why shrooms aren't working for you come on fix my life will you no you take mushrooms have a mind melting experience tell all your friends how it's changed your life forever you're more empathetic open-minded less depressed but then 6 to 12 months pass and all of your old habits are back you're broke and in the same place you were in before what [Music] the I think many of us have been here I certainly have especially at the beginning of my psyched journey and I've met many people along the way who's had this issue dude I
sacrificed relationships and a lot of my reputation because psychedelics man they they're weird you know how many people look at me and just I'm just some druggo because I tend to talk about Altered States Of Consciousness and the power of psychedelics like it sounds crazy to your normally like really mate drugs mushrooms those things that make you go cuckoo these toxins you're telling me that that's good for you telling me that that help with your personal growth and spirituality what about Dave I knew a kid who jumped out of a freaking window what about Matt
he lost his mind what about D he takes mushrooms and he claims all this [ __ ] but his room's a bloody mess mate he's a hippie to this I would say ah he's just don't understand and don't get me wrong I'm still all for the power of the mushroom but the issue isn't with the shroom itself it's with the person using it it's like conventional wisdom I think many Industries across all categories of life a lot of us because of human nature and ego and Clinging On to the old we hold on to outdated
beliefs and practices and it takes a long time for the collective Society to actually change into The Cutting Edge stuff that works multiply this with ego and delusion it's even more difficult to get the most out of any tool or methodology proof think about it there's more practical information on how to get rich online that absolutely Works same thing with health relationships and happiness yet most of us are broke and unfulfilled is it the information methods tools and strategies it's the lack of execution and integration by most people and you hear this a lot integration
especially by me if you followed my channel what is integration how do you actually integrate these experience in a practical way that grounds these abstract insights into physical reality and not just grounding them into reality but making it stay there sustainably I don't know about you but man I've been so frustrated in the past where you think like yes I've finally got a hold of whatever problem that I have like letting go of this addiction or letting go of depression or anxiety and you think that you've conquered it and then really it just kind of
hid in the background it's like no I haven't gone anywhere mate and it's like oh [ __ ] I thought I got rid of you and it's like yeah nah mate it can be frustrating but to get back on integration as Carlos Castaneda said a man of knowledge lives by AC acting not by thinking about acting even eating 5 G in silent Darkness ain't going to fix your problems bro it might give you a hell of a story though so I'm just about to talk about my last heroic mushroom dose I pull out my journal
I [ __ ] you not the first page I just went like this and look what it says I don't if you can read it there this was my intention going into my heroic dose which is a big mistake which we're going to get into my intention is to get some deep healing and to purge out fear and any other negativity that's holding me back what is the theme fear Darkness purging healing healing implies you're sick purging out fear implies that you have fear to purge out and facing your negativity implies that you have negativity
to face this is the problem with identifying with these negative behavior patterns instead of energies that kind of flow in and out so I took a heroic dose to face my demons and level up my spirituality and boy did I face my demons I took 7.5 G of cilos sub aragosa which is probably equivalent to 15 G of cubensis my physical body disintegrates and my soul turns inside out I'm crying and pleading because of how painful it is my teeth literally falls out my body broke down atom by atom while I was screaming in agony
while being stuck in a teror loop seven eternities later after facing the devil and having my sanity tested I re-entered normal reality now of course I had to justify my dark experience so I claimed all this yion Shadow work progression I believed it but deep down I knew it wasn't true I was just using mushrooms to spiritually bypass my problems the truth is I traumatized myself and had to use Mental transmutation and Logo therapy to make it okay which is definitely better than dwelling and crying over it you don't always have to go to the
darkest depths to to grow you know what I mean cuz the darkness it's going to come eventually you don't have to actively seek it out cuz technically I could go out in the slums of Brazil get brutally beaten to an inch of my life have a near-death experience and maybe even grow from that experience and learn something from it but it'll be pretty silly to go of my way to do that you know what I mean to put my life in jeopardy some people get scarred from overloading their psyche with psychedelics especially when they have
heavy Psych ological burdens working out is great for muscle growth but if you lift too heavy with improper technique failing to stretch beforehand and neglecting the right nutrition afterwards you're going to hurt yourself more than help yourself yet this is how many approach psychedelics and spirituality I was using spiritual bypassing instead of doing the real work we think about acting more than actually acting you know and this is a part of human nature it reminds me of that Louis CK bit so he's in a plane in first class and this military guy walks past and
he thinks you know what I should give my seat to this guy you know what I mean and he starts feeling good like oh my God I'm such a good person for thinking about that thing that I'm never going to do of course he doesn't give his seat to this military guy but it still makes you feel good for even thinking about doing it I'm definitely guilty of this sometimes I just think of doing something good and you get like this dopamine boost like yeah so you going to do it nah I just want to
marinade in this oh good feel yeah I feel so good about myself build my self-esteem I know this psychedelic spiritual journey can be very isolating but it's only isolating because you make it isolating for yourself especially in this age of the internet where there's communities everywhere join a community don't do this by yourself think of any success story in sports or business or art or whatever it is they always have a community they always have mentors they always have people who help them progress and friends to lift them up no one does this [ __
] by themselves so to think that you can do it by yourself that's a red flag it's a narcissistic ego red flag and I would stamp that program out immediately not integrating not eating healthy not exercising not working on your career not humbling yourself and getting a coach or Mentor is why shrooms ain't working for you psychedelics are non-specific amplifiers of Consciousness this means that whatever is inside your mind is going to be magnified and intensified mushrooms are not objective medicines that fix your life every medicine in the world can be straight up deadly poison
depending on dose but more importantly how you use it some people can die from freaking peanuts bro peanuts so you don't think shrooms is going to severely damage someone psychologically maybe they have a certain psychological frame or genetic makeup I don't know not all human beings are cut from the same cloth honestly I think some people should stay the hell away from psychedelic and sometimes it's hard to know who obviously you know there are the obvious ones like if you have schizophrenia or severe mental health problems like bipolar that's when things can get really dangerous
if you have a peaceful State of Mind inside your heart this could get Amplified into Nirvana Enlightenment but if you're this timid Wallflower this could easily get Amplified into extreme anxiety and fear this could even turn into full-blown paranoia that the people that you're with are against you they're conspiring against you this is why dealing with your heavy psychological burdens before going into a psychedelic experience is essential using mushrooms as the only tool to deal with your mental problems is a recipe for disaster it's like using a chainsaw to sharpen your pencil I mean it
can be done I guess if you're extremely skilled but it's so Overkill and risky that it's not worth the cheese a pattern that I've noticed is that if you have this tendency to Escape reality not deal with your relationships can't even like sit still without having to distract yourself and can't be alone with your thoughts then depending on the situation using mushrooms can make this worse it can you know cuz the ego is very sneaky that way and this is where we get into spiritual ego or or spiritual bypassing like honestly if you want to
get high and take drugs and Escape just own that fact cuz I've gone through these stages of deny where I used things like weed and these kind of drugs to just escape from reality but I would justify it like oh no I'm doing this because it's good for me it helped me with XYZ like using rationalization rationalizations I have this long list of Pros to make myself feel better but because I was so insecure I I couldn't accept it but once you accept like you know what I'm taking I'm getting higher because I want to
get high I like to trip out I want to escape my reality my my life is hard right now I don't know what to do just let me have a an escape you know at least being honest with yourself will make a night and day difference in processing this versus just bullshitting yourself tell the truth especially to yourself as the first agreement states be impeccable with your word but rationalizing taking drugs like it's a healthy way to heal your depression is a red flag for mental problems this is particularly true when mixing psychedelics with ketamine
weed alcohol junk food and other stimulations like Terence McKenna alluded to psychedelics don't work on stupid people it has to do with your own intelligence truly stupid people aren't interested in psychedelics because they can't figure out what the point of it is uh it feeds off intelligence it's a Consciousness expanding drug if you don't have any Consciousness it can't expand it you got to be SP especially careful if you're narcissistic but unfortunately the cruel joke that nature has played is that the more narcissistic you are the less likely you're going to be aware of it
the more you gas light the more mental gymnastics you play on yourself the more you can use psychedelics as this Messiah complex where you build your ego to this point where you think you're special you're this enlightened Prophet I've known people who allegedly reive messages from the that they must stop this other person in the psychonaut community because he's not talking about them the right way and it's your duty to stop them Pro tip if the message of the mushroom Gods is to propagate the dark arts of Gossip I'm sorry to say but you've been
duped by narcissism like I never understood this whole gossip thing especially in the Psychedelic Community we're such a small Niche group that gets targeted by the law like most of this stuff is illegal in most countries in the world you know it's so heavily stigmatized and when I see Psychonauts in the community like gossiping and talking [ __ ] about each other it's just oh it's [ __ ] it's [ __ ] gross bro take these psychedelics to claim that you're spiritual and ego and open-minded and empathetic but only if you think like me that's
why narcissism and psychedelics do not go handin hand very well and unfortunately it makes a very hard it blinds the person they get hypnotized into this trance almost cuz when you're convinced you're convinced again it's all about emotions grabbing you more than thinking rationally this happens more often than you may think and it's tragic man it breaks my heart because you see at the beginning of this journey that they have just such a loving kind empathetic genuine soul but then you see over time through years and it's like you can't even deny it because you
see it they start to gain way the dark circle they start to degrade over time this is the same pattern that possesses some spiritual gurus creating Cults honestly I always look at getting offended as a massive red flag or getting offended because someone thinks in a different way than you and I've been in that place where I've be so enthralled by whatever I believe in that when someone would have an opposite Viewpoint I would get triggered but huge red flag and that was when my life was down the toilet that was when I was angry
when I was addicted when I was going through all these destructive habits you know that's why I think that bad trips can be a blessing in disguise especially when you're going on this path sometimes this is all context building for dealing with the psychological burdens that you have buried in your psyche so that it doesn't just get Amplified and recreated in the Psychedelic experience and then you use that to as your personality armor you know spiritual bypassing ego sneaky mate very sneaky my point is when you use this as the only tool and you don't
do anything else right like you still eat like [ __ ] you don't make your bed you don't have coaching or therapy or have a community or don't have a a goal for yourself some sort of career or skills that you can develop you know things like this if you don't have anything going for you in your life and you just focus on Psych dels to heal yourself and to advance on the spiritual path that's when they become a big trap and that's when they don't work for people and sometimes it can be genetics I
know people who take massive Doses and it just it doesn't work so sometimes genetics can actually play a part and some people are more sensitive my wife for example she could take one gram of mushrooms and go deeper than most of you could with 10 G even when I do iasa half of my experience is I didn't get anything from it and I noticed that the more psychological blockage I have the more I'm Clinging On to these mental patterns the harder it is to really let go and enter these spaces you know and get the
most out of it it's human nature to look for shortcuts these mentalistic to try to find the path of least resistance to get the most benefit and sometimes there are these parts sometimes there are like you know low hanging fruit you get the most reward for the least amount of effort but sometimes I mean look at meditation versus Xanax they both tackle the same thing like let's say if you're trying to be more relaxed and less stressed more calm Xanax is going to get you there way quicker guaranteed whereas meditation oh you got to do
it every day and you going to do it for ages sometimes it takes time it's like screw meditation bro really I have to do this for like 2 months to even feel somewhat benefits and okay I might feel a little bit of alleviation but the anxiety is still there whereas Xanax boom but does that mean we should take xanx for every time we feel a little bit of anxiety oh take my XX take my XX but I hope that we all know the danger of relying on external substances to change an internal State wh sorry
bro sometimes you got to do this slow hard boring stuff and I hate that I feel like a broken record here but it's like come on man go for a run just like you know what I mean like just all the information is there so I'm not even going to get into it but just take care of your physical health your mental health your wealth your relationships all this kind of stuff I'm a massive believer in the power of mushroom especially in the smaller doses for just increasing neuroplasticity and I have a ADHD brain and
mushrooms tend to help me with this so every once in a while I'll have a little dose and little bit of a brain boost like a neut Tropic you know what I mean and when I go into the heavier doses I don't rely on this I don't go into this from this healing perspective like a I need to heal myself because I'm I'm sick and I need to deal with my problems I don't do that anymore that was once I changed that mentality everything changed if I get something out of it awesome if I don't
yeah whatever sometimes it's nice to just reconnect with the The Mystery of Life you know kind of re reconnect and that's it I don't actually I don't I don't expect anything from it anymore cuz my life is awesome with or without it and paradoxically when you let go of the need to heal or grow from psychedelics that's probably when you might actually grow from them the most but at that point you're like yeah I'm good like if it happens it happens if it doesn't it doesn't you know whatever and this is how you get shrooms
to work for you not against you and that's not to rely on them especially when you're at this really tough place in life and you got nothing else G for you and you use mushrooms as like this jump start to get you started no one I'm a big proponent of getting a coach or a guide or a mentor someone to help you along this process to save you the time and effort and heartache and trying to do it by yourself that's ego that's narcissism I don't need anyone I can do this by myself H yes
but we're a collective species human beings we are yes Homo sapiens we're social creatures so before you kind of rely on this need to like oh I need mushrooms to fix me it's like you got to ask where is this actually coming from is it coming from a genuine place or is it coming from a place of me trying to take shortcuts and then you look back in your life and like do I tend to take shortcuts in my life you going to be honest with yourself so I'm going to share some harsh truths that
may trigger some of you not all of you but some of you and I say this just from from a place of trying to be a good mate here and it's not even that controversial really these are things that not only that I've applied in my own life that is help me tremendously but take myself out of the picture read any psychology philosophy or self-development book and you're going to see these patterns reappearing over and over and over again and doing this plus using mushrooms to amplify your life that's when you'll get much more out
of it not that I recommend it of course cuz you know disclaimer psychedelic looks bad illegal no don't do it but if you do do this upgrading your PE group so if all your m a lazy Stoners or drinkers who only look forward to the weekend to party and hate their life on the weekdays then I have bad news for you you're the average of The Five People You spend the most time with so if your peer group are losers then leave and join a new group and this sounds harsh and it is it is
to some degree but what's even more harsh is what you're doing to yourself especially in 10 to 20 years CU if your life sucks now and you continue on that same path oh man it gets so much worse it comp that [ __ ] compounds The Good Life compounds just as a bad life compounds there's no such thing as stagnation you're either getting worse or you're getting better don't be loyal just for the sake of being loyal this almost ruined my life where I stayed with my toxic friends who only live to escape reality instead
of hanging out with higher caliber people be loyal to your higher self to your potential self if you think life is bad now in your teens or in your 20s if you keep doing what you're doing your 40s and 50s are going to be straight up hell why do you think suicide is much more common in men in their 40s and 50s it's because 20s and 30s I'm like yeah you know the life wasn't perfect but they just kind of went with emotions until all those bad habits compound to it turned into this giant monster
and now they're 40 and 50 and it's like oh [ __ ] what have I done hang out with people who share future goals not just your history an easy hack to snapping out of your own [ __ ] and kind of getting the most out of mushrooms and getting into that space is to step outside yourself do something for someone else be of service be useful to society this can be as simple as volunteering to a charity or even giving money away or using your skills and knowledge to help other people to teach get
a [ __ ] Mentor now I've been saying this for years and if there one single advice that I could give my younger self is just get a [ __ ] mentor and I have sporadically throughout many years but then there will be a long Gap where I just wouldn't especially when think I think anyway things are going okay I'm comfortable always get a mentor and in all areas of life right like if you're trying to learn tennis get a tennis teacher you're going to grow 10x faster than just trying to do it by yourself
watching videos trying to heal by yourself is going to take so much longer than having a a good therapist trying to grow your career by yourself is going to take you 10 years which could take you one year with a good coach so whether you're developing skills integrating psychedelic experiences or progressing on your spiritual path or whatever it is in life get a mentor get a mentor get a mentor get a mentor don't use money as an excuse you need to tell your subconscious that you're worth investing think about multi-millionaires and billionaires or the greatest
tennis player of all time or Michael Jordan or anyone on the top of their game like these are the best of the best of the best and even they still have mentors they still get coaching and then you get broke drug addicts who think they don't need one you know what I mean like it's a mentality shift really really think about this your outside reality is a manifestation of how your internal reality are operates if you think you're above getting a mentor getting a coach you're playing this game of life on super hard mode and
life goes quick man it goes quick take care of your health the healthier your body is the healthier your mind will be then next time you go into the Psychedelic experience like mushrooms nausea will be much less you have much less um turmoil you know way less chance for turmoil and the experiences will probably get through easier and you'll get more out of it that way and journaling this is one I would recommend every single day and not just when you have a motivational spurt or when you're in a dark and nighte of the soul
and you feel like you need to express do it all the time every day writing improves your thinking thinking improves the way you speak and how you speak will determine how far you get in life since this is a social Matrix writing will help you gain more focus and Clarity will improve your creativity will will improve your introspection you can go back and actually see patterns because memories they come and they go man but when you write it down you're immortalizing this you know journaling is a huge part of integration imagine doing like a 4-year
degree at school and not writing anything down you're going to forget most of it but if you write everything down you go back to it your brain absorbs it better integrate within your being and it's also a good way to process your emotions and feelings couple prompts I can share to get you started on the journaling so you don't have an excuse is what are 10 wins that I had today look for little wins even if it's making your bed or having a shower or drinking water do what you can to build that self-esteem and
positive psychology second prompt is what drained my energy today why knowing what gives you energy and what drains your energy will tell you a lot about who you are and what you should be focusing on and also the path that you should avoid which is just as important three what did I learn today four what's one thing I can do tomorrow to make the rest of my week easier there's so much more to dive into but I think that's enough for today especially when it comes to psychedelic integration but if you follow even some of
these hacks that I've shared today you'll get so much more out of the mushroom experience and lessen the chances for adverse effect if you got some value out of this video and you wish to see more then subscribe to this channel like the video share it around and if you want to go even deeper then consider supporting us on patreon or checking out my website much love and I'll see you on the other side peace
