Has anyone noticed any major differences in potency between the two?

The reason i'm asking is that although I seem to get cleaner DMT that forms in nice tight crystal clusters, the effect doesn't seem to be as powerful as when I started off with non-powdered MHRB. In particular i'm missing that travelling-at-many-orders-of-magnitude-faster-than-the-speed-of-light-through-11-billion-dimensions feeling (it used to scare me a bit, but I kind of miss it now ) It was certainly a good indicator of when to put down the bong and turn out the light too, but I just don't get it anymore.

Imagine that bit in the new Star Trek movie where they're all going to warp, you get the buildup and expect to go "BAM!" into hyperspace, but it doesn't really happen anymore. You get some visuals but it seems to be missing something, nowhere near as intense as they used to be, and that feeling of travelling at hyperspeed is missing.

At one point, it was almost like i'd gained the tools to live my life to its full potential so it had nothing more to show me, but I suspect that there are still other things to learn.

Not sure if i'm missing out on the intent aspect of working with the non-powdered stuff too. Sure, it ends up powdered anyway, but I dunno, it sort of feels like i'm missing something by not doing the grinding myself. (i'd ordered whole bark but ended up with powdered, but thought, what the hell). Or maybe I was extracting something else along with the goodies. I've changed my extraction solvent to white spirit, mebbe i'll try a pull with paraffin again to see if there is a difference. And also give it a blast with some Rue.

So, yeah, in a round about sort of way, has anyone else noticed anything similar?

I like to shred my own. I never buy pre powderized.