Animals disperse the seeds of plants by eating their fruits. So who is the smartest? :wink: But our mushrooms: do they ‘want’ to be eaten? In evolutionary perspective they produce psilocybin so that the animal thinks twice the next time before eating the same mushroom. Or, he will be tripping...

Yes vitamin B12. When you don’t eat fish I would suggest a supplement of unsaturated fatty acids too (for example omega 3-6-9). These are also essential for your body. You should not ingest too much vitamins. Some vitamines are toxic when too much is taken. Especially vitamin D. Also, when you...

Are you sure you don’t confuse these with each other?

And, did you sleep well? Good that you are willing to take this step. But I doubt if you can quit these antidepressants so suddenly, you might have to do this gradually, else the effects will be too strong. Contact your therapist for this. I don't want to discourage you, but I don't think you...

No I haven't seen this website yet. Many thanks. I will have a look at it. But I found this book still available at amazon.com or the dutch site bol.com. The cover is not the same as mine, maybe a new print? Man, I wish I was studying at the university where Leary and Alpert teached. What...

You have to snap out of this state of mind dude. Just face your problems for a while, don't post-pone it. It will get better. "Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light but making the darkness conscious" --Carl Jung You can be soooo enlighted...

Psychedelics have had many names, each with their own shortcomings: Hallucinogen Psycholyticum Psychotomimeticum (even schizogen) Phantasticum Psychedelic Entheogen I would vote for psychedelic, because that explains the most. An interesting part in this paper, what is not further stressed, is...

Eros is indeed the opposite of thanatos. According to Wilber (and buddhism/hinduism etc) we are Brahman, we just don’t realize it because of Maya: illusion. We are God lost in his own creation. We are the way God is realizing Himself. As long as you are under the influence of eros, you find...

I am still thinking about it…

Here you misunderstand something. Cytochrome P450 enzymes indeed metabolize these drugs and your medicines, but the mental effects don’t come from that. LSD, psilocybin, MDMA, SSRIs are broken down by these enzymes, but they act at the serotonin receptor (directly or indirectly). So inhibiting...

I also suspected that. I thought the name was perfect! Despite al the negative associations some people make of it. You can use the name as a filter: a true psychonaut should make the right association. I am glad I unraveled the secret of GOD, isn’t that is the real job of a psychonaut...

I realized this when I wrote it down. There might be no difficulty: only because you compare the etymology of astronaut with that of psychonaut. But: metaphores can be powerful, and explain something that can't be expressed any other way, the problems arise when you take a metaphore (or symbol)...

Astronaut vs astronave... But who is then is the psychonaut and what/who is the psychonave?? :?

Makes me wonder what do we use as a ship (metaphorically)? An astronaut uses a spaceship. Does a psychonaut maybe use his soul to travel in Spirit? In alchemy there is this saying ‘Anima est ligamentum corpus et spiritus', the soul is the connection between body and spirit (it can wander in...

The way I have understood it, in a very quick summary: Dreams do indeed originate in your unconscious. You forget your dreams because they originate from a level of consciousness that is not at the ego-level (same reason why you can’t remember your earliest childhood). You can think of your...