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Pinchbeck, Daniel - Mushrooms 3
Identifier
017403
Type of Spiritual Experience
Inter composer communication
Hallucination
Background
A description of the experience
Daniel Pinchbeck – Breaking open the head
Robert dried the mushrooms and arranged to eat them with a friend. One night they ate 3 mushrooms each. An hour and a half passed. Absolutely nothing happened. They were disappointed.
‘I went into the kitchen to get a beer from the fridge’ he recalled ‘ I took out the beer, turned around and across the kitchen there were huge mushrooms staring at me – a 5 foot tall, a 4 foot tall and a 3 foot tall mushroom. The mushrooms were red and yellow and they had little eyes and little mouths. They looked just as solid as you or me’
He stared at the mushrooms. The mushrooms stared at him. Finally, the largest of the mushrooms spoke to him
‘Why did you eat us’ it asked
Robert thought about it for a moment ‘I was just following my dream’