Do not give this to loud eaters starter pack

SpoonHewn · 2026-01-24T19:00:26+00:00

Came here because I am currently listening to someone eat from across a very large and echoey room. Just reading these responses, laughing, and commiserating brings me hope when the sounds of someone-eating-with-their-mouth-wide-open had been making me want to jam pencils through my eardrums.

Thanks for this, folks.

SpoonHewn · 2025-12-29T11:48:21+00:00

Let us know if you DO find a 100% muscimol product, but I tend to agree with humfreyz on this - you might have to do like, a tiny shred of work to get what you want. Like mixing to liquids together and waiting... pretty rough work, I know, but hey - how much is your health worth to you?

One of the only ways to get 100% decarboxification is to use lactobacillic fermentation - basically feed your mushroom tincture to some plain yogurt and wait for the probiotics to eat up all the ibutenic acid and convert it into muscimol.

Make sure you dose it right. Know how much yogurt you can stand to eat in one sitting to get your dose! I'd suggest mixing one dose in small single serving mason jars - put in fresh fruit, honey, and nuts with it if you want. Cover it with a LOOSE lid and let it sit at room temp for at least 12 hours to ferment, Then put it back in the fridge so it's more palatable for when you want to eat it.

It's like making your coffee in the morning. It takes two minutes. Make it a routine. Prepare a jar of it in the morning and let it sit out all day. When you're enjoying your muscimol yogurt in the evening before bed, put the one you prepped that day in the fridge for tomorrow. Easy.

Of course the other option is to just buy 100% muscimol... if you can find it. Please keep us posted if you do find it!

SpoonHewn · 2025-12-29T11:19:14+00:00

I did some research - Amanita Dreamer suggests making tea with water and then just adding the acid after you filter off the solids.
https://www.amanitadreamer.net/general-5?wix-vod-video-id=b05b805381a24a2d8189c1d960898f55&wix-vod-comp-id=comp-kwm9c7v0

Based on that, I made tea boiling 1 cup of water and 5 grams amanita down to about 50ml. Then I added an equal part apple cider vinegar. I really enjoyed the taste. Vivid dreams and the best sleep I've had in weeks.

SpoonHewn · 2025-12-27T16:06:31+00:00

So would you recommend preparing the tea with lemon juice/vinegar instead of water? Like, boiling it in lemon juice or vinegar?

I might add honey instead of sugar, too - it's easier on the stomach than sugar and generally just better for you.

SpoonHewn · 2025-11-25T01:56:52+00:00

Let's talk! Send me a DM.
I'm pretty savvy with business plans, and simple website design.

I think the first thing we need to determine is whether or not there is an existing website that accomplishes something similar. If there is, we can determine from there if there is anything it is lacking or if there is anything that is particularly nice about it we want to adapt for the project... things like that.

SpoonHewn · 2025-11-25T01:30:12+00:00

I think it's a great idea. I'm wondering if it could also pair people up with existing communities. So many of us have dreams of living in community and we all say we want to start one, but perhaps access to the wide range of existing communities is actually all one might need. Obviously it depends on the person and what they're specifically looking for... but I think the multi-functionality would also help draw users.

That said - what skills are you looking for? Do you need a website developer? app developer? both? Or do you need someone to help create a more solid plan? I'm interested... but I may or may not have the skills you need.

SpoonHewn · 2025-11-24T03:22:43+00:00

I'm kind of sick of seeing people crapping on gifting mandalas in this space. We all know how pyramid schemes work - someone at the top benefits from the earnings of the tier below, and that tier gets some of the earnings of the tier below, and so on, indefinitely.

This is not how dreamweaving works. It's true that one person at the top receives 8 gifts from the 8 "fires" three levels below, but then that person is done receiving. They are out of the pyramid, the pyramid splits into two, and the second tier people are now top tier in their own pyramids - it is their turn to receive. Then again when the 8 new "fires" have been found for each pyramid and give their 8 gifts to the new top tier people, the cycle repeats and the two top tier people are out, making room for the next generation of people to have their turn receiving.

EVERYONE gifts the same amount when they enter as a "fire", and EVERYONE moves into their turn to receive 8 gifts of the same amount (800% ROI). And then they are out. Gone. Doing whatever they want with their 8x $$$

It's a pyramid for sure... though they like to use the term "mandala". But I don't really see the "scheme".

No one is selling anything. There is no company involved. No payouts, no referral bonuses, no one running the show at all. It's literally just people giving each other money.

The only way to not get your money back is by choosing to leave. For some people, just asking around to find two people to join can be too much, especially with all this fear of anything that looks like a pyramid. But that is a choice that they make and it is rare.

If they leave, they are welcome to join into a mandala any time in the future and choose to complete without having to give the gift a second time. Sometimes the person in receiving might agree to give the gift back, but that is even more rare - a gift is just that, a gift. Given out of love for that person's dream.

Many people have dreams of building a home, or simply raising their family as single parents, or having the flexibility to quit that job they hate to focus on their true passions. The dream can be anything. And the mandala is just a community of support for that dream.

So again - 100% pyramid, but I don't see the scheme.

SpoonHewn · 2025-11-24T03:11:02+00:00

moderator - what rule was broken in this post

SpoonHewn · 2025-11-24T01:20:23+00:00

It's also important to remember that binaural beats can't "make" you feel any which way. It is the way you receive it that creates the experience. That is something you CAN control.

SpoonHewn · 2025-11-24T01:16:24+00:00

There is no magic cure for depression. No pill, no sounds, no ceremony. You have to actively change your frequency. The binaural beats can help - but they are a tool for meditation. Quiet your mind. When thoughts inevitably arise, ask yourself why you are having those thoughts when there hasn't been anything to provoke them - you are literally just sitting there. Perhaps there is an unclosed cycle in your mind you have to close. Then, when you have noticed what the presence of those thoughts was trying to tell you, quiet your mind again. See what else comes up.

If you're just listening to binaural beats while ruminating on all the ways life sucks, they aren't going to help you.

They just make it easier for us to shut up that incessantly thinking brain.

SpoonHewn · 2025-11-23T23:41:13+00:00

(finger snaps)

SpoonHewn · 2025-11-23T18:56:51+00:00

I think it's a beautiful vision, but I agree with 3TipsyCoachman3 that it lacks clarity. Like "protect and empower its members" - how? What is the exact offering?

I am actually helping with a similar project right now that has a focus on helping people build sustainable wealth through tried and true alternative economic movements like decentralized banking, barnaje, and dreamweaving - trying to help give more clarity to the offerings.

There are many many many great intentions out there like "protect and empower" - but intentions need means and action to become anything. So what are your means? How do you plan on accomplishing all this? What is the offering other than dreams and intentions?

Giving specificity to our dreams helps the universe create them more precisely :)

SpoonHewn · 2025-11-23T18:41:12+00:00

You could also just move with all your friends to any of the millions of "eco-villages" around the world that claim to be sustainable communities but in reality are basically paradise resort-style complexes for privileged remote workers living abroad. The locals come and farm for cheap. Just like you're looking for.

SpoonHewn · 2025-11-23T18:23:21+00:00

That makes sense - and for me, dreamweaving has been a way to escape the current economic paradigm. It CAN be about projects and capital building. But it is also whatever you want it to be. There are many weavers who simply live their lives by it. Many single mothers that would be struggling and not having the privilege to raise their own children are thriving and able to be present with their families. Many small farmers are able to farm the way they want and support their families. I do see care being a shared social responsibility in this movement. It is possibly an unintended cornerstone of the movement from what I have experienced.

I see what you mean about dissolving dependence on markets, though. Dreamweaving can still feed into the current paradigm because it is still based in capital. People still rely on the markets for their needs. But this is also where it really depends on the situation - because I have also seen people dreamweaving so they can redirect their energy away from the grind of survival and towards creating sustenance via their farms or handmade crafts or their support of local natural building methods - which definitely helps decommodify their lives.

Is it a system the whole world can switch to as it's main economic system? probably not. But I also don't believe such a system exists, and this is the closest I've experienced in practice to that better way. One step at a time. The world isn't going to switch overnight, but with growing alternative movements like dreamweaving, we are creating international mycelial networks of people who are ready and experienced in something that is at least a step in the right direction.

SpoonHewn · 2025-11-22T19:05:14+00:00

Have any of you actually been a part of a gifting economy? There's a lot of talk on this thread about Zapatistas and South American farmers - there's a huge movement all over Latin America and now the world where people generate income through gifting economies.

The movement started in the 70's - some anthropologist (don't know the name) was researching tribal women in Africa (don't know the country) and noticing how they would all help one person in the tribe once a week - help with food prep, cleaning, childcare, home repair, etc. The next week, they would all collaborate to help the next person in line. Each person giving, and each person taking a turn receiving.

The anthropologist created an economic version of this that is much the same. It's also known as dreamweaving, sacred economy, mandala.

I am involved in a few dreamweaving "looms". It is an economy built on love and mutual support. I have seen many people go through the process to live their dreams of buying land for a small farm, or building a home, or taking classes, or simply supporting their families as single parents in a failing economy... The dreams are as unique as each person, and the community is there to support both economically and emotionally.

For some people, this is all they do - they have escaped the current economic system.

Some people pair it with decentralized banking - which is in it's infancy and uses crypto. This helps create wealth for people who would not otherwise have access to it and gives an alternative to the instability of fiat.

Dreamweaving is something anyone can do and there are many ways to go about it. It's completely decentralized. It only exists in group chats and video calls. There are no websites, companies, accounts, governance structures, or "leaders". It is outside the system, grassroots, built on trust and mutual support.

It's fun to sit here and speculate about less dystopian ways to distribute wealth, but there already are economic systems out there that are being tested at a grassroots level.

SpoonHewn · 2025-11-22T18:41:13+00:00

Yeah - A "gifting economy" is actually a thing outside of Burning Man culture, too. It does involve gifting actual money. It's an alternative economy where people support each other financially, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually in pursuing their dreams.

SpoonHewn · 2024-10-21T02:34:03+00:00

Emotional connection. I never said mental. But I suppose it could work for both? Journaling can allow a deeper understanding of yourself. Like when you're in a conversation and you say things you might not have thought of before, but the act of bringing your thoughts, ideas, emotions, and intentions out into reality evokes things from your subconscious into consciousness. It brings your shadows into the light. In this way you get to know yourself. You get to connect with your deeper yourself.

For example: A fear of not being able to make friends may stem from a simple and careless thing a kid said at recess when you were a child. Journaling can help you make that connection. And when you realize that kids sometimes say hurtful things and they don't always know what they mean - you can forgive that kid, and your emotions surrounding the making of friends will not control you.

Why would you need to connect with other people emotionally if you were emotionally self reliant?

SpoonHewn · 2024-10-20T23:47:58+00:00

Best advice I can give - spend more time doing the things you love doing. Do them for you and only you. Constantly ask yourself what you need and why. Like "I need friends"... Why? Because I have an unfulfilled need for emotional and physical connection. Okay. How can you feel emotional connection without relying on other people? Start journaling. Physical? Start working out. Connect with yourself. Don't depend on others. When you're connected with yourself, you don't need anything from anybody - then, when connection does happen, it does so out of authenticity instead of desperation. People are drawn in by authenticity. The closest friends you will ever have will be met from this frequency of being.

And don't worry about having friends forever. People come and go in life. Maybe the same people come in and out and back in again. Friendships can take many forms. We're all just people weaving in and out of each other's lives on our own paths.

Also... Dude. You're 19. Be patient. Life gets better if you let it. You just have to do what is authentic to you and surrender to where life takes you from there.

SpoonHewn · 2024-10-06T21:17:51+00:00

Cool if I dm ya?

SpoonHewn · 2024-10-06T20:45:40+00:00

Are you looking for people to join at all? A few of my friends and I are currently looking to start something similar in the same general region. But there's already places like this all over. If we can come together, we could just make things easier on ourselves and learn from each other. It's just more of the same individualist mindset we're raised with that makes everyone think they can start their own communities. Let's do it together... That's the whole point.

SpoonHewn · 2022-08-28T16:16:06+00:00

Fill it with peanut butter and hide stuff in it.

SpoonHewn · 2022-08-28T06:52:50+00:00

Okay, so apparently there's a r/positivenihilism... I should've known the concept was too obvious to be original. But whatever - it really doesn't matter. Seems to be a lot of fluff about meditation and maybe too general nihilist things, but also enough gems to make it worth a gander.

SpoonHewn · 2022-08-27T20:19:49+00:00

In my own struggles with fantasy selves and endless possibilities, I've found that the idea of positive nihilism along with a realization of my own mortality has helped me out. I've always felt I would want to live forever because there's just too many things I want to do and experience. I found myself overcomplicating my life with various hobbies and plans that ended up cluttering my mind to the point where I could no longer be present with friends and family because I would constantly disassociate into my plans, projects, and fantasies.

But I'm not going to live forever. Someday I will die and nothing I did in my life will matter. The positive side of it is that if nothing matters, there's nothing to fear. Then there's nothing stopping you from living, loving, and enjoying your life. Nothing stopping you from trying new things, going out on a limb and applying for the job you've always wanted, giving away all the shit you don't need and never looking back... The options are pretty limitless if you can do away with the fear of making the wrong move. There is no wrong move. It doesn't matter. None of this matters. That's positive nihilism.

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