Partners, Spider and Fly, have been using cubensis over the past several months (since September 2006) to try to better understand a "Force" or "Energy" or "Connection" or, as we call it ... "The Web" of what can best be described as energy that we experience with one another...almost electrical energy but not quite ... warmer ...
An important point in there is that we sensed this energy before we used mushrooms. Mushrooms have entered the picture for us as a possible way to explore it further ... to understand it more fully ...

Neither of us have before about 6 months ago ever had an experience in this earthly skin that is even remotely similar. We're well into our 40's and it's been a good 20 years or more since either of us dabbled with psychedelics ... longer I imagine than some of you young psychonauts out there have even been around.

We crossed paths in March of 2006, and quickly decided that we were somehow tapping into something amazing, unique, special ... that perhaps we were kindred spirits ... true soul mates ... something ... that we haven't quite grasped, as the physical and sensual and truly spiritual moments we experienced together were seemingly created out of thin air. I've read a considerable amount about things that speak of this "energy" or what many would call "Soul" within us but until only recently could never really grasp any of it as truth ... suddenly I see ...suddenly I feel it.

I tend to get wordy ... sorry ... hang in there … point is, months ago, we smoked a bit of weed, drank a few beers, got a nice little buzz on and suddenly over a period of weeks, doors began to open on something first influenced primarily by Libido but quickly developing into an all encompassing and really incredibly warm energy that seemed to radiate through us individually and pass back and forth between us ... strange ... right ... I know ... it sounds really strange ... unbelievable...

But ... we feel it ... it isn't some kind of Puppy Love feeling if that's where you're heading ... we're not youngin's ... we've been there and back as far as relationships and marriage and the like. There is a strong physical attraction but it's way, way, way more than that ... perhaps someone knows what the hell I'm trying to get at ...

So, we find ourselves guided towards entheogenic research ... feeling perhaps that some of what we are sensing would become clearer with the influence of psilocybin. The problem (or maybe challenge would be a better word) we're having at the moment is it's just so much fucking fun taking the mushrooms and experiencing the visuals and considering each and every stimuli that bombards your receptors that we're finding it quite challenging to focus clearly enough on trying to … use those altered perceptions in a focused and purposeful way ... to investigate … to try to "connect" up to that energy we feel with each other. Our intent going in is ... "yes ... let's try and do some kind of Vulcan mind meld thingy..." ... you get the idea … probably best with that analogy than my talk of our web of energy ... we haven't been able to really do this as seriously as we'd like because ... well ... because we're not really sure how to try and focus in on a specific concentrated point on the mushrooms ... the mushrooms tend to broaden the focus rather than narrow it...

Point of all this rambling is to ask those of you that have had experience using the mushrooms for more than just a wild ride for some suggestions ... input ... ideas ... do's and don'ts, whatever that you have found has helped you to approach your use of mushrooms in a more Shamanistic manner ... more as a way of exploring altered states of consciousness and awareness I guess.

We're not in any hurry to turn these trips into science experiments ... too much damned fun to be had just letting it happen ... but we're intersted in hearing ideas, thoughts, theories, etc, from the experienced Psychonauts out there.
Although this describes the aspect of the entheogenic experience that instills the greatest amount of awe and passion within us, we are open to and we welcome discussion concerning ALL aspects of entheogenic quests, including enhanced perceptions, alternate realities, synchronicity, non-linear time ... and more!

http://tribes.tribe.net/entheogenicquest