A Redeeming Experience
This probably isn't gonna be what most folks come on here looking for, but my experience last night turned out be so different than what I was anticipating, and felt the need to document it for my own reflection later... If religion isn't your kinda thing, I'm sorry.
I'm in my mid 30's, a father with kids. My daughter, a young teen, plays travel softball and I've became friends with the father of one of her teammates. We're both interested and partake in psychedelics, and he's became rather close... Someone I confide in daily. He is very experienced with psilocybin, whereas most of my psychadelic experience has been with LSD and DMT. I had taken mushrooms before, but for whatever reason I had always had a negative experience, something always happened and though it was never a complete disaster, it left a negative thought it my head so I had left them alone as of late.
He asked me earlier this week if I'd be interested in coming over and trying some with him around a fire, and I said yeah but I was nervous about it. He talks about orange juicing 10g drinks the way I take 5 tab trips and idk... Just got me anxious. But the day came yesterday and I said screw it and headed over.
We decided splitting a 10g blend so we both had a 5g shake, and headed out to the fire to relax and listen to good tunes. Around the time we both acknowledged we could feel them turning on, he confided in me that he sets his intentions to grounding himself with the earth in a way to feel a one on one connection with God. Now, I'm a believer in God, and I suppose you could say I believe in the Christian faith, though I've had doubts over the years, but I just acknowledged him and looked at the stars while they began to do their thing.
As time when on and the experience got stronger, he kept talking and making a lot of sense. This is a man of faith, with strong conviction! I'm sitting there listening to him and I'm feeling the fake reality society builds around us stripping away... I felt like I had been brought back to the basics, the way we were meant to be... With the Earth.
There was one point where we were talking about our girls, how were trying to guide and lead them the right way, my friend had done had tears in his eyes by this point. He got on a roll, and he said something I'll never forget. He stood up and said "When I do what we're doing right here, right now, I feel the closeness of my relationship with God more than I ever had walking in the church doors. It's like a lightning rod from this ground all the way up there to Him, a direct connection! I would LOVE for her to feel what I'm feeling right now!"
And I knew exactly what he meant right then, because for the first time in my life, I felt the very thing that I had heard all these other people talk about through my life, these strong people of faith... I felt a honest, genuine connection with God. I had said it before at times in my life, and would feel guilty later on because the words were empty; I was just going along with the crowd.
So yeah, my "trip" wasn't earth shattering, some ultra sharp patterns of brilliant colors in the visions, the trees were breathing and waving at us, nothing crazy... But I came out of the experience feeling like my life had changed.
This probably isn't gonna be what most folks come on here looking for, but my experience last night turned out be so different than what I was anticipating, and felt the need to document it for my own reflection later... If religion isn't your kinda thing, I'm sorry.
I'm in my mid 30's, a father with kids. My daughter, a young teen, plays travel softball and I've became friends with the father of one of her teammates. We're both interested and partake in psychedelics, and he's became rather close... Someone I confide in daily. He is very experienced with psilocybin, whereas most of my psychadelic experience has been with LSD and DMT. I had taken mushrooms before, but for whatever reason I had always had a negative experience, something always happened and though it was never a complete disaster, it left a negative thought it my head so I had left them alone as of late.
He asked me earlier this week if I'd be interested in coming over and trying some with him around a fire, and I said yeah but I was nervous about it. He talks about orange juicing 10g drinks the way I take 5 tab trips and idk... Just got me anxious. But the day came yesterday and I said screw it and headed over.
We decided splitting a 10g blend so we both had a 5g shake, and headed out to the fire to relax and listen to good tunes. Around the time we both acknowledged we could feel them turning on, he confided in me that he sets his intentions to grounding himself with the earth in a way to feel a one on one connection with God. Now, I'm a believer in God, and I suppose you could say I believe in the Christian faith, though I've had doubts over the years, but I just acknowledged him and looked at the stars while they began to do their thing.
As time when on and the experience got stronger, he kept talking and making a lot of sense. This is a man of faith, with strong conviction! I'm sitting there listening to him and I'm feeling the fake reality society builds around us stripping away... I felt like I had been brought back to the basics, the way we were meant to be... With the Earth.
There was one point where we were talking about our girls, how were trying to guide and lead them the right way, my friend had done had tears in his eyes by this point. He got on a roll, and he said something I'll never forget. He stood up and said "When I do what we're doing right here, right now, I feel the closeness of my relationship with God more than I ever had walking in the church doors. It's like a lightning rod from this ground all the way up there to Him, a direct connection! I would LOVE for her to feel what I'm feeling right now!"
And I knew exactly what he meant right then, because for the first time in my life, I felt the very thing that I had heard all these other people talk about through my life, these strong people of faith... I felt a honest, genuine connection with God. I had said it before at times in my life, and would feel guilty later on because the words were empty; I was just going along with the crowd.
So yeah, my "trip" wasn't earth shattering, some ultra sharp patterns of brilliant colors in the visions, the trees were breathing and waving at us, nothing crazy... But I came out of the experience feeling like my life had changed.
