Hello all

Having registered here i feel somewhat like being accepted at Hogwarts ^^
DMT research is still pretty new to me, but i have heard about it like 10 years ago through whatever David Icke has to say.
There is a lot of personal history as to why i didn't delve into it much earlier.
I did have keen interest in Shamanism, Etnobotany and Psychedelic experiences as a teenager , starting with occasional cannabis use over reading Castaneda and using M. amanita and some other locally sourcable things, thanks to some books by C. Rätsch ; actually my personal interest in magical plants and belief in a real colorful invisible world reach as far back as i can remember; my Grandmother was a pharmacist and taught me a thing or two about the right relation to plants from a pharmacists view. My parents are an artist and a writer, i grew up in a major urban city with it's own magic and spent summers in the forest in scandinavia, needless to say a very magical place as well. My whole background allowed me to become as open minded and creative as i want to be, except of course for having to deal with parents worries and the establishment and personal insecurities like everyone else. Which also made me depressive
I had a deep personal crisis around the age of 19 and also got confronted with a not so easy lingering effect from psylocybin mushroom, i had a serious eating disorder, at the same time i developed a substance sensibility which gave me inner visions and bodily sensations every time i ingested anything, it was scary. In a way it was the shamanic initiation i had asked for, but i did not have a social network of people to face me with understanding and help me making the best of it, instead i was treated like a disturbed patient which i was by common definition; and i drew the conclusion that if it is that what it takes to live this aspect, i rather don't want it (at the time). It took me years to establish myself again in life, and it was through total submission to the system in a way, making money and a career. That was in the early 90's when all my friends went to techno clubs and consumed a lot of drugs, i did not take that experience with me then.
After 10 years of hard work in a workaholic state of mind, i retired to live a secluded life in the tropics, burnt out pretty much, but happy to have made the leap.
I married a man who i knew was the right one for me, trust, reliability and allowing freedom to each other being very important. he is catholic and from a different culture, and albeit very open minded for his background, i know he can only accept but not always understand me. Lucky for us we share a common interest in gnosis, topics that lead over hidden history, aliens, spirituality even to DMT ... but this becoming an acute interest right now is still a new situation for us. He is very accepting with me smoking weed from time to time, but psychedelica have only played a role anecdotally in our 13 years relationship so far. I have not had a real DMT experience yet, so these times are intense and exciting and require great care.

When we moved to the tropics, we arrived as city people with very little knowledge of handling a tropical garden. We made many mistakes and faced soil degradation and a need to become real stewards to nature in order to let a paradise flourish.
A few years ago i found out about Permaculture, it was the single greatest revelation i had in a long time. A sure pointer at where the healing of the planet begins. Consequently i found out about the role of fabaceae plants as nitrogen fixing pioneer plants and i started collecting and raising fabaceae from seed and fostering whatever already grows here. Little did i know this way to heal my soil would lead to the second greatest revelation of my entire life, 2 keys in one as a possibility to heal earth on a much greater level.
Nature reveals itself in all it's power in the most mind blowing way. And that in times when the need for it is the greatest.
Actually, when i started identifying plants in my area, i already stumbled about DMT contents but for some reason i still didn't start the research but kept my distance in utmost respect and perhaps a trust or understanding that all things will fall in place at their time.

Now i am almost 40, my life has been set up in a satisfying way and i feel it is finally time to push my own horizon once more with the aid of nature's magic that is literllay pushing itself into my horizon out of it's event horizon (what a terrible movie by the same name, come to think of it)
To my astonishment i realized that all these tall trees around our house contain 5 meo DMT (A. auriculiformis), the impression of living in paradise got once more new depth to it ... actually the name of the area where we live translates to : acacia haven.
Now ... if that isn't a serious pointer. Or god's humor and gift of gratification for following a path that feels right.

I have not yet tried to use the tree bark, but i am wondering weather we are breathing the substances anyway, just as all the substances we ingest influence us in many ways. Using DMT, a concentrate of something we probably all have ingested in smaller amounts already, still sounds like submitting to be turned into something else, a drug addict, something to be weary of, when in fact we probably all have been there from birth on and only become conscious of now.

I have however made a yopo sort of thing from another plant for sublingual testing and will write about this in another topic i suppose. It was only 1 week ago and i am still observing and analyzing it's effects on me and it was just a tiny first step on this journey and most of all i am currently still very very excited.

I am grateful and happy to find a place that looks as promising and serious as this one.

sincerely, a new year 1 student <3

Hi! If you live in the wet tropics you could grow p. viridis and b.caapi (from cuttings if you can get them). What continent is you tropical country on? Unless 5-MeO is what you really want...? Then if you look at phalaris brachystachys, it sometimes has both, DMT and 5-MeO in a managable natural ratio (untested in tropical climate....)

Hi my tropical climate is a monsoon climate so we have a distinct dry season as well, but i agree, i should be able to grow those plants here since i am watering and keeping a humid micro climate in some parts of the garden. I am in asia though and i haven't even looked into how to obtain species from america ^^ but i am open for this possibility should it arise.
Currently i am looking more into what i can do from the plants i got here already. Since i haven't had any real DMT experience yet i think i would love to experience all the compounds and then find out which suits me best ^^ ... the 5 meo DMT presence in my environment is just so funny cause it seems to describe so much of my philosophy and what i think mankind needs to experience, also meo translates to cat here, and i'm sort of a cat lady LOL. But yes, i want to know it all but have no real experience so far

I did a test with Leucaena that gave me some non-placebo effect, but i cant tell which compound i felt, i am guessing bufotenine or 5 meo DMT since it was a yopo sort of trial, so no heating or acids involved. I need to make a topic for that i think, also since it carries an interesting toxin related question with it too.
And yeah, i am also now learning to look at nature from a dmt pov, i never payed that much attention to grasses though there are a few interesting ones around i'm sure
I wish i wasn't so preoccupied with rl and reading stuff atm xD but i need to chill down and take this slow, it's far too huge to jump into all the possibilities without preparation :o

...from intezam's acacia brew point of view, the following things have changed for intezam: grasses became the grass people, flowers became the flower people, herbs became the herb people, trees became the tree people and vines became the vine people (hahah...call us crazy) birds became the bird people, all great secret keepers, all part of intezam youniverse unison...
....it didn't make things exactly easier. Quick look at vegetarianism: Holy ground!! Everywhere!
One our ACRB vend++r claims they only harvest from fallen trees during taifoon season...we hope it ain't a marketing trick....it's a dilemma...how much and how should one take...and for what reason.....how to be in concord with this new covenant...there seems to be a way tho..

Ahhh that is beautiful i can see myself perceiving the living things around me as people, it does feel familiar and suit what i think is the right attitude.
Indigenous cultures have known to thank nature for giving and known how to decide "which fruit to pick". In my own garden i realized tree fruit is at it's best for direct consumption the moment it drops down, but sometimes freeing the tree of overabundant fruit also helps relieving the tree and focus it's energies in the remaining fruit and staying healthy. Same goes for pruning at the right time, the tree thanks with twice or more fresh growths. Being a steward to nature means to step in when needed and help nature to perform at it's best. Not every moment is good for every task. When i smoke weed i find it incredibly hard to pull weeds, and when ever i pull weeds there need to be multiple purposes aimed at with it, using the weeds as mulch around other plants for them to grow better, feeding a compost pile, i try pulling weeds only when they start to "take over' and some weeds are really ... greedy in taking up other plants space.
By fostering animals like pets we also face overpopulation issues and we know, all these kittens would never survive in the wild. And their mothers become stressed and unhappy if they have to rise full litters everytime nature makes them give birth. Learning to cull excess animals, be it for food or be it just to control population, in the end the corpses will feed back to nature, be it buried in the soil as food for plants or chickens eating cats and cats eating chickens. I learned a giant lesson in the past few years that took me out of the perversion of pity as we live it in modern culture, to a seemingly harsher but i suspect more real compassion that is slowly lifting me out of the dilemma.
I am curious what DMT will tell me about it.