jamie said:
length of peak does not mean you will or will not panic. You could brew a gram of rue and load it with tryptamines and have an experience that is less than 2 hours and totally loose it.
When you say 'load it with tryptamines' do you mean like... ingesting foods containing tryptamines at the same time (e.g. cheese)? Is it acceptable practice to actually introduce tryptamines on purpose, in order to intensify an experience? If so, what do people normally ingest?
In reguards to diet..I don't follow any thing about not eating pork etc. I don't do "maoi diets" and personally I am one of the people who is very skeptical of such claims. I eat clean always. I only drink wild spring water, eat freerange organic animal products, organic produce etc..I make nearly everything I eat myself from scratch and I use a lot of wild herbs from my area. I dunno if that means anything for you.
Nice diet. We (my wife and I) eat healthily and choose organic/free range/local produce where we can, but often we cannot. Still, we are planning a big vegetable garden, that should help! We don't eat anything canned, we only use Himalayan salt. We don't have sugar in the house. I very rarely eat carbs, mainly it's just raw salad and the fresher cheeses, fish or meat. And sun dried fruits, fresh fruits, powdered wheatgrass, wild honey... I don't drink coffee or tea either, I only drink hot or cold water.
We drink tap water, but it goes through 4 filters before we do, and it seems OK. My favorite bottled water is from a well-known (in these parts) natural spring water from Georgia. Even the bog standard bottled water from round here comes from a very clean natural source on a nearby island.
jamie said:
When I say I did 7 days while dieting..I mean 7 days of ayahuasca eating nothing and living on fresh fruit and vegetable juices, herbal teas and spring water. It is not for the faint of heart, to say the least..and sometimes fasting like that can actually make the tea weaker...and you. You need the energy to deal with the higher level experiences IME. Going into these experiences while tired, hungry and weak is not ideal for me.
I've done a bit of juice fasting before and some dry fasting too. My wife is actually an expert in fasting - she has done a month fast before and a week dry (no fluids at all, not even a shower or brushing teeth).
On the first experience I fasted for 24h I think it was, and when I came to take the Aya, I was pretty much clapped out. Then I remember someone on the Nexus chat mentioning in passing that two modes of altered states of consciousness don't mix well together (starvation definitely makes me go into an altereed state), and it kind of makes sense, intuitively.
WAIT... you did 7 days of Aya? Like 7 times Aya in 7 days? Crikey, that must have been exhausting indeed.
jamie said:
Rue does feel more sharp or clear to me usually..which is not what some others say. 7 grams of rue is a lot..the stuff can have a stronger kick to it than caapi at times..going from 3.5g to 7 is not suggested. 7 grams should be safe, physically..but its a lot of rue. Up the dose by 1 gram at a time. Adding a bit of rue to your caapi is good also, but make sure you know the doses of each when you combine them or you can really get your ass kicked.
Excellent, thanks. I'm not sure what I'll do next time yet, but it'll either be 4.5g rue, or 100g caapi (THP-ed, should be very strong) with a little rue in it. And maybe I'll do 15g chaliponga, since I could definitely go further than 10.
