trick, i came late in this thread, mainly because i have been away from this forum for a while. tell me: why do you want to have a shroom trip ? why mask it with some xanax, and lose the better part of the experience ? tripping, IMHO, is all about the fear and death. love and life take a new meaning then...it's more or less an allopathy. if you want to have a good time, save some money to buy a bed made of steel so it won't brake, and then get yourself a girl and "boogie until the cows come home".
i don't know your experience, but the day you have a breakthrough, you reach the "spotless spot"...you will change your mind and see that GOD is right. i never met him in person, and i think that i never sent him a PM, but all the information that this guy has come up to (that i've read) has been true and sincere. if you don't trust people, my friend, you cannot trust yourself, and therefore i strongly discourage you to take any drugs. go get yourself a girl or two (or boys, if that's your thing) and let off that steam! play some playstation! go listen go the great music on the billboard! learn to play the guitar, learn to speak spanish, read Plato, Nietzsche, so many good books out there! use your time in another way. starting early will ruin one of the best stages in our life. the first time i tried shrooms, i was 19 or 20, and it was a very gentle feeling, that was so weak that didn't became a trip. since then, i've had some strong shroom trips, always with caution, i can wait a year for the perfect setting, because i value both my time and the shroom. taking a drug just for saying: "hey, i just shot some heroin, dude..." is a fake and you are nothing more than a junkie. being a psychonaut is something different. is to take a substance to reach enlightment, to reach "the spotless spot". if you make this a hurry, let me tell you, you'll never reach it and you have wasted your life being a junkie. if that's what you want, you have the wrong forum (i don't recall the name of the junkies' forum ... "blue something", or whatever). if you want to become a psychonaut or a shaman (suddenly so many people want to become shamans, is it fashion ? "let's go the the store so i can buy me some shaman jeans and hats") you don't become a shaman when you eat a shroom. that just makes you an idiot that is screwing with true belivers that have died so many times in psychedelics' hands.
a question for the moderators: if a user dies of an "advice" that has been given on this forum, is it good for us ? this is one of the few forums that has interesting thoughts, i'd really hate to see it all go down with the flush.