Hi all,

Just wanted to quickly introduce myself. I am an entheogen enthusiast and longtime lurker on this site. I don't usually participate in forums because I don't have much time for writing not related to my field. However, I've been so consistently impressed with the quality of the discussions that I wanted to get involved.

Partial background: Although I've had a fair amount of experience with mind-altering substances - the ones I've found suit me best being LSD, cannabis, low doses of MDMA, and especially mescaline - I came to DMT late. I'd been interested in ayhuasca for some time but do not want to try it without a shaman. I had no such qualms about vaporizing it, however, and after reading up a bit around here, I managed to give that a try. I'm still finding my way around with it, but am excited about the potential. My friend SWIM had a particularly interesting experience with changa and mescaline, which I will relate below.

Anyway, I don't have too much to say at the moment other than that I'm glad to be here and that I'm immensely grateful for all the wisdom I've gleaned from this site already. Internet discussion boards generally make me somewhat depressed about the situation of humanity (and, consequently, of the non-human world), so it's really great to have somewhere where people speak insightfully and behave decently.

Apologies if this was not personal enough to be an interesting read. I'd explain more about the my work and talk about my other hobbies, but I don't want to incriminate myself by giving enough info to be identifiable.

I'm interested to know how the two worked together, especially if this ranks your best experience! I love reading about other experiences, I've personally never been lucky enough to try mescaline- I've also been on a bit of a break from experiences at the moment to fix some things my last trips have shown me! But I would like to try it in the future. I'm currently on my first extract also to revisit some spirits I believe are telling me it is time to come back again for another meeting. I understand the breaking through thing, that is why my first time smoking DMT did not work well, but the second time it did. I was nervous of the actual break through. But once I did it was one of the most profound experiences of my life to date. I couldn't imagine being on a mountain doing this though, I'm a very paranoid person. It would kill it for me . But please do tell the details of the trip! I'm at least interested!

hey xram , welcome to The Nexus

Thanks!

I'll try to give a bit more detail about that trip that my friend SWIM went on and told me about. I've attached pics of the batches of substances involved (the mescaline is in a glass baking dish on a wood table, it's not actually brown).

So. My friend was with two friends. Neither of the others had tried mescaline before, but my friend had vaped DMT with them in the past. They took a train from the city up to a park along. One friend, we'll call him B, fasted. Both SWIM and his other friend, J, ate a normal breakfast. All took 350mg at the start of the hike in large 00 gel capsules, along with some lemon essential oil in lemonade (helps with the nausea). After waiting a bit, J decided to take another 150mg, bringing his dose to 500.

After a tough climb they eventually reached a plateau with a sublime view of the river and surrounding mountains, and laid on an exposed rock face looking at the sky, which seemed to envelop everything. All were tripping fairly hard at this point, and spent a long time watching the clouds, explaining to each other what they saw. SWIM saw the clouds form about 7 vertical layers of translucent spinning mandalas, with the sunlight bouncing through each layer and finally hitting him. He felt very loved and in awe.

After reaching the top, they walked a bit off the path into the woods so that J (who was peaking on a half-gram of decently pure mescaline) could go off to meditate a bit. He walked about 50 yards off and sat on a rock on the other side of a ravine from SWIM and B. B and SWIM decided to smoke some of the changa that SWIM had brought with him, which J didn't want because he was already tripping rather hard, and because his last DMT experience was very strong and difficult.

B hit it first. He has a weird reaction to DMT where he feels like there are metal balls in his mouth, and this happened once again, leading to some fear on his part (it was very intense for him, bringing him back to his previous DMT experiences). For SWIM, however, there was no fear (which is unusual for him with DMT). He took two long drags of the 1:1 changa (mullein, passionflower extract, and blue lotus). The rumbling/buzzing began, and his whole field of vision began to ripple. The sky then "opened", with the CEVs of the mescaline cascading into the visible world. Quite amazing, he tells me. When he closed his eyes, the electric-white visions of the mescaline had "merged" with the DMT, becoming more geometrical and intricate, though retaining their purity and brilliance. He saw the forest and mountains of the open-eyed world traced out in pulsing blue-white light, with shimmering snowflake textures overlaid. It felt as though he could navigate the world with his eyes closed and he would find my way, though he did not attempt this.

Someone asked me about the tek my friend used for the mescaline in a PM, but since I can't use PMs yet, I'll just post his answer here:

He says he basically used this tek, except using dried chips and STB (just ground them up, added lye water, and waited a day or two before adding the limonene). The first time, he found that he pulled too many extra alkaloids and it was basically impossible to clean to a satisfactory degree. He concluded from that that the tek called for too much HCl, unless you have more potent cactus (his typically yields a little under 1%). The best results he's had so far were using about four to six drops of 35% HCl per pull. YMMV - if you have better material, then 8-10 drops may work great. Although he hasn't done so, it's probably best to titrate - so add a drop of the acid solution, swirl it around, then pull a bit of the water off and drip back into the jar over some pH paper, adding acid until it hits around 6.5.

He's hoping to do dg's dual-solvent crystallization tek next time to get some sparkly sulfate needles.