Author Archives: Lennox Reid

Learning, Mushrooms

Elon Musk, Prince Harry, and the Celebrity Psychedelic Confessional

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Psychedelic collage featuring magic mushrooms, Michelangelo's Creation of Adam, and a Salt Lake City postcard, illustrating the cultural and spiritual history of psilocybin mushrooms in mainstream consciousness
17
Apr

It used to be that admitting you’d taken mushrooms was a career liability — the kind of thing you said quietly to close friends or not at all. Now it’s a profile piece in a major magazine. A chapter in a memoir. A podcast moment that goes viral before the episode finishes downloading. From Elon Musk to Prince Harry to Kristen Bell, the celebrity psychedelic confessional has arrived — and what they’re all saying, when you line it up, is surprisingly consistent: it helped. It changed something. I’m not who I was before.

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Advice, Learning, microdosing, Mushrooms

I Microdosed Every Day for 30 Days. Here’s What Actually Happened.

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Wooden letter blocks spelling out the word microdosing on a grey background, representing a 30-day psilocybin microdosing experiment and its effects on mood, creativity and mental health
10
Apr

I expected to become one of those people — sharper in meetings, warmer with strangers, sleeping eight hours without the ambient dread that usually wakes me up at 3am convinced I’ve forgotten something important. I expected a gentle, cumulative upgrade. A software update for a brain that had been running the same slightly buggy version for 27 years. I did not become one of those people. What happened instead was stranger, more boring, more useful, and significantly harder to put in an Instagram caption.

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Mushrooms

The Best Magic Mushroom Spotify Playlists

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Colorful illustrated portrait of a woman wearing headphones lost in music, representing the psychedelic trip playlist experience and psilocybin therapy soundscapes
27
Mar

Nobody tells you that the playlist matters more than the dose. A 2018 study out of Imperial College London found that the quality of a person’s music experience during psilocybin therapy was a stronger predictor of reduced depression than how hard they actually tripped. The music wasn’t background noise. It was the medicine. Here’s what people are actually listening to — and why it matters more than you think.

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Advice, Learning, Mushrooms

Why Your Second Trip Feels Nothing Like Your First

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Illustrated graphic of magic mushrooms representing the neuroscience of why a second psilocybin trip feels different from the first
20
Mar

The first time is unforgettable. You didn’t know what to expect, so your brain had nothing to defend against. The visuals hit differently when you’ve never seen geometry breathe before. Then you went back — same mushrooms, same couch, same carefully assembled playlist — and something was off. Flatter. More work. Less magic.
What happened? Your brain remembered. And remembering, it turns out, changes everything. From receptor downregulation to the neuroscience of expectation, here’s exactly why your second trip felt nothing like your first — and what to do about it.

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Advice, Learning, Mushrooms

Why Mushrooms Don’t Care About Your Identity

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Ancient church fresco depicting spiritual transcendence and the dissolution of ego, echoing themes of mushroom-induced self-reflection and interconnectedness.
06
Feb

I didn’t stop being a bully because I found compassion.
I stopped because mushrooms took away the lie that I was better than anyone else.

Mushrooms don’t care who you think you are. They strip you down to the organism underneath and remind you, bluntly, that everyone else is trying to survive the same invisible weight. Not in a “we are one” slogan kind of way — in a biological, unavoidable one.

This is the story of how taking too many mushrooms didn’t make me nicer overnight… it just made being unkind impossible to unsee.

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Mushrooms

Magic Mushroom Bad Trips: What Causes Them & How to Prevent Them

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26
Dec

Bad trips aren’t random, and they’re not punishments handed out by the psychedelic gods. They’re the result of a brain operating without its usual filters — emotions louder, memories closer, and context amplified. In The Science of Bad Trips, we explore what actually causes difficult psychedelic experiences, from neuroscience and trauma to mindset, environment, and dosing, and how modern research shows most of them are preventable. This isn’t a scare story — it’s a guide to understanding why challenging trips happen, and how preparation, respect, and integration can turn even the hardest journeys into meaningful ones.

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Learning, Mushrooms, Other Psychedelics

Shrooms vs. Dreams: Why Psilocybin Trips Feel So Cinematic

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Close-up of psilocybin mushrooms in atmospheric lighting, representing the connection between magic mushrooms, dreaming, and altered states of consciousness.
28
Nov

Psilocybin trips don’t just feel strange — they feel scripted, almost like someone in the back of your brain hired a Hollywood director and forgot to tell you. Scientists say it’s because psychedelics dismantle the brain’s usual gatekeepers, letting memories, emotions, and imagination bleed together like watercolor. The result? Vivid scenes, impossible physics, familiar faces in impossible places — a whole mental movie that somehow feels more honest than real life. It’s the same neurological sandbox where dreams are built, only now you’re awake enough to watch the sand shift. And maybe that’s the punchline: the mind, left unsupervised, is always a better storyteller than we are.

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Learning, Mushrooms, Other Psychedelics

What’s The Difference Between Magic Mushrooms and LSD (Acid)

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Magic mushrooms and LSD comparison illustration showing psilocybin mushrooms beside a tab of acid under vibrant psychedelic colors.
07
Nov

Magic mushrooms and LSD may share a cosmic lineage, but they come from two very different worlds — one born from soil, the other from science. Both can melt the walls between thoughts and galaxies, yet the journeys they offer are distinct. Mushrooms tend to lead you inward: emotional, organic, earthy. LSD propels you outward: sharp, electric, unending. In this deep dive, we explore the chemistry, culture, and consciousness behind the world’s two most famous psychedelics — and what they reveal about the human desire to see reality through a different lens.

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Mushrooms

Tricks, Treats & Trips: A Psychedelic Halloween Guide

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Colorful Halloween mushrooms glowing under moonlight — a surreal psychedelic scene representing Smiles High Club’s “Tricks, Treats, and Trips” blog about the magic of Halloween and mushrooms.
31
Oct

This Halloween, Smiles High Club invites you to step beyond the candy bowl and into the curious world where tricks, treats, and trips collide. From the ancient rituals that birthed our love of fright, to the modern magic of psychedelic exploration, this spooky season isn’t just about costumes — it’s about consciousness. Whether you’re microdosing under the harvest moon or swapping ghost stories with a mushroom tea in hand, there’s a certain enchantment that lingers in the air. Join us as we peel back the mask of Halloween and uncover the mystical, mind-bending roots beneath the surface.

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