Stamets' enthusiasm on fungi is an educational mind spore. Spreading through the human population via the interconnected network of networks (aka internet).
I love that Paul addresses "What happens after" for new experiencers of all types of natural medicines. Always excellent Thank you to all speakers, recorders and posters!
you keep pretending you just had a REAL experience , that's What happens after ... i've been taking drugs for decades , you name it , i've done it , except for the big H , stay away from that one , i've never had those experiences and ate the last hole bag of mushrooms , when you know what drugs does to your system , just creating Other drugs to make you feel high or low taken pills that open up your perception for 7 hours on end ! , it all does NOTHING what so ever , when you have control Over your mind ... when you don't , you start to make sh*t up yourself , things you heard Other people have had on that same drug your taking now , it's ALL psychological and Not Real What So Ever
Absolutely agree, what happens after is sooooo important. My wife, who does not trip, doesn't quite understand the importance of what happens after. The best way I could describe it to her is that it's the difference between a meaningful experience vs "I took a lotta shrooms, man".
I love Paul, but I disagree with his belief that the way we make these substances legal and accessible is by handing it over to venture capitalists and corporations . I think patenting psychedelics is a bad road we shouldn't go down .
The way I think we can make Paul *more* right than he is? Is by applying Copy-Left ideas like creative commons, the GNU Public License, and similar ideas. Sure, there is a patent. But just like Saulk, or the original discoverers of Insulin? Tried other ways to cement their work into the public domain. And... They failed. Meanwhile, Open-WRT was founded because Linksys used Linux to run *one* wifi-router, and the judge had no choice but to demand the source code for the public. Now? Volunteers keep it running on the latest devices, constantly and consistently.
I Just feel like saying, this first speaker is like toeing the line between being playful, stressed out, and being difficult on purpose. It's some of the most skillful acting I've seen if it's on purpose. If it's not on purpose then give this guy a hug, he needs it.
Was on a hike and about 2 miles into woods found the most lovely(I believe conifer)stump with monster big reishi mushrooms. Never seen them in nature before so I was elated.
I was a commercial mushroom picker and buyer for years traveling from Northern BC to central CA as far east as Idaho. Once picking in west central BC the top of the ridge was covered with blackened pine trees that were struck by lightning. I noticed huge lines and fairy rings of Matsutakes (Pine Mushrooms) under the first tree i came to. Every tree on that ridge that was struck by lightening had massive growths of new buttons under them just breaking the surface. The trees that hadn't been hit had none. At $150 a pound at that time, lets just say I had a very productive day....:) Unfortunately since those days many of the large patches have been logged. I think I may have met you Paul in the Naz valley years ago.
Introduction ends around 6:20. Then Stamets and Holland begin speaking. Getting tired of "cancelled." I particularly like Stamets emphasis on narratives and that all are important.
In Paul’s opening speech, he speaks about the natural rhythm of mushroom blooms. With manufactured mushrooms, the growth is staged and disconnected from nature- the moon, the birdsong, the bees, the trees, drought, spiders and other insects, animals, the greater underground mycelium connection. Hmmm, could potency be limited? 🌺🌨🌲🍄
I loved mdma and weed primarily in my teens into early 20s but am/have switched over to psilocybin as I’m growing out of the need for others. I Love Paul’s knowledge I believe they are a gift to us and should be respected but loved. Used as a tool to heal / mature/ grow into the human I need to be for my loved ones. Much love ❤️
Psychedelic’s definitely have potential to deal with mental health symptoms like anxiety and depression, I would like to try them again but it’s just so hard to source here
Well I've been tripping for couple of years now,once had a bad trip but that's a very long time ago though Psychedelics are the reason why i didn’t take my life when i was at my end. I was stripped of my ego and saw the beauty of life and interconnectivity and even though i still battle anxiety and depression, I’m doing better everyday and will never think in such a self destructive way again.
LSD and mushrooms completely changed my whole outlook on life. I became a better version of myself This experience gave me a lot of confidence about my self and my body. A bunch of bad thought / behavior patterns were broken. One of these was pretty bad OCD that made me wash my hands a lot. It gave me a lot of hope that things will be fine, this is the one thing that I heard throughout the trip: Everything is alright. The main reason for the trip was my severe depression and it definitely helped me (although it's not gone). Before all I could do was lay in bed. Now I am trying to rebuild my life one step at a time which wasn't possible before."
Loved this. I battle from depression, anxiety & C-PTSD, I’ve heard shrooms cured depression. Wish doctors were more open to natural medicines over big pharma but we know why
Paul is an invaluable human to this race. I just wish his products didn’t come in single use plastics. He is fully aware of the problem this world already faces with such products.
dr paul I have amazing finding on chaga tea compost in my garden to rid pest also makes plants healthier chickens hate anything with chaga you got me started on this
Psychedelics definitely have potential to deal with mental health symptoms like anxiety and depression I would like to try them again but its just hard to source our here
I was having constant unbearable anxiety because of university stress not until I came across myco_john9 ,an intelligent and quite profound mycologist he saved my life honestly.
it would be great to see some discrete action plan as an outcome for such conference, something like legalization, government control on the quality of the substance, freedom for end user for intake. list goes on and on
@Paul Stamets Paul, I've been struggling with bi-polar 1 along with several other mental health conditions. There is little to no information on psilocybin along with the use of lithium. However there is an article stating a non medical study saying that lithium and psilocybin can interact negatively while taken together? I have ran out options that help. I have been microdosing everyday for the past month with no adverse effects, and only amazing results. Life changing results. But I am still hesitant sometimes in my confidence. Could you help clear up those who take lithium but also feel that psilocybin can change their lives for the better? Thank you Paul. 😌
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I’d love to get my son on this mdma study for schizophrenia. He’s suffered 10+ yrs, completely resistant to all antipsychotics. How can I get information on this?!
I think it's great stuff............for others. I'm happy that many have had such positive results! The thought of taking hallucinogenics absolutely terrifies me! I'll stick to diet, exercise and meditation and everyone else can have my share.
Psilocybin mushrooms healed me. I can’t explain it but my experience has been spiritual and eye opening. It really helped me get rid of depression and anxiety.
55:06 ❤ Paul taks about lightning and electroculture used to stimulate commercial shiitake production. I hadn't heard electroculture was beneficial to mycelial growth (as well as plants/roots), but it makes sense. The whole "garden organism" is stimulated. 😊
Paul, I can only imagine how extremely busy of a man you are but I would absolutely love to see come on the mycogeeky podcast. I think it would be extremely beneficial for the younger generation of the mycology community.
My son was prescribed a ssri, which actually kinda fueled his issue. I’m very natural in medicine. So I study most plants and mushrooms. He started micro dosing for maybe 2 weeks and is in a great place. It rewired that whole way of thinking. It was put here for a reason. We should give it the attention it deserves
@hopebeel8765 Nice. luckily they’re legal a few country’s over. I just pick up a few more when I drive thru. Honestly if I need them or not 😂 always like seeing what’s new, and chatting with like minded people. Most My friends know nothing about fungi, so gives me a chance to use big words and actually see someone know what I’m talking about 😂
Hey, does anyone know which specific magic mushrooms did he consume to get rid of his stuttering? I don't have stuttering but I'm interested of its practical use-cases. Personally, I don't smoke nor drink alcohol, so I'm not here for the 'trip's specifically.
@@johnnywick1110 if I remember right, because I’ve seen him tell the story a few times, it was Penis Envy. He ate a whole bag, because he thought that was a dose. As someone who’s eaten those in the past, I really couldn’t imagine eating a bag of them. So I could definitely see a life changing experience taking place. I don’t recommend for a first time, especially alone like he was. Then again, that’s what worked for him and how it was done.
@@trollpatrol8453 thanks but the plan failed. Buying, owning, consuming, 3 years of jail. Rip. They classify it as A tier drug like heroin, ecstasy, lsd etc
*Psychedelics definitely have undeniable benefits to deal with PSTD, addiction, trauma etc. the experience gave me freedom. I was able to get Shroooms,dmt,edibles,lsd etc from this licensed mycologist who ships to all destinations*
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One problem with placebo is that it only is helpful when studying substances who's effectiveness is subtle enough to be questioned. Nobody would ever question the effectiveness of psilocybin.
A question I would ask Paul… being a shroom captain.. assuming he’s eaten a lot of Fungi and different mushrooms… do youu have any bodily fungal bacteria ? Fungi on the feet ? Toes ? Your beard ? Do Any parts of your skin, have a fungi ? It’s a serious question. Because fungi can grow on the body… would eating mushrooms, fungi, increase chances of getting something like that ?
Paul STamets, is there any way I can talk with you. I have had MGUS for a long time and lived on a mushroom diet (basically portabellas with some others thrown in and The Mushroom defense formula and it improved every marker for my health). My MGUS since I have no source of portabellas without apeel on them has become deadly Multiple Myeloma. Symptoms are active and I started on the Mushroom defense formula today and the symptoms are better already. Do you have any source for portabellas (they were the staple of my meal plans) HELP! TN does not seem to be a big mushroom growing area and the environment here seems to only grow very deadly mushrooms when it rains a lot. I believe that mushrooms are a huge resource to enhance our food sources. I have only dried mushrooms at the moment to eat from. Portabellas do dry, but do not rehydrate good at all. So using the smaller ones and a couple of other items, but for instance, I have turkey tail powder. Chaga alone upsets my GI system. I do use it in mixtures though. And, it is the only thing that occasionally grows on my tree stumps on my farm.
I need help ! I started micro dosing today with 100mg capsules. I got 8 grams and the problem is The addict in me wants to take more and more but I've been fighting off that urge all day and Ive been able to keep it under control so far but that worries me cause I want the benefits over time . I'm a father and a husband and I overdo almost everything . I want to be responsible with this the best I can. My question is will that go away and when , I assume that depends on the person. I desperately want to heal from 15 years of addiction. Thank you for any advice or experience with this . Thank you Mr.Paul for all you have done , do and will do for the people.
Quite frankly I enjoy the visuals and kaleidoscopic effects of psychedelic plants and mushrooms and it keeps me from being angry and depressed with everything. I'm a 57 year old
Psychedelics are great, one time I was trippin on too much acid and I was staring at a fire pit and the fire pit turned into a mini world with little people and buildings, that was 2 years ago and it's such an experience to remember. would love to try out the psilocybin mushrooms next, just don't know where to get them, so hard to come by
I took a massive dose in 1970 and was high for 3 or 4 weeks and many other regular doses of almost all psycs , I can tell you it had no long term effects at all , my life is the same as anyone else. On the other hand I am sure the huge amount of sugar I have consumed has had a definite effect on who I am !!!
I'd hate to see it. Paul is too earnest and good natured, a conman like Peterson would walk all over him, unfortunately. Seeing him speaking to Dillahunty is all the evidence I need to go off of for knowing how that pig would act and try to manipulate the conversation. "Psychedelics are proof of God, therefore we have an irrefutable moral code in the bible to use in our justifications for persecuting and murdering trans people." Wish the Benzos had finished him off, pillhead swine.
I like morning glory seeds filtered with distilled water 2 grams is similar to the psilocybin mushrooms I have consumed but the down side of morning glory seeds is the body load
I find gymnopilius validipes robust stalk orange mushrooms south east Michigan on dead tree stump,potent and pleasant but bitter nice experience overall
Paul call me Sorry about my English Lets stop this war We must do it together I live in Kharkiv Ukraine Thank God now i know how It's time STOP WAR The whole world in the eyes of our children! Весь світ в очах наших дітей !
halo from israel-i am not sure where i can ask questions..i understand that its recommended to take microdose of psilosybin on empty stomach but b3 should be taken with or after food so how can we take the stack that been recomenmded by paul?..where can i ask future questions?
I am in Florida. Used to be in California. The weed here is garbage. Not even close. Why? Corrupt crony capitalism. Now you want to do this to psychedelics? Please wake up.
Hi Paul, just wanted to ask is it possible that some people are immune to shrooms? i got grow kit and had 3 flushes of Golden Teacher and they didn't work at all each time i took heroic dose with friend of mine and we just couldn't understand why nothing worked... is it poss to be a bad batch or some peeps are just immune to psilocybin. love your work by the way and thank you for everything you do
I bought some growing kits, spore prints, spawns, liquid culture and psychedelic products from an online supplier and they are affordable and discreetly delivered
Paul's micro dose protocol has cure me of twenty hard years of PTSD(knife to my throat armed robbery). It took three days. I have my life back. I am eternally grateful.❤️❤️
Magic mushrooms are the best thing that’s happened to me. However, weed was horrible for me. Quitting weed was the best decision I ever made. I’ll stick to psychedelics
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Dear Paul, could you recommend me a reliable brand for purchasing lions mane? I wouldn’t want to invest on a brand that doesn’t work. Lot of scam companies.
Science is the exploration of the experience of nature without psychedelics. And I propose, therefore, to expand that enterprise and say that we need a science beyond science. We need a science which plays with a full deck. A new science that places the psychedelic experience at the center of its program of investigation should move toward a practical realization of this goal - the goal of eliminating the barrier between the ego and the Overself so that the ego can perceive itself as an expression of the Overself. Then the anxiety of facing a tremendous biological crisis in the form of the eco-crises, and the crisis of limitation in physical space forced upon us by our planet-bound situation, can be obviated by cultivating the soul and by practicing a new shamanism using tryptamine-containing plants. Psilocybin is the most commonly available and experientially accessible of these compounds. Therefore my plea to scientists, administrators, and politicians who may read my words is this: look again at psilocybin, do not confuse it with the other psychedelics, and realize that it is a phenomenon unto itself with an enormous potential for transforming human beings - not simply transforming the people who take it, but transforming society in the way that an art movement, a mathematical understanding, or a scientific breakthrough transforms society. It holds the possibility of transforming the entire species simply by virtue of the information that comes through it. Psilocybin is a source of gnosis, and the voice of gnosis has been silenced in the Western mind for at least a thousand years. Psychedelic drugs, especially psilocybin, allow a searchlight to be thrown on these deeper levels of the psyche, as Jung correctly stated. But it is not a museum of archetypes or psychic constructs, as he seemed to assume. It is a frontier of wholeness into which any person, so motivated and so courageous as to wish to do it, can go and leave the mundane plane far behind. Psychedelics can carry you farther and faster than most people care to go. Once you get to psychedelics, it's no longer a matter of seeking the answer, you have found the answer. Now the issue changes dramatically, you must face the answer. There’s light at the end of the tunnel. The problem is that tunnel is in the back of your mind. And if you don’t go to the back side of your mind you will never see the light at the end of the tunnel. And once you see it, then the task becomes to empower it in yourself and other people. Spread it as a reality. God did not retire to the seventh heaven, God is some kind of lost continent IN the human mind. There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules. Patanjali specifically says that there are three paths to the goal of yoga. And they are, control of the breath, control of posture, and light-filled herbs. It says it right there. Stanza 6 of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. The psychedelic experience is the beginning of the spiritual path. That's why it's not important that yogas' claim that they can deliver you the psychedelic experience, because it begins with the psychedelic experience, and then you go from there. Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resorting to drugs. I'm not an advocate for everything that rolls out of the laboratory. I'm an advocate for things sanctioned by millennia of usage. The psychedelic experience is simply a compressed instance of what we call understanding, so that living psychedelically is trying to live in an atmosphere of continuous unfolding of understanding, so that every day you know more and see into things with greater depth than you did before. This is a process of education. The plants are the pipeline into the Gaian intention. It's just not a coincidence that these plants carry this immense spiritual message. They are the pipeline of Gaian intentionality. The fungi became, or is for some mysterious reason still to be discovered, a pipeline into a mind, an entelechy, which we can only image as feminine and can only associate somehow to the environment, to the ecosystem. This is the Gaian mind. This is what the goddess really is. The goddess is a network of connective intelligence that is operating on this planet. The planet has a kind of intelligence, it can actually open a channel of communication with an individual human being. The message that nature sends is, transform your language through a synergy between electronic culture and the psychedelic imagination, a synergy between dance and idea, a synergy between understanding and intuition, and dissolve the boundaries that your culture has sanctioned between you, to become part of this Gaian super-mind. Now, why should taking a natural psychedelic drug compound like psilocybin give you hope? It's because it connects you up with the real network of values and information inherent in the planet, the values of biology, the values of organism, rather than the values of the consumer. ... Continued ⬇
It is now very clear that techniques of machine-human interfacing, pharmacology of the synthetic variety, all kinds of manipulative techniques, all kinds of data storage, imaging and retrieval techniques - all of this is coalescing toward the potential of a truly demonic or angelic kind of self-imaging of our culture... And the people who are on the demonic side are fully aware of this and hurrying full-tilt forward with their plans to capture everyone as a 100% believing consumer inside some kind of a beige furnished fascism that won't even raise a ripple. We have gone sick by following a path of untrammeled rationalism, male dominance, attention to the visible surface of things, practicality, bottom-line-ism. We have gone very, very sick. And the body politic, like any body, when it feels itself to be sick, it begins to produce antibodies, or strategies for overcoming the condition of dis-ease. And the 20th century is an enormous effort at self-healing. Phenomena as diverse as surrealism, body piercing, psychedelic drug use, sexual permissiveness, jazz, experimental dance, rave culture, tattooing, the list is endless. What do all these things have in common? They represent various styles of rejection of linear values. The society is trying to cure itself by an archaic revival, by a reversion to archaic values. So when I see people manifesting sexual ambiguity, or scarifying themselves, or showing a lot of flesh, or dancing to syncopated music, or getting loaded, or violating ordinary canons of sexual behavior, I applaud all of this; because it's an impulse to return to what is felt by the body -- what is authentic, what is archaic -- and when you tease apart these archaic impulses, at the very center of all these impulses is the desire to return to a world of magical empowerment of feeling. And at the center of that impulse is the shaman: stoned, intoxicated on plants, speaking with the spirit helpers, dancing in the moonlight, and vivifying and invoking a world of conscious, living mystery. That's what the world is. The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery: our birth, our death, our being in the moment -- these are mysteries. They are doorways opening on to unimaginable vistas of self-exploration, empowerment and hope for the human enterprise. And our culture has killed that, taken it away from us, made us consumers of shoddy products and shoddier ideals. We have to get away from that; and the way to get away from it is by a return to the authentic experience of the body -- and that means sexually empowering ourselves, and it means getting loaded, exploring the mind as a tool for personal and social transformation. The hour is late; the clock is ticking; we will be judged very harshly if we fumble the ball. We are the inheritors of millions and millions of years of successfully lived lives and successful adaptations to changing conditions in the natural world. Now the challenge passes to us, the living, that the yet-to-be-born may have a place to put their feet and a sky to walk under; and that's what the psychedelic experience is about, is caring for, empowering, and building a future that honors the past, honors the planet and honors the power of the human imagination. There is nothing as powerful, as capable of transforming itself and the planet, as the human imagination. Let's not sell it straight. Let's not whore ourselves to nitwit ideologies. Let's not give our control over to the least among us. Rather, you know, claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the program of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination. The Internet is light at the end of the tunnel. I don't care if it's being used to peddle pornography, I don't care if it's being trivialized in a thousand ways. Anything can be trivialized. The important point is that it is leveling the playing field of global society. It is creating de-facto an entirely new set of political realities. None of the constipated, oligarchic structures that are resisting this were ever asked. Their greed betrayed them into investing in this in the first place without ever fully grasping what the implications of it were for their larger agenda. A global society is coming into being, a global society that is made out of information that was not intended to be ours, but is ours, by the mistaken invention of computers and the printing press, information is power, and information has spilled by the clumsy hands of the dominator culture so that the information is everywhere, never before has the situation been so fluid, we might be able to finally have a crack at this. Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men and women, parents and children, people and animals, human institutions and the land all were in dynamic balance and not in any primitive sense at all. Language was fully developed, poetry may have been at its climax, dance, magic, poetics, altruism, philosophy. There's no reason to think that these things were not practiced as adroitly as we practice them today and it was under the boundary dissolving influence of psilocybin. Inside the boundaries of the old paradigm there's no hope, there's no way out of the box of capitalism, monogamy, consumer fetishism, egoism, money worship, no way out. No way. No way out! What is needed is a spirit of boundary dissolution, between individuals, between classes, sexual orientations, rich and poor, man and woman, intellectual and feeling toned types. If this can happen, then we will make a new world. And if this doesn't happen, nature is fairly pitiless and has a place for us in the shale of this planet, where so many have preceded us." Terence McKenna
"We must become aware of the astonishing fact that as a species we are the victims of an instance of traumatic abuse in childhood. As human beings, we once had a symbiotic relationship with the world-girdling intelligence of the planet that was mediated through shamanic plant use. This relationship was disrupted and eventually lost by the progressive climatic drying of the Eurasian and African land masses. Our human dependence on the living processes of the earth was largely forgotten with the growth of industrial civilization. Now we are being forced to remember that Gaia is greater than we are and that the human economy is embedded within the ecology of the biosphere. So, in what sense is Gaia alive? And what difference does it make if we think of her as a living organism, as opposed to an inanimate physical system? Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical. For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the faith that scientific discoveries will justify their beliefs. Cosmologists have come to the conclusion that known kinds of matter and energy constitute only about 4% of the universe. The rest consists of dark matter and dark energy. The nature of 96% of physical reality is literally obscure. As Terence McKenna observed, “Modern science is based on the principle: ‘Give us one free miracle and we’ll explain the rest.’ The one free miracle is the appearance of all the mass and energy in the universe and all the laws that govern it in a single instant from nothing. The assumption that the laws of nature are eternal is a vestige of the Christian belief system that informed the early postulates of modern science in the seventeenth century. Perhaps the laws of nature have actually evolved along with nature itself, and perhaps they are still evolving. Or perhaps they are not laws at all, but more like habits. Morphic resonance points to new ways forward: If the regularities of nature are evolving habits rather than eternal laws, there is no need to assume that all these regularities were fixed at the moment of the Big Bang. Hence there is no need to suppose that all laws of nature were intelligently designed at the moment of creation, or else that there are an infinite number of unobserved universes. These hypotheses are unnecessary if nature is radically evolutionary, as the hypothesis of formative causation proposes. Why are rituals so conservative? And why do people all over the world believe that through ritual activities they are participating in a process that takes them out of ordinary secular time and somehow brings the past into the present? The idea of morphic resonance provides a natural answer to these questions. Through morphic resonance, ritual really can bring the past into the present. The present performers of the ritual indeed connect with those in the past. The greater the similarity between the way the ritual is performed now and the way it was performed before, the stronger the resonant connection between the past and present participants. If memory within nature sounds mysterious, we should bear in mind that mathematical laws transcending nature are more rather than less so; they are metaphysical rather than physical. The way mathematical laws can exist independently of the evolving universe and at the same time act upon it remains a profound mystery. For those who accept God, this mystery is an aspect of God's relation to the realm of nature; for those who deny God, the mystery is even more obscure: A quasi-mental realm of mathematical laws somehow exists independently of nature, yet not in God, and governs the evolving physical world without itself being physical. We need to respond to our present ecological crisis practically, by making appropriate social, political, economic, and technological changes. We need to look at the attitudes that have led to such devastation of the earth and to find a more harmonious way of living. And those of us who believe in the power of prayer need to pray for forgiveness and guidance. If a wiser and juster human order comes about, if a new harmony develops between humanity and the living world, this would indeed seem like an answer to prayer.” Rupert Sheldrake, The Rebirth of Nature: The Greening of Science and God "When our individual life force enters our fetal body, the moment in which we become truly human, it passes through the pineal and triggers the first primordial flood of DMT. Later, at birth, the pineal releases more DMT. As we die, the life-force leaves the body through the pineal gland, releasing another flood of this psychedelic spirit molecule. The discovery of DMT in the human body stimulated much less fanfare than did that of endorphins. Anti-psychedelic-drug sentiment sweeping the USA at the time actually turned researchers against studying endogenous DMT. The discoverers of endorphins, in contrast, won Nobel Prizes. Dobkin de Rios and Smith suggest that spiritual techniques for altering consciousness are typically repressed in state-level societies because they constitute a potential threat to the religious interpretations of those who hold social and religious power. The history of human use of plants, mushrooms, and animals for their psychedelic effects is far older than written history, and probably predates the appearance of the modern human species. During its history, humankind has devoted astonishing energy and ingenuity to altering consciousness. In a survey of 488 societies in all parts of the world, Erika Bourgignon found that 437 of the societies had one or more culturally patterned forms of ASC. This means that fully 90% of the world’s cultures have one or more institutionalized ASC. In tribal societies and Eastern cultures these are regarded- almost without exception-as sacred or revered conditions. Mystical or sacred states of consciousness are called samadhi in yoga, moksha in Hinduism, satori in Zen, fana in Sufism, and ruach hakodesh in kabbalah. In the West they are known as unio mystica (Christian mysticism), a numinal state (Carl Jung), peak experience (Abraham Maslow), holotropic experience (Stanislav Grof), cosmic consciousness (Richard Bucke), and flow (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi).” Rick Strassman, Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds through Psychedelics & Other Spiritual Technologies
@@eternalism8274♾ ☯ “The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world...” ~ Terence McKenna
The part i love about mushrooms is that it gets me outdoors and visiting many local parks and forests, whereas commercialising it would mean there isnt that motivation. I think it shouldnt be legal to sell outside of a medical setting
Psychedelic will give you an experience of true freedom, all your all your fears will be abolished completely and will be replaced by clarity I got shrooms DMT LSD from a reliable source who ships worldwide
We shouldn't trip alone? But what about those of us who have no one? Should we just concede to living a life of grief and lack of healing and die a miserable death?
Do research, set a goal, make sure your setting is good for YOU, have a healthy state of mind going into it, don’t expect anything at all, although it may be hard. Tripping alone can be an immensely rewarding and beneficial experience but it can also be incredibly challenging and stressful, you need to do your research to know what you’re getting into, as well as maybe starting off really small doses and slowly increasing over time
Depression is based on childhood issues. Some people are chaotic, very traumatic experiences where emotions are deeper to unravel. I know nothing about treating people with psychedelics; maybe go slowly with more sessions?
I truly believe that psychotropics are the keys to abreviating the road to self-discovery and integration. I took the long road, and truthfully, it's all consuming. With a family or a thriving career, I could not have discovered Individuation in the Jungian sense.
What ever happened to your honey bee mushroom research? Paul a lot of beekeepers at the largest beekeeping Hive Life conference want to know what results were derived. Does it work and are you just hold, waiting for a patent.
psychedelics generally are absolutely life changing substances that have so much potential to help people with mental health issues
I’ve always had alcohol addiction until I camen across psychedelics, it’s been a life changing experience
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Is he on insta?
@@AnnaGracia-ey6ql Yes, dr_xzavier#
@@LievanosAguilar Yes, and he delivers discreetly
Stamets' enthusiasm on fungi is an educational mind spore. Spreading through the human population via the interconnected network of networks (aka internet).
I love that Paul addresses "What happens after" for new experiencers of all types of natural medicines. Always excellent Thank you to all speakers, recorders and posters!
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you keep pretending you just had a REAL experience , that's What happens after ...
i've been taking drugs for decades , you name it , i've done it , except for the big H , stay away from that one ,
i've never had those experiences and ate the last hole bag of mushrooms ,
when you know what drugs does to your system , just creating Other drugs to make you feel high or low
taken pills that open up your perception for 7 hours on end ! , it all does NOTHING what so ever , when you have control Over your mind ...
when you don't , you start to make sh*t up yourself , things you heard Other people have had on that same drug your taking now ,
it's ALL psychological and Not Real What So Ever
Absolutely agree, what happens after is sooooo important. My wife, who does not trip, doesn't quite understand the importance of what happens after. The best way I could describe it to her is that it's the difference between a meaningful experience vs "I took a lotta shrooms, man".
I love Paul, but I disagree with his belief that the way we make these substances legal and accessible is by handing it over to venture capitalists and corporations . I think patenting psychedelics is a bad road we shouldn't go down .
😂 I challenge you to rethink your "beliefs"
@@triple_gem_shining Why don't you present an opposing view instead of just snidely calling someone wrong?
The way I think we can make Paul *more* right than he is? Is by applying Copy-Left ideas like creative commons, the GNU Public License, and similar ideas.
Sure, there is a patent. But just like Saulk, or the original discoverers of Insulin? Tried other ways to cement their work into the public domain.
And... They failed.
Meanwhile, Open-WRT was founded because Linksys used Linux to run *one* wifi-router, and the judge had no choice but to demand the source code for the public. Now? Volunteers keep it running on the latest devices, constantly and consistently.
It’s the only way to get the ball rolling he has talked about it many times
It needs to be accessible period
I Just feel like saying, this first speaker is like toeing the line between being playful, stressed out, and being difficult on purpose. It's some of the most skillful acting I've seen if it's on purpose. If it's not on purpose then give this guy a hug, he needs it.
Stamets & Holland thank you so much for all you do!!!
Holland and Barrett will hopefully stock the product
Paul is right mushrooms show that you are part of all the love being shared in the world
"piano strings" that was chills for me. Incredible stuff Paul.
Damn Paul is looking healthy af. Jacked even
Was on a hike and about 2 miles into woods found the most lovely(I believe conifer)stump with monster big reishi mushrooms. Never seen them in nature before so I was elated.
Paul is the uncle we all need
True 😊
I was a commercial mushroom picker and buyer for years traveling from Northern BC to central CA as far east as Idaho. Once picking in west central BC the top of the ridge was covered with blackened pine trees that were struck by lightning. I noticed huge lines and fairy rings of Matsutakes (Pine Mushrooms) under the first tree i came to. Every tree on that ridge that was struck by lightening had massive growths of new buttons under them just breaking the surface. The trees that hadn't been hit had none. At $150 a pound at that time, lets just say I had a very productive day....:)
Unfortunately since those days many of the large patches have been logged. I think I may have met you Paul in the Naz valley years ago.
Thank you for using your platforms for spreading the message. 🍄 have changed my life and I am in the process of healing.
Mush ❤
Been dying to see this video! Thanks so much!!! The GOAT.
Introduction ends around 6:20. Then Stamets and Holland begin speaking. Getting tired of "cancelled." I particularly like Stamets emphasis on narratives and that all are important.
In Paul’s opening speech, he speaks about the natural rhythm of mushroom blooms. With manufactured mushrooms, the growth is staged and disconnected from nature- the moon, the birdsong, the bees, the trees, drought, spiders and other insects, animals, the greater underground mycelium connection. Hmmm, could potency be limited? 🌺🌨🌲🍄
Maybe? some of the newer spore prints of cubensis seem vey weak compared to a few years ago.
It's been 3 years since I tried DMT can't find a plug anywhere in my area. Back then, We used one of those vaporizers with the big ba
Strongly recommend just sticking to shrooms if you want an hallucinogenic experience. I was given "acid" one time by someone I trusted
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@@Stephanie56739
how can I reach out?
On IG?
Wanna try, buy keep being told I can't do it alone for the first time but I'd literally be so much more comfortable alone
@@Barbarasmith63
Yeah, he has variety of stuffs like mushrooms, Isd, DMT even the chocolate bars
55:03 Paul statement is just mind blowing, takes time to ingest but it makes so much sense. Paul, thank you!
The moderator is a clown but everything else is amazing in this 💯💯💯
Dude wasn't even phased when the lights went out; just kept talking like nothing happened.
I loved mdma and weed primarily in my teens into early 20s but am/have switched over to psilocybin as I’m growing out of the need for others. I Love Paul’s knowledge I believe they are a gift to us and should be respected but loved. Used as a tool to heal / mature/ grow into the human I need to be for my loved ones. Much love ❤️
Take the good drop the bad and don't listen to the haters! 1 love!
Psychedelic’s definitely have potential to deal with mental health symptoms like anxiety and depression, I would like to try them again but it’s just so hard to source here
Well I've been tripping for couple of years now,once had a bad trip but that's a very long time ago though
Psychedelics are the reason why i didn’t take my life when i was at my end. I was stripped of my ego and saw the beauty of life and interconnectivity and even though i still battle anxiety and depression, I’m doing better everyday and will never think in such a self destructive way again.
LSD and mushrooms completely changed my whole outlook on life. I became a better version of myself
This experience gave me a lot of confidence about my self and my body. A bunch of bad thought / behavior patterns were broken. One of these was pretty bad OCD that made me wash my hands a lot. It gave me a lot of hope that things will be fine, this is the one thing that I heard throughout the trip: Everything is alright. The main reason for the trip was my severe depression and it definitely helped me (although it's not gone). Before all I could do was lay in bed. Now I am trying to rebuild my life one step at a time which wasn't possible before."
Loved this. I battle from depression, anxiety & C-PTSD, I’ve heard shrooms cured depression. Wish doctors were more open to natural medicines over big pharma but we know why
@@hillaryjohnson69 Where to search?? Is it IG?
@@AndreaPerez-oh8yq Yes, he's got other psychs too
Paul is an invaluable human to this race. I just wish his products didn’t come in single use plastics. He is fully aware of the problem this world already faces with such products.
dr paul I have amazing finding on chaga tea compost in my garden to rid pest also makes plants healthier
chickens hate anything with chaga you got me started on this
Psychedelics definitely have potential to deal with mental health symptoms like anxiety and depression I would like to try them again but its just hard to source our here
Anxiety happens when you think you gotta fiqure out everything at once , breath , you are strong , take it day by day
I was having constant unbearable anxiety because of university stress not until I came across myco_john9 ,an intelligent and quite profound mycologist he saved my life honestly.
The trips I have been having has really helped me a lot, I feel in control of my emotions and actions
@@coleswipes Were can I search him ?
Telegram
it would be great to see some discrete action plan as an outcome for such conference, something like legalization, government control on the quality of the substance, freedom for end user for intake. list goes on and on
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@Paul Stamets
Paul, I've been struggling with bi-polar 1 along with several other mental health conditions. There is little to no information on psilocybin along with the use of lithium. However there is an article stating a non medical study saying that lithium and psilocybin can interact negatively while taken together? I have ran out options that help. I have been microdosing everyday for the past month with no adverse effects, and only amazing results. Life changing results. But I am still hesitant sometimes in my confidence. Could you help clear up those who take lithium but also feel that psilocybin can change their lives for the better?
Thank you Paul. 😌
Love the mind expansion
I can recommend you where I get my stuff from an online store, he's got Shrooms, Gummies, Microdose, Dmt, Lsd, Vape Pens, Carts, Cannabis, alongside other dope Psychedelics stuffs well Refined ships discreetly to anywhere also guide you if you're a newbie;;;....
The first time I had a cup of tea mixed with a teaspoon of Lion's Mane mycelium, I felt moderately stoned. I was delightfully surprised. 😮
I’d love to get my son on this mdma study for schizophrenia. He’s suffered 10+ yrs, completely resistant to all antipsychotics. How can I get information on this?!
Can I stay at your house for a week or two? Your garden is amazing! I love it!
I think it's great stuff............for others. I'm happy that many have had such positive results! The thought of taking hallucinogenics absolutely terrifies me! I'll stick to diet, exercise and meditation and everyone else can have my share.
Psilocybin mushrooms healed me. I can’t explain it but my experience has been spiritual and eye opening. It really helped me get rid of depression and anxiety.
I would try micro dosing Psilocybin in a heartbeat... it's just illegal in my state of Ohio! So frustrating!!😞
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Just go to a music festival and ask around. You’ll know who to ask when you see them!
@@andrewcooke-hedin1903or buy a spore syringe wich is legal and then grow
Hey Paul I think my mom is getting close the point of no return for her liver and was wondering if you had some advice or recommendations
God bless Paul Stamets !!!
55:06 ❤ Paul taks about lightning and electroculture used to stimulate commercial shiitake production.
I hadn't heard electroculture was beneficial to mycelial growth (as well as plants/roots), but it makes sense. The whole "garden organism" is stimulated. 😊
He's on in$t@gram,, also on Telegr®️m
Thank you for your contribution to the world of medicine, Paul
Paul, I can only imagine how extremely busy of a man you are but I would absolutely love to see come on the mycogeeky podcast. I think it would be extremely beneficial for the younger generation of the mycology community.
My son was prescribed a ssri, which actually kinda fueled his issue. I’m very natural in medicine. So I study most plants and mushrooms. He started micro dosing for maybe 2 weeks and is in a great place. It rewired that whole way of thinking. It was put here for a reason. We should give it the attention it deserves
@hopebeel8765 Nice. luckily they’re legal a few country’s over. I just pick up a few more when I drive thru. Honestly if I need them or not 😂 always like seeing what’s new, and chatting with like minded people. Most My friends know nothing about fungi, so gives me a chance to use big words and actually see someone know what I’m talking about 😂
Hey, does anyone know which specific magic mushrooms did he consume to get rid of his stuttering? I don't have stuttering but I'm interested of its practical use-cases. Personally, I don't smoke nor drink alcohol, so I'm not here for the 'trip's specifically.
@@johnnywick1110 if I remember right, because I’ve seen him tell the story a few times, it was Penis Envy. He ate a whole bag, because he thought that was a dose. As someone who’s eaten those in the past, I really couldn’t imagine eating a bag of them. So I could definitely see a life changing experience taking place. I don’t recommend for a first time, especially alone like he was. Then again, that’s what worked for him and how it was done.
@@trollpatrol8453 thanks but the plan failed. Buying, owning, consuming, 3 years of jail. Rip. They classify it as A tier drug like heroin, ecstasy, lsd etc
Did he stop the saris completely first or slowly add the micr dose and then slowly stop Siri
Time to set up a Tesla coil next to my growth boxes.
very cool as always .
I am currently tripping
Loving it
*Psychedelics definitely have undeniable benefits to deal with PSTD, addiction, trauma etc. the experience gave me freedom. I was able to get Shroooms,dmt,edibles,lsd etc from this licensed mycologist who ships to all destinations*
*Dude is on telegram as*
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Wow! Mycelium is responsive to our sounds!
I can recommend you where I get my stuff from an online store, he's got Shrooms, Gummies, Microdose, Dmt, Lsd, Vape Pens, Carts, Cannabis, alongside other dope Psychedelics stuffs well Refined ships discreetly to anywhere also guide you if you're a newbie;;;....
One problem with placebo is that it only is helpful when studying substances who's effectiveness is subtle enough to be questioned. Nobody would ever question the effectiveness of psilocybin.
51:00 tense moment
A question I would ask Paul… being a shroom captain.. assuming he’s eaten a lot of Fungi and different mushrooms… do youu have any bodily fungal bacteria ? Fungi on the feet ? Toes ? Your beard ? Do Any parts of your skin, have a fungi ? It’s a serious question. Because fungi can grow on the body… would eating mushrooms, fungi, increase chances of getting something like that ?
No.
Living in a toxic mold house does it though.
Def avoid that.
Paul STamets, is there any way I can talk with you. I have had MGUS for a long time and lived on a mushroom diet (basically portabellas with some others thrown in and The Mushroom defense formula and it improved every marker for my health). My MGUS since I have no source of portabellas without apeel on them has become deadly Multiple Myeloma. Symptoms are active and I started on the Mushroom defense formula today and the symptoms are better already. Do you have any source for portabellas (they were the staple of my meal plans) HELP! TN does not seem to be a big mushroom growing area and the environment here seems to only grow very deadly mushrooms when it rains a lot.
I believe that mushrooms are a huge resource to enhance our food sources. I have only dried mushrooms at the moment to eat from. Portabellas do dry, but do not rehydrate good at all. So using the smaller ones and a couple of other items, but for instance, I have turkey tail powder. Chaga alone upsets my GI system. I do use it in mixtures though. And, it is the only thing that occasionally grows on my tree stumps on my farm.
Hi Paul, I live in Kitsap and was wondering if you still give classes or seminars? Your website’s last mention was 2021.
I need help !
I started micro dosing today with 100mg capsules.
I got 8 grams and the problem is
The addict in me wants to take more and more but I've been fighting off that urge all day and Ive been able to keep it under control so far but that worries me cause I want the benefits over time . I'm a father and a husband and I overdo almost everything . I want to be responsible with this the best I can.
My question is will that go away and when , I assume that depends on the person.
I desperately want to heal from 15 years of addiction.
Thank you for any advice or experience with this .
Thank you Mr.Paul for all you have done , do and will do for the people.
Love your work 🥰
I love Paul, the psichedelics create a evolution of the World. 🔥⚡️😎
Never trust anyone who won’t take acid.
great MC - who not only knows his role but adds humour to it 👍
Yes I agree with this program and the content lsa and LSD also dilate the pupils including mescaline
Quite frankly I enjoy the visuals and kaleidoscopic effects of psychedelic plants and mushrooms and it keeps me from being angry and depressed with everything.
I'm a 57 year old
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What's the direct path to legality? Time is of the essence.
Psychedelics are great, one time I was trippin on too much acid and I was staring at a fire pit and the fire pit turned into a mini world with little people and buildings, that was 2 years ago and it's such an experience to remember. would love to try out the psilocybin mushrooms next, just don't know where to get them, so hard to come by
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@@sarahh321 where to search?? Is it IG?
@@Jerryberger9235 yeah, He has variety of stuffs like mushrooms, Isd, DMT even the chocolate bars
Shrooms are where it's at. If you've experienced LSD start with 2.5 grams of shrooms. Love them.
@@sarahh321 Thanks, I’ll get some right away
I took a massive dose in 1970 and was high for 3 or 4 weeks and many other regular doses of almost all psycs , I can tell you it had no long term effects at all , my life is the same as anyone else. On the other hand I am sure the huge amount of sugar I have consumed has had a definite effect on who I am !!!
high for 3-4 weeks from one massive dose? cant see how that happens
Great video and I should add that amanita muscaria is also good under proper condition 🍄🍄
wish Paul would get a rumble channel up
love his epiphany at 55:00
I can recommend you to this psyc specialist where I get my stuffs from..
He’s on Instagram as****
_mycospeed££££
They're got great psychedelics products
I think Paul and Jordan Peterson would have an amazing conversation.
@Frankly Layer nice 👌
I'd hate to see it. Paul is too earnest and good natured, a conman like Peterson would walk all over him, unfortunately. Seeing him speaking to Dillahunty is all the evidence I need to go off of for knowing how that pig would act and try to manipulate the conversation. "Psychedelics are proof of God, therefore we have an irrefutable moral code in the bible to use in our justifications for persecuting and murdering trans people." Wish the Benzos had finished him off, pillhead swine.
I like morning glory seeds filtered with distilled water 2 grams is similar to the psilocybin mushrooms I have consumed but the down side of morning glory seeds is the body load
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Could you pontificate upon the body load?
I wish Paul was able to continue his story so I’ve been cut off. I’m gonna go buy an old camera now.
Because I’ve peaked into the ways lion mane has tempted the human soul
💜
I find gymnopilius validipes robust stalk orange mushrooms south east Michigan on dead tree stump,potent and pleasant but bitter nice experience overall
Paul what about Phallus impudicus? never see it in your videos! )
Just let us grow our own weed in our yards!
Paul call me
Sorry about my English
Lets stop this war
We must do it together
I live in Kharkiv Ukraine
Thank God now i know how
It's time
STOP WAR
The whole world in the eyes of our children!
Весь світ в очах наших дітей !
halo from israel-i am not sure where i can ask questions..i understand that its recommended to take microdose of psilosybin on empty stomach but b3 should be taken with or after food so how can we take the stack that been recomenmded by paul?..where can i ask future questions?
I am in Florida. Used to be in California. The weed here is garbage. Not even close. Why? Corrupt crony capitalism. Now you want to do this to psychedelics? Please wake up.
Hi Paul, just wanted to ask is it possible that some people are immune to shrooms? i got grow kit and had 3 flushes of Golden Teacher and they didn't work at all each time i took heroic dose with friend of mine and we just couldn't understand why nothing worked... is it poss to be a bad batch or some peeps are just immune to psilocybin. love your work by the way and thank you for everything you do
I bought some growing kits, spore prints, spawns, liquid culture and psychedelic products from an online supplier and they are affordable and discreetly delivered
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I have met folks who have zero reaction to DMT but other psychedelics work for them.
I would wonder if your pineal gland is non functioning. Do you have sleep problems and depression?
Paul's micro dose protocol has cure me of twenty hard years of PTSD(knife to my throat armed robbery). It took three days. I have my life back. I am eternally grateful.❤️❤️
Its been made legal in some states(medical)
Imagine if Paul Stamets had met Steve Jobs back in the day
Magic mushrooms are the best thing that’s happened to me. However, weed was horrible for me. Quitting weed was the best decision I ever made. I’ll stick to psychedelics
I can recommend you where I get my stuff from an online store, he's got Shrooms, Gummies, Microdose, Dmt, Lsd, Vape Pens, Carts, Cannabis, alongside other dope Psychedelics stuffs well Refined ships discreetly to anywhere also guide you if you're a newbie;;;....
He's on in$t@gram,, also on Telegr®️m
_mycospeed££££
They're got great psychedelics products
OMG, that moderator is insufferable.
Very. It's not even awkward, it's just painful
Dear Paul, could you recommend me a reliable brand for purchasing lions mane? I wouldn’t want to invest on a brand that doesn’t work. Lot of scam companies.
I bought some Lion’s mane shrooms from an online store and they are affordable and discreetly delivered
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I thought weed was bad but now in physical decline see the benfits of pain relief alternatives.
Great video , can you let the lady know about Jerry Marzinsky re. Schizophrenia
🖖🌌💪
I love LSD DMT but it's psilocybin going into my bloodstream still the faithful day will come will try all three consciousness will rise.
Looking forward to the Bee Project 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
Science is the exploration of the experience of nature without psychedelics. And I propose, therefore, to expand that enterprise and say that we need a science beyond science. We need a science which plays with a full deck.
A new science that places the psychedelic experience at the center of its program of investigation should move toward a practical realization of this goal - the goal of eliminating the barrier between the ego and the Overself so that the ego can perceive itself as an expression of the Overself. Then the anxiety of facing a tremendous biological crisis in the form of the eco-crises, and the crisis of limitation in physical space forced upon us by our planet-bound situation, can be obviated by cultivating the soul and by practicing a new shamanism using tryptamine-containing plants.
Psilocybin is the most commonly available and experientially accessible of these compounds. Therefore my plea to scientists, administrators, and politicians who may read my words is this: look again at psilocybin, do not confuse it with the other psychedelics, and realize that it is a phenomenon unto itself with an enormous potential for transforming human beings - not simply transforming the people who take it, but transforming society in the way that an art movement, a mathematical understanding, or a scientific breakthrough transforms society. It holds the possibility of transforming the entire species simply by virtue of the information that comes through it. Psilocybin is a source of gnosis, and the voice of gnosis has been silenced in the Western mind for at least a thousand years.
Psychedelic drugs, especially psilocybin, allow a searchlight to be thrown on these deeper levels of the psyche, as Jung correctly stated. But it is not a museum of archetypes or psychic constructs, as he seemed to assume. It is a frontier of wholeness into which any person, so motivated and so courageous as to wish to do it, can go and leave the mundane plane far behind.
Psychedelics can carry you farther and faster than most people care to go. Once you get to psychedelics, it's no longer a matter of seeking the answer, you have found the answer. Now the issue changes dramatically, you must face the answer.
There’s light at the end of the tunnel. The problem is that tunnel is in the back of your mind. And if you don’t go to the back side of your mind you will never see the light at the end of the tunnel. And once you see it, then the task becomes to empower it in yourself and other people. Spread it as a reality. God did not retire to the seventh heaven, God is some kind of lost continent IN the human mind. There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules.
Patanjali specifically says that there are three paths to the goal of yoga. And they are, control of the breath, control of posture, and light-filled herbs. It says it right there. Stanza 6 of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. The psychedelic experience is the beginning of the spiritual path. That's why it's not important that yogas' claim that they can deliver you the psychedelic experience, because it begins with the psychedelic experience, and then you go from there. Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resorting to drugs.
I'm not an advocate for everything that rolls out of the laboratory. I'm an advocate for things sanctioned by millennia of usage. The psychedelic experience is simply a compressed instance of what we call understanding, so that living psychedelically is trying to live in an atmosphere of continuous unfolding of understanding, so that every day you know more and see into things with greater depth than you did before. This is a process of education.
The plants are the pipeline into the Gaian intention. It's just not a coincidence that these plants carry this immense spiritual message. They are the pipeline of Gaian intentionality. The fungi became, or is for some mysterious reason still to be discovered, a pipeline into a mind, an entelechy, which we can only image as feminine and can only associate somehow to the environment, to the ecosystem. This is the Gaian mind. This is what the goddess really is. The goddess is a network of connective intelligence that is operating on this planet.
The planet has a kind of intelligence, it can actually open a channel of communication with an individual human being. The message that nature sends is, transform your language through a synergy between electronic culture and the psychedelic imagination, a synergy between dance and idea, a synergy between understanding and intuition, and dissolve the boundaries that your culture has sanctioned between you, to become part of this Gaian super-mind.
Now, why should taking a natural psychedelic drug compound like psilocybin give you hope? It's because it connects you up with the real network of values and information inherent in the planet, the values of biology, the values of organism, rather than the values of the consumer. ...
Continued ⬇
It is now very clear that techniques of machine-human interfacing, pharmacology of the synthetic variety, all kinds of manipulative techniques, all kinds of data storage, imaging and retrieval techniques - all of this is coalescing toward the potential of a truly demonic or angelic kind of self-imaging of our culture... And the people who are on the demonic side are fully aware of this and hurrying full-tilt forward with their plans to capture everyone as a 100% believing consumer inside some kind of a beige furnished fascism that won't even raise a ripple.
We have gone sick by following a path of untrammeled rationalism, male dominance, attention to the visible surface of things, practicality, bottom-line-ism. We have gone very, very sick. And the body politic, like any body, when it feels itself to be sick, it begins to produce antibodies, or strategies for overcoming the condition of dis-ease. And the 20th century is an enormous effort at self-healing. Phenomena as diverse as surrealism, body piercing, psychedelic drug use, sexual permissiveness, jazz, experimental dance, rave culture, tattooing, the list is endless. What do all these things have in common?
They represent various styles of rejection of linear values. The society is trying to cure itself by an archaic revival, by a reversion to archaic values. So when I see people manifesting sexual ambiguity, or scarifying themselves, or showing a lot of flesh, or dancing to syncopated music, or getting loaded, or violating ordinary canons of sexual behavior, I applaud all of this; because it's an impulse to return to what is felt by the body -- what is authentic, what is archaic -- and when you tease apart these archaic impulses, at the very center of all these impulses is the desire to return to a world of magical empowerment of feeling.
And at the center of that impulse is the shaman: stoned, intoxicated on plants, speaking with the spirit helpers, dancing in the moonlight, and vivifying and invoking a world of conscious, living mystery. That's what the world is. The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery: our birth, our death, our being in the moment -- these are mysteries.
They are doorways opening on to unimaginable vistas of self-exploration, empowerment and hope for the human enterprise. And our culture has killed that, taken it away from us, made us consumers of shoddy products and shoddier ideals. We have to get away from that; and the way to get away from it is by a return to the authentic experience of the body -- and that means sexually empowering ourselves, and it means getting loaded, exploring the mind as a tool for personal and social transformation.
The hour is late; the clock is ticking; we will be judged very harshly if we fumble the ball. We are the inheritors of millions and millions of years of successfully lived lives and successful adaptations to changing conditions in the natural world. Now the challenge passes to us, the living, that the yet-to-be-born may have a place to put their feet and a sky to walk under; and that's what the psychedelic experience is about, is caring for, empowering, and building a future that honors the past, honors the planet and honors the power of the human imagination.
There is nothing as powerful, as capable of transforming itself and the planet, as the human imagination. Let's not sell it straight. Let's not whore ourselves to nitwit ideologies. Let's not give our control over to the least among us. Rather, you know, claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the program of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
The Internet is light at the end of the tunnel. I don't care if it's being used to peddle pornography, I don't care if it's being trivialized in a thousand ways. Anything can be trivialized. The important point is that it is leveling the playing field of global society. It is creating de-facto an entirely new set of political realities. None of the constipated, oligarchic structures that are resisting this were ever asked. Their greed betrayed them into investing in this in the first place without ever fully grasping what the implications of it were for their larger agenda.
A global society is coming into being, a global society that is made out of information that was not intended to be ours, but is ours, by the mistaken invention of computers and the printing press, information is power, and information has spilled by the clumsy hands of the dominator culture so that the information is everywhere, never before has the situation been so fluid, we might be able to finally have a crack at this.
Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men and women, parents and children, people and animals, human institutions and the land all were in dynamic balance and not in any primitive sense at all. Language was fully developed, poetry may have been at its climax, dance, magic, poetics, altruism, philosophy. There's no reason to think that these things were not practiced as adroitly as we practice them today and it was under the boundary dissolving influence of psilocybin.
Inside the boundaries of the old paradigm there's no hope, there's no way out of the box of capitalism, monogamy, consumer fetishism, egoism, money worship, no way out. No way. No way out!
What is needed is a spirit of boundary dissolution, between individuals, between classes, sexual orientations, rich and poor, man and woman, intellectual and feeling toned types. If this can happen, then we will make a new world. And if this doesn't happen, nature is fairly pitiless and has a place for us in the shale of this planet, where so many have preceded us."
Terence McKenna
"We must become aware of the astonishing fact that as a species we are the victims of an instance of traumatic abuse in childhood. As human beings, we once had a symbiotic relationship with the world-girdling intelligence of the planet that was mediated through shamanic plant use. This relationship was disrupted and eventually lost by the progressive climatic drying of the Eurasian and African land masses.
Our human dependence on the living processes of the earth was largely forgotten with the growth of industrial civilization. Now we are being forced to remember that Gaia is greater than we are and that the human economy is embedded within the ecology of the biosphere. So, in what sense is Gaia alive? And what difference does it make if we think of her as a living organism, as opposed to an inanimate physical system?
Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical. For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the faith that scientific discoveries will justify their beliefs.
Cosmologists have come to the conclusion that known kinds of matter and energy constitute only about 4% of the universe. The rest consists of dark matter and dark energy. The nature of 96% of physical reality is literally obscure.
As Terence McKenna observed, “Modern science is based on the principle: ‘Give us one free miracle and we’ll explain the rest.’ The one free miracle is the appearance of all the mass and energy in the universe and all the laws that govern it in a single instant from nothing.
The assumption that the laws of nature are eternal is a vestige of the Christian belief system that informed the early postulates of modern science in the seventeenth century. Perhaps the laws of nature have actually evolved along with nature itself, and perhaps they are still evolving. Or perhaps they are not laws at all, but more like habits.
Morphic resonance points to new ways forward: If the regularities of nature are evolving habits rather than eternal laws, there is no need to assume that all these regularities were fixed at the moment of the Big Bang.
Hence there is no need to suppose that all laws of nature were intelligently designed at the moment of creation, or else that there are an infinite number of unobserved universes. These hypotheses are unnecessary if nature is radically evolutionary, as the hypothesis of formative causation proposes.
Why are rituals so conservative? And why do people all over the world believe that through ritual activities they are participating in a process that takes them out of ordinary secular time and somehow brings the past into the present? The idea of morphic resonance provides a natural answer to these questions.
Through morphic resonance, ritual really can bring the past into the present. The present performers of the ritual indeed connect with those in the past. The greater the similarity between the way the ritual is performed now and the way it was performed before, the stronger the resonant connection between the past and present participants.
If memory within nature sounds mysterious, we should bear in mind that mathematical laws transcending nature are more rather than less so; they are metaphysical rather than physical. The way mathematical laws can exist independently of the evolving universe and at the same time act upon it remains a profound mystery.
For those who accept God, this mystery is an aspect of God's relation to the realm of nature; for those who deny God, the mystery is even more obscure: A quasi-mental realm of mathematical laws somehow exists independently of nature, yet not in God, and governs the evolving physical world without itself being physical.
We need to respond to our present ecological crisis practically, by making appropriate social, political, economic, and technological changes. We need to look at the attitudes that have led to such devastation of the earth and to find a more harmonious way of living.
And those of us who believe in the power of prayer need to pray for forgiveness and guidance. If a wiser and juster human order comes about, if a new harmony develops between humanity and the living world, this would indeed seem like an answer to prayer.”
Rupert Sheldrake, The Rebirth of Nature: The Greening of Science and God
"When our individual life force enters our fetal body, the moment in which we become truly human, it passes through the pineal and triggers the first primordial flood of DMT. Later, at birth, the pineal releases more DMT.
As we die, the life-force leaves the body through the pineal gland, releasing another flood of this psychedelic spirit molecule.
The discovery of DMT in the human body stimulated much less fanfare than did that of endorphins. Anti-psychedelic-drug sentiment sweeping the USA at the time actually turned researchers against studying endogenous DMT. The discoverers of endorphins, in contrast, won Nobel Prizes.
Dobkin de Rios and Smith suggest that spiritual techniques for altering consciousness are typically repressed in state-level societies because they constitute a potential threat to the religious interpretations of those who hold social and religious power.
The history of human use of plants, mushrooms, and animals for their psychedelic effects is far older than written history, and probably predates the appearance of the modern human species.
During its history, humankind has devoted astonishing energy and ingenuity to altering consciousness. In a survey of 488 societies in all parts of the world, Erika Bourgignon found that 437 of the societies had one or more culturally patterned forms of ASC.
This means that fully 90% of the world’s cultures have one or more institutionalized ASC. In tribal societies and Eastern cultures these are regarded- almost without exception-as sacred or revered conditions.
Mystical or sacred states of consciousness are called samadhi in yoga, moksha in Hinduism, satori in Zen, fana in Sufism, and ruach hakodesh in kabbalah. In the West they are known as unio mystica (Christian mysticism), a numinal state (Carl Jung), peak experience (Abraham Maslow), holotropic experience (Stanislav Grof), cosmic consciousness (Richard Bucke), and flow (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi).”
Rick Strassman, Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds through Psychedelics & Other Spiritual Technologies
Western: "missing for 1000 years" apparently is actually a hiatus from 1500 to 2000, 500 years. Medieval era was a heyday for psil.
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“The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world...” ~ Terence McKenna
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The part i love about mushrooms is that it gets me outdoors and visiting many local parks and forests, whereas commercialising it would mean there isnt that motivation. I think it shouldnt be legal to sell outside of a medical setting
Psychedelic will give you an experience of true freedom, all your all your fears will be abolished completely and will be replaced by clarity I got shrooms DMT LSD from a reliable source who ships worldwide
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Dude is on Instagram
We shouldn't trip alone?
But what about those of us who have no one?
Should we just concede to living a life of grief and lack of healing and die a miserable death?
Do research, set a goal, make sure your setting is good for YOU, have a healthy state of mind going into it, don’t expect anything at all, although it may be hard. Tripping alone can be an immensely rewarding and beneficial experience but it can also be incredibly challenging and stressful, you need to do your research to know what you’re getting into, as well as maybe starting off really small doses and slowly increasing over time
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Depression is based on childhood issues. Some people are chaotic, very traumatic experiences where emotions are deeper to unravel. I know nothing about treating people with psychedelics; maybe go slowly with more sessions?
I truly believe that psychotropics are the keys to abreviating the road to self-discovery and integration. I took the long road, and truthfully, it's all consuming. With a family or a thriving career, I could not have discovered Individuation in the Jungian sense.
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what are the best mushrooms for cancer? and does paul stamets have his own products for sale?
I can recommend you to where I get my stuff from an online store.......
I get my psychedelics and microdosing stuff from an online store where I got my own his on Instagram and also on Telegram with the below handle
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@@smartjared7203 does paul stamets have his own brand???
Paul : What a MAN
Who made them illegal in the first place?
It's not the job of art media to do public service announcements usage of plant medicine
paul should be in charge of the world. (without money banking system existing though).
also get rid of these venture capitalist away from mushrooms. they are dangerous af
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What ever happened to your honey bee mushroom research? Paul a lot of beekeepers at the largest beekeeping Hive Life conference want to know what results were derived. Does it work and are you just hold, waiting for a patent.