jiva said:
i have not done one, also doing this alone would be quite difficult. then also i do not like the idea of someone preparing my pipe for me while i do not know the amount or what kind of spice is in there.
i do like to have control over that
If you have two pipes that are the same, you could potentially do it yourself.. otherwise yeah you'd need someone.
Either way, even if you cannot do the blind test, I think that is not necessarily a problem, but then I'd be careful making too many suppositions about what is and what isn't the reason for those differentiated types of experiences. I know it wasn't you but to say "Im sure it isn't psychology" without having clearly discarded through experimentation is imo problematic. It just keeps reinforcing a story without first proving its validity.
For some reason people are very adverse to admitting they
may be mistaken/mislead/misinterpreting/misjudging stimulus. This doesn't mean they necessarily
are misinterpreting things, but I think if you really want to be honest and find out the truth, it is essential to admit that as a
possibility at least, and then work on discarding it (or confirming it) through experimentation (or leaving the interpretation open for the moment due to lack of data). And even if it did come to be that the person was mistaken, this doesnt mean they are bad or less intelligent or whatever, it is a part of human psychology that we all are part of, and it is demonstrated repeatedly through many experiments. Just take optical illusions, for example, its an example of how stimulus may clearly seem one way, but they are another.
Our brains work in interesting ways, and when you mix psychedelic drugs, which already have a variability within the same compound, even more.. and when you add small or big difference in dosages and set and settings, it makes things way more complex.
And if I may give my own experience with pre-heated/oily/whatever DMT versus other "types of DMT", I have had equally amazing experiences on all of them, can't tell a difference. They all have value to me and if I was giving DMT to someone I wouldn't really choose one over the other. That being said, I havent done a blind test on this myself. I proposed a
blind test protocol when similar questions came up about "jungle spice" vs dmt. So far IIRC only 2 people tried doing the blind test and neither noticed any difference. More subjects would be better to come to conclusions about it.
Asher7,
Im not sure about the specific entity you are describing but I think this is very relevant:
wiki.dmt-nexus.me