I have come to Dmt -- I approached it in awe to find what stands united among us, what binds us in our shared "is". The only way I was successful in procuring it was by means of this wonderful community-- and for that I am indebted.
I am not here for any express purpose, but to hopefully engage in learning more and more about the varieties of experiences and the efficient handling of such a unique, and priceless substance. To provide some sense of my own proclivities whilst maintaining my anonymity I will provide a vague introduction to my own interests and my interest in the substance.
I am highly interested in Philosophy and particularly 20th century ontology. Heidegger being the main thinker to which I owe a debt. In approaching psychedelics I do not see a mere playhouse of experiences, but rather a means of phenomenologically resubstantiating the world-- of drawing from the profound depths of the presences that arise ,not a mere lesson, but an understanding that penetrates being. In that sense, I Take these substances very seriously and cannot stress the gravity of these experiences and the wondrous and equally disastrous possibilities that lie within it.
I have up to this point had over 100+ trips and have tested both the shallow and the deep waters to varying degress. Currently I am gravitating towards changa for its attenuated experience and the "grounding" nature that accompanies the harmalas.
Hopefully this was brief and consumable and I hope to cross many of your paths in the future.
P.S- Thank you CYB.
The metaphysical comfort--with which, I am suggesting even now, every true tragedy leaves us--that life is at the bottom of things, despite all the changes of appearances, indestructibly powerful and pleasurable--this comfort appears in incarnate clarity in the chorus of the satyrs, a chorus of natural beings who live ineradicably, as it were, behind all civilization and remain eternally the same, despite the changes of generations and of the history of nations.
--Nietzsche
Ontology has it backwards. “This ‘saying to the Other’ — this relationship with the Other as interlocutor, this relation with an existent — precedes all ontology; it is the ultimate relation in Being”
--Levinas