r/Psychonaut • u/3L1T3 • 8d ago
Seven Principles of a Psychonaut
Harm Reduction and Personal Safety
Prioritize safety by testing your substances and researching any substances you may be partaking.
Prepare your set (mindset), setting (environment), and have a guide or access to a helpline.
Consult a relevant healthcare professional, know your physical and/or mental limits, and always use psychedelics responsibly.
Approach these substances with respect as tools for growth, research, and exploration, not only recreational entertainment.
Do No Harm to Others
Never use psychedelics to manipulate or coerce others emotionally, mentally, physically or sexually.
Respect the boundaries and consent of others at all times, ensuring a safe and supportive environment.
Community and Connection
Foster a sense of community by supporting each other through shared experiences and challenges.
Share knowledge, insights, and resources openly and respectfully to strengthen the collective.
Diversity and Inclusion
Embrace diversity by recognizing and valuing different perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences.
Acknowledge that while the effects of these substances vary for each individual, all journeys are valid and meaningful.
Ego Awareness
Recognize psychedelics as tools for exploration, not as means to glorify one's ego or promote personal deification.
Focus on self-discovery while respecting the paths and beliefs of others without judgment.
Integration and Reflection
Take time to integrate psychedelic experiences into daily life through reflection, journaling, therapy, or group discussions.
Use insights gained to foster personal growth, improve relationships, and contribute positively to your community.
Advocacy and Education
Work to de-stigmatize psychedelics through advocacy, education, and open dialogue.
Share evidence-based information to counter myths and misconceptions while respecting legal and cultural boundaries.
r/Psychonaut • u/3L1T3 • 2d ago
Upcoming AMA with Joshua White - Founder and CEO of the Fireside Project @ 1/12/25 6:00PM PST
Hey everyone, we're excited to announce that on January 12, 2025 at 6:00pm PST Joshua White, founder and Executive Director of the Fireside Project will be joining us for an AMA. We'll also be releasing our interview with him on Divergent States. Here's his bio from their website:
Joshua (he/him) is Fireside Project’s Founder. He is a lawyer, peer support advocate, and psychedelic researcher who believes in the power of peer support and the role of support lines as foundational components of an equitable mental-health ecosystem.
Prior to founding Fireside Project, Joshua volunteered for many years as a counselor on Safe & Sound’s TALK Line and a psychedelic peer support provider for the Zendo Project.
Before devoting his life to the psychedelic field, Joshua spent more than a decade as a Deputy City Attorney at the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office, where he focused on suing businesses exploiting vulnerable communities, serving as general counsel to City departments, and co-teaching a nationally renowned clinic at Yale Law School. He also clerked on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and practiced civil litigation at Conrad | Metlitzky | Kane.
r/Psychonaut • u/PiliSuarius • 8h ago
I’m sorry but shrooms at low-medium doses make you smarter
Some say it makes them spiritual or makes them realize what’s important in life. It’s because shrooms causes top-down thinking starting from ultimate life goals. That includes reassessing what you want your life goals to be.
If the top of the tree doesn’t link to your current actions, that’s when you say wtf am I doing, time is finite, I gotta get myself together.
Notice that’s thinking from first principles. That’s more intelligent than not thinking that way.
r/Psychonaut • u/Rude-Vermicelli-1962 • 3h ago
Does dmt “rewire” the mind like mushrooms?
Obviously the word rewire is a bit much so I’m referring the change in neuroplasticity that comes with taking mushrooms. Does dmt do it too?
r/Psychonaut • u/FutureProtoPickle • 9h ago
Road Trip gummies: deducing the active ingredient
Alright, so I’ve tried these gummies a few times recently and enjoyed them. When I was younger I dabbled in RCs and tried 4-AcO-DMT quite a few times along with 4-HO-MiPT a couple of times. I lament not having bought a larger variety of cool tryptamine when they were readily available. But onto the mystery.
So, these road trip gummies definitely have an RC in them and it’s definitely a tryptamine, but it doesn’t feel like 4-Aco-DMT AKA psilacetin and it says it right on the bag that it is not that, nor psilocin, nor psilocybin. But it is definitely a tryptamine. Lab reports show negative for those three. It’s also worth noting that it feels different from 4-AcO-DMT and I had some chocolates with them a few months back.
Onto deducing the chemical.the website says they ship to 49 states excluding Louisiana. The tryptamines listed as being illegal there on their state law enforcement website lists these 11 tryptamines as being illegal:
5-methoxy-N.N-diallyl-tryptamine (5-MEO-DALT) 5-methoxy-N, N-disopropyltryptamine (5-MEO-DiPT) 5-methoxy-N.N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MEO-DMT) 5-methoxy-N-methyl-N-isopropyltryptamine (5-MEO-MIPT) 4-hydroxy-N,N-diisopropyltryptamine (4-HO-DIPT 4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-isopropyltryptamine (4-Hydroxy-MIPT) Dimethy|tryptamine (DMT) Diethyltryptamine (DET) Disopropyltryptamine (DiPT) Alpha-ethyltryptamine (AET) Alphamethyltryptamine (AMT)
It’s obviously not a 5 MeO or DMT, DiPT, DET, AE, or AMT. That leaves only two possible options, 4-HO-DiPT or 4-HO-MiPT. That latter is illegal in Florida, leaving 4-HO-MiPT AKA Miprocin as the likely candidate. Been so long since I’d last done it that I really had no comparison or memory. But it’s a good trip, I enjoy it.
Would love to see a lab report if someone were to independently test it. Otherwise, I think Miprocin is our gal.
r/Psychonaut • u/WalkingOnTightrope • 15h ago
More psychonauts who feel difficulty going back to psychedelics, cause of the unstable condition of the world?
I've done quite a lot of psychedelics in the last 3 years. But somehow something is holding me back now that there's so much shit happening in the world. Any one who relate to this feeling?
r/Psychonaut • u/jmbaf • 9h ago
Chase the dog and it'll start chasing you
TLDR: fuck around and find out.
I have had an absolutely insane few months.
Obviously I might be nuts, but I wanted to share my thoughts on the psychedelic journey for those who are interested.
For a long time, I have valued the pursuit of truth over all other things. I have made meditation a habit, and have used psychedelics regularly, sometimes taking breaks of up to 6 months in between.
A few months back, I started experiencing a very different place on some of my DMT breakthroughs than I'd ever experienced before, and realized it was what people are often speaking of when talking about "unity consciousness". It was the same state spoken of in the Tao Te Ching (which I hadn't read before experiencing it, but was shocked to find perfectly describing my experiences), by Jesus and other mystics, and by Ramana Maharshi (Be as You Are) and Advaita Vedanta. I'd never really understood these things before experiencing this state firsthand.
Coming down from these DMT experiences, there was a point at which I realized I could still "feel" that state in my day to day life - part of those trips became permanent, and that is when things started getting really weird.
Basically, I've always been able to comfort myself that what I have experienced during trips that really weirded me out could have all just been "in my head". It started getting very weird, though, when things started happening that were very hard to just explain away - because they very much violated the odds of mere coincidence - and these experiences started ramping up in frequency and intensity, even when I tried to take a step back and pause my meditations (I haven't taken psychedelics in a little while as well, maybe not for a few months - but the experiences have still been ramping up in intensity).
What's been even stranger is that I have met other people that have also experienced this - and it becomes so obvious when you're talking with someone that's experienced it, vs someone that hasn't - and they will tell me that the way I'm describing the state lines up exactly with how they would describe it. But this is a very unique state and perspective to live from - not the normal mushy gushy enlightenment people talk about like they have a clue.. honestly - it feels paradoxically very alien and strange, but also like "coming home".
Anyways, I'm not going to go into the detail of arguing about the synchronicities I've experienced. I probably wouldn't believe it if I hadn't experienced these things directly myself. But I've always been pretty rational about things - open-minded, but also very skeptical. And the crazy coincidences I've been experiencing that line up directly with themes I've been grappling with have dumbfounded me to the point of it being very hard to deny.
At the end of the day, the best model I have to explain these experiences is no longer materialism but, rather, the state I've experienced in ego death on psychedelics and during sober meditation that I had been running from for so long.
I think I'm mainly trying to provide a warning - you might think you want the answers, but shit gets fucking weird... And it seems to me there might be a point at which, after chasing the truth for so long, it starts chasing you - and there might not be any way to stop that process once it really picks up. Then, it's almost like life itself becomes a trip, but you can't comfort yourself knowing that you're going to come down at some point. No more "well thank fuck that's over" lol.
At the end of the day, I really could just be nuts. But the rabbit hole goes way deeper and gets way weirder than I could have even begun to imagine just a few years back..
r/Psychonaut • u/-mindscapes- • 29m ago
Shroom chocolate?
I have been gifted two small hearth chocolates. Supposedly they are leucistic Cambodian shroom powder mixed with chocolate. I think, and hope, it's 4 aco dmt infused chocolate. Anyone ever seen these and can share some info? Supposedly from ibiza
Edit:it seems photo doesn't show, it's two little 1inch*1inch chocolate hearts wrapped in pink a d violet Aluminum foil no brand
r/Psychonaut • u/thehomopsychonaut • 13h ago
Why did you become interested in psychedelics?
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r/Psychonaut • u/theghostfoxx • 9h ago
4-ACO-DMT
What’s up w it?? Heard 30mg is like a 🍄 trip. And how do u use it? Capsules and/or smoke, u don’t have to sniff right?
r/Psychonaut • u/valoon4 • 14h ago
What's your most extreme opinion/stance?
Just curious how you all are. For me its probably that Im pro abortion lmao
r/Psychonaut • u/xafrilla • 8h ago
The infant mind
Have you ever 'reverted' to a child state of mind on psychedelics? I mean early childhood, ages 0 - 5.
I have experienced this a few times and I wonder if it is due to early childhood fragmentation of the self. Perhaps I am experiencing parts frozen in time which have not been able to integrate. Or maybe anyone, traumatised or not, could experience it?
Has happened on mushrooms and somehow on full-spectrum CBD oil.
It's really hard to explain. It feels like returning to some primordial space. Everything is taken at face value and full force, there are no preconceived notions or defenses. Everything is full of significance in this state. It also feels very eerie. I feel whole and at one with everything but also incredibly vulnerable, as if I could be destroyed so easily. There is no time and everything is saturated with archetypes and intuition. No rational brain yet. It's an incredibly mystical experience.
Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
r/Psychonaut • u/JessjustaMess • 10h ago
Can changing your set and setting change what you see?
Can changing your set and setting (sitting up vs laying down or being outside vs being inside) with magic mushrooms change where you go when you blast off?
I do wanna add true blast off 5g+ alone in silent darkness
Super noob here- I've done it 7x over the last year but haven't ever tried going in a different way
r/Psychonaut • u/Plane-Exit9990 • 16h ago
I feel disconnected from reality.
To be short, i grew up in a modern day cult (jehovahs witnesses). i’m closing in on 30 but was 23 when i left. I’ve been agnostic since i got out. i’ve done DMT about 40+ times in the last year or so. I researched it enough to know of its presence in the human body and how to extract it from the correct plant. I had a heroic dose of mushrooms about 2-3 months ago although i didnt encounter the voice McKenna spoke of nor was it very enlightening to be completely honest. but what started my journey were some muscimol-based products from the local head shop late 2023. I’ve listened to days worth of McKenna talks, read books on philosophy, physics (both quantum & classical), consciousness and mystical experiences. i’ve reflected on upwards of 20 hours worth of psychedelic experiences brought on by different substances. I’ve explored the writings and talks of Alan Watts. All of this produced substantial changes in my world view. i abandoned my hard-nosed, reductionist views and became much more open-minded but convinced of nothing.
All of this has left me feeling disconnected from reality. From culture. From the people around me. From the version of me that once was, even. I feel as if it has emptied me out and left me dispassionate towards life in general. I have no desires, no true wants, no drive to accomplish anything of note, no goals. Few things, if any, these days bring me genuine joy anymore. I feel as if who i am has become nothing more than a character that i am obliged to play when people are around. Most of the time i’m simply overthinking or overanalyzing something in my life or in my duties.
From the outside you wouldn’t guess any of this. I’m healthy enough. I switched jobs recently. I got a girlfriend. I can usually hold a decent conversation despite the fact that i’m never interested in what’s being said. I fear that my ego has been reduced down to almost nothing and that there is no architecture left upon which to build it back. i don’t want to look people in the eyes anymore. i don’t want to connect with them. I’m not brave enough to speak up for what i need or want. i feel like my identity has been scattered to the winds and i’ve become so unconsciously distraught my its absence that i don’t really know how to properly interact with folks anymore. More often than not, i wish i could just disappear or run off to a monastery in Asia somewhere and spend the rest of my days there.
r/Psychonaut • u/psyched622 • 1d ago
How can you tell someone does/did psychedelics or not upon first meeting them?
I ask because I met someone and one of the very first thing they asked me was if I do psychedelics. I asked how they knew, and they said that it was just a feeling/vibe. I don't come off as traditionally hippie or stereotypical, most others don't know that I trip, but when I meet others that do psychedelics they just sort of know
This got me thinking..I also get this vibe about certain people but I can't quite put my finger on it. Perhaps psychedelic use gives people a certain personality trait Maybe they're more open? Calm? More intentional? Idk. What makes you meet someone and make a (correct) educated guess that they do psychedelics or did them in the past? What's a dead giveaway?
r/Psychonaut • u/Chemical-Plankton420 • 11h ago
How to tell if a substance is DMT or 5-Meo-DMT?
A few years ago, someone gave me a vial of yellowish powder. I can't remember if it was DMT or 5-meo-dmt. At the time, I had no interest in either. Now I want to do some exploring, only if it is DMT.
Here's a clue - he extracted it himself. He explained how he did it, but I don't remember. He may have extracted it from tree bark, or I could be mixing up memories. I live in Austin, if that helps.
r/Psychonaut • u/eazymfn3 • 13h ago
If there were a New Earth, what would it look like and what things would you want based on your experience here on 🌍
I’m currently tripping on 3 tabs right now. I’m just happy in the moment and if we all died tomorrow I could say that I lived a fulfilling life and I did some fun, goofy, weird ass shit and had an amazing time doing it.
I also should also add that it hasn’t been all sunshine and rainbows. I’ve also had an enormous amount of grief, pain, and suffering.
Would I do it all again? Probably. Just not here. However, a New Earth where everything is enhanced, even trees are neon green and fluorescent. Psychedelic colors everywhere. There’s heavy ass bass music. Equality, progress, peace and kindness between all. Unconditional love.. you can still experience pain it just doesn’t affect us like it used to.
You can do molly without a come down, you can do acid and only trip for an hour, space cocaine aka ketamine is free.
This list could go on and on for me, but I wanna hear what you would want?
r/Psychonaut • u/Salviafun • 21h ago
Worst psychedelics to avoid?
So what are the names of the psychedelics that either don’t feel good or are just dangerous? I’ve heard that Datura is one of them is this true? What are some that should be avoided?
r/Psychonaut • u/HunYiah • 11h ago
Lemon tek 4g an hour ago
It's been an hour after 4g lemon tek of Makilla Gorilla and so far it's just been some mild visuals and such.
I know sometimes it can take a while but usually after an hour in the trip is taking off, this time iys more of a plateau
Have y'all experienced a longer than expected come up on lemon tek before?
Will update later
r/Psychonaut • u/SaintSerah • 11h ago
froze my blue honey… is it still ok?
i’m bumming… I can’t find good information on this so hoping you guys can help me. About two months ago I made some blue honey (🍄🟫🪄🍯). I tested it last month and it still seemed to have good potency. I then had to travel for a couple of weeks, so I stored it safely in my garage, not trusting my roommate to stay out of my shit. however, it froze the last couple of weeks and when I got home tonight, I saw that the honey was pretty frozen. I could still stir it, but it was a tough consistency. I’ve read that freezing shrooms can damage the compounds. What likelihood do you think this blue honey will still be effective. I took 3 tablespoons to test it. Will report results. The last time I took 3 tablespoons I had a nice mellow ride.
r/Psychonaut • u/Afraid_Ad_1536 • 18h ago
Metaphysical video recommendations for during and after psychedelics.
So apparently mind expanding videos to watch while on shrooms isn't shroomy enough for r/shrooms. I suspect that I may get better suggestions here anyway because I'm sure there are a good number of you who are expanding your experience in this universe in other ways than just substances.
I'm a bit of a metaphysics nerd and I enjoy experiencing insightful videos while I'm in an altered state. I've also been exploring my spirituality after a particularly intense K trip. I'm looking for your recommendations (let's keep it to YouTube for accessibility) for videos that particularly touched you during or in the afterglow of psychedelics.
You can throw some psychology and quantum physics at me too but what I'm particularly interested in is videos about spiritual, esoteric and occult teachings. The relationship between spirituality and psychedelics is a bonus.
I've searched for previous posts but they're mostly about music videos and generally trippy stuff, which isn't what I'm about.
r/Psychonaut • u/SenseiAzul • 12h ago
DAE know how to trigger their chills on command?
When I was younger, I learned to trigger and sustain my chills/goosebumps what I now understand as "Yin energy", partly because my favorite class was much colder than my other classes. Unknowingly, the temperature change along with other variables triggered my chills. I eventually taught myself to produce them without external triggers, because I enjoyed the sense of euphoria and relaxation it brought. After being able to hold chills for about 1 minute through practice, I began thinking to myself, "This feels like literal energy flowing through me." So, I taught myself to completely control the direction, flow, and intensity of my chills. After learning to move energy outside of my body and contain it, I developed a theory: I wondered if others could feel what I feel.
I started by generating a magnetic field with just the fingertips of my pointer fingers. Achieved by applying focus between my fingers and moving them together, it was easy to do, and the effect was very noticeable for me. I then applied the effect to my entire hands, and although it was harder to sustain, I began to notice it having a perceivable effect on people. About 1/4 of people could feel my energy in a way that was comparable to what I perceived and felt when generate Ki or manipulate it.
At the time, I was only generating chills, but as I practiced daily, I was able to control the strength of my chills more effectively. Eventually, about 2/3 of the people I tried it on felt a noticeable difference while I sustained the technique. While trying this, I intentionally avoided telling people that they might feel anything, to prevent placebo effects. If someone wasn’t instantly scared, confused, or excited by the experience, their main question would be: "What am I supposed to feel?" I still wouldn't tell them.
At that point, I would simply ask if they felt anything different. If they could feel something, they would immediately pull their hand away and compare the sensation of my energy to the environment. This ensured that whatever feeling they experienced came from my hands and not from any other source. They could literally perceive my chills, and by using more focus and energy, I could create different and greater effects.
It turned into a strange magic trick for me throughout middle school, and I was definitely regarded as the "weird kid" for doing it—whether people felt the energy or not lol. I've progressed much further from then. For there I've realized new sides and aspects to these energies I've never thought were there.
For anyone wanting to learn to use or control their Chills/Goosebumps/VGP and do this too Check out my Youtube, its Sensei's Library, I have a video there that will teach you the basics of what I've learned in the past 10 years of practice. There is aso a video explaining this technique at the bottom. At the bottom of this article will be a link to a study from the National Library of Medicine in regards to VGP/Chills. There is much more to this topic. Also I have another article on reddit for this technique if anyone would like to try themselves. You'll have some crazy results if you practice a little. Check out the links if interested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED7gXX7Na5c Or search Sensei's Library on Youtube for a video on how to do this
https://www.reddit.com/r/Spiritualchills/comments/1htrseg/how_to_get_other_people_to_feel_your_spiritual/ Or go to my profile and view my posts.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6071615/ Or search NIH VGP study on google
r/Psychonaut • u/Eastern-Programmer-9 • 18h ago
Hippie Flipping and then 2CB?
Wife and I are hippie flipping today. We usually redose with Molly one more time afterwards. Was thinking of trying 2CB afterwards for the nexus flip instead of MDMA redose. Anyone have any experience with this? Any issues there?
r/Psychonaut • u/AdTotal258 • 19h ago
Fever-induced delirium experience
I was running a high fever and sweating buckets while I slept. I awoke in the middle of the night and found myself in a weird stretch of psychic territory.
My mind was projecting that there were 3 guys—alternate versions of myself, in some capacity—trying to cook me and turn me into food so they could eat me. Right from the start, they told me their master plans and argued for hours over whose recipe I would become. Guy 1 wanted to turn me into stew, Guy 2 wanted to turn me into a sauce, but Guy 3 didn’t reveal his plans until later. Actually, Guy 3 was calm and compassionate toward me. It was the others who were arguing and mocking me.
So I warmed up to 3 and came to trust him. He said he’d help guide me through the experience and I’d be okay. Each time I was feeling dehydrated, he’d remind me to drink some water. It was very important to him that I stayed hydrated. 1 and 2 started complaining to 3 that he was ruining their recipes, and eventually gave up on trying to cook me.
It was then that Guy 3 revealed that he had been trying to turn me into soup the whole time. I felt so betrayed. Every time I’d drink water after that he’d mock me: “Yeah, haha why don’t you just keep drinking that hahaha!” What a fucking asshole.
Anyway, I spent time analyzing the experience afterward. I think the idea of cooking me came from the fact that my body temperature was so high, and the idea of liquidy foods came from how much I was sweating. And the soup, the most liquidy of all, was reinforced by me drinking more so that I could sweat more. Weird.
r/Psychonaut • u/Brodermagne96 • 21h ago
Thoughts and using MDMA and LSD, when having an addictive personality?
I'm an addict. All drugs i've abused (alcohol, weed, coke, ketamine) has had way more downsides than upsides to my mental health. Suprise suprise
Recently I got a revilation on ketamine that I was an addict. Since then i've decided to cut out all addictive drugs (except caffeine). Which is literally all drugs that aren't psychedelics
So I know shrooms is never gonna be a problem in terms of being addictive. And I feel they are the only drug that actually benefit my life both short and longterm
I wanna try acid too. But i'm afraid it MAY be addictive, since it increase dopamin. Same with mdma, just a lot more worried. I know they aren't as addictive as fx alcohol and coke, but i'm not sure if it's a good idea. Especially mdma. It sounds to amazing to find a balance with
What are your thoughts and experinces? Experinces I would love to hear if you're an addict yourself. Otherwise I can't use it for much