PRE-CONDITIONS
(mind)Set: relaxed
Setting (location): at home, alone
time of day: (12 or 24 hour system, daylight? starlight? overcast?) 22:00 till ± 24:00 in my livingroom
recent drug use: (list also any kind of medication) light dose of LSD four days before
last meal: (Time and type) 17:00, small meal of spaghetti with salmon and spinace.

PARTICIPANT
Gender: M
body weight: 75
history of use: experienced ayahuasca drinker, but always in the Santo Daime ritual setting. First time on my own, at home.

BIOASSAY
Substance(s): Ayahuasca (caapi 50 g and ±12 g chaliponga) , later on a little bit of pure marihuana (6 hits)
Method of administration: boiled the caapi 2x 3 hours, then added the chaliponga and boiled both a third time for 4 hours. After that some 3 hours of boiling to get it to ±50 ml. added second and third time boiling a tablespoon of vinegar. Marihuana in a pipe.


EFFECTS
Administration time: T=22:00 all ayahuasaca at once. 22:45 I put some water in the empty bottle to get out the turbid and muddy stuff that was left behind and drank that aswell. 23:30 6 hits of pure marihuana
Duration: 2,5 hours
First effects: 22:15
Peak: 22:45 - 23:15, Then another peak after the marihuana from 23:30-24:00
Come down: 00:30
Baseline: 1:30

Intensity (overall) (0-4): 2.5 (between Moderately - Quite a bit)
Shulgin Rating Scale: 2.5
Evaluation / notes: very nice first time at home.

OPTIONAL
Pleasantness: (0-4): 3
Unplesantness: (0-4): 1
Visual Intensity: (0-4): 2-3

AFTER-EFFECTS
Hangover: (0-4); 0
Afterglow: (0-4); 3.5


REPORT

I first saged the room, singing a smudging hymn ('defuma'
I prepared my space: I had some ritual objects, like an icon of Mary,the skin of a fox' face, a ducks wings, palo santo. In addition to that my guitar, some Santo Daime hymnbooks, and a bucket.

I said a prayer, and after that drank the glass. Immediatly i felt a strong energy, which was difficult to relax with. Maybe the nervousness of the first time. The taste of the ayahuasca was pretty good, actually. I just started to sing the first two hymns we normally start a ritual with in the Santo Daime. After these two rituals the energy was calmed enough to just sit in my chair. I meditated for about half an hour, slowly feeling the onset of the bodily sensations, my visual sight beginning to wobble slightly, energy started flowing. I was prepared for a firm hit, but it didnt set off as i expected. I examined the bottle, there was some muddy stuff on the bottle, so i got that out with some water and drank it aswell around 22:45. I just meditated, every now and than sang a hymn and tried to play on my guitar. But after the second gulp of the leftover, it got more intense. Visuals started to appear, mandala's of light, spirits started to enter the room and felt present. I conversated with some of them about some real life issues I had, and they gave me some good tips, but nothing to spectacular. After some time the vision and sensations started to intensify and I met a galactic Angel i'm kind of familiar with and which i know as 'metatron'. I saw him, he emerged as a bright light, and started to teach me a hymn, a song to call him. I got some first melody, tried to sing it, wasnt pleased with the result, tried to play it, and slowly found the melody. Then words started to pop up. As I sang them, I experienced what I was singing about. Metatron stood before me, lay his hands on me, and started filling my body, heart, soul with light. He encouraged me to become a mirror of this light, and he just filled me with it. I felt really good, bright and light. When i stopped singing, the experience and melody kept on resonating, the image of the angel standing bright before me. Then again some lines of the song started to pop up, i wrote them down, sang them while playing the melody. After some time the comedown started, so I tossed some marihuana in the mix. That made the experience last some longer, I just enjoyed myself, seeing the visual eyecandy rotating bright after closed eyelids. Around 24:00 or maybe 00:30 I had a touchdown, and ended the ritual.

It was about 3:00 am before I went to sleep, after eating some more of the spaghetti and drinking some, surfed a bit on the internet, made some images with a pair of compasses, interlocking circles and stuff like that.

The day after i experienced a nice afterglow, not only of the successful first experience with ayahuasca on my own, homebrew, in my own ritual, but also of the experience of receiving a song and the afterglow of the light of metatron.

Are you for real man?

haha
I have some background in shamanism, so yeah.

I found a dead fox, hit by a car, and I stripped the skin of his face to prepare it as a shamanistic object. Same with the duckwings

Interesting report. I am interested in learning more about Santo Daime. I only heard of it just this past week.

Are you sure that's Shamanic rather than Satantic? That's kinda weird brah.. I'd imagine you encounter some strange entities on your DMT journeys

What makes you associate with 'satanic' ?
The fox & the duck?
I suggest you do some reading on shamanism if that's the case...

Lol no its just weird to me how you make it some creepy ritual. I mean.. you could just smoke the DMT and not go rip off a foxes face and a ducks wing lol but whatever floats your boat man.. Just sayin I hope your not hurting animals just so you can travel into hyperspace. Karma probably will give you one hellish experience if thats the case... an entity may just rip off your face and arm and use it for its own ritual. Why not just say a prayer or mantra and meditate beforehand? Like I said whatever floats your boat man.. that's just not my cup of tea.

It's only creepy if you have preconceived notions that make it seem so. Ritualistic behavior isn't dark or evil on its own - it can be utilized by someone full of hate/bad intentions, sure - many things in our society/culture do a good job of linking the idea of ritualistic behavior with dark, creepy people performing rituals for dark, creepy reasons. But it's also utilized by people full of love and good intentions. It's a tool. A tool, that for some people, can be utilized as a powerful energy amplifier used to create/induce/catalyze unique individual experiences. It's sort of like a recipe - very much so, actually. The animal artifacts signify/symbolize something to the user, and therefore bring that energy that they symbolize directly to the table in a package. With the power of intent, this energy is swirled into the overall experience, creating something truly unique.

Any experience in life - not just psychedelic, but any experience - is the product of a recipe that went in to bringing said experience to fruition - whether we're consciously aware of the recipe or not. In this sense, rituals are, or can be, a slightly more complex recipe than just saying a mantra/prayer/etc.

By the way - he/she said that the fox was dead on the side of the road, and same with the duck.

Well put. I just think its maybe a little disrespectful to the fox. I mean I wouldn't want my face being ripped off even after death so that someone could use it for a ritual whether it be good or bad intentions. Its just strange. But I mean I understand the power that creatures could have as long as its not like animal sacrifice rituals lol but ya I'm just not into all that. I believe everything you need is in the mind. I guess I don't understand :/ not really my territory. I do however believe in smudging with sage and whatnot enchanting items with your energy can be very powerful wasn't trying to be an asshole cheiron. Sorry if I came off that way. I was mainly trying to understand your intentions. That being said nice trip report!

I was actually taking a course in shamanism. In the week we covered the use of animals, learning how to prepare wings and stuff, i found the two animals along the road as victims of the traffic. To me, as long as I pay enough respect to the animal, and speak to it's spirit, asking if it wants to join me in my rituals, the karmic consequences seem quite balanced. Furthermore, finding a fox in this week has some synchronistic overtones to me. The shaman teaching me said the animals show up if you have some connection with them.

Futhermore, I use their qualities in my rituals for healing others, so to me that doesnt seem negative or something. I mean, i assume you aint a total vegan yoruself...?


haha ok, i get that I hear it just makes you feel a bit uneasy, but as far as i can read it has more to do with some assumptions you make than with my actual practice. We use animal products all the time, and i think healing someone has far less 'karmic consequences' than wearing leather shoes for that matter... I assume you don't think that everyone wearing leather shoes will find himself at risk of being skinned by an entity for its leather to wear at its feet...