Muscimol creates a visionary near death experience. It explains the meaning of life and the nature of the universe through allegorical dreams. It is so extraordinary that it is difficult to put into words. When you say you've had strong experiences, did you have an out of body experience (OBE) or a near death experience (NDE)? Although it is difficult to explain to other people without sounding like a lunatic, everything was perfectly clear to me. The message is so strong and so specific. The amazing thing about this drug is the commonalities between users.
Yup. And to the person who has not heard of anyone having a successful Amanita/Musimol trip... I wrote this... whether it would be called "successful" is another matter...
It all happens during the "Out" phases of the In & Out of consciousness waves that it produces used properly. All the action was during these intense semi-lucid psychedelic dream states that you remember during the awake periods, and the "visuals" during those can be intense and all-encompassing, as in any dream state, but lean more toward "alternate reality" with a great deal of realism but with fantastical semi-mythical events occurring, possibly involving elaborate impossible beasts, outer space sequences, aliens or god-like beings-of-light and whatnot. Whether you would call this "significant visual distortions" would depend on your definition of the term and on the particulars of your experiences.
Have you ever been sleep deprived, but were trying to stay awake for like a movie or job or something? But were not quite succeeding and keep falling asleep for several minutes then waking up suddenly and you are like "Oh shit what happened? How long was I out?" And you keep doing that, falling asleep, walking up, trying to stay awake, falling asleep again, over and over?
Well it does that to you. Actually makes you go into a state of unconsciousness like sleep or like passing out (feels nice though, like you are floating with a mild fuzzy feeling body buzz). But its not sleep. Because when you wake back up to a more normal (but still fuzzy) "awake" state, you remember vivid dreams you had while you were out, almost like you are reliving them but you are awake remembering a highly vivid dream you just emerged from. Then you usually become overwhelmed by the trance and are pulled back down into a sleep-like but vividly dreaming state. The dream segments can feel like they are lasting hours, but when you wake up only 10 or 20 minutes have gone by...
During the "out" parts you loose total contact with your normal surroundings, like when you are asleep, your mind goes totally "somewhere else" into these epic mythc often scary often so weird as to be indescribable dreams... it feels during these dreams like you are inhabiting the mind of some God-like being that has these huge vast memories covering millions of years and you are randomly sampling them. Then you wake up. literally snap back to your real environment, and remember having just "dreamed" these things and its like "HOLY CRAP!!! I had NO idea it was even possible for the human mind to conceptualize and experience anything remotely like that!"
So its a little bit freaky and upsetting these dream states are so HUGE and OTHER feeling that it makes you kind of scared about what just happened. ***THAT*** is why they are not popular as recreationals... a little too "heavy and deep" of a mental/emotional experience to want to do it alot... NOT because of any severely negative physical side effects, because properly prepared MOST people will not have much negative body issues.
Once I was in orbit with some other-dimensional god-like being who was "eating" the "souls" or accumulated-life-experiences of people, animals, everything that had recently died on the Earth and were flowing up off of the Earth towards the sun in a great sparkling "River of Souls" to steal a phrase from Babylon5... somehow far far beyond my ability to make sense of, "It" was "constructing" its "offspring" out of the accumulated memories of all Earth's dead... perhaps they were even Grateful, haha... still it was bizarre and incomprehensible in the extreme and quite a bit scary... I woke up and was like "OHHHH MY GOD... WHAT THE FUCK... IS THAT WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? HOLY CRAP... OH NOOOOO!!!"
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Re: Ibotenic/Muscimol Conversion Thu, August 23, 2007 - 2:50 AM
Wasson's important finding was (actually it was that of a Buddhist monk participating in his experiments) that the ibotenic acid in the AM is converted to muscimol simply by drying them in direct sunlight or in front of a fire. Once sun dried, for example, one can then extract the muscimol using denatured alcohol or soak the mushrooms in water and rehydrate them. Then, enclose in a microwave dish and microwave at low setting for a very short while. The rehydrated mushrooms will give off a yellowish liquid when heated, which contains the muscimol. Mix with chocolate milk and consume. In Germany a medicinal product made from AM (35 grams of fresh AM to the ml of extract) can be obtained on a doctor's prescription. It contains ibotenic acid. Entheogen users heat a bit of the AM extract in a spoon over a flame and the liquid quickly turns from white to yellow. They then consume the yellow liquid in chocolate milk, with exceptional results. Apparently, Jason and the Argonauts is a myth describing and explicating the ensuing experience.
[added: weirdest thing is it feels like the dreamlets last hours, but the clock says only several minutes each... this is what James Arthur's recipe page means by "time dilation"... its not just rhetoric, its true... oh and the below experience resulted from a combo of MAO inhibitor Syrian Rue, small dose 1.5g of psilocybe cubensis, small dose of GHB, and marijuana, THEN the Amanita ritual to top it all off... I went several places, but this was the most amazing one:]
Ive had things happen that were so hard to describe... God-like beings the size of stars "feeding" off of the souls of recently deceased beings... all beings, human as well as animal... these souls looked like a river made from points of light flowing up off the Earth into space... the "god-beings" would consume them, and thereby absorb and re-live all the experiences of the deceased ones, and in this way preserve them and keep them alive within themselves for all eternity. Whoa.