Psilocybin
Magic mushrooms, or shrooms, are one of the most popular substances to microdose. They’re safe, all-natural, and tend to produce pleasant as well as productive effects.
Psilocybin, the active ingredient in shrooms, works by activating the brain’s 5-HT2A serotonin receptors. These receptors are located throughout the brain, and are especially dense in the cerebral cortex, mainly the prefrontal, parietal, and somatosensory lobes. The molecules of psilocybin and other tryptamine psychedelics are similar in shape to serotonin. This similarity allows them to bind directly with serotonin receptors (unlike SSRIs and amphetamines, which work to make serotonin itself more plentiful in the brain). Shrooms also contain psilocin and baeocystin, secondary tryptamines which produce similar effects to psilocybin.
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Activation of the 5-HT2A causes a cascade of effects in the brain. For one, it seems to cause the brain’s cells to produce more brain-derived neurotrophic factor, or BDNF, which causes brain cells to grow and make connections more easily. It also causes the brain to release more glutamate, which in turn causes many downstream effects. One of these is to release dopamine into the prefrontal cortex, which can help with focus.
Overall, psilocybin causes the brain to become more awake. Under an fMRI, the cortex lights up like a lightbulb, and there seems to be more global activity happening over its surface. At the same time, the normal activity of the brain is disrupted, with the Default Mode Network—the part of the brain more active during normal waking life—less active than usual. Parts of the brain that usually never communicate “talk” to each other, showing that the brain is stretching and experimenting beyond its normal habits.
With microdosing, these effects are tempered, but still very much present.
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So what is my interest in psilocybin and what has it got to do with TRUTH.
If you have read all the pages in this online book you will see that my ultimate conclusion regarding who or what we are is that there is only infinite awareness masquerading itself in self imposed separateness and everything else is just content for the enrichment of that game. The human body is an incredible tool for this expression but I feel that, for whatever reason, it has become a restricted and contracted lens making it a greatly reduced experiencing tool than it was intended to be or capable of being. My only interest in psychedelics is to free some of those restrictions that were caused by life trauma due to fear created and inherited from other toxic, narcissistic relationships from day one, i.e; A Human Condition, repeating itself over and over again generation after generation, that is widespread across the globe.
The hard drive of my experiential life had become riddled with psychological viruses that became conspicuous by their gradual absence, causing a manifestation of an intense desire to rid myself of them all and live a life in a natural state. Truth to me is not found but discovered after the clearing of all causes of the main pathogen in our system which creates fear in some form and therefore a restriction. That pathogen is the misrepresentation of our true nature and therefore the misguided belief in an fear ridden alternative. Psychological damage in human beings however it came about, and in whatever form, can cause one of two things.
1. To create in the so called human individual an incapacity to see its true nature.
2. The long term pain caused by the above sparks a process of awakening to the necessity for removal of this veil.
I have been fortunate due to heavily traumatic experiences in my life to have most of these viruses removed. Most of my purposeful actions to remove the veil, had no effect. As Jed McKenna said; A bomb exploded in his life and turned everything into fine ash.
Maybe I am just thick and dumb but that is what was needed in my life and that's what happened.
Now that the bulk of the invasion has gone I can still see a few splinters that are left and I intend to use every single tool I can get my hands on to clear them. I can see that I am completely clear but my body/mind isn't. The body seems to hang on to trauma energy even though the cause of it has gone. 'The fan keeps spinning even though the power has been cut.'
My body feels better than it has ever done in my entire life in terms of equanimity and because of this I can see the few pieces that are left causing minor problems. Unfortunately they seem to be very deep and embedded, so my intention is to try microdosing to root these out. I have experienced short term microdosing in the past with excellent results which is the reason I have decided to return.
Taking enthoegens isn't going to wake anybody up but they will help to clear the broken glass on the path so one can at least walk.
'A human being who is dying of starvation or has his belly completely full isn't going to search for truth.' Colin Francis
The greatest awareness of my psychological trauma peaked at about the age of fifty although my whole life has been one of trying to overcome an underlying problem that I was suspicious of and gradually grew in intensity. The stress from this growing awareness was slowly built up and felt as a perturbation in the gut area, but because it was a gradual growth the anxiety behind it was perceived as normal modern and stressful life. The stress that I was increasingly aware of, which was born out of misidentification of my true nature, infiltrated all areas of my unnatural life and became an additive effect of fear, guilt and wrongful actions gradually destroying itself which in the end was a needed and hugely beneficial process. While I was trying to walk the so called path to illumination, a crack in the walls of the internal dam started to appear with the inevitable collapse through pressure. That time bomb with its leaks and cracks would eventually explode and destroy everything that held it back.
Microdosing and the use of Entheogens in general is becoming a revolution across the world and seems to be a great gift in our probable last hour regarding the epidemic of mental disorders and subsequent physical disease spreading rapidly across the human species.
Our health systems based on allopathic medicine has completely failed in the hundred years it has been used and has no idea how, or intention to, alleviate the physical, mental and spiritual condition of the human race, which can only get worse.
Fortunately some alternatives seem to be sprouting and Entheogens seem to be the prominent aid in removing the great cloud that is necessary before human awakening can even start. It is either that or an internal atom bomb, which is not pleasant at the very least, and which one might not physically survive at all.
In my opinion, the whole human race is at the cliff edge but unfortunately the awakening can only happen on an individual basis.
My advice, make awakening the number one priority above everything else and use any means to make the jump.
And! this is only the first step.
But! you have to do it on your own. Once done, gravity takes over.
Spiritual practices including all man made religions are a belief trap and can serve no purpose in this endeavour. Meditation is a very valuable aid before and after awakening but is too slow in relation to our short lifespan. Meditation can also reduce the pain for the need to escape our condition which makes us feel comfortable and the belief we are free, but we are not. Unfortunately it is a painful process because it is destroying the thing we love the most, our sense of self which is false. The pain we feel, if we lose our fear of it, can burn a hole in the veil that is causing our blindness but it has to be pointed in the direction of the veil and not outside for it to have any effect. In the end the pain is our greatest friend and aid even though it is 'painful.' This may sound masochistic but the pain is a signal that something is 'wrong' but then must be used 'right'. When pain comes we generally try to cover it up with some form of psychological pill instead of realising that it is speaking to us in a very direct manner. If we learn to listen, the pain will gradually remove the problem that created it and reveal our true nature. Real meditation is the intense listening to the voice of pain and fear in order to see that it is just a bad dream. When you know you are dreaming you immediately become lucid and awake. It is that simple!
Metamorphosis is a painful process but absolutely necessary in order to blossom into a natural state.
Somehow consciousness descended into duality with amnesia. We need to wake up and discover that there is no We. Then maybe we can act together as one without duality.