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I've used Flyagaric a few times, once as a single substance and several others in potions. It has never made me ill. Each time I have used it has been in some kind of magical context, mostly ritualised. The time I took it as a single substance was in some woods on a magical walk with another magician and we were talking about the horned god - like you do. We picked a mushroom and performed an honorary rite and then ate a piece of it. It was lovely, all the woodland became especially vibrant and the spirit of the place was massively apparent. The colours, smells and sounds of woods were greatly enhanced and I was aware of becoming much more part of the place too, i.e. 'my' spirit seemed to move with much greater ease amongst everything else that inhabited the place. I was still consciously human, but defintely more merged with surroundings. My awareness of anything other than the woods disintegrated too and I can remember coming round from one spell of trance and noticing some kids quite nearby playing but I had not being able to hear them or be aware of them in other ways at all. In many ways I experienced it as quite a soft trip because it didn't contain any far out visual hallucinations or crazy meandering thoughts I've come to expect from other psycoactive substances, but the effects were much more subtle and much more enchanting really.
The other occasions I've had it in potions (not made by me, so no recipes, sorry) have also being in the woods as a sacrament in ritual. These experiences have contained recognisable elements of the above one with regards to the woodland spirits (god that sounds twee - but it's not believe me!) but have also had a significant element of deity or whatever else was being conjured, as well as the other ingredients of the potion of course.
I can't for myself ever wish to partake of flyagaric indoors now, just doens't seem to fit. Try it in the woods, probably best in the ones you pick it in and fly, fly, fly....
On dosing, just take a small amount, you can always take more to enhance the effect if you want, be calm, be centred and do honour the shroom and the spirit of the place first. Other common sense things not to forget are about not eating mouldy or maggoty ones! And as a last thought I was just considering that there's always risk involved in taking toxic substances, so maybe you have to be prepared to get ill or even die in which case you might want to have someone there with you! |
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