So about 2 weeks ago was my first time down Mushroom lane. They were Psilocybe Cubensis Penis Envy. I fasted for 14 hours and lemon tek'd 1 gram of ground mushrooms. They came on in about 20 minutes, at around 10:00am. It was the most intense psychedelic journey I have ever had. It blows 400ug+ of LSD out of the water. For the first while I had beautiful CEV, I had what appeared to be a female entity interacting with me, reaching into my soul, and looked to be pulling something out of me. It was almost like this(http://i.ytimg.com/vi/uCRVb-aerjA/0.jpg) but it had many more colours and was a different being altogether. At another point, I saw Ganesha of the Hindu religion. I opened my eyes to see everything waving, fluctuating colour saturations, shadows in peripheral vision, things melting and splashing into each other, audio was warped and reminded me of a few Shpongle songs, everything sounded philosophical, TV was overwhelming and gave me very bad vibrations, fractals all over the walls... My reality and everything I have ever known become almost unrecognisable. I thought I was dying, I was preparing myself for it anyway. During, I questioned everything, my beliefs, our society and our institutions. I remember me asking myself while peaking "Why do I even support the abolishment of the drug war, this is terrifying." I repeated it in my mind about 10-20 times; I laughed about it once I came down. I crawled into my bed in darkness because the OEV were too intense(for a second the grandfather clock which was in my living room lifted off the ground). The warm embrace of my blankets calmed me, and I just waited it out, thinking about everything. While in my bed, the CEV were done, it was probably an hour and a half into the trip. Whole thing lasted 3-4 hours till I was baseline. It was very spiritual, I realized how precious and delicate life is, and that I should appreciate everything I have. A very good learning and growing experience.

I wasn't expecting this level of potency, or does my body react heavily to psilocybin? I was expecting to have a low dose experience to ease myself into the substance. Anyone have similar experiences? I found post tripping that I didn't have a pounding headache as with LSD, it felt more clean and natural; earthly. I plan to do this again, but not before I have more practise in meditation. Should I up or lower the dose next time? Terence Mckenna once said that you need to take the right amount so you don't have the ability to resist, if you take below this, like I feel I did, it's overwhelming/scary. That's fine too, I don't see bad trips as bad. The trips people call bad teach you the most.

Wow! All that from 1 gram of cubensis? Amazing.

Perhaps the fasting & the lemon tek potentiated things.

I know well from my personal experiences that fasting in preparation for psychedelic journeys can potentiate the effects quite a bit.

As for your question about raising or lowering the dosage the next time, that's a personal decision. For me, if 1 gram gave me that strong of an experience, I'd probably stick to that level of dosage, but then again, I'm older & my "heroic dosage" stage of my life is far behind me.

Best of luck with your mushroom journeys Symphonette!

I am an amateur mycologist and love my mushroom friends! I like to stay in the 3-4 grams area but I like strong trips. I recently ingested seven grams of cubes and was just completely blown away. Seven grams was another story altogether. I wouldn't recommend taking that much. I was tripping so hard it was very hard to comprehend anything that was going on. I felt like someone was pressing all of their weight on me into my bed. I could hardly move or even talk. The hallucinations were quite amazing!

The overall experience was well prepared in advance. I came away from the experience feeling pretty good and felt great for days afterward. Please use care when using higher doses of mushrooms. Check out this link for more info -> https://www.dmt-nexus.me...aspx?g=posts&t=63419

Mushrooms are amazing!! I am so glad that you had the opportunity to experience them. I have learned so much from those little buggers! Good luck on your journey my friend! Welcome to the mushroom club!

I love this picture!

Sometimes it is easier when you take enough that you cant resist - you know you have to go with it at that point so you are committed to making the best of it!

Sounds like you might be sensitive to mushrooms though, unless it was just the fasting that made it so powerful...

You can always work your way up to a larger dose, or if you decide to jump right in, maybe having a sitter could be helpful.... Just in case!

Curious to hear how your next experience goes!

I am definitely enjoying this mushroom side of town. I liked the fact that I could form a coherent sentence aloud. Unlike LSD where I was in 15 hour long stupor, couldn't think or talk right. I find 15 hours is too long, and even then, I just feel so drained and disgusting and my head aches for days after. Mushrooms are just so clean and I can function 100% after come down to go about my day, after a mere 3-4 hours.

Thanks guys for the interest in my experience. <3

I agree that the fasting increased the potency, and doing the lemon tek probably made it that much stronger.



Your first time on mushrooms, eh? I encourage you to take a look into my Ganesha: The DMT Initiator thread, of which your thread will now receive mention.

I will take a look, and thanks. Do think these encounters of Ganesha provide some validity of the Hindu religion? Their respect for cattle, which in their dung grows magic mushrooms. Could be the basis for their religion, taking into account Terence Mckenna's many theories.

contact with an entity on 1 gram? i wish it hit me like that lol, imagine your experience on a heroic dose

Yeah Godzy, it was insane. They say Cubensis Penis Envy's are 2-3x more potent than regular. Except not a lot of people grow because they require a bit more attention to cultivate, and drop very few spores.

Hmm...Maybe fasting before smoking dmt will give great results too!

Have you put this theory to test?

I wouldn't be surprised if it worked out better, but I'm thinking that fasting would have a particularly stronger effect on mushrooms which are ingested as opposed to smoking DMT, which is inhaled.

I know that feeling. Thankfully, it, like all things, passes away after a while.

Blessings
~ND

LemonTEK makes the shrooms come on faster.
Fasting too, also makes you very sensible.
Penis Envy are said to be stronger.

= Triple Combo of Power

I would suggest to lower the dose to 0.5 -0.75 and eat something light 3 hours before, for a more gentle and mellow experience.