You should be ok. Salt is not as important in fact. It can help to avoid emulsion and help to force dmt freebase from water to non-polar.
Many TEKs don't use it at all.
Although, I suggest following selected TEK to the point, if you are not sure what you do. After successfull extraction(s) you can start to tweak it.
Acceptance of the fact that our reality is not real doesn't in fact mean it is not real. It just leads to better understanding what real means.