Point Lobos on shrooms



drug experience, i changed the names of other participants, but would also like you to change my name due to the sensitive nature of this story.

I have condensed a 10 hour trip into a very short writing here and have left many things out to hopefully keep you interested. Still there was a lot to write and i hope you can take some shit from what i have written here.



Imagine a rocky beach meeting a forest, with coves, sea lions, otters, caves, and trees all abounding and you will start to get a mental image of Point Lobos. It is a 2 hour drive south, just beyond monterey. The day started fairly early at about 8 o'clock. Me, Ted, Dan, and Jim (names changed to protect identities) drove down to the nearest Safeway at about 8:30 after we were sufficiently awake. Orange juice, celery, granola, and energy bars were purchased. We debated on whether or not to shop at the safeway because of the employee strike in southern california, but eventually necessity made us enter. We ate a very light breakfast for 2 reasons: 1 we didn't want to be weighed down today, and 2 we wanted the mushrooms we were about to consume to digest fully and a larger meal would have interfered. We got in the car and drove to Point Lobos where our journey began as we got out of the car and walked through a hole in the fence about 200 yards to the left of the main entrance. After about 5 minutes of walking we decided it was safe to break out the shrooms and eat them. We each took about 1/8th of an ounce, a very sufficient dose, even for me. I chewed the shrooms very thoroughly after admiring the golden flakes and blue streaks on the stem, both of which indicate high quality/potency. My dose was about 65% stem and 35% caps b/c i prefer the high that the stems give you. I was a bit worried because i had just done shrooms 3 weeks ago and was concerned that my trip might be less significant due to the small spacing between trips. Oh fuckin' well i thought as i washed the shrooms down with a mixture of orange juice and milk thistle extract (note: chewing shrooms thoroughly and then holding in the mouth for 5-10 minutes makes the onset of the trip come sooner and produces a much more intense but short lasting (3-4 hours as opposed to 6-10) high, i chewed my shrooms and held them in, also milk thistle extract, while tasting like the bitterest death helps protect your liver from the toxic effects of shrooms, which are probably equivalent to about 2 weeks of binge drinking in terms of liver damage) After all the shrooms were eaten we walked down to the beach and stared at the waves coming in, waiting for the magic to begin. I got hit first and i got hit hard. I felt nautious for about 15 minutes and decided that the churning motion of the ocean wasn't helping so i stared at the ground and started walking. The ground started shifting, patterns began to form and i knew i was in for a trip. We began walking now toward a forest about 1.5 miles away. The trail goes from rocky beach to dense forest, then along the coast in one of the strangest mixing of landscapes that i have ever seen. By this time i was barely clinging on to reality. I stared at leaves and bark on trees, rocks took on a new meaning, taking a breath felt like there was a hurricane forcing air into my lungs. I wandered around like this for 2 hours, peaking. When you are peaking on shrooms you are oblivious to the world and completely in tune with it at once. Everything gains significance, you are lost in a dream except you are awake, and everything takes on a mystical quality. After 2 hours of this lucid dreaming i was coming down because i had chewed my shrooms too thoroughly, but luckily i had a very large cap left and ate it to extend the high. We were walking again this time toward a cove which we went down into, and found some rocks to sit on. Here we smoked a bowl of fine marijuana and enjoyed our surroundings, which after about 10 minutes, we realized now included a family of sea lions. They stared at us with fear in their eyes, wondering if we were going to make an attempt at their lives. The shroom however somehow managed to give us an ability to contact them, and we alleviated their fear assuring them that we intended them no harm. After admiring these animals we began walking, then running toward a rocky outcropping. We were transformed by our motion and the four of us became tribesmen, running through the woods in search of prey. Finally, out of breath, we reached a rocky outcropping and sat once again to admire the spectacular view of the ocean. I looked over to Jim to see how he was doing seeing as it was his first time, and to my surprise i saw tears welling in his eyes. "Dear god," the other 3 of us thought as we looked at jim, "he's shroomed himself into another universe." Jim sat there as we tried to assure him that everything was alright, but he only stared blankly. After he came down we talked to him about it and he said that he had the experience of total loss of contact with reality. He didn't know who we were, he didn't know who he was, or where he was, or what existence was. All he knew was that he was being bombarded with sensations and that he had no idea of how to interperet them. Jim still claims that this day was the best experience of his life. Once we were convinced that jim was indeed only tripping very hard and not in any danger we headed back to the car and drove home. The things that we took out of this trip were a profound appreciation for nature, other life forms, and each other. Shrooms are a magnificent tool to be used to find clarity in your life, but please remember that if you go into something like a powerful hallucinogenic and or psychedelic drug without any forethought, you will be fucked and have a terrible trip. The best way to avoid a bad trip is to have at least 1 sober, experienced person who can drive on hand, and to do the shrooms in a natural setting. I cannot emphasize strongly enough that doing shrooms in a house, alone, in a very crowded, or enclosed area is a very, very shitty idea and you will probably be haunted by the experience for a good amount of time.

Substance Abused: Mushrooms