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I Now Know What Terrence McKenna Meant After Taking 5g of Mushrooms
The great man always had a way with words. These particular ones helped me understand my own
There’s something scary about taking 5g of mushrooms.
It’s the unknown. It’s the fear of being swallowed into the void without an exit plan. It’s having a potential run-in with psychosis, being seen and heard by others in a vulnerable state, and coming face to face with death.
There’s also a good chance of being shown my failures and shortcomings in life.
Whenever I’m on the edge of growth, these kinds of fears often arise.
When they do, I try and remember something Jim Carrey once said:
“Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much.
You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts, worrying about your pathway to the future, but all there will ever be is what’s happening here, and the decisions we make in this moment, which are based in either love or fear.”
