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Hello,
SWIM asked me to spin this tale for you. He is known to make things up though, so be careful what you believe in.
DMT was always sort of a legendary substance for him. He never saw it himself and only had one rather dramatic tale from a first hand acquaintance to go by. This was said to have happened in the 1960's. As told, 2 people shared a bowl, and a few seconds later a ball of light flew twice around the room, then right at them and knocked them to the ground. :shock: :lol: This always seemed sort of mythically awesome, but he never really knew if he could take the tale literally.
Over the years SWIM had journeyed with Dr Hoffman's problem child quite a bit and developed a relationship with certain fungal beauties. He really likes them and misses them both, but simply never sees them around anymore. His few encounters over recent years were but small shadows of some formerly glorious experiences. :x
He has had some mild experiences with Pedro. He actually gained a very nice gift from him which he uses to this day. He also thinks Pedro is sort of high strung and speedy though, and not his number one ally.
He doesn't know what to think of Salvia. She is really something else.
As for that spice, well around 1996 or so he began to read things on the internet about ayahuasca. He had heard the word yage with regard to William Burroughs, and heard a few Terrance McKenna cassettes, but the details were all new. He was very interested, but was scared off by the warnings he read about MAOI interactions. He didn't know quite how direly to take these warnings, but it was enough to keep him from seeking any actual hands on experience. He wasn't really sure he could manage his diet well enough to avoid what sounded like pretty terrible complications. Still, he read up on both Aya brews and extraction techniques, figuring some day he's going to try this.
Fast forward to not quite the end of the century, SWIM is backpacking and has a ruptured brain aneurysm, is rescued from the trail, has brain surgery and makes a marvelous recovery. Initially he could barely walk across a room, but he now has very few side effects. He was extremely tired ALL of the time for the next year or so, plus a strange tingling around the surgery scar and occasional headaches also. He is very lucky, as apparently the side effects can include blindness, memory loss, loss of motor control and death. He eventually got pretty healthy again, in no small part thanks to his bicycle and skis. Exercise is good. So is Marijuana. Exercise and Marijuana is fantastic.
About 2005 he finally got up enough confidence to try the vine, ate lightly for a few days and tried a vine only brew, just to see how he handled it. He was still a little worried about the whole brain thing, despite assurances from folks at another forum that ayahuasca was quite gentle with regard to blood pressure. Once your brain has popped once, you really don't want it to happen again. Turns out he needn't have worried. He had a relaxing evening, fell asleep, no drama.
A week or so later he tried the vine and a MHRB tea. He threw up about 15 minutes later. Never felt any nausea, it just came flying up before he could even try to stop it. He just sort of put it back on hold after that. He didn't loose interest, but he just decided it wasn't ready to happen.
Recently he started reading about changa. Several things impressed him. The moderate length of the experience and the more raw herbal approach to the substance. He is less likely to want anything to do with non plant substances these days. He was also comforted by some of the things he read from Dennis McKenna and Jonathan Ott about MAOI, and he now realizes he probably never had too much to worry about anyway. Had he known he would probably have tried the vine way back at the start of all this.
The last piece of the puzzle was right here, food safe extraction teks. He just never got comfortable with the whole chemistry set aspect of the whole thing, but the D-Limonene tek seemed so nice he figured he'd give it a try.
His first few trys with changa led him just to the edge of the space, he believes. He is confident there is much more in (out?) there. After a few pulls through a bong he felt a warm tingling on his skin and lay down to listen to music. He felt an cool energy on and around his body, and had some very clear CEVs. Geometric patterns of triangles moving an a swirling fashion. He felt the patterns were somehow energetically massaging him. The music took on a thick multi-dimensionality which he enjoyed. He was somehow inside of the music, or it was inside of him. All of this felt really comforting and kind of familiar. At the same time he can tell it is a very different thing from other types of journeys he has taken.
He tried a few more small sessions and on those turns he had more and more the feeling that the aya vision was somehow looking at him or monitoring and investigating, so to speak. It is hard to put into words. He feels like it is looking for what needs to be cleaned up, or repaired. It doesn't seem intrusive though. And there is some very, very interesting geometry going on in that visual field too.
2 funny things... Coming out of one session he felt compelled to make some vocal utterances and shake his arms and hands about. He doesn't think it was glossolalia really, he just was suddenly having a lot of fun making these silly fast sounds and shaking about. It was energizing.
Also coming down at one point he needed to use the toilet. He left the light off and while washing his hands saw his face barely reflected in the dark mirror. As he backed away his reflection seemed to move back, but in stuttering bursts, like animation shot at too low a frame rate. He thought this was funny. and did it a few times. He move forward and back several times and it happened each time he moved back, but not forward. Forward was smooth, backwards stuttered. 8)
He thinks all of this will now let him try a full on journey with Ayahuasca at some point. He is sort of regretful that it took so very long to get there, but he is quite happy to get there at last. For reasons too much to describe now he seeks healing in various forms (don't we all?) plus he really likes to journey.
He also really wants to try this outdoors. He likes traveling outdoors and in Nature a lot. He is especially fond of trees. Trees calm his spirit.
It took him 7 years to get from that first sip of the vine to here. He feels he is just now leaving the shore. He hopes starting off on this journey becomes sort of a welcoming home for him as well.
SWIM asked me to spin this tale for you. He is known to make things up though, so be careful what you believe in.
DMT was always sort of a legendary substance for him. He never saw it himself and only had one rather dramatic tale from a first hand acquaintance to go by. This was said to have happened in the 1960's. As told, 2 people shared a bowl, and a few seconds later a ball of light flew twice around the room, then right at them and knocked them to the ground. :shock: :lol: This always seemed sort of mythically awesome, but he never really knew if he could take the tale literally.
Over the years SWIM had journeyed with Dr Hoffman's problem child quite a bit and developed a relationship with certain fungal beauties. He really likes them and misses them both, but simply never sees them around anymore. His few encounters over recent years were but small shadows of some formerly glorious experiences. :x
He has had some mild experiences with Pedro. He actually gained a very nice gift from him which he uses to this day. He also thinks Pedro is sort of high strung and speedy though, and not his number one ally.
He doesn't know what to think of Salvia. She is really something else.
As for that spice, well around 1996 or so he began to read things on the internet about ayahuasca. He had heard the word yage with regard to William Burroughs, and heard a few Terrance McKenna cassettes, but the details were all new. He was very interested, but was scared off by the warnings he read about MAOI interactions. He didn't know quite how direly to take these warnings, but it was enough to keep him from seeking any actual hands on experience. He wasn't really sure he could manage his diet well enough to avoid what sounded like pretty terrible complications. Still, he read up on both Aya brews and extraction techniques, figuring some day he's going to try this.
Fast forward to not quite the end of the century, SWIM is backpacking and has a ruptured brain aneurysm, is rescued from the trail, has brain surgery and makes a marvelous recovery. Initially he could barely walk across a room, but he now has very few side effects. He was extremely tired ALL of the time for the next year or so, plus a strange tingling around the surgery scar and occasional headaches also. He is very lucky, as apparently the side effects can include blindness, memory loss, loss of motor control and death. He eventually got pretty healthy again, in no small part thanks to his bicycle and skis. Exercise is good. So is Marijuana. Exercise and Marijuana is fantastic.
About 2005 he finally got up enough confidence to try the vine, ate lightly for a few days and tried a vine only brew, just to see how he handled it. He was still a little worried about the whole brain thing, despite assurances from folks at another forum that ayahuasca was quite gentle with regard to blood pressure. Once your brain has popped once, you really don't want it to happen again. Turns out he needn't have worried. He had a relaxing evening, fell asleep, no drama.
A week or so later he tried the vine and a MHRB tea. He threw up about 15 minutes later. Never felt any nausea, it just came flying up before he could even try to stop it. He just sort of put it back on hold after that. He didn't loose interest, but he just decided it wasn't ready to happen.
Recently he started reading about changa. Several things impressed him. The moderate length of the experience and the more raw herbal approach to the substance. He is less likely to want anything to do with non plant substances these days. He was also comforted by some of the things he read from Dennis McKenna and Jonathan Ott about MAOI, and he now realizes he probably never had too much to worry about anyway. Had he known he would probably have tried the vine way back at the start of all this.
The last piece of the puzzle was right here, food safe extraction teks. He just never got comfortable with the whole chemistry set aspect of the whole thing, but the D-Limonene tek seemed so nice he figured he'd give it a try.
His first few trys with changa led him just to the edge of the space, he believes. He is confident there is much more in (out?) there. After a few pulls through a bong he felt a warm tingling on his skin and lay down to listen to music. He felt an cool energy on and around his body, and had some very clear CEVs. Geometric patterns of triangles moving an a swirling fashion. He felt the patterns were somehow energetically massaging him. The music took on a thick multi-dimensionality which he enjoyed. He was somehow inside of the music, or it was inside of him. All of this felt really comforting and kind of familiar. At the same time he can tell it is a very different thing from other types of journeys he has taken.
He tried a few more small sessions and on those turns he had more and more the feeling that the aya vision was somehow looking at him or monitoring and investigating, so to speak. It is hard to put into words. He feels like it is looking for what needs to be cleaned up, or repaired. It doesn't seem intrusive though. And there is some very, very interesting geometry going on in that visual field too.
2 funny things... Coming out of one session he felt compelled to make some vocal utterances and shake his arms and hands about. He doesn't think it was glossolalia really, he just was suddenly having a lot of fun making these silly fast sounds and shaking about. It was energizing.
Also coming down at one point he needed to use the toilet. He left the light off and while washing his hands saw his face barely reflected in the dark mirror. As he backed away his reflection seemed to move back, but in stuttering bursts, like animation shot at too low a frame rate. He thought this was funny. and did it a few times. He move forward and back several times and it happened each time he moved back, but not forward. Forward was smooth, backwards stuttered. 8)
He thinks all of this will now let him try a full on journey with Ayahuasca at some point. He is sort of regretful that it took so very long to get there, but he is quite happy to get there at last. For reasons too much to describe now he seeks healing in various forms (don't we all?) plus he really likes to journey.
He also really wants to try this outdoors. He likes traveling outdoors and in Nature a lot. He is especially fond of trees. Trees calm his spirit.
It took him 7 years to get from that first sip of the vine to here. He feels he is just now leaving the shore. He hopes starting off on this journey becomes sort of a welcoming home for him as well.
