In article <23AUG199202394...@rosie.uh.edu> st...@rosie.uh.edu (Jensen,

Dosage. Dosage, dosage dosage. From what I've heard and read of magic
mushrooms (and I guess most psychoactives) is that the effects are highly
variable dependent upon the amount of the main compound (here, psilocybin)
ingested. Because you are dealing with a very complex living organism, the
number of factors involved makes it a bit difficult to predict exactly
what effects will be manifested, but generally if you take a small
quantity, the trip tends to enhance the senses without distortion, i.e.,
greater visual and aural acuity, better edge- and motion- detection, and a
heightened awareness of space and your place within it. At higher dosages
there is a qualitative as well as a quantitative difference in the trip;
objects start to take on 'meaning' and sensory input becomes an end unto
itself, not just raw data to be processed, but sights and sounds to be
savored. Life becomes incredibly sensual, and your focus moves inward AND
outward. At what Terence McKenna calls a 'heroic dose' (I love that
phrase!) the focus is all outward, and the ego, that thin shell of
self-delusion, is no more, and at this point the greater truths start
rolling in like a bunch of insane bikers with PhD's.

Be smart,
Be careful,
and practice, practice, practice (and post results)!

Surfe momentum,

                     Rob

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