dreamer042 wrote:I've never understood this pursuit. I'm curious as to the reasoning, what is to be gained here?
If you want a psychedelic experience without the bodily work of ingesting plant medicines, take LSD.
Adding a bunch of pharmaceuticals to your huasca to combat the most important part of ingesting "la purga" seems kinda nonsensicle to me.
It depends what you are going for.
The purge was believed to be a cleansing process, and one can understand why.
However purely from a scientific view, it has not been proven to be beneficial at all.
On the other hand the benefits of DMT has PROVEN benefits.
Some people prefer to extract it, other to do an authentic traditional rainforest ceremony.
Others (like SWIM) are going for a more mushroom kind of experience.
Availability and price is also an motive.
Mimosa and rue with shipping if bought in bulk costs an single euro per dose.
This is a huge win, if somebody has a hard time obtaining LSD or mushrooms, not to mention that cacti (although very special) is much more expensive as well.
All of us here are interested in the same thing, tripping.
Regardless which way you chose, the destination is always the same.
Classic psychedelics in any form are something special, and all of them deserve to be respected. One does not have less merit then the other.