a small dose, i think half an eighth. i didnt' trip or get super high or anything, but i could feel it, whatever it was, starting, and it was great. everything just kinda...melted away, a little. existence was pure niceness.

there's a great bill hicks quote about mushrooms. i don't have time to look for it, but i bet ace knows it.

i have a theory about hinduism. hindus regard the universe with a very monist attitude, the world being one, etc. etc, very very similar to the views that people have when they're on mushrooms. hindus regard cows as sacred. mushrooms grow out of cow poo. i don't know, it's just a brainstorm.

it's such a shame that some drugs are so demonized and misunderstood by society. some of them are nice. really nice. i could almost understand it if alcohol were illegal too, but it's not. it's messed up and most people aren't even willing to try to understand. you hear the words "illegal drug" and immediately you think of junkies and heroin and crack, and it's not right. nobody cares though.

[like2_drink]

mushrooms are my drug(y)

for some reason when ever i'm on them i have a period where i think about religion intensely and am now completely good with death.

i find that noone should just badmouth mushrooms, everyone should do them and then decide whether or not they want to do them again.

[Bob]

just to talk more on my point about drugs a little earlier, my favorite scene in the movie Trainspotting is the montage of the people going "heroin? how can you do that to your body, that's disgusting" and then drinking a beer or smoking a cigarette or something. i mean yeah, heroin's a bad drug, ok, bad example maybe, but it's just that sort of hypocrisy that people fail to detect that bothers me.

[beastieangel01]

I have never tried them but I've always heard that it was an interesting experience. Seems like.

[drizl]

:D great news. i think the establishment is scared that we may begin to feel these things and question our realities. they dont care about our health, or whatever other excuses they give for making these drugs illegal- if that were the case, then cigs would be illegal and we would not have aspartame or msg fed to us for every meal.

anyone ever read/hear terrence mckenna? that man is a mushroom

[Bob]

:D great news. i think the establishment is scared that we may begin to feel these things and question our realities. they dont care about our health, or whatever other excuses they give for making these drugs illegal- if that were the case, then cigs would be illegal and we would not have aspartame or msg fed to us for every meal.

that's pretty much the essence of the bill hicks quote, actually. i wish i could find it. it's on rant in e minor, i think the track's called gifts of forgiveness.

[like2_drink]

if i have the right funds i'm gonna take a few grams next week i think(y)

i find 4g's is great

[yeahwho]

:D great news. i think the establishment is scared that we may begin to feel these things and question our realities.

the goverments surgeon general warns against enhanced spiritualism

soul police

[kaiser soze]

oh boy shrooms, those were good times...we saw a bunch of spirits walking in a cemetary one time. We drank some delicious shroom tea and went into the cemetary at night. While we were walking up this hill, the city behind lit up the horizon and all 4 of us could see people walking around up at the top...we were a bit excited to see other people in the cemetary (obviously we were in a sociable/talkative mood)

BUT! When we arrived to the top nobody was there!

very cool experience


anyone ever read/hear terrence mckenna? that man is a mushroom

a very interesting person but his voice was rather annoying!

almost all the popular anti-establishment psychedelic gurus are gone, check out Alex Grey and you'll be further enlightened

www.alexgrey.com