Psychedelics helped me deal with my addiction. Having suffered anxiety and depression as well. I must say taking them turned my life around. I started micro dosing and just in a couple days I noticed major changes in my stress levels, depression, and everything else. It's been really great. After battling with these for years, I was unaware that shrooms will save me.

I've been addicted to heroin for 11 years, after trying out psilocybin treatment I will be 2 years clean

Psilocybin, LSD, and psychedelics generally are absolutely life changing substances that have so much potential to help people with mental health issues.

Psychedelic mushrooms really healed me years back. These are great healing compounds! When used in proper context.

Golden Teacher mushrooms has been quite therapeutic for me and I’m using PE for spiritual and mental gratification.

Depression haunted my life from a very young age, and I was put on a bunch of SSRIs as a child in attempt to deal with it. None worked.Psychedelic mushrooms was brought to my attention. It was the first thing that actually had real effects. They should only be used with great care and respect.

One of my most recent trips changed my entire life and the way I view everything, I had taken just 2 grams of Jedi Mind Fuck and for the first 2-3 hours it was like every trip I’d had visuals were insane, body feeling was crazy and then IT happened me and my friend (who was on the same dose) decided to see what’s flower felt like so we brushed our hands over the pedals and I swear the pedals were moving through my hand and I could feel the flower grabbing back at me to me I 100% transferred energy with it, after that happened I then could PHYSICALLY feel my mind opening as I was for the first time shown that EVERYTHING is alive, nearly scared the shit outta me but it such a beautiful realization

I had a trip recently where I went to lay down and close my eyes, and it felt like I could see my brain's processes in real time. I have ADHD, and I could see the thoughts shifting around as they happened. I could also hear and comprehend words before my inner voice spoke to me. It was pretty interesting.

I had a moment on my first mushroom trip where i was lying in bed and lost total connection to my physical body. I felt as i was just a dot of energy on my pillow such a crazy feeling and made me smile, really realized that we are really nothing but energy and had an overwhelming feeling from that trip onwards.

Very good content. I subscribed😉 Been growing golden teachers and APE. I use them for well being and give them to friends who want them for microdosing and encourage mental, spiritual and emotional well being. Many people I know are now growing their own medicine and share them with others. Sharing is caring♥️

Hello Shelby! I haven't tripped on shrooms many times but I have watched a lot of your videos and I just wanted to let you and your team know that we as a community are really grateful to have people like you in our community. You guys have helped us a lot with your useful and entertaining videos, at least they helped me a lot when I was a complete rookie!

I suffered the borderline disorder for over 23 years. With so much anxietyNot until I came across psilocybin mushrooms treatmentPsilocybin treatment actually saved my life honestly. 6 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms

What a wonderful time to be alive...thank you for this incredible opportunity of receiving this information

Don't forget to respect the mushrooms, Golden teachers basically, they have some very powerful potential. . It can show you what you need to see within yourself and in the world around you, changed my life for good. In the most positive way possible.

I find the come up in golden teachers to be very gentle.

Psilocybin containing mushroom saved my life. it drastically reduced my benzodiazepine withdrawal allowing me to quite illicit pill addiction after three years of heavy daily use before it would had became medically dangerous to quit. it has also helped me to survive depression

Psilocybin containing mushrooms saved my life. The drastically reduced my benzodiazepine withdrawal allowing me to quite illicit pill addiction after three years of heavy daily use before it would had became medically dangerous to quit. It has also helped me survive depression.

Love the video Shelby! I first saw you a few weeks ago on an interview with FreshCap. I believe we will see a huge impact on the community and psilocybin mushrooms going forward!

"Remember you can't cross a fly with a human" tell that to Jeff Goldblum 😆 😂

goldens were my first time shroom and holy fuck on 2.5 grams the visualsi saw when my eyes were closed while listening to meditative music were INTENSE lots of spectral and sacred geometrical patters. They also made me verry emotional.. cried ALOT. but was no where close to a bad trip. And i also must add it put a solid end to my depression and 10 year long struggle with suicidal thoughts for a solid 4 months. which is something anti depressants have never been able to do for me. the depression did come back eventually but in a way its not as bad. For anyone struggling with depression that the meds dont treat. i highly reccomend trying a gram or two brewed into some ginseng tea :)

I am so psyched for this channel to blow up! Great info in an efficient video 🙌🏼

Amazing content as always, Shelby! Appreciate these videos. Just harvested my first ever grow. Golden Teachers. Mush love!

Golden Teachers will always have a place in my heart after the beautiful experiences I've had with them

Best shrooms I’ve ever had! Had some amazing trips when I first started taking them. Now I micro dose every few days before work and it has literally changed my life completely for the better.

Experienced golden teacher grower here: Potency very much varies. I'm trying to hone down the recipies for what produces more or less potency. Also working on perfecting a part coffee grounds substrate. These grow incredibly on coffee, however are extremely prone to mold. I believe all conflict between people would end with 🍄. I wish I could help people more but there are so many bot/troll accounts

I've taken shrooms a few times in the past when I was young and didn't care much about all the information about it and just wanted to trip, fast forward 10 years and I'm getting back into the world of mushroo.s and care to learn more about it, this video was outstanding and full of useful information, thank you for the video and education!

Thank you for your content on this channel. It's very helpful, interesting and entertaining. I'm just starting out myself. I'm sold on your very straightforward approach.

So glad to find your channel. I have been enjoying your website tremendously. Great info!!

I took 7 grams of pizza toppings a few weekends ago. It was one of the best experiences I've had. I became a kid again and felt the embrace of all the love I've had around me before moving away and becoming an adult. I hope one day the world wakes up and stops demonizing mushrooms and realize their potential. It could heal millions and make the world a better place.

I do microdose on shrooms and other psychedelics and I can say it has improved my daily attitude. I'm more focused and feeling less trauma. I don't do it just for the trips, take a mini dose to ease my brain receptors. I can confirm that I have had some of the most profound mind bending experiences a human can have in their lives.

I just came down from my very first trip and you are being so clear in your wording that if you were any more clearer I might enter back into the trip

Thanks for the detail you offered saying that even top experts can't tell between goldies and B+, that was something I wondered about.

I've been growing for a few years now and it's nice to go happen upon and listen to entry level information every now and again. I feel like I'm sitting next to you, nodding my head along as you talk, thinking "yeah, what she said" lol.

There’s a lot of misinformation out there surrounding our community and this video did nothing but right by us. Beautifully made

Golden Teachers are the "F around and find out" strain. I learned this from experience.

You are a beautiful person😊 You have a wonderful soul...The first time I shroomed was interesting. I first noticed the effects when my cigarette started to bend and would not get any smaller no matter how much I puffed on it...I was amazed about how easy it was to change the atmosphere around me at one point I conjured a storm above my head, which started as a small dark cloud and started spiraling and grew into a full-fledged thunderstorm. I live in Phoenix AZ, so there are saguaro cacti all throughout the neighborhood. I kid you not everyone of them were giving me a big middle finger. I found it hilarious and could not stop laughing, all the while holding a random leaf which pointed and changed direction so my friends and I followed its direction. Another thing I noticed was the all of us had the ability to communicate telepathically with each other.

Last year, I took shrooms thinking it was going to hit like an edible or something. Shit was scary at first but amazing once you start getting deeper into your thoughts

Amazing you mentioned the fuzzy caps I've noticed that myself.lol I just tell myself it got cold and they got they're little winter hats on.lol

Phsychedelics helped me quit illicit pills addiction, I was messed up I was depressed and a danger to myself. Good videos and help like this should be seen always.

Psilocybin saved my life. I was addicted to heroin for 15 years and after Psilocybin treatment I will be 3 years clean in September. I have zero cravings. This is something that truly needs to be more broadly used in addiction treatment.

I recently starting using shrooms and they are WONDERFUL! I’m so happy when I take them and I laugh so much.

Appreciate your take on this. New to the arena and the benefits are hugely impactful. Candid, simple introductions are really helpful in getting started.

Much appreciate, your calm intelligent, highly detailed commentary, on this most important subject..

I need guidance I can do 400-500 ugs of Lucy and 3-5 of shrooms and don’t get visuals a higher dose just makes me more disoriented and voices in my head non stop.

Some of the research that I have done indicates that: much like the Endocannabinoid system, with its matrix of enzymes (FAAH, MAGL, etc), there is a largely undefined endogenous DMT system in which all psychedelics act as “antagonist”, down regulating specific enzymes, thus allowing receptors to bind more freely with ( not so much the exogenous agent) but the endogenous 5 Meo DMT, N’N DMT that we produce naturally. This would explain why Wim Hoff makes the statement: We get high on our own supply”. If this is the case, then one would expect to see differences in duration and intensity, however the basic experience would be accessible by a variety of paths, breath work, yoga, meditation, running, etc. personally my most profound DMT re-experience was during a “natal regression” hypnotherapy session, in which the birth experience was recreated to such a degree, that the original DMT release at birth was relived. My point is “the body follows the mind”, so what we believe specifically about a plant medicine, will manifest itself into our perceived experience. Thanks, interesting videos.

They changed my life! When the teacher speaks, you learn!

Wow this is a really awesome resource - thank you!!

Awesome video ,very informative and easily digestible . Thanks, a lot♥️

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Great Topics, Information & Videos.. Great quality and Content! You are awesome explaining all of these!

I love golden teachers so much! I always learn more about myself every time I microdose. GT’s have been life changing for me.

Loving your videos Shelby! I'm growing my first batch of GT's as we speak - just waiting for the mycelium cakes to fully develop then off to the fruiting chamber! Looking forward to my first GT experience! =)

Way back in 1973 in manitou Springs Colorado. They sold a purple mushroom that was frozen in a baggy. they cost 15 dollars an ounce.they were a lot of fun to eat. We wood camp in the mountains and watch the stars.

👍🏼 enjoying the ride & learning details on the GT, thanks for the vid

Hope topics like this will be more discussed, it has a lot of potential...!

Just had 2 grams of GT in a raw cacao brew a few weeks ago. Really nice. Reflective, but also conversational. Was in the redwoods up in the coastal mountains, so it was all about the cool root system "city states" all over the place and the perfect afternoon sunlight. That said, my favorite to date is still Blue Meanies.

I am a newbie. I just started cultivating. I found your presentation very informative. It’s probably the most informative honest of the ones that I’ve seen. I plan on enrolling in your course and look forward to that experience. Thank you

This was incredibly helpful thank you!

Very knowledgeable and articulate. Thanks!

I actually own a hybrid (known as White Rabbit) 🐇 and they are quite aesthetically beautiful. I’m also going to be growing medicinal/functional mushrooms such as Lion’s Mane, and Reishi, so I’ll have a set up for Psilocybes as well, and have a website for spores. Can’t wait to experiment😇🙏

My favorite shrooms are Golden Teacher. And I have been eating them and propagating them since 1979. I was getting them from a friend in Mill Valley. I was living in LA. back then. As for dosage I have 40+ years tripping with shrooms. I use what Terry McKenna called "The Heroic Dose." Average 5.5-7 gms. of dry shrooms from what began as a spore print from 1979. My strain is growing wild in Central California, Central Virginia, and Central Upstate N.Y.

I’ve gotten the cubes down pretty well. Just got some azzie spores. I live in an appropriate environment so I’m excited to try my first outdoor patch. Mush love 😂

This was very informative, thank you for sharing!

There was a really interesting comment made by the breeder of Penis Envy on Hamilton's podcast recently where he said he prefers the azures due to there being a singular entity behind them that resonated with me as I had an experience where a friend offered me a mixed bag of Goldies and Azures and I ate them in my normal Goldie amount and got sent down a journey that made me take a whole new perspective on what was possible and that mixing cultivars or taking a new one in the same dose as the old, is going to lead to really unexpected results. I don't read shroom forums because I don't want anyone else's interpretations to out-form my own, Hamilton's coverage of the PE breeder was so mind blowing - he said over and over he never got it from McKenna, never met the guy. The lingering question remains, what's the co-pilot dose on the azures, by themselves....?

Psychedelics saved my life. I was addicted to heroin for 15years and after psychedelic treatment I'll be 3 years clean in September, I have zero cravings. This is something that truly needs to be more broadly used in addiction treatment. •••••••••••••••

I am also working with psychedelics for decades, in the Amazon. Incredible transformations are routine

Thank you for this definitive information about shrooms. It took me over two years to reliably source psilocybin mushrooms locally without worrying about deadly Galeria sp. accidentally being mixed in the baggie with the wild-picked shrooms. I tried these wild shrooms dried, ground, and in capsules. I found that the less processed they were, the stronger the effects. I also experimented with ways to lessen the nausea and vomiting, which unfortunately for me is very persistent and negatively impacts the trip. Lemonade (made with real lemons) seemed to work the best. I'm interested in more controlled sourcing and reliable dosing for medicinal anti-depressant effects for my husband, who refuses to take antidepressants or antipsychotics since they just don't work for him. I'm interested in growing them, but have no idea how to get grow kits and/or spores or spawn without attracting legal attention. Possession of psilocybin mushrooms for personal use is legal in the next state over, but not here yet, which is ridiculous, since several psilocybe and psilocybin-porducing species grow naturally here.

I use Liberty Caps,they are small but potent. 60psc makes for 2 grams and they give 3-4 hours of solid trip and I get a heavenly bliss feeling each time .feels like the mother nature itself visits my inner soul and resets my troubled mind. amazing :D

I took half an 1/8th of magic mushrooms and experienced no visuals but I'm particularly resistant to hallucinations. Anyways after taking them i found everything to be very funny. I spent about and hour just sorta tripping and then i got sick. Threw up once, then I got tired and went to sleep. Woke up the next morning feeling like a million bucks.

I once had a beautiful strain called golden halo that has golden yellow spores. Very pretty!

G'day from Melbourne ,I have been enjoying your videos

A lot of people don't realize that different strains/phenotypes of cubensis don't just have different potency and appearance but have a very different balance of alkaloids as well. I actually have a physically different reaction to a strain that was an offshoot of APE than most other cubensis I've tried, as when I start to comedown my bp and heartrate skyrocket (the most I took was an 8th, and it was so bad I genuinely believed I was going to die for at least 3-4 hrs), and that's happened all 3 times I've tried it. However, despite trying b+, gt, jmf and malabar coast I've never experienced anything close to that. That said, my experience is of course only anecdotal proof that different strains have a noticeable difference in experience beyond just potency and placebo, so if anyone else has similar or opposing experiences or evidence, I'd love to hear it. :)

I've heard a lot of tripping stories, and they are very exciting,I would love to try magic mushrooms but I can't easily get some, Is there any realiable source I can purchase from??

I could listen to her speak all day. She's well spoken, intelligent, and beautiful.

Love the channel!

Hello Shelby. Can you please do a video on the topic of "Wood Lovers Paralysis" It's been my experience that really no one knows or has even heard of WLP. Out of the hundreds of people I have spoken to throughout my many, many years (I'm almost 50) of using mushrooms and being around the psychedelic community, no one ever mentioned it. I only became aware of WLP because it happened to me out of nowhere while trippin a few years back. The experience scared me so much that I didn't touch mushrooms for many years after the incident. I thought I was having a stroke and came so close to calling an ambulance, luckily my wife was able to calm me down. After many years of trippin on as much as 8.5g of dried mushrooms, having done Ayahuasca many times in Peru and smoked 5meo DMT I thought I had a pretty good handle on trippin but when my vision slowly started to become blurry and then I pretty much couldn't see at all then my right arm started going numb, then my right leg became numb and I couldn't stand then this tingling feeling started crawling up the right side of my neck and face to the point where the whole right side of my face was dropping.... trust me when I tell you I started to panic. I think the whole experience lasted about an hour but because I was trippin so hard it felt like it lasted forever. If I had heard of WLP before hand I wouldn't of panicked and understood that this is something that sometimes happens. I try and tell everyone I know that uses mushrooms about WLP so that they don't freak out and can remain calm. Anyway, it would be great to hear your take on it. Thank you for all your hard work ✌🏻🤍

Psilocybe cyanescens seams stronger than Cubensis to me. And if you grow a strain and you pick 2 mushrooms that are the same size and weigh the same the potency can be very different in each individual shroom.

Thank you for such great content!

This was VERY helpful and informative

Thank you for this well put together content, as a younger individual growing up in a world becoming more open to different compounds I find having information on what I am putting in my body gaining more and more significance daily. I appreciate the content and although it may just be for entertainment purposes it also provides a form of safety education around psilocybin mushrooms which is greatly appreciated, keep up the great work!

GT's will always have a place in my heart. They saved my life on a heroic dose. B+ I really like too.

i really enjoyed your video Shelby, thank you

So glad I've come across your channel! Just got your book and gonna have a go at growing. I ha e only tried srooms once as a 14 year old and they where the uk ones that grow wild in September/October I think they're called liberty caps. But I've had more experience with lsd. I'm an alcoholic in recovery and been sober for 7 years now and I'm getting on abit (43) and want to find myself as I feel a bit lost. Hopefully I'll enjoy the experience again as I did when I was younger. I'm going to have a go at growing so I'll see how it goes 😂 much love ❤

After high school I for some reason got really depressed. I had broken up with my at the time 7 yr girlfreind and lived in the country without a license yet and so all freinds were gone and lost. I acquired a quarter ounce ed of mushrooms and that weekend in my bedroom cured myself lol. C azz me out with a whole new realization of why we were here and realized we never stop even when we die. When we die it's just thee second part of our existence. Lol. God bless the mushroom.

This is so fascinating. So there is one that looks really weird called enigma that was really strong. I'm told it's a hybrid, any idea what it would be?

Wow how informative 🤯 great vid

Love the dentist office waiting room theme music!

There’s a lot of potential in psychedelics, I can’t wait to try any of them mushrooms specifically but it’s just so hard to find a reliable source over here, I’ll be glad if anyone can be of help..

Your site is both informative and fascinating. I've never cultivated mushrooms, just harvest them in the fall. I live in PEI, Canada, and they grow everywhere - in pastures and even on my lawn. Just regular little psilocybin mushrooms, and I'm wondering if they have a specific name. I have to note that I have (many years ago) freaked out and saw 'god' and perhaps became schizophrenic for a time. Though that may have been due to LSD.

Great presentation. It's good to see not only mycology content that steps outside of the well covered topics, but also the call for more legitimate research.

its nice to see more educational content on things like shroom, especially as someone who wants to try shrooms one day and only recently learned theres multiple kinds like with weed even without wanting to try shrooms its still good to have informational content on drugs like this rather than seeing it has weird effects on the human brain and making it completely illegal the scaryness is played up to deter people from it even if, like with the examples of marijuana and by what ive learned about shrooms, arent really to dangerous especially when compared to other normalized things that are more harmful like alcohol or tobacco, its good being able to spread the real information about them like their effects and possible harms rather than heavy fear mongering for keep people away and hoping they dont learn you lied to them about something cause then they ignore all the information fear mongered to them cause they now dont know what you told them was true and what was just trying to be scary

Hi Shelby could you please make a video on the different types of experiences between the strains, sometimes its not about the potency but type of trip

This young lady is amazing. I wish I had this resource in the olden times. I'm old, I admit it. I purchased a spore print from High Times magazine in 1979 and cultured magic mushrooms back in the day. I touched the face of God and got slightly burned, my fault, not his. In 2006 I ran across P. cubensis growing in a pasture in Montserrat, WI and it turned deep blue upon bruising. But I knew my mind was not strong enough to touch God again, so I put it down. 16 years later I am mixed with relief and regret. Be careful what you wish for, for you shall have it. Have fun and don't get hurt. I should write a book......Fantastic video, what is not to love here?

I'm sure that all this chemistry and technical analysis is very important, but in my youth in South Wales UK, we just went to the nearby fields (where we knew sheep grazed) and picked as many as we could carry! (Eating them on the way!) I have to be honest though, I and my friends did get into a proper mess sometimes! We would buy wine making kits and replace the provided vegetable matter with shrooms and make mushroom wine - give it a shot! 😛

in Australia, if you're not from the city its more common to get Psilocybe Subaeruginosa rather than Psilocybe Cubensis because 'Subs' grow more in the bush

I got a lyophilized hybrid from an awesome Vancouver based website. Known as White Rabbit, the variety is a hybrid of Albino Penis Envy and Moby Dick. Albino Penis Envy is renowned as one of the most potent Psilocybe cubensis mushroom varieties in existence, while Moby Dick (a hybrid between Golden Teacher and A+) is known for its ease-of-cultivation, and excellent yields. So hybrids do exist! 😇🙏🍄

Ya in Vancouver they have shroom shops popping up everywhere. Pretty cool. Soon they'll be legalizing it in Canada because the Gov will want to profit hugely off of it. Just like they did with cannabis.

This is really good information.

GREAT information! Thank you. Wish I could have had some sort of psilocybin therapy before I had to quit my job due to long-term hypervigilance damaging my mental health. Acceptance & Commitment Therapy helped with coping mechanisms, but I was in a tail spin & didn't recognize it at the time.

I just walked into a store in Washington DC and purchased a half ounce of albino penis envy mushrooms dried. I couldn’t believe it it didn’t seem real they had a variety of 15 different strains of mushrooms however all of them were different CUBENSiS strains. I haven’t had an intense trip in probably 15 years. Back in my younger years I did mushrooms probably close to 100 times every single time I always eat 3.5 g this way it was also much easier to differentiate the potency of different batches because I always stuck to the same those. Out of the close to 100 times most of them are always similar in potency. However one time stood out from all of the rest and ate the same amount as always 3.5 g. Visually the only difference I noticed immediately from all the other times I had mushrooms was the entire eighth was just one mushroom one giant mushroom. Every other time I had an eighth it was comprised of several mushrooms. So that alone made it stand out from the beginning that the whole eight was one big mushroom. It looked like your textbook CUBENSiS white a super golden cap. I had a full out of body experience that night a true spiritual experience I was never the same since that night that batch was light years ahead and potency compared to all the other batches I ever had. As I sent that I have not had a proper trip in well over 10 years. One reason being I couldn’t find things I’m bad with computers and refused to go on the dark web. Also because I have a past of drug addiction to hard drugs the past couple years since I’ve turned my life around I’ve become kind of a permit and I don’t associate with people that look like drug users which is why I used to have a easy time finding things in the past but I stay away from all that because I don’t wanna come across the wrong drugs I’m done with all that I just avoid it completely. So since they were decriminalized in DC and now there’s two different dispensaries selling them I was able to finally make my move. I was able to get some mushrooms a few months ago it was less than 3 g and they were not potent at all I think they were very old and poorly stored. This time I got albino penis envy for the first time and I think it’s a potent batch because there is some extremely intense bluing and a few of them look almost black. Supposedly that means they’re more potent but I also wonder if that could just mean that they were handled more roughly and maybe that’s the only reason that they have so much more bluing. Even though this is gonna be my first time having a serious trip in over 10 years I’m going straight to the heroic those for the first time in my life I weighed out 5.5 g of the dry albino penis envy I’m going to take that dose tomorrow night I ground them up and put it in capsules to make it easier to eat. So 5.5 g of dried mushrooms especially albino penis envy that looks so potent I’m almost guaranteed I’m going to have the most intense trip of my life tomorrow night, I truly need it though I have PTSD from things that happened since my psychedelic use in my youth I completely different person my soul needs to be cleansed by the mushrooms my spiritual batteries need to be recharged badly.