Indeed, that is my experience too. I feel that there are different levels of "toxic shit". You have the surface level that triggers very easily and that can quickly be discarded. Then again, many other herbs triggers this level too. The more caapi/maoi you take the deeper it digs. Some shit takes a long time to surface. There may be other stuff that has to be dug out to get to it. You can use very strong doses of maoi if you want to dig new stuff out. Adding DMT also helps. It puts more force and energy behind the caapi.kemist said:Seems like more toxic shit you have in your body less harmalas is required for purge...
Dagger said:Indeed, that is my experience too. I feel that there are different levels of "toxic shit". You have the surface level that triggers very easily and that can quickly be discarded. Then again, many other herbs triggers this level too. The more caapi/maoi you take the deeper it digs. Some shit takes a long time to surface. There may be other stuff that has to be dug out to get to it. You can use very strong doses of maoi if you want to dig new stuff out. Adding DMT also helps. It puts more force and energy behind the caapi.
Also intention seems to have something to do with it. You can work for years without getting any significant purging, then you change your intention on what you want to work with, and then suddenly it comes. An intention of healing your body and mind may make you purge more than an intention of exploring hyperspace.
Lol, I changed my post again kemist. Read it again. Probably a bit insaner nowGOOSH If one never tried harmala`s he would say what you wrote is INSANE, but it`s actually NOT
That is up to you, although I am not sure about the jungle spice. Most experienced people do prefer viridis or chaliponga, although mimosa ain't bad. Try them all and see for yourself.kemist said:what light should ILPT take with his harmalas after he establish adequate dose for him ...
he has about 20mg of vicoius Jungle spice, but he would like something more healing full...
...should he grab some plant(psychotria)
What ayahuascero recommended
Dagger said:Here is a recent thread about caapi and its effect from the ayahuasca forum:
Effect of high vine low admix vs low vine high admixture...
kemist said:can ya copy-paste higlights please ?
Anonymous said:To throw my glove onto the playing field, I like both -- a high vine + high admixture tea. I find the synergy to be downright magical.
With too little admixture I find that I can't do what I set out to do, as the mind doesn't tune into the right "frequencies." With too little vine the experience isn't pulled into the body enough, and the physical organism can feel slighted. But with both the body and mind are brought into magical, unitive harmony.
But any tea can be good. I've had tea with minimal vine and been shown amazing things. Likewise with tea with little admixture.
One should drink at least the quantity that you need to act upon your intentions, but at most the quantity which is safe for your body, mind, and environment. That's a wide continuum, and no one knows what your particular end-points are, so you should adopt a strategy for (safely) finding them.
vaster than empires said:what i'd add (and this is only my experience), is that too much admixture overwhelms the vine visuals, and i tend to get lots more geometric shapes. when the admix is just right, it compliments the visuals of the vine, painting them, so to speak. as far as i'm concerned, the real, visual aspect of ayahuasca is vine driven. (i've been working with some yellow vine recently -- 200g vine to 10g chali has been amazing. i should add that i bought the vine cheap, and it's pretty old -- so a fresher vine would be about half as much, 100g)
the above goes for the teaching that aya imparts, too.
a vine only or low admix tea is a quiet experience, and visuals & voice are there (if enough vine is used), but this seems much more like a low-level theraputic experience, which leaves me feeling mentally and emotionally refreshed. if you're trying to end an addictive/habitual behavior, i'd recommend this type of tea, 2 to 4 times/month, for several months.
Anonymous said:With caapi I've had anything from about 40 to about 125 grams of several different colors. I don't find as much variation in caapi strength as with other plants, so I tend to center around 75 grams per serving. That's more-or-less my "spot;" the nausea is manageable, the effects are strong-ish, and the purge goes well, getting the gunk out (physical, psychological, spiritual) but moving to completion -- there is little worse than an incomplete purge!. I used to brew the tea with about 50 grams per serving, but I found that 75 just works better. Properly alloyed in can bring an experience of profound energy into one's body that has to be experienced to be believed and appreciated. At 50 grams the ceremonies tended to be much more mental and seemed to lack a important component.
Normal ranges of caapi tend to fall between 50 and 100 grams, although some people go higher, some lower.
The approach to the admixture is a little more complicated and delicate. When approaching material of unknown potency I tend to start with a quantity that I estimate to be about half of a strong experience. For example, with MHRB I tend to brew with about 10 grams, so if I were to use a new batch of unknown quality I would start with 5. Please note that this lies a little out of the range that is usually recommended; most folks here recommend beginning with 3-4 grams of MHRB if you're inexperienced.
The last few times I've brewed the tea with 75 grams of cielo caapi, 30 grams of chaliponga, and an unmeasured quantity of mimosa extract (per serving). The chali I have seems a good deal weaker than some on the market, and many people report 10-15 grams as being quite intense. At 30 grams this chali is somewhat mild, which is why I've been adding a little mimosa extract, perhaps doubling the strength of the admixtures.
Anonymous said:I can walk, after a fashion, on both 50 and 75 grams, but it took a long time to learn to do so (i should note that, save accident or substandard components I always alloy my tea now, so unraveling the effects of one component from another is more an exercise in intuition and experience than an empirical fact). The world's stage can be somewhat insubstantial from the vantage point of the tea-infused mind, so locomotion is rarely easy. At 50 grams the control of one's body isn't too hard (with practice). With 75 grams proprioception is altered, so it can be hard to know what position your body or limbs are in without actually looking. Laying with eyes closed it can feel as if one's body is undulating like a snake or as if one's limbs are moving in the air on their own accord.
With 75 grams it can feel as if the body is being messaged, stretched, and contorted by a pair of high-voltage hands. Incredible energy can be felt moving through the body, the latter feeling like nothing so much as a conduit for the former. If one gives way to it the experience is rejuvenating and ecstatic. At the peak walking, even if possible, would be unwise. At 50 grams I am unlikely to feel the energy, although the stretching and message can sometimes be felt.
I've never been given to tracers. I do notice my eyes twitching around very quickly (almost as if I'm sitting on a vibrating platform), so it becomes very hard to focus on any one thing. This can happen at either dose, although it is stronger at 75.
Thinking back, I haven't heard the buzzing much at all in the past few years (where previously it was a signpost that things were getting ready to begin). Regardless, the buzzing seems to be (to me) a synergetic phenomena, requiring both vine and admixture of sufficient quantity. I do hear beautiful ringing tones and singing (the main conduit for information transfer), but I associate these more with the admixture than the vine. The vine, at 75 grams, can produce visions of an intense hypnogogic type which are very similar to the visions of deep meditation. At 50 grams I am unlikely to notice much in the way of visions from the vine; at that dose the admixture plants seem to drive the visions (which are beautiful, deep, and abstract but which lack representational form).
The vine -- at any dose -- always makes me heavy and tired and cold. At 75 grams the cold can be extreme. Some of the coldest I've ever been in my life is during the period of time after which the vine has kicked in but before I've moved to the realm of pure perception (in which coldness is experienced but not felt).
The handful of times that I've used Rue (cold infusion, between 6 and 8 grams -- I have a healthy MAO system) I have noticed little (if any) of the above, so I have some confidence that the above effects come more from the vine than the admixture, even if an admixture may help to actually feel them.
vaster than empires said:i'd add in that a high vine/high admix tends to cause more of this body shaking/moving than a normal range of vine/admix, or a solo high vine.
i find it pleasant, in a strange way, like my body is being energetically tuned. once, i started shaking with big vibrations in my chest, out near the ribs -- the shakes started moving in towards my heart, and as they did, became very fine and fast vibrations. at first, i was a bit worried, but then i realized it was the vine working on me, and i relaxed into it.
i'm pretty much glued to one spot when this sort of thing is happening. it always backs off when i need to purge, which i'm thankful for!
acolon_5 said:Mixing a high dose of harmine/harmaline (that's what's in rue) with a bit of coffee makes for a VERY unpleasant ride. If people decide to take large doses of harmala alkaloids they should refrain from coffee, stims of any kind (esp "energy drinks")