Acacia is the love of my life, so everything I say is very biased and personal. I'll give it a try to describe my path with this power plant.
To give some context first, I came to plant work with severe depression and everyday suicidal thoughts. It's not like I didn't have some questions about spirituality and life, but my main aim was healing, no matter what I imagined at the time. Liberty caps scared me after 20–30 sessions, and I somehow found rue and the world of Ayahuasca analogs.
When it comes to Acacia, I only worked with dry barks from Hawaii and Taiwan. The Hawaiian one was a bit more cartoonish and dmt-dominant, I'd say. However, it quickly disappeared from the European market, and Acacia from Taiwan became the main variety for me. Right here, you can see the apparent limitations, but I had no better medicine or understanding back then.
So let's start with the fun part. Unlike Mimosa, Acacia is all about love, joy, and divinity. I never had any trust issues with this plant. Occasionally, you can get some unclean batch even with Acacia, but it was mostly stuff from the US. I never felt any energetic pollution from Taiwan, and it's much more sustainable there because they have lots of fallen trees each year. I think a big part of a healthy spiritual scene on the island comes from Acacia and its vibe, but that's just my speculation.
Acacia is all about the Heart, warmth, and light. It was very welcome in dark Scandinavian winters. Whatever troubles you before the sessions dissolve in joy bordering on euphoria. You can easily reach euphoric states with Acacia, and they consume you. I had a big smile on my face most of the nights. Back then, I just listened to music all night, basking in the light. So, in retrospect, through constant exposure to Rue and Acacia, my system started to rebalance itself and move in a more positive direction. I have lots of negativity from my upbringing/childhood, and without touching anything directly, it changed the main mood of it all. I feel like Syrian Rue is the main culprit who did most of the heavy lifting, but without some light from Acacia, it'd be impossible. It's a safe plant to use, and my normal dose was over 5g for many years. You still can have some side effects like shaking on the come-up, tachycardia, or overstimulation, but it's generally safe.
And the most juicy part is that Acacia connects you to heavenly realms, divinity, Gods, and Goddesses. It's all about transcending our humanity and reaching beyond. This plant told me to sing and connected me to Ram, for which I'll be forever grateful. I still remember that ceremony, when I could feel and see a big sun in the middle of my chest. Singing praise to God just made it pour out light and consume me in a devotional frenzy. I've repeated that experience many more times at different levels of absorption.
What's bad about it, then?
Acacia is not about humans or humanity at all. Some plants are better at working with us apes than others. Basically, Acacia lacks any depth. It's a transcendental candy that you want to suck on as an addict. It takes you right to heaven without any consideration for your life or what you're going through. Sure, Rue can still give you some guidance even via Acacia, but it becomes severely blocked. You can ask more about it from
@dithyramb, who has extensive experience working with Rue (most likely more experience than anyone else on the forum).
I'm curious what differentiates an "artificial" from a "natural" heart-opening experience, from your perspective.
Acacia's heart-opening is a closed mind space, even if it's a divine one. We humans are all about humanity, suffering, and our little human interactions. Going beyond that strips us from our life mission. Maybe you can reach God that way, but you'd need to leave your body behind. That's what I felt in my later years: no matter how hard I tried to reach the end of the Acacia tunnel, I couldn't succeed because my humanity and body were in the way.
Every plant has its own portal into the astral realm, and Acacia has its own coloring and filters. To go to the end, you need to fully surrender to the plant. I felt that full surrender would mean the end of my human existence, and said my goodbyes to Acacia.
I'd also love to hear your insights, as I've just started making friends with it these past few months. So far, I've found that every tree and/or tree part (phyllodes vs twigs vs branch bark vs root bark) has its own unique character, with the underlying characteristic of playful curiosity.
Your inquiry holds the answer to all my years with this plant. Basically, you need to work with live plants, and you need to
use test every part of it. It's kind of obvious if you consider Acacia a plant spirit. In order to know it fully, you need to try every bit and piece of it. Medicine work is kind of shamanic, as we all well know, and it's all about building a relationship with our chosen plant. I fully believe that Acacia has sufficient depth if you work with the whole plant. It should be much healthier, because with time you'd ingest different energies that Acacia has and adapt your body to them. Acacia is a life-long commitment and could get as deep as any other power plant.
How does 30g of Acacia feel?
Awesome, actually. It was all about devotion, love, opening, and transcendence once again. At the peak of it, I just felt an open space without any borders that stretched far beyond the constraints of the room I was in. I was starting to feel the tremendous joy of that moment, and right then I blacked out. An unknown time later, I found myself very confused in a different room. It took some time to get my bearings and return to the ceremony place. My ceremony room was semi-trashed. Nothing major, but some action happened there. I have no recollection of it to this day. As my focus is on presence and awareness, I never repeated the experiment again. By the way, I came to learn later on that the openness and spaciousness I felt is available with other plants at higher doses. It could be even more open than what Acacia showed me. However, it opened the door, and for that I'm forever grateful.
That was the absolute maximum of my writing ability and covers less than 10%, but I can't give you more. Just ask some specific questions, and I'll try to answer.
We've seemingly captured the thread in the last few posts. Seriously,
@blig-blug has started a movement of sorts, and this thread is breaking records and holding lots of good info.
