>>2522366it's hunting season 12 months of the year.
it turns dreary rainy days into this amazing anticipation of natural bounty waiting to be found.
it takes you to truly untouched parts of nature where you almost feel like you're trespassing in some sacred temple, places where human beings with intent to exploit or parasite from nature havent stepped foot for hundreds of years or more.
it's extremely powerful medicinal compounds and amino acids that you otherwise can go your entire life without injesting. I do not have a single OTC pill in my home because some of this shit is so much more effective. 1 hour of finding birch polypore in the fall gives me a winter's supply of the strongest fucking anti-mucus cold medicine (and a dozen other things) you can imagine.
Most importantly it renews a childlike curiosity and ability to learn, we don't know 1% of shit about fungi, every time I find a species I can't immediately ID it's like sailing to a new continent, finding a new ocean or digging up a lost ancient city.
with or without injesting any of them, it will re-awaken your ability to learn, you will be so thoroughly humbled by how little you know about this world that your brain will simply be forced to re-organize how it works, this rabbit hole is infinitely deep, there is no end goal where you can claim to be an expert. you will never stop being challenged, you will never stop learning, your brain will never reach a point where it's content with what it knows and loses it's ability to learn again, I have applied this renewed love for learning to every aspect of my life and it's done more than any therapy or drugs i've ever taken part in.
This is a deeply fundamental part of the human brain that has been societally repressed for so long, It's one of least self-conscious ways to keep your dopamine reward system stimulated, a shameless, fulfilling orgasm stretched thin over the remainder of your entire life.
