This question has probably been asked before but I couldn't find a thread with this title so..

What is your favourite entheogen and why? Is it DMT, (changa, freebased, pharma, Ayha etc)? Is it mushrooms, Salvia, iboga, soma, peyote, bufotenine, Datura, cannabis, ethanol, ergine, psilocybe mushrooms or somthing else?

Please mention what particular characteristic it is you like most about your chosen substance as well as which other substances/methods swiy has compared it against.

Salvia. I had some entheogenic experiences with mushrooms and LSD before I found Salvia, but it was Salvia that really truly changed me. Made me see things differently.

Mushrooms are a close second, and DMT is becoming a close third. I enjoy Salvia the most because of it's ease of use, the short duration, and I've found it more agreeable than DMT so far. Now, people are going to find that strange, but each to his own, right? Mushrooms I would love if they had a shorter duration and I could do them more often. Same with Ayahuasca. It's changa that I've been really enjoying lately, which is again, much shorter in duration than aya. Makes it easier for me to work with it more often.

I like a good long trip as much as anyone else, but because I have to work all the time, I can't be doing that too often. Going to work while still in an afterglow isn't a good idea (especially when you work in a busy kitchen).

My Favorite ethnoegen would have to be Mushrooms, i dont really know what i can tell what i like about em maybe the great feeling of cleansing after the trip, all i know is they have been my preference and my favorite to take especially when i take them and voyage in the woods.

One day me and a few friends had actually made a hut deep in the woods just to have when we are under the influence, and it was a great spot, maybe like 5 10 mins into the woods. I Does not look very large but i remember being there at night with a fire, and once you lay down inside and looked up, it became this this really large feeling hut.

We had a great camp out one night, nothing better than being surrounded by nature.

Thank you for that Dioxippus. I really didn't think anyone was going to choose salvia, certainly not anyone who had tried mushrooms or dmt! Now that was pure prejudice on my part as I've never actually tried salvia but it gets such a bad rap for it's supposed "darkness" and "savagery" that I wasn't in any hurry to. After your recommendation Swim might be more open to the idea of trying salvia in the future.

DoctorMantus, you didn't mention if you have taken any other entheogen(s) to compare against the mushroom experience. Is there something particular about mushrooms that make you feel more in tune with nature when you trip on them?

Cool hut btw.

If I had to pick one single substance as my favorite it would have to be smoked DMT, but my favorite entheogenic experiences lie in the synergistic combinations. I can't decide which one I like more: LSD + smoked DMT or Oral DMT + smoked DMT.

I guess I'll start saying why I picked DMT as my singular favorite. It has simply taken me to places and granted me certain abilities that no other entheogen on its own has done for me. It seems to have the strongest prevalence of what I refer to as "significant hallucinations". This isn't to say that other kinds of hallucinations might not even be more important, but to me, significant hallucinations are those which represent something in the real world such as a horse or the human figure or a bedroom with toys on the floor and books on the bookcase. Even though they still seem to be made of energy and light, they still seem to be highly representative. With smoked DMT, you don't have to sign up for the long haul (even though many times I would like to), and it can be a rather quick and effective way of hitting the reset button. I'm sure I'm leaving many reasons out, but let's move on.

Smoking DMT at the peak of an LSD experience results in the following qualities of experience for me: angelic, celestial, heavenly, loving, pure, magical, sacred and intrinsically detailed. For me, the LSD experience comes with many bumps in the road, and DMT smooths these out like it's nobody's business. All the body load, odd feelings, back pain just fade away for a few minutes (about as long as a normal DMT trip) as I'm swept away into beautiful celestial landscapes, but even though the experiences can have a very deep profundity about them, I'm allowed the opportunity of being a joyous observer with no fear or negativity of any kind that might accompany either DMT or LSD when taken by themselves. It can be such a soul cleanser that if I had the balls to take MAOIs, take LSD and then smoke DMT so that the DMT experience would last longer and there would be all kinds of synergy, that I can only long to imagine what kind of experience that might result in (and perhaps, I'll gather the cojones to do just that since I haven't really felt much fear before going into an experience in a while, and it just so much intrigues me). Unfortunately, as the DMT effects wear off right on time, I can feel the body load and little nooks and crannies of the LSD trip creep back in as the experience is "dulled" down to wherever I left off from before smoking the DMT.

Now oral DMT + smoked DMT is a completely different animal. It's physically incapacitating in the same way shooting a small man in the ass with elephant tranquilizer probably would be yet as mentally and spiritually stimulating as much as I don't believe a comparison exists that can be made to accurately reflect just how grand and magnificent the experience can really be. It may not always be the easiest experience, but it's brought about "long-lasting" euphoria magnitudes beyond what I've thought were possible within the human capacity (even with drugs or religious ecstasy). From a white light experience encounter with the godhead to the inside of elfin factories to Egyptian pyramid societies to rapture in golden holographic honey combs, this combination easily takes me further than anything or any other combination of things, hands down. When you can overload your system with that much DMT, ineffable and seemingly impossible things can take place, even by my frequent DMT smoker standards allow. Both a pro and con of this setup for me is that the first set of hits are easily enough to have me running for the bathroom for some of the most gut wrenching pukes of my life. This is quite difficult being as I mentioned the physically incapacitating qualities of the experience sort of make it difficult to get up and move (but luckily I've always made it, if only by half a step), but on the bright side, usually after this puke whether I've puked before or not, is enough to rid myself of the nausea for the duration of the trip because this purge is usually the mother of all mothers where virtually nothing can be left in the digestive tract to make one nauseous. From there out, smoking more DMT throughout the rest of the MAO inhibition is usually smoother with no nausea complications of any kind. Obviously the long duration allows for better integration with greater memory recall and a greater window of time with which to experiment with open-eyed energies and music and whatever it is from the experience I'm trying to explore.

I have tried other ethneogens, i have taken lsd, enjoy it but feels like its to predictable, have done salvia a few times had one intesne looping experience where i beleived i was dead, so i have not gone back to salvia. DMT i like but have not come to full terms yet i do that like once every 8 months.

Idk why mushrooms are my favorite they just are, i feel in complete totality on them with everything, not that other ethneos make you feel this way, i just love the mushroom journey out of all of them.

psilocybe mushrooms and ayahuasca/harmala and mimosa brews.

LSDMT completed me.

I could never pick a favourite. They all serve different purposes and have different places in my life. But if I rephrase the question to "If you could only do one entheogen for the rest of your life, which would it be?", I would have to say mushrooms with LSD as a close second.

I have had the most mystical and magical of experiences with LSD, but its duration is a turnoff, and it is more predictable then alot of entheogens. Whereas mushrooms are a perfect duration, and they have always left me feeling blissful and enlightened. They just have a guiding nature to them, but LSD it is more you in control of the experience which leaves you more responsible for your wellbeing. It`s kind of like driving the car versus guiding the driver from the pasenger seat, mushrooms being the latter.

Ah mushrooms.

Yes!

DoctorMantus, that is an awesome pic. I probably have treehouse envy because I never had one as a kid, LOL.

Thanks for the detailed account Global. Swim is definitely going to try vaping some DMT with his good wooden VG on his next pharma trip! Taking some anti-nausea tablets or some grated ginger might be an idea too.

So far 3 out of 6 people (Global, ۩ and Ice House) have rated LSD+vaped/smoked DMT as their first choice. ۩ and Ice House have not really explained why or what they are comparing it to, though in the case of ۩ swim is assuming it is to everything .

LSD is not available to Swim as he'd have to buy it on the street and he's not willing to do that. So in that case swim supposes the next closest thing would be an anti-nausea preparation + pharma + Vaped DMT.

Opinions?

Thanks FE, but do you mean swiy takes all 3 of those at the same time or individually in that order of preference or that swiy likes all three equally? If the latter I'd really like you to choose one that you think is the best or as Xemnas phrased it "If you could only do one entheogen for the rest of your life, which would it be?"

id say all three.

Well tadgh78, the obvious thing to say would be that if you`re seeking LSD the only experience that will be like it is LSD. If it is unavailable to you, why not try LSA or LSH? I have never done either myself, nor do I know much about them, but I have heard people say that if prepared properly it can be very similar to if not undestinguishable from LSD. I'm not sure about it in combination with DMT though. Perhaps someone with more knowledge on the matter can chime in.

i don't know about a favorite but if i could only commune with one psychedelic ally for the rest of my life it would be ayahuasca

especially since that's such a broad thing! chacruna brews, chali, mimosa, caapi, ect

sorry if that bends your criteria

Not to worry. All those brews share a couple things in common. They all are extremely intense and cause nausea and are not exactly convenient to make. The fact that you would still pick them as your favorites tells me something. Whether it tells me more about you or them I'm not sure.

Have you ever drank a cup of caapi, around 50g, by itself ? I never get nauseous at all when I dose this way. It's real great to drink before smoked DMT, and even on top of a dose of LSD, as the vasodilating effects of the harmalas in the ayahausca counter the vasoconstricting effects from the LSD making a really wonderful synergy. But beware! Only combine harmalas + LSD if you are 100% sure your LSD is what it is! You could run into problems mixing harmalas and unknown chemicals.

Because I was only vaguely aware of their existence, let alone the fact that they can be extracted at home. Thanks a mil!