Joe Rogan Is Stunned By Paul Stamets Stories About the Multiverse

hello freak [ __ ] but if you look at the multiverse and I've had a I've had one or two in particular multiverse experiences where time and reality has changed in a way that I cannot explain it so what do you mean it's so incredibly profound that I still cannot wrap my mind around it and these are psilocybin experience psilocybin experience so I think the psilocybin experience might be a one rule portal and now I'm gonna sound like Terence Mckenna of entering into the multiverse the idea that time can be bent that there are multiple universes occurring simultaneously in different realities and I've had one experience in particular that is just unfathomable to me I don't know how to explain it is a shot okay I'll give it a shot man you've already blow my mind today this is a very deeply personal experience to me but um I was um I was going to the Evergreen State College I had the Drug Enforcement Administration license my brother John went to Yale University he got a graduate scholarship in neurophysiology at the University of Washington he came out to Washington State in Seattle I was living in Olympia Washington I had a cabin up in the mountains near Darrington Washington then the summer time for three years I set chokers I was a logger I really believe in the school of hard knocks and the blending of academia with with blue-collar hard work I loved chopping wood I loved running a chainsaw I love hard labor I think it gives my mind some respite to be able to think so I'm in this highly academic environment my brother John is he died unfortunately two years ago he got me involved in mushrooms so I'm gonna segue and set the stage here but I need another two minutes to set the stage here so I'm growing up in a small town in Ohio called Columbia know my brother John goes that his going to Yale he comes back one when dang and it gives me a book that he's using for his class but he's on break he says I never really ex fascinated that John went to Mexico Colombia came back with a great stories of heating suicide mushrooms and is my older brother I just idolized him and his book called altered states of consciousness and so I said John can I borrow your book he said sure and I said but Paul you get back yeah from my break is over I'm going back to college it's as part of our textbook so I bought his book altered states of consciousness I'm just fascinated reading it you know about all these different ways of expanding your consciousness I'm fourteen years of age and so my best friend Ryan Schneider says home can I borrow your book we're hanging together all the time anyway I need it back so he bought was my book and he doesn't return it a day you know several days past a week past you know two weeks past my brothers are coming back on break I said I needed that book ball back Paul and I go to Ryan I go Ryan I need my book I need my book and Ryan just kept avoiding the answering the subject until finally give me my book and Ryan goes I can't give it to you Paul I said why this is my dad burned it I see your dad burned my brothers book I go WTF I didn't use this phrase back then I said oh my god and I have a shout out to Ryan Snyder's father that because of that event it stimulated my interest in altered states of consciousness even more so that so John goes to Yale and it goes to the University of Washington I have this DEA permit I'm at the Evergreen State College John calls me up I says Paul I think I found some soul side mushrooms Johnson you're really smart you've been collecting salafi cubensis and Colombia and Mexico but you know this they're much more complicated up here and then I said let me ask you a few questions I said okay John do you take a spore print he goes yes I go as a spores purple Brown he goes yes they are purple Brown I go good okay you know John does it have a separable gelatinous pellicle and he goes what's that and I go well break the cap these are growing on woodchips great break the cap and and separate the cap very slowly do you see a little skin that's translucent and he breaks it he goes yeah I see that skin the John they're growing in wood chips and he goes yes I know but a turning bluish it goes just there standing really bright blue oh wow I said John how many did you find he goes you would not believe it it is a huge amount I said wait I say but he's Paul they're a very sensitive place you better come up here right away so I jumped in my car drove up from Olympia to Seattle about 6070 miles I get to his house and I and John Zarin and I go well where are we gonna go so well we need some grocery bags you know and let's get on our bikes and let's go down there I go why all the secrecy and and the problem is is well you'll see and it was the end of boats Street and right at the University of Washington a right off of University Avenue there's boat Street and we get there and right across the street is a police substation so we're there and it was an eruption of this mushroom there had to be ten thousand thirty thousand mushrooms I don't know it was about 50 feet by 30 feet was they all been mulch with woodchips there was an eruption that picked up you know trash and you know debris that picked up six inches with solid mushrooms or mushrooms everywhere Ivan this day never seen so many mushrooms and with one concentrated area so we waited till the police cars went away and we're kind of idling there and then the police cars would go away from the substation we started picking mushroom picking my friend and we felt the groceries back back or two and and then the other students are walking by what are you doing oh nothing you know and then we eventually got yeah there's plenty for everybody all hanging I was a little group like at the bus stop right we're not really waiting for the bus right we're waiting for the police cars to go away right and then we picked all these mushrooms so we got about eight or ten grocery bags full of these mushrooms on it turned out to be a new species called selasa beast wound see I'm named after a new species new species new as in hadn't been discovered described of scientific literature before so you picked a mushroom that no one knew existed well we've been haven't been described scientifically we had known about it for about three years but this is a largest eruption and from that collection became part of what of the type collection that anchor the species taxonomically so I think some of the specimen still exist in herbaria around the world because it's the reference standard so we go back to the house and it's like we got to dry them so we lay out newspapers and the whole the whole newspapers were just covered with mushrooms and and so that night and we there's about four guys from Yale all neurophysiology all scientists and on scientists and Trackman says eat them and so I mean this is not very potent they're 1/10 the potency of cubensis so we made smoothies and oh my gosh talk about the gag reflex so we had make these smoothies we had eat 50 of them in order to have a dose equivalent equipment Westlaw speak Avensis would be so I knew that so he made his incredibly distasteful milkshakes and and we chucked them here we drank them and um and then an amazing experience I bonded with my brother it was beautiful and and then you're peaking at this experience you look around and see like tens of thousands as much like oh my gosh all for science and so I go to bed and and I'm laying about it and you know full-blown experience and you know can barely sleep because all the colors are keeping me awake and my mind is racing and then I have a lucid dream and I'm dreaming and I wake up and I go downstairs I go I had this crazy dream I said what's your dream and I said I I saw thousands of cattle dead baking in the Sun I said I think there's gonna be a nuclear war but what could kill all these cattle you know there's a time the Reagan administration and and and all that and you know the the the attention was really high between the Soviet Union the United States and they said then they were joking with me saying oh well okay you know what it's gonna happen I go I know I was in Olympia and I needed to rush up to Darington to stay in my cabin because my books were up there my manuscript was up there I need to save save my research so they've laughed and they laughed and said well when's the world on end Paul and I go well it's not this weekend that's like in two days it's next weekend so they wrote on the calendar December 1st I put it in my book I think it's 1975 the end of the world they wrote Paul predicts the end of the world so we forgot about it massive rains the next week huge amounts of snowfall and then on Wednesday Thursday temperature inversion and it flipped to 75 to 85 degrees all the snow started to melt all the rivers were flooding and my little cabin was right next to this river that would swell from that day didn't of a morning tonight it would go up six feet just from the snowmelt I mean because very close to this volcano and big glaciers I said oh my gosh I could lose my manage cup all my research I need to get up there I need to go up there and so I'm watching the news on news and the roads are being closed so I had to go through a Rockport Washington the back way in order to get back to my cab and I get to my cabin and the bank it eroded about 10 feet I was only about 10 12 feet away from the from the river now my cabin was on the verge of falling into up I caught my manuscript I got my books you know I rescued all the material I had but I couldn't get out of there because the roads have been closed and so I had to wait wait two days two days and the roads then opened up and I drove out out of the valley into Snohomish Valley and I went around the bend and there the Sun it was a brilliant sunny day a warm day and there floating in the fields for hundreds and hundreds of dead cattle how do you explain that I entered I think into the multiverse that was a scientist you realize when you say something like that you open yourself up to ridicule do you feel hesitant to communicate these ideals into degree yes but you know I'm 62 years of age and you know at one point you I don't care I just don't care you know this is true this happened to me and I can push the envelope on these ideas because the credibility of my research is well-established I can save the bees do you care whether I have taken psilocybin mushrooms if I can save your farm your family your country or the world billions of dollars biosecurity I care more I care more that's right so I'm telling you things I'm not making these up and make more I don't have to I just wonder but just because you can't explain it does not mean it's not true right and I think that we need to accept the fact that the reality is not limited to the perception that we have traditionally used that's a beauty [Applause] [Music] [Applause]

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Published: Sat Nov 11 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/nyrothia]

mushroom hat, best hat.

[u/Angelsaremathmatical]

For those who want the whole story but don't want to waste 10 minutes. He did mushrooms and had a dream about loads of dead cows. He sees something similar a few weeks later after massive flooding. I didn't leave out a single pertinent detail. The other stuff he's talking about isn't terrible, but he went through every possible tangent he could in the telling of that story.

How the hell that's supposed to have anything to do with "the multiverse" is beyond me. The clip ends there. Sure it's weird but why isn't he claiming to be precognitive, a time traveler, or that he received a revelation from god?

[u/MuuaadDib]

"Just because you can't explain it doesn't mean it's not true."

That's is.