Marvelous mushrooms and mycelia

[Dreamtimer]

Paul Stamets has made appearances here and there on the forum. He helped to bring renewed interest in fungi for myself. Shadowself shared valuable information about supplements.

Here's a trailer for a movie about these biological forbears.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDLRYfxIW_4

[Aianawa]

Incredible, will enjoy the movie I feel.

Did my first Waska ceremony couple of weeks ago, far out, will do another.

[Dreamtimer]

Is that Aiawanese for ayahuasca? I haven't done that. I haven't done any sort of tripping since college. I have no idea what the experience would be at this age. But I'm not planning on doing it. Maybe DMT.

[Wind]

DMT can be quite intense so ayahuasca... Well, that's whole another level.

Also I find it really funny that Stamets' hat is literally made out of a mushroom.

[Aianawa]

Very sacredly done, massive xlent experience.

[Aragorn]

Very sacredly done, massive xlent experience.

Personally, I like my mushrooms with a creamy sauce. And maybe mashed potatoes on the side. :ttr:

[Dreamtimer]

Paul was recently on Joe Rogan's show. He has developed a bee feeder with his mycelium honey which helps them to resist the viral infections which debilitate hives.

Paul maintains that the number one issue which brings people across the spectrum together is concern over bees.

They also talk a lot about micro-dosing with psilocybin.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ6Ym719urg

[Dreamtimer]

I just discovered that Sprouts carries Paul's supplements. That's convenient since I never got around to ordering any.

[Dreamtimer]

Sentient Mycelium?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZUGSBseIiU

[Emil El Zapato]

Paul Stamets has made appearances here and there on the forum. He helped to bring renewed interest in fungi for myself. Shadowself shared valuable information about supplements.

Here's a trailer for a movie about these biological forbears.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDLRYfxIW_4

Those things are totally weird ... not to mention a very interesting trip ... I wouldn't and don't eat them for nutrition. :)

[Emil El Zapato]

However, nature is depressingly and disappointedly messy ... check out all the truly useless DNA we carry around. Intelligence? Intelligent genes are a subject that has been discussed. Are they so intelligent they refuse to go away even when they have no function or even practical form. I really don't like the idea. It messes with my worldview of nature, dare I say it even God as examples of perfection.

Non-anthropormorphic intelligence is another huuuggge subject.

It isn't my final thought that's for sure

[Aianawa]

Personally, I like my mushrooms with a creamy sauce. And maybe mashed potatoes on the side. :ttr:

Waska is leaf n vine Aragorn not mushies and a wee story as connected, i sat with my friends from USA in their new abode well outa the city and at some point noticed a fungi book on table, he says that be me go to book mushies n fungi wise, big n large book, downloaded a quater maybe, mind blown, book was iirc twenty years old and this was ten years ago, explained their communication n how they all connect not just over miles but all, yip ALL, whole land masses as such, intertwinned and related, huge studies done within it documented etc etc, so when Joe Rogan had DT and my fav stammy guy on, what a pleasure, never done mushies but one day maybe, anyways i find the address finally of the place i was to do the Waska journey and go oh i been here before, the USA couple come out to greet me and we had a great journey and reconnection, they had said back when, we will have no children, we going to find our crux for humanity and they now had, they assist in the transmutation of pain n suffering at a high hi high level on behalf of humanity After 15-20 years of huge self know self work spirit has truely blessed them and me knowing them has blessed me.

Looking forward to watching vid ta

[Dreamtimer]

Russell Brand is wondering about fungi. He seems like a fungi. I mean, fun guy.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L790O6Ot3W4

[Wind]

Now this is quite something! Not sure if Stamets has mentioned it before.

https://s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/aap-nw-aap.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/23155013/ec47ae727d3c4abea435b4729cf66428e3ff95aca6d2d99cb3 d308353e2d54c9-scaled.jpg?v=1608699016

[Emil El Zapato]

Now this is quite something! Not sure if Stamets has mentioned it before.

https://s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/aap-nw-aap.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/23155013/ec47ae727d3c4abea435b4729cf66428e3ff95aca6d2d99cb3 d308353e2d54c9-scaled.jpg?v=1608699016

yeeouch, is that middle-earth or Brobdingnag?

[Wind]

Ok, it seems that the picture is fake (should have known), but the info is correct. :)

[Dreamtimer]

It's the mycelium which is so huge. But we cannot see it. I'd like to see some phosphorescent mycelium some day.

[Wind]

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[Dreamtimer]

Mycelium rules! Thanks for this, Wind.

[Emil El Zapato]

Mycelium rules! Thanks for this, Wind.

This stuff is nuts until it hits AI singularity ... oh, then it won't be so cool!

[Wind]

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[Diabolical Boids]

So I took the plunge and did the md. The microdose.

A lot of curious observations I didn't expect. Not sure what I expected really. The White Rabbit and a ride on Jefferson Airplane. Which was the first observation because the mushroom communicates with you. Since people started tripping on them in the 60s en masse they adapted themselves in the meantime. The trips are not so intense or end up bad . Also that is mostly relegat4ed to artificial LSD. Bad tips that is.

It's called a mushroom for a reason. It's a space, like a room.

Even though the shroom was in a bar of chocolate I could feel it on my tongue. Stamets documentary says that the mushroom isn't a plant or a person but something in between. It felt like something alive in my mouth and was happy to be there. I couldn't stand the idea of chewing it for that reason so I just swallowed it down.

An MD isn't supposed to be noticeable. You aren't supposed to trip or have visuals. The dose was three pieces of the chocolate bar. Being on the side of caution because people are more likely not to have their facts straight, I took one pc and divided it into thirds. I certainly felt a lot of stuff going on at a third of a piece which was probably about .15 of a gram. I suspected I'd be somewhat sensitive to it. Later I finished the piece and the space I was in intensified. Different shrooms give different effects. This one was relaxing. It's as good as Zanax, but without the side effects or that dead numb feeling. I couldn't get myself worked up into a state of anxiety if I wanted to. No depressive feelings, no intrusive thoughts, the parasite mind is for sure neutralized. You don't feel out of control. Even when weird shit happens. I found like a string trailing along after me. I thought it was something I picked up from emptying the drier so I tried to pull it away. Well it wasn't there. It was there but it wasn't physical, it was a like an energy streamer.

The major take away is that while we imagine all kinds of fairly like nature entities taking care of the earth, mushrooms are the actual curators. Whatever fey and slyphs are sort of trailing along and helping out. And the mushrooms can adapt to clean and fix anything...if we'd use them.


The shroom helps trauma but separating the feeling, the memory and the perception is the best I describe it. So past trauma doesn't affect in the present. I've had to meditate and snooze to get in arms reach of this great intelligence that people call god or the unified field. With the shroom it's just right there.

So very very relaxed but alert. I could easily stay up all night or go right to sleep.

Things are so interesting. Everything is. Not just interesting things but every thing is a object of interest. I spent a good portion of time watching a Cessna arrange itself for a landing and then begin to fly down towards the run way. I was totally spell bound. My jaw was hanging open. I was a second away from drooling. It's like I watched that landing for a half hour and really it could have only been a minute or two. But understand i'm not tripping or high. I'm heightened. I have watched little airplanes come in and out of that little airport my whole life and never really paid much attention.

I heard mushrooms will intensify moods or even elements of yourself. My element is intensity. It's very offensive in our injured world but i have such intense curiosity about how people think and how they came to see the world and why. And clearly they want an open kumbaya world but they don't want to go there. Clearly they want to be paid attention to, everyone is crying for attention but get offended when you give it to them. In this case I could examine everything I wanted to as hard as a I wanted to and absolutely find out what I wanted without curdling or cracking frail egos.

It's extremely difficult for me to speak. It's not like a drunk absence of speech its just that there seems like easier ways of communicating.

And you do. You spend a lot of time in non verbal communication. I watched an absolutely absorbing exchange at a doctor's office between a Latino woman, an American woman, Irish woman, an Italian lady and a southern black lady who didn't make her actual ethnicity known. It was interesting how natural they were with each other. They said such racist things. When the Latino woman admitted her husband had to have ribs boiled before barbequing them the black lady declared no black man would do that. And everyone knew black people had the market on BBQ said the Irish Lady! O my god, so Unwoke. The Latino lady asked the white women why did white people sedate their children for sleep. No one was offended or woke or triggeered. When people are left alone they are so good with each other. So far removed from BLM and Latinx that you could cry. What i noticed is though I didn't say a word, they keep looking over to include me in their conversation and I really couldn't manage anything but a nod and a smile but they acted like I was chattering away with them. So apparently some non verbal communication going on there.

Back at home my daughter kept saying that I was radiating peace energy all over. And that is pretty much the gist of it. I can't believe that these are not used instead of SSRI anti depressants. These just adapt to you the way a drug wouldn't.

[Aianawa]

So very happy for you Dia Bee, very.

[Fred Steeves]

Great story DB.

One of the coolest experiences I ever had was a micro dose as well. A friend from PA came to visit, we each took just 1/2 of a cap, and that was perfect. Took a nice long walk in the woods, I made us a killer meal, had a little fire ceremony after dark, and he even gained a new addition to his animal wheel in the process.

Any more may well have been too much for the occasion.

And, I know what you mean about Xanax. It certainly will "Comfortably Numb" you, but kiss goodbye any psychic aspects of your being as payment to the ferryman...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwEMfLjxq8M

[Octopus Garden]

Wow, That sounds just superb, not just what happened but the way you communicated it. I felt I was in the laundromat with you!:group hug:

We're encouraged by controllers to do too much of this :goodbad:
Mushrooms want it to stop.