Hey all,

I have been lurking here for some time now. So far am very impressed with the quality of information and friendliness of a couple memebers.

I pm'ed a couple ppl who were very helpful and since found the introduction forum and thought I would jump in.

I am a 33 year old professional, and have always been fascinated with writing, art, and for the most part all the inner workings of a creative mind. Honestly the question that plagues me is: what lies behind my concious thought? and where does that information come from? You can call my recent psychadelic experiences research for the most part. Research about myself.

My experiences with psychadelics started around 2000, when I became aware of san pedro. I easily cooked over 100 feet of pedro before I found achuma. I am probably well over a 100 feet of that now as well.... but most recently participated in my first acid trip. I have also experimented with mushrooms a handful of times. I am not getting anywhere close to what I feel like I need to see.

After plenty of reading, it seems DMT provides more along the lines of what I am looking for. For a 33 year old professional with long lost "contacts," aquiring this type of thing is not really possible.... so my adventure will begin with ayahuasca and and admixture.

I have seen that there is cross-tolerance build up between cactus, mushrooms, and LSD... I am curious if the same holds true with aya and an admixture. I do have a very high tolerance to cactus and mushrooms. I went white water rafting on the nolichuckee with several class IV rapids on 2.5 feet of achuma... LOL (not something I would reccommend to the faint of heart unless you enjoy vigorous and real life-maintaining activities while the sky pulses different colors and the mountains around you are smoking)... but I am always pushing my physical limits as well as my mental ones.

I am 6'2" 280 lbs and have a fullback build, I mention it only because I am unaware of the impact body weight has on dosing....

At this point, I am considering 50g of ayahuasca for my first experience but am undecided as far as 50g chacruna or 5g m. hostilis....

How does this tea compare to the stories told from the people who smoked DMT.... I have an intense yearning, from the very core of my being, that I NEED to break through... I have to know what is out there... this is a spiritula quest for me, and mushrooms, lsd, and now even cactus are leaving me wholly unfullfilled because I don't even think I am scratching the surface of my sub-conciousness...

I dont know if this is what you were looking for in an introduction.... but I do know inside this is something I must do...

peace and love to everyone, I appreciate your insight and knowledge... would love it if someone would help guide me through this unknown, but I will travel alone and unaided if that person isn't here....

thanks again to anyone who has read this.... peace to you all...


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Hello gearmage,

Welcome to the Nexus. Thank you so much for taking the time to write that well thought out and thorough introduction. I feel I got a good sense of you from reading it and I believe that is the whole intention of requesting that new members write these essays. So, I say kudos and thank you, .

I greatly look forward to hearing about your upcoming acid and aya journies. I do hope you will chose to share your experiences with us.

Regarding your hefty build, I don't think it has an affect on aya or DMT dosing and minor effect on LSD dosing. I presume other members will chime in if they know differently but as far as I can tell, that's the case.

Most cross-tolerance in psychedelic materials can be obliterated by a week or two of complete abstention I have found. Regardless, I would recommend starting low. You know what they say, . . if you underdose you can always take more but if you overdose your options other than to ride it out are obliterated.

50 grams of aya (banisteriopsis caapi) & 50 grams of chacruna sounds like a very nice brew to me - a hearty handshake so to speak.

But I am quite concerned about your intention to use 5 grams of MHRB (mimosa hostillis root bark). I believe Ott and others have determined MHRB to contain total of upwards of 3.0 percent NNDMT. Thus, if you were to achieve complete MAO inhibition, 5 grams of MHRB could conceivably be equivalent to 150mgs of freebase NNDMT. In my humble (& remembering horror shows and ass kickings on MUCH lower oral doses) opinion that is WAY TOO MUCH for an initial trip.

If you are going to use MHRB, probably skip the chacruna and only begin with a gram or two.

Be sure to brew enough for more than one dose. Then you can take more MAOI and/or DMT containing plant later if you want or if you purge early, etc.

There's a whole subfora on Ayahuasca - you may want to check it out.

Yes, hefty oral doses can approach and/or cause a breakthrough. Be careful with this though, I would recommend doing a freebase extraction with your MHRB and smoke a few breakthrough doses first. Spend 5 minutes in hyperspace before getting committed to spending 1-4 hours there . . .

I'm very glad you joined. I do expect you will find what you are looking for, at least I hope so. Drop in on us in the chat room sometime for a greater feeling of (intelligent & wacky) community.

Again, a very warm welcome to you. I do hope you will keep us posted.

Welcome to the forum gearmage.

I know a lot of times 50g caapi can be a rather light dose and seeing as how you are a bigger guy it might not be enough for full inhibition for you. As Pandora said, be sure to brew extra in case you need it. I would recommend starting with only the vine and no DMT admixture till you find a dose that works well for you, harmala alkaloids can cause a lot of dizziness and nausea the first few times you take them, so it's often a good idea to "get your harmala legs" before jumping into the admixtures.

I will echo what Pandora said about starting with a lower dose of admixture, I know you are looking for a powerful experience but this medicine has the tendency to deliver you more than you bargained for. 50g of chacruna isn't too too heavy and shouldn't be much of a problem, but definitely I would advise starting with 2-3g of mimosa at most to get a feel for what you are getting yourself into. Starting low is much more advisable than jumping right in at ego shattering doses, "horror shows and ass kickings" indeed.

If you have the mimosa at hand already, I also will echo Pandora on the idea of doing an extraction and trying out some smoked doses as well. There is a lot more info in the FAQ and a ton of extraction teks in the wiki for that avenue of research.

I wish you many wonderful journeys ahead.

First I want to thank you for your input...

It is amazing the welcome that can be found what most would normally be a villified sub-culture.

I will absolutely be taking your advice... As much as I want to push hard early, I know patience is paramount. I will forego the M. Hostilis until I have got a ride or two under my belt. I will also research preparing the freebase extractions.

I do look forward to relaying and sharing all my experiences with the good folks here as well. I feel like I am knocking on the door of my life's next big transformation, would nice to document my experiences.

Thanks again for all the info and the thanks to all the people that make this place what it is....

For now, I am off to absorb all the info I can from posts past, I will try to avoid any redundancy on the forum. Thanks again everyone....