It's really great to be joining this community.

I was introduced to DMT and the plant world about three years ago. A few ayahuasca ceremonies helped me a great deal in overcoming a negative relationship with marijuana. It showed me the importance of connecting and reconnecting with family, friends and the community. I started to understand who I am and my identity in all its aspects started to flourish. It made me realise that I need to drop my guard and allow myself to be vulnerable. It taught me that the universe is on my side when I act in the interest of the greater good rather than selfishly. And it touched me with a love and joy so powerful and accepting that I can draw on it to give me strength when I need it.

The fifth time I drank aya, I entered the space free of crutches and vices that I had seeked help with in the past, and I asked the vine to introduce me to the plant world. She stepped back in the journey and allowed the acacia to take the centre stage (acacia courtii in this case) and I spent that evening reeling in amazement as this plant communicated with me directly. Up to that point I had only felt the presence of the vine and although her messages were clear and her love was immensely powerful, I had never had such a clear dialogue with her like it was with this acacia. It truly was a communication where our spirits were face to face and we were rapidly getting to know each other and becoming friends. The next morning I felt as if I had made a new friend and that is exactly what it was.

I've interacted with the courtii a number of times since then as well as a number of other acacias. It didn't come as a surprise, but it was still mind-blowing to understand that each acacia is it's own spirit and personality and it fills me with so much happiness to know that there are so many plant friends out there to befriend and learn from. They have encouraged me to become more involved with the plants and I am slowly beginning to work with them and for them. There are so many people in my life that can benefit from the healing and the magic of ayahuasca and the acacias and I am brimming with excitement as the plans to introduce more and more people are starting to becoming a reality. I have complete faith in the plants that I know, and their support and friendship is so beautiful.

I still am in awe at the nature of reality. When I was a kid I wished magic and fantasy weren't just for the realm of fiction and now that I'm an adult I suddenly know that they aren't. This has powerfully changed my outlook of the world.

I look forward to meeting this community. I value this site a lot for the wealth of knowledge and information that it holds and I hope that I can contribute too.

Northern Brother Wattle -- what a great name!

Feels like a brother too

wow. You put into words so eloquently how I have struggled to convey to others my own lifetime partnership with psychedelics. I am glad that you made a friend. I personally have worked almost solely with mushrooms but have a harder time assessing the spirit of the mushroom as you have had with Anahuasca. Although I am probably much younger than you are and may have been treated differently but I am getting ther atleast. I do notice different crops of mushrooms have different personalities and I sometimes have to work to build a relationship first before getting a positive experience out of it. Some homegrown mushrooms that I've had gifted to me turned out to have a very agressive and invasive personality. While after communicating to it it turned out to be a very useful ally who just grew up to be a little messed up and agressive from being basically power-grown by the man who gifted it to me.

Maybe plant teachers have a more established personality in general compared to mushrooms. Because of the way they are propogated and basically remain the same across the globe. But i will leave this topic to be. I just have to say thank you for giving me the words to convey to others dear to me how I feel about Ayahuasca and psyhedelics in general. Something so benign as a plant-spirit relationship sounds a lot more innocent than the thoughtbubbles I have been trying to convey. haha!