Six Ways to Integrate With Ketamine Therapy

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Ketamine is not a traditional psychedelic. When you take ketamine, the ground won’t melt before your eyes as you journey into a netherworld and dance the night away. Instead, you may see geometric patterns or relive a past experience. You might also see nothing at all, as your ego diminishes, you dissociate from the sense of self, and your limbs go progressively numb. As you relinquish control in the altered ketamine state, you enter a space of psychiatric healing.

How to Combine Meditation with Psychedelic Use

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Learn More About Psilocybin Mushroom Spores Mindfulness Eden Loi · February 12th, 2019   For such a simple activity, meditation is notoriously complicated. You need nothing to meditate: no special garb, no esoteric trinkets, no supervision. Yet, when the time comes to just sit, to calm and observe the mind, many are stunned and overcome … Read more

The Meaning of Meditation

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Learn More About Psilocybin Mushroom Spores Mainstream Society Erin Ginder-Shaw · June 3rd, 2019 If the sun rises over the ocean, but no one is around to photograph it, will there still be light? Yes, we can all agree, hard yes. Now, if the sun rises over the ocean, but there are no phones or … Read more

Psychedelic Yoga: New Twist On Ancient Practice

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Learn More About Psilocybin Mushroom Spores Mindfulness Karina Morgan · June 22nd, 2019 The purpose of traditional yoga is to create an intimate journey into oneself; to cultivate understanding, mindfulness, and a higher consciousness. What other endeavor has an almost identical motivation? The use of psychedelics. Both psychedelics and yoga are used to achieve common … Read more

Mindfulness Meditation: Living In The Moment

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Learn More About Psilocybin Mushroom Spores Mindfulness Erin Ginder-Shaw · July 15th, 2019 “Knowing what you are doing while you are doing it is the essence of mindfulness practice.” These are the words of Jon Kabat-Zinn, pulled from chapter one of his seminal work, Full Catastrophe Living. Kabat-Zinn is known as the founder of Mindfulness-based … Read more

Neuroscientist Sam Harris Reports on His ‘Heroic Dose’ of Mushrooms

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Learn More About Psilocybin Mushroom Spores Mindfulness Reilly Capps · January 20th, 2020 Sam Harris, bestselling author, neuroscientist, and public intellectual, recently took a “heroic dose” of psychedelic mushrooms and talked about it on his “Waking Up” podcast.  Trip reports are like roadmaps, describing an invisible landscape most people never see. Harris’s is one of … Read more

Can Psilocybin Help Us Face Our Greatest Fears?

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Learn More About Psilocybin Mushroom Spores Mindfulness Samuel Douglas · October 14th, 2020 By Samuel Douglas, Philosopher and Vice President of the Australian Psychedelic Society No matter how materially wealthy we might be, the meaning and nature of our existence can leave us with unanswered questions. What is our purpose in life, and how much … Read more

Can Microdosing LSD Overcome Chronic Pain?

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Learn More About Psilocybin Mushroom Spores Harm Reduction Samuel Douglas · September 25th, 2020 By Samuel Douglas, Philosopher and Vice President of the Australian Psychedelic Society Two new and exciting pieces of research into how microdosing can impact pain and our brain’s capacity to make new connections came out in the past month. In the … Read more

What’s the Optimal Dose Amount for Microdosing LSD?

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Learn More About Psilocybin Mushroom Spores Microdosing Sporestore · November 3rd, 2020 Here’s something we know, at least anecdotally: microdosing LSD can help combat depression and anxiety, contribute to feelings of well-being, and lead to insights and creative perspectives that might otherwise be inaccessible to us. Here’s something we’re still trying to figure out: what’s … Read more

Microdosing, Macrodosing, and Mindfulness

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Learn More About Psilocybin Mushroom Spores Microdosing Samuel Douglas · November 13th, 2020 By Samuel Douglas, Philosopher and Vice President of the Australian Psychedelic Society Mindfulness, explored through meditation and other practices, is being aware of, and accepting, the present moment. While the idea can seem simple, it’s both powerful and potentially challenging. Psychedelics, at … Read more

Avoiding Negative Experiences With Microdosing

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Learn More About Psilocybin Mushroom Spores Microdosing Greg Ferenstein · November 18th, 2020 This post explores how microdosing psychedelics can require a significant amount of supplemental mindfulness practices, such as meditation or journaling, in order for users to not feel overwhelmed by the intoxicating effects of the substances. For example, if a user spends 20 … Read more

Combining Movement and Microdosing: Athletics, Exercise, and Flow

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Learn More About Psilocybin Mushroom Spores Microdosing Liz Zhou · December 9th, 2020 Microdosing psychedelics is a great way to experience the benefits of plant medicines without plunging into a full-on visionary journey. By consuming only a portion of a ceremonial or recreational dose, you can infuse a heightened sense of joy, clarity, and awareness … Read more

Can Microdosing Help You Integrate Your Psychedelic Insights?

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Learn More About Psilocybin Mushroom Spores Psychedelic journeys contain moments of powerful insights, and often even ultimate truths. But sometimes we reduce these experiences to a dinner story rather than harnessing the lessons into lasting change. Instead of altering unwise behaviors, we remain ruled by old habits. Even when we have the best intentions to … Read more

Finding Awe: Microdosing, Connectedness, and Transformation

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It’s no secret that the Western world has found itself awash in an existential crisis for the ages. Rates of depression, addiction, and suicide are at all-time highs, loneliness has become an epidemic, and a sense of meaninglessness seems to have seeped into many people’s lives. Though each individual certainly has their own circumstances, the prevailing theory is that this baseline cultural malaise can be traced back to the tenets of our 21st century lives: with the rise of social media, urban lifestyles, individualism, and instant gratification, we’ve lost our connection to community, family, and the natural world—and thus ourselves.

Third Wave’s First Microdosing Experience Changed Lives

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Learn More About Psilocybin Mushroom Spores Mainstream Society Sporestore · October 2nd, 2020 Participants reported kicking habits, starting new projects, and feeling lighter In the world of alternative medicines, people tend to make a distinction between big and little.Big experiences—like breathwork or plant medicine macrodoses—are seen as deep, astounding, trauma-composting, soul-enlivening journeys. On the other … Read more

Rise of the Ketamine Clinic: A New Era for Mental Wholeness

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As the pandemic remains firmly at the forefront of the headlines, a second silent epidemic continues to grow in its wake. According to MAPS, one in six Americans will experience treatment-resistant depression over their lifetime. An insidious disability that chronically affects careers, families, and lives – could the vaccine of hope come in the form of a trance-like dissociative known as ketamine?

What You’ve Always Wanted to Know About Psilocybin (But Were Afraid to Ask)

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Learn More About Psilocybin Mushroom Spores Mainstream Society Elena Schmidt · October 22nd, 2020 Disclaimer: Growing psilocybin mushrooms for consumption is a potentially illegal activity, and we do not endorse or condone this activity where it is against the law. At the same time, we acknowledge the curiosity surrounding this topic and want to help … Read more

Innovating While Microdosing: How to Step Up Your Creative Game

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Learn More About Psilocybin Mushroom Spores Mainstream Society Maria Nazdravan · October 26th, 2020 Psychedelics and creativity share a long, fruitful history. While larger doses have catalyzed several creative breakthroughs in science, music, and art, the increasing popularity of microdosing is demonstrating that small, sub-perceptual doses of LSD or psilocybin can have just as big … Read more

Oregon Decriminalizes Drug Possession, Psilocybin Therapy Becomes Reality, and Five More States Legalize Cannabis

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Learn More About Psilocybin Mushroom Spores Community Sporestore · November 5th, 2020 Major changes swept America on November 3, and not only because of the uncertain outcome of the U.S. Presidential election. For countless people across the nation—and around the world—the day will also be remembered as the one that heralded unprecedented changes to many … Read more