While I tend to agree that many people can be overly idolatrous in their approach to medical doctors or shamans (or any other authority figure that fits their personal/cultural makeup), I don't think it is reasonable to disregard rigorous medical, shamanic or any other professional training as illusionary.

If you keep insisting, I shall have to ask you to volunteer for my first brain surgery experiment. I feel fully prepared, now that I've almost finished watching all of three youtube videos on surgery. I even bought a fancy medical coat on ebay and it looks really dandy.

Excellent advice. If you want to be sure, extract the DMT and then take it as fumarate.
I used to take no more than 30mg dmt fumarate which is even less freebase. Good to have a way to ramp up your dosage otherwise you might be surprised in a not so pleasant way.

I was unsure how to deal with that kind of logic.. thank you pitubo.

I believe that most situations where someone called an ambulance on themselves or got in trouble would have been avoided with a trip sitter and preparation. At least out where I live.

Do I believe you need one for 2 hits of LSD? no.. I feel it's something that you have to be so far gone to finally get, when you can't move your arm, just look at it and all you can do is softly call for water.

Do I believe there are people who put too much faith in woo woo? Sure.. But I don't believe a lunatic calling himself an urban shaman doing nonsense, is a reason to disregard someone who really dug into this and spent decades in their home country under the influence of their plant teacher.

But again, my opinion is my own. I watch people all the time when they think they are doing high doses, though I'd never call myself a shaman. Old hippy philosopher maybe. Usually it's just me sitting in a room in their house on the PC and waiting until they call for me and peeking in on them every 30 to see if I need to change out a bucket or water.

Only downside with me? I have found large doses make it so people try the entire experience to stop the experience, "I bought the ticket, but can't handle the ride". So I try my d*mndest to keep them in their experience when possible and calm.

It comes with a lot of love too.. being there for someone when it's dark builds bonds like no other, though even in those cases I just try to be there and not talk. As they usually are working through things that they need to talk to themselves about.. not me.