mutant a dit:
LOL, so tell us how was your experience. How long did it last? You had a full-on experience, and if yes, what was the 3rd phase? Where were the amanita caps you bought supposed to be from?
Ok, since my amanita experience a few weeks ago, I wrote a trip report, and I also purchased some more.
It's nice to hear people talk about amanita. It's funny to read people who know all about them, but have never tried them for themselves.
tryptonaut a dit:
not a classic psychedelic, not at all like psilocybe. Very different, more like hashish or alcohol.
That is a very vague definition - well, it's not a definition at all, because alcohold and hashish are way different from each other.
I'm talking about the feeling, like you're at the bottom of a deep swimming pool. You know how psilocybe and acid and mescaline really wake you up, but amanita made me feel whooshy or woozy, like that "distant" perception when you're stoned. Kind of like when I used to eat hash, it was like being a deep sea diver. Or, like when you're drunk, and you turn your head real fast, but the world doesn't turn at the same speed.
Here is my experience:
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Weekend with Washington State Amanita
February 23, 2008
After years and years of seeking the truth about amanita psychoactivity, I can now report in no bullshit terms its reality. The first time I ate an amanita muscaria was in 1997. But this weekend, I actually gained a real understanding of its psychoactive effect.
I should point out that I deliberately chose the amounts to eat, and the methods of ingestion, loosely based on the Donald E. Teeter paper, "Amanita Muscaria: Herb of Immortality".
I should point out one more thing, and that is I'm not prone to placebo or imaginary highs. My trip reports tend toward a very conservative self-assay, as can be attested by my report of a legal herbal smoke, found elsewhere on this forum.
On Saturday I made a pot of amanita muscaria tea, using a single cap and some small sections. Total weight of completely dry material: 4 grams. I drank it all that night, but felt no effect. It tasted good though, as culinary mushrooms do.
On Sunday, I woke up feeling good. At about 11:00 AM on Sunday, I pulverizd two caps (one orange, one bright red, both the size of half a ping pong ball, and dome shaped-perfectly formed specimens. Total weight: about 6 grams) using a coffee grinder. I poured the powder into a small Chinese teacup. I filled the teacup with cold drinking water. Throughout the day I stirred the mush.
At about 6:00PM, I began drinking the mixture. It tasted good, in the culinary sense. By about 6:30PM I had finished drinking it. At about 7:00PM, Thistle and Shamrock came on the radio. I noticed I wasn't feeling anything from the "ambrosia". I had one cap left, another perfectly formed, dark red Washington cap, weighing about 3 grams. I began to nibble on it. By about 7:30, I had completely consumed the third cap, and I had about 9 grams of high quality amanita muscaria caps in my belly.
Shortly after eating the third cap, there was a bitter taste underneath the usual mushroomy flavor. By about quarter of eight, I started to feel slightly queasy. I was reading Mircea Eliade's "Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy", page 400:
[quote:1qvz663d]“In a number of Ugrian languages the Iranian word for hemp, bhangha, has come to designate both the pre-eminently shamanic mushroom, Agaricus muscarius, (which is used as a means of intoxication before or during the séance) and intoxication; compare for example, the Vogul pânkh, “mushroom
) and then ingest them.
