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New Years Trip - 3g Cubes - "I am loving Awareness" - Ram Dass 1
#26412803 - 01/02/20 03:42 PM (4 years, 27 days ago) |
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Happy New Year shroomery family!
Some quick back story:
On New Years Eve, I had the place to myself so I figured it would be the perfect opportunity to take a dose since I've been putting off doing so due to fear born from ego (even though I had really wanted to do it for a while). My previous trip to this was 1.5g in November and a weird 3g trip before that in October. This time I took 3g in capsules.
The basic rundown:
- 7:00 PM: Dose consumed. 3g in capsules. 2.5g was swallowed as capsules but the last capsule broke when I grabbed it so I put the last .5g into a glass with coconut water and downed it.
- 7:30-8PM: Come up. I have a fast metabolism (seemingly) and it has always hit me pretty quickly. I was starting to feel the effects.
- 8-9PM: The meat of the experience (peak). Visually intense. Body load like a wrecking ball being rolled over my body. Odd bodily sensations (I actually like these
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- 9-10PM: Occupying the mental psychedelic space. Less intense than the peak. Very playful.
- 10-11:30PM: Slow descent. Close to baseline at 11:30.
Note: The experience was incredible. Anytime I felt confusion I would repeat Ram Dass's mantra "I am loving awareness". None of the trip was bad in any sense but, as experiences of this nature are, there were some periods of confusion during which I leaned on this mantra to try and simply be.
The experience:
7:00 PM: I dosed as stated above. I was having significantly less anxiety than my prior trips. (I read a little bit of Leary's The Psychedelic Experience the hour or so before this). I was more ready and more eager to take this journey than I had ever been. After swallowing my dose I spent the time before effects began doing some last minute organizing. Once I began to feel a little "tingly" I jumped under the covers and put my music on.
7:30-8PM: The body theatrics had started. The progression was interesting to behold. At first I was "tingly". Then I started feeling as if my entire body began to vibrate. Then came the pressure. It felt as if a wrecking ball was being rolled over me, back and forth. But it wasn't a negative or painful experience. I actually like it! It felt unbelievably euphoric, as if the weight being pressed through my existence was releasing all my pain and trauma.
8-9PM: And BAM. Like a truck, it had hit me. The closed eye visuals were intense spirals of geometric patterns flashing with random colors. When I opened my eyes I would see the same patterns (although not as intense) in the darkness of my room. I was listening to music but I felt more distracted by the music than into it. Along with the intense body load and the visuals, I began to be flooded by insights. The first one was a repetitive thought I had.
I'm home. I'm home. I'm home.
I felt like I belonged in this space. Like I was finally in a place where I just am. Like all of the depression and existential dread that I struggle with are just illusions. I have never felt my being so wholly. This part is the most unexplainable. I was finally home.
Then more practical wisdom came to be. Ever since I was younger I struggled with an identity. My friends were always the "cool" ones and so I, as a naive youngster, would imitate them (which they hated). And I carried that for a while into the end of high school (I dropped this when I was in college but the suffering had already established itself). This made it so that I never knew who I was. I was a clone simply taking shape of that which I yearned. But taking shape isn't being. And so, I endured much suffering because of it. The mushrooms told me that I simply could be. I do not need to "clone" others and I do not need to create a rigid set of definitions to discern me from others. I can simply be and myself will fall into place.
They reminded me that I can forgive myself. I can love myself. I can be happy. I am loving awareness.
9-10PM: This part was very playful. I put away the music because it was too distracting and I just sat in the darkness. I played with the feelings I had (rolled around in bed. Put my covers over my head and just rocked back and forth). I was like a child. At one point, after taking a piss, it took me maybe 15 minutes to make the trek to my room (which is a 30 second walk up the stairs from the bathroom). It was a combination of the bodyload and having this childlike amazement at everything on the way up. I would just stop and laugh, looking at the room around me as if for the first time. This period may have had no "insights" per se but the fun in and of itself was insightful. Recently I had begun removing anything "fun" in my life in this weird bid to get serious and "get stuff done". All this lead to was misery and resentment (and of course leaning on other vices). This period reminded me that it is OK to have fun, to dance with the experiences in life.
10-11:30PM: I began my descent pretty quickly. I guess because this was powdered form and my metabolism is quick, the experience was "Hard and fast". So I used this space to relax. I listened to a little bit more music. I stayed in bed a little while longer just smiling. And then, at the tail end, I watched some T.V. I used this time to start thinking about what I had experienced and to just relax. The funniest experience in this space was getting up and realizing what Ram Dass meant when he said "I am loving awareness". It has a double meaning! You are both in love with the phenomenon of awareness and you ARE awareness that is full of love! I thought it was incredible to have this insight even though it was something so simple.
Conclusion: I'm home. This experience reminded me that the I had been putting off the experience out of fear. It is a space that I love and, even knowing that there will be moments of great difficulty, I must take the leap. I'll be taking 4g for my next experience as I'm ready to go deeper. In the meantime I need to make sure to work on myself. And so far, the last two days have been more productive than my last few months. I need to keep that momentum so that when the next experience comes, I will be deserving of it and can give my full self to it.
Thanks for reading!
P.S After I took my dose and was waiting for the effects, I was thinking of each of you, my shroomery pals.
When it comes to the shroomery, I'm Home.
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Re: New Years Trip - 3g Cubes - "I am loving Awareness" - Ram Dass [Re: Socrateshroom]
#26413023 - 01/02/20 06:18 PM (4 years, 27 days ago) |
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Let me be the first to tell you, that is an amazing way to bring in the New Years. I'm so happy you were able to build up the courage and took advantage of your oppertunity of having the place to yourself. As many times as I've taken them, I ALWAYS have these thought to justify NOT to take them. But, once I get over the comeup - I always wish I had "taken more" - funny how things work right
Sounds like you had an awesome internal experience. You were dealing with things from your past and the mushrooms were exposing hidden truths about yourself. They were nice to you and presented yourself in front of yourself. It's a beautiful thing when you can love yourself unconditionally - a lot of us have hard times expecting who we are and constantly criticizing ourselves.
It's nice when everything becomes silenced and you're able to think with clarity and feel euphoria of love and emotions sprinkling all over you. Very glad you were able to have an experience of such.
Also, the childlike moments are the best. It's always so satisfying to feel like you're being reborn into this "boring" world. A room, and you can dance and giggle like a school girl.. because you wonder why you take these things so seriously all the time. I love the realizations I get of being too serious about things that don't matter and they always make me get a huge laugh out of it.
Anyway, sounds like you had yourself a great time nonetheless. Very happy for you! Looking forward to hearing from your next trip - hopefully you take a little bit more and can get a little more insight!
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Re: New Years Trip - 3g Cubes - "I am loving Awareness" - Ram Dass [Re: Vibe_Enthusiast]
#26413321 - 01/02/20 09:29 PM (4 years, 26 days ago) |
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Welcome home.
Finding sanctuary in the temple that is your self has got to be one of the most liberating feelings.
There are marvelous treasures in there that no one can loot. Others may admire or deface them, but they are wholly and inseparably yours and they hold infinite value.
As can happen, yours may have been dusty and unattended, but I'm happy to know you've reopened the doors and can now take pleasure in polishing the edges and sweeping the floors.
Chores never seemed so lovely.
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Re: New Years Trip - 3g Cubes - "I am loving Awareness" - Ram Dass [Re: Socrateshroom]
#26414217 - 01/03/20 11:40 AM (4 years, 26 days ago) |
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Thank you for sharing Socratesshroom 👊🏻
I knew you’d have a great trip ✊🏻
9-10PM: This part was very playful. I put away the music because it was too distracting and I just sat in the darkness. I played with the feelings I had (rolled around in bed. Put my covers over my head and just rocked back and forth). I was like a child. At one point, after taking a piss, it took me maybe 15 minutes to make the trek to my room (which is a 30 second walk up the stairs from the bathroom). It was a combination of the bodyload and having this childlike amazement at everything on the way up. I would just stop and laugh, looking at the room around me as if for the first time. This period may have had no "insights" per se but the fun in and of itself was insightful. Recently I had begun removing anything "fun" in my life in this weird bid to get serious and "get stuff done". All this lead to was misery and resentment (and of course leaning on other vices). This period reminded me that it is OK to have fun, to dance with the experiences in life.
Nothing wrong with that, pal. I’m using psilocybin to treat depression, which I’ve had for 45 of my 53nyears on this earth! Or that’s what I tell everybody 🤨. Seriously though, I know the real heroic trips steered towards a mystical experience, as per the Johns Hopkins psilocybin occasions a mystical experience study, is the best way to treat depression. But I don’t have a trained guide, I don’t have the days of pysochotherapy beforehand, and I don’t have anyone to hold the integration sessions with afterwards. So for me the heroic+ dose is a once a year thing. So I use a lower dose, now at two week intervals. I don’t “die”. But I get the psychedlic headspace. 3.8g dry B+ does it, nd after returning here nd reading loads of great posts from you guys, my trips are getting more intense and I am going so much further. But this is more a journey of exploration for me, and learning, whatever that may be. I love the headspace. The fact that scientific data is coming out stating the uses of psychedelics, well that’s just a bonus.
A few other comments against your post, if I may sir......
Ram Dass. Great quote, I’m going to use that next time 👊🏻
4g dose next trip. Could I steer you more to 3.5g. The jump from 3g to 4g is not linear! At 4g, it can go downhill really easily. You will need to be ready. Search out Rosalind Watts YouTube videos. She’s form ICL in England, working with Carhart-Harris and David Nutt. She advises patients when the trip gets challenging, to ask the mushrooms for help. Tell them, out loud if need be, that you have come to them for help, and that is with...insert help needed! It absolutely worked for me on a trip last November 2018. I put headphones on, covered myself in my blanket, and listened to Hawkwind for the first time in years. I listened all through Space Ritual. Wow!. The music was all-enveloping, Hawkwind were in my head, playing live to me, I was in the audience, psychedlic elves / creatures! And I travelled back in time to when I was 20, much less depressed and with no responsibilities, when I use to trip regularly, festivals, live music, travelling etc etc. And the mushrooms somehow taught me the only real deep lesson they’ve ever taught me: that depression is a choice! It was so profound my depression went away without another trip until about October 2019 - 11 months! And that was all because I asked the mushrooms for help, just as Rosalind had advised.
Final comment lol (come on, Ed, you’re rambling....) Nah it’s gone, must have been on footpath’s,reply ✊🏻
EDIT: haha I’ve just remembered. Anxiety!! Wanted to advise you what I’ve found. First I don’t think the anxiety ever goes away. It’s all balance. But you can get better prepared for it and I believe, as you get more experienced, you learn to “just let go” much sooner in the trip come up.
I read somewhere about a psychedlic therapist you made the following analogy: “If you see a mountain lion, do not run away, or it will chase you.”
Other advice I’ve heard is: “if you see a flight of stairs, walk up them, if you see a door, open it and walk through.”
So keep at it Socratesshroom, you’ll get better. There’s no rush though, you have all the time in the world.
Mush love, and thank you for sharing. Wonderful write up 👊🏻 DJ Ed
-------------------- “It’s like when you see a mountain lion,” he suggested. “If you run, it will chase you. So you must stand your ground.” Michael Pollan: How To Change Your Mind “The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer.” Terence McKenna

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Re: New Years Trip - 3g Cubes - "I am loving Awareness" - Ram Dass [Re: DJ Ed]
#26414239 - 01/03/20 11:55 AM (4 years, 26 days ago) |
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Slight correction, as mushrooms have indeed taught me many profound lessons. I guess number #1 lesson has been that we do not die. Well again that’s not strictly correct: we do not cease to exist when we physically die. There are loads others but you get my point.
And taking 15 minutes from piss to bed because of the amazement is one of the coolest things resulting from the amounts of time you actually do need to piss while tripping. I have a canvas painting of an enchanted lake in the moonlight, in purples and greens on the way down the stairs. Mesmerises me every time. And in my safe space (if you can’t find my thread I’ll link it) is a painting of Pinocchio, as he transitions from black and white into a full colour world. This goes WILD on mushrooms 🤓
Mush love, DJ Ed
-------------------- “It’s like when you see a mountain lion,” he suggested. “If you run, it will chase you. So you must stand your ground.” Michael Pollan: How To Change Your Mind “The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer.” Terence McKenna

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Re: New Years Trip - 3g Cubes - "I am loving Awareness" - Ram Dass [Re: footpath]
#26414301 - 01/03/20 12:43 PM (4 years, 26 days ago) |
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Quote:
Vibe_Enthusiast said:
Anyway, sounds like you had yourself a great time nonetheless. Very happy for you! Looking forward to hearing from your next trip - hopefully you take a little bit more and can get a little more insight!

Thank you for reading and for the insight! I definitely will take more next time. I'm ready to go a little deeper and do more internal work! But for now, I'm working on myself in this "sober" reality.
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footpath said: Welcome home.
As can happen, yours may have been dusty and unattended, but I'm happy to know you've reopened the doors and can now take pleasure in polishing the edges and sweeping the floors.
Chores never seemed so lovely.
Thank you for reading! And you are absolutely spot on. I feel so happy to be alive again and the "chores" of life have become the wonderful privileges.
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Re: New Years Trip - 3g Cubes - "I am loving Awareness" - Ram Dass [Re: DJ Ed]
#26414382 - 01/03/20 01:26 PM (4 years, 26 days ago) |
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DJ Ed said: Thank you for sharing Socratesshroom 👊🏻
I knew you’d have a great trip ✊🏻
Nothing wrong with that, pal. I’m using psilocybin to treat depression, which I’ve had for 45 of my 53 years on this earth! Or that’s what I tell everybody 🤨. Seriously though, I know the real heroic trips steered towards a mystical experience, as per the Johns Hopkins psilocybin occasions a mystical experience study, is the best way to treat depression. But I don’t have a trained guide, I don’t have the days of pysochotherapy beforehand, and I don’t have anyone to hold the integration sessions with afterwards. So for me the heroic+ dose is a once a year thing. So I use a lower dose, now at two week intervals. I don’t “die”. But I get the psychedlic headspace. 3.8g dry B+ does it, nd after returning here nd reading loads of great posts from you guys, my trips are getting more intense and I am going so much further. But this is more a journey of exploration for me, and learning, whatever that may be. I love the headspace. The fact that scientific data is coming out stating the uses of psychedelics, well that’s just a bonus.
A few other comments against your post, if I may sir......
Ram Dass. Great quote, I’m going to use that next time 👊🏻
4g dose next trip. Could I steer you more to 3.5g. The jump from 3g to 4g is not linear! At 4g, it can go downhill really easily. You will need to be ready. Search out Rosalind Watts YouTube videos. She’s form ICL in England, working with Carhart-Harris and David Nutt. She advises patients when the trip gets challenging, to ask the mushrooms for help. Tell them, out loud if need be, that you have come to them for help, and that is with...insert help needed! It absolutely worked for me on a trip last November 2018. I put headphones on, covered myself in my blanket, and listened to Hawkwind for the first time in years. I listened all through Space Ritual. Wow!. The music was all-enveloping, Hawkwind were in my head, playing live to me, I was in the audience, psychedlic elves / creatures! And I travelled back in time to when I was 20, much less depressed and with no responsibilities, when I use to trip regularly, festivals, live music, travelling etc etc. And the mushrooms somehow taught me the only real deep lesson they’ve ever taught me: that depression is a choice! It was so profound my depression went away without another trip until about October 2019 - 11 months! And that was all because I asked the mushrooms for help, just as Rosalind had advised.
Final comment lol (come on, Ed, you’re rambling....) Nah it’s gone, must have been on footpath’s,reply ✊🏻
EDIT: haha I’ve just remembered. Anxiety!! Wanted to advise you what I’ve found. First I don’t think the anxiety ever goes away. It’s all balance. But you can get better prepared for it and I believe, as you get more experienced, you learn to “just let go” much sooner in the trip come up.
I read somewhere about a psychedlic therapist you made the following analogy: “If you see a mountain lion, do not run away, or it will chase you.”
Other advice I’ve heard is: “if you see a flight of stairs, walk up them, if you see a door, open it and walk through.”
So keep at it Socratesshroom, you’ll get better. There’s no rush though, you have all the time in the world.
Mush love, and thank you for sharing. Wonderful write up 👊🏻 DJ Ed
Thank you for reading! It is a pleasure to share this space with you, Vibe, footpath and everyone here.
In a sense depression is what led me to it as well and I struggle with it daily so I know what you're going through. The only reason I never took any prescriptions for it was because I worked in the pharma industry and saw the poison that were the anti-depressants. Instead I went searching for this type of experience when my life reached a breaking point (and I'm glad I did because I was ready to jump ship on life.)
I'm glad you're successfully treating your depression with mushies and your wisdom has given me a positive outlook on my own struggles.
Now on your suggestion to 3.5g, I actually took 3.5g a few months before this and it felt about this intensity just a little longer lasting (because it was whole shrooms, not capsules. However you may be right because, as I've noticed, having made capsules spread the potency evenly and the peak seems to hit much harder). Knowing my ego, 3.5g is probably what I'll do as it'll be scared to jump to 4g. I guess I'm just getting a little ahead of myself 
And I definitely agree on the anxiety. I know it doesn't go away but I feel that every-time I concur it, wether be in taking shrooms, talking to someone, doing something, I lessen its effect on me. Obviously I'll get put in my place if I get an inflated ego and jump into the deep end before I am ready. I guess feeling like I'm comfortable in the psychedelic space made me feel like I don't need to be anxious, I'm happy there, even in the rough waters.
But I have a-lot to learn (and I definitely was talking to the mushrooms throughout, asking it for help with some problems I knew I needed to face).
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Re: New Years Trip - 3g Cubes - "I am loving Awareness" - Ram Dass [Re: Socrateshroom]
#26414544 - 01/03/20 03:02 PM (4 years, 26 days ago) |
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Nice one, thanks, love your posts.
I need to make a further edit, as I missed the most important part of the Michael Pollan quote. In fact I’ll go and get the book so I’m exactly right! ......brb......
It’s like when you see a mountain lion,” he suggested. “If you run, it will chase you. So you must stand your ground.” I was reminded of the “flight instructions” that the guides employed at Johns Hopkins: instead of turning away from any monster that appears, move toward it, stand your ground, and demand to know, “What are you doing in my mind? What do you have to teach me?”
I’m actually finding all of this quite profound. It just inspires you to learn more, don’t you think?
And man, I loved reading your report. Well written and wise words. Thank you and much peace.
DJ Ed
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Re: New Years Trip - 3g Cubes - "I am loving Awareness" - Ram Dass [Re: Socrateshroom]
#26414564 - 01/03/20 03:19 PM (4 years, 26 days ago) |
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Hey Socrateshroom,
And taking 15 minutes from piss to bed because of the amazement is one of the coolest things resulting from the amounts of time you actually do need to piss while tripping. I have a canvas painting of an enchanted lake in the moonlight, in purples and greens on the way down the stairs. Mesmerises me every time. And in my safe space (if you can’t find my thread I’ll link it) is a painting of Pinocchio, as he transitions from black and white into a full colour world. This goes WILD on mushrooms 🤓
Check out my new signature 🤣✊🏻
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Re: New Years Trip - 3g Cubes - "I am loving Awareness" - Ram Dass [Re: DJ Ed]
#26414655 - 01/03/20 04:07 PM (4 years, 26 days ago) |
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Finally, lol, here’s a link to YouTube to the Rosalind Watts video I mentioned: [url=Researching Psilocybin’s Effects on Depression - Dr. Rosalind Watts.[/url]
-------------------- “It’s like when you see a mountain lion,” he suggested. “If you run, it will chase you. So you must stand your ground.” Michael Pollan: How To Change Your Mind “The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer.” Terence McKenna

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Re: New Years Trip - 3g Cubes - "I am loving Awareness" - Ram Dass [Re: DJ Ed]
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DJ Ed said: Hey Socrateshroom,
And taking 15 minutes from piss to bed because of the amazement is one of the coolest things resulting from the amounts of time you actually do need to piss while tripping. I have a canvas painting of an enchanted lake in the moonlight, in purples and greens on the way down the stairs. Mesmerises me every time. And in my safe space (if you can’t find my thread I’ll link it) is a painting of Pinocchio, as he transitions from black and white into a full colour world. This goes WILD on mushrooms 🤓
Check out my new signature 🤣✊🏻
That is a pretty solid quote. I like the analogy.
Also, I see the UK houses are much different from here in the US. With the brick wall and all
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Re: New Years Trip - 3g Cubes - "I am loving Awareness" - Ram Dass [Re: Vibe_Enthusiast]
#26415464 - 01/04/20 02:38 AM (4 years, 25 days ago) |
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Yes the famous Accrington Nori brick. Needed in the north west because of the cold and damp lol. At least the wolf can’t blow his way in 🤣
Mush love
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Re: New Years Trip - 3g Cubes - "I am loving Awareness" - Ram Dass [Re: DJ Ed]
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DJ Ed said: Hey Socrateshroom,
And taking 15 minutes from piss to bed because of the amazement is one of the coolest things resulting from the amounts of time you actually do need to piss while tripping. I have a canvas painting of an enchanted lake in the moonlight, in purples and greens on the way down the stairs. Mesmerises me every time. And in my safe space (if you can’t find my thread I’ll link it) is a painting of Pinocchio, as he transitions from black and white into a full colour world. This goes WILD on mushrooms 🤓
Check out my new signature 🤣✊🏻
Awesome space, I saw the pictures you posted a while back. I want your interior designer 
And thanks for the video, I’ll watch in a little bit once I get to a computer
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Re: New Years Trip - 3g Cubes - "I am loving Awareness" - Ram Dass [Re: Socrateshroom]
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Lol, the interior designed was my internal shroom voice 🤣
Yeah after I’d managed to post a link to that video last night, I watched it again! She is such a nice person, an inner love that seems to shine through. And she says some very interesting things about psilocybin and depression.
Load your sub-conscious up with her teachings before a trip, and as happened with me, you’ll find the mushrooms much more receptive when you’re looking for self-help.
Mush love, DJ Ed
-------------------- “It’s like when you see a mountain lion,” he suggested. “If you run, it will chase you. So you must stand your ground.” Michael Pollan: How To Change Your Mind “The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer.” Terence McKenna

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Re: New Years Trip - 3g Cubes - "I am loving Awareness" - Ram Dass [Re: Socrateshroom]
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And for completeness, Socrateshroom, I have added the enchanted garden painting to my signature 👊🏻
This pic totally mesmerises after many trips to the loo......
DJ Ed
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Re: New Years Trip - 3g Cubes - "I am loving Awareness" - Ram Dass [Re: DJ Ed]
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I actually look forward to when I buy my own place and able to decorate and do what I please with it. I'm definitely keeping the "setting" to a mushroom trip level. I like nature and weird pretty colorful things already
My house will be the shit one day!!
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The worlds your oyster, go for it fella 👊🏻
I remember years back when my wife and I bought a house on the Isle of Wight. Gorgeous place off the south coast of England. Three bedrooms, large-is gardens front and back and side. I was allocatedbthe third bedroom for a “games room”. It was all planned: dart board, pool table, Xbox, sofa bed, telly, cushions, plants, and Buddha type ornaments. Got the room carpeted. Stripped the wallpaper. Re-papered then painted a gorgeous terracotta colour. As the last lick of paint went on, my wife came home and announce......that she was pregnant. Paint scheme changed, cot put in, baby stuff........
That was 15 years ago! So now we’re back “up North”, cold wet Lancashire. I’ve been allocated the conservatory as my games room lol. That didn’t last long after the first mushroom trip in 30 years ✊🏻
Take care, and good luck when you get round to house hunting. DJ Ed
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Re: New Years Trip - 3g Cubes - "I am loving Awareness" - Ram Dass [Re: DJ Ed]
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DJ Ed said: And for completeness, Socrateshroom, I have added the enchanted garden painting to my signature 👊🏻
This pic totally mesmerises after many trips to the loo......
DJ Ed
Those are beautiful! I have Alex Grey's artwork as well as movie posters from Andrei Tarkovsky films in my space but I never really get to appreciate them since I always take my trips in total darkness.
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Re: New Years Trip - 3g Cubes - "I am loving Awareness" - Ram Dass [Re: Socrateshroom]
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I’ve got a large hardback book of Alex Gray prints. But again I’ve never looked at it while tripping. Sometimes get it out ready but always seem to get distracted. Last trip I laid a bowl of crystals in front of me and forced my self at some point to look at them. When I did, I couldn’t even focus on them, and they were covered in ancient hieroglyph type writings......
The artwork is my mother-in-law’s; I love all of her work, and always on the lookout for freebies :-)
Mush love, DJ Ed
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Re: New Years Trip - 3g Cubes - "I am loving Awareness" - Ram Dass [Re: DJ Ed]
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I definitely recommend looking through the book on one of your trips. I've visited his place in NY many times and it's always an amazing experience. His art really penetrates the soul (and his parties are amazing).
When you say the artwork is your mother in laws, do you mean she drew it/painted it/designed it herself? Or just owned it?
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Re: New Years Trip - 3g Cubes - "I am loving Awareness" - Ram Dass [Re: Socrateshroom]
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Socrateshroom said: I definitely recommend looking through the book on one of your trips. I've visited his place in NY many times and it's always an amazing experience. His art really penetrates the soul (and his parties are amazing).
When you say the artwork is your mother in laws, do you mean she drew it/painted it/designed it herself? Or just owned it?
I meant she actually painted the pictures. But she does tend to draw from photographs or prints of other pictures. So there may well be original versions of the enchanted garden and Pinocchio out there.
This creative gene seems to have skipped my wife, though her older sister has the gene, and it also seems my daughter (nearly 15) also has the gift. I’m trying to persuade her to draw / paint me a large black and white dragon picture 👊🏻 That could be a while though, have to be diplomatic when asking teenagers for anything these days.....
I am not artistic, I am an engineer. But I wish I was an artist! A couple of years back I bought a colouring book from Amazon, from a young artist who has started appearing on various internet channels. I think the book was “Ayahuasca Visions”. I have coloured in a few of the pictures, and used real shading!! Colouring is very soothing, almost meditative, but in all honesty, I’m shite!
I’ll dig out the colouring book in a mo, and the guys name; just finishing a coffee......
Mush love, DJ Ed
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Re: New Years Trip - 3g Cubes - "I am loving Awareness" - Ram Dass [Re: DJ Ed]
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The artists name is Alexander George Ward (he looks like Jesus), and the colouring book is is Ayahuasca Jungle Visions:

If you check out his YouTube channel, he has some great time-lapse videos of him both designing the pictures, then colouring them in (like a Professional!).
Take care, DJ Ed
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Re: New Years Trip - 3g Cubes - "I am loving Awareness" - Ram Dass [Re: DJ Ed]
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DJ Ed said: The artists name is Alexander George Ward (he looks like Jesus), and the colouring book is is Ayahuasca Jungle Visions:

If you check out his YouTube channel, he has some great time-lapse videos of him both designing the pictures, then colouring them in (like a Professional!).
Take care, DJ Ed
Thanks for that, it looks amazing! I'll definitely look into his work.
Do you ever color in it while tripping?
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Re: New Years Trip - 3g Cubes - "I am loving Awareness" - Ram Dass [Re: Socrateshroom]
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Socrateshroom said: Do you ever color in it while tripping?
No. But I am reading so much on here about the positives from drawing / colouring while tripping. I am actually feeling drawn (pardon the pun) into trying this in the near future.
I want to dedicate my next trip, after so much reading on this lately, to giving up smoking! But my sub-conscious mind keeps on telling me that will be boring and a waste. Guess it’s my junkie head talking to me!
I am going to give drawing / colouring a go, though. Not sure how successful I’ll be, my close up eyesight seems really poor obviously while tripping, otherwise I should have been able to focus on my crystals. I tried staring at my crystals last trip but that was a failure; couldn’t focus on them in any great detail, but what I could see was covered in ancient writings!
Mush love, DJ Ed
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Re: New Years Trip - 3g Cubes - "I am loving Awareness" - Ram Dass [Re: DJ Ed]
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Socrateshroom said: Do you ever color in it while tripping?
No. But I am reading so much on here about the positives from drawing / colouring while tripping. I am actually feeling drawn (pardon the pun) into trying this in the near future.
I want to dedicate my next trip, after so much reading on this lately, to giving up smoking! But my sub-conscious mind keeps on telling me that will be boring and a waste. Guess it’s my junkie head talking to me!
I am going to give drawing / colouring a go, though. Not sure how successful I’ll be, my close up eyesight seems really poor obviously while tripping, otherwise I should have been able to focus on my crystals. I tried staring at my crystals last trip but that was a failure; couldn’t focus on them in any great detail, but what I could see was covered in ancient writings!
Mush love, DJ Ed
I know you can do it! I've dedicated one of my trips to deal with drinking. It made me not want to drink for a while but it obviously isn't a cure. When I started getting cravings again I realized that I approached it incorrectly. I still need to overcome it mostly on my own, but psilocybin can remind me and help me along the journey.
I know you can do it. We need you around for a long time so kick the habit! 
(And yea i'm interested in trying "activities" during a trip but I always end up just wanting to be still and simply exist )
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Re: New Years Trip - 3g Cubes - "I am loving Awareness" - Ram Dass [Re: Socrateshroom]
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I notice that microdosing helps to acutely mitigate any physiological urges. I don't get that cigarette craving in my chest/gut since I've been microdosing. I think the bigger doses, the ones that have you tele/microscopically observe yourself, help to actually put those addictions/behaviors into place. They help you to metaphysically overcome your dependency. I still smoke if I'm having some scotch by a campfire. But, even if I'm going through a stressful period, I don't ever feel the need for one anymore.
Coloring books are a fantastic way to get yourself into expressing yourself through drawing. Colored pencils are probably my favorite medium (though, you wouldn't know it with all these computer graphics I slave away at all day). You have so much control over the saturation and line detail. The blending! The smells of pencils shavings... Mmm...
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Thanks for the encouragement, buddy, really appreciated ✊🏻, and yes I plan on hanging around a while; can’t see me ever stopping psychedelics now I’ve returned, especially with all the good anecdotal evidence and great people on here.
Yeah isn’t it funny how your intentions get lost in the psychedelic headspace sometimes (oftentimes?) lol.
Take care, DJ Ed
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footpath said: I notice that microdosing helps to acutely mitigate any physiological urges. I don't get that cigarette craving in my chest/gut since I've been microdosing. I think the bigger doses, the ones that have you tele/microscopically observe yourself, help to actually put those addictions/behaviors into place. They help you to metaphysically overcome your dependency. I still smoke if I'm having some scotch by a campfire. But, even if I'm going through a stressful period, I don't ever feel the need for one anymore.
Coloring books are a fantastic way to get yourself into expressing yourself through drawing. Colored pencils are probably my favorite medium (though, you wouldn't know it with all these computer graphics I slave away at all day). You have so much control over the saturation and line detail. The blending! The smells of pencils shavings... Mmm...
That’s really intriguing, footpath, thank you. I’m going to seriously consider microdosing, getting so much good info about it on here.
Thanks, DJ Ed
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Re: New Years Trip - 3g Cubes - "I am loving Awareness" - Ram Dass [Re: DJ Ed]
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That’s really intriguing, footpath, thank you. I’m going to seriously consider microdosing, getting so much good info about it on here.
Thanks, DJ Ed
I would definitely recommend it. It may take some getting used to, and some setting of proper dosage, but it has vastly improved my life. I take 0.2g dry (anything above 0.4g ends up being too much for a micro dose). I can still feel the 0.2g (I get the stomach type butterflies but thats about it) and so I like to take it about 2 hours before I have to work or anything of that nature. (This gives me time to fully digest them, feel whatever immediate effects are o be felt, and ride the incredible wave of heightened momentary awareness for the day).
Micro-dosing has also helped me physically. It does wonders for my blood pressure and eliminates my palpitations (probably by eliminating the heightened anxiety I normally feel).
But as I mentioned in another thread, I like to cycle my microdose regimen. I'll do 5 days microdosing, 2 days nothing, for a month. Then I take at least one month of from microdosing and instead, I do a full dose that month. Sometimes I take multiple months of microdosing. But I'm still tuning myself and my regimen so that's subject to change. But I absolutely recommend experimenting with it, even if it is just to see what all the talk is about
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