The First Hour

Art by Vanessa Palmer

The most noticeable part of your experience will be within the first hour following eating one of our truffles. The more experience you have with mindfulness the longer you will be able to feel the influence of the plants on your psyche.

There is a fear of letting go of control that happens to some people when working with these kinds of plant medicines. I always recommend that people start with just half of a truffle or even a bite and to wait five to ten minutes to see if they want the rest. Though the feeling from the plants is actually very calming and relaxing, some people feel that initial expansion happen and want to regain control of that sensation…and that’s okay, we can just accept that as a perfectly normal reaction, but we do limit the work the plants can do when we try to wrestle for that control. Once that expansive feeling happens, more truffle won't make it happen more. Once you are there, you are there. Finishing a truffle won't make that expansive feeling overwhelming, it just makes the plant spirit's voice more clear. The fear that your mind (for lack of a better word) will slip away from you isn’t something that will happen and if it takes working with smaller portions to learn to trust that the plants really won't overwhelm you then that's the way to go, but I encourage you to reflect if the plants may be in fact trying to help you see that you may have a fear of losing control in your life in general and also revealing ways to understand why this may be especially important to you and how to move past it. The plants help us gain new awareness with so much compassion and love. We couldn't ask for better teachers.
In case it needs to be clarified, I am only speaking of consuming a single truffle at a time. Consuming large quantities of truffles at once is never advisable.