I highly doubt you had any type of OD on these mushrooms especially if you used to eat actual blue meanies since they contain a higher amounts of the toxic and psychoactive drug Psilocybin in them (unless there is another toxic chemical in magic mushrooms I am not aware of). If the mushrooms were grown in a sterile environment that rules out the possibility of ingesting animal feces (unless the grower uses manure as a substrate). Maybe mold?
I wouldn't consider a man made chemical over a naturally occurring one to be a better religious sacrament. If Albert had never decide to take a second look at the shelved LSD-25 we may have never even known of it's existence, so having a better divine grasp on reality compared to mushrooms seems a little bit of a stretch but to each his own
. Also the naturally occurring psychoactive lysergic acid, lysergic acid amide is said to have a LD50 dose of 12,000 micrograms while psilocybin's LD50 in rats is 280 milligrams. So lysergic is more poisonous than fungi, technically speaking of course. Sorry for sounding like a know-it-all with those "technical" facts. I just don't want a novice drug user interested in experimenting with psychedelics to read over this thread and think mushrooms are actually poisonous in a sense that they could die which could cause them to shun away what might have been one of the greatest experiences of their life time.
Well, to each his own is agreed. The way I look at it, is that it may have been some sort of divine intervention that gave Albert the idea to take a second-look at the substance. If it weren't for that, we wouldn't have it, you're quite correct. As far as the LD50, wouldn't it be the other way around? As 12,000 mics is 120 tabs (roughly), and mush is 280mg (less than a gram)? So wouldn't psilocybin be more lethal? But let's not be confused here, some of the chemicals within mushrooms are poisonous/toxic, where as with L (good L at least) it's simply one chemical instead of many.
Both can invoke great experiences, I'm just partial to l. It just has a much more spiritual appeal, where as mushrooms was always wonky/goofy for me.
This statement just warms my heart
But there will always be a special place in my heart for that sacred fungi. I over indulged in the past, so I'm a bit over it. But it was spiritual and noteworthy on most occasions. It was a bridge that led me to the lysergic, and once there I stopped and witness the lovely gaze ahead... love bleeding from every orifice possible! There was a reason why L reigned over two decades
I can see you're enlightened as well. Nice to see you chiming in on a thread again, haven't seen you around as much because I haven't been on here.
I figure this is a better place than ever to go into my spiritual conversion, shall we call it. I've always found while on psychedelics (L mostly), there was something I felt I was always searching for during the trip. Like there was something that was beyond this invisible veil that I was constantly seeking out. I could be faced, sitting on a couch, but still just feel like there was another layer to the reality I was experiencing. It all came to fruition at a festival where I was offered some deems. I had tried them before, but the taste was so overwhelming with mothballs, burnt plastic, and chemicals that I couldn't quite get the effects. But this time, it was in the form of Changa. Change, or enhanced leaf, is dmt which was been dissolved into teas/enthnobotanicals/leaves. In this case, it was Pau D'Arco tea. At this point in time, I was already about a tenstrip deep (it had been a long weekend, so tolerance was high) and didn't think that I would be able to get any more out there. But after taking it in, I was exposed to the true reality I had been searching for. The most vibrant green grass I've ever seen, tapestries in the distance fluttering with the wind, the mid-day sun casting its warm rays down on me. I was otherworldly. It was then I was able to appreciate it all; I was able to understand (whatever that means) what all these fragmented pieces of reality meant. I was never truly appreciating everything while tripping. I was enjoying the colors, melting, and general kaleidoscope-vision, but wasn't able to take the depth from it, and apply it to everyday living. Now, I live my life nearly stress-free. Nothing seems to ever bother me, and it drives some people crazy that I'm SO easy-going. I am content with waking up every morning, and being alive. I am grateful for every second I am here to interact with others, learning something new EVERY DAY. This is one thing in particular that has helped me live a stress-free life, ego-death of myself, as well as killing the egos of others. Let me explain.
Before I became a psychonaut, I was constantly jealous. Jealous of other people having things better than I do. More money. A better car. And most of all, a solid job with six figures a year. Then slowly, I came to realize they have nothing that I don't possess. I am an intelligent individual (But humble living is more important than any intelligence one can possess, IMHO) and I have the ability to learn to do anything that anyone else can. Since this transforming experience, I've become much more of a DIY'er, as well as more willing to take on daunting tasks and getting out of my comfort zone. I could blab on and on about this, but I figure I will end it here with these parting words of wisdom: It's a sacrament, and treat it as such.
my bad I was running on about 8hrs of sleep on the third day of an amphetamines binge when I wrote that at around 11:30. I got in the shower after clearing my bong and started talking to myself and was convinced I was losing my mind heh...slept for 14 hrs, never again. Sorry about that but learned a lot of stuff from the conversation though 