Introduction How did you discover psychedelic medicine and what led you to explore it? It’s interesting to me that I just started to deep dive into psychedelics in the beginning of 2022 but my actual first experience with them was in 2010. I was out traveling and living overseas and at a point in my life where I wasn’t happy with who I was or who I was becoming. I was running away from myself and started to numb the pain through a life of clubbing and partying in Thailand. Over time the lifestyle caught up with me and I knew I needed to make changes. I felt like if I didn’t change the trajectory my life would be pretty awful. It was at this time I decided to cut my friendships off and instead of partying I would go camping in the jungles of Thailand on my own. It was a lonely time but a time I truly cherished as it was what I needed. During one of these camping trips I decided to go on a very long hike. I was at a place quite secluded not known to tourists and my gosh it was paradise. Imagine jetting limestone rock formations and clear blue lake water everywhere, it was out of the movie Avatar. It was here that I would hike and discover a substance that till this day I can’t figure out. I came across a tribe of people in the jungle, they didn’t speak Thai but seemed to communicate with me non verbally very well. They were passing around a bowl of some sort of vegetation and eating small amounts of it. They passed the bowl to me and I don’t know why but I was compelled to eat it as if it were a salad. The tribesmen paused at first to look at what I was doing but didn’t seem too bothered. But as I looked at them to see their reaction it was then I realized this was not a normal bowl of salad. My throat grew numb and slowly the rest of my body did too. I fell back to the ground and thought, my God I’ve been poisoned. The sun flew across the sky and I saw the blueness of the sky burn away to reveal a dark night sky full of stars and pop ! I go flying into it! This may sound strange but I didn’t feel like I was alone, it felt like there was some sort of great all knowing and all loving spirit. This spirit would instruct me to focus on a star and travel there at the speed of thought. So I did! I looked at one star and immediately zoomed there only to discover it wasn’t a star but an entire galaxy. I was out of the confines of my physical mind so I could literally visualize and count trillions of stars within seconds though time didn’t seem to exist here. This was an exhilarating experience as one could imagine so I did this over and over again. I’d focus on a point of light and bam I’d be there only to see it was another galaxy I’d count the stars and repeat! I was traveling the universe with my mind ! If this wasn’t already cool enough I was also realizing the the celestial bodies also created sounds and were full of vibration and the universe was actually quite musical. Anyway, I kept galaxy hoping for some time (though there is no time) and eventually my consciousness pulled away and started to instead not focus on one galaxy but to try to focus at the bigger picture, I wanted to see all the galaxies all at once and when I was in the view of 800 billion galaxies all with over a trillion stars I saw what looked like the connecting lines of mycelium, the universe looked like mycelium! Wow ! I though to myself ! If this mind trip couldn’t get trippier it was about to trip me up even more! Out of the blackness of space a gold beam of light hit me like if a golden lazer beam was aimed right at my forehead. It was beautiful and mesmerizing and from the beam of golden light a cosmic rose began to bloom, the rose was trillions of light years across in scale and the rim of each petal was composed of the most magical looking pixie dust made of gold and rainbow. To my shock each petal of the rose was a portal to another universe each with countless stars and galaxies of their own and to my understanding multiple dimensions as well. It was at this horror and beauty my consciousness began to pull back into my body, the cosmic rose began to close and my consciousness would then slam back to earth at breakneck speeds. And then there I was laying on the ground alone in the middle of the night. I was fortunate enough the at this point there was enough light for me to make my way back to my tent. I was extremely thirsty as well and drank rain water collected in leaves and I was left feeling dumbfounded, confused, dazed and in bewilderment as I took years to process what happened. I was never the same again.
Daniel's Journey: 3 Questions
Daniel's Journey: 3 Questions
Daniel's Journey: 3 Questions
Introduction How did you discover psychedelic medicine and what led you to explore it? It’s interesting to me that I just started to deep dive into psychedelics in the beginning of 2022 but my actual first experience with them was in 2010. I was out traveling and living overseas and at a point in my life where I wasn’t happy with who I was or who I was becoming. I was running away from myself and started to numb the pain through a life of clubbing and partying in Thailand. Over time the lifestyle caught up with me and I knew I needed to make changes. I felt like if I didn’t change the trajectory my life would be pretty awful. It was at this time I decided to cut my friendships off and instead of partying I would go camping in the jungles of Thailand on my own. It was a lonely time but a time I truly cherished as it was what I needed. During one of these camping trips I decided to go on a very long hike. I was at a place quite secluded not known to tourists and my gosh it was paradise. Imagine jetting limestone rock formations and clear blue lake water everywhere, it was out of the movie Avatar. It was here that I would hike and discover a substance that till this day I can’t figure out. I came across a tribe of people in the jungle, they didn’t speak Thai but seemed to communicate with me non verbally very well. They were passing around a bowl of some sort of vegetation and eating small amounts of it. They passed the bowl to me and I don’t know why but I was compelled to eat it as if it were a salad. The tribesmen paused at first to look at what I was doing but didn’t seem too bothered. But as I looked at them to see their reaction it was then I realized this was not a normal bowl of salad. My throat grew numb and slowly the rest of my body did too. I fell back to the ground and thought, my God I’ve been poisoned. The sun flew across the sky and I saw the blueness of the sky burn away to reveal a dark night sky full of stars and pop ! I go flying into it! This may sound strange but I didn’t feel like I was alone, it felt like there was some sort of great all knowing and all loving spirit. This spirit would instruct me to focus on a star and travel there at the speed of thought. So I did! I looked at one star and immediately zoomed there only to discover it wasn’t a star but an entire galaxy. I was out of the confines of my physical mind so I could literally visualize and count trillions of stars within seconds though time didn’t seem to exist here. This was an exhilarating experience as one could imagine so I did this over and over again. I’d focus on a point of light and bam I’d be there only to see it was another galaxy I’d count the stars and repeat! I was traveling the universe with my mind ! If this wasn’t already cool enough I was also realizing the the celestial bodies also created sounds and were full of vibration and the universe was actually quite musical. Anyway, I kept galaxy hoping for some time (though there is no time) and eventually my consciousness pulled away and started to instead not focus on one galaxy but to try to focus at the bigger picture, I wanted to see all the galaxies all at once and when I was in the view of 800 billion galaxies all with over a trillion stars I saw what looked like the connecting lines of mycelium, the universe looked like mycelium! Wow ! I though to myself ! If this mind trip couldn’t get trippier it was about to trip me up even more! Out of the blackness of space a gold beam of light hit me like if a golden lazer beam was aimed right at my forehead. It was beautiful and mesmerizing and from the beam of golden light a cosmic rose began to bloom, the rose was trillions of light years across in scale and the rim of each petal was composed of the most magical looking pixie dust made of gold and rainbow. To my shock each petal of the rose was a portal to another universe each with countless stars and galaxies of their own and to my understanding multiple dimensions as well. It was at this horror and beauty my consciousness began to pull back into my body, the cosmic rose began to close and my consciousness would then slam back to earth at breakneck speeds. And then there I was laying on the ground alone in the middle of the night. I was fortunate enough the at this point there was enough light for me to make my way back to my tent. I was extremely thirsty as well and drank rain water collected in leaves and I was left feeling dumbfounded, confused, dazed and in bewilderment as I took years to process what happened. I was never the same again.