Eating entheogenic mushrooms is not for everyone. While many people enjoy these sacred sacraments as recreational entertainments and use them as a means to have fun and magical experiences, they can easily launch a person on a difficult, frightening, and often harrowing experience. While the experiences generated by entheogens are not necessarily spiritual or religiously meaningful in and of themselves, if attended to with the proper mind set with the proper intention and consumed in a context of sacredness and spirituality, they can be powerful catalysts for spiritual growth and development. People can spend years sitting in meditation and get nothing but sleepy. People can go to church their whole lives and not have anything more than the dogma of their tradition to base their spirituality on. Mushrooms, on the other hand, are immediate, radical, and direct. In some sense, mushrooms, and other entheogens, when used correctly, are great spiritual equalizers in that they make profound states of spiritual consciousness available to nearly anyone.
Mushrooms allow spiritual seekers to do one basic thing: They help the seeker to understand his or her true nature.
The mushrooms just make clear and evident what we forget to remember in our ordinary consciousness. The mushrooms remind us of the real and show us who and what we really are. Using mushrooms as a spiritual tool is fundamentally about facing one’s self, overcoming illusions, and regaining a deeper, spiritual sense of self and connection to the sacred.
