What better way I thought to introduce myself than to give you a chance to see if how I introspectively journal-ed my first experience shows to any extent my potential to be a caring, helpful member some day. =) Part of me feels this is all you need, but to elaborate more about myself, I have a life spent researching everything your forum touches upon, and would invest the time to help the forum. I don't know where to start. I thought this would be a good way to get inside my head, and see how I think.

I take a toke for 5-10 seconds. Within 15 seconds I begin to feel my ears, back of my head, spine, and middle of my head disconnect. I hear a snap noise like a faint “crack” noise like a candy wrapper being thrown away. At that point I saw a chrysanthemum like arrangement of ghosting “poof” of light. Kind of looked like dots white which turned into circles. Once the dots became circles, the whole hallucination resembled the cheese grater we go through upon birth referred to by some circles as the “flower of life”. I feel myself beginning to feel like I am going up, like how it feels to fly upwards in a dream. Like when you take off in a dream to begin to fly. I feel I am flying away like a balloon kind of going left and right as I drift upwards. I feel pulled back like my vision and hearing are left behind as my mind is being pulled away and behind my head. Backwards and upwards My consciousness goes about as far as you can as if you are drifting away into a dream right before you meet unconsciousness.

I feel like I am now fully immersed in deep space. I feel like I’m floating in no particular direction in the back of my mind almost. All is dark but I feel a peculiar familiarity of self peering steadily around me at me. I feel these rips in the darkness like slits opening up. The slits can see me. It’s my sub conscious trying to figure out what I’m doing there, and trying to put me back in where I belong. There was a moment where it was almost like my subconscious wanted to know what to do with me almost like a cat that had come across a lost mouse. It almost felt like it wasn’t sure whether or not it had something of importance to show me or not.

It almost was as if it had been pondering something of great importance while asleep, and my presence was a distraction from its great work. It seemed it had something to show me, but it had a peculiar air of “you aren’t suppose to be here yet” behind it, and I’ll show you the door out. At the same time, it couldn’t help but bring me through allot of layers in order for me to find psycho integration so to speak, or reintegration with the conscious mind. It began to show me its strength, its muscle, and its vibration all at once by vibrating my consciousness in concordance within itself. I felt like it was vibrating, and I was going along for the ride; multiple overlapping vibrations in different ranges all overlapping in different sections of deep vibration. My single point of light of consciousness was being ripped through this gargantuan intellect.

I could feel the places it knew itself to be from, and saw several different parts of myself that came from strength I had once acquired. I had the righteous access to borrow from those strength ponds of dark matter as I was being propelled through the darkest rift of my mind towards the more integrative consciousness. I was able to throughout the entire sequence grasp onto access points of vibration in order to have frequencies of consciousness I could use later for total recall of self. It was like I was able to hold onto strands or lines toward my subconscious self; kind of like holding onto harp strings as I passed on through. I felt the deepest recesses of myself bringing meaning too through my reason for being shown what I was experiencing as I was traveling through it. As I passed through the chasms of my sub consciousness, I remember being shown the different aspects of my meta-selves as I passed through from the very beginning of my birth into the current now.

The darker and more tightly integrative the parts of me were, the closer they were towards my childhood, and the more articulated and refined the splits were, the more interrelated they had become. Almost every extrapolation of thought I had used cognitively as archetypical understandings were there. The more reflexive knowingness of my self seemed to have more a weight on the rest of my selves knowing of it self. I saw the recesses of my sub consciousness like a nautilus. That was the one hallucination I remember clearly. It didn’t go in towards the center like a nautilus shell does; rather it was just starting with the outer larger sections, and went forth linearly with a slight slant into a forwards rectangular kind of direction. I remember the whole visualization was to the left of me, so I can only imagine it was my right hand side of my brain. I was more being shown the expansiveness to which I could remember, or to which I could recall information if I wanted to. It was so expansive it seemed all I could do was to remember the deep tones of vibration that were access points toward the information contained there in. As I pushed through this phase of the experience I was compelled towards a meeting of minds.

I was able to see the contour of the face so to speak of my subconscious. It seemed to have a face so to speak. I was still a point of light at this phase, but at this point the sub consciousness wanted to know what I wanted it to accept as me for the next time I returned. It was peering into my intent very clearly. At this point I had to perceive myself as becoming its reply. It was almost as if my sub consciousness was asking what are you, and what do you want? At this point I said “I am here in order to become a mega me, to grow and to become better integrated with you.” To which the reply was Oh really? Then the sub consciousness opened up, retracted back away from my perception, and all the reins toward the different parts of my mind I had held onto previously became bungee cords that retracted the inner walls of my higher self at my conscious mind. At first, it was the question of how many directions do you want to go and for what reasons, then it was like a thousand worker bees asking me which way now.

It became a rapid fire multi directional simultaneous task of sorter for each part of my self and each part of my mind hungry wanting to be tasked from its source with new curriculum from which to study. I gave orders to each part of myself to study how to psycho integrate better within my conscious self in order that I might attain elevation of self. At this point my sub conscious came back and asked “What have you done? Are you sure you know what you have ordered to be done? I nodded yes, but ceded back humbly more for what the subconscious could better handle, and for what it had to show me next. It seemed the sub consciousness had to go away now to integrate my wishes and to see that any one part of my mind did not take the orders out of sorts within my highest purpose. It then returned to me with how my wishes might be integrated within my highest purpose, and it showed me a way a blueprint for conscious integration within my sub conscious mind.

Now the purpose of the experience shifted as I began to go into a place where I could see the growing aspects of my mind. I could see the mega-construct of the active portions of my mind where all the frontal lobe of inter-connectivity of my mind was being handled. I was given a glimpse at the circuitry behind where my mind could up or lower nervous system output with conscious control over stimulation of thought. I was in control of the output of electrical activity within my frontal lobe. I at first felt through it, and could feel the whole perimeter of my mind reacting to all the electrical activity, but I was still behind it. It was almost as if my sub consciousness said “See there? You’re going there, but you’re in control now.” At that point I decided to up the output of my minds electrical output a little bit, and then the sub conscious said “That’s enough” and I recognized it could be an overload of my neural net, so I stopped.

Then my subconscious decided it would stimulate my whole mind’s mega construct in pulses and waves. It tickled a little bit as it felt like arcing between cortical pathways sweeping over the frontal lobe, but this time I could see the interconnectedness of my whole conscious construct, and I could see how much of a trap it had become. I was stricken for a moment, and awed because at this point I had the ability to up the voltage output somehow consciously, and I felt an almost break through moment. It was as if almost my subconscious (which is 10,000 times larger, and more powerful) was behind my self – construct, and it was pulsing every time I pulsed upward the output of my nervous system, and I had to pulse it to where my subconscious would react appropriately, and I was working with it. I almost achieved a breakthrough point where I almost got the godhead to bind with the self construct, or at least it felt like it. It was frightening almost as if after I awake would I be able to handle this?

I hesitated, and I regret that however I believe this would have (If it had been successful) altered my character at some base level for which I could never explain. I remember at this point what I saw of my self construct resembled a leaf pressing. Inversely it was like looking at the tree of life vision from kundalini experience I had, but from the stem looking up to the tip of the trees top. I had the thought of when I would return to consciousness, and at that point it was too late as I was in the process of coming back. Coming back into conscious awareness was a bothersome thing. It felt like pushing in between a bunch of rubber balloons, and the longer I sat there and contemplated which one felt like the best way to go, the longer it took to go upwards. I remember a zigzag however where I felt I was being pressed left, then right. I just remember knowing it was like holding your breath, and swimming upwards towards the surface of water while knowing / believing in yourself that you would intrinsically know the best way by believing in yourself / being yourself, and allowing the moment to pass. At this point a part of me went asleep, and I was pissed.

I believe if I could have taken more of my consciousness with me from this place I would have had more access to my subconscious mind, but since that was not something I had consciously planned before going into the trip, it was not part of my intuition, or intention upon the duration of the journey, and probably for the best. Somewhere inside myself I know if I was aware of my subconscious mind all the time that I would probably be a vegetable, insane, or the most intelligent people in the world like an idiot savant unable to integrate with the outside world, so best left alone for now. I remember asking myself if I wanted to integrate different portions of my sub consciousness into my conscious self kind of like a man in a men’s department store being propositioned different suits and being asked if he liked the look of one or another, but in this case it was like being asked if I wanted a Swiss-army knife full of these facets of consciousness, these tools, or those.

I accepted everything I was offered. It was after this place that I remember a sensation of knowing what the meaning was of my conscious evolution more so than a profound reason for life. I came out of the situation with a clearer understanding of how the sub conscious aids and embeds the conscious mind, and how willing each are in part cooperatively within each other, and how they permit the pursuit of communication without direct involvement or disruption of each other. The subconscious intentionally behooves itself to be your equal and opposite half without your conscious mind acknowledging or knowing it is doing so; quite an interesting keeper.

I believe the profoundness of traveling within my self made any ego centric worldly emotional turmoil feel frivolous in comparison toward the meaning of what can be achieved within the confines of a lifetime given the proper mindfulness / intention. Throughout the experience I had the preconceived notion that the internal observations I would make going through this would be in direct contact with the collected information of my brain, and that by slowing down the experience enough to reason with my subconscious as well as breathe in as much as I could of the atmosphere and vibrations I absorbed that I would be collecting and condensing information in it’s rawest form as well as basking myself within this warmth of knowing-ness and certainty that “I know” or the great “I am I”.

The one thing I take from this in retrospect is that since DMT is secreted when you have those “Ah-Ha” moments that it is relational for a profound concept to set off several reactions within the brain. This time however one thing is sure, that is that this time my consciousness was the “Ah-Ha” being integrated, and my subconscious mind was like how do we handle this? What relevancy is this? What the %^&*? It didn’t know how / where to sort me into all this knowledge it has stored; definitely a one time unique experience for a first timer.

Day after:

Dreams are more mandala like lucid everything in bi meaning two halves playing out opposites symbolic meaningful communication with the subconscious pure meaningful communication. Ever since music is more vivid in dreams, themes are more loosely setting orientated and more themed on content, and breathing of awareness whole dreaming. Lucid dreamscapes lend themselves to more contemporary places I have visited before, and I have less inhibitions dreaming about more recent places I have visited in my life. Repeating music is a theme in my dreams more often, and lucid dreaming feels more restful. I am picking and pulling way more information back with me.

On a note ever since my experience it feels the path through which I went into myself inversely is a path through which like an electrical wire I could use again to contact my subconscious mind. It seems the path down into my self through which I traveled feels like an electrical line through which I can climb back down into the recesses of my mind in order to seek truth, understanding, wisdom, and connectedness in consciousness with my subconscious mind.

My dreams were of subdividing, contracting, and expanding designs, feelings, thoughts, and actions as shapes and colors. The meaning of a very repetitious music seems to be linked in the listening to the dialogue or information that travels along the sound waves / vibrations of the tones. It seems my subconscious wants me to listen to tones that unlock access to within my self in order that I might strengthen my connection through it towards myself. I am beginning to see that the subconscious is the real you, and your conscious is the illusion. Now only how to become your subconscious while you’re awake. My feeble conscious mind’s reaction’s “scary”; however I know that’s a bad thought, and better more it would be awesome to achieve.

It seems my pineal gland which had an iris, lens; etc is alive like an eye. The less I seek, the wider it becomes. It’s like an eye into my self where only by my subconscious looking out can I see it open up. Focusing on it makes it close. Allowing creativity to stimulate my mind opens it up. Your subconscious mind was tricking you all along. It was god.

I keep remembering the DMT hum. It was several different octaves of low pitched hum. Each octave had sub octaves of sound like strands. The hum was like a chorus ringing from lowest pitch to highest pitch, although the whole array of sounds of vibrating bass were differential, clearly audible, yet not interfering with each other at the same time. It sounded like somebody took their hands across a harp that emitted low pitched sound opposed to the normal high pitched sounds a harp will produce.

This whole sequence happened almost immediately after I felt like I was zooming backwards. Somehow I knew it was like I was going to blow my brains out, and after I took that toke, I felt like my brains were blown out. Like I held a pistol to my head and pulled the trigger right at my third eye as my head flew back. I remember even after being told to “hold it in” that after about 2-3 seconds of tingly ness I had to breathe out for I was so aware I was loosing track of time (counting in my head) that I had no other choice but to exhale for fear of holding it in too long.

Another recounting of the experience was the part where I was pushing through back into my senses and I described it as moving between balloons. I’m not sure it that was motor control returning, or something different, but I felt at that point I was re entering the human organism and by that I mean the normal nervous system control we all come to expect. It was more sensory nerves, however it really seemed contorted. It was like I was climbing up the spinal column snake back into my head or something. I’m just not sure to this day whether or not that was me re entering my pre conceived notions about sensory cognitive motor function, or what but it felt uncomfortable because reintegration seemed like such a natural and necessary thing, yet so contorted as though it was almost constipated.

Also I forgot to express another stage in my recounting of the experience. After that last experience the next part was where I was (to the best of my understanding) seeing I guess mandalas but to me they weren’t that. It was me perceiving through my optical nerve a kind of cross eyes blurry vision crazy colorful hallucinatory visual double eyed kaleidoscope of spatial depth distorted imagery like a bunch of rainbow glitter suspended in water, but with a definite retinal geometric imprint to it. Almost organic fractal snowflake shaped. All layers moving. Closest would move clockwise, the next counter clockwise, etc.

At this point, my breathing was starting to deepen, and with every exhale I was having a profound drawing in of the air (and information) around me in this space. It was almost like I was taking in the experiences, and memories, and lessons learned with every deep breath. This went on for about 7 breaths. Each breath was followed by a “Ok..”, “Ookayy..”, “Uh Huh..”, “Okay?” like a different word of oh my god holly #$%^ what the %^&* alright, right, and no choice but to accept this all in one “Ok” each time I exhaled.

I remember after coming out of the experience I definitely felt my subconscious mind looking over me. My shadow self was there and listening to my recounting of the experience, so I did recount it. Unfortunately nobody recorded it. I recall most of what I was going on about was advancing my consciousness; a mega integrative being; a super self, A mega construct of the over self.

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~Fin

=) Any questions or directions in how I should proceed with explaining myself would be welcome. ( I expect criticism for posting in the wrong section, but I thought this would be a fitting introduction since it was my first experience which lead me to this forum in the first place. )

I have researched DMT off your forums now for quite some time, and have several interesting notes I would like to add to the Norman's Tek as notes:

* These have authorship from several parts of your forums from several members all condensed into one. I thought showing these notes would help to show I am interested in getting a promotion some time & am willing to give back.
I would like to give full credit for my notes with humble thanks to all the members of DMT Nexus, and would welcome TOTAL CRITICISM! (Yay) For any mistakes I made in my notes.

* These notes are RAW Form, and the numbers for 5000ml is assuming I would use a 5000ml Separatory Funnel Kit, and 5000ml Erlenmeyer Flask.

----------FIRST AND FOREMOST---------


SAFETY:

I've had glass crack on me, it's not unheard of. Depending on what solvents you are using you can use Polypropylene jars (if you are using naphtha) or HDPE jars (if you are using limonene, or to contain Lye & water mixture). But the best idea is to get Lab-glass IMO and consider the following things:

i) When you are adding lye, make sure it dissolves properly. If you have lye beads stuck to your glass somewhere they could be causing heat gradients which could weaken your glass. Add the lye slowly, bit by bit and let it dissolve completely. Only when your water is clear is your lye fully dissolved.

ii) When you add the lye your water heats up. If you close the lid of the jar you will have pressure build up. At some point your glass will give way. Lab-glass like these can withstand a bit more pressure than your average canning jar, but still it is advisable to leave the lid a bit unscrewed while the water is still heating.

iii) For safety reasons it is good practice to keep your jars inside some kind of tub, sink to catch the caustic mess if it breaks.

iv) If you are working with naphtha, which is pretty volatile and you shake it, or just leave it standing over night, you will also have some pressure build up. If your glass is already weakened from the lye-induced heat gradient or for some other reason this might also be a problem, though I think points i) and ii) are more dangerous. I usually unscrew the cap after shaking to release the pressure just in case, even though I use lab glass. With limonene this isn't so much a problem.

ALWAYS WEAR GLOVES< MASK< AND GOGGLES!

LYE EATS GLASS:
http://www.youtube.com/w...list=PLB0629700AA669AFE

Always, keep extraction jars in a larger leak-proof container. That way, if the jar breaks, not only do you prevent dangerous caustic liquid from spilling all over the place, but you will probably be able to recover most of the liquid too.

Keep fire extinguisher and vinegar handy ( For Lye Burns ) at all times.

When working with Lye & water, you should keep things ventilated. ( Like evacuation hood ventilated or closest thing to it. )






Refer to:

Norman's Tek:

https://wiki.dmt-nexus.me/Noman%27s_tek


Quotes From Norman Himself:

Using heat on your last pull will increase yield.

Go into more detail about the freeze precipitation.

Partial evaporation is necessary to get the solution concentrated enough to precipitate in the fridge.

My friend, rather than metering his pH, just adds lye until the solution is slippery black and then adds 25% more.

Add more lye, warm the solution up in a sink-full of hot water, and pull a couple of times with naphtha.

More water and stirring does help.

I suggest one last long (3 days or more) pull, shaking as often as practical. Heating the jar to 50-60C also should help.

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Water Solution Advice:

Amount of Water To Add To HMRB Before Boiling.

Apply This To Below: 1.5 - 2X of the water called for will be required when using powdered bark. ~Norman.

THIS ALSO COLLABORATES THIS: ( For pre-powdered bark-Using 50mg bark batches, i had separation issues using the liquid amounts in the tek, I found that about 25% more water/lye solution seemed to solve the issue, and the solvent separated easily. )

100g's bark
100g's lye (always find myself adding more anyway) (Changed From 110g)
1.5L water (Changed From 1.8L)

60 - 100ml naphtha per pull. ??? <--??? (Changed From 50ml) (150 - 250 numbers for 5000ml ) (5000ml would have to use 235ml)

Using this logic, 100g = 100ml. We have 2000ml Separatory funnel. 1.2 base water * 1.5 = 1.8ml + 200g/200ml product = 2000ml (But we need to determine reduction for bark & lye & since we are using a 1:1:15 ratio, and since 1.2 is 80% of 1.5, then 100mg now equals 80mg, (80%), and 80x2=160 means 160ml total solid addition giving us a 40ml fault tolerance out of 2000ml of space in the separatory funnel. (Got that?) So now our numbers look like this:

80g's bark ( 200g numbers for 5000ml )
80g's lye ( 200g numbers for 5000ml )
1.8L water ( 4.5ml numbers for 5000ml )

48 - 80 ml naphtha per pull (less with ghetto fridge) (48 is for standard water usage (we're on 1.5) + fridge coldness limitations)
(So use 80ml for starters.)

"USE LESS NAPHTHA. Marsfold tek uses way too much, you have to end up evaporating at least 1/2 of it."



PH Advice:

PH should be between 11.5 - 12.5.

PH Sticks are unreliable.

Digital pH meter is best.

When your solution is jet black it's good.



Cooking Advice:

A Magnetic Stirrer / Heater will help maintain a 1% minimum yield. Stirrers require more water, but aids separation.

How long each acid cook?

"You can use a normal stainless steel pot, 3x 1hr boils should be fine. Take your vinegar/water and half it, use the first half for the first boil, then the second half- half that again, so for the second and third boil you will be using a quarter of the original amount. And use a stove not and oven. When boiling, try not to let it boil like crazy, just a few bubbles so it doesn't boil over."

30 min - 2 hours cooks in a crock pot on low-medium (or just low fire on the stove). Some people avoid boiling and only simmer, but it appears DMT salts are very stable even at boil temperatures, so there doesn't seem to be diminishing yields when boiling. Also, it's important to stir once in a while during the acid cook.

When adding NAOH ( Lye ) to water, let it cool down first before you proceed with more NAOH. This makes whiter spice.

Nexus Quote: "Keep cooking in the acid solution. I have done 5 cooks over a week and my last cook pulled out 500mgs off of 454grams. I think the 3 cooks for 3 hours is not sufficient."

"Yeah, cooking will increase your yield....if you do a cold extraction it will take longer and you will need to strain and refill with vinegar solution again, at least 3-5x. Each soak should last about a week if you want the best results. Long is actually better in this case (AFAIK). You can also do an acid soak for a week or so, and then cook in plain water 2-5x."



Mixing Advice:

Idea is combine my pulls, evaporate to +50% volume ( Or even 1/3rd volume ), then freeze.

Or, Don't use heat to evaporate:

"If you want to increase your yield significantly, reduce the amount of solvent you have. You can do this by mixing all your jars together in a shallow dish with a fan blowing across it. After a few hours crystals should start to form on the sides. Keep scraping them off and stirring them back in. When they stop redissolving, add small amounts of solvent back little by little until they do, then stick it back in a container in the freezer."



THE COUNTER ARGUMENT FOR COMBINE TECHNIQUE:

"The advantage of keeping in separate jars is because usually different pulls will result in different ratios of DMT and impurities.. Often it can happen that the later pulls are much more yellow, so people freeze separately because they can already have separated part of the yellow/white stuff. Disadvantage is having to use all these jars and then having problem scraping most of the DMT out of the jars (but then one can just use alcohol/acetone to pick it up and evaporate in a better container).

But you might not care for this if you don't feel that yellow is bad in the first place, or if you recrystallize. If you keep it all together, there is one advantage which is that with all the crystals precipitating together, its a much nicer sight, and easier to scrape Smile"


Keep the whole mix warm, add warm naphtha, and keep the basic solution warm as well.

Use a Magnetic Stirrer, or a blender set on low, Shake the acid soaking jug like crazy. Make an exercise out of it. Acid water must find its way to the DMT and make it charged and soluble.

Add your naphtha, you shake, then let separate, shake again, separate, shake again, and of course separate. Then pull the Naphtha.

More stirring and sitting == higher yields. I mix the solution every 15-20 minutes over a period of perhaps 2-3 hours on a heating plate, and usually only need 2 pulls to obtain a good measure of the alkaloids.

Naphtha not being saturated enough? How fast do you turn-mix the solution? If the naphtha raises to the top fast, (even on the later extractions) a more aggressive mixing is in order as well as waiting longer allowing it to fully separate.

Prevent emulsion by taking care mixing gently. Roll it on the carpet. 5 - 10 minutes of mixing should insure all solvent has come in contact with the solution.

Heat your pulls in the sink in hot water ( while you agitate/let settle ). Combine pulls.

Reduce naphtha after the first pull ( 100 grams of bark to 50ml naphtha ), but don't evaporate it down 50% before attempting to precipitate.



Pulling Notes:

Keel Pulling until Magic Wears Out.



Separation Notes:

You want to avoid getting water into your container you are going to freeze. This requires you separate properly, and don't allow any water to get into the product you save.

Emulsion is when naphtha doesn't go to the top, but get's stuck in the bark/water/lye mixture.



Heating Pulls Advice:

heat a pull, it's very important that you allow it to cool slowly so the crystals don't form around as many impurities. With slow crystallization, it's possible to get white/glass crystals from even very yellow solvent.

Warm/heated naphtha increases yield, but grabs more oils & gives yellow pulls. Unheated gives clear pulls. More oil means more spice.



Precipitation Advice:

If you have troubles with an inadequate freezer, don't forget to evaporate your solution (Doesn't have to be 50%, but cloudy on the surface when you blow on it) after you have pulled all the naphtha pulls and before you put it in the freezer for the first time.

If you are still having trouble getting your precipitation to crystallize, using less naphtha gets it concentrated enough to crystallize more easily except 1 - 2 more pulls are required to get all the DMT extracted.

Use 0.4 ml naphtha per gram of bark (doing heated naphtha pulls) should make every pull crystallize easily except the last.

- 20 degrees temperature is not necessary, but desired.

Make sure jar is DEFINITELY sealed tightly or your fridge will smell and your food will make you sick.

Removing Ice, and place jar in back of freezer.

If you find a clear liquid at bottom of your mason jar after freezing consider that naphtha doesn't freeze. Large masses frozen at bottom is water. If crystals are "frozen", pour naphtha through coffee filter, scrape crystals out with spatula, and put on a plate to dry. Evaporation takes weeks. Product isn't as pure.

In Case Nothing Precipitates After Freezing:

Weren't enough alkaloids to precipitate. Put everything (water too) back into the bark solution, add a little naphtha, and do the three agitations again. Separate and evaporate the naphtha down by 1/3 or1/2 or to the point where it gets cloud. Now throw it in the freezer and give it a couple of days.

Too much naphtha, or not cold enough. To compensate for an inadequate fridge, evaporate your naphtha 50% or until you see cloudy emulsion at surface. You may see crystals form while evaporating. Freeze, run through coffee filter, scrape stuff, evaporate the rest. Scrape the glass you took out of the fridge, add it to the product you scraped from coffee filter, re-precipitate it back in the fridge to freeze, repeat this over and over until nothing falls out of your mason jar. If you get slush crystals, evaporate 50% of the naphtha you get out of the mason jar, put that back into the mason jar, put it back into the freezer.

If the solvent has a fair quantity of spice in it, crystals/precipitated "slush" will form with patience.

Snow-globes only occur when the freezer is cold enough.

Evaporate naphtha quickly in a shallow dish with a fan blowing at it.

(If you have enough space in your freezer) Do the filtering in your freezer (If Space) that way no crystal has a change to melt into naphtha. Put new collection jar in small bowl. (So solvent splashes over the rim)

Carefully pour the naphtha into another container (for reuse in another pull) while turning the jar, and then quickly put the lid on and let it warm to room temperature upside down. ( No coffee filter method because it leaves crystals exposed to naphtha at room temperature so they reabsorb into naphtha )

Lid back on, back in the fridge for an hour, out of the fridge, back upside down again and let the crystals dry.

Harvest the crystals from the bottom of the container with a spatula.

Note: The little amount of floaters will redissolve and reappear in next pull anyway, so there's nothing to loose. (compared to the filter method)



Recrystallization Advice:

To wash out NAOH (Lye) Impurities, refer to:

https://www.dmt-nexus.me...s&m=10545#post10545

Crock-pots work best for hot water baths. They're also excellent for speedy partial evaporation's; I prefer to let the steam pass under the evaporation dish rather than bathing a container in the hot water, myself. You can usually find crock-pots for under twenty bucks, and it's really all you need for any sort of heat application involved in extraction.



Future Improvement Notes:

Optimize what promotes the best type of clathrate formation for delivering DMT to the naphtha solvent. A balance of conditions will create the largest forms of micro-clumps (Yield) that form like what forms in the black goo of an unfiltered solid to base Tek experiment. This has to do with how you maximize the release of the DMT from the plant material. It has to do with a mixture of temperature, PH, agitation, all going on during the initial stages.

A Brief Description of myself on the superficial stuff. I am schooled on a variety of topics, but claim to have no definitive advice for anybody going through psychological issues, although abiding by your general health guidelines, I have some good experience helping people heal through shamanistic ceremony working with tribesmen and women, shamans, energy healers, reiki practitioners, naturopathic doctors, hypnotists, worked as a trip sitter, and experienced almost every altered state imaginable good and bad. Ask Away. I would like to know where specifically I should put my time in contributing on this forum in order to assure I make the maximum contribution in hopes of some time attaining full membership / endorsement. =)

..welcome fellow nexian ...may i ask how long ago and in what set & setting your 1st experience was?
good to see more veteran voyagers manifesting out of the field...

Welcome to the Nexus

I want to read all you said but could you please break that first giant paragraph into smaller ones? Thanks!

I was in a very esoteric apartment at a friends place surrounded by good friends. They administered the spice using a copper tube packed with 5 screens, and a wick-ed mason jar pure flame. I was sitting on a couch with pillows on either side of my arms to elevate them. My friend held the pipe, and told me when to begin to draw in air. I had an understanding I was to let go of attention, sit back, and go with it. The room was completely dark (except for some slight moonlight from a skylight), and the last thing I remember my friends say was "O.k., It's O.K., You're Going To Die Now. =)" & so I knew what to expect & I did it with a subtle Mona-Lisa smile on my face. Letting myself go as I rested my head back with the intention to go into the experience to find a permanent way to access the state later on at will. It was May 17th 2011.

I am experienced with the Internet, however new to Forums. Thank you for pointing that out endlessness!
How does my first time experience contrast to the norm? More specifically unlocking a mind has tended to show (In My Opinion) the intricacies & potentials of that mind's evolution. Does my ability to articulate and recall seem out of the norm for first timers?

I edited language. I forgot I was using colorful metaphors. My apology. =) It was a "mind blowing" kind of experience. I'll be more mindful in the future.

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Care to elaborate?



I think thats a potential dangerous way to integrate. I guess you already checked the Integration part of the Health and Safety section. I think it is essential that these experiences do not create a distancing to daily life and to our "normal" mental processes and states, considering one or another state less "real".

You could even use the analogy you used before, of swiss army knife. I think we need to use the different states of consciousness as integrated tools, each one with it's own functions and range of action, none being more or less important.


Now for the tips (thanks btw!):



I dont think pH 11.5 is jetblack, and neither that there is any need for pH meters when extracting DMT from mimosa. Jetblack + some lye if you want to help prevent emulsions, and you're set.

Also if you're using naphtha you will quite possibly have very bad yields if you only had pH 11.5. Thats why you dont see anybody using sodium carb, STBs and pulling with naphtha. Maybe pulling with limo/xylene it can work, in A/B, but you will very possibly have emulsions.

High pH prevents emulsions, and helps further break down bark if you're doing STB...



Hmmm, as the quote further down in your post suggests, I think 3x boils might not be enough. I rather do more boils for shorter time. I think most DMT quickly moves into the water in boiling water but then equally reaches an equilibrium due to saturation levels of water so not much more moves out, until you pour it off and add fresh water. Id say 5x30-45min boils are good for powdered bark. If its not powdered bark, then I would say try to powder as much as possible and do longer boils.

Also remember the first step will be the bottleneck, so everything else after will depend on how thorough you were in this step.



I think this part was a bit confusing, because it is not in order of extraction, more like a collection of tips without specifying which part you are talking about. Because for example you first talk about the base pull, then about the acid phase of an A/B, then you talk about pulling again (which could make it seem like its defatting, if you take it in order with the quote before it).. Also I would say not shake, rather stir or something similar, to prevent emulsions (Even though it can be solved eventually, but Id rather avoid it, specially as tips for people extracting for first times)



Also another thing is, some of your tips contradict each other. Like the ph 11.5 vs jet black, or in this part you say shake and then later say prevent emulsions by being gentle, or the suggestion of how many times and hours to cook in acid part. And some things are repeated, like the advice to evaporate down the pulls before freezing.



I disagree with this. If you are closing the container with solvent still trapped in the crystals, and turn it upside down in room temp, you're giving it much more chance to melt. Much better ime to close and turn upside down but put it in the freezer for a couple of hours for the naphtha to drop off without melting the crystals.


Those were some of the points I noticed needed some rethinking. In any case some overall very good tips collected, thanks ). I think removing the contradictions and so on, and giving it a bit more format, we could think of a way to add this to the wiki or something? Or I thought if we could make a way that the teks have note links to different parts where users add tips and then other users can rate the tip. What do you think?

Now about you:

While you talk about your recent DMT experience, its not clear whether you have previous experiences with psychedelics, and if so, what has been your path thus far?

Are you giving oral dmt route any consideration?

Everything I am about to say is "opinion". So please excuse if my wording is out of context, or I'm using the wrong words, etc. I believe a full drug history disclosure would be more appropriate. I was exaggerating when I said every state of altered consciousness, but I'm trying! =)

To remark to "Ah Ha!" moments; I have found in integrating science and physics / meta-physics & contradictions within spirituality / science, itself, etc throughout life we all secrete DMT in our brains. I believe the neural pathways work with the plasticity of the brain, and then the mirror neutrons in a way where we don't retrace the same cortical pathways in order as a survival template driven by our natural reward system hinged upon paradoxically de-hinging our sense of presence with tactical abstraction in order that we cross analyze every thought with every possible outcome neuro-chemically in order that we keep ourselves growing our vernacular of what our consensus reality is. I believe all this happens in intelligent young minds unaccustomed toward accepting conventional wisdom, and questioning the status quot. For some of us this was hard wired into our brains by our parents at a young age. I was always finding ways to trick my brain into dumping hallucinogenic naturally occurring substances into my mind without drugs, so one could say I have been on this path for some time. I have used Marijuana since I was 14, LSD-25 once when I was 16, purple haze LSD 4 times between 16 & 17&1/2 magic mushrooms from 17 - 18, PCP laced bud was slipped to me when I was 20 & I punched the guy who gave it to me (reflex) , Salvia when I was 20, an assortment of stimulants from 21 - 25 in order to learn how to learn how to control my adrenal glands at will, DXM this year + theta wave / out of body / near death experience audio tracks in order to prepare for this DMT experience (+ a combo track I created for all 3 at the same time) , Datura this year in order to understand shamanic practices better, GHB to get my REM sleep going for 3 hours at a whack too (In order to prepare for DMT) Used Magic Mushrooms a few times last month. Used DMT recently, and just a week ago, I created a video 1.6gb AVI which is designed to release DMT in the brain. This video is by far the most trippiest thing according to anyone I have shown it to!

Oral administration I am working on. I have a few experimental concoctions my friend is working on, but we are working on getting it right. Harmaline pill + Freebase DMT pill combo. Body chemistry is different for everyone.

To expound on "subconscious is the real you, and your conscious is the illusion" comment, this was directly after doing it. I am much better now. What I think my abstraction from this distraction was trying to infer was that we use less than x% of our brains. that "X" factor of tapping the unused portion of our awareness has to do with several different factors. To go into details about this is like for me to write a book (which I may do some time) , but in short, I am integrating this experience very well & thank you for your heart felt consideration. I am not operating under that framework, however the switch gave me a very big awakening. I have found myself capable of entering into an altered state equivalent to "The Void" that Zen talks about ever since the DMT experience.

Once I procure the goods, and do an extraction I will definitely put my working notes into a proper wiki format, and post it for your communities input / consideration. =)

I ceased most all drugs a few years ago. Now I'm just down to DMT. I don't know if oral DMT will aid my plans for evolution of consciousness. Your insight into my dribbling notes is invaluable, and precious & I appreciate your thought / insight & input. Food for thought. Interactive polling of technique improvement for Teks could be invaluable, however what about the same template applied towards developing more appendages in that swiss-army knife in our brains we call spiritual preparation. I believe cognitive advancement comes part & parcel with launching a person so far in that the more you understand about consciousness the farther you "should" be able to go into making the most of your other hypnagogic experiences in deriving a sensed relationship within the sensed presence experience that carries after a DMT trip. Just as we stress emphasis the importance of setting beforehand, it makes just as much sense to stress cognitive awareness for your internal relationship with your subconscious mind. I used this protocol:

DXM + BMV - Thetawave (2nd plateau) (Sensory Deprivation lying down) <- Shadow Self Speaks.

* Wait a month

DXM + BMV - Out of Body Experience (2nd plateau) (Sensory Deprivation lying down) <- Realized This Is Real.

* Wait a Month

DXM + Ultra Meditation 5 - Near Death Experience (2nd plateau) (Sensory Deprivation lying down) <- At Peace With Past

* Wait a Month

1g GHB Before Bed Time <- Good Dreams Afterwards. (Remember Dreaming Again)

* Wait a Week

1g GHB Before Bed Time <- Lucid Dreaming Awakened.

* Wait a Week

50mg DMT Smoked (Read Experience Above...)

This caused the desired effect I was looking for to increase the connectedness between the conscious and the subconscious mind. =) When I came out of the DMT experience I was talking out loud like I was in the process of making an agreement with my higher mind & to me it sounded like my higher mind self speaking. A side of myself I only ever experienced on my first DXM experience where I could answer anybody's question with 100% recall of every spiritual insight I had ever experienced.

My path with psychedelics is to (In Real Life) research, integrate, grow, pattern over irrelevant information, expand, contract, apply, adapt, forget, concentrate, relax, (All in various order) then sparingly when I feel I have enough subconscious epiphanies built up, or I know I have some serious psychological adaptations I intend to pattern throughout, I go for it. Psychedelics are there in my path to learn more about how to pattern my consciousness more so into the collective subconscious in such a way that synchronicity can prove to me (beyond a shadow of a doubt) that I'm onto something that is (Service to others) positive towards how I serve humanity as a whole in so far as I can in advancement of being, doing, knowing; creating. The ultimate goal being (As Lofty / Unattainable As This Sounds) to assist towards the creation of a shared consciousness grid between myself and my closest friends (At First) & then hopefully to stimulate such awakening to the world! =)

Here's something personal I can share with you I believe would normally belong in the "Music/Art/Literature" section, but I cannot post there.

I offer this in hopes you can better understand me as an Introduction towards what I have to contribute:

A Poem I Wrote:

Finally. Now. This is it I Hope. Alright.
Down. Down deeper. Deeper down.
Inside your sub lower subconscious.
Behind the world's eyes for the world does not see.
Their lies a creature within thee.
A creature older than time, and older than fate.
Older than trust and older than lust, and older than love.
The getting of it all; The Divine Being.
A creature that knows beforehand that it would never succeed without this; This precipice of mind.
This being; This knowledge. Yes... It goes.
You'll also knows. The blacken stricken death. Faith in death.
A light love in correspondence with true laws of nature in being as now one.
The self; the universe. Eternally leave forever more.
The blacken stricken by it's own weight held down; down deeper. Deeper down still.
You search for it. Remember by it's name it's true character; the purity.
You're trying too hard. Time to relax. Feel when you touch, and touch what you taste.
Don't take very much more. Synesthesia deeper inside your consciousness; you're underlying mind.
Know this while away. This weirding way is the only power. It is within you. It is within all of us.
This alive and divine spirit; life. It is life that leads. By example. Willpower. Grace. Desolate Nature.
All these things we must reflect and destroy. To be reborn by the purity and beauty and youth. This soul.
The world. It all; but of points of light. From emptiness there is no decay. In the blackness there is only one.
Which is without abstaining light. Pure crystal light. Draws in us all. And yet, I'm sad the rotation; the depths; spiraling emptiness.
That is the forgetfulness. There's remembrance within our self. Our true divine nature. That which dwells beyond the mortal frame.

I have happy ones too if you like! =)