Long sort shot I have a degenerative spinal disease and I was kicked out of my primary cares supervision for my pain management for no reason and no warning. I had been with him for 11years never stepping out of line at all. Except my last visit when I wanted stop the opioids and try psychedelic therapy instead. If anyone had any advice or suggestions I am completely underwater with all this. The kicker is the doctors stopped me from working 4 years ago because of my injury and to go do an ibogaine retreat is way pound my price range. I mean who has 15k laying around. Anyways I’m new psychedelic therapy bu not psychedelics I am very well traveled in that area.

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

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.

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?

Psychedelics are going to be the thing that catapult you into more stability, comfort & contentment. They teach you how to cope with the stress of life in a very productive way. Instead of allowing your life to flash before you because you are trapped in a bunch of traumatic responses. I'm not saying that everybody needs to journey deep on a large amount of a psychedelic medicine, but I do believe that many people could benefit from a microdosing journey. You need to be open to the change that it bring & not set too many high expectations. The reality is that it's not realistic to be happy all the time & they are not going to make you just feel happy all the time & fix your life so nothing bad ever happens but they open your mind up & help you understand how to deal with it when it gets rough. Life ebs & flows. You're going to have good days & you're going to have bad days. You're going have good periods in your life & you're gonna have bad periods in your life, that is never going to end. It's the way you're dealing with it, coping with it & the mindset that you have that matters. It's about learning how to surrender to it & this is exactly what the medicine teaches you. Life does & it will continue to throw rocks at you from every single direction. It is a choice to remain a victim in those moments instead of learning how to regulate yourself & learning how to develop resilience. I know that for me personally, it was almost impossible for me to learn all of this before I started working with psychedelics because I was so trapped within my patterns. Patterns that I had been repeating over & over again my whole life & I thought that I would never be able to move past it. It is so hard to get out of victimhood once you are trapped in it but trust me when I say that it's possible. Once I started surrendering to the medicine my life completely changed. It helped me to break away from my old thoughts & habits & I started to create new ones that were much more involved. I started to lose interest in all of the patterns that were causing me harm & I started to be interested in new habits that actually benefited my life. From here is where my whole life change, my attitude & my beliefs changed.