Greetings fellow Earthlings,

I've been stone cold sober for 8 weeks now. I quit smoking, alcohol, eating meat, and I hope this doesn't scare you off....but I also cold turkey quit a nasty heroin habit. I didn't start off shooting dope obviously, but my seeker ways regrettably found its way to the opiates. After being so sick and tired of the person I had become, I tried ending it. Fortunately for me I'm still here.

In my teens and early 20's I experimented with a lot of psychedelics in the Bay Area, including DMT. DMT found me one day, and I never forgot her. I am done abusing drugs and alcohol. I am making an exception for DMT because I don't think of DMT as a drug, more like a sacred sacrament that opens doors to the spirit world. I firmly believe that DMT with its anciet wisdom will help me breakthrough my old patterns of self-destructive behavior. I'm taking good care of myself now, but I feel the need for spiritual advice, and if used with respect, DMT can help one achieve this.

Thank you all

RayTracer, welcome aboard. I'm new here as well, and want to say I am glad you are still with us. I can't speak for anyone else, but whatever you have partaken of doesn't scare me off. None of us takes the same path in life, or faces the same circumstances. I too am avoiding everything for now, but I want to introduce myself to DMT in a hopefully therapeutic manner. I can't help you with advice, but the rest of these folks can. I just want to extend a warm hello to you and say I hope we both find the therapy we seek!

Congrats on the 8 week anniversary of your victory! The war may or may not be over but an important battle has been won. To help you on your journey, you may want to look into meditation, especially shamatha meditation, to provide stability and tranquility.

You have friends out here in the electronic ether.

be well,
eH

I am very happy to hear you have found a more enlightenened pathway on your journey. Your old life, was not fitting for a spiritual being such as yourself.

Welcome and congratulations. You have the intent, you have the guts, now all you need is time to explore a huge world before you. Be safe and keep us posted.

Wow, thanks everyone. I wasn't aware there were any responses. I guess I was launched into hyperspace and forgot jk.

I was looking up this thread because I read a new members introduction essay that sounded just like mine. Once again, thanks for all of the love and support. Dmt-nexus has been like a second home since discovering all of this.

[]Deace

Congrats Ray!! Mind sharing how you slayed your demons?? Always curious to hear a success story as I have many a friends who could use some guidance and reassurance...

Recidivism rate for opiates is off the charts. A study that started in the 60's with 100 heroin addicts was conducted over the course of 20 years. In that time something like 70 of the original participants had died from heroin. I've had way too many of my friends needlessly killed from it.

I had reached the end of my rope with the addiction. I purposefully took an overdose of heroin along the banks of a popular river where I lived. A homeless woman found me and called for help.

I woke up in the hospital. After almost dying I found the will to live again. After hiding my condition from my family for a very long time, they found out and rallied around me. I was whisked off to my brothers house in a completely different part of the country.

With the love and support of my friends and family and help from natural herbs and supplements I was able to get through the horrible withdrawals. I slowly regained my health back through eating right and working out. I got a job and haven't looked back

Getting away from my old haunts was probably the key to my success. You have to get away from those people and places. I'm lucky that I had family who was there for me. A lot of these people struggling don't have anyone...those are the ones who usually wither away and die.

The spice has helped me to move past the trauma of that life. I know there is beauty and purpose in life. That's all I got

[]Deace

So glad to have you here RayTracer

Very inspiring, you're awesome

Congratulations RayTracer! It's gotta be one of the hardest things out there to do. So much respect for getting through and keeping it up - all the best!

I'm supposing I am the "other new member" and yes, our stories are very similar. Remember what I posted, I am THREE years off of it now. But I had a "God Moment" as you saw, and the need to poison and destroy myself was totally lifted from me because of that experience. Hence my From Death to Life title of my post. You sound like your whole energy has changed too, and you are in a place with a new fresh start. You see my avatar on the post right? I am 100% a beleiver in the Yin Yang or Tao of the Spirit. It is all just Energy, and you can touch it on the light side or the dark side. It is the reason that if you read enough DMT stories you will see it isn't always these "positive" beings out there beyond our perception. There are dark things too, but all exist within the great whole. I remember that pure white energy and light I encountered and I try to just pull parts of it out every day where I can. Three years clean, I am a far better person than I ever was before in a number of ways. At 8 weeks in, you have a nice head start. I too had friends that died at ridiculously young ages due to very bad habits. I hope your journey stays on the Path of Light.

Be Well.

The Astral Flyer.