![]() If you are familiar with London, you know that on the Tube there is often a sign on the ground of the train platform that says “mind the gap.” I’d like to suggest that we do the same with LSD. But I am well aware that many people follow the same protocol and report positive changes in their lives. When I followed the standard microdosing protocol for acid, I found it a bit wanting. With LSD the suggested microdose lies between 6 – 20 micrograms, a modest amount. Microdosing is the darling of many in high tech, and reports of resulting improved efficiency and creativity abound. Many people who microdose claim significant improvements in mood, concentration, focus and overall awareness. It takes just a tiny pinch of psychedelic, one day on and two days off if you follow Fadiman’s protocol. For a few years now popular media has been all abuzz about microdosing, with mushrooms and acid leading the charge. ![]() It worked like a brightening setting for an electronic screen.Īt the time I did not know that not only would tripping on LSD, mushrooms, peyote, huachuma and more would become more much more interesting to a broader range of people, but that microdosing would become vastly popular, thanks in no small part to James Fadiman, who many refer to as the “father” of microdosing. I had no particular program or protocol, just mushroom extract in a dropper bottle that I self-administered in very small amounts, usually 2-4 drops. I never got high on the extract, only a bit brighter, and came to refer to the mushroom rum as “mental Windex.” I took that mixture on occasion for many years, sometimes several days at a time. I found to my surprise that just a few drops of the psilocybin rum imparted a slight yet noticeable bump up in awareness and sense of spaciousness. I poured the simple extract into a dropper-top two ounce bottle, and started to play with it. At the end of that time I strained the mixture, and then pressed the mushrooms through cheesecloth into the rum, increasing the concentration. I let the mushrooms marinate for about two months, lightly turning the bottle in which they soaked daily, and patiently waiting. I had some dried magic mushrooms lying about, and had some rum, and I wondered what would happen if I finely chopped the mushrooms, filled a jar with them, added rum to cover them, and let them soak for a long time. ![]() In 1983 I began to experiment with what is now referred to as microdosing, with psilocybin mushrooms. For me there was life before acid, and a brighter life after. Thinking back on those full-blown acid trips, I am struck by how much good they have contributed to my life. The 150 or so LSD trips that I subsequently undertook continued along that theme of large tripping doses, generally over 200 micrograms, and full-throttle immersive experiences. White Lightning was the purest acid to ever hit the street at the time it emerged in 1965, and proved preferable to the drops on sugar cubes that had previously been available. Pure and clean, White Lightning was a heroic awakening blast, a transformative agent that delivered me to an experience of vast openness, a far greater sense of self, and a unity of all things that was not just an idea, but an immersive reality. When I first took LSD in 1967, it was a brawny 270 micrograms of Owsley Stanley’s White Lightning. The Middle Way, for its simplicity, is harder than it sounds, requiring vigilant awareness and dedication to the path of awakening. It is also regarded as the path to true healing, in which harmonious equilibrium of one’s entire being can be achieved. Treading what many describe as a razor’s edge, the Middle Way is considered the noble path, a journey of realization and balance in all things. In Buddhist teachings the Middle Way places the aspirant exactly between a life of ascetic privation and sensual indulgence.
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