ichugwindex said:

It is interesting how you could walk past a dozen shroomery members at the grocery store and never know it.

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MadHatter333 said:

That’s true. I tell people about Shroomery sometimes. Some know I do myco work and want to try it out. Idk if they ever follow through with it, but it’s nice for them to have the option.

It would be funny if you were gathering myco stuff at the store and someone was doing the same thing right next to you. Tubs, jars, tinfoil, etc... I’ll be walking through sometimes and see random potential myco supplies ordinary people would just see as basic household items.

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MadHatter333 said:

If you’ve unknowingly met people in real life that have ties to the Shroomery?...

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foragedfungus said:

We had recently moved to rural upstate NY. I found a very unique and diverse forest to hike in and look for mushrooms.
From the first snow melt in may until mid july, I went hunting at least two and sometimes as often as six days a week. Never saw another person there.

One day I was crouched in the bushes, picking a huge patch of Lactarius hygrophoroides.
Someone yells from way down the trail "I thought there was someone here looking at my mushrooms"

We start talking mushrooms. He brings up the shroomery. Turns out he's BobZimmer. The only person I encounter in the woods in months and he's a trusted identifier here on the shroomery.
We went hiking together a bunch after that.
I learned more on those hikes than I did in years of reading about mushrooms.

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foragedfungus said:

I randomly met one of our trusted identifiers from the hunting/ID board in the middle of the woods.

foragedfungus said:

We had recently moved to rural upstate NY. I found a very unique and diverse forest to hike in and look for mushrooms.
From the first snow melt in may until mid july, I went hunting at least two and sometimes as often as six days a week. Never saw another person there.

One day I was crouched in the bushes, picking a huge patch of Lactarius hygrophoroides.
Someone yells from way down the trail "I thought there was someone here looking at my mushrooms"

We start talking mushrooms. He brings up the shroomery. Turns out he's BobZimmer. The only person I encounter in the woods in months and he's a trusted identifier here on the shroomery.
We went hiking together a bunch after that.
I learned more on those hikes than I did in years of reading about mushrooms.

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Cool story! Very well written, and touching. Met yourself a mushroom guru/mentor

MadHatter333 said:

Yeah.. lol. I was probably just imagining things. I had Shroomery on the brain that night lol. Sometimes I’ll day dream about what y’all are up to when I’m on psychedelics or just out and about. I’ll think about the convos on here, or something funny, and just chuckle to myself. My gf says I have a problem but she understands/accepts me.

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MadHatter333 said:

I think it’s completely possible to read another’s thoughts or pick up on vibrational cues. We can feel someone miles away, and communicate telepathically. How do you think ancient civilizations communicated long distances? There were no telephones to reach out.. they reached out with their minds/spirits.

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Fiery said:

MadHatter333 said:

I think it’s completely possible to read another’s thoughts or pick up on vibrational cues. We can feel someone miles away, and communicate telepathically. How do you think ancient civilizations communicated long distances? There were no telephones to reach out.. they reached out with their minds/spirits.

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Now that's a long stretch for most minds, but for me, I will tend to agree with that train of thought.

THere's millions of examples everyday where a mother, brother sister or father or friend just "knows" or dreams about something bad... and then it turns out to be true.


That can't be proven, and has not, by science, ya know? That sort of research will get you tagged by the CIA for psychic research specialist, or at least they used to feed candidates LSD and get them to remote view areas for war purposes...

This sort of thing is not an " on demand " ability. It just happens, and it's true. But it can't be explained, or even studied, or replicated.

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MadHatter333 said:

Fiery said:

MadHatter333 said:

I think it’s completely possible to read another’s thoughts or pick up on vibrational cues. We can feel someone miles away, and communicate telepathically. How do you think ancient civilizations communicated long distances? There were no telephones to reach out.. they reached out with their minds/spirits.

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Now that's a long stretch for most minds, but for me, I will tend to agree with that train of thought.

THere's millions of examples everyday where a mother, brother sister or father or friend just "knows" or dreams about something bad... and then it turns out to be true.


That can't be proven, and has not, by science, ya know? That sort of research will get you tagged by the CIA for psychic research specialist, or at least they used to feed candidates LSD and get them to remote view areas for war purposes...

This sort of thing is not an " on demand " ability. It just happens, and it's true. But it can't be explained, or even studied, or replicated.

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That’s deep man. I wasn’t aware you were such a intellectual. I’ve only seen the OTD side of you.

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Well that's really not that intellectual, just basic common folk lore thoughts.

Are you saying you thought I was a non psychic believing drone of society?



So, since you said

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I think it’s completely possible to read another’s thoughts or pick up on vibrational cues. We can feel someone miles away, and communicate telepathically. How do you think ancient civilizations communicated long distances? There were no telephones to reach out.. they reached out with their minds/spirits.

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What are your personal experiences with the subject?

MadHatter333 said:

Lol. I wasn’t sure man. Just thought you were a fun guy.

My personal experience with it is my first  ever experience doing LSD. I was 17 at the time, and had some mushrooms twice before then, (a eighth each time). I was with one of my best buddies at the time. He took me to this house with people I’ve never met before. These people were aspiring Kung fu masters, a mix of women and men.

It was night out and we went into a open field, snow on the ground. We practiced some Kung fu streatches, which I had never done before. There were deer crossing the railroad tracks. This wasn’t uncommon for the small town of Missoula Montana. It was a energy I had never felt before, complete awe.

We went back inside their home where we practiced some sparring. I was trying to defend against this one woman, but she kept hitting me. It hurt, but I felt alive.

After the sparring we sat down in a circle where we proceeded to read from a spirit animal book. At the time my spirit animal was the ant because I carried the whole weight of the world on my shoulders, (my mom was batteling cancer at the time.

Fast forward to where this story comes to a conclusion...

... We were all sitting around in the same circle, holding hands. The man that was teaching us the martial arts said “hold hands and imagine towers, each tower holds many different plains of consciousness, we can meet on these plains, each level of every tower holds an individual, or group of people, we can meet anytime here.

I felt the towers going up, and up, and up. Each level was like another level of communication, it was like we didn’t need phones or anything to communicate. The levels are where we could meet the others.

Changed my whole perspective on communication from that day forward.

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Fiery said:

The story that I've seen and experienced myself, is that if a person experiences heavy drugs before they are 23+, their brain is more likely to be altered in a way that is communicative to the psychic experience for the rest of their life..

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foragedfungus said:

I randomly met one of our trusted identifiers from the hunting/ID board in the middle of the woods.

foragedfungus said:

We had recently moved to rural upstate NY. I found a very unique and diverse forest to hike in and look for mushrooms.
From the first snow melt in may until mid july, I went hunting at least two and sometimes as often as six days a week. Never saw another person there.

One day I was crouched in the bushes, picking a huge patch of Lactarius hygrophoroides.
Someone yells from way down the trail "I thought there was someone here looking at my mushrooms"

We start talking mushrooms. He brings up the shroomery. Turns out he's BobZimmer. The only person I encounter in the woods in months and he's a trusted identifier here on the shroomery.
We went hiking together a bunch after that.
I learned more on those hikes than I did in years of reading about mushrooms.

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Fiery said:

Fiery said:

The story that I've seen and experienced myself, is that if a person experiences heavy drugs before they are 23+, their brain is more likely to be altered in a way that is communicative to the psychic experience for the rest of their life..

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How, or why this happens, or how long that effect lasts, is up for debate.

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Enjoywho said:

Did you guys kiss?

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Fiery said:

Enjoywho said:

Did you guys kiss?

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Only cheek no tongue.

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MadHatter333 said:

Fiery said:

Fiery said:

The story that I've seen and experienced myself, is that if a person experiences heavy drugs before they are 23+, their brain is more likely to be altered in a way that is communicative to the psychic experience for the rest of their life..

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How, or why this happens, or how long that effect lasts, is up for debate.

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Interesting. I wouldn’t doubt that. I’m more in my head most of the time. I socialize yes, but am more of a vibrational person.

Some people get uncomfortable around me because I’m so quiet. I can’t stand people who just talk to hear themselves speak. Mindless chitter chatter pisses me off!

I wasn’t abused, just sparring. Pain is a natural thing. If we don’t feel pain, we can’t distinguish pleasure from it. Yin and yang ☯️

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Sounds Ok then, I just wasn't sure from what you said before if you were abused.

Life thoughts: Once the threshold of pain is realized, there is no more pleasure from it.






So yo're "quiet" eh? That's ok, so am I, but I also am known to have a big mouth. I know the best of both worlds because I was lucky to be born like that.


"Chitter chatter people " as you describe are NOT in my life.

I have like 7 FB friends( by choice). I hold time with my family alone . I don't spend any time on that bullshit "chit chat social crap" like you said.


So I tend to agree partially with your post.

Fiery said:

MadHatter333 said:

Fiery said:

Fiery said:

The story that I've seen and experienced myself, is that if a person experiences heavy drugs before they are 23+, their brain is more likely to be altered in a way that is communicative to the psychic experience for the rest of their life..

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How, or why this happens, or how long that effect lasts, is up for debate.

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Interesting. I wouldn’t doubt that. I’m more in my head most of the time. I socialize yes, but am more of a vibrational person.

Some people get uncomfortable around me because I’m so quiet. I can’t stand people who just talk to hear themselves speak. Mindless chitter chatter pisses me off!

I wasn’t abused, just sparring. Pain is a natural thing. If we don’t feel pain, we can’t distinguish pleasure from it. Yin and yang ☯️

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Sounds Ok then, I just wasn't sure from what you said before if you were abused.

Life thoughts: Once the threshold of pain is realized, there is no more pleasure from it.






So yo're "quiet" eh? That's ok, so am I, but I also am known to have a big mouth. I know the best of both worlds because I was lucky to be born like that.


"Chitter chatter people " as you describe are NOT in my life.

I have like 7 FB friends( by choice). I hold time with my family alone . I don't spend any time on that bullshit "chit chat social crap" like you said.


So I tend to agree partially with your post.

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MadHatter333 said:

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So I tend to agree partially with your post.

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Fiery said:

MadHatter333 said:

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So I tend to agree partially with your post.

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I could die today, and be alright with it. I know my time here is short. Why waste it on my suffering?

No one likes to feel pain, but it’s a part of life. If we don’t embrace it, we will spend our whole lives suffering.

Just like Buddha, we have to face our demons.

Quiet people tend to hear/observe more than loud people. We’re just more aware of our surroundings. Everyone has their place though, and lessons to learn.

I love being around loud people sometimes because it gives me another seance of diversity.

I try my best not to judge people, I just prefer the company of certain individuals.

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Fiery said:

Even if it were a violent death I’d be okay with it. Did Jesus die peacefully? No! He was a martyr.

I don’t want to die right now, but if I did it would be my time to go.

Why fight the inevitable? You’d only be creating more suffering for yourself.

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MadHatter333 said:

I’m just trying to say.. fuck death! I’ll be returning somewhere else when I pass anyway.

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Fiery said:

MadHatter333 said:

I’m just trying to say.. fuck death! I’ll be returning somewhere else when I pass anyway.

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Oh yeah!> ?

WHere>?


I too myself think then when I die my body will return to some giant microcosm of the earth, with all it's poisons intact.

But my Soul...


SOuls.


Souls.... this is a dangerous territory.

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Enjoywho said:

foragedfungus said:

I randomly met one of our trusted identifiers from the hunting/ID board in the middle of the woods.

foragedfungus said:

We had recently moved to rural upstate NY. I found a very unique and diverse forest to hike in and look for mushrooms.
From the first snow melt in may until mid july, I went hunting at least two and sometimes as often as six days a week. Never saw another person there.

One day I was crouched in the bushes, picking a huge patch of Lactarius hygrophoroides.
Someone yells from way down the trail "I thought there was someone here looking at my mushrooms"

We start talking mushrooms. He brings up the shroomery. Turns out he's BobZimmer. The only person I encounter in the woods in months and he's a trusted identifier here on the shroomery.
We went hiking together a bunch after that.
I learned more on those hikes than I did in years of reading about mushrooms.

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Did you guys kiss?

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MadHatter333 said:

I don’t believe everything just goes black and you’re done for. That shit just depresses me.. how could we explain the DMT experience, or Near death experience? There’s more to death than just total blackness.

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MadValley said:

MadHatter333 said:

I don’t believe everything just goes black and you’re done for. That shit just depresses me.. how could we explain the DMT experience, or Near death experience? There’s more to death than just total blackness.

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You have to consider that all psychedelics work by adjusting your brain chemistry. Without that physical brain there isn't really a place for the "experience" to happen. Anything explaining how that experience can occur without a brain is skating on thin ice. There are beliefs and arguments - from a spiritual or philosophical viewpoint - that attempt to explain it but, on this side of the curtain anyway, all that is just smoke.

I prefer to go the physics route and follow the energy. I choose not to believe that consciousness is an emergent phenomenon but a form of energy. So, it can be neither created or destroyed, only changed. The dark side of that way of thinking is that there might not be much energy there.

We'll all find out soon enough.

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