The Spiritual Use of Entheogens

[godwide_void]

Thanks for the advice I will have to try that when mushroom season hits, I agree about LSD it does have a very digital feeling to it. I have tried the lemon tekking although it was with a smaller dose of mushrooms probably only 1-2 grams which hardly effects me at all it seams. I seam to have a very weird tolerance to mushrooms, I pick them all myself and usually ingest them the day I pick them so I'am not sure why in the past I have gotten very weak trips of 6+ grams.

You're lucky to live in an area where you have the opportunity to go pick them! The lack of intensity from your experiences might be explained by the fact that you're eating fresh mushrooms as opposed to dried. If I remember correctly you need double or triple the amount in grams of fresh mushrooms to dry mushrooms to achieve the same effects. Try drying them out first then lemon tekking the dried 3-5g, the latter of which is actually considered a 'heroic' dose.

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@Avocado: Many thanks for bringing the synaptolepis kirkii to my attention, I'd actually never heard of it before and also find the write up of that guy's experience with it very interesting as is the description of one of your dreams affected by it. I will most definitely be ordering this and giving it a try when I get the chance as any key which holds the potential to unlock the doors to more profound and possibly divinatory dreamscapes is certainly worth looking into.

As for how calea has impacted my dreaming, it actually varies in that some nights the typical reported effects it is supposed to have occur such as a 'linearization' of dreams rather than disconnected or interrupted transitions from dream to dream, a much greater recall of dreams (upwards of 5+ dreams on the high end), a more vivid and sharpened appearance to the dreams and a noticeably more 'weirder' slant to the plots of my dreams.

Strangely enough, there are some nights after I ingest the calea that I do not remember any dreams, but the nights following ingestion where I do not drink any will produce the amplified dream benefits. The upside to this is that the positive benefits derived from calea actually linger and will be sustained for longer proportionate to how long you use it. A month of calea usage ended up in the clarity and vividness of my dreamscape awareness remaining.

Smoking the herb has its benefits as well and the effects manifest as an extreme sharpening of the senses; my perception of time slows down, my vision becomes sharper, my hearing becomes so acute that I can hear each and every heartbeat of mine, and the mind becomes peacefully emptied out. It seems that while it's primarily attributed to being an oneirogen, it does have waking effects that contribute greatly to relaxation, meditation and perceptual clarity.

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As for LSD I have tried it a handful of times and the experience to me really struck me as being very "digital" as opposed to LSA which has a very spiritual air to the experience. For instance, during one powerful experience on several potent blotters I felt as though I'd "accessed the consciousness debugging mode" and I'd felt like a "reality hacker".

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Godwide_Void:

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interesting post, thanks for sharing

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