The magic of mushrooms. The power of psychedelics.

My recent psychedelic trip.

Imagine being able to walk through two doors at the same time. Imagine being able to make two decisions at once. Imagine being everywhere, while being right here. Imagine being able to see and feel everything all at once. Imagine being able to disconnect while feeling the most connected you’ve ever felt. Imagine being able to close your eyes whilst having them open.

We tend to forget how much we are enveloped by the intricacies of everyday life and how we overlook our thought patterns, minute subconscious habits, our fleeting emotions, and our seemingly insignificant actions that follow.

Psilocybin warmly reminds us that, even when we think we need it least, we do in fact need to intersect the pathways that everyday life has us on repeat with.

And my recent psychedelic trip reminded me of just this.

Last weekend, I returned to the most effective method I know, to help me break through all the noise (although paradoxically it feels more like silence) and evolve for what’s next.

I know all too well how everything within us can be silenced from the outside world, in doing what we have to do, to move through each day.

I was ready for everything to open up. I was ready for everything to become exposed. And I was ready for the magic of what mushrooms really are.

Of course, I felt anticipation. Even when you know what to expect, what you don’t know is what it will expose, and the waves you will ride during the journey.

But, ready to surrender and trust the magic, off I went on my psychedelic trip.

A steady rise in everything that I am mustered its way through me. From the pit of my stomach up through my chest and into my throat. The heat gave presence to any lingering energy from what has gone.

It was like surfing a wave. Climbing up and up and up. Energies from all senses rising to the occasion.

Everything manifesting within me. Yet to be exposed. I was truly riding the wave and trusting what was about to come.

I climbed up and up and up. And suddenly, I’m there. It all opened up. A flat, calm horizon, almost glass-topped. I could see everything.

The heat and energies settled on the surface, giving way to what the mushrooms knew I needed.

I know. I am. I see.

Everything.

Before heading on this journey, I sat and journaled. I wrote down my intentions for my trip and a few things I wanted clarity on.

1.      Was to cut the chords and release any residual energies that may still be lingering from certain past experiences.

2.      Was to gain clarity on certain behaviours I was aware of.

3.      Was to gain clarity on my yoga practice.

Blissfully floating on the glass-topped horizon, it was like a download came to me. And just like that, it was time to work through my list.

1.      A (water-like) chord, came in from the distance, attached to my stomach, and cleansed all that needed to be cleansed in a whirl of water (kind of tornado-looking). Then I saw the chord release from me, feeling a complete lift from the bottom of my stomach of all the residual energy that may have been lingering.

2.      The behaviours I wanted clarity on were made obvious by very very distant memories that I hadn’t connected with before. It all made sense. That version of me made sense. Things were so clear. Now I knew where it was coming from, I knew what I needed to do going forward.

3.      The whole theme of my trip was about being things simultaneously, seeing and feeling things simultaneously, two worlds and realities being one. Imagine being able to close and open your eyes at the same time and the two realities being one. That was my experience. And this is what yoga makes me feel. And this was enough for me to know that I’m on the right path.

The gentle and comforting height and decline of the wave was the exact reminder that through all the noise, and monotony of everyday life, you have the answers. You just need to intersect those thoroughly etched pathways that we underestimate when it comes to our potential.

Psychedelics are the single most powerful thing I have been graced to experience. If/when you decide that it’s your time to try them, treat them with the respect they deserve and they will serve you with everything more than you could ever imagine.