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Originally Posted by BuckarooBanzai  Set, setting and placebo effect are, I think, responsible for most of it. You can call it by many names and still be discussing the same thing. A "shaman" refers to energy/guides/faith, a "scientist" refers to set/setting/placebo effect.
Same thing, different names.
When you tell somebody they are going to eat something special/different, it can have a HUGE impact on the experience.
Let a batch go long, so they drop all their spores and most of the fungi turn black. Tell folks they are really special - to be really careful with them.
Folks will wig like there is no tomorrow... |
you all are more experienced than swim so he believes you. He just thinks it's coincidental that all these people had a similar 'divine' experience, without being told anything but these are shrooms, and none of them knowing eachother.
SWIM is also a big believer in the energetic model of the universe. But that is for another post...