Hello all, some introduction from me too. First, apology in advance for any errors, as English is not my first language, and my grammar is far from perfect - self-taught.
I live in small country on the Balkans, in even smaller town, 42, married.. with children.
Software dev for 20+ years. Psychedelics have been an interest for me for many years,
as well as psychology, shamanism and lost knowledge and wisdom of the ancient people. Through the years these interests faded, transformed and returned in cycles, but stayed always with me. Books of Shulgin, McKenna, R.Gordon and Valentina Wasson, T. Leary, S. Grof, as well as A. Watts, K.G Jung and more were always around. Although long time interest, my real experience with psychedelics is very limited and happened couple of times, very long time ago as a teenager, and as you may guess, back then I was far from understanding what they are; typical teenager curiosity or stupidity.
In the last couple of years my interest returned more intensely, in the hope that naturally occurring psychedelics that wiser ancient people knew and used for centuries could help me in some way to understand myself and what is wrong with me, as I developed some mixture of work burnout, anxiety and heavy depression. One could say mid-life crisis, I don't know, but I think, I have lost part of me somewhere in the way. Now trying to find myself again.
I have landed many times here, on dmt-nexus, while digging for information, as for the last two years I started studying and hunting for mushrooms, not just active, any of them. Unsurprisingly I also grow some cacti too (some from seeds, some I got as a live plants), and I have some pretty large and nice specimens already, but I somehow don't feel ready as I have respect for them as a plants and watched them as they grow. My primary interest is with naturally occurring psychedelics which have a long history in traditional healing, religious and spiritual practices in many cultures around the globe, and their lost knowledge is charming, because we know so little about those plants, and know so little about us. Despite our tremendous technological, engineering and scientific advance, I think we, modern day people, became so materialistic, so we don't understand anymore ourselves.
So, here I am, registered.