First off, just want to say this is an amazing song while tripping. http://www.playlist.com/searchbeta/tracks#yasmin%20the%20light Hell all of Explosions In the Sky kicks serious ass, so give their other songs a listen.
I took two mushroom gel caps from my hidden "prescription" bottle and mixed them with a bottle of herbal supplements similar in appearance. They slipped right through airport security, and soon I was on my way to Hawaii with a decent 1 gram of cubensis. On the last full day ov our trip, we were to drive around the Big Island's rain forests and caves. Perfect opportunity for me to chill in the car and enjoy my little trip comfortably. I ate the pills with breakfast, so I was concerned they weren't going to kick after a full meal. Two hours later I'm almost convinced the trip failed when I suddenly feel the beginnings of a body high. With such perfect timing-we had just arrived to the caves-I began to realize I'd be coming up in a completely dark, almost deserted lava tube. Fucking awesome! As my sister and I venture into the cave, I was overcome with the feeling that I was in the womb of the earth. Though the cave was cold, damp, and mysterious, it felt harmless and beautiful; almost nurturing. Normally while tripping, I feel that mushrooms re-open dream-like sensations. However, in complete isolation, I felt as though I was actually back in my dreams; that they had been reconstructed, and I was, again, living in true bliss...At first it's just pure euphoria, but then I was overcome with sadness as I realized this sensation will disappear as soon as it came on, just like the original dreams themselves had, and just like every other mushrooms trip in which my ego is ripped from my being. I just wanted to sit in that cave, tripping, forever. Fuck society, fuck the outside world, and fuck the living hell that is life we live in. All I needed was my mind and the new reality, the nirvana, I had created. We needed to leave. Practically holding back tears, I got up and we left the cave. Now at first I noticed how bright the light penetrating the cave entrance was and though my eyes were simply in shock, but then I climbed back up to the rain forest above and realized...i'm fucking tripping! It was startling how hard 1 gram of cubes was slamming me. I was getting rainbows, vibrations, colors, oh it was all so beautiful! Tripping in the rain forest was very unique. Being in the forest is the perfect compliment to the mind-blowing infinity mushrooms show us. Everywhere, there's life. It's not just there, but exploding out of every crack, every orifice of the earth. I no longer felt like a human associating with other humans in society. I realized I'm an animal; I'm made of all the same stuff as this beautiful life in the rain forest. I realized the forest is my extended evolutionary family, and on a deeper, esoteric level, we can all understand the purpose of all life and matter...because all life and matter is so completely connected to us both physically and through our origins. All of life's plights are the same in the grand scheme of things... Now on a visual scale, the forest yielded some of the most distinct and pronounced visuals I've noticed on mushrooms. Though the dose was light and the trip had become primarily a mental tour, I could definitely imagine how the forest can turn into a fucking carnival on a large dose of mushrooms, or on Ayahusca! The plants tend to branch and spread more. Everywhere you look, you see evidence of natural fractals and other mathematical/natural anomalies. A side note here, but it's interesting how intrigued I was with math on this trip: the golden ration, the mathematical constant "e," pi, Fibonacci sequence, pascal's triangle, etc. So damn trippy. The forest was enveloped with these beautiful, branchy, gnarled rain trees. http://www.worldofstock.com/slides/NTR2222.jpg Shit like that... It's already a trippy fucking place, but the mushrooms just did it the rest of the way.
I spent the comedown hiking through the thick foliage and basking in the nature for all it was worth. We saw some waterfalls, rivers, you know...It was pretty. After I had come almost entirely off the mushrooms, we drove to the top of the Island where a pretty large observatory village is situated, and for a great reason. I had never seen so many stars and brilliant glow in the sky in my life. The universe was plainly visible the way man used to admire it eons ago. It basically wrapped up my trip and confirmed that: yep...all that psychedelic crap in your head MUST exist if such an as the universe exists...
If there's something I want people to realize from this report, it's that you don't need a lot of mushrooms to venture deeply into the psychedelic world. We mustn't forget that they psychedelics don't create alternate realities, nirvana, and enlightenment, WE do...though the drugs can make it much more easily accessible. And through my trips, I've gained a deep respect for the ideology of eastern religion. The universe isn't achieved by expanding outside, but by falling deep within. It's humbling that much of the universe is so beyond our control. But if we constantly use the brain we've been blessed with to it's fullest ability, we can control and construct the heaven we want to exist in while leaving behind the hell we allow ourselves to be forced to live in. Hope it makes some sense I've been a bit this fine evening. Myk
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