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TheEschatologist
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I'm good thanks, things are looking up after 2+ years of relative misery. Glad to be part of this community even though I've only just arrived.
Wishing everybody well. Stay safe those of you living/working in hot spots at the moment. Hopefully all this craziness will be a memory soon enough.
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watermelon mon
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Feeling alright.
Enjoying a bunch of coffee, the bicycle and some cannabis.
Thanks for the well wishes, welcome back. It's good to keep it positive. I'm happy you guys are well.
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The Blind Ass
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Just made a fresh cup of espresso. Topped it up with some melted Ghee butter, and a couple drops of vanilla/caramel extract in half-and-half cream.
Absolutely scrumptious. I can officially get high in 7 days without worry. Planning for, what may perhaps be, my most epic fungi trip. And going to also make some cannabis edibles for the first time. That plus some good black Russian vanilla/rum tobacco for my pipe, and a kava kava - Passion flower - ginger root mixture extract. 🍯 . Jah man.
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Jokeshopbeard
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The Blind Ass said:That plus some good black Russian vanilla/rum tobacco for my pipe, and a kava kava - Passion flower - ginger root mixture extract. :
LOL you smoke a pipe? What kind? I smoke one like this:

What's the mental effect of that mixture like?
-------------------- Let it be seen that you are nothing. And in knowing that you are nothing... there is nothing to lose, there is nothing to gain. What can happen to you? Something can happen to the body, but it will either heal or it won't. What's the big deal? Let life knock you to bits. Let life take you apart. Let life destroy you. It will only destroy what you are not. --Jac O'keeffe
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The Blind Ass
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A prince styled pipe. As for the combo, I don’t use it all together anymore . I have twice before and it was fine, Passion flower root and leaf, and kava kava are mild MAO inhibitors, so they potentiate. But kava kind be kind of sedating in a strange way - not always the type one associates with alcohol or sedatives, but it can also be to that effect sometimes, and because of the random variability I don’t use it during psilocybin trips anymore. Just meant to say that’s what I’ve got in store laying around, but I’ll be able to actually indulge some after a week.
I prefer to be as lucid as possible. So just the fungi, and usually some tobacco during the actual trip. I don’t like cannabis during the trip, because it diminishes the essential quality of lucidity and clarity that I need to be able to snake charm my own unconscious mind and unify with it and my environment in ecstatic Union.
When they are all mixed together , cannabis, psilo, kava, tobac, and passion, it becomes more delirious. So I stick to the aforementioned.
If I wanted that I’d just take some of the datura that grows outside my neighborhood.  But after twice dancing with that plant in the past was enough for atleast the next decade.
If you meant just that 3 plant tincture mixture or so, that’s a nice effect on its own, using a dropper to dose it in some hot chamomile honey tea.
Moderate sedation, very mildly dissociating, euphoric, and paradoxically stimulating.
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Edited by The Blind Ass (04/23/20 01:24 PM)
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Jokeshopbeard
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The Blind Ass said: If you meant just that 3 plant tincture mixture or so, that’s a nice effect on its own, using a dropper to dose it in some hot chamomile honey tea.
Moderate sedation, very mildly dissociating, euphoric, and paradoxically stimulating.
That sounds awesome, how to get?
-------------------- Let it be seen that you are nothing. And in knowing that you are nothing... there is nothing to lose, there is nothing to gain. What can happen to you? Something can happen to the body, but it will either heal or it won't. What's the big deal? Let life knock you to bits. Let life take you apart. Let life destroy you. It will only destroy what you are not. --Jac O'keeffe
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The Blind Ass
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. Got it from some yuppie grocery store, Either Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s.
Brand name: Gaia Organics, All certified organic extract-tinctures, certified quality. https://www.gaiaherbs.com/
**I will sometimes mix a select few of them in different proportions to get a specific intended effect - but they are also perfectly good on their own.
Right now I’ve got...
1) Valerian Root tincture @ 333mg / 1.3 mL
2) Kava Kava Root tincture @ 50mg Kavalactones / .67 mL
3) Passion Flower Vine Tincturr @ 500mg / 2 mL
4) Ginger Root tincture @ 500mg / .67 mL
5) Maca Root Capsules @ 500mg / pill
And I want...
Cordyceps E, Corydalis E, Lions Mane E, and Full Spectrum Cannabis/Hemp E, and Asian Ginseng Extract.
-------------------- Give me Liberty caps -or- give me Death caps
Edited by The Blind Ass (04/23/20 02:16 PM)
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Jokeshopbeard
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That's awesome man, thanks so much for the info. I'll pick up a few this weekend (as I'll be at Wholefoods anyway).
Which combo do you most recommend for pleasant effects?
-------------------- Let it be seen that you are nothing. And in knowing that you are nothing... there is nothing to lose, there is nothing to gain. What can happen to you? Something can happen to the body, but it will either heal or it won't. What's the big deal? Let life knock you to bits. Let life take you apart. Let life destroy you. It will only destroy what you are not. --Jac O'keeffe
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The Blind Ass
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It really depends, kava can have interactions depending on what illness or medication you may have, so be careful. And the others can have some interactions as well, so know thyself and thy medication if you take any. I don’t , and I don’t have illnesses to worry about so I don’t have to worry about that. Just a word of caution is all. Read up on “trip” reports of each - some are more accurate than others. And their effects.
Then before you start mixing I recommend you try each once on their own to know their effects for yourself and how they effect you - then you need to find the right dosage for your body. After that if you want you can mix.
My favorite is 3 dropper fulls of kava kava extract into a weekend morning double espresso. This is my fav. The caffeine + kava in a 4oz cup of espresso with vanilla cream synergized so we’ll. No jitters, awake, energized, but a smooth mild - mod euphoric anxiolytics warmth and calm coolheadnesss.
For nights if you really want to see how sedating a combo can get, 3-5 droppers of kava + 2 valerian + 2 Passion flower ones. But you should see what amount works for you, bc these amounts are all based off whatever my natural tolerance was at the time. But I started off with about 2 dropper fulls of a single tincture alone at first before upping the amount. Some people take much much more than anything I’ve posted.
I mostly only use the ginger as an anti nausea aid for psychedelics and the occasional upset stomach. Also. The combos I mentioned I only do once every several months now. But back in the day I would use them 3-4 times a week on and off. No problems there once familiar with the effects and duration and interaction profiles.
I don’t use Kratom anymore, but back in 2016 I used to do the above combo 20 or so minutes before taking 4-7 grams of red vine kratom and nod my face off on the weekends while smoking my pipe and reading a book and that was my fools gold heaven for a while.
Maca root is energizing , different from caffeine, can’t explain it, don’t take it any more though. Not worth imho.
Kava is the most pleasant once you figure it out ( I prefer it to alcohol personally) and valerian and Passion flower ones are more mild and not so much pleasant as they are weak sedatives- but it depends on your physiology. I know some who it can knock out and they feel good, but kava is the mainstay imho , but they are synergistic from my experience.
Just don’t use it for more than 21 days consecutively, because it depletes a liver enzyme you need. So it needs to build back up, and breaks allow for that, and it’s only a problem if you use it more than the allotted time or in giganto doses.
Unlike Kratom which can cause physical and psychological dependence when used consecutively, and then withdrawal symptoms when you stop.
Edited by The Blind Ass (04/23/20 03:36 PM)
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