The first time I ingested a truly hallucinatory substance was shrooms. They were tai-koi samui a variation of psilocybin cubensis, which I grew myself. The first harvest consisted of 39.6 grams of beautiful product. For this first harvest me and my 3 friends decided that we would each take an equal share dividing all of the shrooms that we cultivated. This made for an amazing experience especially for my first time shrooming. We all planned weeks in advance making sure that we would have nothing to do on the day of the shrooming. We began about 1:00 or 2:00 pm, the time frame is fuzzy considering we all tripped for 9 plus hours. After ingesting the shrooms our most skeptical friend decides that they will not effect him in any way. As everyone begins saying that they are beginning their trip, he proclaims that everyone must be experiencing a placebo effect. Fifteen minutes later he is running around salivating and his mucus membranes are out of control. During this time he begins to realize just what is going on. I can not tell you everything that happened during this experience because it was just too overwhelming for me to be able to put into words. I know that one of my friends was stuck in the swirls of a fuzzy Jimmy Hendrix blanket. This blanket must have seemed like the golden fleece that Jason and the argonauts trekked after because he would not relinquish it to anyone for any reason nor would he get off of the couch. Afterward he told me that he traveled around the universe a few times before he was able to return. Like I said our friend who was skeptical, which was the only person beside me who had never experienced any type of hallucinogen was in a world of bliss. He ran around like a 5 year old child loving life. He was definitely the explorer of the bunch even daring to speak to our neighbor. Showing no fear he just acted as if he was supposed to be there tripping shrooms talking to a middleaged man that had to know that something peculiar was happening. All of our eyes were dilated to the max. For some reason he could not get enough Black&milds. Disgusting I know but he was running around smoking one that seemed to last the entire trip. Its pretty incredible to see a black and mild last for 9+ hours but I do not lie it did or at least seemed to. Him, my other friend and I walked around outside. We had a wonderful back yard and we were also secluded from any activity other than that neighbor. The trees and flowers all seemed to glow. It seemed as though were were all swimming through a pool of clovers and had a blast laughing and smoking and drinking red drink. It was actually fruit punch Gatorade that we had stocked up on before as we prepared for the day but none of us could recall what it was but only that it was good. I came to several epiphanies during this experience. The most prolific being that as humans we all just cause our own problems. I realized during my trip that as the self-proclaimed most intelligent organism on this planet we as humans probably cause the most problems. Now this is not something that I was ignorant to before however in my altered state it seemed to be much more real. I could not understand why we are not able to live as one with nature. I had no concept of money or why we would even need it the only thing I could see is that we were destroyers here to do nothing but cause mayhem and chaos. I guess being a history major probably had a huge influence on my trip. The trip definitely altered my perception of who I am and what I want to do in my life. I am not religious and I would not say that this was a religious experience but it was eye-opening. I am truly grateful for being able to have this experience. I learned a lot about myself and my beliefs. This is not an experience that I would take lightly and though I have done several other hallucinatory drugs including shrooms since; I have not had the same kind of journey. Any one who is curious about doing anything like this my advice is be informed, know it will end, and accept the journey that it is taking you on because you will emerge and more than likely will have learned something about yourself that was underlying.