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Just_A_Noob said:
...Killing parts of myself (negative desires, gluttony, greed, my alcoholism) and growing into a healthier more enlightened individual. . .It was hard for me because of the thought of leaving my wife and children.  I think to feel comfortable taking high doses, as an individual, you have to be okay with dying in a way.  Like there is nothing you regret having/not having done.  Oh yeah and these are not recreational drugs to me anymore.  They are too powerful and deserve to be respected.

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I did not expect these things to happen. When I first started cultivation, it was more of just to have mushrooms to get high on and see some shit. I now feel I am more a part of the psychedelic community as a whole for growing out of that state of mind of just wanting to get high and respecting the entheogens on a deeper level.

for this thread.

I would like to add, I had a non dual experience before I even had the thought of growing mushrooms. At the end of this experience I invisioned a golden Buddha, sitting ever so calmly. This experience has prompted me to look into Buddhism and It has helped me through some tough times, both sober and in an altered state. I'm fascinated to learn that some of the altered stated that long time meditation people's. . .are similar or can translate to the altered states achieved when taking an entheogen. And even the possibility (and probability) of ancient peoples taking these same entheogens we use today, to reach higher states of consciousness.