Hello, I am a university student that has been utilizing psychoactives for spiritual/psychological purposes for about six years. I mark the beginning at my very first transformative psychoactive experience, one with dextromethorphan. I came into contact with entities that communicated telepathically with me. I was surprisingly not on a plateau 4 or sigma dose, in fact I was on a plateau 2 dose. But this day changed my life forever, and since that day I have used numerous other psychoactives for the purpose of exploring the inner workings of the brain, mind, and spirit. I am also an avid reader of material related to psychedelics. My two favorite books on the subject are "DMT: The Spirit Molecule" by Rick Strassman and "Food of the Gods" by Terence McKenna. If you have not read these books I highly recommend checking them out! As far as DMT experiences go, I have not had an experience whereby I have "broken through." My biggest hopes for this website will be learning about the various extraction techniques that are used to acquire this wonderful crystallized molecule. I am also a student of neuroscience, and one thing I hope to research one day is how this wonderful chemical affects neurons and other brain cells, and to investigate the mystery of why this compound shows up in hundreds of grasses and animals. I hope I find as much as I hope to in this wonderfully community of psychedelic travelers. Thank you for having this forum, the internet connects all Earthlings better than any mail or transit system!

Love & Light to all <3 ~

Hi Randy912,

Welcome to the Nexus!

I agree those are very good books. I would also highly recommend PIHKAL and TIHKAL by the Shulgin's if you have not yet read them.

Please be sure to take a good look around. Not just all the subfora but also the invaluable links in the upper right hand corner of your forum pages. Including, but not limited to the wiki link, which has numerous extraction teks for multiple entheogenic plants.

Again, a warm welcome to you.

Welcome Randy912,

You will find tons of invaluable information here. It has been more than I ever expected. Once your research is in full swing I would love to hear more about it and your findings.

Safe Journey.

Thank you both so much for the warm welcome.
I have read most of PIHKAL and TIHKAL. I love the chapters where Ann expounds upon Jungian psychology, the way that psychedelics heighten understanding are so evident in them. I also love the chapter when Sasha talks about the MDMA conference in Brazil, such lovely anecdotes!

Currently I am only an undergrad, but I plan to be a member of this forum for a very long time, so once I wedge into grad school and earn my Ph.D and start conducting research I will surely post about it here!

Hi Randy912,

I'm a newcomer, also from New Caledonia, a little experimented in entheogenics (LSD, LSA, mushrooms, DXM, ayahuasca...)

I've heard that there's the Acacia Simplicifolia in our country, from which you can make a decent brew as it comes with DMT AND IMAO. There's also some Mimosa from which smokable DMT can be extracted.

Carl Jung is actually one of the clearest hyperspace mappers I've ever read
I'm currently reading his Red Book and sure he was a master in exploring the inner world.

Good journey.