Magic Mushrooms and the Higher Consciousness

Okay, so lately I've been getting into the idea of "Higher Consciousness" and a "reality beyond reality." My aunt lent me a book called, "Infinite Love is the Only Truth, Everything Else is Illusion" By David Icke. It's a good read. Little preachy, little too conspiracy theory oriented, but still good. I've been into the idea of a higher Conscious, and higher reality for years now, and this just gave some more insight on it.

So anyways, in the book the author talks of how, even though he doesn't use them often, psychoactive drugs can give us a window into this higher reality. He talks of a drug called ayahuasca (sp?) and also magic mushrooms.

So, last weekend, I got ahold of some shrooms. With the knowledge of this imbibed, I was eager to try them. I'd had some very enlightening experiences on it before, some that I feel I tapped into something higher, and I was ready to try it again with my new found knowledge. What I experienced, was something ethereal...

The night started off with me having a wonderful conversation/brainstorming session with a tree and a bush, outside my friend's house. Later on, I layed down outside, and sang to the moon. Weird thing is; the voice coming out of me wasn't mine. It was as if I had tapped into some energy that was floating out there, and channeled it through my body. I could just hear the world so much better. I saw colours and shapes exploding across my field of vision, as one usually does on shrooms, but they just stood out so amazingly. I definetly tapped into something higher, and I could feel it. The world was so alive, in a way that I had never experienced, before.

Has anyone else ever experienced something "higher" while on shrooms?? Please share!!

 

Well...one time while I was tripping, I looked at one of my friend's faces, and after starting at him for awhile, his face morphed into the face of one of my other friends. Weirdest thing, ever.

Okay, I know this had nothing to do with what you're asking, but the whole "voice coming out wasn't mine" thing reminded me of it.

mark.

 

yes ive experenced many such occasions
especially singing on shrooms,and it IS your voice,just that what you believe to be you in the "everyday" world isnt exactly all there is to you.
There is an incredible depth to anything living,its the genetic "knowledge" that makes us up.
What your tapping into is this ancient beauty,it can take the form of any characteristic you want,peace,anger,strange psychedelia,sub-conscious dream states and so forth...the amount of information stored within your subconscious transcends your particular short life span,how do you think any creatue "behaves" the way it does in the first place?
it has a deeply ingrained configuration,and its wicked to experience it first hand,ive never felt such overhwleming tranquility,and it isnt necesarily happiness,it was just pure unaffected stability and clarity.
life forms are just tangents coming from the same root,and i find it interesting that the seemingly most complex form (human) considers the most important thing in its life to be love.
from the vast universe came more novelty and more novelty,plants to animals and humans,all leading towards a need for love

 

i often think about drugs (mostly natural ones such as MJ, Shrooms, salvia, and a few others) and whether their effects are opening our minds or just creating false ideas. I mean when it comes down to it, it is all chemistry on the surface. But what makes us see such crazy things? I have no doubt that subconsious comes into play here. I have done shrooms twice (never enough to really trip good) and salvia quite a few times. Are these drugs bringing us anywhere? Are they giving us insight to ourselves, our universe... i have so many questions.
I feel that such things are natural, and that perhaps have a reason for being here, or can accomplish something, but i do not know. anyone have any ideas? anyone ever feel like shrooms are any drug have made them understand life or themselves better?

 

yeah they've taught me no amount of gods or philosophy or crazy psychedelic answers will ever amount to anything worthwhile,the only thing that matters is your own passion,appreciation and love,enjoy life while you can

 

a friend and i went out into his back garden on mushrooms once to have a spliff. it was a cloudy night but as we walked out the heavens parted only above his garden and the bright and brilliant full moon shone down on us from thousands of miles away and lit up the very end of his garden (which is closed off by trees and totally secluded) in a soft beautiful eerie blue light. the clouds around it were in a kind of ripple formation and i looked up and around at beauty. not something beautiful but pure beauty. the moon was a brilliant white disc encircled by a glorious purple corona. i'll remember that for the rest of my life.

 

Thank you all for sharing your stories, those are some very enlightening experiences.

I'm glad there are others out there, turned on to the idea of a highe consciousness. I can feel it, all the time. I sometimes see things that aren't there. Light patterns, being projected on top of everything else I'm seeing. Auras, light balls, patters, things like that. It makes me feel so enlightened. I love it.

Peace,
James.

 

Ive done shrooms 4 times and salvia a bunch of times, and i was thinking, each time i do shrooms, i feel enlightened right, and i feel right now that all i need is 1 more trip to really breakthrough. Its hard to explain, but after every trip, i feel i want to do better in life, school and just have a better respect for everything. (very hard to explain..) To me, My shroom trips have always better'd me as a person. My last trip i had 6 grams in tea, so amazingly enlioghtening and...just.....wow........i wouldnt trade anything in the world for my memories of my trips...

 

I had some very crazy other-worldly trips on mushrooms. One of my first times i went out with 2 freinds to a field and we lost our sense of self. No longer feeling as though thought and perception is inside, separate from the rest of the world, but feeling part of the field and the earth, the same as you can feel your arm all the time without realising.

We shared conciousness as well. Very cool. Just like if you leaned 3 candle flames together they become one flame with three roots, we were one conciousness. Feeling every concept and emotion that the others have as clearly as your own. communication was redundant, we were each other. Could see the world from each other's perception.

It was a completely life-changing experience. It made me realise that thought (pure wordless concepts, or emotions-not internal sentences) exists as energy. Our minds are always both here in the physical and there in the 'energy' world. Every moment of every day we are bombarded with energy from all other conciousnesses, but have learned not to notice. If you were to open your eyes properly you would realise there is no distinction between your ego (everything you think of as your 'self') and everything and everyone else.

Be careful. Over-sensitivity to others perception can be very difficult to live with. (it being harder to buy a bus ticket for example, if you're trying to decide which of the ten perspectives and feelings your mentally wading through actually belongs to you)
Both the other two people I had my most enlightening trip with have developed quite harsh mental illnesses, and would probably choose to go back to before they had seen anything at all.

I read somewhere that taking mushrooms when looking for a higher plane experience is like learning to swim by jumping out of a plane into the sea. You'll definately get wet, and you'll probably have a very larger than life and memorable experience, but it's just not safe.
It turned out ok for me but not really for my freinds. I always completely switch back at the end of my trips, they kept more than they could handle. (after more+more trips)
Maybe try some transcendental meditation swimming lessons.

 

Mushrooms told me the truth about my life and where i am supposed to be. They helped me find the path with heart, and encouraged me to become a healer. Of course it wasn't the shrooms alone, but they were a big part. Through meditation, yoga, reading, and just living I learned many things, and then the mushrooms connected all of the loose ends of my knowledge and showed me the way.

 

Emanresu and astralgoldfish, I'm glad to hear you've both had some enlightening experiences.

Astralgoldfish, what you said about taking mushrooms looking for a higher experience sounds pretty dead on to me. It is pretty freaky the things you experience, if you go looking. Although, like you said, I've always been able to come off them fine, and haven't tweeked out too badly, yet. I went into my last trip deliberately looking to see past the illusion of "reality" and connect with the higher conciousness, which I feel I did on some level. I definetly tapped into sometthing bigger, something higher, something more aware. It opened my eyes up alot.

 

hey inbloom, is that quote on your post from Kurt Vonnegut? it seems familiar to me.

 

Indeed it is.

 

Daytripping, I definetly agree with you! I've had many enlightening experiences while sober, as well. The mushrooms trips have been more intense, but the sober ones have been just as lovely.

 

Niagara Falls is an incredibly powerful spot. The waterfall purifies people of negative energy, it is a great place to meditate. I used to work at the falls. Cave of the Winds. Everyone should check it out. Its just too bad that the city and the parks are run by crooks and politicians who know nothing about nature, but hopefully positive energy and intent will change all of that.

 

yea don't even get me started on that b.s.!!! it makes me sad

 

...wow nicely said, this is what I believe too.

Also at the end of the day, psychedelic drugs have made realise how unbelievably precious life is & how incredible the force of nature is:
& my scientific background actually enabled me to begin to understand and truely appreciate this. Every day I am in absolute awe of this gift of life.

Not really a higher conciousness just an appreciation of something beautiful, which I really gave no thought to until after my mushroom experiences.

I guess any Psy experience forces you to take a step back an re-examine your thought processes and priorities in life.