downwardsfromzero wrote:Quote:This combined with no nausea or vomiting on large doses of Kambo leads me to think it might be a disconnect between the head brain and the gastrointestinal brain.
For some reason this makes me think of the vagus nerve. Ring any bells?
This is exactly where my research has led, but I wanted to see if anyone else was seeing the same possibility. The vagus nerve is obviously intact and functional or she wouldn't be alive. But maybe some portion of it is missing, disconnected, or not functioning properly. This could definitely explain the lack of nausea from Ayahuasca and Kambo, but leaves me pondering if it could also be the cause of some of the other differences such as ridiculously high tolerances to most drugs, delayed onset of action, and key components missing from her trips.
I think that if this is the case, we are severely under emphasizing the role of the enteric nervous system and its link to the brain in influencing our trips. If it is responsible for tolerance issues and delayed onset of action, it would likely include the blood brain barrier and point to an anomaly at the top of the vagus nerve where it actually ties into the brain.
For now, I'm clinging to the hope that her lack of duality and purely blissful DMT trips are something of mental fortitude and can be learned. She does have an extremely high will power and solid self identity, so there is hope.