This is a fantastic article you guys about Bill, Wilson, and others in early AA using psychedelics, both as a means of assisting recovery and as a means of inducing spiritual experience. It’s one of the best written article articles I’ve found in my 12 year sober. https://www.psychedelicsinrecovery.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Distilled-Spirits-excerpt.pdf Blessings everybody. May we all be happy. May we all be free. May we all be well! ❤️🫶🙏☀️ One love

Microdosing Is a wonderful tool to have when you are struggling with addiction. I used to drink way too much & when I was getting sober, instead of just quitting drinking cold turkey, I found that replacing the drinking with something that was more beneficial for me was how I stayed consistent in my sobriety. Microdosing will help to reduce many of the symptoms that come along with getting clean like body aches, anxiety & depression. Microdosing is not addictive & it's not something that you take every single day. You can microdose for up to 5 days in a row but you always want to allow yourself a couple of days off the medicine. This is because if you take it every day, your tolerance to the medicine is going to skyrocket. If you were to microdose every single day, eventually you will have to start taking more of the medicine every day & this is counterintuitive to what the microdosing experience offers you & it is a waste of medicine. The days that you are off the medicine also serves as an integration period so that you can process all of the things that you experienced when you were microdosing. I recommend keeping a journal of your thoughts on your microdose days & looking back on them when you're not microdosing, this also helps with integration.

Hello friends. I am blessed with a great many talents, and I am wrecked by a lot of challenges. This is because I have autism spectrum disorder. I suppose I have to share the usual disclaimer to not do drugs, and that this is something that should encourage harm reduction. With that out of the way, I'm happy to share with you all my journey with mind-altering substances and kind of see where this lands, but as you all have seen my posts by now, I rarely meander into anything not thought out. I was born in 1978, when there was a relatively limited understanding of autism that wasn't outwardly profound, like severe cognitive impairments and with that, social challenges. My parents knew that with every talent I had came an unfortunate social or physical challenge, but they wouldn't allow me to give into a mentality of feeling a form of victimhood. I knew I was kind of odd but they protected me, I learned how to act around friends, and my masking grew. Along came college, where I would learn a lot about wonderful mild serotonin agonists (we call it beer), but I also learned by trial, error and instinct that something was just simply not quite typical about me. I was jumpy to say the least. I got startled easily. I would rock back and forth when things got loud. I'd have meltdowns, I was prone to slapping my head, but here in college? Clean slate fam. Along came a close friend who introduced me to LSD at age 22, my last year of college. My roommates, friends and everyone who saw me at this party that night said I simply acted like a completely different person, and unlike the memory-altering issues with alcohol, I remember this evening perfectly. This was 25 years ago. I didn't pick it up again until 2013, dosing LSD with friends at Burning Man. I got way into it and realized it cleared up this "pervasive anxiety" I seemed to have not knowing it was autism. Did it intermittently for several years and then microdosed 19 months from 2018-2019, or about 165 times, every Monday and Thursday at 8:00 AM. Seemed to clear up ASD symptoms quite a bit and I'd love to get back into it.

You only get those with higher doses of psychedelic medicine. When you are microdosing, you are taking a sub-perceptual amount which is essentially just a fraction of a higher dose. You should not be getting visuals or having any types of distortions of your reality. It should just change your thought proces & it should change the way you are feeling. Big experiences are often times not for everyone & this is why I teach people about microdosing because it's a nice middle ground between doing higher doses & not taking them at all. Microdosing allows you to tap into the psychedelic space & it allows you to benefit from it without having to fully dive in. From my own personal experience, higher doses can be very intense and I do not recommend them for everyone. I do, however, recommend microdosing to the vast majority of people. If people are willing to learn from it, it can change so many people's lives.

Hey @Jonas Rosen, let’s help out our sister get some engagement in this community. I am currently microdosing Amanita Muscaria as i have found it to be my Ancestral heritage to work with these teachers. Although i have never had a high dose of Amanita, I want to try going in soon. Has anyone else in this community tried Amanita?