“I could not have gone the place I supposed to go, however I believe I’ve ended up the place I wanted to be.” — Douglas Adams
Your analysis is completed, your therapist feels you’re an acceptable match for psychedelics, you could have good well being with no contraindications equivalent to bipolar dysfunction or different thought issues, and you’re able to expertise the advantages of psychedelics. After you have been screened by an skilled information who might be out there in your first psychedelic expertise and given the inexperienced mild to start out your psychedelic journey by a practitioner who’s authorised to prescribe psychedelics, prepare for an unimaginable journey.
Yipee!! Buckle up and strap in. In psychonaut phrases, you are ready to obtain your flight directions.
In an effort to assist information you thru the expertise, I am sharing a fast Psilocybin Q&A to ease you into the expertise and emotionally put together you in your journey.
A information to therapeutic Psilocybin and what to anticipate
Query: What’s going to it really feel wish to take Psilocybin mushrooms?
Background: Psilocybin, generally known as magic mushrooms, will alter your notion and sensory expertise. The extent of those altered perceptions is determined by the particular person, the dosage, and the setting the place you’re ingesting the plant drugs.
Sensations you could possibly expertise:
Enhanced colours, patterns, or cascading geometric kinds
Alteration of felt time: enlargement or contraction of clock time ( psychedelics explorer’s information, James Fadiman)
Visible or auditory hallucinations: You might even see fantastical scenes or beings, hear sounds, and have a heightened sensitivity to music.
Emotional depth: Mushrooms can intensify feelings, so really feel excessive euphoria, introspection, introspection, or nervousness and worry. Feelings may be deeply profound.
Cross-sensory experiences: Synesthesia is the expertise of crossed senses, equivalent to listening to colours or seeing sounds.
Ego-dissolution: Lack of a way of self, feeling interconnected with the universe, and unity with all issues.
The feeling of changing into a plant, animal, or microorganism.
Mystical expertise: connecting to God, the universe, or different energy past ourselves.
Query: How lengthy does it take after I ingest the psychedelic?
It varies relying on how the mushrooms are ready, whether or not you eat them or have them in a tea or different substance, like chocolate. You’ll be able to anticipate to really feel one thing wherever from 20 minutes to an hour.
Sensations you could possibly expertise:
Your first sensation could also be a tingling or attention-grabbing/odd sensation in your physique. Relying on whether or not your abdomen was empty otherwise you had eaten a meal earlier than ingesting the mushrooms, When you’ve got skilled nothing after an hour, a booster may be given.
Query: What are the unintended effects I could expertise?
Psilocybin may cause nausea in some people, with preparation and meals consumption taking part in a task within the diploma of nausea in shoppers. In the event you are likely to have a delicate abdomen, it’s best to not eat meals the day you ingest mushrooms or restrict meals to recent fruit or plain toast.
4. What if I’ve a “dangerous journey”?
It’s possible you’ll expertise difficult emotions, recollections, or visions. There may be an innate therapeutic intelligence that comes from plant drugs and psychedelics. Psilocybin can convey up repressed or unhealed components of ourselves that we could expertise as difficult or horrifying.
Nonetheless, it’s worthwhile to reframe thise expectation. What one could name a “dangerous journey” is when the psychedelic expertise registers within the physique as a trauma or damage to the nervous system — however by releasing and transferring in direction of difficult experiences with a educated information, we will heal components of ourselves that we now have not checked out in our psyche in addition to our bodies.
Plant drugs heals the a part of ourselves that should heal so we will grow to be entire and transfer in direction of a extra built-in sense of self. Transferring in direction of these experiences with a curious thoughts and seeing what therapeutic or insights we will glean from them can lead to deep therapeutic.
5. What’s the distinction between a microdose and a macrodose?
Microdose:
A microdose sometimes includes taking a really small quantity of psilocybin, typically sub-perceptual, which implies the consequences usually are not robust sufficient to induce a full-blown psychedelic expertise. The dosage is between 0.1 and 0.3 grams of dried mushrooms, or decrease, depending on particular person tolerance and sensitivity.
A microdose is meant to supply delicate, typically sub-perceptual advantages equivalent to improved temper, creativity, focus, and total well-being, whereas a macrodose is taken to expertise the total vary of psychedelic results, which might embrace altered notion, visible hallucinations, introspection, and a deep, mystical expertise.
Macrodose:
A macrodose includes consuming a considerable amount of psilocybin that’s ample to induce a big psychedelic expertise. This sometimes ranges from 2 to five grams of dried mushrooms or extra, relying on the person’s expertise stage and desired depth.
Now you realize what to anticipate so you’ll be able to handle your journey and select an acceptable dosage alongside along with your certified practitioner.
The advantages of psilocybin can vary from reduction from despair and nervousness, trauma and PTSD, an elevated sense of well-being that may final for months, mystical experiences, and inventive options to issues.
“The mushroom mentioned to me as soon as: Nature loves braveness. Nature loves braveness, and I mentioned – what’s the payoff on that? It mentioned: It exhibits you that it loves braveness as a result of it should take away obstacles. You make the dedication and nature will reply to that dedication by eradicating inconceivable obstacles.” — Terence McKenna
Editor’s observe: It must be famous that on the time of publishing, psilocybin is a Schedule I substance underneath the Managed Substances Act, Title 21 of the USC. Some states, equivalent to Oregon and Colorado, have handed legal guidelines to decriminalize psilocybin.
Monica Ramunda is a seasoned tour information with a wealthy background in witnessing indigenous ceremonies and in depth expertise main excursions in South America, together with sacred websites just like the Inca Path and Machu Picchu, now channels her deep appreciation for native traditions and cultures into her firm, Wellness and Knowledge Journeys.
