Walking in the Woods

In an attempt to regain my endurance I have started walking every day. It helps me greatly with all the negative thoughts I have. And I found a pound of Chanterelles yesterday. This is sadly not in the Firefox spellcheck dictionary. I would think that like many words it would come up a lot among mushroom enthusiasts.

Today I found nothing but decaying mushrooms and some latin names I am not going to try to spell but were definitely not yum-yum mushrooms but bleh-gross mushrooms.

Recently there was a sweat lodge ceremony in Arizona and I had a thought. People were paying nearly 10,000 to go to these things and it resulted in a few deaths and someone has kidney failure. Which led me to remember the Red-Capped Amanita mushroom aka Soma aka the Berserker mushroom. It was a pretty negative mushroom used by shamans all around the world to induce visions. It causes stomach discomfort and vomiting if it has been prepared right. IF it has'nt you get death and kidney failure and all that sort of thing. I am not sure if peyote can cause this and I am pretty damn sure that blue staining mushrooms don't cause any of that at all. But it was my first impression of the story; that someone decided to do a heavy dark ritual with a bunch of people and did not prepared the Soma correctly or gave people WAY too much.

What really weirds me out is people are paying $10,000 to put themselves in the hands of dubious shamans. I really never thought that anyone that was really dedicated to sharing mystical spirituality with people would require them to pay them huge amounts of money. And worse then be administered illegal drugs. Of course if they are Native the drugs are'nt illegal and so forth. But still traditional Native American sacred medicines are powerful stuff.

My room mate that some mushrooms even have a anti-protein binding action which could suck for me. I don't eat a lot of wild mushrooms so I am not too worried. My low-carb plan might have a hiccup but no more when I dip into McDonalds.

Speaking of which; WHY DID I EVER GO BACK TO THAT PLACE?
Hub and I used to go there all the time and order a mess of double cheeseburgers. That terrible boy got me back on the fast food after years of eschewing it. It is true McD's of Canada are incredibly better than in the USA due to the fact they have higher food standards there. But I ordered a simple meal off the dollar menu and by the time I was done nearly 2200 calories! 2200! Two double cheeseburgers, small, yes small fries, a sweet tea (yuck), and an apple pie. You can't do right there!
So I am leaving it alone now and eating my soup and bread and veggies alone.