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5 Grams Dried Cubensis / The McKenna Dose
    #23845079 - 11/18/16 11:58 AM (7 years, 2 months ago)

Last weekend me and a close friend decided to try "The McKenna Dose"

I have only tripped twice in the last 6 months. I love to trip, but I also believe that the only way to fully digest a trip and heal, is to reflect on it for a period of time afterward.

The evening was very spontaneous for me. I hadn't seen Shaine in months. We met up for a couple drinks the night before and decided we were both ready for a deep spiritual journey. The obvious answer was 5 grams dried cubensis. So I sent him home with 10 grams that night.



I like to prepare for a trip. Sometimes I will go to great lengths packing bags with blankets, food, lanterns, sketchbook etc. Only to find that I have no use for these things during my trip.
For this trip I gathered:
- Oracle LED gloveset
- Laptop
- Sketchbook & coloured pencils
- Watercolours, paint brushes & pallet

But I still wasn't satisfied.
When I arrived at Shaine's apartment I told him that I needed crayons and bristol board.
He laughed at me, wondering if I was even going to use any of this stuff I brought.

For some reason he had it in his head that we weren't going to be functional or something during our trip. I mentioned something about it just being mushrooms and it can't be any crazier than 3 tabs of acid. He laughed to himself. It turns out we both had no idea what to expect from this. I'm sure being that it was called "The McKenna Dose" we had both put 5 grams of shrooms on some sort of pedistal in our minds.

We ate our mushrooms on our walk to grab supplies while we discussed our goals and intentions for the trip.

I mentioned something along the lines of having more control over my life. I wanted to leave the trip feeling free to do as I please, whenever, and wherever I please.
Lately I had been dabbling in lucid dreaming. A common theme in my dreams were, once I'd realized that I was dreaming, I'd get a a feeling that I could do anything imaginable and the world was at my fingertips. Only later I'd find that I didn't do anything about my sudden realization. I'd usually fall back into the themes and patterns of my dream like a zombie.
I'd started to feel like a zombie in waken life. Life is but a dream, and here I was, just playing by the rules. Paying no mind to my inner most desires.
Not only that, but I didn't even know what my inner most desires were.



We made it back to Shaine's apartment. The warm rolling techno basslines were already filling the room as we arrived. I could feel the mushroom glow coming on. Everything was as it should be. I took off my shoes and immediately lay down on the floor. My legs were tired from the walk.

Shaine went over the the laptop and started looking for a good mix to play. He always has a perfect mix ready for every occasion.

I set up my bristol board on the coffee table in the center of the room. It covered most of the table so I put everything off to the side and then dumped the box of crayons on the board. I immediately got to work.

Shaine turned off the lights and lit some candles. He placed some on the corner of bristol board.
"Oh, is it okay that I put this here?"
"NO! I'm colouring over there!"
We erupted in laughter at how rediculous it would would have been if I were actually being serious, and also at the fact that he even questioned if it were okay in the first place. I was after all taking up almost the entire table. Things were starting to seem really silly. I could tell this was going to be a good night.
The flickering candle light was casting shadows of my crayon in all directions as I coloured. I started to notice faint geometric designs in the slight creases in the bristol board.

Shaine searched for a visual to go along with the music that was playing.
I had almost drowned out the constant rolling bass in the background except for a tiny head Bob as I worked.

I was deep in thought. Every now and again me and shaine would look to eachother and laugh.
"I'm a really funny person sometimes."
I had been thinking about things that I'd said in past situations and reflecting on how I felt and handled things at certain points in my life. Again and again realizing how perfectly imperfect I am.
"Like really fuckin funny sometimes"
Shaine nodded his head in aproval.

This type of self reflection, in the past, would have given me a really hard time. Self acceptance was a hard lesson for me to learn. Now, being able to laugh about it and share with someone was the best medicine.
I can only assume shaine was doing the same thing because he seemed to know exactly what I was talking about.

I stopped drawing and lay on the floor. Staring at my arm hairs changing colour. Deep deep in thought. I don't even remember what I was thinking about at this point. All I remember was thinking about how redundant my thought patterns were becoming. It was time to put an end to self reflection. I sprung up from the floor.
"Fuck all that!"
"I knowwww"
I guess shaine came to the same conclusion at the same time. Before this we had barely said a word to eachother. The come up on these shrooms was intense.
I jumped onto the bed and started listening to the music.
At this point a vocal track was playing over the mellow beat.
"Till my stone cold grave I'll be pushing on. Till my blood runs dry I'll be riding high"
A permanent smile grew from ear to ear. I looked at shaine and saw he was smiling too. We were both staring at the speaker listening intently. The lyrics kept repeating thems elves over and over. It was so perfect! I jumped off the bed and started dancing to it. I couldn't help myself. I started making noises with my mouth that went to the beat. I had never felt so free. I felt like being silly. I started pointing at the speaker. Gesturing to the beat.

My silliness was contagious. Shaine started dancing and making noises too and laughing uncontrollably. I felt like a child. I remembered back to my childhood when I used to be silly and carefree. When I used to live without fear or guilt or shame. That was how I felt now.
"I'M ALIVE! AIN'T IT GOOD TO BE ALIVE!" I gestured toward the ceiling.
I could feel the energy flowing through my body. I WAS in a dream and I COULD do whatever I wanted! I could hear clearly now my inner most desires. What did I want to do at that very moment? Jump up and down and flail my arms to the beat of this glorious music! I am a spaz case! Why was I denying myself my god given right to be a spa? !
"ALL I EVER WANTED TO BE WAS MYSELF! AHHHH! AND FEELS SO GOOD!"
This moment was mine. I had finally learned to harness the power of living in the present moment. All my worries were gone!

We eventually calmed down and re-entered a reflective state. We discussed how we had both learned so much in such a small amount of time. This is what I like about mushrooms. The natural flow of the trip really helps the learning process.
"Why do I ever buy cocaine? I don't even like it. And it costs so much money."
A thought that I had had before but never seemed so puzzling as it did in that moment, or still to this day.
"I know right! Like fuck it, just take all my money. I don't want it. Here you want an extra 20 bucks? Why not?"

I wondered how I could have ever lost touch with that crazy silly side of myself.
I then remembered back to a time when I was really young. I had made a concious decision to censor myself. I didn't have many friends, and I thought that I was annoying to others because of my overly enthusiastic, spaztic, add crazy behaviour. I very well may have been annoying but that didn't matter.
This thought didn't make me sad. I realized that my attempts to bottle this side of myself up had failed. Because throughout my life, I wasn't making a conciousness decision to bottle it up. It found its way out. Expressed itself in all kinds of different ways that gave me my quirks. I was a caterpillar back then, who created a cocoon. Now emerging from that cocoon was my new self. A butterfly.

The transition back to reality from this trip never really happened.
The lesson was so obvious that I can live it every day. And although I do stumble off my path from time to time, I always know where I'm headed.

"Till my stone cold grave, I'll be pushing on. Till my blood runs dry I'll be riding high!"


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Consciousness, the awareness that is experiencing this mind,
is peering in from outside the universe.

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Re: 5 Grams Dried Cubensis / The McKenna Dose [Re: ComebackKid]
    #23845138 - 11/18/16 12:28 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

:mushroom2: Sounds like a good time


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That the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse.”
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Re: 5 Grams Dried Cubensis / The McKenna Dose [Re: The Mycologist]
    #23845216 - 11/18/16 01:02 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

Haha thanks for reading, it most definitely was. You ever get that feeling like you wanna write everyone ever a letter and thank them all for just doing their thing?
I had that feeling all night. I guess this is my letter :lol:


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