Greetings!
I was interested in responding to a post here re kundalini, but see that I will need to wait a bit and talk a little about my self, background, and current intentions in joining this community. I am a musician/composer, and at age 25 I had a spontaneous kundalini awakening. With no prior 'spiritual' practice (although I would say that I was inclined towards it from my artistic practice, which IMO could be seen as a kind of contemplative practice), nor having ever used a 'medicine' of any kind what so ever, this just happened one day. A classical kundalini awakening - from the root chakra, like water very slowly coursing through a hose, rising up the back and to the top of the head, then down through the arms and legs, all of the musicales releasing and letting go in the process - upon opening my eyes, I was, without knowing it at the time, most likely in 4th Jhana (from a Buddhist perspective); I saw like I had never seen before, I heard unlike I have ever heard, when I played mozart on the piano, I became mozart, I felt as though I understood the mind of God, and, well, this lasted for about two months, with pretty far out dreams every night. I saw into people, I felt love for all things, most everything appeared beautiful (cliches I know, but that's what it felt like at the time!)
After that, I found descriptions on the net about this kind of experience, I learned to meditate, and in the last few years have meditated daily 1-2 hours on average. I can now enter 2nd Jhana with ease - where the mind stream stops, more or less - and I frequently experience 3rd Jhana.
So, all these years I have never used a psychedelic of any kind, but last year did try taking about 20 grams Cubes, fresh, and found that the 'tingling' sensation that I get in my hands and feet, and then body, before entering 2nd Jhana, was the same. The experience became quite intense, but was not pleasant at all.
I am interested in experimenting with DMT and Mushrooms a little more to see how they compare with my own experiences to date. And so I am looking here for a support group/community that might assist in that effort, and to which I may in turn also contribute in what ever way possible.
Strauss