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Magic Mushrooms - First Time - Spiritual Epiphanies In Rainbows

Ganjasaurusrex

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Well, I took mushrooms for the first time last night. Ive always wanted to do them, but just have never been able to find them. Last week, one of my friends managed to get 2.5 grams of shrooms and decided to split them with me.

I wasn't really expecting much from 1.25 grams, but these things must have been extremely potent, or all the reading and preparing for the trip I did payed off. They were small and very dry mushroom stems, caps, and shake. Most of the shrooms very completely blue. The smell was gross, like a mold or fungus, but the taste was not bad at all. The taste wasn't strong and was similar to hay, not bad, but not good. After trying to eat Syrian rue seeds and HB wood rose seeds, these things tasted like chocolate. Although the taste seemed to linger in my mouth throughout most of the trip, even after drinking.

The trip itself was completely different than what I was expecting. I was expecting to just be really fucked up, to the point of seeing things, similar to smoking a lot of really good weed. But it wasn't like that at all, the body high wasn't very strong at all, similar to a bowl of indica dominant marijuana, but mentally the trip was unreal.

I put on a burnt CD, Radiohead's in rainbows CD 1 and 2, and just thought and discussed things with my friend. It felt as if id finally been liberated, like I'd been living my life in a shell up until that point and was finally awake. It was just amazing, and is incredibly difficult to put into words, it was the most spiritual moment of my entire life. The euphoria I felt was so incredibly powerful that all I could do was sit smiling, it cant be described in words, but it felt like I had finally connected to what I want to call god. When I say god though, I just mean the infinite. The place where we were before we were born, the place we go where we die, that which is intangible, yet makes up everything. It was incredible, right as I was thinking this, radioheads reckoner was playing.

"You are not to blame for
Bittersweet distractor
Dare not speak its name
Dedicated to all you
all human beings"

Thom sang, and I understood completely. All that I had been thinking about, this intangible connection that we all unknowingly share was there, as it always had been, and realizing this caused me such joy, that not even MDMA could compare.

The mushrooms gave me the most powerful sense of insight that I've ever had, and I never imagined it could do so. It was like the shrooms had given me access to all of the difficult questions I'd though of for as long as I can remember. I saw through all the bullshit in reality, I realized all the games that we play, the way that we go through our lives in auto pilot, and don't even live.

I felt like all the stupid things we worry about in our life were so completely absurd and meaningless. I thought about the social games we play with each other, how we always have our guard up, presenting an image. It was as if everyone was constantly wearing mask's.

I felt like very little mattered anymore. School, selling our souls for green paper, even my very own life seemed so insignificant. This realization was hard to handle and really depressed me. The feeling that everything I had been doing up until this point was total bullshit, and I was just playing a social game.

It was very confusing, and I kept thinking that after this there was no returning, Id eaten the forbidden fruit, and almost wished I hadn't. I deeply regretted knowing that I'd have to put my mask back on, and wondered how Id ever be able to return to the bullshit world we live in.

I got caught in a few negative loops I think, just thinking about how nothing really mattered anymore. I started thinking about the role DMT plays in the human mind, the way that DMT is released in the brain when we die. I thought that maybe the reason that the the mushrooms gave near death experiences, and made me reach such nirvana that I wouldn't mind dying anymore had something to do with this (the active chemical in mushrooms is 4-ho-dmt I believe).

I gained insight into all the issues going on in my life, and it really helped me sort things out, from the possible mental addiction I was beginning to develop with marijuana, to my relationship with my family members, to the way I treat strangers. It was all so incredibly powerful, and I really think that this experience will change the way I view and interact with the world in a positive manner.

I'm in no rush to take mushrooms again, the negative part of the trip was extremely depressing, but I had read that to some, the mushroom trip is a manic depressive roller coaster with extreme highs and lows.

The reason Ive been writing all this is just to get my thoughts out in writing, Ive been so overwhelmed by the amount I learned from the experience. I believe the reason my experience was so positive was because of all the reading I did on other peoples experiences, and felt the need to share mine with anyone who might care. Mushrooms are a very powerful mental tool, that can really cause a positive change in people. I don't think of them like I used to anymore, I thought the focus was on the visual aspect and the fun from the experience. But that is so insignificant compared the the change in a person thought process and psyche that they can almost be viewed as side effects.

Thanks for reading, and check out radioheads newest CD, in rainbows, it'll blow you away.

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wow, that was an excellent report. i would say that this would be the best report for someone who has never tried mushrooms before to read before partaking. i found many similarities with your experience with my first several mushroom experiences.
 
real glad you had such a great first experience!! similar in many ways to my own first time. well written report too, i like the title. once you've had a psychdelic like mushrooms and had such a great trip on them, you'll always remember how great life can be!
 
Great report!

"But that is so insignificant compared the the change in a person thought process and psyche that they can almost be viewed as side effects."

I wish I had realized this earlier! Have fun exploring; there's a hell of a good universe out there.
 
This is such a great report. You really captured the psychedelic mindset, and you're right! We do live in a human design, but just remember... we're only human!

Don't get bogged down in it, try to transcend it!
 
definitely an interesting experience. The thing of which you desired to call god but later refered to as the infinite i believe was a taste of collective consciousness. Iv experienced a state of being which maintains many familiarities to what you described, it was however induced by a ten-ish strip of acid tabs, either way congrats i suppose on enlightenment even if you feel it was merely a taste.

the body high wasn't very strong at all, similar to a bowl of indica dominant marijuana, but mentally the trip was unreal.

did you mean sativa, the more jumpy intellectually stimulating variety of cannabis? Indica i thought was a term used to describe a more so, burned out, couch locked body high. Then again by reading the last 2 lines it is clear that i am basis against body high producing cannabis in favor of the sativas.
 
FrostyMcFailure said:
did you mean sativa, the more jumpy intellectually stimulating variety of cannabis? Indica i thought was a term used to describe a more so, burned out, couch locked body high. Then again by reading the last 2 lines it is clear that i am basis against body high producing cannabis in favor of the sativas.

I really like your name :). You should smoke some good indica sometime, high quality indica can give a pleasant, relaxing, euphoric high, you just wont want to move much. Too much of a strong sativa just tends to make me kind of paranoid and a bit anxious.

As for what you said about the collective consciousness, I agree with you entirely. The entire universe is just energy, vibrating at a frequency that our body's 5 senses are designed through evolution to pick up on. Through this energy I believe that all of life is connected. This idea always seemed to make sense to me, it was a combination of the spiritual and the scientific. But during the peak of the mushroom trip, it was as if somehow my mind had tuned into the universal frequency, and I felt the connection to everything else.

Path. thought. said:
This is such a great report. You really captured the psychedelic mindset, and you're right! We do live in a human design, but just remember... we're only human!

Don't get bogged down in it, try to transcend it!

Exactly! During the trip I realized this and so wanted to go out and try and change the world, I could really understand where the psychedelic movement of the 60's was coming from.


But ever since the trip I've also felt more motivated and self confident. I turned 18 about two months ago, and had been a bit scared of life. I realized on the mushrooms what I needed to do, and that it would all work out. Ive stopped smoking weed, and have really started cracking down on my cisco networking studies. Its like now that I know life is just a game, I feel determined to do well, I've always been a big gamer %).

I sure could go for some weed right about now though hahaha. Going on these drug websites tends to get me feinding, especially ones with pictures, jeez.

But I'm really glad you all liked my report! Thanks for the feedback. What I'm not sure about is whether I should trip again or not. I don't think I will for a long time, probably not until I can grow my own mushrooms. They are really rare around here anyways. I think the reason my trip was so positive and I was able to reach the state of transcendence that I did was just from my mind set going into the trip. Ive been dying to trip for years now, and had been mentally prepared for quite some time.

Another thing during the trip that I found incredibly awesome, but didn't fit into the trip report was running through my yard barefoot and laying on my back on my trampoline and looking up at the clouds and stars. It was so beautiful, and had it not been for it being 15 degree's outside and my feet being wet and muddy, I'd of stayed outside the whole trip. Next time I trip I'll definitely be waiting for a nice day and be doing it outside.
 
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Great trip report.

I'm glad you got a view into what "the other side" has to offer. It's really a fascinating place, no?

The best part is that you were able to keep those experiences and apply them to your every day life.
 
Fantastic, man! You should submit this to Erowid if you desire. Sounds like a similar first experience to mine, when I was slightly older than you. I was very conflicted about my new knowledge for a while... after a couple of years it contributed to some negative loops and neuroses in my life. But after that I came to understand how incredibly liberating it is to realize that all the crap in our lives isn't important. Because the one thing that is important is love, and experiencing life to the fullest, and making the experience as positive as possible for "others" who are merely us in different sets of dimensional circumstances.

:) I enjoyed reading this report a great deal.
 
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