I doubt it is. I'm starting to see that this substance is not as safe as people make it out to be. People harp on that it is physically safe and for the most part it is but the from the spiritual side it is a much more complicated affair. I read recently that Terrence Mckenna tried to give DMT to the shamans in the amazon and they refused and Mckenna himself got brain cancer and not only that, alot of these Shamans have blindness and missing limbs and shit, it's pretty weird really. The shamans know their shit and they knew not to dabble in the astral THAT far especially without training. Alot of people idolize this Mckenna guy but I feel like he wasn't fully aware of what he was doing. Also theres a place that the shamans call the 'outer darkness', in a sense it's the dark side where the warlocks, twisted witches, dark aliens and other very bad juju resides and I NOW beleive that DMT can take you there and it's NOT FUCKING safe. I'm sick of everyone here saying this stuff is safe, it's NOT safe, why do you think Shamans stayed away from Mckenna's stash, they knew that it wasn't to be fucking trifled with! It's power and complete access to the depths of wherever and yeah do you really know what your barganing with? Did Mckenna? Hell no! Also all this insectoid, reptillian, alien vibe you sometimes get with this stuff just feels wrong, evil and fucked, even the occasional carnival atmosphere just feels damn wrong, like some kind of fucking satanic circus or some shit. It seems like DMT has an agenda and they flavour it with this sugar coated. cartoon niceness but undearneath theres some weirdass creepy magic going on, it's definetely a creepy scence, you know kinda like merry go round music but somethings off key. I'm not saying don't do this but be on your toes with this stuff, it's got fangs and it's not to be TRUSTED! What this shit really does to you on the astral level is anyones guess but all I have to say is your dicing with the devil with this stuff. Just be careful.

I am currently wondering whether people with mental problems are attracted to DMT, or on the other hand whether DMT causes mental problems. Because I would judge a lot of people on here to have 'mental problems'. Of course I'm being judgemental here, and I apologise if anyone is offended by this. Let me explain. Firstly, I am not disdainful of 'mental problems', we all have them, and SWIM himself used to suffer from depression, and still has things to improve about himself. I personally consider blind faith to be a mental problem (in the absence of healthy scepticism and open-mindedness), sometimes benign but potentially also a dangerous delusion. So when people here are adamant that the entities are real, I see that as potentially unhealthy. I would think the same about a fundamentalist Christian (or Muslim, Bhuddist etc) blindly following what their god 'tells' them to do, without question, to the detriment of the rest of society. Of course, blind faith can be benign, even beneficial, but still it is obviously unscientific and not a trait of my personal definition of 'self-actualisation'.

Fuego: Any duality....good/evil....light/dark.....male/female....etc.....is part of the illusion...part of the matrix. There is only ONE...and good/evil has no place in it. All science and religion are only stories to tie us to this illusion.

I find that a dose of spice every now and then kind of resets my system. It uplifts me out of a funk, puts focus on what is important to me, and give me motivation to better myself...

That's right jenkins. It's seductive and lala nice but right underneath something is telling you "fuck, this is SO WRONG". It's like your a white dude and you walked into the WRONG ghetto and know your gonna get fucked with big TIME. This wrong vibe is so prevelant like you are now WAYY out of your depth and these things fuck with you because they can. Read that Pablo Amiringo picture book where the Shaman paints his Aya visions and then talks about em. Theres heaps of accounts of evil Shamans loading up on Aya and then hanging out with strange demonic creatures which give them the power to inflicit evil spells on their enemies. OK implants, false conjecture huh? Yeah let's see one of these nice happy experiances some one posted on here shall we?: " had an experience recently.. I had consumed a fairly mild but effective dose of aya and decided a few hours in to smoke some acacia spice. It was beautiful! so very beautiful., I made love to a plant i think, with every esence of my being i swirled in ecstatic alignment with it. As i returned i was compelled to smoke more. I took a big hit and held it in and str8 away the sky darkened rather ominecly and the buzz began!! I/it vibrated so furiously that it threatened to burst my ear drums. As the buzzing deepened I went further and further into layers and layers of visuals. They were moving far too rapidly to make any sence of. Soon I was travelling so deep that i became curious as to the where abouts of my body (big mistake). Basically as soon as i thought it i was back in my body but it wasnt my own! I had this wierd feeling in my throat that felt like something being pushed down it. I poked out my tongue to make sure that i wasnt chocking on it and was horrified to see that it was extremely long and reptilian like! I tried to ignore this so again closed my eyes. The feeling in my throat didnt leave me and i 'realised' that there was indeed something being pushed into me. I suddenly had the feeling that something very alien was implanting something in me. I had the destinct feeling that they had seduced me to come deeper so that they could implant a communications device into me! " Wow implants, that sounds so healthy and empowering and nice huh? Getting an alien to push an implant down your astral throat while your possesed by some kind of Reptillian bitch ass mofo. Wow that's always been MY dream. Or then there was that Strassman patient that got butt raped by Alligator men, yep that would have been a joyous and spiritualy uplifitng experiance huh? And theres SO many of these kind of experiances and my own experiances, even though their different they ALSO have exactly this same vibe, aliens fucking and disecting your soul or eating parts of you. It's like in those spaces your nothing and these things treat you like shit just like we treat cows and sheep like shit. Your just a commodity that they exploit for their benifit but they buy and sell and eat your spiritual, not physical self, fucking astral butchers or some shit. Just think about it for a minute, does THAT sound safe to you?? This shit isn't just in your mind. You have a soul thats normaly protected and DMT drops all those defenses and now you better pray some ancient demon king isn't hungry or interested in you... Heh, also H.P lovecraft is a good way to describe alot of these realms, like Cthulu esc, weirder than weird but definetly bad and not your friend!! I feel like Lovecraft was naturally channeling some of this shit from the DMT realms, it's pretty similiar. The worst bit is who knows what the spiritual reprecussions are? Sure you don't look any and feel any different after a DMT session but maybe astrally your body has all sorts of fucked up implants and other bad crap in it. Man DMT is a gamble, it's like Ok I'll go in to take a look at the otherside but the otherside aint always nice, this DMT has strings attached and fucking evil cosmic contracts in fineprint.

safe is a fairly relative term...
drinking water is safe by most peoples standards... but its killed people... i cant really say any thing is safe... why would i want to?

Everyone needs to die at some point. I accept that. I'll keep my body as healthy as I can for as long as I can.

But sometimes if its really that worth it (like DMT), sometimes you just need to say fuck it, and do it. Because the mental benefit far succeeds anything that would be considered positive or negative to the human body.

Frankly, if DMT gave me cancer I'd probably keep using it.

As long as I die happy.

You probably are onto something here, however "mental problem" needs to be quite broad for me to agree with that hypothesis.

People who are attracted to "drugs" generally have some issues...be it small or large. I personally would never have found DMT if I had no interest in "drugs". I believe that most people on this site have a similar story (I could be very wrong here). DMT removed my interest in hard "drugs" such as opiates, cocaine, and the like. It's really my anti-drug!

I don't believe that DMT will cause a person to have mental problems. Although some psycadelics such as salvia has been linked to mental distrubances lasting upwards of months, this has not been reported with dmt.

I find that a dose of spice every now and then kind of resets my system. It uplifts me out of a funk, puts focus on what is important to me, and give me motivation to better myself...