Among old friends, a reunion with myself

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A few long years have gone by since I lived on the island of St. John in the caribbean. I ingested a great deal of mushrooms while I lived there, with mixed results. The first few trips were enlightening, much healing vibrations, among good company. Whether it was from the mushrooms or a certain person/place/event in my life, or a combination of all of these elements, I slipped in to a long lasting psychospiritual crisis, which subsequently ruined the first serious loving relationship of my life, and sent my physical and mental health spiraling ever downward. Fast forward to this past weekend. A friend of mine from St. John was in the area, visiting from Canada, and we spent the weekend reminiscing and getting close to the earth. Sunrise yoga, apple picking, an hour spent talking to a female preying mantis who we named Jezebel, and a hike to a bluff with an expansive view of Long Island Sound all preceded our ingestion of some delightfully crunchy psylocibyn caps and stems.

We opened the thermos of still steaming peppermint tea, we could feel each sip traveling all the way through our bodies warming our hearts and minds. Delicious.
Almost forgot about the apples we picked earlier in the day, CRUNCH, munch munch. Our senses were inundated, I never realized apples were this juicy. I was almost drowning in apple juice.
We haven't moved from our sleeping bags, perched at the bluff's edge, since we ate the fungi.
A red light is growing out of the horizon, what could it be? An explosion, a fire, a nuclear missile? At that moment, neither of us mentioned that possibility, but a few hours later we realized we had both thought it. So indicative of the times we live in. Illusion had us in its grip for that moment, it was the moon rising.
I'm like a shovel. I DIG THE EARTH.
I roll over backwards, giggling, uninhibited flowing, feeling.
I finally get out of my sleeping bag to take a piss, aaaaaahhhhhh. I can actually feel all my negativity flowing out in its stream.
More musing about nature, ambitions, timelessness, love and sex, society's absurd rules, space, absurd things that could be made in to books or movies.
Every time I get up to piss, my body AND my spirit become so much lighter. I feel like I'm going to float away.
I'm in the heart chakra now. It's good to be with an old friend.

We both manage to fall asleep for about the last hour of pre-dawn twilight. Here come the sunday morning hikers.
"Sorry, we didn't mean to wake you up," says one of the new arrivals. "How was your night?"
"It was a hell of a show," I respond.
To which the hiker asks, "You guys ate some mushrooms huh?"
YES, we certainly did. With the help of nature's wisdom, and the reconnection with old friends, my psychospiritual crisis is in its end stage. Love is filling the abyss which I was slowly disappearing in to.

Psychedelics are the best medicine. Namaste.

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I like to hear this. I too

I like to hear this. I too am in a boat similar to yours. It is nice to feel the love return and the old rhythms that held us back from it depart. The sky's the limit from here.

healing

is a beautiful process. It is strange though, I ride my bike over twenty miles a day to get to work and back home and anywhere else I need to go, do yoga classes twice a week, been reconnecting with my family and still more negativity passes away from me every day and the more and more I become balanced. the love is back, and reaching skyward. I'm writing a new song about healing right now. I'll post some of the lyrics in the poetry forum soon...

ahhh..

nice story, awesome.

i heard that when you eat shrooms, you are sort of melding your consciousness with theirs, they are part of consciousness that desires evolution of experience thru us and we thru them among other psychoactives, tho the controlling force on this planet would have us believe otherwise and craftily set things up to look otherwise---

but that at first the experience is amazing because the consciousness is happy that you are experiencing something important, but if you abuse it, it will become displeased (bad trip) and you focus uncontrollably on overwhelming things or just feel negatively overwhelmed---

but since you hadn't partaken in a while and got your true vibe going strong, you connected with more than one "old friend" that night, who was glad to see you again now that you weren't knocking on the door asking for something so often :-)

p.s.

is that Jezebel ? hah

yes

It is indeed jezebel. I'm intrigued about these mushrooms being conscious, though it does not surprise me one bit. My bad trips in the past that sent me in the wrong direction, i can see now were clearly from abusing their wisdom, using them recreationally as it were. I believe Hunter S. Thompson said "You can't buy mind expansion at 5 dollars a hit." But i think it can help lead the way when done properly.

Thoughts to ponder.

Thank you for sharing this with us! Quite amusing and truthful at the same time, though I have never eaten any I can relate with releasing negativity...maybe not through a stream of piss but through other means haha!

At night when I am between consciousness and dream state I can no longer feel my limbs. It's like my arms and legs are no longer connected and all I feel is my heart beating and my soul. It was strange at first, but now it is totally relaxing and refreshing. It's as though my soul is coming out and having time outside of my body, then I pass out. It's been happening every night for about two weeks, though this is the first time I have brought it up in hopes to not be seen as "crazy."

As far as the abusing wisdom thing, it definitely makes sense. I am sober and have been for about five years now ( minus the minor slip up two years ago) as far as drugs go, but when I was into such things I too was abusing it which was in turn causing severe depression, I quit the drugs and sobered up and the depression dissipated.

This topic just makes me wonder if the energy in the natural drugs ( marijuana, and mushrooms) transfers over into your body. It would be our choice which way it went though, whether a negative high or intense. I hope at least a portion of this makes sense to someone besides myself Ha!

yo

you dont have to be completely sober all the time, you know try out some special meditative or some such times for yourself where you can interact with these beings that want to interact with us

see ive been smoking weed too much, and now weed is like a friend that is hanging out too much and sort of dominates my schedule..

of course this is not good..

but you gotta see your friends sometimes

and weed and shrooms are like dogs with unconditional love, they really only want to help and be friends

and sometimes shrooms get scary, but they dont mean it, its like a buddy who doesnt know his own strength like lenny from 'of mice and men' :-P

Taking the piss

(.. the sleepingbag was too nice and warm... so you waited ages to go for a good pee and therefor after felt litary enlightened.. ?:-P)

I enjoyed your story, the picture of the Praying Mantis is beautifull the more even with the colours in the background. His look very fierce as an old Buddhist master.

The piss made me think of the next.
Some South American indians do mushroom rituals in a special age order. First a group of young strong men take a dose and have their trip the piss of these young men will be collected during the ritual.
When the young men have finished their trip the group of old men will then drink the piss of these young men.
A lot of psychedelic mushrooms contain substances that are not too good for the liver and therefor sometimes one feels nauseous when eating them. The psychedelics are still in the pee.
So the old men 'use' the young mens fresh livers as a filter and thereby do their own old liver no harm, have no nauseous but a full on trip.

Also reindeer shepperds eat Amanitas Muscaria the so famous red with white spickled mushroom. When reindeer are lost from the herd the shepperd that ate magic mushrooms pees on a certain place in the snow and a while later comes back to this same place. Reindeer are fond of filtered psychedelics and so a lot of the time to be found taking the piss in the snow. HAHA!

(so you know what to do case of mushroom shortedge..)

wow

that is fascinating, it makes very much sense though. I recall in the Tom Robbins book "Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas" that the main character is too ill with cancer to ingest mushrooms so he goes to Timbuktu and licks toads with the Bozo tribe. This world is so full of mystery, it makes me so happy to be able to play and explore, and now reindeer are even cooler than I realized, maybe Santa ate Amanita Muscaria and that's why he thought his reindeer could fly...

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