okay, so i finally got around to trying this most epic combo.
in my previous
post, i spoke of rue calming and taming the LSD.
the dose of rue was incredibly small, however, and i now feel that more intense potentiation would occur if the harmala dose was larger.
i have taken 100 mgs. pure harmaline and my rue dose was well under that...there must have only been 50 mgs. harmala mixture in there;
little enough to influence the LSD but not enough to potentiate.
there is also a lot of talk i've heard about MAOI's NOT potentiating LSD.
maybe not synthetic MAOI's....i wholeheartedly disagree with anyone who applies this logic to plant-based harmala alkaloids though.
harmalas,
when taken at sufficient doses, are quite psychedelic on their own and combine with LSD to greatly potentiate it.
and by "greatly" i mean "
vastly!"
to get this out of the way: i'm sure what i had was LSD and i'm also sure of the dosage.
the source is a chemist, not a "dealer," who weighs crystalline LSD (several dozen milligams!!) and then dilutes in water.
the amount of LSD in every drop is approx. 100-115 mcg.
a few weeks ago, when i took
mescaline + caapi, i used 20 grams caapi (brewed without adding acidity).
it was quite mellow, so this time i upped the caapi dose to 25 (this time adding lemon juice for acidity).
this, i realized later, was a not-well-thought-out decision.
being confident about the caapi dose not being too intense, i ate half of the LSD (55 mcg.) 10 minutes after drinking the caapi tea.
well the caapi was SUPER intense this time and i should have waited to stabilize first, before i took the LSD.
i didn't think at the time that the lemon juice would extract a great deal more alkaloids.
25 grams caapi with acidity added is FAR more intense than 20 grams caapi no acidity.
lesson learned the hard way.
oh yeah, and i took 3 datura stram. seeds, too....
talk about a recipe for visions!!
so 10 minutes after i took the LSD, i'm feeling like the sky is gonna split open before my eyes! i'm already way too high for where i'm at in the trip.
sure enough, when the caapi comes full bore, i'm starting to get open eye visuals streaming across the ceiling.
I look at the clock and i still have 30 minutes to go before the Acid comes full-bore...not a comforting thought.
oh okay, here come the acid visuals....
i'm starting to distinctly feel the acid and the caapi as two separate streams of consciousness merging and separating within my mind.
i can feel the kundalini buzz of the acid growing to an alarming degree, but i can also feel the calmness of caapi, ever indifferent, ever objective, to what's going on.
if i focus on a particular object, the acid visuals dominate: funhouse-mirror, bizarre dimension warping impossibilities.
i was looking at a picture that was lying on top of a black blanket.
without blinking, some strange flash of light rendered the picture completely invisible for a moment: i could see only the blanket underneath.
in a few seconds, still without having blinked, the picture materializes before my eyes again.
i'm not even peaking yet!!
when my clock says 1 hour 15 minutes after taking the acid i throw the clock across the room with glee and say, "whoohoo, we've hit the ceiling!"
i'm grateful for the high to be leveling out at this point.
though acid has a way, if it's intense enough, of making you always feel like you're on the edge, just beyond the brink of comfort.
the peak can only be described as an exact blend, in every way, of ayahuasca and acid.
from caapi, i can feel a complete access to bizarre and frightening spirit-worlds complete with strange entities and presences.
at the same time, the acid gives me a mental magnifying glass to focus in on every little thought process with startling clarity and precision.
when these two worlds combine, very odd things start to happen.
i kept finding myself in a world i was calling "the collective sewer."
it was a sort of hellish realm where everything people don't want to see and are ignoring goes to this mental dungeon.
everything that scares you, everything that is uncomfortable to see, thrives in these pits of neglected awareness.
now i was being forced into these realms: almost like being crucified, for the unaware world at large.
there were evil creatures and faces appearing and mocking me....the acid puts it's spin on this world by elongating and enlarging certain parts of these creatures to other-worldly proportions.
like i could zoom in on their lips, which were "grotesque and hairy", and the left side would start to stretch and become bigger then the whole head and then shrink back down.
it felt like i was having acid visuals inside of an ayahuasca vision!!
the kundalini buzzing was vibrating at such an alarming intensity that all i was experiencing for a time was the whole universe absorbed in one static electrical buzzing. it wasn't exactly comforting or spiritual like being absorbed in the OM vibration or something; it was more like being absorbed in a telephone wire: one large spherical grid of electrocuted oneness.
another interesting phenomena that i remember and haven't experienced on any other psychedelic trip:
for a short time in the trip, i was seeing a white light in the distance of wherever i was looking.
it started when i was looking at a picture of a spiritual master...
his eyes remained the same but his whole body turned into a prehistoric winged dragon of some sort.
as this velociraptor-bird looked fiercely at me his eyes elongated into rainbow-lit tunnels and at the end of the tunnels were a radiantly bright white light.
for a while after this i kept seeing that transcendent white light wherever i would look.
going into the light never occurred to me, my only thought was of making it through this rough ocean of experience.
after three hours of basically praying for my poor, non-understanding soul to be spared these nightmares the intensity let up just a little bit.
up till this point i couldn't even really walk. when i'd get up to go to the bathroom i didn't understand how to use my legs.
the caapi-induced vertigo was in full swing.
while standing over the toilet my whole vision would just melt away into something i couldn't really understand or interpret.
trusting the urine made it in it's correct destination i just stumbled back to my blanket and dipped back in the sewer visions!!
it's been awhile since i was this overwhelmed, i couldn't even figure out how to plug in christmas lights at one point!!!
i kept feeling like my consciousness was coming from a different point in the room watching everything take place.
this made it especially difficult to do things like use a body or brain that i didn't feel like i had any relation to.
peak lasted 3 hours, full-formed visions lasted 6 hours, open eye visuals 9 hours, was high ALL the next day. this is a LONG trip. be prepared.
this was absolutely one of the most awe-inspiring trips ever, both in terms of insight gained and intricacy of the visions.
if i could go back i would have taken 20 grams caapi and started with only 1/4 the hit of LSD and boosted if necessary.
the intensity from the 55 mcg was easily quadrupled....it felt like 200 mcs easily, which is way too much for me personally.
it's so much easier to start slowly. you can drop the acid at virtually any point after you've fully come-up on the caapi.
my advice is to come-up fully on your caapi tea, assess how you feel, and dose lightly/moderately of the LSD from there.
it's so much easier to spread the trip out than to try to release into 2 different experiences at the same time!!!
that's just my take....be safe friends.
thanks for listening to my rambling!!