jcarpin wrote:So for my A Levels I have to write a graded article and I have chosen to write about DMT, please could you answer a few questions for me
and could you include your first name and age as well? (optional though) MOD EDIT: Personal info Not Acceptable Thankyou1. What were your best and worst trips? (just a small extract will do)
2. How has it changed you since first taking it?
3. Would you do it again and why?
4. What are your opinions on it's legal status?
Thanks people

Don't worry, this article will not be published, only me, my teacher and the examiner will see it.
Name: EG
Below is a description of my best and worst trip, things with DMT are never one or the other, they are always both and the orher, it's quantum, it's the coincidentia oppositorum, my best and worst trip are one in the same. (You can't look at this compound through recreational eyes, it's not a hedonistic experience, and if your the type of person that labels an experience "bad" the second it's not completely euphoric, then DMT is not for you. For me it's the challenging and difficult experiances that benefit me most, that teach me the most, now don't get me wrong, there are aspects of enlightenment, spiritual revelation and gnosis, beauty, euphoria, astonishment, and awe, but they don't come with out the challenging aspects of the experience.
the first time I smoked DMT I consumed 200mgs, light-yellow translucent Dimethyltryptamine crystals on top of high-grade marijuana, I cleared the DMT as well as the marijuana in a single breath, and before I could exhale (or even count to 5) I was in an overwhelming state of intense psychedelia. Visually the world was not recognizable, time ceased to exist, I remember going into a panic, thinking "get this shit out of me!" And exhaling as rapidly as possible...but it was too late. I remember looking around, I was at the bottom of a foggy mountain with dirt roads, I was overcome with an intense feeling of panic and deja-vu, I felt like a lost child, everything I knew about who I was or my life or earth seemed like a distant dream, like I dissolved out of existence, I interpreted this as dying, I knew that I was dead, and I was emotionally overwhelmed while confronting the event of my death...at first you want to reach out for help, you think "call the fire department, or I need to call my family", but you quickly realize it's just you and death and you have to come to terms with it alone. I could not tell if I was breathing or not, I would take air in, but couldn't feel it, I then noticed a pain in my chest, a giant mantis like being had its claws in my chest, it proceeded to tear open my chest and stomach removing all my organs and insides, I was about to go into shock when I saw a bright green light flash over my shoulder, it nearly hit me, it then became a beautiful geometric object,a glowing stone or jewel, morphing and color changing. The mantis then put this object in my torn up corpse. The mantis then began to make billions of these objects, each one unique and radiating beautiful colored light, and my hollowed out corpse was filled with them, replacing all the organs that had been removed. Then I was sealed up in a burning flash of red light, and my newly rebuilt body was propelled into an orange light where I was resurrected...then I felt as if I was being pushed through a membrane, I was being born....then back to reality....those who were there said in reality I curled up into a ball and began to cry for 15 minutes, I was wondering why my face was wet, because it felt like I had actually just went through being born...any way the immense deep spiritual and psychological implications of this experience left me for ever transformed, reborn as a new person entirely, it was the single most meaningful thing that has ever happened to me.
Since taking I have changed in these ways:
·Before DMT I was agnostic, and now the reality Of conscious existence after death has been confirmed, I have devoted a good deal of my time to spirituality and spiritual practice since this experience.
·I suffered from mild depression and anxiety for a good deal of my life, which has entirely disappeared since this experience and has not returned, this experienced occured in 2012, and I have had nothing but a renewed love and appreciation for life since, a love for life like I had never had before.
·Any fears about death and dying have disappeared, I no longer have any fear or anxiety regarding death.
3. Would I take DMT again?
Yes, and I do still consume DMT via ayahuasca brews, though this is as a part of my spiritual practice, and to be honest, if I had never smoked DMT again after the experience described above, I would have been fully satisfied with what it had taught me. After you have had A FULL breakthrough further use becomes unnecessary. The thing is folks will smoke, and will have the most intense experience of their life, but will still be no where near a true breakthrough, these folks have no idea that they are only experiencing the tip of the ice-berg, and once you have experienced the full range of effects you technically would not need to ever do so again
4. My opinions on the legal status of DMT:
Dimethyltryptamine is produced endogenously in every healthy human body, it's a known neurotransmitter/neuromodulator and is closely related to 5-hydroxy-tryptamine (serotonin). DMT occurs in a large number of animals and plants, and has been in use by humans for thousands of years, so I think to try to make this compound illegal is absurd.
(Ayahuasca is not illegal out-right, it's a gray area, some churches are allowed to import and consume ayahuasca, and there are no laws or regulations involving the plants themselves, though you still may be charged if caught doing something perceived as inappropriate with these plants, ayahuasca is somewhat legal, and if we want it to stay that way we really have to encourage responsible use through out the psychedelic community, hopefully regulation attempts will be abandoned, people like MAPS are really helping (
www.maps.org ). Though the reason why drugs are illegal is another issue that I don't want to get into, so I leave it here.
-Eg