Monday, June 05, 2006

Taking Hallucinogenic Mushrooms in School

I don´t really remember the first time i did it, but it´s sort of become standard practice for me to take mushrooms and go to school.

The first few times i would try to actually go to class under the effects, but soon enough i realized that the real point of doing it was to interact with people in the school square and garden.

I have consistently observed that even when people don´t know you´re on mushrooms they sort of "feel" the vibe, and it´s easy to congregate people around oneself by merely sitting down. I´ve also tried standing up and sitting down a few yards away, and after a while, everyone moves accordingly, though they don´t really know it´s you they´re following.

For more or less 8 years, i´ve been trying to turn my school into a psychedelic mecca, and to elevate the tripper/non tripper ratio of the population, with moderate results.

Some of the people more difficult to convince come from the ranks of tibetan buddhism. I find a significant resonance between some of the forms of early 21st century Mexico City buddhism and good old-fashioned bourgeois privilege; "everyone must work for their own liberation, so it´s not my fault you´re poor" they seem to say.

Two of my acquaintances are fat, they're a boy and a girl, and they´re also chronically depressed, as befits their income range (mid-high), he fakes laughter and she chews neurotically at her lips. They were separately on the verge of trying ´shrooms out of desperation when (un)fortunately they started going steady and, having found relative relief from their respective lonelinesses, forgot about the mushroom. I bet that if they hadn't found each other, they would have come across mental health so, in a way, they "saved" each other from happiness, ironically. Another friend of mine says i shouldn't have said that they didn't choose each other, but rather their fatness did. I am personally against the discrimination of fat people and the commercial imposition of slender looks as mandatory, but it is a fact that no one else in the whole school would go near them (emotionally) and so they just started kissing each other. What's funny is that if they had eaten mushrooms they would have probably started daring to ask thin people out.

On another very similar case (only with thinner people) the boy hated me forever when i told someone else who was also trying to make him take mushrooms "leave him alone, he's just got himself a girlfriend that matches his illness".

It is very sad to live among such neurotics, and i can´t wait to move into some holistic/psycho-corpo-therapeutic/artistic eco-village, so if you know about one, let me know.

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