ROA:
- 6gr dried Cambodian, chewed
- some rapé several times (bonbinsana and mapacho)
- some hours of fasting, A spinach, carrot and fruit large smoothie.
- Some half joint of changa later on

The calling
It was a boring Saturday home, I was supposed to finish some designs for my studies, so I took one big shroom from a bag of Cambodians I got from a friend. I use it as microdosing, it helps me with creative work and anxiety, I also take Lucy sometimes in small doses, nothing epic.
This time, while I was on the computer, talking to myself, I hear in my head “you are ready” (translated into English) . You know the drill about voices, you don´t get to hear a Morgan Freeman voice, or an ancient british Merlin the wizard voice… it´s your own voice, you think it was you producing that thought… but you know it wasn´t.
So, I decided to go for a higher dose mushroom ceremony, it was Saturday afternoon anyway and I had no plans.

Preparation
So I went to the kitchen and weighted for 5gr. Later on the trip, I was kind of possessed and emptied the remaining of the shroom bag, so I guess I was around 6gr.
I have to say, my previous high dose experiences had been with DMT, changa and recently a few ayahuasca, bufo and kambo retreats that changed my hole perspective on psychedelics and taught me the importance of the ritual, or at least the idea of bad spirit hunging around and using stupid-uncautious people on phychedelics as an entry to this realm.
I prepared my house for a ritual, burn some palo santo and inciense, put my nice mandala mantel on the sofa table and a mandala blanket on the TV (which is an ugly black box). Burned some candles, sniff some rape, turn on the heater, put my cat´s bed close to the sofa so she could stay with me and protect me… put some nice music (Estas Tonne´s quiet guitar) and then meditate a little bit and set the intentions.

The trip
I didn´t get crazy dmt visuals or contacted entities (in a direct, visual way).
I got a nice euphoria and laughter kind of mood (my back against the floor watching the furniture from the bottom up), also played a little bit with my cristals and tibetan bowls. The visuals felt like the visuals I get when I take DMT and open my eyes, but not that super intense. Later on, while meditating, there were a few times when I felt some sort of kundalini.

Kundalini?
I´m no expert in kundalini, some people describe it as a rush of energy from the top of the head. In my case it was not in the head, mostly on my stomach, I had spasms and accelerated breathing, very intense and contracting breathing, sort of what monkeys and orangutans do when talking to each other… it´s like really quick and short alternating inhalations and exhalations. (real kundalini awakening involves increased energy and all sort of problems I didn´t experience later on)
It wasn´t the first time I felt this, the first one was during an ayahuasca ceremony (after taking Bufo Toad that same day) where I laughed like crazy for 3 hours, non-stop, and later felt these energy on my stomach and the monkey breathing.
This time was different though, the ceremony lasted about 6 hours, I didn´t have any physical discomfort, but I would go to the bathroom a lot (to pee) and drink a lot of water.
About the 3 third time I had these kundalini, the energy and ryhtim of the breathing became kind of sexual , and I started having some lascivious thoughts… nothing over the table, but really nice. For all the medical specialist on the forum, there wasn´t any orgasm or ejaculation. I wonder if this is what tantric practices are all about… couldn´t say, some further research is to be done.
I need to point out that I´d been restraining myself, trying to accumulate energy on the lower chakras and use it for the creative work (like Steve Jobs, Tesla, etc). Something entheogens had really help me achieving… you know, you become and hyperspace astronaut and also a fapstronaut… “gone where no man has gone before”

Failed Changa
After the 3 kundalinis, the last being even more physically demanding, I felt kind of tired in a good way (like after good acrobatic sex I guess).
I should have called it a night, but we humans are greedy little creatures, so I smoked half a joint of changa I had left… It´s not my favorite ROA, I had trouble smoking, if you don’t take 3 hard hits and take too long… you are not having a breakthrough, that´s why I prefer vaping DMT on a vaping device, vape is cooler than smoke, far softer on the throat.
Anyway, it wasn´t a breakthrough but it felt good anyway…

Insight
At the end of the trip, I was starving so I went to the kitchen to cook and omelette. I had a clear insight on a personal problem that had been in my mind for the last 3 months, a great-clear perspective of “why” I was so angry about it. It really helped to move on with my life. Unfortunately, no I have new negative thoughts to fill the gap… neverending list of problems…

Conclusion
It was my first high dose mushroom experience and II found it extremely close to Ayahuasca, I think I contacted some really nice spirits or personal guides. It wasn´t just crazy visuals, there were some beautiful lessons on this trip, like you are being taking care of.
I´m currently in the process of growing the shrooms myself, with some friends. Our first bath are Mexicana and Thai. Later the second bath will be Mazatec and Ecuador. Any recommendations for the most “spiritual strains”?
I´m planning on having high dose ceremonies and increasing the doses, approaching it as I would do with an Ayahuasca retreat, considering maybe the 30gr doses Kilindi Iyi speaks about, although taking some steps before getting that high.
Next ceremony might be 8-10gr of cubensis.

PD: I later took a micro amount while trying to study… and hit me really hard. I stopped working and started to meditate, I got the feeling these entities are teaching me breathing exercises to improve my meditation… … these are very nice spirits … they kind of like the idea of me starting to grow shrooms, that means we will be contacting again, hopefully.

From my experience I’ve found the Asian strains to be very hyper energizing and slightly more aggressive physically at least on the come up . They usually taper off in the middle though. I’ve been using those for intense hiking trips.
As far as strains go I highly recommend The
Roatan honduras strain for a very gentle and deeply spiritual experience . Some argue that there are no differences in strains. I don’t believe this is true after many years of toying with different strains. I tend to lean towards the Mexican and Central American strains . But ultimately at a high enough dose in the right setting the strain can become irrelevant and becomes a matter of personal preference . I would consider 6 grams to be a pretty high dose I’m surprised there weren’t more visuals. There are so many factors that play into this it’s hard to generalize . Sounds like your doing the right things in your setting .

I would also be on the side of different strains are different. aFAIK there are 4 different compount possiblity acting when consuming a psilo containing mushroom. psilocybin psilocin, beaocystin and nor-baeocystin, these in different t ratios across strains would make each strain slightly different and imo something high in baeocyatin is what you'd be looking for.

It can be strange and I believe lead to what is called woodlovers paralysis (which is sounds like you experienced to a degree already as for me the lower dose paralysis was... Orgasmic...

Yes, it is close to ayahuasca. Though i find ayahuasca experiences more emotionally "touching", usually. I think it's the effect of the harmala's, increasing levels of dopamine and adrenaline. On ayahuasca, or psilohuasca, i can get realy euphoric or deeply moved very easily. Shrooms by themselves normally don't do that for me.

A little passionflower can be enough though, to realy add something to the experience.

Some people say that cocoabeans can do this as well. There even may have been a traditional brew wity cocoa, that the maya's drank in combination with shrooms.

I´ve read about woodlovers paralysis here before, I´m pretty sure is not about that, cause I was able to move and dance and do my ghetto kung-fu cosmic choreoraphy (amateur martial art practitioner). So it´s not that, this was under mutual consent, I would have been able to walk away from it.
Also, I´ve experience something similiar during an aya session with a large group of people, beneath a beautiful bamboo triangular-tesselated dome. But I guess when you are in a group you still hold some etiquette and avoid orgasmic spasms for the group´s sake... the public persona.

Coming back to the woodlover paralysis, I heard this happens with the stronger strains of mushrooms, the ones that grow in cold weathers (azurescencs, cyanescens?, the amanita muscaria santaclaus mushroom siberian shamans drink from the animals pee...) I´m no expert. The shroom most people get are like hot weather strains, cubensis (central america, thailand).

I've also heard it's common with azure and cyane, my particular experiences with WLP were with a baggie labeled PE#6, other than ugly as sin and (not manurey) but mushroom stinky as all get out, they appeared to be pretty standard cubes (visually)

Pretty standard come up, strong for sure. About the 2-2.5h mark there was an unmistakable second come up, 3.5 grams left me in a totally blissful, euphoric, trance state, where I could still stumble and dance (kinda) and laugh and sing.

5 grams totally, again strong psilo dose... Second come up, and complete paralysis (Kind of...?? Movement was incredibly difficult, traveling to the bathroom and back to the couch has never been so difficult) and a trip that I can really only describe as Third Eye Visuals, where the portions of the trip where my eyes were open, I had no noticable visuals to speak of... But I really couldn't see with my eyes anymore....

It took a lot of breath work to get through that trip... Brought a new light to what McKenna means when he says to sing through hard times and such..