A few years ago I became obsessed with magic fungi.
Not really eating them though. More of how and why they worked the way they did. How it’s possible for a fungi to provide all of these awesome and scary experiences I’ve heard about.
Before the curiosity kicked in though let’s go over what led to this fascination in the first place.
When I was a teenager around 14 maybe 15 years old. I had my first shroom trip.
It was horrendous.
Was with a few friends in the middle of the day just chilling on the bank of a river. I was offered and told I would “trip my balls off” so I said fuck it why not.
I’m not going to go into detail about the trip because I don’t remember much. But what I do remember scared me so much I didn’t touch them again for another 15 years 😅
Even the thought of taking them terrified me.
Until one day while camping in the White Mountains with my sister and some friends from work I was offered the magical fungi once again.
After explaining my previous experience to my friend, she had reassured me if I just took a tiny bit, I’d be fine.
So after having an internal battle with myself I said fuck it I’ll take a little bit.
I ate 3 small caps on a trail on my first ever mountain hike in the middle the mountains, and again after some reassurance from a friend that everything would be fine, we continued the hike.
After about 45 minutes I could feel it in my stomach that the magic was beginning to kick in. At first I was expecting the worst, but to my surprise it was the exact opposite.
The only real way I know how to put this into words is simply this.
My heart body and mind were one with mountain. Every time my feet hit the Earth I was filled with energy that I’ve never felt before.
It sounds crazy just saying it like that and being like “that’s all I can say about it” but when I went into this expecting the worse and got the opposite, I knew it wasn’t placebo.
The rest of our hike was great. We stopped on the way down and went off trail to take a dip in the stream coming down from the summit.
Overall a life changing moment for me. Later that night we decided to eat a few more caps and lucky enough for us the campground had these awesome LED lights outside and around the main bathroom.
I shit you not when I say this. It’s like they knew people were tripping their balls off and decided to provide the best form of entertainment imaginable.
We spent the entire night sitting outside the bathrooms on the floor staring up into the trees at the magical light show the LEDs provided.
This happened for the remaining 3 nights with less time spent at the LED light show and more time in front of the fire ksut sharing life stores and experiences with no shame or humiliation.
Now this is what really had me diving headfirst off the Olympic level board straight into the world of psychedelics.
After returning from this trip all I wanted to do was learn how I could have access to these magical fungi whenever I wanted but not because I wanted the trip necessarily. I wanted to know how and why it’s possible for us to experience this. So my journey began
I read and listened to any books I could get my hands on. Starting with all the works by the legend Terrence McKenna.
Listening in to his adventure of him and his mates searching the Amazon in search for these magical fungi that brought the consumer to “another world” was really what had me determined to learn all that I could.
Then I spent time reading some material Paul Stamets has put out over his years as a self taught fungi master. Learning about fungi outside of the psychedelic realm like Lions Mane, Reishi, and Cordyceps.
So at this point I was starting to become what I’d consider a fungi nerd. I knew basic stuff about most mushies now that I felt slightly knowledgeable about both psychedelic and normal fungi.
That’s when I learned about DMT.
I’ll admit I didn’t dive into this topic as much as I would’ve liked. I ended up reading Michael Pollan's "How Not to Change Your Mind", watched a few documentaries and listened to people tell their stories on podcasts and what not. The thing that stuck out to me the most was how similar all of these stories were.
Outside of the similarities though I didn’t learn much and still struggled to satisfy that craving to learn more about psychedelics.
Ok fast forward about 6 months or so.
I had this urge to want to learn how to grow magic mushrooms at home. So I went on YouTube and typed in “how to grow magic mushrooms”
I was able to learn way more than I thought I would ever learn on YouTube to be honest. Not only did I learn a bunch of simple ways to do it, but I even found a few legit recipes and how to videos to make DMT at home 🤯(I've yet to try this YET)
Now I'm at the point where after a few weeks of watching videos I had ordered my Uncle Ben’s Whole Grain Brown Rice, some spores, some alcohol and gloves (and a bunch of other random shit to make a still air box).
Oh yea I also ordered myself an All in One grow bag off Etsy to try out a different method.
Long story short.
I successfully grew and harvested my first ever Golden Teachers (for science purposes).
After harvesting and drying my first batch I was in awe that I had grown myself the magic fungi 🍄
I was super proud of myself of course, but would only be satisfied if they gave that magical experience. So of course my wife (her first time) and I ate 3.5 grams on a random Saturday night and had a blast! We went out for a very short walk, sat and stared at our LED light in the living room for like 2 hours and we watched Avatar until I cried because of how great it looked on screen 🤣
Then I got into crypto a few weeks later and kinda forgot all about this passion I had for fungi. I’m not blaming crypto at all considering it was a choice I made. But after being introduced to a mentor on X, and him pushing us to talk more about what we're passionate about. That's when Chubz the Fun Gi was born.
With the awesome mentoring and prompts to help get things structured and organized it only made sense to help share the knowledge and find other fungi loving homies out there.
I realized that I’ve spent all this time around people on X and the most I can say about 98% of the people I’ve met here is they like crypto 🤦♂️
So instead of posting what the algo likes or what my followers want to see.
I started posting about what I enjoy talking about and that’s 🍄