How a Shroom-Induced Psychotic Break Led Me to Become A Buddhist

<p>Joseph Campbell said, &ldquo;The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.&rdquo; I didn&rsquo;t realize the full import of those words until my first psychotic break.</p> <p>It was in the back of a Greyhound bus, heading to Denver. I&rsquo;d smoked a joint and taken a mini-dose of psilocybin (2 grams) before slumping in my seat and proceeding to meditate. As I sunk deeper into observing the breath and then entering jhana, something unusual happened.</p> <p>My mind was fixed on a quote I&rsquo;d read from the Austrian physicist Erwin Schr&ouml;dinger:&nbsp;&ldquo;The total number of minds in the universe is one. In fact, consciousness is a singularity phasing within all beings.&rdquo;</p> <p><a href="https://thetaoist.online/a-shroom-induced-psychotic-break-led-me-to-become-a-buddhist-89ed561798dd"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>