Effects Of Doing Shrooms

“Virtually eliminated all religious practices; much more spiritual now.”

“Feel closer to family and friends. Incorporating Ayurvedic theory into diet and self care.

“Increased time for meditation…I now believe I have something important to tell people about how the universe works.”

“The energy experience stoked my curiosity about the spiritual awakening stimulus of kundalini [spiritual energy] and has opened a new path for me!”

In other words, religion in, religion out. Give mushrooms to a bunch of hippies and they’ll gain a new appreciation for yoga; give them to a heterodox Catholic and he’ll ponder the Incarnation. Give them to me and I might start to (wrongly) believe that I can understand complex mathematical proofs or conceive (wrongly) that I remember my once-adequate ancient Greek—which once gave me the very And I would have thought that this would be relevant. Mark writes that the drug can bring people “experiences and insights historically limited to a tiny minority.” Experiences I’ll grant. But for something to count as an insight, it has to be true. (“One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter” is not an insight.) In previous conversation, Mark has explained to me why people who take psilocybin aren’t afraid to die: they “know that they’re immortal.” But if they know that, they’re buying happiness at the cost of knowledge. I’ll take Aristotle, thanks: all human beings are mortal; psilocybin users are human beings; therefore, sorry, they’ll die too.