You are far too young and you were just plain lucky, because you did plenty of things here wrong. It is recommended, when you try an unknown substance for the first time to have a sitter around, someone experienced, who can guide you in case of a crisis. Going to public places while under...

The reintegration into the every day life after the trip is a very important part too.

Gnosis means knowledge. The origin is Greece, where they had those ancient, "psychedelic" places like Delphi or Eleusis. It was a knowledge of the initiates position within in the world, within nature and the cosmos, which was gained in a mystery play at Eleusis, while Delphi was a place of...

Consciousness: Conscious (Oxford Dictionary): 1 awake and responsive 2 aware 3 intentional Mind: 1 the faculty of consciousness and thought 2 a person's intellect or memory 3 a person's attention or will Mindful: conscious and aware of something As we see in the above...

Working with "energies" (in a non-physical sense, not connected to physics). Those "energies" are strong bursts of concentrated emotions bound to equally concentrated thoughts focused on certain symbols and combined with a set of gestures. The goal is to work onself "up" or "down" into certain...

I was a freemason once, they have quite powerful rituals. There was one, in which I had an intense encounter with death. A vision during the ritual, which included a near-death-experience and seeing something, I would describe as the 100.000 faces of death. I will never forget it for the rest of...

We will also have to look into alternative methods for reaching mystical expieriences (hypnosis, autohypnosis, meditation, ritual, rythmic dancing etc.). The mushrooms grow worldwide, I got some out of the bavarian forest in Germany, I purchased them from an old farmer here in Nepal, you get...

It took 40 years for a druid to become fully initiated! Eleusis: not below 25!

I think, if I would have taken stuff so early in my life, I might have gone nuts. My youth was a time of intense inner and outer conflicts (though nobody in my family had a history of mental illness). Still, it might be enough to fuel the basic adolescent psychological setup with stuff to crack...

My Space is full now with random prophets, all kinds of doom ahead (2012 a date ouf the mayan calendar). Well, when the time comes (or not), we will take our magic carpet (i.e. our sared mushroom) and levitate into the new aeon. If they do not want US, whom else would they call ???

I found researchpapers with proof, that scopolamin given together with mindaltering substances (I hate the word "drug") reduced the effects of braindamage. Since this time I am taking mushrooms always together with scopolamin (Buscopan, Hyoscine - Tradenames). Very useful anyhow against nausea...

Just wanted to remark, that with high dosages (5 g and above) I have ex- pierienced "heaven and hell". "Heaven" a state of nothingness and emptiness WITH loss of ego "Hell" a state of nothingness and emptiness WithOUT egoloss High doses 2 times a year for the real thing Low doses...

I placed them in natriumbicarbonat, completly covered. That dries them and protects against oxygen.