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Old saying is very applicable here: "Fear of God is beginning of wisdom.". I am afraid every time I am taking psilocybin mushrooms. Fear comes because I respect mashrooms. Mashrooms are very potent tool that should never be taken just to party. That is my own opinion at least...
Mashrooms are to be feared but not in a negative context. It is a fear due to humility one has to have if he is aware of imense potential they bring to the table. Especially if one is dosing 4 grams or more.
As I said, I am afraid every time I am taking them, but I still proceed and take between 4 and 8 grams. 6 grams is my sweetspot.
I wouldn't push anybody into taking psilocybin mashrooms as it has to be personal and very intimate desicion...but they are the vehicle that got me closest to what I would call Being (some will say God, some will say primal nature, some will not name it...). Power they have to connect individual to life around him is astonishing. But with great power comes great responsibility. Fear, respect and humility are 3 ingridients that one should have in their set before taking this entheogen.
Benefits for me from taking mashrooms were stopping smoking as they vividly showed how important is to breathe properly. They also helped me with anxiety, addiction and depression. Even the "bad" trips (there is no such a thing in my mind - I would replace "bad" with "unpleasant" or "difficult") teach you about yourself, and few weeks later you are greatfull for that "bad" trip.
So being affraid is not only normal, but in my view desirable. As long as it is right kind of fear. Having said all that I will not recommend that you take or don't take mashrooms because the reasons mentioned earlier.
I will end with 2 texts I wrote day after taking mashrooms. English is not my mother tongue so give me a bit of a slack. xD
Whats the point? That there is no point!
If you think yourself as something you are putting limits on yourself. You are creating a part in infinity and then you are clinging to this part as you were it, and by this way you are creating tension toward infinity. You are creating the point in infinity and you are pointing to it as yourself. Once a point is created, and you associate yourself with it you have limited yourself. You have put yourself outside of everything -it is you against everything else. This is the situation where we are now. We think we are the point! Each one of us thinks he is the point. But if you get off this illusion that there is some point, that you as that point exist independently, that you are some thing...if you get rid of the illusion of identifying - then you can see that there is really no you and that in this way you are everything. You are the point, but not seeing yourself as any particular point you can break yourself down in two and still remain unchanged. You can be broken down in half eternally, and still remain yourself, just because you did not identify yourself with any particular point, with any particular state .Here is the source of eternal, unlimited energy emanating from one point - not identifying as any particular point, not limiting yourself with any state. Then you can be broken down to eternity - split up, played with, created with, sustained, and broken down again without being anything less at any state and any time. This is what is thought when said "You gotta lose yourself in order to become everything...". What point are you? You are no point! What's the point? There is no point! And what a wonderful point of view this is!
Right or wrong?
One day in a little monastery a student of Zen was anxiously pondering about whether he has done the right thing in one of his actions the day before... After his thoughts became so busy that it was unbearable he went to his teacher, explained him his problem and asked:
"My beloved teacher, have I done the right thing?"
-„Right thing for who?“ ...Zen master replied...
...and continued:
Right thing for one is inevitably wrong thing for another! ...right is always contrary to left...and what you are left with then is the conclusion that it cannot be all right - what would be left then?
You are asking an irrelevant question. Rather selfish one I would add.
You can never know what is the right thing for you...let alone what is the right thing to do for another person.
In fact, there is no such thing as doing the right thing! Right is done and automatically wrong is done.There is only the doing and it is being done eternally and effortlessly by itself!
Trust the Universe to take care of itself and you will be free from any wrong or right ...and left at peace eternally by stopping all judgment in your mind.
...and the student had no further doubts any more...
Hope it helped a bit.
Mashrooms are to be feared but not in a negative context. It is a fear due to humility one has to have if he is aware of imense potential they bring to the table. Especially if one is dosing 4 grams or more.
As I said, I am afraid every time I am taking them, but I still proceed and take between 4 and 8 grams. 6 grams is my sweetspot.
I wouldn't push anybody into taking psilocybin mashrooms as it has to be personal and very intimate desicion...but they are the vehicle that got me closest to what I would call Being (some will say God, some will say primal nature, some will not name it...). Power they have to connect individual to life around him is astonishing. But with great power comes great responsibility. Fear, respect and humility are 3 ingridients that one should have in their set before taking this entheogen.
Benefits for me from taking mashrooms were stopping smoking as they vividly showed how important is to breathe properly. They also helped me with anxiety, addiction and depression. Even the "bad" trips (there is no such a thing in my mind - I would replace "bad" with "unpleasant" or "difficult") teach you about yourself, and few weeks later you are greatfull for that "bad" trip.
So being affraid is not only normal, but in my view desirable. As long as it is right kind of fear. Having said all that I will not recommend that you take or don't take mashrooms because the reasons mentioned earlier.
I will end with 2 texts I wrote day after taking mashrooms. English is not my mother tongue so give me a bit of a slack. xD
Whats the point? That there is no point!
If you think yourself as something you are putting limits on yourself. You are creating a part in infinity and then you are clinging to this part as you were it, and by this way you are creating tension toward infinity. You are creating the point in infinity and you are pointing to it as yourself. Once a point is created, and you associate yourself with it you have limited yourself. You have put yourself outside of everything -it is you against everything else. This is the situation where we are now. We think we are the point! Each one of us thinks he is the point. But if you get off this illusion that there is some point, that you as that point exist independently, that you are some thing...if you get rid of the illusion of identifying - then you can see that there is really no you and that in this way you are everything. You are the point, but not seeing yourself as any particular point you can break yourself down in two and still remain unchanged. You can be broken down in half eternally, and still remain yourself, just because you did not identify yourself with any particular point, with any particular state .Here is the source of eternal, unlimited energy emanating from one point - not identifying as any particular point, not limiting yourself with any state. Then you can be broken down to eternity - split up, played with, created with, sustained, and broken down again without being anything less at any state and any time. This is what is thought when said "You gotta lose yourself in order to become everything...". What point are you? You are no point! What's the point? There is no point! And what a wonderful point of view this is!
Right or wrong?
One day in a little monastery a student of Zen was anxiously pondering about whether he has done the right thing in one of his actions the day before... After his thoughts became so busy that it was unbearable he went to his teacher, explained him his problem and asked:
"My beloved teacher, have I done the right thing?"
-„Right thing for who?“ ...Zen master replied...
...and continued:
Right thing for one is inevitably wrong thing for another! ...right is always contrary to left...and what you are left with then is the conclusion that it cannot be all right - what would be left then?
You are asking an irrelevant question. Rather selfish one I would add.
You can never know what is the right thing for you...let alone what is the right thing to do for another person.
In fact, there is no such thing as doing the right thing! Right is done and automatically wrong is done.There is only the doing and it is being done eternally and effortlessly by itself!
Trust the Universe to take care of itself and you will be free from any wrong or right ...and left at peace eternally by stopping all judgment in your mind.
...and the student had no further doubts any more...
Hope it helped a bit.
have had a chat today and she knows someone that has knowledge on and grows the same strains as a Terrance McKenna? This is still just an option atm, we’re sourcing this week, I need to look more into what it is I’ll be taking. Anyone heard of these? We’ve decided to head to the forest around 5pm this will be in January, with all the necessities, lanterns, quilts , crystals etc, all the spiritual shit we need , ensure we have no commitments until the following morning or disturbances and take somearound 6pm and end up sleeping in the back of the car under the stars. I’ll def report my experience, but thanks to you guys I really am much much less scared and you’ve really alleviated a lot of the things that were holding me back and my fear has absolutely morphed into excitement!!
. X
