Hello fellow travelers. New to this forum, and new to the DMT scene. I've known about this forum for a little over a year, and of DMT and Aya about 2 yrs. Prior to discovering this, I had been interested in consciousness expanding and spirituality (with and w/o chemicals) for 25+ years. Up until two years ago I had not done psychedelics in over 15 yrs.
I became interested in psychedelics in the early 80's, and was inspired by the writings of Al Huxley, Al Watts, Tim Leary, the Ram-man, Will James, J.C. Lilly, and Rob Ornstein, among others. Most of my journeys were made in the late 80's to early 90's, and mostly with lysergic, though I did psilocybe and X a couple of times. Also did a lot of MJ during this time, to prolong the journey. I actually bought Psychedelic Shamanism at a Half-price bookstore around the time I stopped the psychedelic use, and didn't read the whole thing, missing the parts on aya and dmt. Pulled the book off the shelf a couple of yrs. ago, and read up on these new-fangled - yet very old - psychedelics/entheogens. My interest was re-sparked.
Interest was also sparked after becoming friends with an older person from another country who had a degree in psychology, and who had never tried psychedelics. I thought I could initiate her into this strange-foreign realm. We have done AM a couple of times, salvia a couple of times, HBWR once (new to me as well), and MM. But I don't think she has had a full-blown psychedelic experience yet. I've experienced some nice, elevated vibrations from these recent trips, but haven't had a real heavy psychedelic experience, with nice visionary and hallucinatory alterations, and that's part of the reason I am here - to gain some new experiences, and possibly learn something.
I've been reading about the personal experiences of those doing aya/dmt, and some of the teks, and feel that I'm ready to try an extraction. I have 55g of chaliponga leaf, and 28g of b. caapi leaves, and am wondering if that is enough to do an extraction. I've read the DMT handbook and the Lextek, and they both use 2Kg of plant material, and I only have 55g, one-fortieth of that amount (the dmt handbook tek yielded 12.5g. 1/40th of that would be less than half a g.). Is that enough material for an extraction with chali? I also read the Q21 tek, and that uses Calcium Hydroxide/Lime instead of Sodium Hydroxide - for safety reasons? - and was wondering if that would be okay to use, and would work with chali.