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Tanasi and are gonna talk a little bit about the magic of mushrooms. Let’s explore the many ways fungi have colonized the Earth. The symbiosis of fungi and humanity. And of course a little Grow Talk… fungi Grow Talk courtesy of Sacred Three Mushrooms. Welcome Tanasi Introduce Sacred Three Mushrooms. Fungi has been called the 3rd kingdom after plants and animals. Colonized plants/ roots/ soil.
Mycorrhizae – colonizing roots from the start. endo/ecto plant specific.
Trichoderma – decomposing/ creating/ building soil.
Leafcutter ants brains have been colonized to farm fungus – Ants learned to farm 50 million years ago, way before humans did. Their crop of choice? Fungus. Meet the leaf-cutter ant. These ants carve out pieces of leaves and carry them back home (Figure 1). But the ants don’t eat the leaves themselves—they feed it to Lepiotaceae fungus they cultivate in their nests. The fungus breaks down plant polymers that the ant digestive enzymes can’t, making the plants nutritionally available to the ant hosts when the ants eat the farmed fungus.
Bug with a plant growing out of it
They’ve colonized/ control us. They’ve been here for a billion years longer than humans. Farmed humans (our gut microbes control our moods/ our microbiome our health). There are so many parallels between fungi and humanity. We communicate and send energy the same way that mushrooms do, through different size wires, or fungal hyphae. Synapse in the brain. Most of the mushroom is the fungi below the surface. Kinda like a telephone with the wires unseen below the street. Through those hyphae, they can transfer food, energy, hormones, etc. They can foster the weak. Adapt to eat just about anything (Chernobyl). Why do you think they call them “magic mushrooms”? Do you think they’re ‘magic’? What are the different ways to use magic mushrooms? What is micro-dosing? Heroes dose? What is this Mushroom Goo or RSO of fungi?
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Mushrooms as medicine! I love this topic, as I have used them with great success in quieting my Borderline Personality Disorder! My best friend tried to murder me in 2011 when he committed suicide next to me. His birthday is 5 days after mine, and I spent a decade promising myself I’d do something for his birthday. But every year I’d just like… blank out for a week and emerge later mad that I missed his birthday and that I failed him again. Last year I changed that.
My birthday is March 10, his was March 15th. Early February I started taking small doses of mushrooms and doing intensive journaling and inventorying of my soul and personality. I followed a lot of the inventory tips I was given in NA. I wrote down what hurt me, how I hurt others, how I hurt myself, and began mapping out how my friends death and actions had affected me.
I came up with a plan after the inventorying. Something ritual. I wrote down what I didn’t want in my personality and soul any more. I wrote down what I thought needed to be removed, and for every thing I wanted removed I also wrote down something to replace those feelings and themes with. I also baked a birtheday cake for my friend, and decorated it.
The day of my friends birthday I took 7.5 grams of True Albino Teachers that I had ground in the coffee grinder and stewed in honey for a few days. I waited for the medicine to kick in, tried listening to music but the music sounded horrible and I realized that I was resisting the healing I asked for. There’s literally always someone else home, but that I was the only person home. I walked outside with my ritual cauldron and a lit coal, sat down in the grass near the pond, and was joined by my cats. They were on high-alert and acting funny. I read aloud my first wish for the spirit guides to remove, and set it in the cauldron and watched it become smoke. Everything went quiet, and I continued to reading and burning. The pile of hurts was gone. I began burning the things I wanted to regain and reclaim. The first paper’s smoke called in a gust of wind and warmth. I spoke out loud to my dead friend and let him know that I miss him and that we would be celebrating his birthday in a little while.
I went inside, put on some music and felt at peace for once. My sister came home from signing her divorce paperwork, and she joined me and some friends on video chat. We lit the candles on the cake I baked for him, and my friends had also baked cakes for him. We sang him happy birthday and let him know that we all miss him and love him.
I can’t find the proper language to express the amount of peace and relief I felt the next day. It didn’t solve all the issues I have surrounding my friend’s death. But it definitely helped. It also gave me the realization that I could heal from this, and that healing is a process.
I still use mushrooms on occassion to address my mental health, but I’ve also picked up an invaluable tool to help me end depressive episodes – dextromethorphan. DXM. Robotussin’s active ingredient. I use a brand called RoboTablets from Amazon, they contain just dextromethorphan freebase, and they synergize well with the mushrooms. There’s a prescription drug combing Wellbutrin/Bupropion and DXM for major depressive disorder, but it’s insanely expensive.