Hey guys 
, I was just gonna link some tunes of mine and give a bit of background to what i was trying to express through them, and a bit about my experiences with psychedelic trance and entheogens, but then got so deep into describing my passions and interests that i realised, I haven't even introduced myself to all you dudes yet!
Well.. I am Zach. I've been present among you all on this gorgeous planet for almost 21 years and live in Australia.. I am a keen musician/psychonaut/recent acacia enthusiast/general nature lover. Looking at where I am now, where i was in my years of adolescence, and where i was when i was a child, I feel so much different from my young teen years which involved a lot of me trying to keep up with social status and material desires. Where I am now? …. well, probably back to that curious kid stage of my childhood I am in constant awe of the world around me once again and I am glad to be so!
Spiritually, I grew up in an atheist family with quite strong views towards institutionalised religions and I was admittedly very strongly preconditioned by their views on the topic. At a young age though, I was pretty obsessed with the mysterious ancient Egypt, painting and drawing, animals, plants, native Americans and playing with my older brother lots pretending to be native americans…
I felt really out of place with my interests and personality once i started going to school (we had just come back to australia after growing up in the country in the states for 5 yrs). I was always very confused by the whole social status stuff going on with kids at school.. good looking people only hanging with the other good looking people, tough kids hanging out with other tough kids and being dicks to kids who showed weakness. Judgement over who has the "coolest" lunch and who has the uncool organic homemade lunch (haha seriously what on earth was going on there), wearing mainstream brand clothes and judging those who don't look as 'in'.
Something about the whole social atmosphere at school I found a bit cruel and unnaccomodating to my personality and interests… not to mention the curriculum which just pushed me further away from learning what I was interested in and drawn to. Anyways, this experience at school, and my yearn to have friends and connect with people, pressured me to conform to all the social status bullshit that was the ongoing adventure with kids my age. I lost interest in the things that i had passion for and became interested in tv and cartoons, video games, toys, sport, pokemon cards, girls (but in a more shallow way due to the atmosphere and lack of emotional/spiritual connection with the people I was hanging around) ..cool and "in" clothing.. just fitting in I guess because I was worried that the genuine me would not fit in. This all strongly affected my attitude of who and what I am, and where I fitted in with society.
For some odd reason, I was actually sent to a catholic high school after finishing primary. I really don't know what my parents were thinking on this one to be honest… they certainly aren't catholic and it seemed that i only went there because my brother had a good experience.. surprise surprise he also had the good fortune of essentially ALL of his good mates going there too. - I on the other hand didn't have many to begin with at all and they weren't close friends at all, so it seemed strange to send me there.
The three years at this school was even more alien than the last and pushed me further away from reality as I now know it. All the silly social status behaviour was rife there, but laden with institutionalised, compulsory and apparently 'spiritual' teachings which I didn't resonate with in the slightest. Not to mention a very bizarre tough redneck rural 'footyjock' atmosphere that I can only say took what I didn't like about my previous school to a new level all together. I got drawn further and further away from my true self. The people I spent time with didn't compliment my personality at all and encouraged shallow, at times immature, mean and silly behaviour.
It wasn't really until my first LSD experience at 17 that I rediscovered myself in a big way. I started to see beauty and intelligence all around me in nature in ways I hadn't previously comprehended. I started to feel comfortable and accepting of the things I previously felt uncomfortable about myself socially. I realised that within us, is a whole library of information and wisdom to access and grow from. I realised who I was again for the first time since I was young. No bullshit over the top. Just my genuine self. What a beautiful thing. My parents however became very worried. They seemed much more concerned with what I was taking to have these experiences, than the experiences themselves and this caused problems at home as I felt (and still do) that they had very little interest in my spiritual path.
Around the time I discovered the wonders of LSD and shrooms, I was introduced to psychedelic trance by a friend who lived down the coast and was way deep into doof parties. Psychedelic trance was perhaps another catalyst for my change in direction. I found great pleasure in taking entheogens and listening to it and seeing where it could take me. I found something intriguingly chaotic and coherent about the sound, and looking back it has taught me so much about my perception to vibration, and how it can influence my other senses so dramatically… creating a kind of intwined soup of the senses.
After having a degree of success with writing music I decided to move down to Melbourne and try get some gigs and play at a few doofs. I ended up however being taken down another path all together and it started with a very deep godhead experience on mushrooms, bringing me to realise things went waaaaaay deeper than I had thought. My stance on consciousness and source of matter was completely turned upside down after this trip. I also began listening to the wise words of Graham Hancock and reading his books. This man's way of expressing things really helped me grasp a lot of phenomena that I had been experiencing and being previously so unsure of and also just how HUGE and forgotten our past is.
This led me to becoming more serious about DMT... I had tried it a few times and already held a huge amount of respect for it. I had so far been gifted with truly profound and powerful experiences. Although I was still just dipping my feet in the shallow end in the scheme of things. This molecule was yet to show me things I could not have imagined.. and still is. It showed me that nothing is impossible, it is merely the boundaries of matter and conditions of the mind which give that impression. It showed me that love is the underlying energy of the universe and that I must love myself and treat my body as a sanctuary for my soul.
As my interest in DMT has grown, I have become very enthusiastic about Australian Acacias and have been spending the past year getting to know as many differen't species as possible. I recently found my rite of passage to extraction through a very special and rare acacia which I have been able to sustainably harvest for its alkaloids.
For the past year since i moved to the city, I have been pouring a great deal of my time into this learning as much as i can possibly digest about this amazing molecule that we are all celebrating here at the nexus. I have been and still am very consumed (and i guess pretty obsessed as some might see it) with this gift of a sacrament, as well as other psychedelic/spiritual related issues. As well as spending huge amounts of my days walking around the neighbourhood learning to identify acacias (..and especially spicey ones , and of coarse smoking ganja essentially all day every day and wasting quite a lot of time sitting on the couch.
And last but not least spending HUGE amounts of time here at the DMT nexus which i have grown to love dearly and thank from the bottom of my heart for demonstrating such a professional approach towards the molecule.
You guys have taught me just how important respect and intention is with this compound and I am eternally grateful for having such a wonderful source. But alas while all this has been going down i'e completely lost touch with what I used to love most! MUSIC. Music is deep and powerful beyond belief and was a strong influence in me trying my first psychedelic - LSD.
Now its time to take a step back and get serious bout the tunes again, and i feel like with the knowledge and inspiration i have been gifted from hyperspace I am going to have one hell of a time integrating it into sounds. Also, I was wondering if anybody here in the forums with mics would be keen to help out with some samples? As I don't currently have a good mic. Was thinking of starting a thread in which people can exchange audio samples to muck around with..
Anyways sorry for such a long introduction got a wee bit carried away, but yeah, its good to be here with you all and look forward to future discussions
, I was just gonna link some tunes of mine and give a bit of background to what i was trying to express through them, and a bit about my experiences with psychedelic trance and entheogens, but then got so deep into describing my passions and interests that i realised, I haven't even introduced myself to all you dudes yet! Well.. I am Zach. I've been present among you all on this gorgeous planet for almost 21 years and live in Australia.. I am a keen musician/psychonaut/recent acacia enthusiast/general nature lover. Looking at where I am now, where i was in my years of adolescence, and where i was when i was a child, I feel so much different from my young teen years which involved a lot of me trying to keep up with social status and material desires. Where I am now? …. well, probably back to that curious kid stage of my childhood
I am in constant awe of the world around me once again and I am glad to be so!Spiritually, I grew up in an atheist family with quite strong views towards institutionalised religions and I was admittedly very strongly preconditioned by their views on the topic. At a young age though, I was pretty obsessed with the mysterious ancient Egypt, painting and drawing, animals, plants, native Americans and playing with my older brother lots pretending to be native americans…
I felt really out of place with my interests and personality once i started going to school (we had just come back to australia after growing up in the country in the states for 5 yrs). I was always very confused by the whole social status stuff going on with kids at school.. good looking people only hanging with the other good looking people, tough kids hanging out with other tough kids and being dicks to kids who showed weakness. Judgement over who has the "coolest" lunch and who has the uncool organic homemade lunch (haha seriously what on earth was going on there), wearing mainstream brand clothes and judging those who don't look as 'in'.
Something about the whole social atmosphere at school I found a bit cruel and unnaccomodating to my personality and interests… not to mention the curriculum which just pushed me further away from learning what I was interested in and drawn to. Anyways, this experience at school, and my yearn to have friends and connect with people, pressured me to conform to all the social status bullshit that was the ongoing adventure with kids my age. I lost interest in the things that i had passion for and became interested in tv and cartoons, video games, toys, sport, pokemon cards, girls (but in a more shallow way due to the atmosphere and lack of emotional/spiritual connection with the people I was hanging around) ..cool and "in" clothing.. just fitting in I guess because I was worried that the genuine me would not fit in. This all strongly affected my attitude of who and what I am, and where I fitted in with society.
For some odd reason, I was actually sent to a catholic high school after finishing primary. I really don't know what my parents were thinking on this one to be honest… they certainly aren't catholic and it seemed that i only went there because my brother had a good experience.. surprise surprise he also had the good fortune of essentially ALL of his good mates going there too. - I on the other hand didn't have many to begin with at all and they weren't close friends at all, so it seemed strange to send me there.
The three years at this school was even more alien than the last and pushed me further away from reality as I now know it. All the silly social status behaviour was rife there, but laden with institutionalised, compulsory and apparently 'spiritual' teachings which I didn't resonate with in the slightest. Not to mention a very bizarre tough redneck rural 'footyjock' atmosphere that I can only say took what I didn't like about my previous school to a new level all together. I got drawn further and further away from my true self. The people I spent time with didn't compliment my personality at all and encouraged shallow, at times immature, mean and silly behaviour.
It wasn't really until my first LSD experience at 17 that I rediscovered myself in a big way. I started to see beauty and intelligence all around me in nature in ways I hadn't previously comprehended. I started to feel comfortable and accepting of the things I previously felt uncomfortable about myself socially. I realised that within us, is a whole library of information and wisdom to access and grow from. I realised who I was again for the first time since I was young. No bullshit over the top. Just my genuine self. What a beautiful thing. My parents however became very worried. They seemed much more concerned with what I was taking to have these experiences, than the experiences themselves and this caused problems at home as I felt (and still do) that they had very little interest in my spiritual path.
Around the time I discovered the wonders of LSD and shrooms, I was introduced to psychedelic trance by a friend who lived down the coast and was way deep into doof parties. Psychedelic trance was perhaps another catalyst for my change in direction. I found great pleasure in taking entheogens and listening to it and seeing where it could take me. I found something intriguingly chaotic and coherent about the sound, and looking back it has taught me so much about my perception to vibration, and how it can influence my other senses so dramatically… creating a kind of intwined soup of the senses.
After having a degree of success with writing music I decided to move down to Melbourne and try get some gigs and play at a few doofs. I ended up however being taken down another path all together and it started with a very deep godhead experience on mushrooms, bringing me to realise things went waaaaaay deeper than I had thought. My stance on consciousness and source of matter was completely turned upside down after this trip. I also began listening to the wise words of Graham Hancock and reading his books. This man's way of expressing things really helped me grasp a lot of phenomena that I had been experiencing and being previously so unsure of and also just how HUGE and forgotten our past is.
This led me to becoming more serious about DMT... I had tried it a few times and already held a huge amount of respect for it. I had so far been gifted with truly profound and powerful experiences. Although I was still just dipping my feet in the shallow end in the scheme of things. This molecule was yet to show me things I could not have imagined.. and still is. It showed me that nothing is impossible, it is merely the boundaries of matter and conditions of the mind which give that impression. It showed me that love is the underlying energy of the universe and that I must love myself and treat my body as a sanctuary for my soul.
As my interest in DMT has grown, I have become very enthusiastic about Australian Acacias and have been spending the past year getting to know as many differen't species as possible. I recently found my rite of passage to extraction through a very special and rare acacia which I have been able to sustainably harvest for its alkaloids.
For the past year since i moved to the city, I have been pouring a great deal of my time into this learning as much as i can possibly digest about this amazing molecule that we are all celebrating here at the nexus. I have been and still am very consumed (and i guess pretty obsessed as some might see it) with this gift of a sacrament, as well as other psychedelic/spiritual related issues. As well as spending huge amounts of my days walking around the neighbourhood learning to identify acacias (..and especially spicey ones
, and of coarse smoking ganja essentially all day every day and wasting quite a lot of time sitting on the couch.And last but not least spending HUGE amounts of time here at the DMT nexus which i have grown to love dearly and thank from the bottom of my heart for demonstrating such a professional approach towards the molecule.
You guys have taught me just how important respect and intention is with this compound and I am eternally grateful for having such a wonderful source. But alas while all this has been going down i'e completely lost touch with what I used to love most! MUSIC. Music is deep and powerful beyond belief and was a strong influence in me trying my first psychedelic - LSD.
Now its time to take a step back and get serious bout the tunes again, and i feel like with the knowledge and inspiration i have been gifted from hyperspace I am going to have one hell of a time integrating it into sounds. Also, I was wondering if anybody here in the forums with mics would be keen to help out with some samples? As I don't currently have a good mic. Was thinking of starting a thread in which people can exchange audio samples to muck around with..
Anyways sorry for such a long introduction got a wee bit carried away, but yeah, its good to be here with you all and look forward to future discussions
