One Step Beyond - The Sacred Mushroom (3/3)

[GeoffTheGiraff]

Thank you so much for this! I've been collecting videos on the truth of psychedelics and the gov/monetary system, check out my channel! :)

[Licmycat]

The liars don't want us to read their minds. Crooked snakes would be more or less what they would look like on this. No wonder they kept us dumb as possible. And afraid.

[PennyTraition]

ehtdaedlu fetarq: Interesting stuff...thanks for your comment. Let's not forget S.Divinorum, KavaKava, Ephedra Root, Valerian, Amenita Muscarina, even Yerba Maté, Betel Nuts, A. Absinthium; perhaps not Krakom! All useful in a wiccan kitchen.

Agrotera )O(

[PennyTraition]

Whatever your poison is, and who am I to talk to someone who took, ooh, 100s of mushrooms.Wouldn't Terence McKenna (who?) be impressed. 'Uncrease'? I never knew that, poor brainless addict I am, and have been for 25 years.Somebody tell Bill. Oh, he's dead, isn't he? HIS poison was the opiates.Lived to be very old and ...people seemed to be impressed...WHY??

What do YOU think, sunchilde68?

[rocknrollhoocheecoo]

Hey screw all this technical psyco babble I'm readin here. You wanna know the truth? They do make clairvoient or give you the smarts(10 fold!)and let you really kinda know what's gonna happen next. From 77' thru 78'(ahh the golden years)I have so help me done or drank/ate 100's of mushrooms! I know exactly what I'm talking about. If you wanna uncrease your IQ(the after effect or end result?)do mushrooms as often as possible! The magic will begin after you puke some really harmless then its on!

[PennyTraition]

Methadone was also not called 'Fuhrerephine'!, but 'Dolophine', probably from 'Dolor',Greek for 'Pain'.Today we have addicts running round dependent on the toxic Methadone (I'm not knocking it; I use it as a 'palliative',and a little Morphine for pain).I did become alcoholic.I had to fight for 5 years to stay off.Like I said, whatever your poison is.But why is OK for these doctors to use what ancients have known for years?And forget Religion.

Great videos,AmosNoMore. Legalise it all and thanks!

[sunchilde68]

@PennyTraition YOUR knowledge all the way down the line "Here, There and Everywhere" never ceases to amaze me my clever darling! Funny, youve got me thinking of the movie "the Deep" now,remember what they find from the ship wreckage on the ocean floor? every comment YOU make is a plus in educating the viewer.I would indulge my temptations in particular poisons in YOUR admirable company my dear..My doors of perception are for the opening,especially with your guiding hand..

[PennyTraition]

The Brits/Americans marketed as 'Luminal'.It was very addictive,but so are placebos. The first totally synthetic narcotic was Meperidine,'Demerol'/'Dummy Oil'.In 1943 or thereabouts, the Germans had their supplies of Morphine cut off, so needed a new poewrful analgesic. I.G.Farben came up with Methadone, marketed as 'Amidone'.At the end of the war, the allies seized everything, and analgesic #10820 was forgotten about. The US started to market it as 'Dolophine', nothing to do with 'Adolphofine '

[PennyTraition]

Speaking as a Jung one (pro Jung but not so young anymore), it was Freud who made Cocaine the shame it is today (all cut up).Coca leaf chewing is different. Diacetylmorphine was made available in 1898 as 'Heroin' by German chemical giants Bayer. In 1899, they OKed a sallycin, called Aspirin, which didn't have the 'nervine' effectts of Papever Somniferum, so in 1903, J.Von Merring synthesised phenobarbital (on St.Barbara's Day).He called it 'Veronal', for that was the most peaceful place he knew.

[PennyTraition]

It depends which your own particular poison is. Mine is Opium. All drugs should be legal, and most are, one way or another, available. Is this psylocibin? Look at alcohol, one of the most vile poisons on earth,I don't drink (though I would drink Absinthe') (not 'Absinth') Maybe Tequila. Laudanum.Look at all the roots/vines available in S.America...Yajé (as written about in William Burroughs book of letters to Ginsberg).'Vin Des Incas'.Erythroxylon Coca was available in Coca-Cola,still is.Ruined.

[MannyZtotheG]

Thank you for posting this very intriguing video AmosNomore.

[gigimontrucchio]

Bill Hicks brought me here

[OGJBone]

great vid

[dltanner99]

Horror novel see video book trailer

[Treetalkerable1]

today I smile about this message and am amazed to hear "good" scientists.

Back than in 61 this is an ad for 1) more gov. control and 2) for the tinfoil industry.

See what I mean?

[AmosNomore]

@Treetalkerable1 The activities engaged in by the MKULTRA project would suggest that at least one government agency at the time viewed this program with great interest and open minds.

[Treetalkerable1]

@AmosNomore an the Russians of course! Cold war was burning.

[Treetalkerable1]

@AmosNomore I meant the cold war burning in the heads back than.

If we know it, soon they will know it, but thanks for your point

[maxreger100]

I remember this show and Roald Dahl's "Way Out" vividly as a growing boy. Somehow, they made even a greater impression on me than "The Twilight Zone".

[loblut]

Protect your God-given right to keep and bear arms.

[7Millersshadow]

@loblut uh, okay...thanks for sharing. Are you sure you're in the right class young man?

[Supenmanu]

Now what i like about the 50's is that you could show such things on TV and do research into ESP without being ridicouled and without being a Junkie.

[7Millersshadow]

@Supenmanu that was my take on this too. It is so refreshing to see a more open and curious approach to this subject. It shows just how programmed we have become as a society to expect bias and negative labels plastered on any of this subject matter. I don't think that you could even get this on television nowadays (well maybe Anthony Bourdain could kind of slip it in).

[55mandreck]

If you are experimenting for the first time don't take a full dose , make sure you have the right m/shrooms , experiment only with real friends - those you love .....Take care of one another.....LOVE is all that matters.

[55mandreck]

BE SAFE -

If you are experimenting for the first time don't take a full dose , make sure you have the right m/shrooms , experiment only with real friends - those you love .....Take care of one another.....LOVE is all that matters.

[loblut]

Freedom loving peoples, this mushroom must become legalized. 

[loblut]

Repeal prohibition now!

[loblut]

The drug laws in the U.S.A. are harmful and not helpful. And this excerpt proves that the psychedelic experience is not the property of the Timothy Leary guru anti-Judeo-Christian drop-out culture.

[MZVIRB]

IN ANOTHER FEW YEARS, THE PANEL WOULD KNOCK HIPPIES FOR DOING THE SAME THING.

[PerceivedPerception1]

Just as equally as one should have freedom of religion, sexual orientation, choice of clothing or to free speech for AND/OR against shrooms or other substances, so should I and others like myself thave the rights to ingest ANYTHING we so chose to and more importantly, for WHATEVER reason we chose to do so. I don't know of any TRULY free county on this planet and in no way view earth as even remotley free and it is saddening and must change. But the only way to do so is to truly agree to disagree

[creephorse]

Last time I tripped, felt like the mushroom and I were god's children, playing together.

It was fabulous.

[UnoRaza]

This is an incredibly, credible, show!

The implications on our concept of time are huge.

Thanks a million for uploading this show!

[BRUMARTUBE]

If you appreciate the teaching of the magic mushrooms, you could appreciate the teaching of Salvia divinorum. The key consists to start with the leaves and go incrementally (the opposite of what is showed on many youtube videos). If you are patient and respectful with salvia, and honest with yourself, you may ........... (well there are no words 'course). It is quite different, though. The experience lasts between 2 and 10 minutes. I appreciate very much shrooms, but I <3 Salvia.

[OniShow]

@BRUMARTUBE yuck dont take salvia it can be awful. all it does is separtate your soul from your body not a fun experience

[BRUMARTUBE]

@OniShow But I love when my soul leaves my body! :) Your comment might explain, perhaps, why some people make bad trips. They are too much attached to their body and bodies in general, and so they resist to the experience. I consume salvia since years, I have made thousand of experiences and I like them all. It is *by far* my favorite entheogen. You can see on my channel a playlist with my favorite youtube salvia videos. Thanks for your reply.

[Strikesis]

Where I lived you have to get them from the res where they are legal. I don't know if they grow anywhere but west. Opinion is don't eat one just because someone says it is, you might be getting a death cap if you do.

[Potemtole]

That guy GOT IT!!! That made my spine tingle :P

[a1saucecool]

After consuming mushrooms, i found myself asking myself countless questions about the universe, however i wasn't able to answer most of them. The psilocybin altered, and i would go so far as to say RAISED my consciousness and my perception of "reality" and the universe. I 100% guarantee that anyone that takes these shrooms with an positive, eager, and open-minded thought process will be enlightened.

a suggestion: lay in a quiet area under the moon and stars, and converse with a friend.

[mycelian]

@a1saucecool Sharing a mushroom trip with a friend is a very special experience, indeed! For years afterwards we end up talking about things that resulted from that day!

[atraldreams]

for me, shrooms were a trip into my personal life.

and lsd was a universal trip

i've yet to try ayahuasca

[farswept]

Keep in mind, John Newland did some acting in One Step Beyond, portraying himself in episodes once in a while.

[arklat]

What makes you trippers think they are talking about magic mushrooms?Or as it is also called, psilocybin. It is never clear from the show that it's the same as what grows in a cow meadow. I never had insight into someones secret health problems while I was tripping on Mushrooms. It could be something different. There are many alkaloid mushrooms. Who knows what this particular one is. They called it "X". I think scientists would know if it was a cow shit shroom, or not. Eat a deathcap, and see!

[AmosNomore]

Research the relationship between Albert Hofmann, Maria Sabina, R. Gordon Wasson and Huautla de Jimenez to understand the earliest known exposure of psilocybian mushrooms to the world of science.

[StoneFredFlint]

What makes you conclude they were eating anything other than psilocybin? It's not very likely they were using any other mushroom is it?

[Hashishin13]

@arklat There are two main types of mushroom that get you high. The first is what AmosNomore is talking about, which contain psilocin and psilocybin, these are illegal and the first to be discovered by the west. They are spread all over the world and don't occur just in "cow meadows".

The second kind are the amanitas, which contain ibotenic acid and muscimol as they're main psychoactive chemicals, ibotenic acid is what causes nausea and is neutralized by drying. There are many dangerous amanitas

[Potemtole]

@arklat lmfao you are dumb

[creephorse]

@arklat Yeah, Maria Sabina was a mushroom shaman, who used Psilocybes. The other guys they mentioned were big in the psychedelic community too. They're talking about Psilocybin mushrooms here, beyond a doubt.

[sMaktAUS]

@arklat

It may have not been the mushrooms as such, yet the shaman might have be able to see auras and diagnose health problems?

[AquarianDerek]

@arklat I've lived in Mexico for 9 years. I've eaten Sacred Mushrooms in the Mountains with Maria Sabina's daughter. I've also eaten them in Florida fresh picked by me, and also in Amsterdam. The Mushrooms in this video are Psilocybin mushrooms called teónanácatl, teotlaquilnanácatl, xochinanácatl depending on the dialect spoken by the indigenous tribes of Mexico.

[TehPryzm]

@arklat My local mushrooms dont come from cow dung. Subaeruginosa, a wood fruiting strain. Check it out. P.S, maybe your focus of attention was not on, or anywhere near the thought of healing or diagnosis. I'm just rambling. You make a fair point though, there has been considerable debate regarding the so called 'food of the gods', ie. Amanita etc.

P.P.S. Cheers AmosNomore for the gem of an upload.

[7Millersshadow]

@arklat of course it is. Psycho active chemicals, whatever you want to call it. This footage is an amazing find. It is refreshing to see this subject covered before propaganda and labels from the fallout of a cultural revolution making almost impossible to intelligently address the subject. God bless the "nerd" scientists. When I was in Oaxaca in the 70's, they were not so secretly renowned for their magic mushrooms (now THERE'S an omelet!). The Huichol art is clearly representative of

[7Millersshadow]

@arklat The Huichol art is clearly representative of visions and impressions of reality while under the influence of the magic mushrooms. There is a huge body of reference material on the subject. Before you post such opinionated statements, labeling others as "trippers", try doing some research. So sad that critical thinking is not at a premium these days. I love the open-mindedness that is evident in this footage. It is heartening.

[parsleysprigs]

@arklat There's 100's of species, they don't need to grow in cow shit. I've seen a picture of someone who grew mushrooms out of a bible.

[InKa4484]

@arklat There are several hundred psilocybes known today, that grow all over the world not just on cow dung, but other herbavores dung as well as various types of wood mulch and grasses. This video is from a time when consuming psilocybes was first being introduced to this culture, Scientists didn't know anything about the mushroom. I could see psilocybin producing effects similar to everything described. Definately Extra Sensory Perception

[ehtdaedlufetarg]

@arklat We know for a fact they are from the Genus Psilocybe. This was a earth shaking discovery which ended in the classification of over 180 species of Psilocybe. The ones in this video are not "cow shit mushrooms"(you mean Ps. cubensis) more than likely. The natives of mexico regarded Ps. cubensis as an inferior species of mushroom and didn't use it. These are likely Ps.zapotecorum or Ps. caerulescens.

[TEEPO129]

@arklat because what other mushroom gvies u super powers. Ur such a DERP

[thescarf33]

the last dr they talk too deserves a shloscar award for worst acting in a theatrical performance... : [/---

[rzrselliott]

cool video

[themollyface]

the mushroom expierence is quite an experience. Very self rewarding, you can lern so much about yourself and your reality. You can feel so close to nature and have such and understanding and peaceful way of life. Really eye opening...litterally lol

[BallinTrollin]

i just ate some shrooms....i'm off to an adventure!

[moeron21]

I love how sincere the Doctor's comments are towards the end. It's exactly how I felt.

[Malquey]

And the euphoria, I felt like the universe was whispering its secrets to me and they were so beautiful I kept laughing about it. We were trying experiments with play cards, and we would throw them out, close our eyes and try see what they were, it's hard to know if i was just lucky but at the time it felt like the patterns in my head were lining up with reality. If anyone has any other questions about what happened feel free to message me.

[AmosNomore]

Excellent attempt to describe this ineffable, divine rite of passage. I'm glad you had a good time!

[TehPryzm]

@AmosNomore It's a shame 'they' try and place all of this, 'the ineffable' and more under a label, currently schizophrenia.

[7Millersshadow]

@Malquey - beautifully put. I loved seeing these scientists honestly describing their experiences without the mandatory negativity that seems to be the unspoken rule of the day.Thank you.

[Malquey]

Mandelbrot sets, fractals, talking to myself, falling through vortexes. Every time I closed my eyes I would kind of fall into another dimension, and it really looks like those fractal animations, but far more detailed, it's like the world is glass and it shatters, and you can move between realms through the cracks. I was with a friend, and we like in synchronicity, telepathy, we were speaking to each other in concert, like we were polarized.

[Malquey]

All my friends who i have asked, and people I have talked to online always talk about how it was such a profound experience that stays with them ever since they have taken it. I might be experiencing it soon. I will Update here with my experience if anyone is interested.

[AmosNomore]

Enjoy yourself and allow the spirit of the mushroom to embrace you. Please do let us know how it goes. And watch?v=Nrj1X6TzEXo

[Malquey]

Thanks for the link, I was in the process of watching it when you replied. I'm gathering alot of good suggestions to facilitate the journey. Anything else I should think about?

[AmosNomore]

Think positive thoughts and be grateful to be alive!

[Potemtole]

@Malquey Any deep questions that you have any question meditate for a while before ingesting to get it in your head. Then during ask these questions. You can learn so much from just thinking with a little help from an exsistence so invisible to most, yet there if you only listen.

[appleseed024]

"now our mushroom hunters are reassembled here in our studio.."

how do you get that job?

[carbonsteelz]

nice video... anyone able to confirm the authenticity of the content? sounds amazing... btw, wats up with ppl on "religious" magic mushroom.. and having "spritual" link ... and stuff.... doesnt any take mushroom just to get high anymore??

[JAGisDope]

When something has so much potential, why waste not explore those potentials?

[solojam]

government wants to control you, the whole system is lopsided

[antropouami]

I recomend to you the book "plants of the gods" written by Harvard scholar Richard Evans-Schultes and swiss farmacist Albert Hoffmann. The aztecs used the mushrooms and called them "the flesh of god".

[OniShow]

@carbonsteelz :( if you just want to get high you should prolly just drink a beer

[Prosawce]

He describes those pictures when hes blind folded exactly as me and my friends describe images and feelings when were on shrooms.

[NecromanticRazor]

Everyone and anyone needs to see this series of videos. Quite amazing.

[CiscoNast]

This makes me so happy. I'm so glad things are coming to the surface

[spellthemagicword]

man yes! it made me decide to take mushrooms and be happy that i'm a decided marijuana user :)

[CiscoNast]

yea cannabis is cool

[binzing]

As are shrooms.

[Teflon65]

To me, this is an historic document, which somehow fell into the public domain. Such a program, even a few years later, would have been looked upon as something akin to pornography. I am not judging this, one way or the other, but it is extremely interesting. I had thought "One Step Beyond" was merely a progenitor of "The Twilight Zone", or an early "In Search Of...". I had no idea that they ever ingested, or even pretended to ingest psychedelics, in any form. Thanks for adding this.

[Gnothean]

You should go and check out:

Terence mckenna - How To Take Psychedelics Pt.1

There are four parts (currently) to it.

Terence McKenna is a very erudite, very eloquent teacher. I hope you can learn from him.

[Gnothean]

You might find it efficacious to confront your fear of entheogens and ditch your bigotry toward mushrooms. They can teach you VASTLY more than you could ever hope to learn by yourself. Moreover, they can teach what mere humans can not. The Mushroom Mind is way older and larger than our human minds or than our Collective (Un)Consciousness, and it has very deep access to our Collective Mind.

Go and acquire some real *dangerous knowledge* - actual experiential entheogenic knowledge.

[danger0usknowledge]

Yes, you got me, I am bigoted against

Mushroom People and their Mush-room Minds,

and you are the perfect example of

the fungus amongus as anyone who reads

your posts will see, oh vast Mushroom Man.

[MannoMagic]

you just don't understand him

[danger0usknowledge]

You're right. Take it once or once a

year and get on with everything else.

Don't think about it, don't start talking monotone, stop getting all ecstatic and do

some laundry.))))

[scottypaul266]

taken too many over the years, but they have given me the insight not to eat animals which is always bad for their bodies, not to drink i dont have to be the one drinking for it to be bad for my body, not to crave after toys and shit that i see everybody around me "needing" so i would say that mushrooms are a good drug, but if you have problems being an individual and need to conform to the consumerist society we are supposedly forced to live in, then yes don't take mushrooms.

[Gnothean]

Anyway, if ways such as yours actually worked, they would be illegal.

That is the sin qua non (so to speak) of entheogens, such as the Sacred Mushrooms. The fact that they produce such powerful experiences SCARES people; so people, like yourself, prefer to retreat to other vastly less potent and far less reliable means to seek their spiritual awakening.

The Mushrooms aren't for everyone. They must be earned. They require fortitude and courgage. Most do not possess such traits.

Do you?

[scottypaul266]

but know where you come from but here they are well illegal, as for fortitude and courage hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha­haha i haven't laughed so much since my last trip, sound a bit huxley mate a bit elitist for my liking, if the prob is toxicity, if you have not been through brain washing, then go on take them. there is probably more contaminants on an apple skin that will harm body and soul, only people i have encountered who have had problems on mushrooms have been ex forces too brainwashed!

[danger0usknowledge]

Once your pleasure centers get over

stimulated you start looking for more.

It's just like everything else. Once

the magic forest people start talking

about the "sacrament" with reverent

tones and the Last Supper and then

all the shroom talk starts sounding

almost exactly like all the other

shroom talkers.

[scottypaul266]

utter drivel, maybe you are too young and need a little more maturity before you go on abusing drugs,sounds like binge drinking you are describing all that religious shit stay off the holy wine, u are only meant to sip that too

[danger0usknowledge]

scottypaul, I don't sip, taste, imbibe,

sample alcohol or drugs prescriptive

or non prescriptive.

[Gnothean]

You do drugs every day, whether you like it or not, Mr. HolierThanThouBS. DMT (N-N-DMT) is produced by both your brain and your lungs. And DMT is a *very* close chemical relative to psilocybin, of which is the active compound in many magick mushrooms.

You have a complete lack of "dangerous knowledge" for someone with the name of danger0usknowledge.

So verythime you sit on your Boddhavista wanna-be arse and meditate or do kundaline, you are just trying to manipulate your blood/dmt. HA!

[danger0usknowledge]

I have experienced DMT w/o taking anything

from the magick forest. I didn't

OVERSTIMULATE my nervous system

and I don't think about, talk about,

drone monotone about a self provoked

trance. I don't do *kundalineini* either.)

[Gnothean]

To a non-runner, jogging is a form of overstimulating the muscles. To a non-reader, books overstimulate the eyes (and brain). So what you are saying is that you keep as near to neurological baseline as possible. Nothing ventured, nothing gained type of risk management philosophy, eh? So how did you experience DMT without reaching into the magick forst? Did you get it from a magick laboratory in pure crystaline form? Anyway, why are you so frightened about altering your consciousness?

[danger0usknowledge]

I didn't use the *sacred natural forest*

or my secret drug lab. When the "duh"

happened it came from ME.

[Gnothean]

Then it is a fair bet that what you experienced was pale in comparison to a full blown DMT experience, or a psilocybin mushroom journey. Again, why are you so frightened by the notion of radically altering your consciousness via NATURAL means (and few things in nature are more natural than eating a mushroom. They have arguably been existing in nature longer than we mostly hairless 46 chromosome monkeys have)?

[ladivadivala]

okay but how are mushrooms a drug? They come right out of the earth with no tampering from man. Now a true DRUG is METH, that is a drug. When have you ever heard of someone going to rehab because of mushroom withdrawals?

[danger0usknowledge]

The chems in Mushrooms & DMT seem to cause ppl to drone monotone as in "Oh WOW" & the "like wow". I'm not a big crusader over it until I hear ppl

talk in the way described.Then you hear "yeah, well I know PhD's who take it & they don't slur their words...etc. The movie "Wonder Boys" isn't

about the magic forest except that the Michael

Douglas character is named Professor Tripp

who watches his life fall apart. It's not b/c

of dope it's b/c of him with plenty of help

from Professor Weed)))

[kiba161]

hehe, maybe they were all high off shroomz :| funny :P

[wireandwood]

thanks for the provocation / stimulation - for once on youtube i can actually respect the comments people are making! this is a topic that should be explored without the condemnation of authority. I read about some trials into therapeutic use of mdma (a different type of experience, of course) for trauma victims and it took the researchers about ten years to get permission, and only in the most carefully regulated circumstances. How can you determine the usefulness of a substance if you ban it?!

[RonaldVaughan]

Fascinating....and,if I remember correctly, host JOHN NEWLAND (R.I.P.) himself got into the act... Dr. Puharich is famed for discovering PETER HURKOS...Puharich also made an appearance on a "Perry Mason" show! A great scientist who's no longer with us,and was criticized by some...who didn't understand him. I personally would NEVER allow mind-altering drugs. No matter how spiratually advanced one is,they always harm the body! Better to get "high" on LIFE ITSELF.

[Gnothean]

The Mushrooms are alive, and are deeply connected to "life itself."

Perhaps you may be advanced enough to employ them yourself, given another few lifetimes, due to your indoctrination (and years of pure disinformation) regarding psilocybin mushrooms.

Whoever told you that magick mushrooms were toxic for the human body was suffering from a severe case of cranium up rectum syndrome.

The mushrooms solidly produce the religious experience that religions fail to deliver.

Gnothi seauton.

[RonaldVaughan]

You're entitled to your opinion.

[Gnothean]

And you are entitled to remain as ignorant as you wish, and thus you hall do - and be, until you taste deeply of the Sacred Mushrooms and actually gleen a firsthand comprehension why they are considered sacred, and magickal.

So go ahead, keep refusing what the Divine Universe is offering you. Your path is dubious and may produce nothing. The Mushrooms are inexorable, true evolutionary catalysts - they always produce results - and can be counted upon without fail.

[scottypaul266]

couple of points do u mean u would never take them, which is fine and up to you. However i do take issue with the always harm the body shite, i also don't even know what you mean get "high" on life what are you up to hyperventilating cos the only way i know to get high is smoking the herb. life is not a drug it just happens whether you like it or not. see how high you feel when you are burying your best mate, watching your government going to war over oil, going down your local city, see tramps?

[ladivadivala]

Wow a year ago for this comment, but I couldn't resist. All drugs harm the body isn't even worth getting into such a false statement. But apparently you thing mushrooms are drugs and that is interesting. A mushroom grows from the earth and we eat them we don't smoke them. Cigarettes form tobbacco come from the earth also, but people smoke them and as a result millions of people die from the smoke. Cigs are legal and mushrooms are not. Think about it.

[redjaguar2]

It's both heartening and sad to hear these ultra-straight people give their testimony. It highlights how easily government propaganda can discourage people from looking deeper, which is inherently difficult--and let's face it most people don't really want to go there. The government saying No to these things provides an excuse the average person can respect. Our culture is so off balance we should be demanding more research in this field--not suppressing it. Thanks for posting this!

[Shroctopus]

odd to see something made so long ago, so positive about mushrooms...

If everyone took mushrooms, the world would be a very different place.

[redjaguar2]

Shroctopus: I agree, but I know and you know mushrooms are not for everybody. Many people need to do a lot more living in the banal world, before they can appreciate something as expansive as this. Let's not ruin the punchline for the those folks. Everyone wakes up at different speeds and in different ways. This was just the easiest way for me to wake up.

[zhuliu]

redjaguar2, (Liked your previous post better.) For one to claim that another is not "ready" is just drug prohibition in disguise, no matter the purported spiritual basis. I think Shroctopus's point was how prohibition itself puts an artificial negative atmosphere on the whole field -- AND negatively affects the subjective experience, thereby mimicking unreadiness. It's all about set and setting, and nothing is worse for that than drug prohibition. END ALL DRUG PROHIBITION IMMEDIATELY!

[redjaguar2]

zhulu: You misunderstood me. I don't believe it is the government's role (or anyone else's) to make these pivotal decisions for us. Immature people of all ages get themselves into deep water, and drown--and that gives everyone a bad name. Those are the people who have horrible trips, (or just hear about bad trips), and rush out to shut down the show for everyone. I'm just saying Be safe, be wise, be discreet, and be ready to make the changes demanded by the answers you recieve.

[zhuliu]

redjaguar2,

Yes, I misunderstood you. Thanks for clarifying. We are on the same page now.

END PROHIBITION!

[RonaldVaughan]

I agree with this poster. Mushrooms are

not for everybody. I wouldn't risk it.

My PERSONAL view is,I don't put ANY

kind of drug/dope (including tobacco)

into my body! That's the way I want it.

Dr. Puharich did some very interesting

things (including discovering PETER

HURKOS) but use of those mushrooms

surely distorts one's consciousness....

[CareyCulinary]

It is the dose that makes the poison. Too many shroomers are overdosing to create a beyond stone experience/trip. For most a gram to a gram and a half is a good plenty. if one does over due it, they usually vomit them up, our built in safety mech. although it should never even come to that point.

[themollyface]

how can you consider anything that grows out of cow shit a drug?

[themollyface]

aslo, you say you have never takin them...how do you know what they do?

[RonaldVaughan]

I just know of Dr. Puharich's (and others')

research,and what the mushrooms have

done to others.

So I choose not to use them.

[OniShow]

@RonaldVaughan you sound kinda nuts

[Rajacshadow]

Peyote catus is the home of the spirit GOD "Mescalito". You have to eat the peyote 'buttons' or brew a 'tea'. Either way you will get a 'smidge queazy...smidge...what an UNDERSTATEMENT!!! Mushrooms can be eaten,but you have to like a strong flavored mushroom.They can be dried and 'gel capsulated' for easier intake.Shrooms are more for open psychic pathways of the mind and peyote is more for an inner spirtual journey and realization of multiple realities.You also eventually get there w/shrooms

[madspwn]

You mean peyote? That's cactus.

[TweedleDumm1]

there talking about the paote mushrooms that will make you halucinate. i had it in my hands and nothin mabe i got lucky i didn't try i'm not sure how i woud have react to this.

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