Hello fellow psychonauts !

I'm quite excited to join this forum as an active member as i've been following on the posts here for some time now. And my curious mind has A LOT of questionning to do.
(Excuse my english if i make a few errors, i'm half english, half french, and french is easier for me than english)

But first of all, let me introduce myself: funkyleggs.
I'm fairly new to the psychedelic world since my only experiences with entheogenes is with salvia divinorum. I was a regular weed smoker too for five years but decided to quit my regular use since it started to affect me in a negative way.

So my first salvia trip was last year, and surprisingly my strongest/weirdest trip was smoking plain leaves off a salvia joint. It was the strangest experience i've had, i was listening to binaural beats at the same time and it was like i had shifted all my being to a new plane of existence, but i was still within the physical 3D world. I thought i was "stuck" in that state and i would stay in there all my life. But it faded soon enough.
Since then, i have been a bit retecent to try it again (which i did) but always with little doses.

On another subject, i have been totally fascinated with out-of-body experiences, non-physical reality, and other worldly experiences since i read robert Monroes books about two years ago. I have had an astral projection myself last year inwhich i was visited by a huge all white silhouette/being who scared the crap out of me (although he seemed pretty neutral, not negative, in his approach). One of my greatest wishes is to meet again with this entity and ask him all sorts of questions about himself. I also have some lucid dreams from time to time.

Naturally, my curious mind and fascination for other worlds led my to psychedelics which i plan to use with respect of cause, for the purpose of experimentation in a scientific manner as well as intimate for my spiritual growth, and others, as i love to share my experiences and the knowledge i accumulated.

I plan to experiment regularly with salvia in the weeks to come. I also plan to extract DMT and make a batch of changa in a near future.

But here's my question for you experimented psychonauts: (and essentially for those who have regurlar OBE's or lucid dreams)
In order to experiment more profoundly in the area of what you call the salvia space or the dmt space (meaning the salvia and the dmt realities) would you consider (or have you considered), while an OBE or a Lucid dream, placing your intent in visiting the entheogene realities on a non-drug consumed state?
This, in my opinion, would be extremely interesting to do.
Since every "reality" is supposed to be interconnected with one another, it would, in theory, be possible to visit salvia space while projecting by intending to get where you were while taking actual salvia.
Note the question is the same for every entheogene out there.

I leave you with this question which i hope some have already pondered and experimented

Thank you for the forum and opportunity to learn.

Funkleggs

Hey love,

May your psychedelic explorations bring you joy and flowering. <3 <3 <3

This year I just began to experience sporatic breakthroughs with meditation alone, so I don't doubt that it's possible to access hyperspace through lucid dreaming and OBEs. I have a number of Monroe Institute meditation exercises that I'm working through for this purpose. My spirit guides have told me DMT is like Dumbo's magic feather -- he doesn't need the feather to fly, he just thinks he does.

-Av

Is that your real face? I'd advise against that.

And doesn't salvia make your body itch? It does to me. I'm not a fan of the delirium either. IMO.

About lucid dreaming, I've heard that the Irish and many European peoples have a tendency to experience lucid dreams. I'm glad you brought this up because I have Irish blood and have been meaning to do more research on lucid dreaming. I have taken melatonin pills that have induced almost dmt like dreams. Some of these dreams I remember being conscious and was actually able to wake myself up on demand.

No, that isn't my real face, i'm in my twenties
The man is Jacque FRESCO, founder of the Venus Project, an extremely wise and honnest man in my opinion. Check him out on youtube he's worth a bit of research.

Well no, salvia doesn't make me itch. Even though i must confess every time i have taken salvia i needed quite some time to feel safe in taking it again, and every time i'm mind blown by the beauty of it.
I think the fear i manifested beforehand is the reason i didn't do it that much in the past.
But i eventually came to control (or lessen) that inner fear by meditating and tempting to project. Alan Watts did help a lot also, after all it's all going to be ok isn't it ?

I have some irish blood too by the way
Lucid dreams are great, i just love waking up knowing my night has been an adventure !
Apparently salvia helps in the dreaming/reality check process, so i'll take meditative doses before going to bed to see if my dreaming improves.

averrine: i am working with the "Brainwave Mind Voyages" at the moment. I try to wake up at about 6am every morning and practice. No OBE yet but i've been feeling strong sensations in my heart chakra as if my "astral body" was pushing to get out of myself.
Totally agree on the dumbo metaphor !

The only really lucid dreams I have had are in this thread https://www.dmt-nexus.me...&m=512860#post512860

I experienced this after using dmt and listening to binaural beats before attempting astral travel.

Welcome Funkyleggs!
That would be interresting, Funkyleggs. I have seen some hippies in the 60s do some sort of breathing excersize to induce the DMT state on a Youtube video quite some time ago. Didn't take it all too serious at the time as to me they were just hyperventilating and "tripping" on an excess of oxygen.
I'll have to practice more meditation to see if that can open a gate into hyperspace.
Thusfar my recently started & yet undisciplined practice of meditation consists of chanting a repeatative mantra to still the mind. Averrine, what method of meditation did you practice that got you to reach this DMT like state?






Why would you say Irish and European peoples have the tendency to experience lucid dreams?
As far as I know all humans, regardless of race or culture, are able to have them and HAVE been having them since the dawn of time. Tibetan Dream Yoga for instance. Also in the old testament Solomon is quoted about having a lucid dream experience which he described very poetically. Neither Solomon nor the Tibetan buddhist monks were even remotely European.

Some people take galantamine to lucid dream - well, to increase the likelihood of a chance at one.

Take a snowdrop, a snowdrop leaf or two, and chop. Pour on boiling water (keep covered, eg in a teapot, to retain volatile oils). Brew for a while and drink. People tend to take it at 5am, so they get enough deep sleep first.

The galantamine in the snowdrops stops your acetylcholine neurotransmitter being broken down so quickly.

If you're happy with the results, make a tincture from the snowdrops to use all year round. I just chop up the snowdrops and cover with 40% vodka. Strain off after a couple of weeks or so. Just one drop is really powerful. Best to start with one drop and increase if required. Shake before use.

I've been taking this every day for dementia for a year now. I've had kidney and liver tests, which show in the normal range, so with small amounts at least, your vital organs should be safe.

Careful with the bulbs - people have died after confusing them with onions and eating them. You don't need to include the bulbs to get galantamine. I do include them, as the snowdrop lectin they contain looks really useful in fighting retro-viruses like AIDS. I've got infections from tick bites, so I'm hoping the snowdrop lectin will help kill them off.

Course, you don't need galantamine to lucid dream

When I want a lucid dream I eat a piece of caapi trueno before going to bed, works 90% of the time.

I've seen a few very experienced members on this site (and I believe Terence Mckenna) say things along the lines of, 'getting to hyperspace without spice is deranged'

I think this situation we are all in is exponentially getting weirder, & that some serious evolution is at play. & that our capacities have many surprises in store.

I have had a few lucid dream, the following report is the first I remember & was 12 years ago,

In the dream, I was in a park with a friend, we found a portal, my friend left to get help/ notify whomever. I ended up 'testing the waters' if I could go inside it & started to going in a bit and back out. Realizing that I was able to go inside it, I now knew it was safe. It started to close, so I successful attempted to reopen it. I went inside, meditated in what I may now call, the 'threshold' after what felt like minutes I came back out. But years had gone by. Me having gone missing & my friend thought to be lying.. the world was much much darker.. full of pollution and war. I reopen a portal, go back inside, pop out the other end into vast black space. I'm now in a bubble & approaching a alien spaceship. I can feel hostility, and weapons arming; I respond with massive amounts of 'Love'; The spaceship turns and flies away.

(thanks for getting this far through this read... sorry to turn your intro into my lucid dream report

I travel back to earth, remember it's much darker and full of war/etc. I make a difficult decision.. but I know how to change the earth.. (a little like episode #6 of 'Rick and Morty' As unfair it may be to many, I gather a large group of pure humans, and portal into vast black space. Portaling back we replace dark earth with another less tainted version of it & start a new more peaceful chapter to human civilization....

I recently had a dream in which ingested salvia, through the effects were no where near as mind shattering as when witnessed first hand (within the dream I experienced it as if a dream). I have heard similar stories about DMT hyperspace amongst regular users and this wouldn't surprise me in the slightest tbh (:

Hey hey Funkleggs Great question! Right up my alley

I think about this often actually. In fact, the whole reason I got into consciousness studies was because of a dream I'd had when I was 10, shortly after my aunty died. I was very close with her and the night of her funeral I had a dream, which normally is recurring but this time there was a slight difference.
Very long story short... In the original dream. I enter my house and it changes, turns dark and glowing green with picture frames of all my family along a long hallway. At the end of the hall is a door. Something starts chasing me! I run to and out the door, out into a courtyard, up some wooden stairs and open a door. Once the door opens a bright light shines and I wake up.
The dream after my aunty had died was the same except her picture frame had a scratch through it... the best way I can explain is as if the walls, the frame, the picture and the blood coming from the tear through it all, was alive! Like skin! Bleeding! I woke up instantly! Ever since that dream I have questioned how I kept going back and if it were real and perhaps possible to go back. Since, I have never had the dream.

My answer, after 18 years(on and off)... is yes, we can go back and it IS real. This is my opinion of course. I am yet to experience any of this(although I plan to try once I return from my journey to Peru next year and set up my greenhouse and hH sanctuary!) But I believe that, with the right discipline, we can go anywhere we want or have experienced.

I once read of someone's first experience inducing a very powerful way of astral projecting. He said he had arrived at what seemed like a bus stop or train station full of entities running around like a busy train station. When he was greeted at the front gates the entity said, "Welcome back, John Jones!"... Welcome back?! He'd never been there before! Or had he?!

Do you think it is possible that our subconsciousness gets to "play" while we sleep? And sometimes takes our consciousness along for the ride? These are things i think about often.


I like your question! Right on the money for me

Welcome to the Nexus!

-hH

I may be a little off from what you were questioning but..

I have read a more then a few responses that our subconsciousness does not go to hyperspace while asleep, & that only with DMT can we breakthrough.

My current feeling is that we are up to more than we remember & that it goes get to "play".

This would be worth starting a poll over, if it hasn't been already.