Psilocybins can be detrimental to many without medical supervision, but, for Mike Tyson, it saved his life. Despite the fact that his successful boxing career earned him so much wealth and status one can only dream of, he was struggling to keep his inner demons at bay. If you ask Tyson, mushrooms had a lot to do with transforming a person who once bit his opponent’s ear off, into the mellowed down, pot-smoking, sensitive, and gentle human being you got to see at the recently concluded show HotBoxin’ with Mike Tyson.

“I got introduced to the shrooms … my whole life changed. To think where I was – almost suicidal – to this now. Isn’t life a trip, man? It’s amazing medicine,” Tyson raved about the psychoactive substance in an interview. However, tripping on psilocybin mushrooms isn’t as smooth as you think it is. In a conversation with Logan Paul and Mike Majlak on their podcast Impaulsive, Tyson revealed how his bad tripping experiences annoy his wife, Lakiha Spicer.

Impaulsive goes deep into philosophy!

“Who the f*ck am I?” This nugget of an idea was stretched to its maximum extent in Tyson’s conversation with the hosts of the Impaulsive show. “Is it ordained from God for me to be this or I’m in this world by myself and everybody’s just in here to please me?” Tyson asked. To this question, Majlak replied, “That’s called Horizon Theory!” Explaining the concept, Majlak stated, “It’s a whole thing, it’s a philosophy – it’s called Horizon Theory and everyone’s put here as an actor in your world and you are the center of it.”

Mike Tyson recalled that he had a similar experience tripping on mushrooms, “You know the mushrooms does this to you, right? It says, man, you’re the greatest in the world. God! You’re the greatest. You’re the greatest in the world. I know it says so many great things about you.” However, the cerebral experience takes a nosedive from the peak of hubris as Tyson narrated, “But, you did fail that test, you know you weren’t nice to that person,” killing his ego in the process.

However, Tyson’s trip sometimes becomes difficult to handle, leading him to find solace in his wife. “I run, baby, baby, my head… I did mushrooms, baby, I’m sorry. My head hurts, Jesus, it’s killing me, it’s killing me! My wife just gets so mad,” recounted Mike Tyson animatedly.

Further elaborating on his bad trips while on “too much” mushrooms, Mike Tyson explained that sometimes he becomes a “sweating” and “crying” mess of an individual, which evokes a cold reply from his frustrated wife —“Leave me alone, don’t start! Leave me!”

Meanwhile, on a different note, ahead of his upcoming fight against Jake Paul, ‘The Baddest Man of the Planet’ revealed that he will be having a psychedelic experience before the big night.

A conversation with God for Mike Tyson!

The 58-year-old, with his prime years behind him, will need something more apart from the usual hard-core training in the gym. A divine intervention perhaps? The former Heavyweight champion, who has been quite vocal about his use of psychedelic drugs in the past, will be taking 5-MeO-DMT – a drug also known as ‘The Toad’ ahead of his eight-round heavyweight professional bout against Jake Paul. Notably, the last time Tyson professionally fought was in 2005 against Kevin Mcbride.

Mike Tyson hopes to have “a conversation with ‘God” before entering the ring once again. In his interview with Esquire Magazine, he revealed that he did psychedelics “close to hundred times now”, and wishes to have a “deep” spiritual experience before he lays down the gauntlet on the former Disney star.

Will Mike Tyson be able to beat 27-year-old Jake Paul? Will Tyson’s divine experience help him in any way in his upcoming bout? Let us know in the comment section below.