SWIM would like to know how to get paid as (instead of paying to be) "an expert who explores new mushrooms".
I always feel like they should bring along an artist for the trip so we can get a visual depiction of what it was like
Exploring new mushrooms is more likely to end in agonizing death than piercing the veil of reality.
Major in biology, do a grad program in medicinal chemistry, join a lab that already studies this.
(I know folks who read PiHKAL and thought "Hmm, this would be a nice ML training/prediction exercise")