"You have .... 35 .... missed calls from .... Joe Rogan"

@viewsandrates

4 жыл бұрын

*Claps* And here's your best comment award.

@statekraft

4 жыл бұрын

Well done 😂😂😂

@ItsameAlex

4 жыл бұрын

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

@ItsameAlex

4 жыл бұрын

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

@DickMoonstruck

4 жыл бұрын

nice ...nice! excellent comment, I'm just high

Sam Harris: “it’s hard to communicate how far gone one is.” Normal person: “bro I was super fucked up”

@jacobxa

4 жыл бұрын

In spiritual development and self actualization, if you’re not using psychedelics, you’re wasting your time.

@Muonium1

4 жыл бұрын

@@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

@donkeyrhomper

4 жыл бұрын

Put "fucked" in quotes it would seem

@ChollieD

4 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@pacifront83

4 жыл бұрын

I think you’re missing the point, bro

"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.

@BonerButter

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@XperiencedFly

4 жыл бұрын

Word! :-))

@BASEDinMaine

4 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@vietnamd0820

3 жыл бұрын

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

@anthonyreed480

3 жыл бұрын

@@vietnamd0820 Keep going...

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

@paulrobbins1320

6 ай бұрын

dr.blake, he's the best and reliable source for everything psychedelics.

@zackmm4917

6 ай бұрын

Is he instgram?

@paulrobbins1320

6 ай бұрын

Sure, dr.blakee

@geraldjoseph4427

6 ай бұрын

It’s wild, everyone’s feel of shrooms is different though

@Christian-lz5bu

6 ай бұрын

dr.blakee is amazing, I wish there are more good doctors like him who sell and administer good stuff.

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."

@djicepole

4 жыл бұрын

Yo trippin.

@SatyamNeelkamal

4 жыл бұрын

I enjoyed reading that!

@seanmatthewking

4 жыл бұрын

Fuck you!! We don’t mention that song anymore!

@djicepole

4 жыл бұрын

@@seanmatthewking please explain. Edit(I Googled that song, its shit).

@seanmatthewking

4 жыл бұрын

Bofa Deez His listeners would have actively created virus and caused the pandemic to make him change it.

A wife that urges to take a heroic mushroom trip is definitely a keeper

@eyykendrick

3 жыл бұрын

right

@macktheripper7454

2 жыл бұрын

9 grams is heroic

@shanesawyer5103

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome wife!

@vernateriyaki8031

2 жыл бұрын

This wife is a grower " not a shower"

@McLovinMods

2 жыл бұрын

She's a keeper

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.

@wendyl6185

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@mikejones1628

3 жыл бұрын

That sounds dope

@idan7989

3 жыл бұрын

Do it again what are you waiting for

@gianz73

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@Amcacs5654

3 жыл бұрын

What did you take? Shrooms?

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.

@DarkAngelmai

3 жыл бұрын

Did you prepare before hand?

@scrabbleking1965

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@BluntlyBlunt_

2 жыл бұрын

@UCV9IdBHD6TAwj3ly4XDGnrA sorry for you having a weak kind . You can so 8gs and still be in control . You just a bitch/lightweight ha

@normalsaline8913

2 жыл бұрын

jeeeaa jeeea jeea jeeeeaa jeea jeeeaa!

@guybartlett9587

2 жыл бұрын

Excellent!

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.

@nopeteys2424

4 жыл бұрын

He wasnt in vietnam

@hashberry111

3 жыл бұрын

@@nopeteys2424 yes he was. He also milked his cat's little nipples

@SportssGuy

3 жыл бұрын

Ben Stiller?

@thesvinet

3 жыл бұрын

@@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).

@mrpoopybuthole8614

3 жыл бұрын

😂

You know you have a supportive wife when she encourages you to take mushrooms and put it on a calendar.

@lenn939

4 жыл бұрын

A control freak wife actually since she *insisted* on it.

@charlesnemeth8472

4 жыл бұрын

Make sure you tell her as well .

@piramjida

4 жыл бұрын

I think that was sarcasm but it's pretty hard to tell given Sam's dry sense of humour.

@SoCalFreelance

4 жыл бұрын

Undisclosed insurance policy perhaps? 😅 If she encourages him to take up rock climbing or tiger taming you know somethings up.

@rathernotdisclose8064

3 жыл бұрын

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.

"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."

"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

Sam, you're so unbelievably talented in describing your inner landscape and thoughts. Thank you for this.

@babygorl9541

3 жыл бұрын

he has such a way with words! i rarely feel the need to use that cliche but, truly!

@AlanHowellphotovideo

3 жыл бұрын

He has a remarkable gift of clarity in expression.

I have mad respect for anyone that surrenders to 5 dried grams, especially when they've had rough previous trips.

@nopeteys2424

4 жыл бұрын

I wouldnt be able to do that much without puking

@nedaltrebor8553

3 жыл бұрын

@@nopeteys2424 idk if anyone can. But puking is kind of a practice in surrendering to the experience

@OsvaldoBayerista

3 жыл бұрын

@@nedaltrebor8553 yes, for me puking it's a fantastic part, feel like cleaning my body

@jacobvaccaro945

3 жыл бұрын

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

@uraldamasis6887

3 жыл бұрын

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.

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.

@aliasofanalias7448

2 жыл бұрын

"Where can I find man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?" - Zhuangzi

@360.Tapestry

8 ай бұрын

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

One of the best trip reports I've ever heard. Psychedelics just got an incredibly wise and articulate ally.

@AlanHowellphotovideo

3 жыл бұрын

It's what the world needs, indeed.

@ronen6283

2 ай бұрын

Amen

@ronen6283

2 ай бұрын

@@AlanHowellphotovideotrue

His wife insisted that he go on this mushroom-trip! What a cool woman.

@wendyl6185

4 жыл бұрын

My husband and I always do mushrooms together. It's great! We share our favorite music to zone out to.

@Sprite_525

4 жыл бұрын

Wendy L - you are rare. Most couples lose the desire for exploration and expansion once the wedding ring comes out.

@OMGItsDerek

4 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@Sprite_525

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@AgentSix

4 жыл бұрын

@@Sprite_525 Thanks Derek from Veritasium ;)

Words come short when describing Sam's enchanting use of words. I felt serene with the beauty of the portrayal of this journey. Thank you so much Sam, you inspire me every single day.

@fengkorberfer

4 жыл бұрын

did you bust

@vijayrachakonda8411

4 жыл бұрын

@@fengkorberfer only a little

@kiethj7

4 жыл бұрын

His explanation of feeling all of the love was perfect. I got chills hearing it.

"It's like pulling out the Andromeda galaxy"... beautiful imagery.

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

@ricxander85

3 жыл бұрын

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

@ricxander85

3 жыл бұрын

Blue meanies if that matters *

@jellyicecream3324

2 жыл бұрын

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. 💚💚💚💚💚💚

@stitches38

2 жыл бұрын

@@ricxander85 😂

@madelinesadvocate1510

Жыл бұрын

@@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! 🙏🏼

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.

@davidhabart5323

4 жыл бұрын

what meaning do you mean?

@emilily6513

Жыл бұрын

What does it mean to have a thimble in hand?

@YelenaSgt44

Жыл бұрын

He really didnt describe much specifics of the actual trip tho...

"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

@amyforward673

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely!

"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

"Love is the ballast you want in you ships hold, as you set out over the abyss."

This might be Sam's best upload yet.

@phoenixzappa7366

4 жыл бұрын

Ham Sarris is going to have fun with this.

@phoenixzappa7366

4 жыл бұрын

@Renee Speece LSD is much better

@v1kt0us

4 жыл бұрын

@@phoenixzappa7366 Not better nor worse; just different...

@Hadden333

4 жыл бұрын

5 grams of lab-growns will put anyone out of their gourd.

@prandz420

4 жыл бұрын

@Renee Speece Most people strongly disagree. You probably shouldnt have done them "plenty of times" at age 13 as well.

Damn 5 grams after 25 years of celibacy.. Good man,

@Socrateez

4 жыл бұрын

DataBlock- He means from psychedelics.

@lancerebo952

4 жыл бұрын

DataBlock no I’m pretty sure he has kids

@nicolascooper3592

3 жыл бұрын

@Raccy lol

@squirtrussell5558

3 жыл бұрын

Me too..he's a pussy

@HeartFeltGesture

3 жыл бұрын

Sobriety.

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.

Thank you so much, Sam. God bless you. You're very important to our species.

Thank you Annaka for pushing Sam to go on this trip! Thank you Sam for sharing your experience and supporting research in this space.

@GayleDE

Жыл бұрын

'pushing' drugs = drug pusher

"I wasn't raped by the jaguar... but I can't say we're on entirely platonic terms either" I'm using this

I never imagined I'd hear Sam say "I wasn't raped by a jaguar".

@uraldamasis6887

3 жыл бұрын

I mean, I wasn't either.

@scottpreston5074

3 жыл бұрын

But, he wasn't on Platonic terms with it either.

@BasedAstraea

2 жыл бұрын

@@scottpreston5074 kinda sus, he may have been telling the truth but he definitely consensually slept with a cosmic jaguar!

This is by far the best description of the ineffability these type of experiences 🙏🍄

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

4 жыл бұрын

Never taken any psychedelic drugs before but wow that sounds scary, imagine if you had that experience out in public!

@IronTeddyBear

4 жыл бұрын

@@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!

@IronTeddyBear

4 жыл бұрын

@@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.

Everyone: "Yo, this corona-virus is pretty serious." Sam Harris: "Want to listen to me get high"?

@shortfusegmr

4 жыл бұрын

This is exactly what I wanted

@mynewcolour

4 жыл бұрын

Ironically this guy is bringing some of *the* best content so far on Corvid-19.

@sunnyla2835

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Sam! I needed this reminder🧡

@blakesleyk.7166

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@joeschmoe4968

4 жыл бұрын

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.

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

Thanks for doing this, Sam. Truly valuable to get your insights on this.

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.

Your, "sanity anchor," quote is my new favorite drug quote.

Thank you Sam. The love you share will help heal the people and the world ourself.

Thank you for sharing your story Sam. I believe sharing our stories is a path to a better society.

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’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.

@karinlarsen2608

Жыл бұрын

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

You framed the conundrum very well. Thank you. I'll be recommending this to others.

Glad you made it back, Sam. Loved hearing you talk about Terrence. All around fantastic little snippet you’ve provided us here.

I read this as Bam's Gushroom Flip

@redpillsatori3020

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Needed that. All the I-read-that-as-tip comments were getting to me. Lol

@crisisactor420

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao

"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.

@Siberius-

4 жыл бұрын

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".

Fantastic! Thank you for sharing Sam.

Took one myself on Saturday. So good to get out of my head and to let go of all the worrying over the recent events around the world. Beautiful experience I needed.

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. 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'm impressed how well you verbalize those insights I've felt when I have been at a loss for language in this state. It's been over three decades, but tripping hard is something you can never forget. Just listening to you talk frankly about this evokes the aftershocks of that singular event.

@ItsameAlex

4 жыл бұрын

nice

"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.

“Words are insufficient” but you really gave it a good go.lol.Thank you for a very enjoyable video.

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

2 жыл бұрын

Do u think psychedelics affected your spirituality?

@AlanHowellphotovideo

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

This is gold. Sam, you are brave. Not just for going into that experience blindfolded (WOW, BTW), but for sharing this.

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.

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 :)

"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.

@AlanHowellphotovideo

3 жыл бұрын

No truer words. Our labels simply fail in that landscape. God, I, me, we, us, world, universe, birth, death, etc...these labels all fail.

@Brian-pr1dq

3 жыл бұрын

@@AlanHowellphotovideo absolutely man!!

Thank you for putting into words what many of us have personally experienced, yet have scarcely been able to articulate.

I have listened to this clip many times. It is by far the most informative and objective view on this matter.

At first glance, I thought it was titled. "Sam's Mushroom Tip"

@paulbrimble8204

4 жыл бұрын

I am trying to visualise this, maybe a small portobello

@Bulunderuuun

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah at first I thought this was a Hodge Twins video.

@ah6439

3 жыл бұрын

Don't lie, that's why you clicked on it. 😂😂

@buzz5825

2 жыл бұрын

O man I laughed so hard at this 😂😂😂 thank u x

@MythicalVigilante

2 жыл бұрын

@@buzz5825 haha

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'

@chilli9000

Жыл бұрын

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

Thank you Sam. Fantastic work.

Thank you so much, Sam! So beautiful the way you talk about your experience. I‘m about to go on a high dose journey on Friday and as I’m a little nervous it was really good to listen to what you said and to take that with me into my own experience! Hope to see you one day on a psychedelic retreat! The world really needs that now

@ItsameAlex

4 жыл бұрын

what happened

i'm a huge fan sam. thanks for sharing this intimate experience with us.

I've only taken LSD but "surrender" was the main thing I came back with and understood

@moosemoss2645

3 жыл бұрын

I got nothing from my experiences as in we and this are all nothing.

@omgcyanide4642

3 жыл бұрын

@@moosemoss2645 we and this are nothing?

@moosemoss2645

3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

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.

This was absolutely the best report i've ever heard. Voice was oddly soothing, with that relaxing background. Completely feel at zen with any anxieties removed, even if just for a short while. Thank you, kind sir. Subbed. :-)

@sgeasley

2 жыл бұрын

@Big boss No..

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.

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

I truly appreciate your articulation and recommendations. Sincerest graditude for sharing

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

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.

Well articulated.

@josh.kaptur

3 жыл бұрын

not surprised to find you here SMR. You should tell us more about your discovery phase on your channel.

@MarcoThies

3 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more with Josh, Steven. Given your reach by now, that's a great opportunity to give what is actually needed ;)

@topdog5252

3 жыл бұрын

Funny seeing you here 😉 just binged a load of your videos. Got great value from the ‘how to start investing video’

@reagang23

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Steven!

@Firuzeh

3 жыл бұрын

Yes.

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.

Sam, "there are no words" to express how much I enjoyed this. Such rich, dry humor woven through such an interesting and IMPORTANT topic. Loved it! I had a terrifying experience in 1996 with shrooms--that I recovered from--but feel like there's unfinished business and I need to return to sit down with the demon for resolution (my demon being, fear of the unknown, I'm going to die, I've got to do something important before I do, etc.). Going to be a while, due to do my current family responsibilities and the unlikelihood of being able to make accommodations for another trip, but it's something I often think about and you're great description and viewpoints on the matter is really encouraging. Probably won't start blindfolded, though! LOL! Take care, Sam.

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.

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 had an awful trip on weed a year ago because I panicked and didn't understand what paranoia was, but at the end of the trip I felt similar feelings of gratitude and I had the most intense high and happiness after such an awful experience!

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.

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.

@UltraK420

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@JDT101

Жыл бұрын

You need to check out Ian Mcgilchrist

Listening to sam and then reading these comments is a trip in itself

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.

"I have to admit the poverty of words here." Says one of the most eloquent and poetic speakers I ever heard.

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.

@mycojolesviai.n.s.t.a.g.r.830

2 жыл бұрын

👆👆

@mycojolesviai.n.s.t.a.g.r.830

2 жыл бұрын

4ur shr00mz and psychd stufs

I love you, Sam! I've learned so much from your Waking Up app. Thank you!

@ItsameAlex

4 жыл бұрын

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

@ItsameAlex

4 жыл бұрын

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

Well presented with an honesty and eloquence that is in it self a work of art.

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.

"These oppositions describe a kind of geometry of the mind..." Perfect. Yes.

Can anyone imagine speeches on the house floor if congress were to engage in Sam's experiment collectively?

@merlepatterson

4 жыл бұрын

@@skypilotace You have a vivid imagination.

@franny231123DMT

4 жыл бұрын

"my trip was fantastic, nobody trips balls like I do" - Trump

@SorenHume

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@thaDjMauz

4 жыл бұрын

@@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

@Adraria8

4 жыл бұрын

Franny Dimitri I had the biggest ego death. Believe me!

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.

Thankyou! This is exactly how it felt like. Couldn't articulate it myself. It was overwhelming but an important experience, maybe even one of the most important experiences I've had.

No one can articulate like Sam Harris. He's an artist.

Taking psilocybin is like opening the attic of your mind. A change of perspective. My experience was unique! For those who can, Highly recommended!

Sam has produced an extraordinary and beautiful account of something which, by his own admission, is really impossible to describe.

This was beautiful. Thank you.

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.

Listening to your experience is so validating and grounding for me after my existential crisis that has developed since taking them.

@ryanharris9585

3 жыл бұрын

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

@xbulelo

3 жыл бұрын

@@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?”

@ryanharris9585

3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@xbulelo

3 жыл бұрын

@@ryanharris9585 why did you take 11 grams? Doesn’t that go beyond the “heroic” dose?

@ryanharris9585

3 жыл бұрын

@@xbulelo well I have done 5 and 7 grams and handled it so very well. My experience each time was extremely positive.

I was sent here by Sam! This is brilliant description of what trip looks like.

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.

@windre

11 ай бұрын

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"