How has microdosing helped? Or I should say, what benefits does microdosing confer that macrodosing doesn't?
Microdosing helps me every day in my everyday encounters - I don’t have a negative voice in my mind, I can think about things from a more logical vantage point versus getting caught up in emotions or triggers.
Macrodosing to me can best be describes as getting a UART debug port to your brain. It’s also helped me develop (or perhaps in my case: expose/identify/become aware of) my mind-body connection. Sometimes for an entire trip I’ll just foam roll, meditate and try and unwind years of abuse and trauma on my body. I got into a lot of accidents in my youth and my conditioning led me to ignore the needs of my body to recover properly.
One downside to macrodosing (for me) has been the vasoconstrictive effect of psilocybin. Long story short, I’m particularly susceptible to this and it can crush me. A big 5g Terrence McKenna ego-death dose can basically put me right to sleep due to the way my neck and muscles will get so tight that I can’t breath and essentially chokehold myself. Benadryl has been a helpful tool in this scenario.
All this being said - I haven’t measured this stuff scientifically so who really knows. But I do feel more compassion for everyone and I am able to observe things in others that used to bother me tremendously from a place of non-judgement. I see the journey that I am on, and I can see the journey that everyone else is on too. I can hold those in my mind without judgement, and it gives me strength where before I would have been perturbed.
If anyone has questions please don’t hesitate to email me privately. This medicine can and will change the world.
Really appreciate this comment, thank you.
I feel like a key distinguishing factor between microdosing and macrodosing appears to be the crossing into a certain boundary of uncontrolablity (both physiologically and in terms of the mental anatomy of the processes) in the spectrum of conscious control (from a cybernetic perspective?)
I’m caffeine-sensitive so microdosing is definitely a better alternative to cope with city life. I'm still practicing not to lose my narrative and get carried away by noises, bright lights, odor and unintended emotions.
Macrodosing-wise, I find being mathematically minded, etc, to be immensely useful. I've been in a quest to formalise the effect of thc (eg as performing a natural transformation to the attention mechanism in the brain) though I feel like this is only touching the surface as lsd/psilocybin/etc would always demonstrate how the world of qualia is much stranger than one can imagine.