I had the experience around late May back in 2007. I was 15.
First a bit of my history: I come from a (edible) mushroom hunting family and have been hunting Pine Mushrooms and Slippery Jacks for the longest time. After hearing references to "magic mushrooms" I became fascinated by them and decided to learn about them. I had six months before the next psilocybin season to commence in Melbourne so I read book after book on psychedelics. I read Food of the Gods, The Psychedelic Experience, Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and it's Quest to Spread Peace, Love and Acid to the World, and one or two more. I also smoked cannabis whenever I could which would have been about once every week or two.
2007: Mushroom season started and I had, under guidance, about four or five psychedelic experiences with low doses of various psychedelics. I tried standard dried leaf Saliva, LSD, San Pedro and mushrooms.
It late May in 2007 and due to the favourable weather, Psilocybe subaeruginosa mushrooms were in incredible abundance and and especially potent. I picked the mushrooms beneath eucalyptus trees in a very large park, then traveled to a friend's place arriving there shortly after it turned to night. There were about ten other people there, most of them I knew from school. I showed them what I had and offered what I had for free.
One mate: "Have mushies with us." Me: "No." Same mate: "Have mushies with us." Me: "No." Same mate: "Have mushies with us." Me: "Fine whatever."
So, without weighing, I proceed to have what would have been 30 - 40g of highly potent Psilocybe subaeruginosa mushrooms (which I would consider to be a very dose) picked just an hour or so prior. It would be worth mentioning that I had smoked about a quarter gram of cannabis mixed half-half with tobacco.
I didn't plan to take mushrooms that night, I had the mushrooms to make a mate happy. And so what made this trip different is that I didn't think about myself at all. I had the mushrooms selflessly to please a mate and I didn't think for a second what my experience would be like.
Five or so minutes after I had my dose we ended up running out of mushrooms. Since I only lived about a ten minute bike ride away from my friend's place, I volunteered to ride home to get some dried mushrooms I had and bring them over. The others liked my offer so I borrow a bicycle and ride home to collect the dried mushrooms I had and bring over.
I get home, knock on the door and my mother's partner answers. He recommends I go sleep but I didn't take his advice. I went in, got the dried mushrooms and started riding back to my friend's place as planned.
I was riding along Lower Dandenong Road back to my friend's place when I felt like I needed to lay down. So I stopped at a enormous park called Braeside Park.
By now it's been only about sixty minutes since I had mushrooms. I lay down on my back and look out into space. Then I had the breakthrough. In the breakthrough, I gasped, partially because I needed to breathe but also in awe and then said 'we are all one' as I experienced the unity of all life.
I knew intuitively that I was experiencing Nirvāṇa (complete ego death). I experienced the universe as a single infinte potential consciousness which takes up all the space. I experienced a sense of perfect peace, bliss and understanding. I knew and experienced without doubt that we are all one and that there is only life. I accepted the oneness and how we are all funademntally, the same thing, and I expereinced an incredibly beautiful sense of unconditional love and a sense that everything feels completely perfect whilst in this state of consciousness. I was being still and just feeling so good. Form was later formed and the next thing I remember, it's the morning around 7am I'd say and I was laying down in the park I had the experience in. I was the incredibly cold and I had to rush home to warm up. I was so cold that it was hard to walk and it took over a day before I could walk like I could before and for about three months my mind felt like it was in a knot but this cleared after about three or four months (I didn't get a positive "rebirth" like is possible).
My main goal will always be to experience Ultimate Reality again and to further raise the vibe infinitely.
Edited by Painkiller (11/30/23 08:24 PM)
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