My housemate and I have been discovering the magic of …pun intended, magic mushrooms. (legal here in the Netherlands…so why not try it?)

https://sippingfromthebrewingpot.fyi/2016/10/09/truffles-the-magic-variety/

I documented the experience, for those that were unsure of what to expect.   I think that summed it up pretty well.

It’s quite interesting, you kind of go through a lot of self-reflection, and I think the main thing to realise is that during the time that you’re feeling the effects, you’re just left with your own mind.
So you have to be comfortable knowing that you’re just left with your own thoughts.
I think it’s quite liberating.

Knowing that most of the time during a normal day, and in fact during life, your mind is distracted away from itself.

Giving your mind focus, but also distraction, ie. via interactions with people, work, watching TV, reading a book, playing with the phone…etc.

I think there’s very few people that are ok to just sit there, stare at a wall and be left with their own thoughts.

I think most people would call that boring, and are perhaps a little afraid of finding a void if they’re just left with only their own mind and thinking for comfort.

Random thoughts that I ended up writing down on my mental journey the latest time:

(note I’ve only done this 4 times so far)

Each point denotes a separate kind of line of thinking.

  1. Artworks
  • Animals deforming shadows
  • animals wearing black lace business shoes
  • shapeless long legged animal.  all black. red background
  • show light (white) passing.  African setting
  • white & black
  • strange not circular globes in the sky (3)
  • Title: <Dream Walkers>
  1. Artworks
  • a hand reaching over your eyes. all you can see is the palm print.
  • red & black shadows interplaying
  • minimal / sand / desert background. red black lights. shadows
  1. Random thoughts + 1 art scene
  • hands, fingers, coughing, sherbet (I was eating a sherbet fountain), shadows, jog memory, never did.
  • smile increasing with gravity. upside down. but fading. forgotten what’s funny.
  • eye sockets, pain. African music. driving.
  • white.
  • liquorish
  • deep purple accents. too much sugar.
  • mellow traveller on mattress-spacing out
  1. More random thoughts
  • Off to be the wizard
  • arguing how god creating a church…. something something…for gay people (no idea)
  • being solely with your mind. some people don’t like it. peaceful contemplation. Self-reflection. inward   …something something something (no idea either)
  • art course for men, because of artistic wordplay. & not wanting to explain it. not explaining it causes enlightenment when you understand it.
  1. Random thoughts, art scene
  • digital format needed
  • not questioning others
  • the answer is yes, I forgot the question.
  • being self-content.
  • non-involving
  • different colour backgrounds. ‘the answer is yes, I forgot the question’ spread out in a gallery. what do people think? Quizzed afterwards 1 word recorded at each place.
  1. Random thoughts
  • the beauty in chaos
  • the ponderings of an erratic mind
  • the contrast in perception & actualisation (art)
  • the art some people appreciate. emptiness. why I appreciate art. emptiness and why there is only religion, their mind.  [not sure where that was going]
  • chemical breakdowns, visualisation, reactions.  transformers 1986 intro scene.
  • not disappeared, always in my thoughts, family Sue, Michael, granny, loved ones.
  1. Inventions, pedagogical methods, the why of the mind
  • video & music application for erratic minds. <Erratic mind productions>. multi-vids, multi-changing music.
  • what I think what I say for others to understand .
  • your choice.
  • afraid of the unknown, of not but finding nothing. void. (not wanting to try any kind of drugs that leaves you with just your mind for company)
  • meditation – not eating, eating is distraction from the mind. will power needed.
  • Title: <closer to creation>   human mechanics.
  • empty church, candles, church singing, chanting, mystic, soothing.
  • cognitive processing
  • Montessori system. focus on what you want.

If you’re not scared of just being left with only your own mind for comfort, then I would highly recommend partaking in this magic truffles.  [it’s legal in the Netherlands… not sure about other countries]

Legality at least gives you a bit of comfort in the fact that there’s some quality control to some degree.

If you are not comfortable of just being left with your own mind for comfort… then.. no, I wouldn’t recommend it.  It’s probably when you start obsessing about things you’ve pushed down for so long and haven’t address for quite a while.

I think however the majority of art creators have been on some sort of thought provoking material at one point of another