Hi all,

I've been lurking for a few months, and decided that I should join to be able to contribute and to ask questions, etc.

After over 20 years of working with various psychedelics, I've become increasingly interested in finding out more about DMT. Last year I had some Ayahuasca experiences in Peru, but the DMT breakthrough experience still intrigues me.

Welcome to the Nexus, Tampanensis!

Are there any extraction teks that you are working with or interested in?

How was your experience with Ayahuasca in Peru? If you would like to share your trip report with the forum check out First steps in hyperspace.

Glad to have you on board and happy travels!

Hi Tampanensis,

Welcome to the Nexus!

Yeah, I'd like to echo the above - I'd love to hear about your ayahuasca experiences or see a trip report . . .

Take a good look around. As a new member you are restricted to posting in here the Welcome Areas, but this should not stop you from logging on and being able to view the full content of all the subfora. There is so much to see here, so much depth information collected by folks who have been dedicated researching DMT and other entheogens and/or working in mapping hyperspace.

Please also see the links in your screen's upper right hand corner - they are invaluable and written by folks in the know who really know. Things like the wiki with all its extraction teks, FAQ and Health & Safety are worth looking at.

Again, a very warm welcome to you. Hope to see more of you around this place.

Welcome... do tell more. Where were you in Peru? Did you do a traditional ceremony there?

Its good to tell us about yourself if you feel comfortable so the community can get to know you and what your interests are here at the nexus and in life.
Welcome
OM'

Thanks for the warm welcome

My ayahuasca experience was in Pucallpa, with a local curandero who was a relative of the owner of the "resort" we were staying at (I use the term resort very loosely here).

Unfortunately it took place in screened in gazebo/hut in a backyard within a sort of suburban area where we were surrounded by neighbors with ceaselessly barking dogs, crowing roosters, and people riding motorcycles up and down the road.

We made the best of it, and did have an interesting experience. Unfortunately the background noise made it difficult to go deep.

It felt more like imposing on the curandero's healing work (he was curing cancer for a relative) than participating in a ceremony, and we weren't really taken seriously until the forth (and final) ceremony.

As I mentioned in my previous post, I've been interested in psychedelics for over 20 years, my first experiences being with LSD, and then most of the rest being with psilocybin as LSD became increasingly difficult to obtain.

Thanks to a particularly overwhelming and terrifying LSD experience (I'm speculating around a 300-400ug dosage from three strong blotters), I've set forth on a sort of lifelong quest of cautious self-exploration to better understand life, the universe and everything.

I've been reading about the DMT breakthrough experience for years, and decided that the only way to know what I was getting was to extract my own.

I'm planning to do an AB extraction from MHRB. I think I have everything I need to get started, except for knowing which TEK is best. I have whole bark, not powder. I have HCl, vm&p naptha, and NaOH. (BTW, should I powder the bark, and if so, what is the best way to do so?)

Do you recommend the "Lazy Man" TEK?