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PsilocybinMike said:
This is just something I wonder about, since when I was a kid I'll never forget when I was about 10 my grandmother and I were with my great grandmother who was like 90 at the time and they just casually told me we were 1/8 Native American and I was just fascinated by it. I didn't really think about it until years later once I had become fully immersed in the world of psychedelia and had many trips under my belt and recalled back to that, and wondered if that had anything to do with why I was so drawn to psychedelics and why they seem to really bless me time and time again with enlightening and inspiring trips.

For about as many years as I've been into psychedelics (starting smoking weed/hash at 13, mushrooms at 15) I have always been a person who is commonly associated with these things and that lifestyle in the eyes of others, and have always been one to spread positive and well informed information about psychedelics and even have straight up told people how to use them properly who were just tripping mindlessly pretending they can talk to trees and that stupid shit is hilarious because that's what their preconceptions of what psychedelics make them think they should be doing. I've turned several people on, mostly good friends and family and in turn they have turned on some of their friends/family and essentially through my "teachings" I walk away with the satisfaction of knowing these kids aren't mindlessly tripping and doing so with little to no actual knowledge of these substances and when talking to others about psychedelics when I'm not around to look after them they are spreading around valid and informed information about psychedelics I shared with them.

So to sum it all up, I've been wondering for sometime now if there's actually any sort of inherent gene that can somehow be passed down that would build up in people who have used psychedelics in their lives and come from generations of people using them like with Native Americans. Presumably I could have DNA in my body traced back to my 1/8 of Native American genetics coming from someone from a long line of peyotists or mushrooms or what have you that possibly makes me more inclined to do them and have a better understanding than the average person? Another thing I wonder about is the fact that BOTH of my parents I found out later in life had done acid before I was born, and mescaline, I have since wondered similar things, if they essentially "re-wired" their brains or something to that effect did that effect my personality and my inclination towards weed/psychedelics and deep appreciation of them?

Anyone else here Native American and or come from a similar background where you're essentially 2nd or 3rd generations trippers and could see how that might have impacted your development as a modern day shroomerite/psychonaut wether or not you even knew this or not growing up (if your parents smoked/did psychedelics), because for me I didn't find out BOTH my parents did acid and mescaline before I was born until about a year or two ago, I knew about my mom having done them but not my dad.

Anyway sorry for the semi long post, this is something that interests me hoping to generate some interesting discussion about such things with those who share my fascination.

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13eetleJuice said:
I'm at least one-eighth Native American Cherokee from my mothers side. I've always been fascinated by that thought. I have no living Native American relatives but, I'd really like to learn more about the culture someday.

My mother nor my father have ever been into psychedelics as far as I know. I've questioned them both and the story is about the same... "tried pot a few times, didn't like the paranoia, drank beer/wine instead."

They both know of my love for all things mind altering, a trait that I share with at least two of my three siblings.

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elcharrosays said:
It's a nice idea and all but, no I don't think your 1/8th Native American blood has given you any predisposition to tripping or gives you any particular greater ability of understanding. Every single race and ethnicity has a history of psychedlic use stretching back hundreds of generations. We're all in the same boat here.

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