Ok, so something I have noticed about psilocybin: I find it causes more delusional thinking than other psychedelics. DMT takes you to another world, but it doesn't screw with your thoughts. LSD and mescaline alter perceptions, but, I do not find the same sort of crazy feeling mind fuck that mushrooms bring with these. I have had delusions on mushrooms, especially on high doses. So have friends of mine. It also seems to make things "sketchy" for people, even when there is not necessarily a reason for this discernible from the set and setting. I have experienced this personally, and I have heard this from many people in my life who otherwise enjoy things like acid.
As well:
Terence McKenna and Dennis McKenna at the La Chorrera experiment speaks for itself as far as delusions go. And Terence was scared off them for life after one horrible trip.
And Albert Hofmann and his associates in "LSD: My Problem Child" found psilocybin to not be enjoyable in the way they found LSD and mescaline to be, they said that the trip got very sinister without any apparent reason. Junger, one of his companions, wrote: "These were the earthy mushrooms. More light was hidden in the dark grain that burst from the ear, more yet in the green juice of the succulents on the glowing slopes of Mexico. . . ." [Translator's note: Junger is referring to LSD, a derivative of ergot, and mescaline, derived from the Mexican peyotl cactus.]
And Hofmann wrote: "The mushroom substance had carried all four of us off, not into luminous heights, rather into deeper regions. It seems that the psilocybin inebriation is more darkly colored in the majority of cases than the inebriation produced by LSD. The influence of these two active substances is sure to differ from one individual to another. Personally, for me, there was more light in the LSD experiments than in the experiments with the earthy mushroom, just as Ernst Junger remarks in the preceding report."
and
"For me this entry into the mushroom world had been a test, a confrontation with a dead world and with the void. The experiment had developed differently from what I had expected. Nevertheless, the encounter with the void can also be appraised as a gain. Then the existence of the creation appears so much more wondrous."
So basically what he got out of it was, "THANK GOD I'M OUT OF THAT PLACE!" *kisses ground*
I'm not hating on shrooms, I know many people who have also had great experiences on mushrooms. I'm just wondering; has anyone else noticed this? I've begun to theorize that psilocybin is an imitation of DMT meant to screw with animals and is meant as a defense mechanism. I don't think this is necessarily true of other plant psychedelics owing to the amount of material that needs to be ingested (cacti, iboga, salvia), and DMT plants just plain can't be consumed without preparation. The 5-Meo-DMT Sonoran Desert toad poison gives me pause for thought...but from what I gather, 5-Meo-DMT isn't exactly fun...and its endogenous, so I don't think it could be considered a purely Darwinian-defense molecule, even if the toad may use it as such.
As Terence McKenna said, mushrooms are in the perfect delivery system; pick, munch, done. And for most animals I suspect.....never again! Thoughts?
As well:
Terence McKenna and Dennis McKenna at the La Chorrera experiment speaks for itself as far as delusions go. And Terence was scared off them for life after one horrible trip.
And Albert Hofmann and his associates in "LSD: My Problem Child" found psilocybin to not be enjoyable in the way they found LSD and mescaline to be, they said that the trip got very sinister without any apparent reason. Junger, one of his companions, wrote: "These were the earthy mushrooms. More light was hidden in the dark grain that burst from the ear, more yet in the green juice of the succulents on the glowing slopes of Mexico. . . ." [Translator's note: Junger is referring to LSD, a derivative of ergot, and mescaline, derived from the Mexican peyotl cactus.]
And Hofmann wrote: "The mushroom substance had carried all four of us off, not into luminous heights, rather into deeper regions. It seems that the psilocybin inebriation is more darkly colored in the majority of cases than the inebriation produced by LSD. The influence of these two active substances is sure to differ from one individual to another. Personally, for me, there was more light in the LSD experiments than in the experiments with the earthy mushroom, just as Ernst Junger remarks in the preceding report."
and
"For me this entry into the mushroom world had been a test, a confrontation with a dead world and with the void. The experiment had developed differently from what I had expected. Nevertheless, the encounter with the void can also be appraised as a gain. Then the existence of the creation appears so much more wondrous."
So basically what he got out of it was, "THANK GOD I'M OUT OF THAT PLACE!" *kisses ground*
I'm not hating on shrooms, I know many people who have also had great experiences on mushrooms. I'm just wondering; has anyone else noticed this? I've begun to theorize that psilocybin is an imitation of DMT meant to screw with animals and is meant as a defense mechanism. I don't think this is necessarily true of other plant psychedelics owing to the amount of material that needs to be ingested (cacti, iboga, salvia), and DMT plants just plain can't be consumed without preparation. The 5-Meo-DMT Sonoran Desert toad poison gives me pause for thought...but from what I gather, 5-Meo-DMT isn't exactly fun...and its endogenous, so I don't think it could be considered a purely Darwinian-defense molecule, even if the toad may use it as such.
As Terence McKenna said, mushrooms are in the perfect delivery system; pick, munch, done. And for most animals I suspect.....never again! Thoughts?
