Just found this post.
If you have the ascorbic acid, you might as well use it. I add it to harmala brews, for example. In one inconclusive experiment many moons ago, ascorbic acid seemed to protect DMT during the basic phase but the final recovery got messed up.
A more stable acid would be preferable if planning on storing alkaloids as their salts; ascorbic acid/ascorbates will tend to decompose into brown gunk over time, at least if it is exposed to atmospheric oxygen and moisture.
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“There is a way of manipulating matter and energy so as to produce what modern scientists call 'a field of force'. The field acts on the observer and puts him in a privileged position vis-à-vis the universe. From this position he has access to the realities which are ordinarily hidden from us by time and space, matter and energy. This is what we call the Great Work."
― Jacques Bergier, quoting Fulcanelli