Expectations frequently lead to disappointment.
Quote:Any attempts to begin to describe the DMT experience is fraught with the immediate dangers of either over-simplification or a swift flight into metaphor since it is almost impossible to describe with words alone the fantastic swirling multi-faceted gateway visions that are only the beginning of the DMT experience.
http://www.dmtsite.com/d...tions_of_experience.html So regardless of what you expect, it's likely going to be entirely different.
Quote:Metaphorically, DMT is like an intellectual black hole in that once one knows about it, it is very hard for others to understand what one is talking about. One cannot be heard. The more one is able to articulate what it is, the less others are able to understand. This is why I think people who attain enlightenment, if we may for a moment comap these two, are silent. They are silent because we cannot understand them. Why the phenomenon of tryptamine ecstasy has not been looked at by scientists, thrill seekers, or anyone else, I am not sure, but I recommend it to your attention.
~ Terence McKenna, The Archaic Revival: Speculations on Psychedelics, Mushrooms, the Amazon,
Virtual Reality, UFO’s, Evolution, Shamanism, the Rebirth of the Goddess, & the End of History. (1991).
Becuase "The more one is able to articulate what it is, the less others are able to understand" its very difficult for an individual who has not taken the compound to build any accurate conception of what exactly the DMT experience is...
Just be open, be humble, and take most of what others tell you about "what it is going to be like" with a grain of salt...
Quote:The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.
Ken Kesey, “The Art of Fiction CXXXVI”, The Paris Review, 1994.
I agree with Ken's quote above, because while DMT has never provided any real answers, it is the epitome of mystery, and is thus valuable simply as that.