Chinese Dragon

I had arrived in Boise Idaho to visit my friend Vine again. It had been some time since our last visit and Vine was prepared to have another trip exploring this time some of our favorite psychedelics, Psilocybe cubensis.

Vine has spent a good portion of the last few years learning all he could about growing these mind-opening treats. He managed to produce enough to last us our lifetimes but in a fit of psychedelic influence ( the mushrooms told him to clean your room and get your life together), he tossed the majority of his stash. What we had was the rest, just enough for each of us to have an expereince something around 4-5g each.

I sat on the floor of his newest apartment and we each took our tea and drink it up. No bitter taste due to the extra ginger added which always helps me deal with the gas that somehow is produced with mushrooms. I sat waiting and wondered the same thoughts I always do, will this work?

After a bit, I could feel my teeth feeling funny, a cold rush through my body which always was an indicator that things are changing. I knew that the effects would be strong.  Vine had been absent for a bit now and in the realization that some time had passed I hear him in the bathroom yelling under his breath, "Oh shit."

"What happened?" I ask. "I didn't drink my piss," he said. We both laughed for a moment but I understood why he was also serious. Though I am sure not a tasty drink, drinking the urine after using psychedelics like mushrooms will allow you to indulge in another dose, something that is often extracted into the depths of our sewer pipes.

Though at this time the mushrooms were taking effects and I would have like to just lay where I was at, Vine said we were going down the road to visit some of his friends. I typically can't walk or operate as a normal person while altered, but with some focus was able to walk with him. I also was a bit worried about being around others while altered. I typically have just spent time with Vine and by myself while using psychedelics and didn't know how it would be. All this seemed to be okay though as I went regardless.

Arriving at his friends they were nice people and very open and willing to allow us to visit in our state of craziness. They had built a little fire and I sat around it in a chair watching the flames and working to keep it alive. Though altered I still was able to keep at a safe distance and his friends watched me to make sure I wasn't doing anything that would cause me to get burnt. Overall I was pretty kept together.

I did notice that when I shut my eyes I could still see the fire which was interesting and the color of the fire also changed to a deep blue with lighter blue trails outlining the edge of the flames. As I looked closer to the ground where my feet lay, I could see this blue energy radiate into the ground, into my feet and light up parts of my body. I opened my eyes to check to see if this was happening with my eyes open and found no effect. I closed my eyes and could see the same thing. At this time I also noticed that some spots in my body were a darker blue than others. I found this to be concerning as it didn't look healthy.

As I watched this in the corner of my eye a being of blue light appeared. It guided my hand towards the darker areas and I could see my blue hand extend past my real hand into my skin. The hand then removed some aspects of this dark blue area and it became lighter. This excited me as I understood from some traditions that doctors or spirits can help heal us, I figured maybe this is something I could do to areas of my body with long term issues. I shifted my body to my hip which has some serious arthritis in it and started to do the same practice. As I did the being of blue shook its head and I felt it say that some injuries are just too strong to fix.

After losing track of time and conversing with the being, I opened my eyes and found Vine sitting there mumbling to himself while laughing. He seemed to had taken on the personification of a coyote, making jokes to himself and laughing, being a bit of a joker and trickster. At that moment I saw something strange out of the corner of my eye above Vine but not too far up. As I looked up more I could see as clear as day a Chinese dragon. Its face was at least 10 feet across and it was looking at us just watching, moving its head slightly to focus on our conversation. I was surprised as I had seen many things through my psychedelic experiences, but never a Chinese dragon, nor had I heard of others seeing such a thing but figured they must come from something others had experienced. I told Vine what I saw and as I did the creature shot up into the sky and was gone.

Not much remarkable happened after that but I did learn a few things that day. That Chinese dragons look pretty cool in person, and that there is the possibility that I can heal myself in ways I did not fully understand before and still don't. There are also things that maybe we have to live with and are unable to heal if we are not careful.