blig-blug's Ayahuasca experience log

[blig-blug]

Thank you for your comment @dithyramb , very informative. I believe that I have to see and decide by myself, but when someone can say "my first few hundred experiences", that's significant experience that is worth listening to. I always find your and @northape 's comments very valuable and interesting.

I haven't ever tried pure DMT, but I still believe to have a decent idea of how DMT by itself feels, and it is quite different. Perhaps DMT alone would also lack the depth of a full medicine with rue/caapi, but it is sharp, not fuzzy and blurry. And it is neutral, not sweet.

Right on point, I think. I don't know how it compares to Acacia, but your definition fits very well how pharmahuasca with only DMT is, at least to me. Sharp and neutral indeed. A couple of times it has become unbelievably deep to me, but it often is very "cosmic" in ways that are completely unrelated to anything.

 

[Animistic]

Well first of all, wow. Thank you blig-blig and the other commenters for a solid thread. It's very inspirational to my own practice to start a more regular practice. Just finished reading the thread over a number of days when I had time.

To chime in re acacia. I need to do more acacia only brews, my first ever light filled tea was with acacia obtusifolia extracted DMT and it was certainly crisp but also profoundly meaningful, caapi/dmt. I have had acacia only brews a couple of times and can concur that sometimes the experience was very deep and refreshing but also kinda meaningless, these were rue and acaica acuminata. The vast majority of my experience is with caapi/chacruna.

However, my all time favourite brew ever was actually with chacruna/acacia courtii mixed. It had the chacruna earthiness and the the acacia heavenly clarity. I drank that 4 times over 8 night and each experience went deeper than the last. I will forever cherish that particular, fateful brew.

 

[dithyramb]

Thanks for sharing, @Animistic. About non-confusa Acacia, I only have one experience and that was with acuminata phyllodes. It felt quite different from confusa, especially feeling very cold in that experience. I didn't feel like using it any further. Just one experience so not enough for a solid impression, but if it could be generalized, I would say it blocks rue similar to confusa perhaps even to a higher degree (in other words, leading to a "meaningless" experience, as you said). In the end, my impression of confusa might have little or no overlap with other species.

 

[Animistic]

I've heard a number of people remark similar about acuminata and yet others who love it. Not sure their experience with other light plants though. Here in Australia courtii seems to be the emerging choice for Acacia light and luckily it's also very easily grown. In fact the plant medicine community have potentially saved this plant from being harvested into extinction but we must also aim to keep genetic diversity high too. We're also lucky that there are also lots of varieties of chacruna which can grow readily.

My experiences with acacia are mostly via vaped DMT with oral rue/harmalas which recently has been the more common way for my journeys, kinda unfortunately but this thread is kindling a fire inside that I am much appreciative of. Extract seems to have less personality and yet definitely some. For example, the one time I extracted chacruna I thought how much more like acacia it seemed and yet also distinct. Lovely medicine but I prefer brews ultimately I think.

 

[Toshido]

Whoa! This is a glowing well of information! Bookmarked and can't wait to go through it all. This will be really helpful in my endeavors come spring time.