Greetings to everyone at this site. I just made my account and am doing my introduction as I want to be able to talk about my experiences, spiritual journey that I have been on, my life and what led me to this path, and also to seek guidance/answers for some questions I have.
First off, I am a 30 y/o Shawnee , Cherokee & white male currently living in a southeastern Va tourist city i'm sure you can figure out, but am originally from a country village in southeastern Ohio. I joined the Marine Corps when I was 17, and got out on a medical honorable discharge due to an injury 2 months before going to Iraq.
From then on, I was on a typical 21 y/o males path until I became disabled further by fracturing my spine and having multiple spinal diseases and 2 surgeries so far. I currently am still taking what are quite potent and toxic pain killers just to be able to move, but am wanting to completely stop those altogether if I can through alternative means. I didn't even consider this until I had my 1st experience with the thing that is the title of this page. That was about 8 months ago I believe, and since then my mind, life, and way of perceiving everything has been on a higher level than what I was before. And I have had multiple experiences with other things of the same nature that I will refrain from mentioning for now, but I will attest and affirm that I have never partaken in the use of any of them to just "get high", I had/have always held these in high reverence and only used when I was prepared mentally and spiritually and used them to expand my consciousness and to understand myself and my life better, as I do not believe these things are here to get one "high" for fun, and I feel that using these especially the spirit molecule for that purpose is offensive and an abuse of a gift for humanity given by an unknown entity/energy.
I look forward to speaking with people on here and finding answers to some of my questions. Such as does anyone know if there is a chapter of the N.A.C. in my area, or is anyone a member that I can speak to to show my sincerity in this matter, and/or one for the spirit molecule.
Sorry this is so short, but it is late for me and I must go to bed, and happened to stumble upon this site right before I was about to go to sleep and said enough with questioning this and not going farther, I found this for a reason and am not going to let the opportunity slide past. But I look forward to the future of my membership here, and to speaking to everyone.

Hello lonegunman308,

Welcome to the Nexus. I'm so glad you stumbled across this site and decided to sign up. I hope you will enjoy your time here.

I hope you get some of the answers you search for here.

I was very sorry to read of your damage and chronic pain situation. No one here (even medical doctors) is able to give you advice on your particular situation as there is only so much that one can get across via the internet.

But, we can say what has worked for us. I do know there are folks here who are war veterans who suffered wounds and others who have had some really tough injuries. Hopefully you will get some replies where folks mention what worked for them personally.

Speaking personally for myself, though my situation was/is quite different from yours, when my medication regimen permitted it (i.e. no warnings about not using MAOI's) I found banisteriopsis caapi ayahuasca to be very healing of mind and body issues.

I've also noticed that anything more than a mild dose of LSD tends to make my perception of body pain ratchet way back for the length of the trip and about 12-24 hours beyond. But again, these are just personal observations, not recommendations for your situation.

I do feel very comfortable recommending a meditation practice if you have not already adopted one into your spiritual practice regimen.

So, for these entheogens you have tried, and you were not specific, . . . may I presume mushrooms, cactus and DMT were on the list? Did you grow and/or extract your own. If so, how did that go. If not, why not and do you intend to do so in the future? I cannot recommend home growing and self extraction whenever possible highly enough.

I know you just stumbled upon us so I shall warn you this place is huge and can eat lots of hours. That's because it is thick with well researched information that has been compiled over a period of years by folks who really care and really know their material. I hope you will take some time to look around and I also hope you will like what you find. A good starting point might be taking an hour or two to read over the contents of those links that came with your welcome pm.

Again, welcome to the Nexus and here's hoping you get the answers you seek.

Thanks for your service, hope your pain can be eliminated.