cool thread....I'm glad I got the ball rolling...I am with Verve on this one. I love 'shrooms, especially as a tea. But there are always different perspectives, and skunk doesn't like it, so be it.
I also agree on the psychoactive-pysycotropic thing. I did MDMA more than 30 years ago. It was a totally amazing trip, super charged to the max. and that was on 10mg, it was made by some organic chemistry friends....very pure. But hardly pyschotropic, or pssychidelic, and hardly appropraite for meditation.....which is based on "being still", and "not doing". I was supercharged for 8+ hours, and the next day, every muscle in my body ached from the wild time I had. Actually went a saw an XTC concert....remember their song "helicopter" really really well!
Growing 'shrooms is a real option if I can get the spores. I would love to have an as wished supply of good 'shrooms. Just as I do with good organic weed, which is why I am on this path.
I tried LSD once also more than 30 years ago, I was always scared of it....but it was a lot of fun. Same with herion. Amazing stuff, actually way too amazing, and its no wonder that you can easily get addicted....its awesome, but as with most oof my experimentation, I tried most everything once, and that was enough, just to know what it was all like. Cocaine was a different story, snorting and freebasing......way to much fun and that play lingfered with me for a few years before I finally said that was enough.
What am I looking for? I'm looking for the free spirit of expanding my conciousness with a little help. Sitting at the edge of a roaring river 2-3 km across, watching the multi-million gallons of water cascade by, after having travelled more than 2000 miles from the mountain tops, and traveling another 2000 miles to the Arctic Ocean OR sitting up on a mountain ledge at 2500m (~8000ft) and watching the world below, grizzly bears, mountain goats, mountain sheep, pikas, chipmunks, peregrine falcons, golden eagles, going about their daily business. It's an awesome world, open your eyes, and drink it in.....the time we are here is all too shortr, and you need to relish in each and every moment. For tomorrow or tonight you might not return and have the chance.