Hey Pandora and Enoon, thanks for your supportive words and warm welcome.  It is encouraging, as a new Nexus member, to see that indeed I am not "alone".  There are people, in a similar spot as myself, exploring the limits of cognitive landscape. Though I might be taking these next few steps apart from anyone else, there’s a pack to return to and howl about the bounty on the other side. 

However, there is something to be said about the uniquity of the individual experience, especially with regards to altered states of mind.  Strangely enough, it is in these novel stumblings where We find solidarity.

Thanks again, and I hope to be posting soon about my extractions and experiences.