Searching for movie trailers at the Apple website, I stumbled upon this new upcoming movie. Shrooms tells the tale of some american college students that visit Ireland and decide to ingest some hallucinogenic mushrooms to get the usual psycodelic kicks, but apparently things go pretty awry and terror unleashes.

It is interesting that, just when serious scientific research on the potential benefits of DMT and other entheogenic chemicals were finally regaining legitimacy among the Academic establishment, this flick that will hit the theaters in February is quick to remind us that for most of our society -especially the younger members- power plants are nothing more than a wild form of entertainment in an endless search for hedonistic fulfillment.

Personally, if some dumbass neo-hippy decides to risk ingesting such a dangerous substance without the propper state or mind or the right spiritual guide, and ends up with his head all scrambled, I think it is nothing more than a logical consequence for a reckless behavior.

I have never taken any kind of power plants in my whole life, and the closest thing I've come in contact with illegal drugs have been this one time I drank a liquor that -supposedly- was mixed with a dose of Marijuana. The idea of embarking in an entheogenic experience both attracts and repels me at the same time; it atracts me for the potential benefits of trying to discover new forms of perception and "awaken my body" as Castañeda would put it, but I'm very reluctant because I don't think I have the necessary mental stability for such a difficult test.

So I rather try other things to expand my perceptions of the world. I'm thinking about taking meditation classes, that seems a lot safer than meddling in the realm of Mescalito.

But I don't discard the possibility entirely. Who knows? Maybe with age I will be mature enough to widthstand such an adventure, but only with a propper guide, and NEVER for petty recreational purposes -for that I already have my Xbox 360 :-)