This was the end of a 3 day ceremonial retreat. The finale if you will. I was laid in a cozy bed with a blindfold and noise canceling headphones, with a Playlist called "spores". Which was as you would guess designed for mushroom experiences. So it started off taking me through the forest, which was reminiscent of the hike earlier that day. But my view was through a filter of bubbles, always moving and flowing. New ones emerging and old ones popping. Everything just a different shade of green. I...

Holy goddamn. No amount of hearing other experiences could have prepared me for the intensity of this. On the exhale of my third toke I was not quite catapulted, but the opposite. I was immediately enveloped and consumed in an infinite swirl and loop of beautiful blue and yellow spinning triangles. I felt like I was kicking and moving my mouth and grasping for the walls nearby. My partner ruled this as false, and nothing more than a few twitches. When I calmed I remember thinking the ancients we...