Glossary

Adaptogen: Plants and Mushrooms that help your body adapt to stress and maintain balance

Bioavailability: How well your body can absorb and use a substance

Ceremony: Intentional ritual or practice with sacred medicines and possibly a practitioner

Consciousness: Your awareness and perception of reality (and yes, it can be expanded)

Decriminalization: Removing criminal penalties for possession (not the same as legalization)

Dose: Amount of medicine taken (know your measurements, babe)

Ego Death: When your sense of self temporarily dissolves (less scary than it sounds)

Entheogen: Plant medicines used for spiritual growth

Functional: Mushrooms that help something work (function) better without psychedelic effects

Grounding: Techniques to stay connected to your body and present moment

Integration: The process of incorporating insights into daily life (where the real magic happens)

Intuitive Dosing: Letting your body guide your medicine schedule

Journey: Intentional psychedelic experience

Macrodose: A mild psychedelic dose intended to create a perspective change

Magic: Term for psilocybin mushrooms (though all mushies are magical in their own way)

Medicinal: Mushrooms used specifically for healing purposes without psychedelic effects

Microdose: Sub-perceptual dose that doesn’t cause traditional psychedelic effects

Mycology: The study of fungi

Neural Plasticity: Brain’s ability to form new connections and patterns

Nootropic: Substances that enhance cognitive function, memory, and brain health

Plant Medicine: Natural psychedelics

Protocol: Structured approach to working with medicines

Psilocin: Active compound your body converts psilocybin into (the one that actually does the work)

Psilocybin: Primary psychedelic compound in magic mushrooms (before your body converts it)

Psychedelic: Compounds that alter consciousness, perception, and cognition by interacting with serotonin receptors (literally means “mind-manifesting”)

Psychoactive: Any substance that affects brain function, altering mood, consciousness, or behavior (broader term than psychedelic)

Set: Your mindset and internal environment

Setting: Your physical environment and external circumstances

Stacking: Combining different compounds for enhanced benefits

Sub-perceptual: Not noticeable – below our perceived awareness

Tolerance: How your body adapts to substances over time

Trippin’: Term for an intense psychedelic experience