People ask how to prepare for a psychedelic experience. Eat clean. Sleep well. Hydrate. Set intentions. But the real preparation? Be willing to find out you were wrong about everything.

Every psychedelic horror story starts the same way: wrong dose, wrong place, wrong people, no preparation. Every psychedelic success story starts the same way: right dose, right place, right people, full preparation. It's not the drug. It was never the drug.

Freeze dried mushroom (left) compared to a standard dry mushroom (right). Freeze-drying preserves both visual appearance and active compounds more effectively.

Carl Jung never took psychedelics because he thought the unconscious was too powerful on its own. He has a point. Psychedelics unleash the Pandora box of the mind, and not everyone is ready for what emerges.

When you go deep on natural psychedelics, it's more than just bright colors & weird visuals. A secret reveals itself: Nature is alive and trying to communicate with us.

Language is a prison and the easiest way to escape it is eating a mushroom. We live in a fairy tale.

going into an acid trip: coming out of an acid trip:

do you feel the tension in the air or is this how the air has always been

Bro these shrooms are really going to open your heart chakra they're called "penis envy"

Don't talk to an AI Tripsitter Talk to the moon, talk to the river, talk to the wildflowers. Talk to the things that are truly *alive*, not the language model pretending to be

What have psychedelics taught you that you're afraid to mention to friends?

In 1951 a Swiss doctor & painter researched psychedelic effects by dosing himself with 100μg LSD then drawing his supervisor each hour. Here's what Lászlo Mátéfi drew:

A good trip is preparing what you can and letting go of the things you can't

Words are really all we have. We don't think about the limitations of language, but take a couple tabs of acid, a few shrooms, and it becomes clear. We don't know who the fuck we are, we don't know what this means, we don't know why — and we can barely describe it to eachother.

Guy who's only taken shrooms: *Man shrooms are the best psychedelic"

Psychedelic revelations are weird because they end up somewhere between "I am God" and "I should call my mom"

10-20ug LSD + 150mg caffeine + 200mg L-Theanine = the psychedelic equivalent to Adderall

You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness. -Terence McKenna

Why are DMT crystals so beautiful?

We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together. -Terence McKenna

Every single person who does this is seeing things no human eye has ever fallen upon. It is a realm of ideas & we each bring back different souvenirs. We are all equally qualified. We don't know who will spot the whale, but everyone should have their eye peeled. -T. McKenna

Aldous Huxley had about 10 psychedelic experiences over his lifetime - two with mescaline & the rest with LSD. The video below is an audio recording from a 100ug LSD experience on December 23, 1962. His wife Laura was acting as his tripsitter.

What if when we die, we wake up in another world surrounded by friends asking "how was it?"

For anyone that's wondering what it looks like when you trip on acid:

If you think that science can explain all of reality, I implore you to put 40mg of DMT in a glass pipe and smoke it

"There is a world beyond ours, a world that is far away, nearby & invisible. And there is where God lives, where the dead live, the spirits & the saints, a world where everything has already happened & everything is known. That world talks. I report what it says." -Maria Sabina

"People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason the world is in chaos is because things are being loved and people are being used." -Terence McKenna

Terence McKenna explains the argument that magic mushrooms might be an engineered alien artifact. (1/3) [Esalen Institute, June 1989]

Banning psychedelics isn't a war on drugs, it's a war on consciousness

Enigma is one of the most potent strains of psilocybin mushrooms in the world. An isolated mutation from the strain Penis Envy, Enigma shrooms take 4x longer to grow & can be up to 5x stronger than other cubensis strains.

1960's teenagers answer the question, "Why do you take LSD?" [LSD: Insight or Insanity, 1968]

DMT dissolves your reality in 30 seconds. First, it's vivid neon geometry, then a tunnel, then the liminal waiting room. When you finally break through, it feels like home. Intuitively, you know this place. You're left with the question "Why have I been here before?"

Low dose DMT is so underrated. Want a psychedelic experience without the time commitment? Want to boost other psychedelics? Smoke 5-15mg DMT. It's like a mini mushroom trip, but with stronger visuals, a 10-minute length, & unique, euphoric edge.

Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that the Nature he's destroying is this God he's worshiping. -Hubert Reeves

Switching to DMT vaping (carts) will significantly reduce your exposure to toxins that can cause cancer, lung disease, and cardiovascular diseases such as heart attacks and strokes.

Reduction of Anxiety: Some studies suggest that psychedelics like DMT can reduce symptoms of anxiety, particularly in people with life-threatening diseases, by providing profound emotional and spiritual insights and a changed perspective on life.

That final hit of DMT takes courage. Reality is disappearing in front of you, your throat is stinging from the vapor, your mind is screaming that you are DYING. To breakthrough, you have to take that final hit and hold on as tight as you can. Not everyone can do this.

That final hit of DMT takes courage. Reality is disappearing in front of you, your throat is stinging from the vapor, your mind is screaming that you are DYING. To breakthrough, you have to take that final hit and hold on as tight as you can. Not everyone can do this.

"A psychedelic is not always a revelation of something new & startling; you’re more liable to find yourself reminded of simple things you know & forgot you knew—seeing them freshly—old, basic truths that long ago became cliches, so you stopped paying attention to them." -Shulgin

Most black market LSD runs about 60% the strength of what it's sold as. You think you're taking 100μg. You're taking 60μg. You cut it for a 10μg microdose. You're actually getting 6μg. Then you say "microdosing doesn't work." No -- your math doesn't work.

Set. Setting. Metabolism.

STOP TRIPPING ALONE IN YOUR APARTMENT AND GO OUTSIDE

DMT is the only drug where the trip report sounds clinically insane and the brain scan looks like meditation on steroids.

The war on drugs has killed more people than drugs.

We are living through the last generation that will accept consciousness as something the government has the right to regulate. Your grandchildren will find prohibition as absurd as you find witch trials. The only question is how much damage we do between now and then.

The question was never "did ancient people use psychedelics?" It was "could they make ergot safe enough to serve at scale?" They could. ~1 gram of ergot per person, pH 12.5 lye, 2 hours. Toxins? Gone. Left behind is LSA — the same natural psychedelic found in Morning Glory

The ancient Greeks made a psychedelic from toxic fungus, wood ash, & water — and served it to thousands every year for 2,000 years. A paper published today in Nature showed how. Plato drank this. Cicero drank this. The Western world was built on a psychedelic sacrament.

You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness. -Terence McKenna