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#21 Posted : 9/7/2011 12:44:22 PM

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I call this; Ten Minutes In Paradise.

A pinch of hemia (sinicuichi),
an even smaller pinch of salvia-x35,
around 15mg DMT (give or take 5-10mg or try diffrent types of spice -orange, red, ect.-)
about one or two match-head-sized lumps of some realy well refined(white), freebase harmalin/harmine (rue extract)...
Load it in a cone and take it to the dome in one hit.

There's just something about this little formula that causes the microdose of hemia to stand up and be counted about half the time. Audio hallucinations sometimes too!
In this world there are adults and there are children. In fact the world is filled with children; they are angry and hurt, frightened and abused, lazy and ignorant, stubborn and hateful. The world hates an adult and they would rather cause their peers to fail at any venture of self improvement before having to step up and improve their selves so as to maintain pecking order and evidence of the lowley opinion they have of each other. The best of them enslave the others so that they all consume and destroy all there lives in order to satisfy their immense greed claiming that they are providing a future for their legacy and never question the possibility of doing better in order to leave a real future for the children they will leave behind on this, our Earth. They pretend that it is impossible and when cornered they admit their apathy saying that they won't be around to suffer the out come. They hate the adults for exposing their immense weekness. The total failure that they call success. Mean while the adults strive to minimize their own impact and perpetually work to undo the damage already done. The adults who already know; they are the children of tomorrow.
 

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#22 Posted : 9/12/2011 5:37:01 AM

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I was excited to find this thread! Phantastica I hope you are around and can give an update.

Phantastica, you may be interested in reading chapter 15 of The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys by James Fadiman, who had conducted lsd studies before it became scheduled.

Chapter 15 is titled: CAN SUB-PERCEPTUAL DOSES OF PSYCHEDELICS IMPROVE NORMAL FUNCTIONING

The chapter is not long, but I was rather inspired by it. I was particularly inspired by the story I'm quoting at the bottom of this post. There's a couple other personal stories as well, and I just saw it recommends this essay on the benefits of low-dose mushrooms. I had forgotten to read that essay when going through the book, I intend to read it after getting some sleep. The story I have quoted below really hit it for me though.

After I'd read the book a couple months or so ago, I decided to try this a bit. The recommended three day separation seems about the correct time to me. Often the next day, I may want to go again, or even the day after. But then on the third day I am glad I did not.

I'm really interested in microdosing as a tool to assist in practice bringing the divine into every action. Part of the reason I was looking for a thread on microdosing now was to see what others have been doing to practice discipline, I have been tricking myself some, and spending more time meditating or listening to music than doing the work I have set before myself.

Fadiman performed some "creative" studies on high doses of LSD before it was scheduled as well, which are quite related and interesting to read. Essentially having a group of well-qualified professionals take high doses, listen to "quality" music for two hours, and then have assistants redirecting them to "get to work". I believe he made a reference to it being kind of like trying to get children to back to doing their schoolwork lol.

Microdosing on .1g of cubensis (about 8 times now), and I'm guessing about 10ug of L (twice), has been pretty nice. I seem to have developed sensitivity over my long use to them, so that .1g is usually significant for me, although I plan to up it (sometimes?) as I get better navigating the territory. When I started I had a regular schedule, essentially work and exercise, so it was easy to follow my pre-planned schedule for the microdose. Now that school is in and my schedule is a bit more chaotic, I've had difficulty remaining on task.

I've found exercising on .1mg cubensis to be enjoyable, although that has primarily been swimming in a lake so that doesn't seem to surprising lol.

My meditational/spiritual practices go hand in hand with microdosing pretty nice. I really hope there are more around on the nexus to discuss this practice as well. Excuse me if this post is incoherent at all, it is very past bedtime now, love to all of you Smile



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Madeline, a tall, almost willowy, woman in her early thirties, lives in Manhattan. Her report fills in some of her different occupations. She is married and has a four-year-old child.

As the subway rumbles along toward downtown, my observation of the passengers around me is that they put utter poison into their bodies. A woman in a camel-colored suit and white gym shoes uses a plastic knife to spread cream cheese on a giant bagel, washing it all down with gulps of soda. A few others enjoy fast-food breakfasts; enough sandwiches and hash browns are withdrawn from steamy paper sacks to scent the entire car with fryer oil. I wonder for a moment about what these people would think about my peculiar breakfast ritual -- 20 micrograms of LSD chased a bit later by green juice made from juied cucumbers, sunflower sprouts, and pea greens.

I arrive at my temporary office where I'm on a seven-week contract editing film. The documentary I'm working on has a budget of nearly nine hundred thousand dollars and will air on the second best network. My job is to screen nearly fifty hours of historical footage and knit it together into a story arc. I snip the footage down to its most essential bits, add narration notes, and harves sound bites. I feel deeply connected to my work, focused and in the flow. I barely come up for air for the next five hours because I am so sincerely enjoying what I'm doing. I laugh aloud and occasionally cry at poignant moments. I love my work. Although I'm not hungry and don't feel in need of a beak, I known that it is healthy to tak one. Onc outside, the world is too bright, even with my sunglasses on. I have very large blue eyes and naturally large pupils, and anything above 10 micrograms of LSD makes them as big as saucers.

After a six-block walk, I feel hungry, and I sit my lunchbox and thermos on a ledge at my favorite park. I begin Chinese exercises and deep breathing. The movement feels wonderful, and I feel so healthy and connected to my body that I begin to tear up for a second and enjoy a little laugh that can only be described as a release of joy and gratitude. I plan a longer than average workday today and will skip the gym, so this stolen moment of movement and sunshine is essential. My lunch is a thermos of mild green tea and four small salads that I made a day earlier. One is seaweed with sesame seeds, another chickpeas, another quinoa, and the last is fruit with coconut and pecans. Exquisitely nourished, I head back to my office for another four-hour stretch.

Sub-doses of 10 to 20 micrograms allow me to increase my focus, open my heart, and achieve breakthrough results while remaining integrated within my routine. While a full dose equires that I carefully plan my surroundings, onn a sub-dose I am fully able to navigate all manner of logistics and social ineractions. I would venture to say that my wit, response time, and visual and mental acuity seem greater than normal on it. I utilize a sub-dose about six days each month and sometimes more often if I am engrossed in a project requiring extraordinary focus. This has been my practice for more than ten years, and it has facilitated my success working in mainstream and independent media, staff-level positions in government and publishing dozens of pieces journalistic work.

I am not saying that I wouldn't have done any of this without LSD, but I am saying that I wouldn't have done all of this without it. The practice of sub-dosing transforms my work from being work to being creative play.

I'm a naturally persuasive person able to enlist others in my vision but never more so than when I am enhanced by a sub-dose. Therefore, I find it essential to my work as a grant writer and coalition builder to open myself in this way. One of my standard responses to the question "How are you doing? from a colleague is to reply that I am doing "soaringly well." It really sums up what it feels like to perform my work while sub-dosing: it's somewhat like flying.

I had never heard of sub-dosing when I began doinng it. After a couple years of wonderful success with the practice, I met a friend of Terence McKenna's who, upon hearing about my practice, explained that he uses sub-doses too -- something he learned from McKenna. He explained that Albert Hofmann did the same thing, and that Mckenna told him that Hofmann believed that LSD sub-doses would hae gone on to be widely prescribed in much the same way as Ritalin, had it not been so harshly scheduled.

I played with big doses before I played with small ones. I experimented with 250 to 800 microgram doses and learned to surrender to their intensity. My experiences at these doses were profound, amazing, and fun, but ultimately, I couldn't bring too much back with me. I left super-high doses in the late nineties. Then I began to experiment with sub-doses. I don't drink alcohol because I find it a bit harsh and numbing, so I was looking for something to make me feel sparky and up at cocktail parties and networking events. I tried a few cups of coffee but I wasn't quite loose enough and I'd still get tired, so I bean trying small doses instead. I found that on sub-doses, I made more meaningful and lasting connections, and my own evolution seemed to accelerate, as if I were able to accomplish more living within the same span of time.

I wondered how sub-doses could be employed within my career and I began using them for bigger assignments and events. I also expanded my role within my own family during this time and became the one most often consulted. Following conversations with relatives and friends, they would report feeling truly seen. Within only a few months of discovering sub-doses, my skills as a listener and communicator had blossomed. Interestingly, a number of family members appointed me executor to their estates almost immediately after I began using sub-doses.

I find that 10 to 20 micrograms of LSD is both a stimulant and a calming agent at the same time. For me, the only challenge that remains with sub-doses is increased light sensitivity, which I mitigate by wearing sunglasses or dialing down the brightness of my computer screen. This minor inconvenience is certainly worth it to me, because when I'm enhanced, I feel more passionate. i feel more energized. I feel more focused and enlisted. I feel more.

I'm not completely comfortable with how little is known about the long-term effects of LSD and other drugs. I'm a healthy young woman, and I want to do only what is safe and smart for myself and my family, so I wish to know what th long-term effects of LSD use are. Albert Hofmann seemed perfectly sharp at 101 years old, and the friends I know who are twice my age and use LSD frequently are some of the most brilliant people I know. And I want the fear of criminalization removed from this field of research so that people like me will be willing to share their experiences openly and have their data quantified.
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#23 Posted : 9/15/2011 5:13:03 AM

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I have recently began working with microdosing of mushrooms for mood enhancement. When I say microdosing I mean quantities of 1/10 or less of a gram. Sometimes much less. I've found it to be an extremely effective short term serotonin booster, but I personally have an extreme affinity for psilocybin / psilocin containing mushrooms. I've only been practicing this on an as needed basis and have not completed any long term sessions as of yet.

My plan moving forward is to powder up the dried samples and begin true bio-assays of measured doses for longer periods of time. I've wanted to do this for a long time because mushrooms have always had the effect of making me feel an extreme sense of well being for as long as two to three days after a strong dose. I think they just work very well with my brain chemistry.

I will post updates once I begin my bio-assay.

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#24 Posted : 9/15/2011 9:09:54 AM

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I microdose with Salvia daily, and have been doing so for probably going on two years now. I rarely miss a day. When I say microdose I mean one hit of plain leaf before bed, and most often I mix the plain Salvia leaf with some Calea Zacatechichi. It has worked wonders for me as an anti-depressant and obviously my dreams are very intricate and fantastical. I become lucid pretty much every night now. Very enjoyable. Like a child on Christmas eve, I'm eager to jump into bed each night Very happy

I also microdose often with Rivea corymbosa seeds and sometimes cubensis. About a week ago I took a .5g dose of cubensis (microdose for me, my usual dose is much higher) when I woke up, and the entire day was a pleasure. Mundane tasks were almost fun to complete. I use the Rivea seeds to combat cluster headaches and haven't had one in a very long while. I dose the seeds about once a month.
 
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#25 Posted : 9/15/2011 4:32:35 PM



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IneffableThings- thanks for posting that, it was really interesting

idtravlr- let us know how that goes! i've always wanted to give something like that a try


Dioxippus- nice! i find plain salvia leaf to be great for meditation and yoga..do you ever have salvia-esque experiences while dreaming now? i've had some that are fascinating and unbelievably weird..but its usually different than salvia by itself and i lack the ability to really describe it properly. Anyways i think i'm going to give what your doing a test run and see how it goes :]

For the past week or so i've smoked low to medium doses of changa every night and have been having some amazing meditations, with a beautiful lingering afterglow the next day. I've microdosed melatonin and harmalas every night for months now as well, and usually take a good dose of harmalas about twice a week. Never felt better



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#26 Posted : 9/15/2011 8:14:49 PM

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universecannon wrote:

Dioxippus- nice! i find plain salvia leaf to be great for meditation and yoga..do you ever have salvia-esque experiences while dreaming now? i've had some that are fascinating and unbelievably weird..but its usually different than salvia by itself and i lack the ability to really describe it properly. Anyways i think i'm going to give what your doing a test run and see how it goes :]

For the past week or so i've smoked low to medium doses of changa every night and have been having some amazing meditations, with a beautiful lingering afterglow the next day. I've microdosed melatonin and harmalas every night for months now as well, and usually take a good dose of harmalas about twice a week. Never felt better

My dreams are always wild and very salviaesque Smile The Calea just adds to it. It's definitely worth trying out for those interested in lucid dreaming.

I've been working with changa a lot as well, but not daily. I was up to every other day and now I'm taking some time to integrate after my first breakthrough Smile
 
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#27 Posted : 9/16/2011 1:19:09 PM

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Ive split apart my last couple of caapi brew doses (240g, split into two, with aboout 2.5g mimosa in each). One half I plan to microdose with, the other im going for gold with.

I have one fear though - if I do this regularly and it helps (it already seems to be, on the second day of experimentation)*, will I not get slightly addicted to it? Psychologically at least? What is other peoples experiences and opinions regarding this?

*yesterday from microdosing this mix with 5 liberty caps, I felt 'tuned in' to a higher level. I was able to make decisions to benefit my freind, who is at a turning point in his life - I could act spontaneously in recommending help without thinking, that I KNOW WILL help him, after further thought. Cryptic right? Well I dont want to discuss my friends problems here...but basically it was like I was more at one with the nature of things, and ways in which I could practice compassion spontaneously...

almost like the plant spirits were helping me... Shocked
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#28 Posted : 9/16/2011 1:45:21 PM

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jdubs wrote:
Ive split apart my last couple of caapi brew doses (240g, split into two, with aboout 2.5g mimosa in each). One half I plan to microdose with, the other im going for gold with.

I have one fear though - if I do this regularly and it helps (it already seems to be, on the second day of experimentation)*, will I not get slightly addicted to it? Psychologically at least? What is other peoples experiences and opinions regarding this?

*yesterday from microdosing this mix with 5 liberty caps, I felt 'tuned in' to a higher level. I was able to make decisions to benefit my freind, who is at a turning point in his life - I could act spontaneously in recommending help without thinking, that I KNOW WILL help him, after further thought. Cryptic right? Well I dont want to discuss my friends problems here...but basically it was like I was more at one with the nature of things, and ways in which I could practice compassion spontaneously...

almost like the plant spirits were helping me... Shocked



Your problem is...?

Hehehe. Anything can become habit forming. Entheogens, though, tend to let you know when you should take a break.

If you are concerned about your use, even in the slightest little bit... stop. For a decent stretch of time anyway.

Congrats about the spontaneous knowing btw.
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jdubs wrote:
Ive split apart my last couple of caapi brew doses (240g, split into two, with aboout 2.5g mimosa in each). One half I plan to microdose with, the other im going for gold with.

I have one fear though - if I do this regularly and it helps (it already seems to be, on the second day of experimentation)*, will I not get slightly addicted to it? Psychologically at least? What is other peoples experiences and opinions regarding this?

*yesterday from microdosing this mix with 5 liberty caps, I felt 'tuned in' to a higher level. I was able to make decisions to benefit my freind, who is at a turning point in his life - I could act spontaneously in recommending help without thinking, that I KNOW WILL help him, after further thought. Cryptic right? Well I dont want to discuss my friends problems here...but basically it was like I was more at one with the nature of things, and ways in which I could practice compassion spontaneously...

almost like the plant spirits were helping me... Shocked


Well aya has been known to help with addictions of all sorts..There probably is barely any risk at all of getting psychologically addicted to ayahuasca..if your approaching it in the right context with good intentions then its a powerful ally that can be extremely beneficial, and even more so with frequent use. And as hyperspace fool said, if you abuse it, you'll know it. Many others including myself have microdosed ayahuasca for months at a time, sometimes taking a full brew twice a week..often times it was just high doses of vine-only brews.

It isn't a psychological addiction anymore than my desire to eat healthy food everyday is a psychological addiction.. or to meditate, do yoga, read, or any other thing which is physically and mentally stimulating in a way that promotes healthy self development and greater awareness. I wouldn't necessarily label them as addicting just because its a great plant (or activity) that can be had frequently. there are many plants like this, and a lot of times there is no physical or psychological addiction at all. (except, of course, in the case of food..because then i would die Razz )



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SWIM has been daily low-dosing with spice in a scoobie, for nearly 3 months.
I'm not big on scales, but SWIM'd guess it's 5mg or less - enough to activate
the internal energy feeling, but not enough to bring on the "I want to lay down now"
feeling... no visuals, just strong tactile sensation & slight head/thought pressure.

Overall the experience has been quite positive, and is leading SWIM along the self
development path, with improved mood and compassion to others. Can;t understand
why this stuff is illegal, unless earth really is a prison planet.

For many of these weeks, life has been pure heaven, where SWIM walks around all day,
tuned in to a "spice/spiritual" buzz, where the world really is majical, and every moment
has opportunity for meaning and purpose.

It has become clear that there are limits to how much spice one can consume,
before the body/brain either builds a tolerance, or runs out of neurochemicals
to release. I have found better diet - ie more natural raw foods - and
appropriate vitamin supplements to have helped a lot in maintaining a wonderful
alive feeling. That - and not doing spice all day, every day.... ensures you don't
run your batteries flat.

It is now clear that spice has had a range of hormonal effects, including

Metabolic rate increase, leading to weight loss - increased muscle / decreased fat.
Follcle activity - ie hair regrowth - I now have a "returning" - receeding hair line.
Sexual stamina / libido - has been, er um teenage again..... whooo hooo !!!!
Immunity? (Well haven't had a cold / flu / illness for the duration)

SWIM is concerned about long term effects of spice on pineal,
but unsure if spice will be stimulating and cause hypertrophy
or eventually cause atrophy due the artificial supplementation
of what is the normal pineal function...?

SWIM suspects that the secret will be exactly the same principle
in normal human physiology for training/adaptation eg weight training...
ie - it all depends on dose / intensity and subsequent rest periods

SWIM is now thinking - maybe spice - in the right dose - is an elixer of longevity...?

SWIM is guessing you were thinking the same thing,
which is why you asked about low dosing?
 
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I'm a big advocate of microdosing psychedelics. A lot of times I'd become tossed by the way-side not being able to really work on my issues on a conscious level. Though micro-doses allow expansion of consciousness while retaining the ability to think incredibly clearly. This has been very beneficial in my life.

I really enjoy 1-2g of cubenses, 20-30mg of changa, 10-20ug LSD, et. cetra.

It helps with creative problem solving that still requires a lot of technicalities and pencil work('higher' math problems, design, etc). Socially lubricating, because you still glow, but you're also not at the awkward stage yet where you see peoples noses bouncing around in your periphery.

Some people however find them uncomfortable and I understand why. It also may not be what mckenna was talking about but I believe there is a lot of therapeutic and even spiritual benefits to micro-dosing.
 
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i will be microdosing cactus from today -il post results
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I really enjoy 1-2g of cubenses, 20-30mg of changa, 10-20ug LSD, et. cetra.


This isn't really a "microdose" though...a tenth of what you are taking perhaps (except LSD).
 
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I microdosed DMT for a few weeks. As in microdose I mean roughly 50mgs in a bowl, and making it last around 5-6 hits, hitting throughout the day.

Personally, it provided me with much needed and wanted insight on my life and helped me overcome some self-doubts about myself. I had to stop as I eventually ran of out product. I started meditating more and just being one with the moment in nature, opening my eyes and seeing all that was truly around me. It is something I will do again in the future as well. I'd really like to get some DET and microdose with that, as I could just pop it orally instead of smoking it.

Thing about microdosing is it just give you that little push into the 'real' but not enough to confuse you from the other 'real'.
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I microdosed on salvia for about 5 months. I would take about a half gram of high quality leaf and make it into a tee nightly. It deff helped improve my mood and also dream recall and maybe even improve the insomnia a bit. Sometimes I would smoke a small salvia rolly in the morning, maybe 1/2g of good leaf.

There was also a period in time a(4 weeks) in which I smoked about 400mg of salvia leaf once in the morning, and once in the night. I became extremely sensitive to salvia, and also saw mood increase. These effects near vanished after a week of no salvia use.
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I've read Fadiman's book and it actually got me pretty interested with microdosing. Having been introduced to psychedelic exploration with Mckennas speech I kinda thought most benefits would be found into really deep introspective trip. But those kind of trips needs (for me) optimal set and settings and can get quite hard to integrate so I feel that right now microdosing would be the way to go personnally. Im thinking of trying it with HBWR but I can't really seem to find any info on this, do you think the vasoconstriction and the toxicity of the seeds could be a problem with daily low dose?
 
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#37 Posted : 2/16/2012 6:30:04 AM

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obliguhl wrote:
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I really enjoy 1-2g of cubenses, 20-30mg of changa, 10-20ug LSD, et. cetra.


This isn't really a "microdose" though...a tenth of what you are taking perhaps (except LSD).

Thank you obliguhl! I almost replied the same when I read this a few days ago, but I got side tracked. As this thread grows I see more and more posts about "microdosing" qty's that in my mind are WAY beyond a micro-dose. I think it's important to define what "microdosing" really means.

My best definition of micro-dosing is something akin to: "a quantity large enough to invoke a minimal mechanism of action, to create a specific, initial, desired effect within the brain, but no larger." If the dose is large enough to create additional effects beyond the initial desired effect, then one has gone beyond micro-dosing.

An example I like to use is with psilocybin mushrooms, because I have the most experience with MDing these. A very tiny amount of certain strains (say 1/10th of a gram or less) will raise serotonin levels in the brain, elevating mood without any noticeable changes in perception or cognition.

Understandably, this is a VERY high level definition by all means, and it's certainly vulnerable to be poked with holes, so I'd like to hear others feedback on building a definition of micro-dosing. I think it's important because I think this is a very valuable topic if discussed in the right context.

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#38 Posted : 2/16/2012 8:17:12 AM

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I microdose on Cyan mushrooms fairly often. Not days and days in a row, but regularly enough. Maybe a couple times a month, more in summer. When I am hiking, or doing yard work, other outdoor activities, I'll just nibble on a shroom cap a little bit at a time till I start to feel things brighten a wee bit. For me a micro-dose is maybe half a gram of dried psilocybe cyanescens mushroom. Or less. Enough that I notice the subtle threshold effects and get just a wee bit of visual intensity if I look at something that has a rich pattern or bright beauty already. Plus a mild mood elevation, and increased affability, and a touch more energy. Maybe some giggles. Makes me a nicer, more fun person without whacking me out. Great for any situation involving play. Can increase focus and concentration, I have had some amazing sessions taking macro photographs of garden plants or forest mushrooms in this state. Lost in the lens, total focus and flow, time stops outside of concentrating on the creative task at hand.

The Fadiman chapter was very validating. (I stayed overnight in his house one time, but that's another story altogether...)
 
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#39 Posted : 2/16/2012 9:44:47 AM

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I think it's important to define what "microdosing" really means.


True. I kinda agree with your definition. But what does Wikipedia say?

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Microdosing (or micro-dosing) is a technique for studying the behaviour of drugs in humans through the administration of doses so low ("sub-therapeutic"Pleased they are unlikely to produce whole-body effects, but high enough to allow the cellular response to be studied.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdosing
 
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#40 Posted : 2/16/2012 3:03:30 PM



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hows the cactus microdosing going phlux?



<Ringworm>hehehe, it's all fun and games till someone loses an "I"
 
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