immanuel
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i haven't been drunk for a good two years. i still have a few beers with mates on the weekend, but not to the point where my decision making is altered.
sort of the same story with marijuana. i used to binge on it all day everday for almost half a year. it left me mentally unstable and a good long break was needed to recover. i now find i can use it once or twice a fortnight without it affecting my life in any negative way.
i honestly don't feel that if marijuana was legal and alcohol illegal that it would change much. as someone said before it's the persons mentality, not the drug itself. although alcohol definately causes people to make worse decisions or react wthout thought, from observation most dont care and would have made such a decision sober anyway (not always the case though). i know people that bong on all day and still love to cause violence, suffering etc. and marijuana can be just as detrimental to someone's health if not used responsibly. and its pretty clear to me most in our society cant use drugs responsibly.
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if someone is born into a world or poverty, or chooses to steal food because they are starving, is this the refelction of karma on a society as a whole. someone else must suffer because of another's wrong doings?
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that sounds shit. all the doofs ive been to have been in newcastle and have always been really peaceful and chilled out, everyone gets along nicely and i've never seen a fight there. part of the reason i enjoy these things so much is because it's somewhere to go where you can get away from those type of people you normally find in the cities. that really sucks to hear that kind of stuff going on, it'd just ruin the whole vibe.
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ive been to around 4 over the last 2 or 3 years. i reckon they're awesome places, really peaceful and it's awesome to see so many trippers. i'm planning on going to another sometime in feb or march
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ineteresting. i ran into a few of these when hunting, looked identical to a cube but had white gills. i was unsure if it was a lookalike or what so threw it away.
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i did a bit of hunting up around byron area this year and found mushrooms that looked identical to those in pic 3, growing sparingly among cubes (in cow shit). i too thought they might have been blue meanies and broke the stem, where i found the inside to be mushy and a light pinky colour. 10 mins later when they hadn't bruised blue i threw them away, but continued to see them growing in numerous cow paddocks alongside cubes. anyone got any ideas what it could be im interested in knowing.
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Great idea Hunab! Sounds like it'd be an awesome time. If I was able to make it i'd be happy to lend a hand packing up.
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I found that getting drunk, and staying drunk, took the edge off for me.
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I was once addicted to codeine pretty badly, I went cold turkey and suffered days of torturing physical withdrawals. Codeine is a very addictive drug! If you are getting physical withdrawals when you stop, weed is very effective in taking the edge of, so is getting drunk. Some benzo's are good for sleep, but once you get through withdrawals the hardest part is staying clean. There's no easy way around it, you've just got to be strong and keep yourself off it, it's too easy to fall back in again.
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yeah that lady was so annoying. like a 60 minute reporter
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Hi I have a decent amount of fresh acacia longifolia seeds which I was looking to trade for any other type of entheogen seeds to diversify my collection. I'm really open to any sort of trade though, so if anyone's interested just PM me.
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It's such a beautiful looking plant. I ingested a tea of the flowers once and it was a very strange and confusing experience. I think it must have some sort of use. Does smoking the flower actually have an effect?
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The experience left me very scared and confused, but very humbled at the same time. I've learnt a greater respect about setting, not just the environment but what's going on in life aswell. It didn't take long for my courage to come back, and I feel much more prepared for my next psychedelic experience. It felt as though I was on the brink, if not in a psychosis, although i've been told many times someone in a bad trip will resemble psychotic symptoms, that's just how it felt. I feel I can almost relate to the insane people I sometimes see on the street. I smoked alot of weed during that trip aswell, i'm not sure if that would of played a role. The strangest thing about the whole experience to me was the way I snapped out of it, from complete chaos to sobriety in the click of a finger. I've pondered alot on this trip, and I think I've come to understand alot of the reasons why such strange things happened.
About a year after this trip I decided to give psychedelics another try and just took one tab of LSD, wasn't to strong probably around 80mcg or something. About two hours into the trip I was getting light patterns and tracers and I felt pretty comfortable so I had a cone, and everything just took off. I started coming up really, really fast and somehow, it was almost like I had a flashback to this trip. I don't know how to explain it but for that moment I was back in the exact same spot as my last trip. Even what I was seeing with my eyes was the same. I was frightened at first but I was able to welcome these feelings and see the beauty in all the chaos I last experienced. Suddenly it just went away and I was back to where I was supposed to be and the rest of the night was brilliant. It was like the LSD tested me to see if I was ready to venture back in it's waters, and since I was I enjoyed my trip.
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i don't know about anybody else, but i know one person who has had trips on LSD & shrooms that have taken him a long time to get over, & i don't mean just heavy trips where he met death or some other entity, that left him shaken but otherwise OK; i mean trips where he had extremely paranoid thoughts, he hallucinated people talking about him, he imagined there was some kind ov conspiracy against him, even the music playing seemed to contain messages only he was getting...basically all the hallmarks ov schizophrenia/paranoid delusions.those hallucinations went away when he stopped tripping, but it took him months to fully recover from the effects & regain his tripping mojo.
This happened to me on a strong LSD trip once aswell. I could not differ reality from my thoughts. It was like I was in a dreamstate where I never knew what was real. I would think about one of my friends dying and think it was actually happening. I would talk to my friends in these 'dream thoughts' thinking it was real, to my friends it just looked like I was babbling away to myself. I thought my close friends were conspiring against me and had purposely turned me forever insane for not obeying their demonic commands. Music took control of my thoughts and I believed it had been written by my friends, who I thought were gods, in order to do so. I sunk deeper and deeper into these sort of paranoid delusions until I believed I had control of the future. I thought I was choosing futures which resulted in my friends deaths and insanity until finally I believed in order to save my friends I had to kill myself. To kill myself, choose the future where I died, I believed I had to forget everything about my life and let go of everything wordly. I did this and I think really all I did was let go of my ego and in a split second I snapped out of this crazy state and was basically sober. It was so strange.
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Once when I was shrooming I was able to turn the OEVs on and off. This also happens to me to a certain extent on marijuana. I've heard Terence Mckenna talk on being manipulate his CEVs on ayahuasca, he would ask the aya to show him certain types of patterns or visuals and it would respond thus.
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nice stuff guys! bovin that midnight high song was awesome
im pretty interested in makin some music, so far just played around with FL Studio, didnt get much i really liked.
where did you guys learn to make this type of music? how do you get started, its something id really like to follow up.
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These replies are very interesting. The lack of understanding on this issue makes psychedelic use still seem like a bit of a gamble.
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Here are some of the stories I have been reading, these are just the recent ones. I don't see why people would just make up some story, I really do believe it happens. I read the studies in the 60s showed seemingly normal people did experience psychotic episodes after being dosed with LSD.
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.p.../0/fpart/1/vc/1
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.p...1660118#1660118
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.p.../Number/1920701
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.p...185/an/0/page/0
I've read several personal accounts of people losing their mind for a good long time on shrooms, with dosages ranging from half an oz to as low as an eighth.
i think the psychosis is there to begin with. i dont think psychadelics can 'give' you a psychosis.i do think that psychadelics can bring to the surface and magnify psychosis.
which may have its benefits. it may also be the nudge that pushes u over the edge.
This is a response I read quite often. How exactly are you supposed to know if the 'psychosis' is there to begin with? I know of people with schizophrenia in their family who have tripped hundreds of times, then read accounts of very experienced trippers ending up in a psychosis. The underlying psychosis theory doesnt seem to change the fact that it could happen to almost anyone.
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From what I've read it seems occasionly people end up in a psychosis from tripping, some come out of it, but it is permanent for others. The responses as to why this happens from people who trip are usually the following; heavy psychedelic abuse, underlying or present psychological problems or a family history.
Well I don't plan on abusing psychedelics, and if you've got a mental disorder or even a family history your best off staying away from psychedelics. But how are you supposed to know if you have underlying psychological problems? I've heard of guys with schizophrenia tripping hundreds of times and coming out fine, then people who seem perfectly stable and without a family history snap after just one trip. It seems like a roll of the dice that a psychosis may be the result of a trip for anyone.
Is this the kind of thing everyone assumes won't happen to them until it does? The thought of losing my mind after taking a psychedelic scares me. Doesn't this concern you guys, how do you manage to trip on a regular basis? I'd really like to hear everyone's opinion on this.
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yep its the one you gave me indigo it seems to be doing well, its been growing real fast.
thanks for all the tips everyone sounds like ive been doing the right thing. ill get myself some fertilizers and re-pot it into something bigger.
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I have a beautiful san pedro which i got around a year and a half ago, it is about a metre high and it just shot out another branch which is about 10cm high. It looks like i've been taking care of it fairly well so far it is a very islamic green colour. I was just wondering if there were any basic rules to follow when growing it to ensure maximum health cause im kind of in the dark. Like how often I water it, what type of soil, any fertilizers I could use and how often and anything else I might need to know. Is there any way to increase its mescaline content or ensure that it grows to be potent? thanks for any info and help
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Found these in northern Sydney after the recent heavy downpour. I think they are Panaeolus subbalteatus based on a few facts. They had been in sun for 2 days and the older mushrooms were drying out going a pale yellow colour. The young ones caps were browny reddish as you can see and some had black rings around the outer of the caps.
The gills are mostly light brown and some greyish and the stems are whitish with bits of reddy brown. There were spots of white mycelium at the bottoms of the stems when picked and I dug up the mycelium which had a strong ‘mushroomy’ odour.
they have been in direct sunlight for 2 days straight, so its possible that is why they look different. the biggest ones were turning a pale yellow close to the colour of hay.
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Found a couple of young acacia's on the side of the road near my house. Looks like an acacia, but not one that i've ever seen growing in my area?
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Posted · Edited by mardybum
the one problem i see in such studies is that there is no way to prove whether people with mental illness before drug usage are more likely to resort to drugs to alleviate symptoms. which is the case in many individuals.