Developing "special Interest"? about psychedelic research and experiences

I don't know if this thread will get pulled or not I hope it doesn't.  I self-identify as being on the spectrum. I've gone off reading and resesrching about autism since I have developed a very keen interest in psychedelics.  Not to take. But ive been reading up about a particular one since the Monday just after Christmas when a very brief conversation with a friend set the spark going. 

It's like I cannot get enough of it. YouTube,  forums, articles, studies. I bought a book by rick strassman and read it inside a week and a half. I finished it tonight so ive been looking at what other books i can buy. Ive stsrted in a youtube audio book by terencr mckenna. I've been looking online at which psychedelics I could grow in my garden. I've been reading about microdosing. I've been reading accounts of people's trips. I've been looking into how to take part in research. Reading up about the powerful effevts is changing how i see the wotld and im changing my beliefs from material to spiritual. I have only talked to one person about it all as he's very open to "talking deep".

I still wonder if I'm on the spectrum. (And it's not just because of interests... I have plenty of other reasons too...)

Does anyone else share this interest?

Has anyone got any first hand experience of this subject? 

  • found something especially for u  --- the "Temple of the inner light"

    tranceam.org/.../       in USA

    en.wikipedia.org/.../Temple_of_the_True_Inner_Light

    www.youtube.com/watch

  • Does anyone think that nasa should send someone up to space to trip on shrooms imagine what you could see in space !!!!!! 

  • yea that is a deliberate ongoing thing used in the Series Cheers as well. I love it.

  • ah, yes...amy.... i could never figure out what in the world was going on between her and... that guy... noah? the guy that is somehow connected to her, but isn't.

  • i like glen a lot, he's great. but there's a young, tallish, good looking white guy. idk much about him, but in a few clips he comes off as really weird, like off his rocker (more even than the others)... i've had to watch clips of superstore on youtube. it's off the air here, afaik. i like cheyenne also.... dina, not so much, because she's a clone of dwight schrute of the american office. i'm not into clones.....

    who's your favorite, ifyou have one?

  • oh maybe they did lleave it open ended in case of a sequel ..... hadnt thought of that

    Superstore : do u mean glen the manager because he is hilarious

  • oh, i assumed he was possibly alive... there were mentions of his crazy swimming in the olympics, or some foreshadowing thing... superstore is great..  i guess i like the tall white guy, who appears utterly normal, but seems to be a real phreako underneath.

  • i assumed he was  ----   i watching Superstore ( comedy based in USA supermarket  ) . It very funny and  the characters are great.

  • yeah... yanks is i guess super old fashioned... even kind of before my time. i wondered what you didn't like about the ending of the guard... afair, it's unclear if the protagonist was killed or not... altho everyone assumes he was. i'm assuming he wasn't, cause he was that kind of "bloke"... i guess bloke refers to english guys...

  • USA people are exactly the same as any other bunch of people they vary just the same.  Depends where u are but  "Yanks"  is kinda  fading,,,,,, its just "Americans" now. 

  • yeah. kind of mean, altho yanks can be loud jerks....not sure if people over there still refer to us as yanks....

  • Americans have to be so careful in Ireland  especially asking for directions ---- i knew people would send all Americas in the complete apposite  direction  to where they had asked to go. Just as a "Joke". Such a horrible thing to do.

    I watched that film. I didnt like the ending. The highlighting of anti-protestant bigotry bits where however accurate

  • yeah... everyone hunts here. well, not everyone, but it's common. i fish, and am very conflicted about being happy when i catch some poor fish with my hook... well, pretty conflicted, at least. i try to release any that i don't keep as quickly and safely (to them and me) as possible.  mushrooms certainly can be dangerous... 

    off topic, i saw a movie set in ireland, 'the guard'. i think it was set in ireland. i no at one point the american is wandering around knocking on people's doors for information, and they respond in this very unusual language. unusual to an american, at least, lol.

  • i used to collect mushrooms to eat but their beauty sorta got to me they have incredible colours at times. The camo was so I wouldn't be seen as I was sometimes on other peoples land.  I was pretty harmless otherwise.  At the time I was specialising on all eatable wild food.  Mushrooms are incredibly risky thing to eat. They can be really deadly, are make you very ill for ages.  I loved making gill prints used in identification of mushrooms, again some of the colours where beautiful.

    we arent allowed guns in Northern Ireland  - only shotguns for wildfowl shooting and there isnt hunting to the extent there is in the USA/ Canada.  I could live in the forests  in USA / Canada no problem and have often dreamed of doing just that ! 

    I have always believed in the Rule, "you can only eat the meat that you have killed yourself"

    I'm degressing ................

  • do you hunt mushrooms to eat? you're in full camo?? so - i assume there are no hunters there... here in the colonies, during hunting (the thing where guys shoot animals) season, i think people wear orange or other high vis stuff.... weird being handed a wad of cash by those strangers.. but fun to find treasure... someone out here in the wild west found a big can or container of gold coins. no one knows where it came from. i assume they got to keep it.

  • yes exactly ---  single individuals who dont want u about their spot but there is the odd group like close group.  never spoke to any of them. I was always in full camo so they didnt always see me.

    the locations where miles deep by foot in forests.

    I was once, hunting mushrooms when i found  treasure, all  silver. I gave it to my dad who contacted the police. It was a stash of stolen silver( cups and trophies )  type thing with people names engraved on them.

    Not buried just piled up on the ground and covered in moss it was raining really hard and i was waiting for it to stop. The rain slowly removed the moss in front of me. Very surreal experience. 

    Some people,   then tracked me down and handed me some cash thats it. Never said who they were ! 

  • sorry ------------ didn't mean to frustrate you..

  • so i assume they're secretive because they are hiding their 'spots,' or don't want to be hassled by people telling them not to eat mushrooms cause they can kill you, etc? aren't there clubs there, though? over here, there definitely are. they have members, outings, multi-club outings, etc.

    i no one lady i've run into in the forest. but she never acknowledges me. thus, i no she's hunting shrooms. otherwise, what else would she be doing skulking around in the middle of the forest?

  • there are mushroom collectors everywhere. They are pretty secretive. England, Scotland  NIreland. The only way u get to know them is to meet them in the forest when u are collecting yourself