@@jacobxa how did you get "fucked" into a top level comment. youtube has been banning and hiding all top level comments with evil bad bad werds for like forever now
@@jacobxa Tell it to the Buddhist monks, though. Probably the Orthodox and Catholic monks and nuns as well. Lots of people devote their lives to the Great Matter of knowing the reality of mind and its relationship to the universe, and seem to get very far indeed without the use of psilocybin or DMT, LSD, Ayahuasca, etc.
To anyone reading this: Are you a ROMANIAN GIRL that was in Cyprus recently? That was in Cyprus the day before the Tyson Fury Deontay Wilder rematch fight
I'm an idiot coz I met a hot romanian girl with super exotic features, and she became excited when I said I had been to her city Cluj... usually I would take her on an instadate or get her number, but coz she was with two friends, one female and one male, I didn't. I feel like she would've been really attracted to me and she had a great personality, and now it's been nearly four weeks and it's still eating away at my soul
There were no words to describe the experience. I have never been able to find a way to describe the experience from 40 years ago, yet it still brings me to my knees, and tears of joy to my heart to think of it - no words for the kind of love I discovered, or the completeness of that love. Love was alive and separate yet there was no distance. I received a download of knowledge and wisdom. I was escorted to places. I knew I would not be able to bring much of what I had learned back with me - I was 19, I am now 61 and consider it among the most important and life changing events of my life.
I think the clarity and knowledge and wisdom that occurs during is so powerful. Granted, not everyone is going to have that great trip. But when you do, there ARE no words to describe the clarity of self that you feel.
People should also be aware that one can have a proportionally bad trip. It teaches A LOT, but it's not an experience to get into lightheartedly. My first experience (with Ayahuasca) was at first absolutely horrible, then very mind-opening. But the most important thing is integrating the teachings into one's everyday life. Otherwise, it's just entertainment.
"I wasn't RAPED by a jaguar, but I can't say we're entirely on platonic terms either." Sam my friend, you are a gem. An absolute bloody gem. I haven't laughed so heartily in a very long time.
I really wish he would have elaborated on this further. So many questions. What DID happen with Sam and the jaguar? Jaguars ofter appear during ayahuasca sessions in which the user is ultimately transformed into one. Seems to be some sort of Jungian universal symbology going on.
@@BonerButter haha i'm excited to get to this part now -- no joke I was reading about mesoamerican history this last week and there was all sorts of mention of "were-jaguars" being a race of half-human, half-jaguars that preceded the Olmec. Lots of carvings and sculpture for this too. Such an interesting psychedelic thread.
B0omer96 If the “meat locker” is anything like the experience I had, it’s like opening the box in Hellraiser...once it’s opened, it feels like the biggest mistake ever made
I recently ate 8 grams of mushrooms, blindfolded myself, and listened to the Johns Hopkins Psilocybin Research playlist-created for sessions treating people who suffer from depression or PTSD or who are facing end-of-life situations-with headphones. It was such a beautiful, life-affirming experience. One of the most profound psychedelic journeys I’ve ever had.
EIGHT grams of dried mushrooms of even reasonable potency and I 1000% GUARANTEE you did NOTHING you were in control of! 8 grams of fresh mushrooms, sure no problem.
Phsychedelics helped me quit illicit pills addiction, Psilocybin is ancient Good videos and help like this should be seen always. I’m impressed the way he gave all details verbally
Imagine running into Sam Harris tripping on shrooms out in the wilderness. He stumbles out of the brush, eyes wide as dinner plates, pupils fully dilated. You both freeze. _What is Ben Stiller doing out here in the middle of nowhere?_ You think to yourself. It's obvious he's on some type of psychedelic. Slowly, without breaking eye contact, he reaches into his backpack. He pulls out a small device and switches it on. It's a bluetooth speaker. The song Drinkee by Sofi Tukker blares out as he begins to belly dance. "Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast. This is Sam Harris." He says. "Brief housekeeping today."
I'm just fascinated by Sam Harris everyday. From being a security guard at a night museum, being in the Vietnam wars, and now sharing his experience with mushrooms.
"Mindfulness is like the discovery of fire - you can kindle it, and eventually, you can produce it on demand, and it warms you and you can put it to many purposeful uses.... but, 5 grams of mushrooms is like being hurled into the sun."
I feel like everyone I've ever met who has also has done mushrooms has said "You can't describe it with words." I usually follow up with "It's like describing colour to a blind man." You can't really describe a feeling like it, you are operating on entirely new and unknown level than the normal conscious brain does. It's the feeling of being connected with the universe.
you can describe it perfectly. but those are words. it's just not the same. you can read a description of riding a bike and have a concept of it, but actually riding the bike is an entirely different experience
I had 3g last weekend and even that experience was so powerful that I must have spent at least half an hour just weeping from gratitude. I was laying down with the lights off and while I didn't experience visions in the way he's describing I did phase in and out of really vivid daydreams
First tripper on shrooms but done acid have had bad trips at time s , probably bad mindset and over doing a tad bit. So what you think should I dive into it with 2.5 or 3 gs ? Thanks in advanced
Pussy, that's not going to get you anywhere. Treble it, and as you feel the rush can I recommend some ketamin, a big fat line. That's the Irish way. 💚💚💚💚💚💚
@@ricxander85 defo not ! I’d start gently , I took 9 dried today and had a rough ride upwards, beautiful and manageable once I got through the tightness in my chest and air hunger lol, once I relaxed I went for a walk and seen foliage and trees in a connected way, felt heavenly , I felt like I as being hugged and glowing from inside! I am sensitive to many things and did get anxious at first! It’s best to start small and see how you react, also each mushroom carry’s different amounts of pylicibin. A few days ago I took 7 and felt lighter and slight increase in perception , even two extra today was a challenge for me ,I had to walk it off lol! I’m very open to spirit so think I’m mega sensitive to anything that affects the pyche! 🙏🏼
Nature admires the brave. Sometimes it feels like im playing Russian roulette but it always seems to work out. I have had rough ones but after you learn to respect the mushroom, and treat it like a teacher, it will reward us like the brave pilgrims we are
@@Sprite_525 Why don't you just talk to your wife about it and see? Who knows, you'd be surprised what people who love each other will help the other achieve if it's coming from a good place and not a bad place.
OMG It's Derek - Makes sense. I was making a general point that weddings make relationships less whimsical due to serious changes in finance, child-bearing etc. -- was complimenting them in that context (that they’re rare compared to the average). Cheers all.
"It's like a reductio ad absurdum of one's desire for experience itself" Having just declared language useless, I think you made up for its faults. What a brilliant sentence, and incredibly accurate description of the psychedelic experience
"It's as though we lived in a universe where if you just reached into your right pocket with your left hand, rather than pull out your wallet you'd pull out the Andromeda galaxy" AH this could very well be my favorite quote of all times
Thank you Sam. I cried when I heard this, I didn't expect that at all, I smiled from ear to ear and cried. You explained it so eloquently and blow for blow broke down my 5G trips. The uselessness of language to describe the experience was particularly well articulated, in my experience all forms of communication were pure feeling. The idea of language when in that space is laughable to the point of absurdity. Coming back down...YES! "What have I done to myself?" "This is life now" "How could I have been so irresponsible" "What about my kids" Just incredibly well broken down, with minimal fat. Thanks again!
I met an elder Rasta man who grew mushrooms in Westmoreland, Jamaica. We had a pleasant conversation about farming, and the spiritual rituals involved with caring for mushrooms. I consumed the dose I acquired the next morning. Half of the trip I sat in a cave carved in a seaside cliff listening to Allegri's Miserere, and the other half I swam in the sea. The amount of tears of joy and tears of healing I shed couldn't compare to the Caribbean, but now, every time I taste saltwater falling down my face, I am reminded by one of the most influential days I have lived to date. Swimming with a trio of spotted eagle-rays is one of the church experiences I required. That moment measured the energy and love inside my heart's wall, and ever since, I am always grateful when those sea creatures race towards me simply to acknowledge our shared existence. A most blessed fellowship was born since that day, impossible to comprehend, yet possible to limitlessly wonder about.
So bloody spot-on Sam Harris. Spot on. After 27 years of totally, complete sobriety zero mind-altering compounds), I ventured into plant-based initiative with Ayahuasca about one year ago. More recently, micro-dosing with psilocybin. Under the umbrella of no coincidences I recently watched an awesome documentary called "Fantastic Fungi". Beautifully shot; so well-written; a must-see. I'm now ready to venture into a deeper relationship with the plant - and experience in a ceremonial-type fashion a higher dose, blind-folded as you were, and domiciled in my yoga practice area / loft to experience what I experience. This will be done with two other very close individuals - my son and his girl friend. Deep gratitude for this vid. I look forward to following and connecting on this journey. Namaste'
Eating mushrooms changed my life completely, it's such an odd thing because I haven't done it in over 5 years and I'm almost scared of the experience even though I know the reward is beyond words but the skeletons in the closet you have to look at are terrifying. I've had one death trip and three amazing ones. I want to dissolve my ego again and I've had the worst year of my life so I think even a bad trip will be a good one. The odd thing is even a three hour death trip brings you some type of enlightening experience when it's over. The effect of gratitude seems to be consistent whether the trip is good or bad. I think I will micro dose today and see if I can get familiar with the fear and hopefully be able to push through when I take a higher dose. Just thought I'd share this in case anyone else is afraid of a bad trip. They will change your life for the better regardless. My friend took them for the first time at 34 this year and was a pack a day smoker and now has zero desire to ever smoke again. My experience made me a more self aware person and made me aware of my motivations in a way that I would never have if not for the experience. You become an empath and a more selfless person after taking them. When you become more selfless good things just start happening to you, it's very strange.
my twin sister did them first time at 43 years of age . I’m going to try them . we were both adopted and went through many homes and abuse .. I would like to heal or confront my anxiety .. forgive my mother for what she did
@@tulinbeyduz920 that’s a beautiful wish I really hope you do. If it doesn’t help you the first time try again at least one more time and make sure you’re in nature or in an environment that is the most comforting for you.
Yes! Exactly his point. We are but dust on a cosmic speck. Leave the speck. Let fear go.Thank you Sam for fanning brain farts into sparks that one day flame. Fungi. Go carefully but go.
Yeah, anything but the virus. Every time I turn on the radio or TV that's all I hear and I'm sick of it. If I'm stuck here at home I'd rather listen to anything else.
I’m very grateful for your words on this Sam! As someone who grew up exploring atheism with your writing and online appearances, I felt very encouraged by you to hone my critical thinking. I would read philosophy, science, religion, politics, and after much trial and error, I believe I’ve developed an expansive yet humble worldview. This intellectual humility has led me to a re-evaluation of spirituality and the question of our relationship to “the divine”. I have explored meditation, scripture, and psychedelics too. I will never lose my strong skepticism and my conviction that there are no supernatural entities. I am by all accounts an atheist. But these psychedelic and spiritual experiences remind me of the sublime and brilliant magnitude of Nature and Being. The Universe, what have you. It is in these moments that I am able to connect to the mystics and the prophets of antiquity, who in their own time, used the language available to them to describe ineffable experience and revelation. It is good to be connected to our ancestors; the awe that they must have felt to be alive, to have altered and unaltered conscious states, and to dare to name the world. I am grateful that I have developed a new conception of the word “God” that gives me access to those transcendent states that I previously might have dismissed as mental delusions. I appreciate that we can admit that sometimes words fail.
What if you opened up enough to embrace a God who created Love, who is Love. A God above gender who created the galaxies and all of nature just as a gift to us to prove His Majesty. A God who wants us to find Him, even though He is only one step away
The thought "I hope my mind doesn't stay like this" is something I recall from my own trips. When you're tripping so hard you can't distinguish the floor from the walls from the ceiling, you certainly don't want to stay that way.
@@stiannobelisto573 I've done this in public, but among friends. They were able to talk me down when I was sure my mind was never going to recover. One friend took me out for a walk while I was at my peak, and it was stunning. When my ability to speak returned, we had one of the most deeply philosophical discussions I've ever had. But it was very scary at the peak!
@@fuckballs8808 It's much different than weed. It's more energized and you're more involved in the experience. I had a self-death experience with JWH-018, a synthetic cannabinoid that mimics THC, when the compound was still legal. It was dark and disturbing, but not nearly as engaging as true hallucinogens.
As an agnostic, turned on and tuned in by the potential of Panpsychism and psychedelics in exploring this new, yet ancient landscape...I'm truly thankful Sam Harris has decided to explore where most others only cast fearful aspersions and doubt without real experience of that landscape. This landscape of the psychedelic experience, highly subjective as it may be...the rational mind in Sam, and people like him, truth-in-self-seeking psychonauts, can still find patterns that can lead to objectivity. I think this path is the bridge to bringing the atheist and theist, the scientist and religionist, together in a distant future of peace and increased agreement. I see Sam's journey as evolution in action...mindful evolution.
@@acceptinglife6491 I think mushrooms affect you naturally. They definitely have a way of making you see things you've never seen, in ways you've never expected. If its perceived as spiritual, I guess thats subjective...how you define spirituality.
I took 5grams last year, the highlight of the trip as I was writhing in bed, tangled in my sheets was this: I was experiencing vast vast vast amounts of love and the feeling of 'home', immense gratitude and unbelievable wonder to the point where I wouldn't describe it as being painful but rather overwhelming and I just couldn't contain it. A voice spoke out in the midst of this saying "Aren't you glad you don't have to feel this all the time?" and I could do more than grin like a doofus and nod my head in the affirmative.
I want to experience it someday. Love the analogy of reaching your right pocket with your left hand. Even of you say language is next to useless to describe the experience, this way of expressing it was quite striking and beautiful.
My most vivid mushroom experience was in my mid teens. I took probably 3-4 grams with some friends and the best I can recall, feeling nauseas I went to the bathroom and got ready to vomit but instead I shrank to the size of the water molecules in the toilet and started having a conversation with them, it lasted for about an hour then my friend pulled me back. I don't remember any of the conversation, but I felt extremely comfortable there. I haven't done any psychedelic in decades, don't need any :)
"Just let my brain return to it's boring 20 watt glow!" - A gem. You sir have covered this better and more sensibly than I think anyone else I've seen/heard/met.
As someone who has taken and experimented with psychedelics (LSD, schrooms, MDMA) both recreationally and for the purpose of “reality investigation”) and who now does 10 day Vipassana courses and meditates daily, I think I’d find taking mushrooms in the middle of a 10 day course a bit of an intrusion. Not that I wouldn’t completely reject the idea, it’s just that what you are achieving in a 10 day course without any “crutches” is so valuable and calming. I am fascinated by Sam’s experiences and have to acknowledge his roll in helping me find the courage to sign up for a 10 day course.
For an experience that is impossible to describe, I sure did gain quite a bit from your attempt. Particularly the parts about love and gratitude. Well said
One of the best and most accurate descriptions of the mushroom that I've ever heard. Most "trip reports" I find are inaccurate, shallow, misleading, and fail to come anywhere close to approximating the payload of the experience. They focus on meaningless details like colors, sounds, and geometry. But this report does pretty much the best anyone could do with English words and 20 minutes of time.
"There really are no words to describe this experience, just as there is no way of snapping your fingers to describe it. Language is simply the wrong tool for the job..."...I feel ya bro.
@@skypilotace i get that its a joke but "convert to atheism" is a bit of a fallacy as atheism is the absence of a position. Sorry, I'll go be fun at parties now
Thanks for sharing this Sam! You’re a brilliant mind and I can’t imagine “stretching” further than you’ve already achieved on your own. This was enlightening.
I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. I am about to experience my first therapeutic session/journey using psilocybin, and I’ve been looking for someone to make an appropriate video that shares their experience taking mushrooms. There are people making videos simply to vent their frustrations or to actually try to elicit laughs… But chronic depression and bulimia, both of which I have suffered from, or no laughing matter and I really needed to hear from someone who would speak about their experience thoughtfully. Bless you sir
@@omgcyanide4642 without sounding ridiculous a grand sense of everything is everything and nothing at the same time. Completely overwhelming and inconsequential at the same time.
Welcome aboard, Sam Harris! I had the rare pleasure of talking to Terrence McKenna back in 1993 and you sound like a future poster child for his advocacy of psychedelics to restore humanity. God speed and embrace the inimical absurdity that attends these wonderful experiences. It’s all part of the great cosmic giggle!
KingOfKings I ran into Sam once at a Queens of the Stone Age show not too far outside of Indio, where Coachella’s held. The man does have some “party” left in him.
So dyslexia is a funny thing I read slower and occasionally misspell words with all the correct letters But it’s times like this When I momentarily read the title Sams mushroom tip That make it all worth it
"It's like being Hurled into the Sun." At which point there is no longer any distinction between "I" and "IT," yet, there is the paradox of simultaneous oneness and difference.
A more specific way to put it would be like: "It's like the vantage point of this conscious experience, being cast into the sun". Or... "this bundle of energy, being thrown into that bundle of energy".
@ 17:50 - thank you. I'm convinced that you are right: next to any personal benefit, we need what this can teach us, as a society, as a culture, to literally come to our senses again ❤
As a 20 something year old, I experienced 4 or so LSD trips, and one with Mescaline - I had the good fortune that I was with good people and by far and large the experiences were positive. More importantly those journeys did change my view of the world forever. The limitations of language that Sam mentioned regarding inability to describe was/is so true for me. In fact the realization of inadequacy of language was a major theme inside more than one of my trips.
Thanks for sharing this Sam. I was amazed by your eloquence and how great you able to describe your experience. You motivates me meditate every day, raising my awareness and live a good life. Keep up the great work. Cheers from Russia
Dr. Sam, wow, a relative spoke of this phenomenon and you BEAUTIFULLY described the experience....as a former university Psychology faculty member, I am thrilled to know about this gift from our universe.
My best psychedelic experience was 17.5g of Goldcaps. While watching live shows on youtube, I felt like I discovered and literally "saw" the electrical energy of many different bands play live in the 70s and 80s. I saw them "zap" the audience. I felt like the band was a metaphysical representation of the human ability to appreciate "the groove" and it helped me understand what bands were actually doing. The theater of it. It was awesome! I composed a weird little piece on my keyboard during this and remember some of it but when I looked at my sheet music after the trip it was mostly nonsensical chords and melodies in the key of lol.
A few years ago during my junior year Of college, i came back home with my Roomate after recently taking what was either acid or mushrooms, i can’t remember. I get to my room and shut the door behind me, beginning to take my clothes off. Shirt comes off, belt, unzip the pants and drop them to the floor...and them I have a realization: I’ve made a terrible mistake. I should have NEVER left the people i was with. I was all alone in a pitch black room, and couldn’t see anything. Paranoia starts to set in as I’m blasting off. I reach down to take my pants all the way off, but i can’t figure out how to get them over my shoes which for some reason i forgot needed to come off first. I eventually get them off, but i just stand there. I’m already to fat gone to function properly. I first began questioning all of my life decisions that lead me up until this point: tripping alone in my apartment in the pitch black dark, barely getting by in college, no plan for the future, none of what i have really earned. And yet i still choose to party and of drugs. I begin to feel as though I’ve wasted my entire life up until that point. And then i slip further. I still have no reference for what is around me because it is still pitch black dark, and i can no longer feel anything. I have no reference for still being grounded in physical reality, so i begin to question my resistance altogether. How much time has gone by? No idea. Am i even in a dimension that exists in my understanding of time as being relatively linear? Am i still alive? I could be dead right now and wouldn’t even know it? Is this what death is like? But why am i still having conscious thought? This goes on for what could have been hours or even just 30 minutes, but at some point I manage to claw my way out of the black pit i had dug myself into, and manage to realize that I indeed am still existing in reality as I know it, and begin attempting to re-clothe myself. But i can’t do it and i can’t even find the light switch. My only option, as i saw it, was to grab a pillow and run butt naked upstairs to my Roomate’s room. He’s high as a kite (weed) playing fortnite as i stumble in sobbing and repeating things like, “help me”, “i don’t know who i am”, and “I’m wasting my life”. He’s a little surprised, but to MY surprise he stays calm (he’s always been a very monotone, chill dude). He calls his friend who has done a bunch of drugs to ask for help, and the friend directs him to lead me back down to my room, lay me in bed, and tells me to “have a nice trip” as my Roomate closes the door. And I’m that moment, i can’t help but laugh. Back to square one. But this time it was different. For whatever reason, i was able to accept my situation and know that everything was going to be okay. I think that just leaving the room and seeing another person put things back into perspective, and allowed me to realize that I hadn’t lost it, or died for that matter. And for the rest of the night, i just lay in my bed listening to music, which was an amazing experience in itself because it was like i was re-experiencing the original things i felt when i first fell in love with each song on my playlist. This experience certainly spooked me, but I would probably do it again if given the opportunity to re-do that night. It was an important learning experience that put a lot into perspective. I think things changed for the better after that point. And also my grades skyrocketed, although I’m not sure if my academic success was a result of a newfound inspiration to excel, or rather just me having finally learned how to do well in college and taking upper level classes that I actually found interesting. If there’s anything that you should leave with from my story: know that psychedelics could potentially cause a bad trip, but it’s likely because there are things in your life that you haven’t properly processed psychologically that you need to work through. If you let go, and let the trip show you these things, you will probably walk away with a whole new understanding of them, and maybe even having worked through them during the trip. Like Sam said, you will likely walk way with a feeling of clarity; knowing what needs to be done. And if not, you’ll have at least started down that path, now aware of a road that needs walking.
9:49 I felt the cosmos tell me the same thing on my last acid trip. I was at a very materialistic point in my life, and it's like it was mocking me. "Oh, you like THINGS?? You don't even know about T H I N G S" Mocking my love of strawberry jam and bagels. Showing me the suchness, the nowness of now, feeling like that you're always here and you're always now watching the same eternal energy just transform itself into different THINGS. That we can't OWN things, you CAN'T grasp ANYTHING, because it's all just a river of energy man. But it almost made me hate myself, like we're consciousness evolved to grasp onto things and experiences and sensations. That humans are the most evolved sensing organism, descendants of a long line of lookers and sniffers and graspers and tasters. Taking water, taking life. Just to continue our own sensation of THINGS.
My last mushroom trip had me asking why we believe things rather than just recognizing things for exactly what they are and for exactly what they are not.
Dear Mr Harris, This videocast has made my hard day's night mellow and my caged-up, stressed-out, Coronovirus-blitzed mind get a grip on things and realize the world will be there on the morrow.
SAMUEL BENJAMIN HARRIS 👏👏👏 YES!!! this was definitely the best podcast I've heard in a long time. No, the best thing period, that I've heard in a long time. I too am at a loss for words to describe how great this is. Thank you for taking such a tremendous risk and sharing your experience with all of us. ☯️
Hey Sam, I feel like a podcast about psychedelics with Michael Pollan would be quite interesting. He did a great job putting his experiences into words - and combining your knowledge of the "landscape" of the mind with his aptitude for painting a picture with words - we could have something great come of it.
After my nightmarish trip of untold terror, it took me months to shake off the emotionally traumatic experience. Sam’s words are such a grounding feeling
@@ryanharris9585 What did you do, how much of it did you do & prior to taking it, had you experimented with anything else (like cannabis?). Also, did you try smaller doses of psilocybin before having the “heroic dose?”
@@xbulelo this was probably around my 9th or 10th psilocybin session. It was 11 dried grams after a 24 hr fast. I was fairly into shrooms. In fact, the aforementioned 11 gram session was Cambodian Cubensis that I had grown myself.
As a young man( Im 63 now) I used to take massive amounts of psychedelic drugs, far higher doses than my contemporaries. As mr Harris explains words are inadequate to convey the long term effects on anyone's perspective of the world, and while I have no desire to repeat the process, I value the perspective it has given me on life and my place in the cosmos.
Brilliantly spoken description of a mushroom healing experience. My last experience with mushrooms was a revelatory journey. I melted into God, I felt my full creative potential shimmering in my bones. I felt so ecstatic and light, yet this dark shadow passed over me for a moment. This cold feeling crawled through me. "You can do anything you want, but be careful what you do with that power" an internal voice said to me in a soft but sinister tone. I felt the weight of liberation. And it made me cry, but these tears released a heavy weight off of my chest. I haven't forgotten why we are here.
same thing happened to me, except it was entities helping me realize. one entity showed me love and made me recognize my self, my love and how much power i hold by dancing in and with me. then another sung a song, rhythmic and slow, "Infinite Bounds, Within Reason", which felt like a warning. their last message from that trip was to "love responsibly"
Coming back from a high-dose psilocybin trip is akin to Ebenezer Scrooge waking up on Christmas morning after having been visited by the spirits: one is overcome with previously unknown levels of love and gratitude, and a magnified inclination toward generosity.
Thanks for sharing Sam. It’s very important to hear anecdotal testimonies from someone like you. Psychedelics could change the world if used on a mass scale. If I could does everybody with the snap of my fingers like Thanos I totally would
Mamma Mia.. amazing coming here to listen to this following an utterly incredible trip earlier today. The sheer beauty of life and love that was erupting around me during the peak of the trip would be disserviced to be called mind blowing. It was an annihilation of everything I thought and knew, the moment you wonder how you got there and what anything is at all is truly spellbinding. Truly. Amongst tears of laughter and ecstasy, I became everything and nothing at the same time, a spectacular synesthesia that can scarcely be put into words. Nothing was everything and everything just was. Wowee... there's a reason they're called magic mushrooms.
I had the same experience, alone, in Point Reyes. I traveled very far and wondered if I might not come back. It was an outstanding experience in the 1980s. My connection lived at Stinson Beach and gave me what I needed and a long talk before I set out on my own. From the 70s until now, I've experienced nothing but beauty, every trip. Lucky me.
Dude, thanks for this wonderfully inciteful description. I would love to microdose it and then eventually do the heroic thing...blindfold is super heroic dude.
I've taken L.S.D. about 30 times in a variety of settings; parties, pubs and once during Sunday Mass. I've taken it alone in the Woods, I've taken it at the beach with friends. I consider the taking of L.S.D. as one of my most profound life experiences but it was only on those occasions when I dropped the tab, went to bed and pulled the blankets over my head that I could describe the trip as profound. Taking a trip can be likened to an archeological dig of the mind. It starts in the now where all that was fixed and solid begins to bleed into each other, it moves through our personal history which may be a phase in which people run into traumatic experience and from there into our deep mythological space and it's there we find our gods and demons. It is only when we have navigated our way through those stages that we're in infinite space and eternity. I offer one "tip for tripping". There will be times during the trip when we sense the imminent arrival of some turbulence. Our tendency is to tighten up but the most effective response is to relax.
Having kids is life changing 100% of the time. After you have kids, your brain still functions as well. You even have regular experiences with children that I would describe as overwhelming love.
Thank you Sam, truly... The hope & help this represents is remarkable! Someone I love is in midst of an utter battle with dictator of her mind who’s caged her to an experience of utter fear & doubt.... I am in the process of vetting some good options of guided therapy where responsible use of psychedelics is part of the tool set....
My father has schizophrenia and did drugs in his youth. Ofcourse i don't know if there is a causation their, but we know there could be. This is the reason why i will probably never do any drugs (i have smoked weed twice in my life though and drank alcohol a few times and not in moderate amounts...) I heard of friends having these experiences and now hearing Sam word it so beautifully makes me saddened that i will probably never experience this.
@@Laviesestbelle The thing is i have fun in normal life too. I don't want to ruin all the fun i will still have by having one potentially fun and lifechanging experience on drugs and than getting schizophrenia.
He jij ook hier, dat is wel grappig Een Psilo trip kan inderdaad heftig mooi zijn, in mijn ervaring 9 van de 10 keer. Als je het ooit gaat proberen, begin dan altijd met een kleine dosis.
@@Unidentifying Had jou hier al helemaal niet verwacht! Kom deze dag elke keer bekende tegen op onverwachte plaatsen. Bedankt voor het advies wie weet zal ik het nog een keer proberen als ik wat ouder ben en de kans dat ik deze mentale aandoening krijg is afgenomen.
Do you ever feel like you could possibly tip over into schizophrenia? If you feel very balanced and happy you will likely have a great trip and will completely change and enrich your life but if you have too many skeletons in the closet or guilt you may want to work through that first.
If you have underlying anxiety problems you should definitely be careful with mushrooms, at the same time, in my experience as a relatively anxious person, my first mushroom trip was terrible and full of paranoia, the next day I felt pretty much cured of all forms of anxiety and experienced happiness and appreciation for life that I had never felt before. It was a kind of afterglow that lasted for 2 months or so. This is anecdotal but worth mentioning.
I have felt this intense gratitude in my ayahuasca journeys. I cannot express what I felt, but I can say that in those experiences I would have given my life if every being in the universe could experience that state of bliss.
I like sams eloquently methodical way of explaining you have a galaxy in your pocket that reminds you of all the love you could possibly feel or forgot to feel. Though I would assume sam would exude a bit more spirituality. That overflowing love and gratitude is our true nature. Our ego blocks it
Sam Harris: “it’s hard to communicate how far gone one is.”
Normal person: “bro I was super fucked up”
In spiritual development and self actualization, if you’re not using psychedelics, you’re wasting your time.
@@jacobxa how did you get "fucked" into a top level comment. youtube has been banning and hiding all top level comments with evil bad bad werds for like forever now
Put "fucked" in quotes it would seem
@@jacobxa Tell it to the Buddhist monks, though. Probably the Orthodox and Catholic monks and nuns as well. Lots of people devote their lives to the Great Matter of knowing the reality of mind and its relationship to the universe, and seem to get very far indeed without the use of psilocybin or DMT, LSD, Ayahuasca, etc.
I think you’re missing the point, bro
"You have .... 35 .... missed calls from .... Joe Rogan"
*Claps*
And here's your best comment award.
Well done 😂😂😂
To anyone reading this:
Are you a ROMANIAN GIRL that was in Cyprus recently?
That was in Cyprus the day before the Tyson Fury Deontay Wilder rematch fight
I'm an idiot coz I met a hot romanian girl with super exotic features, and she became excited when I said I had been to her city Cluj... usually I would take her on an instadate or get her number, but coz she was with two friends, one female and one male, I didn't. I feel like she would've been really attracted to me and she had a great personality, and now it's been nearly four weeks and it's still eating away at my soul
nice ...nice! excellent comment, I'm just high
There were no words to describe the experience. I have never been able to find a way to describe the experience from 40 years ago, yet it still brings me to my knees, and tears of joy to my heart to think of it - no words for the kind of love I discovered, or the completeness of that love. Love was alive and separate yet there was no distance. I received a download of knowledge and wisdom. I was escorted to places. I knew I would not be able to bring much of what I had learned back with me - I was 19, I am now 61 and consider it among the most important and life changing events of my life.
I think the clarity and knowledge and wisdom that occurs during is so powerful. Granted, not everyone is going to have that great trip. But when you do, there ARE no words to describe the clarity of self that you feel.
That sounds dope
Do it again what are you waiting for
People should also be aware that one can have a proportionally bad trip. It teaches A LOT, but it's not an experience to get into lightheartedly. My first experience (with Ayahuasca) was at first absolutely horrible, then very mind-opening. But the most important thing is integrating the teachings into one's everyday life. Otherwise, it's just entertainment.
What did you take? Shrooms?
"I wasn't RAPED by a jaguar, but I can't say we're entirely on platonic terms either."
Sam my friend, you are a gem. An absolute bloody gem. I haven't laughed so heartily in a very long time.
I really wish he would have elaborated on this further. So many questions. What DID happen with Sam and the jaguar? Jaguars ofter appear during ayahuasca sessions in which the user is ultimately transformed into one. Seems to be some sort of Jungian universal symbology going on.
Word! :-))
@@BonerButter haha i'm excited to get to this part now -- no joke I was reading about mesoamerican history this last week and there was all sorts of mention of "were-jaguars" being a race of half-human, half-jaguars that preceded the Olmec. Lots of carvings and sculpture for this too. Such an interesting psychedelic thread.
B0omer96
If the “meat locker” is anything like the experience I had, it’s like opening the box in Hellraiser...once it’s opened, it feels like the biggest mistake ever made
@@vietnamd0820 Keep going...
I recently ate 8 grams of mushrooms, blindfolded myself, and listened to the Johns Hopkins Psilocybin Research playlist-created for sessions treating people who suffer from depression or PTSD or who are facing end-of-life situations-with headphones. It was such a beautiful, life-affirming experience. One of the most profound psychedelic journeys I’ve ever had.
Did you prepare before hand?
EIGHT grams of dried mushrooms of even reasonable potency and I 1000% GUARANTEE you did NOTHING you were in control of! 8 grams of fresh mushrooms, sure no problem.
@UCV9IdBHD6TAwj3ly4XDGnrA sorry for you having a weak kind . You can so 8gs and still be in control . You just a bitch/lightweight ha
jeeeaa jeeea jeea
jeeeeaa jeea jeeeaa!
Excellent!
Phsychedelics helped me quit illicit pills addiction, Psilocybin is ancient Good videos and help like this should be seen always. I’m impressed the way he gave all details verbally
dr.blake, he's the best and reliable source for everything psychedelics.
Is he instgram?
Sure, dr.blakee
It’s wild, everyone’s feel of shrooms is different though
Explaining shrooms ain’t at 💯 until you try them yourself.
A wife that urges to take a heroic mushroom trip is definitely a keeper
right
9 grams is heroic
Awesome wife!
This wife is a grower " not a shower"
She's a keeper
Imagine running into Sam Harris tripping on shrooms out in the wilderness.
He stumbles out of the brush, eyes wide as dinner plates, pupils fully dilated.
You both freeze.
_What is Ben Stiller doing out here in the middle of nowhere?_ You think to yourself.
It's obvious he's on some type of psychedelic.
Slowly, without breaking eye contact, he reaches into his backpack.
He pulls out a small device and switches it on.
It's a bluetooth speaker.
The song Drinkee by Sofi Tukker blares out as he begins to belly dance.
"Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast. This is Sam Harris." He says. "Brief housekeeping today."
Yo trippin.
I enjoyed reading that!
Fuck you!! We don’t mention that song anymore!
@@seanmatthewking please explain. Edit(I Googled that song, its shit).
Bofa Deez His listeners would have actively created virus and caused the pandemic to make him change it.
I'm just fascinated by Sam Harris everyday. From being a security guard at a night museum, being in the Vietnam wars, and now sharing his experience with mushrooms.
He wasnt in vietnam
@@nopeteys2424 yes he was. He also milked his cat's little nipples
Ben Stiller?
@@hashberry111 If he was sent there during the last year of the war, he came as a 7-8 year old (he was born in 1967 and it ended in 1975).
😂
"Mindfulness is like the discovery of fire - you can kindle it, and eventually, you can produce it on demand, and it warms you and you can put it to many purposeful uses.... but, 5 grams of mushrooms is like being hurled into the sun."
Sam, you're so unbelievably talented in describing your inner landscape and thoughts. Thank you for this.
he has such a way with words! i rarely feel the need to use that cliche but, truly!
He has a remarkable gift of clarity in expression.
You know you have a supportive wife when she encourages you to take mushrooms and put it on a calendar.
A control freak wife actually since she *insisted* on it.
Make sure you tell her as well .
I think that was sarcasm but it's pretty hard to tell given Sam's dry sense of humour.
Undisclosed insurance policy perhaps? 😅 If she encourages him to take up rock climbing or tiger taming you know somethings up.
lol she is also an author of neurological subjects and a student of philosophy and consciousness, so its no surprise she'd want this to happen.
"just let my brain return to it's boring 20W glow". damn Sam has some incredible way with words and analogies. he is so good
I feel like everyone I've ever met who has also has done mushrooms has said "You can't describe it with words." I usually follow up with "It's like describing colour to a blind man." You can't really describe a feeling like it, you are operating on entirely new and unknown level than the normal conscious brain does. It's the feeling of being connected with the universe.
"Where can I find man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?" - Zhuangzi
you can describe it perfectly. but those are words. it's just not the same. you can read a description of riding a bike and have a concept of it, but actually riding the bike is an entirely different experience
I had 3g last weekend and even that experience was so powerful that I must have spent at least half an hour just weeping from gratitude. I was laying down with the lights off and while I didn't experience visions in the way he's describing I did phase in and out of really vivid daydreams
First tripper on shrooms but done acid have had bad trips at time s , probably bad mindset and over doing a tad bit. So what you think should I dive into it with 2.5 or 3 gs ? Thanks in advanced
Blue meanies if that matters *
Pussy, that's not going to get you anywhere.
Treble it, and as you feel the rush can I recommend some ketamin, a big fat line.
That's the Irish way.
💚💚💚💚💚💚
@@ricxander85 😂
@@ricxander85 defo not ! I’d start gently , I took 9 dried today and had a rough ride upwards, beautiful and manageable once I got through the tightness in my chest and air hunger lol, once I relaxed I went for a walk and seen foliage and trees in a connected way, felt heavenly , I felt like I as being hugged and glowing from inside! I am sensitive to many things and did get anxious at first! It’s best to start small and see how you react, also each mushroom carry’s different amounts of pylicibin. A few days ago I took 7 and felt lighter and slight increase in perception , even two extra today was a challenge for me ,I had to walk it off lol! I’m very open to spirit so think I’m mega sensitive to anything that affects the pyche! 🙏🏼
I have mad respect for anyone that surrenders to 5 dried grams, especially when they've had rough previous trips.
I wouldnt be able to do that much without puking
@@nopeteys2424 idk if anyone can. But puking is kind of a practice in surrendering to the experience
@@nedaltrebor8553 yes, for me puking it's a fantastic part, feel like cleaning my body
Nature admires the brave. Sometimes it feels like im playing Russian roulette but it always seems to work out. I have had rough ones but after you learn to respect the mushroom, and treat it like a teacher, it will reward us like the brave pilgrims we are
Thank you. I had somewhat of a "trip to hell" on 7.25 grams last March. Then in August I did another 6.8 grams.
Thank you Annaka for pushing Sam to go on this trip! Thank you Sam for sharing your experience and supporting research in this space.
'pushing' drugs = drug pusher
His wife insisted that he go on this mushroom-trip! What a cool woman.
My husband and I always do mushrooms together. It's great! We share our favorite music to zone out to.
Wendy L - you are rare. Most couples lose the desire for exploration and expansion once the wedding ring comes out.
@@Sprite_525 Why don't you just talk to your wife about it and see? Who knows, you'd be surprised what people who love each other will help the other achieve if it's coming from a good place and not a bad place.
OMG It's Derek - Makes sense. I was making a general point that weddings make relationships less whimsical due to serious changes in finance, child-bearing etc. -- was complimenting them in that context (that they’re rare compared to the average). Cheers all.
@@Sprite_525 Thanks Derek from Veritasium ;)
"It's like a reductio ad absurdum of one's desire for experience itself"
Having just declared language useless, I think you made up for its faults. What a brilliant sentence, and incredibly accurate description of the psychedelic experience
One of the best trip reports I've ever heard. Psychedelics just got an incredibly wise and articulate ally.
It's what the world needs, indeed.
Amen
@@AlanHowellphotovideotrue
As Sam returns from this 'roiling ocean of meaning' with a thimble in hand, he of all people can describe it better than anyone else I know.
what meaning do you mean?
What does it mean to have a thimble in hand?
He really didnt describe much specifics of the actual trip tho...
"It's like pulling out the Andromeda galaxy"... beautiful imagery.
"It's as though we lived in a universe where if you just reached into your right pocket with your left hand, rather than pull out your wallet you'd pull out the Andromeda galaxy"
AH this could very well be my favorite quote of all times
Absolutely!
Thank you Sam. I cried when I heard this, I didn't expect that at all, I smiled from ear to ear and cried. You explained it so eloquently and blow for blow broke down my 5G trips. The uselessness of language to describe the experience was particularly well articulated, in my experience all forms of communication were pure feeling. The idea of language when in that space is laughable to the point of absurdity. Coming back down...YES! "What have I done to myself?" "This is life now" "How could I have been so irresponsible" "What about my kids"
Just incredibly well broken down, with minimal fat. Thanks again!
I met an elder Rasta man who grew mushrooms in Westmoreland, Jamaica. We had a pleasant conversation about farming, and the spiritual rituals involved with caring for mushrooms. I consumed the dose I acquired the next morning. Half of the trip I sat in a cave carved in a seaside cliff listening to Allegri's Miserere, and the other half I swam in the sea. The amount of tears of joy and tears of healing I shed couldn't compare to the Caribbean, but now, every time I taste saltwater falling down my face, I am reminded by one of the most influential days I have lived to date.
Swimming with a trio of spotted eagle-rays is one of the church experiences I required. That moment measured the energy and love inside my heart's wall, and ever since, I am always grateful when those sea creatures race towards me simply to acknowledge our shared existence. A most blessed fellowship was born since that day, impossible to comprehend, yet possible to limitlessly wonder about.
This might be Sam's best upload yet.
Ham Sarris is going to have fun with this.
@Renee Speece
LSD is much better
@@phoenixzappa7366 Not better nor worse; just different...
5 grams of lab-growns will put anyone out of their gourd.
@Renee Speece Most people strongly disagree. You probably shouldnt have done them "plenty of times" at age 13 as well.
"I have to admit the poverty of words here." Says one of the most eloquent and poetic speakers I ever heard.
So bloody spot-on Sam Harris. Spot on. After 27 years of totally, complete sobriety zero mind-altering compounds), I ventured into plant-based initiative with Ayahuasca about one year ago. More recently, micro-dosing with psilocybin. Under the umbrella of no coincidences I recently watched an awesome documentary called "Fantastic Fungi". Beautifully shot; so well-written; a must-see. I'm now ready to venture into a deeper relationship with the plant - and experience in a ceremonial-type fashion a higher dose, blind-folded as you were, and domiciled in my yoga practice area / loft to experience what I experience. This will be done with two other very close individuals - my son and his girl friend. Deep gratitude for this vid. I look forward to following and connecting on this journey. Namaste'
Great to hear that you have such a strong and authentic bond with these two. Would you care to share how it went?
Kind regards
Eating mushrooms changed my life completely, it's such an odd thing because I haven't done it in over 5 years and I'm almost scared of the experience even though I know the reward is beyond words but the skeletons in the closet you have to look at are terrifying. I've had one death trip and three amazing ones. I want to dissolve my ego again and I've had the worst year of my life so I think even a bad trip will be a good one. The odd thing is even a three hour death trip brings you some type of enlightening experience when it's over. The effect of gratitude seems to be consistent whether the trip is good or bad. I think I will micro dose today and see if I can get familiar with the fear and hopefully be able to push through when I take a higher dose. Just thought I'd share this in case anyone else is afraid of a bad trip. They will change your life for the better regardless. My friend took them for the first time at 34 this year and was a pack a day smoker and now has zero desire to ever smoke again. My experience made me a more self aware person and made me aware of my motivations in a way that I would never have if not for the experience. You become an empath and a more selfless person after taking them. When you become more selfless good things just start happening to you, it's very strange.
my twin sister did them first time at 43 years of age . I’m going to try them . we were both adopted and went through many homes and abuse .. I would like to heal or confront my anxiety .. forgive my mother for what she did
@@tulinbeyduz920 that’s a beautiful wish I really hope you do. If it doesn’t help you the first time try again at least one more time and make sure you’re in nature or in an environment that is the most comforting for you.
@@dandrechesterfield5411 i hope so
"Love is the ballast you want in you ships hold, as you set out over the abyss."
Everyone: "Yo, this corona-virus is pretty serious."
Sam Harris: "Want to listen to me get high"?
This is exactly what I wanted
Ironically this guy is bringing some of *the* best content so far on Corvid-19.
Thank you, Sam! I needed this reminder🧡
Yes! Exactly his point. We are but dust on a cosmic speck. Leave the speck. Let fear go.Thank you Sam for fanning brain farts into sparks that one day flame. Fungi. Go carefully but go.
Yeah, anything but the virus. Every time I turn on the radio or TV that's all I hear and I'm sick of it. If I'm stuck here at home I'd rather listen to anything else.
This is by far the best description of the ineffability these type of experiences 🙏🍄
I’m very grateful for your words on this Sam! As someone who grew up exploring atheism with your writing and online appearances, I felt very encouraged by you to hone my critical thinking. I would read philosophy, science, religion, politics, and after much trial and error, I believe I’ve developed an expansive yet humble worldview.
This intellectual humility has led me to a re-evaluation of spirituality and the question of our relationship to “the divine”. I have explored meditation, scripture, and psychedelics too. I will never lose my strong skepticism and my conviction that there are no supernatural entities. I am by all accounts an atheist. But these psychedelic and spiritual experiences remind me of the sublime and brilliant magnitude of Nature and Being. The Universe, what have you. It is in these moments that I am able to connect to the mystics and the prophets of antiquity, who in their own time, used the language available to them to describe ineffable experience and revelation. It is good to be connected to our ancestors; the awe that they must have felt to be alive, to have altered and unaltered conscious states, and to dare to name the world. I am grateful that I have developed a new conception of the word “God” that gives me access to those transcendent states that I previously might have dismissed as mental delusions.
I appreciate that we can admit that sometimes words fail.
What if you opened up enough to embrace a God who created Love, who is Love. A God above gender who created the galaxies and all of nature just as a gift to us to prove His Majesty. A God who wants us to find Him, even though He is only one step away
Thank you so much, Sam. God bless you. You're very important to our species.
I have listened to this clip many times. It is by far the most informative and objective view on this matter.
The thought "I hope my mind doesn't stay like this" is something I recall from my own trips. When you're tripping so hard you can't distinguish the floor from the walls from the ceiling, you certainly don't want to stay that way.
Never taken any psychedelic drugs before but wow that sounds scary, imagine if you had that experience out in public!
@@stiannobelisto573 I've done this in public, but among friends. They were able to talk me down when I was sure my mind was never going to recover. One friend took me out for a walk while I was at my peak, and it was stunning. When my ability to speak returned, we had one of the most deeply philosophical discussions I've ever had. But it was very scary at the peak!
@@fuckballs8808 It's much different than weed. It's more energized and you're more involved in the experience. I had a self-death experience with JWH-018, a synthetic cannabinoid that mimics THC, when the compound was still legal. It was dark and disturbing, but not nearly as engaging as true hallucinogens.
"I wasn't raped by the jaguar... but I can't say we're on entirely platonic terms either"
I'm using this
Damn 5 grams after 25 years of celibacy.. Good man,
DataBlock- He means from psychedelics.
DataBlock no I’m pretty sure he has kids
@Raccy lol
Me too..he's a pussy
Sobriety.
As an agnostic, turned on and tuned in by the potential of Panpsychism and psychedelics in exploring this new, yet ancient landscape...I'm truly thankful Sam Harris has decided to explore where most others only cast fearful aspersions and doubt without real experience of that landscape. This landscape of the psychedelic experience, highly subjective as it may be...the rational mind in Sam, and people like him, truth-in-self-seeking psychonauts, can still find patterns that can lead to objectivity. I think this path is the bridge to bringing the atheist and theist, the scientist and religionist, together in a distant future of peace and increased agreement. I see Sam's journey as evolution in action...mindful evolution.
Do u think psychedelics affected your spirituality?
@@acceptinglife6491 I think mushrooms affect you naturally. They definitely have a way of making you see things you've never seen, in ways you've never expected. If its perceived as spiritual, I guess thats subjective...how you define spirituality.
I took 5grams last year, the highlight of the trip as I was writhing in bed, tangled in my sheets was this: I was experiencing vast vast vast amounts of love and the feeling of 'home', immense gratitude and unbelievable wonder to the point where I wouldn't describe it as being painful but rather overwhelming and I just couldn't contain it. A voice spoke out in the midst of this saying "Aren't you glad you don't have to feel this all the time?" and I could do more than grin like a doofus and nod my head in the affirmative.
I want to experience it someday. Love the analogy of reaching your right pocket with your left hand. Even of you say language is next to useless to describe the experience, this way of expressing it was quite striking and beautiful.
Thank you for sharing your story Sam. I believe sharing our stories is a path to a better society.
My most vivid mushroom experience was in my mid teens. I took probably 3-4 grams with some friends and the best I can recall, feeling nauseas I went to the bathroom and got ready to vomit but instead I shrank to the size of the water molecules in the toilet and started having a conversation with them, it lasted for about an hour then my friend pulled me back. I don't remember any of the conversation, but I felt extremely comfortable there. I haven't done any psychedelic in decades, don't need any :)
"Just let my brain return to it's boring 20 watt glow!" - A gem. You sir have covered this better and more sensibly than I think anyone else I've seen/heard/met.
As someone who has taken and experimented with psychedelics (LSD, schrooms, MDMA) both recreationally and for the purpose of “reality investigation”) and who now does 10 day Vipassana courses and meditates daily, I think I’d find taking mushrooms in the middle of a 10 day course a bit of an intrusion. Not that I wouldn’t completely reject the idea, it’s just that what you are achieving in a 10 day course without any “crutches” is so valuable and calming. I am fascinated by Sam’s experiences and have to acknowledge his roll in helping me find the courage to sign up for a 10 day course.
At first glance, I thought it was titled. "Sam's Mushroom Tip"
I am trying to visualise this, maybe a small portobello
Yeah at first I thought this was a Hodge Twins video.
Don't lie, that's why you clicked on it. 😂😂
O man I laughed so hard at this 😂😂😂 thank u x
@@buzz5825 haha
Your, "sanity anchor," quote is my new favorite drug quote.
I read this as Bam's Gushroom Flip
Thanks. Needed that. All the I-read-that-as-tip comments were getting to me. Lol
Lmao
For an experience that is impossible to describe, I sure did gain quite a bit from your attempt. Particularly the parts about love and gratitude. Well said
One of the best and most accurate descriptions of the mushroom that I've ever heard. Most "trip reports" I find are inaccurate, shallow, misleading, and fail to come anywhere close to approximating the payload of the experience. They focus on meaningless details like colors, sounds, and geometry. But this report does pretty much the best anyone could do with English words and 20 minutes of time.
"There really are no words to describe this experience, just as there is no way of snapping your fingers to describe it. Language is simply the wrong tool for the job..."...I feel ya bro.
No truer words. Our labels simply fail in that landscape. God, I, me, we, us, world, universe, birth, death, etc...these labels all fail.
@@AlanHowellphotovideo absolutely man!!
Can anyone imagine speeches on the house floor if congress were to engage in Sam's experiment collectively?
@@skypilotace You have a vivid imagination.
"my trip was fantastic, nobody trips balls like I do" - Trump
There would be no speeches, there would be only tears and drum circles. Its the day after when we see who embraced it and who is pushing it away.
@@skypilotace i get that its a joke but "convert to atheism" is a bit of a fallacy as atheism is the absence of a position.
Sorry, I'll go be fun at parties now
Franny Dimitri I had the biggest ego death. Believe me!
Thanks for sharing this Sam! You’re a brilliant mind and I can’t imagine “stretching” further than you’ve already achieved on your own. This was enlightening.
Thank you Sam. The love you share will help heal the people and the world ourself.
I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. I am about to experience my first therapeutic session/journey using psilocybin, and I’ve been looking for someone to make an appropriate video that shares their experience taking mushrooms. There are people making videos simply to vent their frustrations or to actually try to elicit laughs… But chronic depression and bulimia, both of which I have suffered from, or no laughing matter and I really needed to hear from someone who would speak about their experience thoughtfully. Bless you sir
Taking psilocybin is like opening the attic of your mind. A change of perspective. My experience was unique! For those who can, Highly recommended!
When you talked about love filling everything in you and language can’t even explain it. … I said yes (shed a tear) thats the feeling.
👆👆
4ur shr00mz and psychd stufs
I never imagined I'd hear Sam say "I wasn't raped by a jaguar".
I mean, I wasn't either.
But, he wasn't on Platonic terms with it either.
@@scottpreston5074 kinda sus, he may have been telling the truth but he definitely consensually slept with a cosmic jaguar!
Perhaps the best description of what a journey is
No one can articulate like Sam Harris. He's an artist.
When one has a trip, they give a part of themselves to the experience, but they also gain a new part of themselves.
I've only taken LSD but "surrender" was the main thing I came back with and understood
I got nothing from my experiences as in we and this are all nothing.
@@moosemoss2645 we and this are nothing?
@@omgcyanide4642 without sounding ridiculous a grand sense of everything is everything and nothing at the same time. Completely overwhelming and inconsequential at the same time.
Listening to sam and then reading these comments is a trip in itself
Welcome aboard, Sam Harris! I had the rare pleasure of talking to Terrence McKenna back in 1993 and you sound like a future poster child for his advocacy of psychedelics to restore humanity. God speed and embrace the inimical absurdity that attends these wonderful experiences. It’s all part of the great cosmic giggle!
Every single time. I still read the title of the video as “Sam’s Mushroom Tip.”
Sam needs to start a livestream of him mainlining DMT at Coachella on top of the Ferris Wheel.
I would donate $100 a month to his website if he started doing things like this.
KingOfKings I ran into Sam once at a Queens of the Stone Age show not too far outside of Indio, where Coachella’s held. The man does have some “party” left in him.
@@stoneylonesome4062 Really?? I remember him saying he has no interest in music. Are you sure it wasn't Ben Stiller?
It would be cool if he recorded a mushroom trip with his guide. Would you listen to that?
@@randallb.7180 I would pay a chunk of change to listen to that - would be like a pay-per-view event
So dyslexia is a funny thing I read slower and occasionally misspell words with all the correct letters
But it’s times like this
When I momentarily read the title
Sams mushroom tip
That make it all worth it
and.....we all click faster that we can spell heterosexuality
Haha indeed same here! It can be pretty hilarious :)
It happens :)
It seems a LOT of people read it like that, regardless of dyslexia.
It's just a word pattern prediction thing.
autocorrect.exe has stopped working
"It's like being Hurled into the Sun."
At which point there is no longer any distinction between "I" and "IT,"
yet, there is the paradox of simultaneous oneness and difference.
A more specific way to put it would be like:
"It's like the vantage point of this conscious experience, being cast into the sun".
Or... "this bundle of energy, being thrown into that bundle of energy".
@ 17:50 - thank you. I'm convinced that you are right: next to any personal benefit, we need what this can teach us, as a society, as a culture, to literally come to our senses again ❤
As a 20 something year old, I experienced 4 or so LSD trips, and one with Mescaline - I had the good fortune that I was with good people and by far and large the experiences were positive. More importantly those journeys did change my view of the world forever. The limitations of language that Sam mentioned regarding inability to describe was/is so true for me. In fact the realization of inadequacy of language was a major theme inside more than one of my trips.
“Words are insufficient” but you really gave it a good go.lol.Thank you for a very enjoyable video.
Well articulated.
not surprised to find you here SMR. You should tell us more about your discovery phase on your channel.
Couldn't agree more with Josh, Steven. Given your reach by now, that's a great opportunity to give what is actually needed ;)
Funny seeing you here 😉 just binged a load of your videos. Got great value from the ‘how to start investing video’
Hey Steven!
Yes.
Thanks for sharing this Sam. I was amazed by your eloquence and how great you able to describe your experience. You motivates me meditate every day, raising my awareness and live a good life. Keep up the great work. Cheers from Russia
Thank you for putting into words what many of us have personally experienced, yet have scarcely been able to articulate.
Dr. Sam, wow, a relative spoke of this phenomenon and you BEAUTIFULLY described the experience....as a former university Psychology faculty member, I am thrilled to know about this gift from our universe.
My best psychedelic experience was 17.5g of Goldcaps. While watching live shows on youtube, I felt like I discovered and literally "saw" the electrical energy of many different bands play live in the 70s and 80s. I saw them "zap" the audience. I felt like the band was a metaphysical representation of the human ability to appreciate "the groove" and it helped me understand what bands were actually doing. The theater of it. It was awesome! I composed a weird little piece on my keyboard during this and remember some of it but when I looked at my sheet music after the trip it was mostly nonsensical chords and melodies in the key of lol.
A few years ago during my junior year Of college, i came back home with my Roomate after recently taking what was either acid or mushrooms, i can’t remember. I get to my room and shut the door behind me, beginning to take my clothes off. Shirt comes off, belt, unzip the pants and drop them to the floor...and them I have a realization: I’ve made a terrible mistake. I should have NEVER left the people i was with. I was all alone in a pitch black room, and couldn’t see anything. Paranoia starts to set in as I’m blasting off. I reach down to take my pants all the way off, but i can’t figure out how to get them over my shoes which for some reason i forgot needed to come off first. I eventually get them off, but i just stand there. I’m already to fat gone to function properly. I first began questioning all of my life decisions that lead me up until this point: tripping alone in my apartment in the pitch black dark, barely getting by in college, no plan for the future, none of what i have really earned. And yet i still choose to party and of drugs. I begin to feel as though I’ve wasted my entire life up until that point. And then i slip further. I still have no reference for what is around me because it is still pitch black dark, and i can no longer feel anything. I have no reference for still being grounded in physical reality, so i begin to question my resistance altogether. How much time has gone by? No idea. Am i even in a dimension that exists in my understanding of time as being relatively linear? Am i still alive? I could be dead right now and wouldn’t even know it? Is this what death is like? But why am i still having conscious thought? This goes on for what could have been hours or even just 30 minutes, but at some point I manage to claw my way out of the black pit i had dug myself into, and manage to realize that I indeed am still existing in reality as I know it, and begin attempting to re-clothe myself. But i can’t do it and i can’t even find the light switch. My only option, as i saw it, was to grab a pillow and run butt naked upstairs to my Roomate’s room. He’s high as a kite (weed) playing fortnite as i stumble in sobbing and repeating things like, “help me”, “i don’t know who i am”, and “I’m wasting my life”. He’s a little surprised, but to MY surprise he stays calm (he’s always been a very monotone, chill dude). He calls his friend who has done a bunch of drugs to ask for help, and the friend directs him to lead me back down to my room, lay me in bed, and tells me to “have a nice trip” as my Roomate closes the door. And I’m that moment, i can’t help but laugh. Back to square one. But this time it was different. For whatever reason, i was able to accept my situation and know that everything was going to be okay. I think that just leaving the room and seeing another person put things back into perspective, and allowed me to realize that I hadn’t lost it, or died for that matter. And for the rest of the night, i just lay in my bed listening to music, which was an amazing experience in itself because it was like i was re-experiencing the original things i felt when i first fell in love with each song on my playlist.
This experience certainly spooked me, but I would probably do it again if given the opportunity to re-do that night. It was an important learning experience that put a lot into perspective. I think things changed for the better after that point. And also my grades skyrocketed, although I’m not sure if my academic success was a result of a newfound inspiration to excel, or rather just me having finally learned how to do well in college and taking upper level classes that I actually found interesting.
If there’s anything that you should leave with from my story: know that psychedelics could potentially cause a bad trip, but it’s likely because there are things in your life that you haven’t properly processed psychologically that you need to work through. If you let go, and let the trip show you these things, you will probably walk away with a whole new understanding of them, and maybe even having worked through them during the trip. Like Sam said, you will likely walk way with a feeling of clarity; knowing what needs to be done. And if not, you’ll have at least started down that path, now aware of a road that needs walking.
9:49 I felt the cosmos tell me the same thing on my last acid trip. I was at a very materialistic point in my life, and it's like it was mocking me. "Oh, you like THINGS?? You don't even know about T H I N G S" Mocking my love of strawberry jam and bagels. Showing me the suchness, the nowness of now, feeling like that you're always here and you're always now watching the same eternal energy just transform itself into different THINGS. That we can't OWN things, you CAN'T grasp ANYTHING, because it's all just a river of energy man. But it almost made me hate myself, like we're consciousness evolved to grasp onto things and experiences and sensations. That humans are the most evolved sensing organism, descendants of a long line of lookers and sniffers and graspers and tasters. Taking water, taking life. Just to continue our own sensation of THINGS.
My last mushroom trip had me asking why we believe things rather than just recognizing things for exactly what they are and for exactly what they are not.
You need to check out Ian Mcgilchrist
Dear Mr Harris, This videocast has made my hard day's night mellow and my caged-up, stressed-out, Coronovirus-blitzed mind get a grip on things and realize the world will be there on the morrow.
SAMUEL BENJAMIN HARRIS 👏👏👏 YES!!! this was definitely the best podcast I've heard in a long time. No, the best thing period, that I've heard in a long time. I too am at a loss for words to describe how great this is. Thank you for taking such a tremendous risk and sharing your experience with all of us. ☯️
Hey Sam, I feel like a podcast about psychedelics with Michael Pollan would be quite interesting. He did a great job putting his experiences into words - and combining your knowledge of the "landscape" of the mind with his aptitude for painting a picture with words - we could have something great come of it.
Listening to your experience is so validating and grounding for me after my existential crisis that has developed since taking them.
After my nightmarish trip of untold terror, it took me months to shake off the emotionally traumatic experience.
Sam’s words are such a grounding feeling
@@ryanharris9585 What did you do, how much of it did you do & prior to taking it, had you experimented with anything else (like cannabis?). Also, did you try smaller doses of psilocybin before having the “heroic dose?”
@@xbulelo this was probably around my 9th or 10th psilocybin session. It was 11 dried grams after a 24 hr fast.
I was fairly into shrooms. In fact, the aforementioned 11 gram session was Cambodian Cubensis that I had grown myself.
@@ryanharris9585 why did you take 11 grams? Doesn’t that go beyond the “heroic” dose?
@@xbulelo well I have done 5 and 7 grams and handled it so very well. My experience each time was extremely positive.
nailed it my man:
gratitude and infinite love. "the greatest feeling ive ever felt" I would tell myself out loud
As a young man( Im 63 now) I used to take massive amounts of psychedelic drugs, far higher doses than my contemporaries. As mr Harris explains words are inadequate to convey the long term effects on anyone's perspective of the world, and while I have no desire to repeat the process, I value the perspective it has given me on life and my place in the cosmos.
Brilliantly spoken description of a mushroom healing experience. My last experience with mushrooms was a revelatory journey. I melted into God, I felt my full creative potential shimmering in my bones. I felt so ecstatic and light, yet this dark shadow passed over me for a moment. This cold feeling crawled through me. "You can do anything you want, but be careful what you do with that power" an internal voice said to me in a soft but sinister tone. I felt the weight of liberation. And it made me cry, but these tears released a heavy weight off of my chest. I haven't forgotten why we are here.
same thing happened to me, except it was entities helping me realize. one entity showed me love and made me recognize my self, my love and how much power i hold by dancing in and with me. then another sung a song, rhythmic and slow, "Infinite Bounds, Within Reason", which felt like a warning. their last message from that trip was to "love responsibly"
Coming back from a high-dose psilocybin trip is akin to Ebenezer Scrooge waking up on Christmas morning after having been visited by the spirits: one is overcome with previously unknown levels of love and gratitude, and a magnified inclination toward generosity.
Thanks for sharing Sam. It’s very important to hear anecdotal testimonies from someone like you. Psychedelics could change the world if used on a mass scale. If I could does everybody with the snap of my fingers like Thanos I totally would
Mamma Mia.. amazing coming here to listen to this following an utterly incredible trip earlier today. The sheer beauty of life and love that was erupting around me during the peak of the trip would be disserviced to be called mind blowing. It was an annihilation of everything I thought and knew, the moment you wonder how you got there and what anything is at all is truly spellbinding. Truly. Amongst tears of laughter and ecstasy, I became everything and nothing at the same time, a spectacular synesthesia that can scarcely be put into words. Nothing was everything and everything just was. Wowee... there's a reason they're called magic mushrooms.
Sam has produced an extraordinary and beautiful account of something which, by his own admission, is really impossible to describe.
I had the same experience, alone, in Point Reyes. I traveled very far and wondered if I might not come back. It was an outstanding experience in the 1980s. My connection lived at Stinson Beach and gave me what I needed and a long talk before I set out on my own. From the 70s until now, I've experienced nothing but beauty, every trip. Lucky me.
5grams with a blindfold; you crazy bro! Edit: Now that I've listened to your description of the experience I want to try it too.
It’s called a heroic dose for a reason.
J Mass what about 3.5 😭
@@Iammarlonbrown im in the middle of a 3.5 dose. I was having a great time until i wasnt, now im here lmao
Dude, thanks for this wonderfully inciteful description. I would love to microdose it and then eventually do the heroic thing...blindfold is super heroic dude.
I've taken L.S.D. about 30 times in a variety of settings; parties, pubs and once during Sunday Mass. I've taken it alone in the Woods, I've taken it at the beach with friends. I consider the taking of L.S.D. as one of my most profound life experiences but it was only on those occasions when I dropped the tab, went to bed and pulled the blankets over my head that I could describe the trip as profound. Taking a trip can be likened to an archeological dig of the mind. It starts in the now where all that was fixed and solid begins to bleed into each other, it moves through our personal history which may be a phase in which people run into traumatic experience and from there into our deep mythological space and it's there we find our gods and demons. It is only when we have navigated our way through those stages that we're in infinite space and eternity. I offer one "tip for tripping". There will be times during the trip when we sense the imminent arrival of some turbulence. Our tendency is to tighten up but the most effective response is to relax.
Having kids is life changing 100% of the time. After you have kids, your brain still functions as well. You even have regular experiences with children that I would describe as overwhelming love.
Thank you Sam, truly...
The hope & help this represents is remarkable!
Someone I love is in midst of an utter battle with dictator of her mind who’s caged her to an experience of utter fear & doubt....
I am in the process of vetting some good options of guided therapy where responsible use of psychedelics is part of the tool set....
My father has schizophrenia and did drugs in his youth. Ofcourse i don't know if there is a causation their, but we know there could be. This is the reason why i will probably never do any drugs (i have smoked weed twice in my life though and drank alcohol a few times and not in moderate amounts...) I heard of friends having these experiences and now hearing Sam word it so beautifully makes me saddened that i will probably never experience this.
Dont be afraid and just try it...lifes short and fun is worth it
@@Laviesestbelle The thing is i have fun in normal life too. I don't want to ruin all the fun i will still have by having one potentially fun and lifechanging experience on drugs and than getting schizophrenia.
He jij ook hier, dat is wel grappig
Een Psilo trip kan inderdaad heftig mooi zijn, in mijn ervaring 9 van de 10 keer. Als je het ooit gaat proberen, begin dan altijd met een kleine dosis.
@@Unidentifying Had jou hier al helemaal niet verwacht! Kom deze dag elke keer bekende tegen op onverwachte plaatsen. Bedankt voor het advies wie weet zal ik het nog een keer proberen als ik wat ouder ben en de kans dat ik deze mentale aandoening krijg is afgenomen.
Do you ever feel like you could possibly tip over into schizophrenia? If you feel very balanced and happy you will likely have a great trip and will completely change and enrich your life but if you have too many skeletons in the closet or guilt you may want to work through that first.
I wish I could have such an experience on mushrooms. Everytime I've taken them the trip was always accompanied by a ruthless anxiety attack.
I had a horrific experience a year and a half ago. Did everything wrong
@BJJ Fiend fair enough
Look up phenibut. Helps to reduce anxiety in combination with psychedelics.
I have anxiety in general, getting drunk makes me wake up with extreme anxiety, so trying mushrooms is out of the question
If you have underlying anxiety problems you should definitely be careful with mushrooms, at the same time, in my experience as a relatively anxious person, my first mushroom trip was terrible and full of paranoia, the next day I felt pretty much cured of all forms of anxiety and experienced happiness and appreciation for life that I had never felt before. It was a kind of afterglow that lasted for 2 months or so. This is anecdotal but worth mentioning.
"These oppositions describe a kind of geometry of the mind..." Perfect. Yes.
I have felt this intense gratitude in my ayahuasca journeys. I cannot express what I felt, but I can say that in those experiences I would have given my life if every being in the universe could experience that state of bliss.
I like sams eloquently methodical way of explaining you have a galaxy in your pocket that reminds you of all the love you could possibly feel or forgot to feel. Though I would assume sam would exude a bit more spirituality. That overflowing love and gratitude is our true nature. Our ego blocks it