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The Zen Art of Journaling
How do you like the vocal sound in this one? (when episode begins around 1 minute) Trying something new. Let me know via in the comments or via instagram DM @psilocybinstories. Thanks!
Learn how journaling can be used for therapeutic purposes as well as for making sense of your psilocybin experiences!
(P.S. here is THE PSYCHEDELIC TRIP JOURNAL)
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Zen & Psilocybin
How can Zen improve your psilocybin experience? Including Zen stories & how you can begin practicing Zen.
Connect with psychedelic scholars on instagram @psilocybinstories
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Ego & Soul + Meditation
What is Ego? What is Soul?
Plus learn a Soul Meditation practice to get in touch with your Soul.
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Who is Psil Silva?
See into Psil Silva’s upbringing & influences leading to his first life-transforming psilocybin experience.
My first psychedelic experience induced in me epiphanies so profound that I wondered if it was possible to obtain them in my everyday life. This is where my integration process first began — a seed of thought that would later blossom into the physical world.
Einstein explains this scientific phenomenon:
“Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.”
Months later going into my second psychedelic experience I was prepared to take notes to try and capture the essence of this ineffable dimension (This inspired The Psychedelic Trip Journal).
Check out the rest of the post on Mindleap Health, originally published here.
Psilocybin, a natural psychedelic element found in hundreds of fungi, has been used for thousands of years in medicinal and ceremonial settings. The current popularization of psilocybin (magic mushrooms) brings with it ancient wisdom containing practical life lessons if we’re willing to listen. Here are eleven.
1. How to Change Our Mind
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein
Michael Pollan could not have chosen a better title for his book How to Change Your Mind: “What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence.”
Pollan’s book title gives insight into the extraordinary potential of psilocybin and other psychedelics which can help us:
- Change our minds.
- To think more critically.
- To alleviate mental illness.
- To raise self-awareness.
- To take the sting of death away.
- To increase compassion and much more.
Read the rest of this post on Mindleap’s site, originally published here.
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Psilocybin Highway Poem
Psilocybin Highway,
Yea this path is my way.
Might be yours too,
So I’ll meet you in the driveway.
You get there shocked and you say,
“That a spaceship or a hyundai?”
We have a good laugh,
Hop in headed to the flyway,
Ayyy.
…
Now we cosmic exploratin’
Can’t see them down below they hatin’
But our minds are on they own,
Focused,
Learnin’ Life,
Creatin’
And we’re part of this creation,
Playin’ roles of God & Satan.
Might seem a fucked but perfect process,
Toward our final destination…
…Transformation…
…Life is change…
…We are all connected with everything…
…We can’t see it like we can’t see the wind…
…But we can feel it & see its impact…
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Psilocybin SMOKED Smoking
So I finally stopped smoking. October 2nd was a full moon I ingested 30mg of pure psilocybin extract and went for a walk with a good buddy.
I had set my intentions for a good solid week before. Once we arrived at the water fall we ingested another 6 grams and continued our walk.
As we lay in the wood I closed my eyes to kaleidoscope scenes and with the aid of the mushrooms my higher self spoke. This is what it said!
“Next time you have a desire to smoke ask yourself this question! Is that desire stronger than your desire for all of your passions in life”
Obviously my answer will always be no and I haven’t had a smoke since.
—Jesse Van Dok
@the.nomadic.phoenix
2 years after my first psychedelic experience, in 2012, I traveled to Venezuela on a mission trip. Up to that point I had only taken magic mushrooms 3 or 4 times.
I’ve never craved psychedelics. I’ve always appreciated them with a deep reverence after my first experience.
Anyway, looking through photo memories, I can see my charisma and trusting presence. I wonder if psilocybin makes us more of who we are? But do believe that it can awaken the Soul.
As I’ve gotten older, some of my trusting presence has faded or hidden. I think it’s still within me. Many people have mistaken my carefree presence as naive and weak, but now that it’s not as strong within me, I realize this was a strength.
I didn’t need or use any drugs during this trip. I really was high on life, and have been high on life much of my life. I had little to no anxiety, no worries, just carrying a deep trust I had for life, God, the Universe, which my psychedelic experiences made complete. I understood that everything in life was unfolding perfectly, trusting it without a doubt, which I believe is what allowed me to live so completely in the present moment, overflowing with life.
I was in a state of trust, and would like to practice trusting life again. I think as we age and experience inevitable moments of suffering, we trust less, we’re in our heads more, we miss out on joys otherwise to be had today – holding onto pains of our past or worries of our future. It’s not easy.
My once in a blue moon psychedelic experiences often return me to that state of trusting presence. My hope is that it can do the same for others, and that we can carry some of that trust into our daily lives.
I know several factors impact the experience – that the psychedelic experience is unique to the individual. Maybe the experience brings out more of who we already are, but maybe it can do more than that with the addition of a spiritual practice, or other practices. The presence of genuinely supportive people makes a difference.
I see this in reflection as I’m currently not in the all-around great shape I had been in most of my life, and not just physical shape but mental, emotional, spiritual, social, and financial — I’m still paying student loans but at the time it felt like free money. Haha.
Life is constantly changing. I’m not in the ideal shape I used to be in, but I’m happy with who I am and where I’m currently at. I accept myself, (I try to!), as I simultaneously (try to) take actions toward a more ideal future. Imperfect progress is a way toward progress, and I do imagine a better future, although 2020 hasn’t made it easy.
I hope you and yours are well.
I know that psilocybin alone isn’t the answer, though it is nice hearing about its decriminalizations and medicinal legalizations. I think it will help many people in the long run.
Cheers to your beautiful cosmic self,
Psil Silva
