Bazooka Jesus

@wesyasz It's curious how this works, isn't it? What is especially fascinating about mushrooms is the fact that different dosages tend to lead to totally different results (at least that's been the case for me). In my experience, LSD is a very reliable and sort of linear acting substance, meaning that higher doses just give me more of the exact same thing; mushrooms on the other hand are kind of like those candy grabber machines at a funfair: You might reach for the cool digital watch but get one of those butt ugly troll dolls instead. In my case, the last high dose mushroom trip I had embarked on had been almost exactly one year ago, and let me tell you, it was a vastly different experience. I had taken five grams, which frankly doesn't seem to be a good dosage for me; it was just enough to send me off into twisted hyperspace limbo, but not enough to make my ego raise the white flag and let go of the reigns --- in short: I did NOT have a fun time at all during that particular trip; it was actually one of the most sobering trips I ever subjected myself to. So when I finally decided to revisit my little fungi friends, I was definitely a little bit nervous and totally unsure about what to expect; but something told me that now was the right time to be shroomin' again. This time around, I did not even weight the dose... - I know, I know, I am probably not giving the most stellar example for responsible tripping here, LOL. Just let me say in my humble defense that it was probably for the best that I didn't put 'em on the scale since I would most likely have chickened out had I known exactly how much it was that I so foolhardily decided to gobble down; sometimes ignorance IS bliss. By my estimation, it must have been something in the neighborhood of six to seven grams, and DAMN if I didn't hit the sweet spot this time! I think that I have been really lucky with the timing as well. Just two days before the trip, I entered this weird state of I-don't-give-a-fuck-ness while I was hanging out in the park; as I sat there ruminating about my cruel fate in life and all that usual BS, I suddenly sort of stopped dead in my mental tracks and thought "You know what? I am tired of this fucking game. I just don't want to play no more. Yup, that's it, I am DONE. Over and out." Not in a bitter way, but with the calmness and serenity of a fisherman who just reels it in, packs up and goes home. And I pretty much managed to keep this spirit until it was time for mushroom takeoff, which I think was definitely a contributing factor for my blissful annihilation.

@Endangered-EGO Yes, approaching ego death can be damn scary IF your ego is still strong enough to resist the experience. At the risk of sounding like a completely irresponsible stoner crackpot, I will say that the very real and very obvious advantage of doing some ungodly amount of mushrooms (as I did yesterday) is that you give yourself zero chance to put up any sort of fight against what is happening -- and I say this as someone whose entire life is pretty much ruled by anxiety and neurotic overthinking. To be honest, I am really surprised about how smooth and uncomplicated this particular awakening event turned out to be! Yeah, who knows what bumpy road lies ahead of me, but I take yesterday's experience as a green light sign from the universe, kindly granting me permission to proceed.

Chattering finch and water-fly Are not merrier than I; Here among the flowers I lie Laughing everlastingly. No: I may not tell the best; Surely, friends, I might have guessed Death was but the good King's jest, It was hid so carefully. G. K. Chesterton - The Skeleton

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Congratulations and welcome to the Dead Poets Society! Death is the greatest thing ever, isn't it?

Different strokes for different folks I guess; for me, it is the best thing since sliced bread

Of course you will; it is absolutely inevitable. Such is the glory of death: It is the ultimate equalizer, the bringer of bliss, justice and salvation, and he comes to every single creature in the end - 100 % guaranteed, no exception. Just let the universe take you by the hand and work its magic! Do I sound like a manic street preacher already? Bwahahaha! As far as my background goes, I have been meditating very regularly for three years now, and two years ago I started taking psychedelics. I thought I had a couple of "amazing ego deaths" under my belt already, but HOLY FUCK - what I experienced almost twenty hours ago makes all of my previous trips look like a fucking joke in comparison. I am still kind of floored.

@Nahm

Alright, before I waste any more futile words, here is my detailed and exhaustive trip report:

@zeroISinfinity @Display_Name I am telling you guys, God is the SHIT (if you pardon my french)... it really is the best show in town, nothing else comes remotely close. It's completely incomparable, and it's been here forever! How fucking cool is that?

I smoked a little bit of weed and drank some hot raw chocolate before in order to get the ball rolling gently and smoothly, worked like a charm. And of course I always meditate my way right into the trip. (A nice little sidefact that made this trip even more special for me was the fact that these were actually my very first homegrown shrooms. I AM PROUD OF YOU BOYS! *sniff*

@actualizing25 Yup, pretty much! I was just lying there thinking "Are you fucking kidding me... I WAS AFRAID OF THIS, the greatest thing that can possibly happen to me and that has been all I ever longed for since the beginning? Hah, that's a laugh. What a silly little child I was!" And I repeated over and over again "Dying is so incredibly amazing, dying is so incredibly amazing, dying is so incredibly amazing, dying..." - the neighbors probably thought someone had put on a broken Alan Watts record, lmao. Oooooooooooooooohhhhhh man... now I am definitely stoked. To think that this is still just the tip of the iceberg? Holy fucking halleluyah. 5 Meo, here I come.

@Rilles Oh, I definitely had some butterflies whizzing through my stomach when I saw that heap of wrinkled little brown mushroom matter swimming in a pool of Peppermint/Ginger tea; but man, as soon as the effects really started to kick, I was just off on my way to the darkside of the moon and did not even look back. Boy what a cool ride... definitely one of my most memorable trips so far and the first one that really made me realize the sheer magnitude of the relief, love and gratefulness that you may experience in the moment of death. Utterly amazing. Yeah folks, long story short: I can definitely recommend dying. You should try it sometime, lol.

@RevoCulture "1000 tears of laughing death" - Hah, I like that! Yes, I experienced a laughing & crying Love Death like Isolde at the end of the Wagner opera. The resurrection went nice and smooth, soft landing, nice weather, thanks for flying with Enlightenment Airlines. AMAZING! Dying may very well turn out to become my new favorite hobby.

@actualizing25 Who? Me? Nooooooooooooooo... apart from that buttload of shrooms of course that I had for very early breakfast.

In my humble opinion, Donald Trump clearly deserves a Nobel prize for best stand up comedy act in recent memory. The likes of Dave Chapelle got NOTHING on that guy!

AAAAAMEN to that! ♫ "For they are jolly good fel-lows, for they are jolly good fel-lows..." ♫

@Leo Gura Nice. So plugging works equally good for freebase and HLC? The same also goes for DPT, I assume? (Haven't tried either substance as of yet, but when I do, I definitely want to try out plugging; smoking stuff like DMT gives me the willies. Blech!)

Alright, here is a little newbie question from yours truly that probably got answered a hundred thousand times already on this thread alone buuuuuuut here it goes: Is it cool and safe to plug freebase 5 Meo or will it set your ass on fire?

Hey, how did the trip go?

Blimey, what a jolly good video, old chap! Seriously though, I need to make this my fucking mantra. Having been unlucky enough to be born into a hyper-neurotic bourgeois German family (ironically, my mother used to be a teacher of psychology and pedagogy... go figure), I have constantly been shamed for all of my shortcomings as a kid and pretty much grew up believing that my base worth as a human being was somewhere below zero; suffice to say that to this day, I fear failure in any area of life more than death itself.

@Girzo Interesting, you got some favorite tracks that you wanna share? Stanley Kubrik used Ligeti's music most famously in 2001: A Space Odyssey; it used to sound cacophonic and creepy as FUCK to my ears when I first encountered it, but these days I think that some of his earlier works are among the most beautifully composed pieces of music of the 20st century (especially Lux Aeterna, which really conveys the notion of an eternally unborn and undying source of light that pervades all things in existence). Man, I could shower you with recommendations when it comes to classical music, but most of what I really love is rather "heavy" late romantic / early modern stuff (think Richard Wagner, Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky and the likes), and not all of it is truly compatible with LSD, lol! (When it comes to Richard Wagner though, I often wonder if that guy had some kind of a special Psilocybin pump sitting inside his brain that he could just tap whenever he sat down to compose... fucking amazing.)

Cool, in that case I am looking forward to your trip report; read you later alligator.

@PlayOnWords You do that! But like I said, it's not for the easily scared; I wouldn't recommend it to first timers. I mean, I absolutely love it, but I'm a complete fucking weirdo, so there's that.

@PlayOnWords Listen to it and you'll know it... trust me I like the Ligeti stuff especially because it is incredibly hypnotic, strangely gorgeous and at the same time as somber and spooky as the black bottomless depth of outer space. Its otherworldly beauty will knock your socks off and trigger a whole avalanche of visceral emotions, especially on LSD - and it's best enjoyed in the dark with headphones.