psilocybin

I've eaten actual mushrooms and extracted psilocybin and I can say the latter is a much more enjoyable experience.

The visuals generated by the neural network remind me of visuals experienced under the influence of psilocybin or LSD.

For me psilocybin is too much of an emotional experience to focus on any abstract problems.

Again, I think that the chemicals themselves (if we're talking about psilocybin and LSD) are probably a minor factor.

I have a vivid and fond memory of one particular experience with psilocybin many years ago.

A healthy dose of psilocybin mushrooms is what Bill Hicks recommended.

They (at least psilocybin) usually just make me feel uncomfortable, and I have to grit my teeth through the whole experience.

I have a similar anecdote but LSD rather than psilocybin and depression rather than anxiety.

I've gained massive insights into myself through the use of psilocybin, and I'm not alone.

A highly reputed psilocybin vendor, TripsWithScience (believably claims to) grow psychedlic mushrooms in his home, using spores he originally collected himself, then extracts psilocybin, packages it up and mails it to the recipient.

Taking psilocybin mushrooms in a positive environment with my friends was perhaps the single most therapeutic and rewarding thing I’ve ever experienced.

Just because they are banned, doesn't make psilocybin mushrooms harmful.

My educated guess is everyone here who has admitted to their past or current use of psilocybin/lsd/etc is a highly intelligent and "productive" member of society.

From the article: "We counted participants as having any lifetime psychedelic use if they reported use of LSD, psilocybin, mescaline or peyote." This is pretty typical use of the term.

I doubt it, even in the article they extol the virtues of "magical" mushrooms: > While it’s also being researched for uses in less cosmic concerns like breaking addiction and treat​ing cancer, psilocybin’s third-eye-opening properties aren’t superficial.

But some people undergo a subtle shift from self-improvement and learning to "experience chasing", and the chasing turns into escapism, and LSD and psilocybin are rather poor drugs for escape (they intensify life, rather than drowning it out) while alcohol, heroin, and cocaine are good for that.

Psilocybin mushrooms taste like someone mixed stale almonds with household dust and a tiny touch of vomit.