First timer's guide for psychedelic mushrooms
MAGIC MUSHROOMS
WHY LOW DOSE FIRST
Most important take away:
arrange a sober sitter on high dose trips.
Tripsit each other, DO NOT trip together.
Discuss beforehand who to call, when to call friends, parents, emergency services. Especially in countries where mushrooms are illegal.
This 15 minute read is for everyone, from a fellow triplover.
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Some people like to jump in and learn the hard way.
No judgement. This is your way.
But please allow me a friendly word of caution:
A high dose of mushrooms may trigger you to remember (hidden!) childhood trauma.
Consider educating here first for your safety.
You are looking at a cautious, safeguide to enter the world of psychedelic mushrooms.
It's written to inform cautious people about strange mushroom aspects that may occur.
This knowledge may come in extremely handy reducing fear later!
Mushrooms can be heaven AND / OR hell.
There are things you should know!
The examples provided are essential for understanding the concept of tripping and will give you foundational knowledge.
This is not a practical guide about preparing mushroom tea etc.
WHY, HOW
You
You are the only person able to know what a mushroom experience will feel like for yourself. Immediately herein lies the problem.
There is just no frame of reference before you've tripped.
Words fall short in explaining a full mushroom experience.
The consequences of wrong choices have been severe for many. Up to hospitalization and death: no need to look away from this.
But no need to be discouraged either!
Severe consequences are pretty easy to avoid.
Catch22
-Tripping while ignorant of the overwhelming effects can cause a 'bad trip'.
-Education about preventing 'bad trips' involves examples of fear.
-Reading these stories may induce fear. Fear induces 'bad trips'.
How to inform yourself about the good AND the challenging side of mushrooms, without becoming afraid or refraining from tripping?
There are many sites that solely show positive aspects but don't educate on the negative ones.
This guide tries to inform you what may happen,
for good and bad.
No sugarcoating, in an honest way.
Leaving you prepared, with important two-sided knowledge that will reduce possible fear for the unknown.
If you are annoyed by cautious or spiritual words, this is not your guide.
‘We Are One’ is a core message of a high dose mushroom trip.
Mushrooms may show you a realm that is beyond anything you can imagine. Indistinguishable from real life...
WHY A MUSHROOM TRIP?
Everybody has certain preconceptions.
We look at the world and although we may materially see the same thing, we each ‘judge’ or ‘color’ it differently.
Eyes closed, for a lover, a hand on a shoulder is a loving gesture.
For a recent rape victim the same gesture brings up another set of emotions. Same gesture. Same body sensation.
Your world, your view is based upon prior situations and the accompanying filters.
Imagine two people looking at snow. One has yellow glasses, one green.
There's no way to percieve the actual whiteness of the snow, unless they remove their glasses.
This removing of these filters is what mushrooms do for you.
They remove 'you' from your tainted view of the world. Colored glasses you didn’t know you wore.
What is left, during a high dose trip, is something described as isness, awareness. A judge-less, timeless state that right now, cannot be understood from the point of your thinking mind.
By removing these Ego filters, your judgements en preconceptions are also removed.
Judgements about others, and eventually… about yourself.
It's an incredible freeing experience!
It is truly the ultimate coming home.
By removing your filter and blocks, many memories may surface. Like childhood trauma.
This is why psychedelics are now widely studied as an alternative to antidepressants.
When this traumarelease happens in a controlled set and setting you may end up a healed person! The joyous feeling is beyond words.
If it releases at a rave though, you're in trouble. Read on...
FIRST
Beware of the biggest of all 'shroom' misconceptions; mushrooms are fun, a partydrug?! Well they can be for shure. But they can become a horrorshow as well.
Some perspective:
You are -RIGHT NOW- both the parent and the child.
You have the capacity to overexpose your inner child to a scene that is beyond the scope of your current understanding.
Think from a parents perspective. A young child insists it can handle a horror movie. You know better.
Every age opens access to new levels of information.
Going too quick may damage the child.
That is where you are right now.
You are that young child. And you are your own parent at the same time.
You might believe you can handle mushrooms easily. You may have done XTC, MDMA, weed, even LSD. Are fearless and tough.
Friend, it has nothing to do with that.
Mushrooms are a class of medicin in its own. Unimagineable strange.
Many men and women have literally shit their pants because they underestimated the power of high dose psilocybin.
Proceed with caution. Experience has to be built up safe and gradually. That's where beginners tend to fuck up.
They take too much, too soon and regret it later. When you're in, there's no way out.
You should not take a high dose before you've established your sensitivity to psilocybin. Surprisingly a bodybuilder cannot handle more psilocybin than a marathonrunner.
It's all about pretty random receptor sensitivity, not muscles or weight.
SET AND SETTING
In fact it is exactly the opposite too. There is no way to underestimate the possible downspiralling effect of an unsafe set and setting.
To name about the worst: a festival or club.
Most public places are a terrible place for a high dose trip.
Often recommended, a trip in nature, but this is better when you have gained experienced or are with an experienced sober guide.
The risks outweigh the benefits of a high dose in an unsafe environment.
A forrest? What if every tree moves it's branches and turns to you? What if you ‘wake up’ naked and have no idea how this happened, where your are? Actual high dose possibilities.
First time users that are being guided by experienced sitters, psychologists or shamans have arranged a very good set and setting.
They are in a safe environment with trustworthy sitters.
Possible fears now serve a purpose, often releasing deep trauma.
This set and setting is highly preferred for a high dose.
In a country where psychedelics are illegal, almost by default inhabitants have a bad setting.
If a trip becomes challenging, a passing police car may drive trippers insane with fear of imprisonment.
In high doses 'Trip and Truth’ can and will become completely indistinguishable. Think about the implications.
Mushrooms are incredibly potent.
Enter their realm with caution.
EXPERIENCE IS KEY
Normally, when we grow up, our caretakers supervise our first peanut.
Most people do not die from a peanut. But some do and did. By choking or allergic reaction.
Are peanuts life threatingly dangerous? Yes and no.
Accident with psychedelic mushrooms happen predominantly when trippers take too much, too soon.
Often these beginners had a bad set and setting and no sober sitter.
Prevent possible accidents by doing the opposite.
First establish your sensitivity dose. A low dose of psychedelic mushrooms, to be compared to a first peanut allergy check.
If things went well, you can step up later.
Mushrooms are physically extremely safe, even in really high doses.
The psychological effect and result of confusion absolutely not!
Depersonalion, Derealisation and Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder (HPPD), are possible outcomes. Jumping from buildings, crossing a highway on foot etc, we all know the stories.
These effect are very rare on low doses.
Important: note the positive side to a high dose as well!
If done right, mushrooms heal you
and may even show you your life's purpose.
Mushrooms can assist in curing depression, PTSD, alcohol withdrawal and many serious disorders of the mind.
Back to the peanut analogy: “Why take the major risk of giving myself an unsupervised handful of peanuts for my first try?!”
CENTRAL MESSAGE
An unsupervised high dose, especially the first time, may severely damage you.
It is virtually impossible to physically overdose from mushrooms: the danger lies in reality fuck ups and how people react to that.
Low dose first time!
Safe set and setting.
Being a brave person will be of no help to you. In fact it may make things worse, as you'll read later.
Low dose first. Next times a bit more.
This is backupped by research.
“One month after sessions at the two highest doses, volunteers rated the psilocybin experience as having substantial personal and spiritual significance, and attributed to the experience sustained positive changes in attitudes, mood, and behavior, with the ascending dose sequence showing greater positive effects.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3308357/
Mushrooms have a angelic bright side
as well as a deep, mysterious dark side.
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
Multidimensional Mind Altering Thoughts
The next six parts are trying to give words to a concept or feeling that is indescribable. You may need this knowledge later!
Please allow yourself to let the strange words enter your inner world.
Try to feel them, to understand the implications and prepare you for what may come.
1. REALITY FLUCTUATIONS
Tripping is different from getting high on any other class of drugs.
There may be reality fluctuations in ways you cannot even imagine!
Real realities within realities, like a dream within a dream within a dream. Then, what is real?! There’s no way to comprehend anymore. That's when things may become difficult or even dangerous.
During a high dose trip, words may become meaningless, numbers unreadable.
Telephone for help? The device will become unrecognizable and uncontrollable. You have no idea what you are staring at.
Faces may become animals, people grow horns, bedrooms may half or double in size. Or alternate while you watch it happen.
Literally. It does not SEEM like it, it ACTUALLY happens: in your worldview. But not for a bystander...
There will be no way for you to distinct what's real or not.
It's NOT LIKE WEED!
And this is just the beginning of a four to six hour journey.
Gain experience with low doses first.
2. FEEDBACK LOOP
One thing to expect and learn to handle are feedback thought loops.
They seem to go on forever, no pun intended.
If you are in a bad vibe, or start panicking, they may spiral you down.
If handled correctly and / or guided through, you will be able to go through persisting loops yourself.
This should be learned gradually, in low doses.
Internalise this most important mantra.
The only two words you need in a trip: Let Go...
Let go and sink in deeper. Relax. The deeper you relax, the more you need to Let Go. Keep reminding yourself.
Things will get better if you LET GO. Always.
Don’t tense up. Never hold on.
These words are the only two words you need to remember.
Let Go.
3. ALTERED PERCEPTION OF CLOCK TIME
High doses can send a person into a spiralling, spinning infinate loops where time does not seem to exist.
What defines time perception?
Not the clock. You do.
We all know: bored is slow time, fun is fast time.
For a fruitfly 24 hours is a whole life. For them time (probably) passes much slower.
Like it's almost impossible to catch a common fly by hand.
They process everything faster.
Think. What defines your time? Where is it produced?
Yes. In the brain. And you've just majorly stirred up things there with psilocybin.
Let the following high dose mushroom thought enter your sober mind:
“OMG. Time has stopped! Did the mushrooms slow down my brain? Nothing moves, seems familiar anymore. How will I be able to tell if time has slowed down for life. I live now between two earth time seconds. What have I done?!"
This thought may loop.
During a high dose trip you may experience realtime minutes as hours.
There is no way of comprehending this mindfuck in real life.
There will also be no way to debunk the thought itself DURING this high dose trip!
You may be 100% sure you are stuck in between two clock seconds...
Start low dose and gain experience. The altered time perception will then be less noticable and induce less or no fear. You will get used to it.
A high dose challenging trip can feel like it has been going on for hours.
It may have been minutes.
Don’t be scared now. Be informed. If you've learned the feeling in a low dose, you'll recognize the pattern in a high dose. Without fear.
Important: the positive side: when you find yourself in ‘Isness’ (more later), all words fall short. You want time to slow down! It is bliss forever.
If you find yourself in a low dose negative timelock, go into another brightly lit room.
Another space is often a great way of new perspectives.
It renews the senses.
4. ALL ONE
The most likely outcome of a high dose trip is the knowing, not the feeling or thought, -the actual knowing- that we are all one.
The next words may seem complete spiritual nonsens now, they -will- resonate during a high dose trip!
Try to follow this next trippers thought:
“You,” -fill in yourname- “In a high dose mushroom journey, you will learn that I am now writing to you, through another consciousness as you, talking to you, which by then is actually the same as I speak to I.
I am you. You and I are one.
I am.”
Lost you? Complete new age bullshit?
This is how mushroom thoughts may turn you inside out.
They alter your perception of the world in a way that is unlike any other category of drugs.
Unlike most other substances they’ll take you to another level of reality.
A broader but unfamiliar perspective.
Therefor, prior knowledge is key. If you know what MAY happen, you will be prepared.
Let Go.
This is part of the biggest psychedelic mindfuck:
5. EGO DEATH
This sinister sounding concept is well known within the world of psychedelics. It is actually one of the most beautiful experiences one can undergo in his or her life.
‘You’ or the thought of an ‘I’ will dissolve.
This is very hard to grasp from earth's dualistic perpective.
Understanding this concept, internalising it, will give you a major advantage in comfortably Letting Go into the mushroom experience.
A high dose may trick you into thinking, no, KNOWING you are dying, really dying, you are done, absolutely nothing in the world is going to save you.
To be clear: not for real but in your tripmind.
Now. Tough, strong ego persons may try not to die.
They will fight. And will loose. You've made things worse. There's no fighting mushrooms.
Got your attention? This process is the core of the mushroom proces.
The biggest distinction between psychedelics and other classes of drugs is:
Your experience may feel MORE REAL than any experience
on earth you've had before!
Let that sink in.
With most drugs you still know you took a substance.
With high dose psychedelics you will forget this all important fact.
You become the experience, not the experiencer.
High dose mushrooms may bring you to a point where you will have to let go of life.
Not for real, but you may not be able to know that!
Read that mind fuck again.
It is a point of no return. You must give up everything you know and are. A major leap into the unknown...
You might see yourself actually dying. See your actual body tissue dissolve. Or feel yourself floating up, looking down from above in an Out Of Body Experience.
Again, you may not be able to realise this was because you took mushrooms.
My friend. Feel that vibe. No need to fear, it's fantastic: when you've gained some gradual experience.
A high dose mushroom reality feels like it ENCOMPASSES earth reality as a higher form of intelligence. Like when waking up from a dream.
You will, there, wake up from Life On Earth and know this life was all a dream.
Can you now see why accidents happen with psychedelics?People are oblivious to the fact they took them.
They find themselves in a woken up state from a dream state!
It's perceived as MORE REAL than your current life.
There, they finally woke up from the earth dream and are awake now in mushroom consciousness.
See the predicament?
Can you feel the consciousness feedback loop?
Here and now, you can never picture that greater reality, in the same way a dreamer cannot picture a greater waking reality while dreaming.
All this may sound scary as hell.
Important: it could be the most sacred, loving experience ever happened to you! On the same scale as the birth of a child.
But. Build some experience first.
If you take it easy on the first dose, you will not yet enter Ego Death.
6. THE 'ALL' DIMENSION
Even if you are not into spiritual talk, in a high dose trip, there’s no way to avoid the following.
Adapt my friend. Seriously.
On high dose psychedelics, you will be exposed to it sooner or later.
Ego Death eventually leads to the high dose 'I AM' epiphany, it may be shown to you like:
You are an oxygen molecule that is shown it is part of a water molecule, part of a drop of water, river, sea, ocean, part of a world, galaxy, part of the universe and finally as consciousness. It concludes it has been a divided part of an undivided ALL.
I AM.
The sheer magnitude of this realisation of ALL is immeasurable and irreversable.
Like people after a Near Death Experience.
Most loose their fear of dying.
This ALL pervading knowing is why mushrooms have been succesfully used in experiments with cancer patients.
These terminal patients lost their fear of dying, knowing death is not the end.
BATTLING FEAR
Fear of death is in our DNA.
You behave no different.
It is a reflex. Not a learnt behaviour.
High doses may induce a terrifying, traumatizing fear.
Don't risk an unsupervised high dose when there is a much safer way to face your demons later and eventually enter pure bliss.
Practical tips.
Fear is often enlarged by darkness. Trip preferrably in daylight. Start early. When you trip at night, keep all spaces brightly lit.
Put on white clothes, tripsitter in white as well.
Mirrors often induce fear: your face may look completely changed.
If you don't think you can handle it, cover all mirrors.
Music will guide a trip in means you cannot comprehend.
Put on sacred, soft, positive, easy music. Don't use Youtube with add's that blast in between.
If you feel fearsome try moving to another room.
This often makes a huge difference.
And: Let Go.
THE TRIPSITTER
Unlike a dreamer, who's muscles are safely disabled,
trippers move around!
The biggest danger of unguided trips.
This 'higher than real' reality realm makes people think they can fly. They actually can, in their 'higher' reality!
Trippers may fly out the high story window...
They see it, they feel it, for them it is abolutely real.
A sober sitter is the most ignored part
during trips for teenagers.
Please educate your teenager.
This guide may assist.
Coming from a fellow tripper, it may safe a life.
One of four Dutch teenage friends tried to fight a tripdemon: stabbed his best tripperfriend to death.
Unfortunately there are dozens of stories like this.
You may SEE demons, hear them. They are for real!
On mushrooms you may meet God, but some meet demons...
It's all about hidden trauma from the past.
Arrange a sober sitter on high dose trips.
And discuss beforehand who to call, when to call relatives or emergency services. Especially in countries where mushrooms are illegal. Better be grounded for a while than severely damaged for life.
WHEN NOT TO TRIP?
Incomprehensible consciousness feedbackloops can make some people paranoid. Trigger psychotic attacks.
Wikipedia: Psychosis is a condition of the mind that results in difficulties determining what is real and what is not real.[4] Symptoms may include delusion and hallucinations.
Do NOT trip if you ever feel you are not really here, feel disassociated from life.
If you have memories of other realms, psychotic episodes or psychosis in the family line: refrain from psychedelics.
Only microdosing may be safe. Consult a doctor, really!
Psychedelics may do you more harm.
Don't trip if you are of an age group that is not yet firmly grounded.
For most this is around 25. Why 25?
This is the age that many senior psychonauts, looking back at life, would say they themself as evolved youngster where ready for psychedelics. Or should have waited for.
Valid advice! (Podcast: Ram Dass Here And Now).
LOW DOSE
It may come as a surprise that even on low doses, you can feel love as you've never felt in your life. An engulfing, unconditional love.
It can be perceived as a -non sexual- orgasme in every fiber of your body.
Low dose, under a gram yes!
It all depends on your (so far unknown) receptor sensitivity.
A low dose does not guarantee a positive experience!
It may be underwhelming. You may even not feel a thing. (Using an antidepressant SSRI? No effect at all.)
Starting with a low dose may save you though, from a horrific experience.
The first time
Take no more than 1 gram dried normal strength cubensis.
This is around 5 gram fresh truffles, depending on strength.
If you are really anxious about your first experience start with a microdose, 200mg or 1 gram truffles.
Work your way up
Depending on how your first trip went, work up to higher doses in small steps. For mushrooms in 750 mg steps.
Some users will try to pursuade you to take higher doses.
- They successfully handled a full first fist of peanuts.
You don't know your sensitivity yet. A high dose first time is Russian Roulette.
To LSD and 2CB users
Mushrooms take over control in a way you may not experienced before.
This reddit user succesfully mastered 2220 mcg LSD and had a terrible time on 3.5 gram mushrooms... This is 10 times a very high dose dose of LSD vs one high dose mushrooms.
(https://www.reddit.com/r/shrooms/comments/eq2ey1/what_do_you_do_in_the_middle_of_a_bad_trip/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
REASONS TO START LOW
Do you know -exactly- what mushrooms you have?
Mushrooms are almost impossible to identify for laymen.
There are psychedelic mushrooms that are much stronger than others.
Your mushrooms might be insanely strong! (Albino Penis Envy, APE for example)
Some people are extremely sensitive to psilocybin.
Like with peanuts. Untill you know how you react: low dose!
Some people just get sick from psilocybin.
They start puking after 30 minutes and while having a fullblown trip keep puking the rest of the hours. This is rare but does happen. You’ll thank God you began with a low dose.
In a low dose trip, mind fuck ups can be handled
As you’ve read before: mushroom can be heaven or hell. A low dose challenging trip is doable. You will be able to call a friend or even pull yourself out. Not the case with a high trip dose.
Small chance for consequences.
The likelihood of developing trauma or HPPD are very small in low dose trips. Unlike high dose.
ONCE IN...
Once in, there is no way out.
Or is there...?
Vitamin B3 (in the form of Niacin, NOT niacinamide) is a not so well known cheap substance that may, in higher doses stop a trip in its tracks.
Wait! It has a really unpleasant side effect: Niacin Flush.
Lookup the pictures on Google.
Often within 5 minutes of taking it, your whole body turns red like you are severely burnt. The itch can be unbearable. Some people are shocked by the instant effect!
Days before the intended trip: try 50 mg first, not more, gradually increase. Now you know the feeling of a niacin flush. Do NOT take 250 or even 500mg your first time. You have been warned...
Not suitable for teenagers tripping at home!
Your parents will rush you to hospital if they see you red skin.
In some countries Benzodiazepines like Xanax are available.
They can lead to overdose deaths. Carefully preparing a emergency dose before tripping (and safely hiding the rest) may be a lifesaver.
FINAL WORD...
Much has been said about the downsides.
Important:
Mushrooms save more lifes than most people know.
By changing the quality of life for many to be exact.
There are no words to describe a loving low dose trip.
Even less words to describe a safe guided high dose trip.
Experience it for yourself...
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