Comments on: Rethinking Reality: The Spiritual Benefits Of Magic Mushrooms

By: Joe YumYum

Joe YumYum — Fri, 07 May 2010 22:16:03 +0000

The one time I tried them was a most amazing experience! It is silly to make their use illegal; yes under 21 should be illegal but should be a choice for an adult. I treasure the experience and feel most all would benefit from such as experience!!!

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By: Marc Latham

Marc Latham — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:05:59 +0000

Thanks for your accurate and extensive thoughts Tony.

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By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:17:46 +0000

Magic Mushrooms are the greatest psyche healers I have ever known, but must be used in the correct setting. I’m only talking about the only ones I know and they would be P. Cubensis. The greatest way to pull a person out of depression or anxieties is to set them up to “Go off the clock” to take a time-out from all their seriousness, and prepare to laugh your hardest and your longest. This laughter is healing and brings you home to a state of total freedom for a temporay time to help people realize they must know this state to know how happy they could possibly be. Coming down from the trip causes a tremendous amout of awareness. There is a reason they are called magic, because they heal you like magic, but if you are in the wrong setting, or are tired, they can cause the bad trip which basically causes you to be in a state of paranoia. Many people with very selfish and controlling personalities have a very bad trip and never ever wqnt to take it again, and that is because they have taken them in the presence of others. I have found the best way to enjoy the experience if you do not know if you are a control freak or not is to go out nature far away from anyone, and then you can enjoy them for sue. One thing they are not is an escape drug. My experience of eating them after a hard day of stressful work cause me to relive work in my mind for hours, and helped me realize that I was being too much of a slave to my job, as I had a bad trip all night about work; over and over I saw the machines running and the people working. Needless to say, I was sick of work by the time it was time for me to ge up and go back to work the next day, and I quit my job about a week later. They make you become a better person for others, by helping you realize how selfish you may be, and perhaps how controlling you are, and they also help you realize how controlled by shame you have been. They help you become a much freer person. In a group setting everyone should simply realize that we are not held accountable for the things we say and do while hig. You definately do not want to do them around people you are uncomfortable with; especially if you are a teenager in the United Stateswhere we have the most divided habits, and I am talking about how our peers control us with shame and criticize everything we say and do and make fun of each other. You must be in a “Trust circle” where everyone is supportive and happy and caring and sharing for the best group results. I always tell people to plan on laughing your ass off, and then they do. Thus is simply my witnessed Truth as a psychedelic shaman in training.

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By: eel

eel — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:39:15 +0000

I’ve just read the the article and comments with great interest. Seems to me that there is no chance of a rational discussion about drugs in the political arena, the sacking of Prof. Nutt is clear proof of that. I might be wrong but the grading system was initially devised to scientifcally look at the “harm” different drugs have physiologically. This was adopted by lawmakers as some kind on bench mark and over the years social harm as been grafted into it. Cold politics has surely followed with home secrataries trying to appear tough on crime etc., by moving drugs into different categories. Perhaps Prof. Nutt was guilty of being politically naive but why should he not voice his opions, he is probably the country’s leading authority (not alan johnson) on the subject after all.

I agree with the comments above about mushrooms being a natural experiance. From going out to pick them to the experiance of the trip itself. Most people prefer to take mushrooms in familar surroundings with familar people or in the great outdoors where you can just go with it. Even the “come down” can be quite nice with the mushrooms giving you a proper sleep, so you feel refreshed in the morning. People react quite differently to mushrooms some have deep spirtual experiances some just run round giggling. Its difficult to put your finger on the experiance which is the magic.

On the downside you can have too much of a good thing, in one go and cumatively. Also you can put yourself in harms way whilst tripping which is probably more dangerous than the physiological effects of the drug.

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By: Marc Latham

Marc Latham — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:19:13 +0000

The UK government scientific advisor has been sacked because he publically disagreed with the government when they went against his advice and upgraded cannabis from c to b.

He also said the government didn’t ask scientific advice on mushrooms and their decision to categorise them as A would have been against their advice.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8334774.stm

Scientific/political debate about mushrooms:

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmsctech/65/6112206.htm

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By: dieselboy747

dieselboy747 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:52:09 +0000

I agree that magic mushrooms produce spiritual awakenings. In fact I firmly believe that magic mushrooms ( And maybe all mushrooms) are a type of entity that actually communicates with you as if you were some type of medium. Picture this, imagine frequency like VHF UHF Microwave and so on and then you have this frequency for the human mind if you can achieve it I call “The human Internet”. I call it this because when you achieve this “frequency” or state of mind you become some sort of medium for this being or state of conciousness what ever it is. And when you are like this I have actually tapped into a pool of knoweldge that other people can access if they were to achieve this same state and it was kind of like the internet. We can all access this state of mind if you just believe and let your self get there. I am so serious and I am not crazy! In fact I aam starting to realize why the native Americans and other tribal ALL have some sort of spiritual leader,Shamans amongst the tribe. They were all accessing a sort of “human Internet” that provided them with knowledge from another state of reality. May be they can even communicate with each other that I don’t know for sure. But what I do Know for sure is that through out history all tribal people had some sort of spiritual leader and they didn’t just have him for giggles, they had him/her for wisdom and guidence, And all of these spiritual people were pretty much saying and doing the same thing take a look for your self!!!

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By: Marc Latham

Marc Latham — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:26:02 +0000

Good thought provoking W.C. Fields quote Dave, and nice blog from your link. Just responded over there, so thought I’d recycle here:

Reality is different for everybody I guess, depending on what info they receive and how their brain is structured.

I think some events are decoded by some people the same way, but not all events are decoded by the same people the same way.

It may seem like that some times, but that’s probably because one person is dominated by another, or a group, and just agrees through peer pressure or a desire to be accepted/liked.

Don’t think alcohol is a solution, but it can be a stimulus or medicine at times.

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By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:24:49 +0000

Reality is an illusion that occurs due to the lack of alcohol.

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By: Marc Latham

Marc Latham — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:34:07 +0000

I just answered a question on this article offsite, and thought I’d post it here to add to the article/discussion. Don’t know if you agree or if it makes sense to you?!:

Q. Would you say they open another part of our so closed minds? or do you think its thoughts and feelings induced by the mushroom?

A. I guess they’re connected: the doors of perception are opened and this inspires or releases thoughts and feelings that have either been forgotten, suppressed or remained beyond the reach of the socialised, conditioned and limited sober modern mind.