Any advice on getting decent info for someone considering beginning that particular journey?
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shneancy@lemmy.world 3 weeks agojust eat some psychedelics like a normal person the worst those can do is shatter your image of self and then rebuild it, oh and sometimes your muscles can ache a little afterwards because flexing them felt amazing
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
amw3i7dwgoblinlabs@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Thank you!
RinseDrizzle@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Erowid is one of those “old Internet” relics that I’m grateful we still have. Now I need to sit and ponder my nostalgia for no less than 30 minutes.
Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
As an alternative to psychedelics, you can reach the same states through meditation. With modern techniques you won’t even need to sit under a tree for 49 days.
shneancy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
technically you can but that’s going to take you roughly 100 times longer and might not work at all
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Look, I did not plant this bodhi tree for the fun of it, I’ll take my 45 days!
But also any links to meditation advice is appreciated
Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
My personal advice is: Making meditation a habit is the main hurdle. Set the bar of success so low you can trip over it, such as “I will meditate at least 3 minutes a day”.
And for more what you seem to be after, you can’t go wrong with the Gateway tapes. They’re some guided meditations, but that’s putting it lightly. This is a good place to start: r/gatewaytapes/wiki/start but I wouldn’t recommend browsing the subreddit unless you want your experience to be influenced by the sub’s communal lore.
(the link in the faq is to a store to buy the tapes, but the discord server on step 6 doesn’t have a link to the store iykwim)
Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
oberstoffensichtlich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
tripsafe.org
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Also seratonin sickness and personally acid gives me a crazy fever
DogWater@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah I looked into mushrooms until I realized that people on SSRI meds won’t get anything from it and also seraronin sickness is lethal in some cases.
meowMix2525@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
The only time I’ve heard of serotonin syndrome being a real risk is with MAOIs and alcohol.
Shrooms/SSRIs causing it is not something I’ve ever been able to find information about. Every time I try to dig something up, because I am pretty careful about mixing drugs, the vague consensus (that is, in sources that aren’t making blanket statements about mind-altering drugs in general being bad because drugs are bad) is it’s probably fine, maybe it lessens the trip altogether, maybe it lessens the negative side effects, we just need to look into it more. Serotonin syndrome is a conspicuous thing to not mention if that’s a risk with any significant merit to it.
It’s certainly an emerging field due to psilocybin’s place on the drug schedule preventing any very extensive research, but it seems to me like that claim is based mostly on conjecture just because they both can increase presence of serotonin. The exact mechanisms of which not even being fully understood by science and so aren’t very good bases to draw sweeping conclusions from without research.
I’m both an SNRI user (strattera) and occasional psychonaut (not more than once a month, if I had to give an average for the year). I’ve never had anything but positive experiences with mushrooms and haven’t noticed any difference on vs off my SNRI.
Had a bad trip on acid once but that was more down to hubris than anything else. I wasn’t even on the SNRI back then.
This is of course anecdotal so absolutely take in all the information and make your own decisions for your body. Just thought I’d share what I know.
DogWater@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Thank you for this post with information.
Yeah, the info I was speaking from was mostly from a concern not from hard evidence because like you said, it’s an emerging area of study.
I did just see a study a few days ago, coincidentally, where the abstract said they found a 3 to 6 months period of time from last dose of an SSRI before it stopped interfering with shrooms trips.
Found it again: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37291890/
Interested in your thoughts.
I haven’t delved too deep into this topic because everything I have read ranges from you won’t get anything from it to its actual dangerous for you.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think it should be pointed out that some traditional psychoactive drugs (such as datura) work the same was (they’re potent anticholinergics) and you’d have to be nuts to use them.
amw3i7dwgoblinlabs@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Scopolamime is a deleiriant not a hallucinogen, it is not fun or recreational at all, don’t do it kids
sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Not a psychedelic*. It very much is a hallucinogen.