Set & Setting
Don't blame the mushrooms
I was recently sitting in a sauna, sweating my ass off next to someone I just met. Very quickly, we found ourselves chest deep in a conversation about everything that makes me tick: existential psych, death anxiety, consciousness — the whole shebang. We lobbed the conversation back and forth enthusiastically, while I was occasionally struggled to squeeze out words due to the singing pain in my lungs (I’m a wet heat girl). *wipes upper lip and prays for moisture other than plentiful sweat* But GOODNESS do I love to fall down the rabbit hole with strangers.
Unsurprisingly, somewhere in that sweaty, cedar-scented conversation, we found our way to psychedelics. He’d been curious… had been thinking about trying mushrooms. What did I think?
I gave the same answer I always give. The one I’ve given, at this point, more times than I can count, in all kinds of settings including, apparently, saunas. More than anything, it’s a very basic nugget of informatio…
