So I guess I’ll introduce myself and let y’all know a bit about myself. Frankly I’m a mushroom guy through and through, worked in some commercial gourmet and medicinal farms through out the years and spend most of my time cultivating and just being with fungi in general. I have an expressed interest in exotic psilocybin mushrooms. Anything outside of cubensis is fair game for me, currently working on some papuana and caerulescens. But enough about mushrooms as that’s not why I’m here so to speak. Of course the nexus has an affinity for dmt and some more chemistry type involvement. Honestly I think dmt and mushrooms are very similar in many respects and the experience of deep mushroom experiences mirrors many of my dmt experiences so the correlation is there to be explored.
Though I have to say I haven’t had dmt in many many years. Though for good reason. See in my younger days I was more frivolous and experimental, and honestly too keen on being high on anything I could get, though psychedelics were the choice most of the time. But eventually things fell aside and life caught up to me. So I made a vow to myself. I would only partake in substances I had a personal hand in either cultivating or making in some way. And so I started growing mushrooms, that was eight years ago. Since then I’ve mainly stuck to mushrooms getting completely enveloped in their being and frankly the exploration of every different species is like trying a whole new substance in itself so variety was never at a loss. Though I’ve found myself wanting to branch out and learn some new skills during the interim of some of my more long term fungal endevours. As such I’ve been working with harmala extractions from rue and caapi, as well as embarking on some mhrb, gifted by a friend, extractions for the first time. Hoping to renew that spark of wonder and relationship with these plants. Slowly collecting various plants to fill my home with. And so that’s what brings me here, trying to engage with a parallel community of enthusiasts, learning about some new plants and developing the relationships with them I should have done all those years ago. Though be aware my language is centered in fungi, as such most of my speech is based in those relationships, though there is always room for more friends.
I’ll leave you with this. There is an interesting unity between mushrooms and dmt. In some ways two dialects to a similar language. I have a tradition, looking to mushrooms as generalized translators of experience into language familiar to my experience, I utilize them to integrate and decompress ayahuasca experiences. Utilizing the remains of brews past steeped we can grow those fungi to absorb that experience and decompose that information, they are observant beings after all. Working with those mushrooms changes them and ushers in that spirit of ayahuasca, for me it contextualizes and clarifies the experience with her into a familiar tone. I’m not claiming anything concrete, rather consider that intention of those rituals. Perhaps there are many more ways to integrate the vast relationships we hold with these plants and fungi. After all many of them already live together out there in the wild.
Though I have to say I haven’t had dmt in many many years. Though for good reason. See in my younger days I was more frivolous and experimental, and honestly too keen on being high on anything I could get, though psychedelics were the choice most of the time. But eventually things fell aside and life caught up to me. So I made a vow to myself. I would only partake in substances I had a personal hand in either cultivating or making in some way. And so I started growing mushrooms, that was eight years ago. Since then I’ve mainly stuck to mushrooms getting completely enveloped in their being and frankly the exploration of every different species is like trying a whole new substance in itself so variety was never at a loss. Though I’ve found myself wanting to branch out and learn some new skills during the interim of some of my more long term fungal endevours. As such I’ve been working with harmala extractions from rue and caapi, as well as embarking on some mhrb, gifted by a friend, extractions for the first time. Hoping to renew that spark of wonder and relationship with these plants. Slowly collecting various plants to fill my home with. And so that’s what brings me here, trying to engage with a parallel community of enthusiasts, learning about some new plants and developing the relationships with them I should have done all those years ago. Though be aware my language is centered in fungi, as such most of my speech is based in those relationships, though there is always room for more friends.
I’ll leave you with this. There is an interesting unity between mushrooms and dmt. In some ways two dialects to a similar language. I have a tradition, looking to mushrooms as generalized translators of experience into language familiar to my experience, I utilize them to integrate and decompress ayahuasca experiences. Utilizing the remains of brews past steeped we can grow those fungi to absorb that experience and decompose that information, they are observant beings after all. Working with those mushrooms changes them and ushers in that spirit of ayahuasca, for me it contextualizes and clarifies the experience with her into a familiar tone. I’m not claiming anything concrete, rather consider that intention of those rituals. Perhaps there are many more ways to integrate the vast relationships we hold with these plants and fungi. After all many of them already live together out there in the wild.
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