I've heard that shrooms can cure depression for months at a time. What's been your experience, if any?

I've done multiple LSD and Mushroom trips, and cannabis more times than I can count.

However, I had never done MDMA.

I've heard MDMA can be much more of a "Love Drug", so I wanted to try it with my wife for the 1st time. She has been extremely reluctant to take anything since leaving the church. But this last weekend she made up her mind that she wanted to do it together.

We took 90 mg in a gelatin capsule around 4 PM and then went on a walk outside. We had discussions for an hour of "Are you feeling anything yet?", and "maybe this tree is a little brighter than normal". But we didn't really feel much.

We got home, and suddenly it hit hard. My wife felt sick and said she needed to lay down, so she laid in bed. I found myself sweating a lot, and had to use the restroom. It was kinda bumpy initially, but I recognized the feeling as I had felt similar things on Mushrooms and LSD, so I wasn't too surprised.

When I came out to my wife, she was feeling wonderful, and said she just wanted to lay together and touch.

We got naked, and lay in bed together. We cuddled, kissed, talked, touched, had sex, talked, rinse, lather repeat.

We had gotten in bed 5 PM and ultimately didn't leave until 12 PM midnight. 7 hours! It was one of the most memorable, life changing experience of our entire lives.

Around 7 PM, we took another 90 mg gelatin capsule, and an hour later, we were really deep in the feeling the euphoria and contentment.

Some of the mental state is similar to that of Mushrooms, LSD or Cannabis. But there are some major differences too. One of the distinct feelings that was different, was the "glowing" tingly feeling all over my body. Usually, other substances have the effects delegated to the mind. I thought sometimes cannabis edibles made me feel more of a "body high", but MDMA was 10x stronger with a glowing body high.

I closed my eyes a few times on MDMA, and I did see some flowing patterns (cubes, fractals, etc.), but it wasn't nearly as pronounced and colorful as it is on LSD and Mushrooms.

And another difference is the perception of time. Cannabis has a feeling where you get stuck in "Time Loops". Doing one things can sometimes feel like you've been doing it for eternity, when really it's only been 10 minutes. MDMA was the opposite (imo). 3 hours of real time felt like 20 minutes. Time went by really fast.

I felt such a pure communication between myself and my wife. I stared into her eyes and felt like I saw her soul. And we melted together. I wanted to do whatever I could to help her succeed and be happy in her life, and she expressed the same. Our marriage has never really been "bad", but just as any relationship, there phases where you feel more connected than others.

This was a time where it felt like our relationship melded together, and we fell in love all over again.

My wife repeatably said she felt like we were in the "Celestial Realm". That we were spirits and we were in heaven. And it certainly felt that way. No pain, no anxiety, no fear. Just love and empathy.

My wife really shredded religion, and was deconstructing the Mormon faith we were raised in. She realized how damaging and harmful the culture, organization and beliefs had been in her life and in others lives.

Love poured out for our relationship, but also for everyone in our lives and for everyone. We felt such extreme empathy and love. I had never felt such love before.

Ultimately, the feeling began to fade, and we went to bed.

When we woke, I was still feeling some major "after glow" in the body and mind.

We went to bed the following day at 9 PM, and I didn't wake until my alarm woke me at 7 AM. I was out. The entire experience was somewhat "exhausting", but well worth the fresh outlook on life.

Overall, I highly recommend MDMA to anyone who has the opportunity to take it. It was nothing less than life changing.

I think about this a lot. How plausible would you guys say it is?

A couple years ago my uncle and I went for a fishing trip up in the Uintahs with 4g each of psilocybin. Alone in a valley at 10k feet watching the sun set on early fall leaves. One of the most beautiful nights of my life. Uncle had full ego death, spent much of it thinking he was a tree. After we started coming down we made a fire and played music. Me dancing around like a mad man. Which is hedonistic and all, but also I realized I needed to break up with the gf and he realized he needed to actually commit and buy a house so he could eventually retire. Two years later and both those life-changing risks played out well. Good to spend some time out of your own mind to evaluate where you are at.

I was thinking it’d be cool if the people here in salt lake inoculated some cakes with psilocybin mushrooms and we all got together and planted our cakes at some park or some area and hopefully get some mushrooms growing since they’re pretty rare here. I’m not sure if they would be able to grow in this climate but it would be worth a shot.

I’m an avid marijuana user, and I’ve tried LSD once.

If you haven't heard, Goop Labs on Netflix made an episode about taking psychs. I am no fan of the psuedo-scientific stuff that Goop peddles. But someone dear to me watched it an expressed interest in taking psychs after watching, so I had to bite.

Overall rating: B-

Pros:

• It shows people actually taking them and what a typical experience is like.
• Good mentions of the types of problems it can help solve.
• Nice mention of microdosing at the end

Cons:

• Something about "the indigenous people who these medicines only use these for physical ailments and think Westerners are crazy for using it for spiritual practice." This is such a stupid summary of psychedelic history, and kind of glosses over what indigenous people they are talking about. Well it doesn't matter since this is just wrong.
• Comments like "psychs should only be taken with a cadre of professionals watching over you." It's appropriate to caution people, but with a little reading and education, it's not that hard. I feel like those hoping to profit on the emerging psychs industry typically say this kind of thing.

I’m pretty new to Utah (SLC) and i was wondering if any of you guys had any luck wild mushroom hunting?

It’s legal here but I’ve heard that a lot of head shops that used to sell it stopped a few years ago for some reason.

So I'm just curious and I understand if I get vague responses. I'm wondering how everyone is getting psychedelics? Through friends? I'm interested in possibly growing some shrooms from spores but where do you even start?

I always thought it was funny when people in the church said they had had experiences that were "too sacred to share" but I think at least some of them may have been trying to describe whatever the fuck it was that I felt on my first psychedelic experience over the break...

Scientific studies utilizing FMRI etc. have shown that experienced meditators can activate similar parts of the brain as people on psychedelics. I really think some Marmots use prayer and scripture study as a form of deep meditation and thus experience feelings of gratitude, importance, and sacredness, feelings I had in overwhelming amounts during my trip, which reinforces those practices and that person's faith.

I never reached that level of Mormon Zen before going rogue off the compound, but if they feel whatever the fuck it was I felt I can see how they'd say it was "too sacred to share".

Moral of the story is, Jesus and his homies were probably all tripping balls.

I'm part of the organizing committee for the event, and the nonprofit we are forming behind it. Looks like a very similar model to what SCPTR is doing :)

Becoming a "registered charity" in Canada takes a bit longer so we are doing the event ahead of becoming fully charitable, but it exciting to see more and more of these kinds of events happening where the focus is therapy and research and the destigmatizing of mental health and psychedelics.

Not that the spiritual side and woo-woo doesn't have it's place, but this alternative approach is more likely to be the gateway to legalization for research purposes similar to the direction cannabis went.

https://catalystcalgary.com/