ive consumed san pedro for a few years now, ayahuasca a year less, shrooms a year longer, cannabis a year before shrooms, and in a year; pure life. (this document is under revision)

i decided that my regular foot cutting of achuma (trichocereus bridgesii) was no longer delivering the entheogenic experience i desired, so i tried to prepare it many many many different ways. now, i know the prescription. here it is:
1 foot. an arms length (from elbow to wrist), this is the initiary dose. understanding comes from this.

2 feet. an arms full (both arms worth of cacti), this is a personally discovering and cathartic experience, healing of your light field comes from this.


3 feet. a full dose (your head will become godly and you will merge with the spirit entirely, to your genetic capacity) you become the sun, and illuminate and dissolve the sources of misunderstanding to yield pure joy, life!

this prescription applies to genetically limited specimens, ie dont think 3 feet of macrogonus is an acceptable step up from 2 feet of predominant cultivar pachanoi. in laymans terms, the variation between the differnt cacti we identify (peruvianus, achuma, san pedro, etc) can be vast, and most vast when the increase of a foot is added. its important to know how of an experience youre seeking, because when it comes to the power of this and other plants, one must respect safe and incremental dosages when going beyond initiation. if like me you know a foot of achuma, try two. know two and find others to know two, and if its prescribed to you as it was me then try three, or find me so i may try three for us. but for now im starting to taste a foot of peruvianus and macrogonus before questioning whether i should do two feet feet of either or one of each, or some mix of achuma and those two. im going to know each level, and not get ahead of myself. going to far too fast can ultimately lead to experiencing a slower progression towards truth, dont get let yourse lf get scared into disowning the entheogenic experience, know the fear and taste it but dont dose to the point you cannot handle the immensity of it because youve breached your limits.

this is an understanding that during my first two foot experience, i gained.

i planned to eat only 15 grams (a foot and a half, something i had done once or twice before). generally when working with doses over a foot, i had done days of preparation and pre dosing to push my limits gently, as at the time i was damaged from overexperiencing esoteric forces and not being able to intergrate them properly.
instead i found that after the previous trip when i ate only a foot with my long lost love from grade school that when prepared the way i do (expand) there is no nausea. lay on your back with your head propped up and if desired knees flexed (trendelembourghs position), laying on your side should only be attempted sparingly until your solarplexus begins to tighten and you can flex it too. standing and sitting upright should be done at the beggining and at the end, as a meditative and grounding position.
pray, to the earth, to the sky, to the wind, and to the water. prediet with water/tea a day in advance (if absolutely necessary for blood sugar, drink fruit juice without pulp) spend that day without the tv on, without your ipod in, dont turn your phone on. instead go for a walk, draw, write, dance, sing, play with children, play with adults, tickle elmo, tackle elmos (just kidding only love guys, k!), whatever.
find you a cactus on this day (youll probably need to have ordered a few in advance to give yourself a selection)
heres a few of my selections as i demonstrate the best way to prepare this plant teacher

the spines on these achuma were clipped for shipping
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you pick you dose, it picks you, once youve found each other prepare an area with materials youll need to continue this preparation.
a sharp small knife, a larger unserrated blade, a cutting board, 3 plates

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the smaller knife is for despining, a technique that will be arduous at first, especially if the cacti hasnt already had it spines clipped. if you have the opportunity take a few unclipped spines for an effigee later, it will carry the soul of your experience in it, just let it.

start by taking your small knife and holding it like a pen, careful now, dont cut yourself... or anyone else! your square that you cut around each aeriol (base of the spines) should not exceed a square centimeter, but it can if necessary, and dosent need to all the time.
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once you complete the square simply pop or pull the cube out, it dosent require much effort if youve cut the square completely

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finish cutting all the holes neccessary place all the removed green products on a plate for tea
slice the thinnest layer off the bottom of the cacti to just barely remove any rusting (pre rot),rot, and the callous. the bottom of the cacti has higher amounts of the experience yielding alkaloids. so slice it sparingly.
(typically i do thsi step first as well as remove the tip, because i already know at what part to cut)

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its time to get a green thumb!
thats why you should grow your thumb and index finger nails, like this guy

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once you get to the tip, youll notice smaller and smaller skin patches being removed, this is because this is the newest area of growth, the skin is thinner and not as strong, as well as the vegetable not being as saturated as the base is in alkaloids, you may peel or cut it off. you can cut it off at 5 inches to have a tip cutting with the potential for full rooting and the opportunity to regrow what you will soon consume. if not you may add it to the spines and erroneous green tissue youve collected on a plate
the only real way to get the outter paraphin like skin off is to peel it from the bottom up delicately with your thumnail, youll see why the exactness of your despining cuts are relevant.

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keep peeling until its all off, this will be the hardest to do carefully as your nails may hurt and no tool may be used, not only is it totally insulting to the plant to not do it this way, but its wasteful and unefficient.
this is how it should look


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because of its flaccidness, it is prone to breaking now, cut your foot in half or thirds for easier handling



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place a flat end down on your cutting board, so that your half or third is vertical. take an unserrated blade and place it about 5 mm from the exterior of the star youll be looking at, essentially you want the outside green layer with an evanescent amount of whitish core that shouldnt ever be more opaque than translucent. slide your blade down each side of a rib (the point of the star)



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now repeat the other side of the valley


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slice down connecting the first inciscion and separating the green from the white
use your finger to remove the flesh entirely

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repeat this until the cobs are naked


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almost done, you should have a plate of green flesh, a plate of cobs, spines, and a tip, and a plate of skins. or atleast piles like me rock on!
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now you have green thumbs!

you may take the waxy skins and pour alcohol on it to set it ablaze ceremoniously later or bury it.
everything but the outter skin you burned or burried is active, so dont waste any, thats why weve saved everything but the green flesh strips and wax skin separately. they can be cooked in water or alcohol to a simmer at most (heat isnt necessary its just a catalyst that can potentially destroy active alkaloids, so use heat very carefully)
slice the core with a knife into quater inch stars or quater inch sticks for tea.
to make sure my spiney core tea (the chopped tip aswell if you arent going to grow or deyhdrate it) dosent ever exceed boiling, i use a crock pot, and in this picture the crock pot is being used as a double boiler to heat a jug of cores n spines in fumaric acid saturated ethanol alcohol. the alcohol is a great solvent for cactus, 151 and everclear can work wonders. the fumaric acid is foodsafe and is to bind any loose alkaloids into a safe salt form.

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the alcohol and acid can be simplified with a squeezed lime and enough water to cover the plant material of focus. leave on low for 12 hours, drain the tea and set it up to begin evaporation on low heat with air flow ( a fan works well ). freeze the pulp after its drained a bit more, this way it freeze faster having less hot liquid to fight the desired solidification. because water explands 11 percent when frozen we will utilize it to explode the completely soaked cactus stars. the cell walls will burst letting more alkaloids dissolve into the solution; the tea.
once they are frozen hard repeat the brewing and freezing until you have 3 pots of tea and potentially now non bitter stars (the alkaloids are bitter)
discard the core the same way you did the waxy skin, burned or burried. while you are working on the tea find either a low heat dehydrator or window fan to dry the green flesh youve harvested. if you are using a fan youll want a grate like cover to set the flesh on long ways, keeping in mind it will shrink when it dries and stick to whatever it is touching. you may also slice slits for increased surface area to expidite dehydration.

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have the fan propped upisde down with the intake facing up. be careful to let the air flow and not stifle the exhuast as it will harm the fan and not dry your cactus as fast. i use 2 chairs to set the fan between.

the green flesh must be dried within a day or it begins to rust, it can be done in the sun on a plate if your tribal as fuck. but it must be agitated and moved to not let it emulsify into (still active) decomposing pulp

once your teas are combined, they may be either simply reduced to 200 ml per foot or let air dry from the 200 ml (again becare with heat, use it indirectly when dealing with higher concentrations to avoid a massive loss of product) to a taffy brown resin, as it is known. its water soluable and totally safe to scarf. roll the resin into small globs and swallow as pills an hour after the dehydrated flesh is consumed for best effects.
heres a picture of resin made with fumaric acid and 151

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this skull was found in hydrochlorate salt, it says "hello, eating me is participating in death"


leave the fan on high until the flesh is totally powderable. collect it and clean up shop. you dont want to be found with all of this going on.

chemistry is logic and knowlegde, it can be dangerous and unnessary. it is a great responsibility to work with these plants, the mind, and chemicals. if you are going to do so, do so safely, and legitimately as possible.
the idea of extraction is simple, just like tea. infact it starts off by making tea. get that 200 ml of tea from your cores if you want to play the bilayer game. the dehydrated flesh is too good of a product to ever be used in anyway but as food, it is rich in antibacterial agents and cleans your GI tract like no bodies business.
always in glass if possible, or hdpe 2 plastics (milk jugs and vinegar containers and other plastics have a label this label on the bottom with a recycle triangle)
you will bassify this tea (it has citric acid from the lime and will need more base than if you hadnt added the lime, but the lime will yield more if used) with calcium hydroxide. this can be found at garden stores, it is known as pickling lime or hydrated lime, it is non-toxic.
i reccommend a digital calibrated ph meter but it isnt necessary if you have papers or some experience doing this. you want the ph to rise to 13 to break all salt bases the phenythylamines are bound in, freebasing the alkaloids.
add 200 ml of orange oil, a food safe solvent and household cleaning agent. this will capture the freebase oils floating through the basic layer (this is called pulling, or washing), the aqueous phase. shake vigorously allow to settle, if an emulsion occurs (bubbles that wont go into either layer) set the vessel on the washer/dryer to vibrate the surface tension to release, heat can be added via double boiler to help settle emulsions. swirling instead of shaking helps, so if youre using a bottle, roll it around carefully on a rug. if youre using a clean milk jug, the next step gets easier
remove the orange oil from the bassified tea by making a separatory funnel (something that is a precurser to drug production and shouldnt ever be found by men wearing badges) from an hdpe 2 milk jug. wash it out with hot soap water, then wash with distilled vinegar, then water again. add your bilayer solution to jug if it isnt already in it and let separate. poke small with scissors in the bottom corner of the container once the bilayer has totally separated, let the basic layer drain entirely. pour your orange oil into a new hdpe 2 container (its like 2 dollars for milk, dont be that frugal)
use another 200 ml of orange oil on the bassified tea again, collect the same way and add to the first 200 ml of orangle oil that was previously separated. repeat this once more to have 600 ml of orange oil. discard the bassified tea, it is worthless now.
add 50 ml of distilled white vinegar (5 percent acetic acid) to your orange oil. mix it thoroughly to bind the freebase alkaloids in acetic salt. separate most of the orange oil off by pouring it or devising another funnel. repeat the vinegar mixing with another 50 ml (this is called salting) and collect the same way, you may notice a decrease in cloudiness each 50 ml you add, this is because you are collecting less and less freebases in the salt and should either remix to increase the saturation or be done with it as the orange oil (solvent) is exhuasted. you may combine all vinegar saltings and orange oil after 3 salts, and reshake, if the vinegar (the aqueous phase) dosent become white/more opaque then you are done with the orange oil and it can be saved for repeated and later use.
totally separate the orange oil from the vinegar in a tall skinny container (this makes for less loss of oil less vinegar because the volume must be vertical instead of horizontally covering the bilayer surface) pipette the vinegar onto a clean pyrex pie dish. put the pie dish under the fan that youve constructed to dehydrate the green flesh to dry. you may additionally make anhydrous magnesium sulphate from epsom salts to use as a dessicant (drying agent) in a sealed envioronment to further and undustilly dry your acetic salt.
to make mgso4 put epsom salts on a clean baking pan, put oven on 400 for 2 hours. this removes all water from the salts and charges them to vaccum moisture from their surroundings, put the mgso4 in a mason jar and seal it for later use. it can be rebaked to re active it as a dessicant
once your salts are dry they are ready for use as a crude and safe non toxic and pretty un sketch product. you may choose to further clean your product by rebassify the salts in a solution and repeating all the chemistry, or you may choose to use acetone and methylethylketone (MEK) to wash your crystals further for aesthetic purposes, or to isolate a specific alkaloid in the nearly full spectrum acetic salts that were just gained. i dont advise acetone or MEK. i dont advise this or the capacity for what im about to explain.
carbonic acid, found in soda water, can act as a salt aswell. there is a method known as "gassing" to aquire a salt, this is when the gas of a chemical reaction or vaporization of a salt is done in a way so that it bubbles through a solution saturated with the desired alkaloids, then salts precipitate, once the freebase is consumed the soda will start to become carbonated as it must go somewhere and cannot be used by the alkaloids as they have reached maximum precipitation. so extra carbonated soda water should be aquired or made (rather) for the concept of "soda" to be achieved. if palletable its potentially apt for devious dosing. if made into a mixed alcholic drink, the perfect anti alcholic medication in its most ironic vessel, booze.
with the idea of drinks in mind, id like to share a thought: medical beer. like absinthe was a medicine and culturalized into a psuedo meditiative act of preparation, drink, and experience. these beers can be too. if a patient were to be diagnosed with an ailment known to be treated by a safe botanical then a beer could be made with that botanical just like rootbeer and the slight alcoholic byproduct of the ale yeast further extracts the plant mashe the beer was made from. ill mention that coca cola is potentially the most well known soda and the fact that the culture that spawned it demonizes psychoactives such as coca and cola, but secretly im sure many americans do a lot of blow. personally i wont, i respect coca too much and i barely know it. an immidiate reason to not do cocaine is because you have no idea what you are doing.
what is that powder you are putting in your body? what was that roll pill made of? did the makers use safe and clean methods to produce this for safe human consumption? NO
dont be ignorant, know what you are doing, dont trust drug dealors they are monkeys with egos to financially support. trust the plants you grow with safe supplies, be knowledgable of innebriations and safety relevant to them, especially if you are to undertake them.
Salvia mace is a great weapon to fight riot cops with, psychedelic judo flip. medical beer is a pet project of mine.

i apologize for my lack of technical knowledge, perhaps someone could clean up this thread for me...

additionally you may be wondering what the dehydrated flesh's next step is, and it is eat it.
i prefer to powder it in a coffee grinder at 1 gram of water per 7 grams of powder. make a paste ball
get a grapefruit soda (izze makes them) and flush the appropriately sized gooballs down your gullet tastefully


enjoy, glad i could share

I really enjoy your enthusiasm for achuma and it has been a great help

I just got into cactus, and ordered a bunch of achuma cuttings. Very nice and very thorough write up, thanks my friend this info will come in handy when i prepare my cactus.

I need clarification on a few things, again im new to cactus, so forgive what im not understanding, but i thought that that waxy filmy outer skin was good stuff and you wanted to keep and use it? or is this not the case?

Also i had heard that the core contains nothing, and is often discarded.... Im just wondering when you make your resin with the spines and the core, have you ever taken that resin without cactus skin and is it active on its own? Im just trying to figure out if it would be beneficial for me to use the core/spines.

So you just powder and eat the skins... how would you say this compares to using a tea? Im talking mostly about the body load/effects, because the 1 time i did try to drink cactus, i vomitted pretty early in, still had a good expereince, but i would like to be able to hold it down longer expecially since mesc. takes a while to come on.

Any advice you could give me about the method of prep that will help me keep it down the longest would be appreciated.

Thanks for the write up, great thread.

No the waxy outer film is what you discard generally. It is the layer just under the waxy skin that has the most alkaloids. The inner white flesh to the core does contain some alkaloids and many vouch for using the whole cactus and others see it as unneccessary mass added to their extractions/teas from my understanding. You can read mews recommendation for eating achuma in this thread, post #13 https://www.dmt-nexus.me...aspx?g=posts&t=27367

I have never done a tea, but I have done resin, other crudish extracts, and raw cacti and all of them mess up my stomach pretty bad, so I have been opting for mescaline acetate extractions as of late.

thanks cave paintings

You're welcome friend

it has been too long since ive seen this thread!
first off let me update with what seems mentionable


NEVER ORDER PROCESSED CACTI, YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE TO ITS DEMISE



since this document was written i have known three feet and it was exactly as this prescription describes, total entheogenisis



additionally, i have gone away from chemical isolation entirely as i have learned what exactly a gram of alkaloids isolated and cleaned is like vs the exact amount of powdered cacti's alkaloid content. the un extracted flesh is by far a more "Primal" experience even in lower dosages.

- avoid teas if at all possible, they are THE most unpleasant method of ingestion, and typically the hardest way to extract isolated salt

your priority list for experiencing cacti should be as follows:

1 know a foot of achuma after dieting all day (no carbs) and take at sundown in a safe quiet place
1b know your limits with flesh (most likely between 2-3 feet, i have known a foot to be overwhelming for a few though)
2 if you must endanger yourself, do so safely and as practical as possible. which means, dont extract tea, it is a mess to let separate when pulling, the flesh powdered and mixed with bass THEN hydrated slightly then pulled is the best method of extracting cacti by far.
2b always clean your product with dry filtered acetone if you arent using 100 percent food safe non toxic reagants, this means orange oil, vinegar, and pickling lime.

notes on achuma

- foot typically has 700 mg mesc alakloids (after being cleaned twice)
- the core is typically 1% active by dry weight (its still not worth the fuss)
-when despining one can work more effeciently by slicing a "v" notch with two cuts, undercutting the base of the ariole
-a dehydrator is highly recommended and for the price (30-50 usd) is totally worth the investment as it dries thoroughly, quickly
-always abstain from drugs food and sugary drinks the day of during your fast, ingest at sunset, breakfast at sunrise, integrate
-respect the cacti as a teacher and give it the attention it deserves by not squandering such an experience by idly chatting or doing day to day activities (recently i used ear plugs in a dark room and 4 hours into it i was listening to the most beautiful music oriented around my breathing)

synergies
-calea zacatechichi has been the favorite admixture plant for achuma ive known. like cannabis it deepens and seems to "launch" the experience, minus paranoia and grogginess. each time i use a calea resin i make by simple ethanol washes and evaporation. during my experiences ill take up to a half gram of the resin orally between 2-3 hours deep and 10 minutes later im noticably more thoughtful and dreamy with a splash of awe
-datura/brugmansia should only be used in small amounts, less than one would take alone, as is with any atropine type chemical be VERY familiar with your plant before ingesting, especially in conjunction with a psychedelic. however given the serious medical hazard, it is still a very powerful admixture that effectively "pushes" one into a dreamstate.
-hawaiin baby woodrose are potent enough that they dont need extracting on and have remarkable effects in conjunction with achuma. there is some theory that achuma contains maois, this i dont know, but i do know that adding HBWR to achuma is an entirely different experience altogether. this morphs the experience into something much more visual as if the tryptamine (lsa) is the light and achuma the force (comparable to ayahuascas force and light) i have had very unique experience with lsa and cactus including reliving (vividly) dreams.

other notes on synergies
-mxe removes the profound depths one is able to achieve and yields a narcotic high unsuitable for those pursuing entheogenics
-jwh's intensify the experience but the cactus makes its unappreciation apparent if you smoke too much, the experience becomes auditorily baffling, like tongues spitting syllables at an impossible rate all the while revolving upon thier axis, visually your immediate surroundings give way to dark psychedelic dissolution only worsened by the barage of insane chatter you seem to have in your head.
-alcohol also removes the profound depths of the experience, but is useful in calming an initiate (avoid beer as it dosent have a high enough content to make the subsequent stomach issues worthwhile) if used sparingly it can be useful, just dont consume more than NEEDed, for the most part you dont need it.

esoteric notes

prediet the day before, day after, and day of with water. flush yourself and hydrate entirely, meditate on each sip and visualize its renewing effects on stagnant energies you wish to dispel. abstain atleast an hour before ingestion and 5 hours after
give thanks to water for its polarizing property and vital role in life, recognize that the water outside your body will pass through you and carry the energies of the universe. choose to emit positive energy, especially in communion with water.

always have faith in the medicine, in nature, NOT your ability to survive

if you fear you are being overwhelmed negatively, breath deeply in and blow audibly outward, place your energy around you and experience it as a buffer to chaotic frequencies

your voice is like your breath, project vibrations of your being if you feel like you are sliding uncontrollably into a dark place (rarely with achuma). do simple "ohm"s and experience your sound as a testament to your existence, alow yourself to recenter and attempt to dissolve into a place of peaceful understanding

break your fast with a single piece of fruit, eat no meat that day, always avoid fried/salty foods and sugar saturated drinks

more esoteric notes

be totally calm and relaxed before ingestion, solve all problems that you may consider before participating in achuma. pretend like you are about to die, talk with those you love and work out your issues with acceptance and love. let this experience bring its own concepts instead of a psychedelic perspective on your normal life.

when starting to eat the flesh i like to smell a bottle of agua florida and blow on the open bottle making a whistling sound, sometimes i play a little song and think about the purity of the medicine im about to reunite with. i shake my shipibo style rattle and say a quiet prayer with this perfume tune carrying my intentions to the medicine that is yet to enter me.

always plan on remaining imobile once you eat of the flesh until sun up, so set up things you might want near you (flashlight, water bottle, extra blanket, etc)

let other become aware of who you are, because who you are is a reflection of the medicine, and this medicine is not meant to be clandestine, but it is meant to be used thoughtfully. if you find yourself experienced you will most likely find yourself overjoyed to share this magic with such a sad world, just let individuals come to you and dont be hasty to drug them. use a bit of coyote teaching and bait them with concepts/literature/art and test to see if they are in the right place for you to be introducing them to this (or any) medicines. there is no rush, ever. take your sweet time and appreciate the value of patience and perfect timing, especially in the context of intent building for an entheogen.

never sell any processed entheogen, money is not a reason to deny an experience, thats not to say you supply the world freely, teach them to find their own medicines.

Sorry i don't understand. Are you saying just east the cactus flesh since it's got all the Alkaloids rather than make a resin?

Surely it's best to blitz the green and white flesh and eat this on an empty stomach. Yes or no??

yes i am saying resin is an unnecessary innovation as it tends to only be around 2x anyway, if you make the paste balls you 1) save time 2) are gaurunteed to ingest all alkaloids

the green flesh should be dehydrated and powdered, rehydrated immediately before ingestion and swallowed with minimal fluid
^ this method is superior to tea, resin, and xtals IMHO and i stress that i am not ignorant of other methods of preparation but have come to trust and appreciate this paste ball technique

always on an empty stomach fast atleast 12 hours, typically eat a light dinner the night before then fast all morning the day of and ingest at sundown. so yes your stomach will be totally empty and your blood sugar hopefully hypoglycemic (which has a potentiating effect when it comes to this phenylthylamine, as i have read and experienced)

the white inner layer (with or without core) is discarded or used in some other method, but i advise not participating in ingesting the white/core as it has been found to be mostly emetic, furthermore it dilutes the concentration that the isolated green flesh has to offer.

Thank you.

my preference regarding how to eat the cactus is simple

a foot equates to ~10 grams dried outer green flesh...
these 10 grams have about 700 mg mesc/alkaloids ( t bridgesii )

1 foot is a good place to start
1.5 feet is a good entry level understanding of the spirit
2 feet is self healing and learning the language of the spirit
3 feet is total entheogenisis

to acquire this

1. de-spine
2. de-skin
3. collect the outer 4-5mm of green flesh (i find the core/white area to emetic)
4. dry these green flesh "filets" without/low heat (never above 150, from my experience) or dehydrate
5. powder the dried filets
6. rehydrate the powdered filets with minimal water, just enough to make paste balls the size of marbles
7. having fasted for ~18 hours, without any sugar intake!, and it the time of day being sunset, ingest the desired amount of these malleable- mescal- marble- globs, by flushing them down your throat with minimal calorie free liquid (no more than 6oz for any dose, more liquid increases emetic possibility and reduces absorption)
8. lay down / be seated for 2 hours until you can A. burp comfortably and B. flex your abdomen safely/do a few sit ups (this is to make sure you've ingested it enough so the alkaloids are absorbed and they overpower the nausea of the eating the flesh) if you feel a purge, sit/ lay down on your back and let it pass. ( i urge not to purge, unless you feel called to, not weak and have no other choice )
9. commune with water (ie take a shower or bath SAFELY), use this time to meditate and focus on your body and how you feel)
10. cloth comfortably and have a place ready that can easily be used to trance/snooze if the effects become strong enough
11. do not eat until after the sun rises/ do not drink until the sun rises (unless you feel called to do so, but make sure its around 5 hours in to avoid purging)
12. spend the rest of the day after to integrate your experience and have light snacks available such as fruit and grains to break your fast
13. be sure to apply your newfound understanding to your daily life in such a way others can see that you are a beacon of truth and love
14. remember to not fear the experience nor fear sharing the experience with others, however always exercise caution as to not endanger yourself/others or the opportunity to commune with the spirit of the Achuma.
15. I LOVE YOU