Hello fellow seekers!

I've been lurking here for a while and think it's about time I introduced myself and started participating in this beautiful community. So here goes!

I've been interested in exploring, travel and learning (all the same thing really) all my life. I grew up surrounded by the great wild forest, where my intense love for nature was first cultivated. Here I wandered around in that wonder known mostly to children, exploring the natural beauty of our strange world. In hindsight, I can put the term psychonaut to description of myself through all my recent years but I am relatively new to psychedelic media. Last summer after finishing high school, my cousin lent me his vapourizer and so began my infancy in the psychedelic realm. Soon after, the next step was to try the sacred mushroom and along with ganga it has been one of my most potent teachers.

I recently began some extensive personal improvement, making radical changes to my lifestyle, a decision certainly influenced by psychedelics. Since new greater awareness, I have adopted a full vegan diet and am making the move to raw veganism. I made the choice to become celibate while I incubate as a disciple of the universe to focus all my energy on spiritual growth. I don't own an internal combustion vehicle because I refuse to support the petroleum industry wherever possible- my feet is my only carriage. I am concerned with science and spirituality and the merge between the two; Shamanism. I feel the materially developed world NEEDS more shamans to reconnect the people to the universe, those who have ears will listen, those with eyes will see.

Lately I've decided to lay off the psychedelics until I've done more studying and implemented all of the learnings they've provided me. All my trips (spatial, psychedelic, literary or thought journeys) have told me the same basic things and I am finally starting to listen!

I think it is important to surround one's self with like-minded people when on a spiritual science quest to compare data and share support, so here I am! The username Nanacapilli means "Child (or Prince) of the Mushrooms", I'm hoping to have it changed to Teonanacapilli for the sake of accuracy and respect for the Nahuatl language.

It's an honour to be here and I foresee lots of good learning!

Hi! I really like the name! I too am excited to engage with like-minded people...especially because "Babylon"/"default" reality seems to have so few people that I can relate to. I feel like an alien so much of the time that it is so refreshing when I come across someone that I can identify with!

Absolutely mate, I think that sense of belonging and a real connection based on commonalities is essential when you are on this spiritual path, at least at the start. There's an important exchange of energy and wisdom/information. It's hard to be swimming against the current all the time, so a nice calm pool like this where like-minded fishes can meet is really a relief

I should add that my interest in DMT is not different than my interest in any other teacher, I feel it has much to offer both to the individual and to society. I've yet to experience it, but I have some ayahuasca ingredients waiting for the right time. I am still unsure whether to do it here with a sitter or try it first in Peru with a real, experienced shaman.

Welcome friend!

Good to have you join us. Im sure you've been checking the WIKI and the rest of our tools.

Im sure many of us can relate to the love for nature, exploring, learning. Its good that you are trying to strive for being ever-more aware and taking decisions that will diminish the weight of your existence for earth. But please be careful and try to be balanced in what you do!

Its of course your own choice what you eat, but I hope that being a vegan you are taking care of supplementing your b12 (and I wonder, where from?). Also, remember that in terms of ecological impact, just eating fruits/vegetables isnt necessarily a good thing, its important to try to consume local/seasonal food too.

Also regarding being a celibate, again its your own choice and you must follow your heart. But please be attentive to what kind of psychological effects that extensive time as a celibate can cause. The sexual energy can be a highly enlightening energy too if well managed, and at the same time, it can be the expression of one's lowest manifestations. For some people having sex can be spiritually uplifiting, for others it can be an obsession and curse. At the same time, I think abstinence can have diverse effects in different people, for some it can be a help in the spiritual path and for others it can be very negative. Just check all the pedophile priests (not saying you'll become pedophile, but I do think it can have different kind of psychological effects so please be wary and self-critical). I guess it also depends on moment in life and so many other factors.

Anyways all im saying is that, while I appreciate the search for awareness and I share this objective, I wanted to bring some other questions that might be beneficial to consider.

Regardless, I wish you all the best in your path, and hope to read more from you soon

Thanks for the kind notes

You should see a film called "Raw For Life", they give you all the information on how healthy it is to live on a raw, vegan diet, it actually can cure diabetes in many cases! I work in a produce department so I am sure where all of my food is coming from and I always buy the local stuff when I can (it tastes SO much better). I get to take home the free, outdated salads and the like as well- pretty good deal for a vegan!

I'm trying celibacy for a change and by no means do I want (at least at this stage) to do this indefinitely, it's a temporary experiment unless it develops into something deeper. I wanted to make the change because I know my past habit (based on environment and choice) of objectifying and dehumanizing women into some sexual material is gravely incorrect. How can I come to an overstanding of the human being if I am viewing one half as an object of sexual gratification? I've seen some good results in my behaviour and thoughts and have been watching and analyzing for signs of damage.

I overstand that to suppress a feeling only serves to strengthen it, so I am not dogmatically celibate. I'm just sort of "sex fasting" as a detox from old bad behaviours and an attitude that MUST be done away with. I really appreciate getting your perspective on the issue though, I usually can't see all facets of a subject myself so some input from others is highly valued. Thanks.

These recent self improvements have all been a move to balance, I am striving to balance the triad of mind/body/soul as best I can. I've been optimizing myself because I overstand change must come from within and my outer state was a mirror image of my inner soul-sickness. I guess I should have spoken in my intro about the intense anxiety and depression issues I struggled with during high school. I was quite violent and did terrible things, unthinkable to who I am now. That was a good lesson on how circumstance can shape a mind and make a person do things utterly inconceivable. Marijuana was the biggest help to me, it gave me a lift that I could not see to provide for myself. Presently, due to my increased awareness and effort these problems are almost completely dealt with. When I was ready, my teachers appeared I'd like to go to Mexico next winter for an Iboga ceremony that I'm hoping will wash away the vestigial anxiety and intermittent depression I still medicate when necessary. I believe in cures, not medicine whenever possible- so that's the plan.

I have big plans to help and heal the planet and it's sentient denizens, but I must first be healed myself to be a healer

Thanks for the attention amigo!

I'll throw in some interests in this intro too, been a while since I've done one, but I feel like it's nice to get yourself under the magnifying glass

I love: photography, writing, learning, being OUTside, creating culture, observing culture, cultivating life (vivaria, plants), psychonautics, thinking, and other things of this nature.

Welcome to the Nexus! Sounds like you've found a lot of great things to work on. Looking forward to hearing more about your journey.

Hi and welcome!
Good to meet another psychedelics-inspired Vegan!

I enjoyed reading your intro and thoughts, and hope to hear from you more in the future. One note to the mixing of science and spirituality - be very careful with it. It's like trying to get a statement from a lawyer about the biology of an exotic cricket... they are two different fields and they have authority only within their own limitations. Hard science does not make statements of a speculative nature, nor does it interpret or philosophise. Humans do. When you start to mix science with philosophy or spirituality you run the risk of actually being unscientific and misconstruing facts. Please be ware.
That being said, I love using science as a model for explaining philosophy etc, but one must remember: the map is not the territory. And philosophy does not become fact only because it is based on a scientific model.
Otherwise, I'd love philosophising with you some time^^

cheers
Enoon

hi man! your name remember me of Xochipilli,the flowers prince of aztecs or zapotecs don't remember..welcome there!!

ragabr, thanks! I sure have.

Enoon, good points. I suppose I could have worded it better in my intro, I meant something about shamanism being a (or THE) spiritual science. I feel that science and spirituality are deeply related (and interrelated), both being studies. Science is the study of external phenomena and material, spirituality looks to the interior [I'd love to see other opinions/reactions to this statement ]. But of course they have defining differences. I see shamans as science monks possessing wisdom from both studies and utilizing this wisdom for the benefit of all life, often healing.

DiMiTriX, yep, it's the same language as used by the Aztecs; Nahuatl