Dr-Daveman
Esteemed member
Hello everybody! Thank you for taking a moment to read a bit about me as I introduce myself.
First of all, I am very excited to be part of this community. And wow! What an exciting time to be engaged in the psychedelic awakening that is happening across the world and notably across the USA. In addition to the Nexus, I admire the advances that groups like MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) and researchers at Johns Hopkins have contributed through published journals, therapeutic implementations, and legality within our society. I have recently been involving myself with various groups like MAPS and the Nexus in the hopes to bring about positive (and possibly transcendental?) change for the advancement of all of humankind.
I would like to share a bit about me - I have been interested in the unique conscious-expanding and healing power of psychedelics for half my life now. Like many others, my experiences in my adult life with psychedelics have been taken through a completely different lens compared to those early experiences of my youth. After battling with alcoholism for years, I decided to revisit psychedelics in hopes of self-healing. It is with great happiness that I write this today, having just last week celebrated one year of sobriety from alcohol for the first time in my life! I give thanks nearly daily to psychedelic agents for having literally saved my life from alcoholism. I find it fascinating that their use nearly completely eradicated the craving for alcohol in my life. In comparison, all prior attempts at sobriety were exhausting battles of willpower to see how long I could fight the cravings. The absence of craving is undoubtedly the unique gift that psychedelics offered to me which has resulted in the lasting freedom I am enjoying.
After having had such profound healing in my life as a result of psychedelics, it is with a burning passion that I go forward to help others find the same opportunity for healing. In truth, my hope is to one day be a sort of Neo-Shaman.
I just recently became a physician. I believe that puts me in a very good position to be able to encourage the psychedelic revolution in the United States and ultimately achieve my goal to facilitate the healing of others through the use of psychedelic medicines.
My undergraduate degree is in biochemistry. I will tell you I was never all too enthusiastic about chemistry... until I was extracting DMT! To speak a little to my experiences with psychedelics: I have successfully extracted DMT and implemented the e-mesh vape technique, cultivated Psilocybe Cubensis, and am currently extracting mescaline and propagating Bridgesii cuttings. I have had a couple of experiences with ayahuasca guided under shamans. I am also well versed in LSD, and in my early days I was very active with the use of salvia. Most of these I could not have done without the help of the Nexus. I have read hundreds of pages through this forum and am highly impressed by the scientific focus through which the Nexus engages. It is for that reason that I am extremely grateful to be part of this group.
Personally, I am very passionate about the healing power of the mushroom. I think that the ease of cultivation, minimalization of negative side-effects, the spirit and healing presence as a true organic entheogen, and ideal time duration makes psilocybin a nearly perfect compound. Notably, I wish to share an incredible synergy I read about on this forum (and with trepidation proceeded to try). The results were astounding! I feel this must be spread: administration of a low to moderate dose of mushrooms combined with DMT vaporization post-peak. It is a smoother transition, much easier to remember, incredibly beautiful and synergistic, and ultimately results in less pre-flight anxiety. By far, it is my preferred way to vaporize DMT.
So that's my story everyone. Thank you for reading!
And a quick question in case anyone can provide some information on this: I am performing a mescaline extraction following the Ekstaza protocol. I despined, deskinned, and removed the core as described by Phlux, prior to drying. As this is my first time doing a full A/B mescaline extraction, I was hoping to minimize complications, particularly the risk of emulsion. So far, everything is going well, but that was a time intensive aspect of the extraction process. I was wondering, can anyone comment on their experiences with cacti skins and how they contribute to the risk of emulsions with dried San Pedro when using STB teks such as the Ekstaza protocol? I appreciate any insights.
TLDR; I am a biochemist and medical doctor who has received healing from alcoholism through psychedelics. I wish to help others find similar degrees of healing. This is my motivation to engage in activism with the psychedelic and medical communities. Psilocybin has been my primary focus and passion, and the compound synergizes incredibly well with vaporized DMT. Currently I am exploring mescaline, and I question the impact of the skin on emulsions with STB extractions.
First of all, I am very excited to be part of this community. And wow! What an exciting time to be engaged in the psychedelic awakening that is happening across the world and notably across the USA. In addition to the Nexus, I admire the advances that groups like MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) and researchers at Johns Hopkins have contributed through published journals, therapeutic implementations, and legality within our society. I have recently been involving myself with various groups like MAPS and the Nexus in the hopes to bring about positive (and possibly transcendental?) change for the advancement of all of humankind.
I would like to share a bit about me - I have been interested in the unique conscious-expanding and healing power of psychedelics for half my life now. Like many others, my experiences in my adult life with psychedelics have been taken through a completely different lens compared to those early experiences of my youth. After battling with alcoholism for years, I decided to revisit psychedelics in hopes of self-healing. It is with great happiness that I write this today, having just last week celebrated one year of sobriety from alcohol for the first time in my life! I give thanks nearly daily to psychedelic agents for having literally saved my life from alcoholism. I find it fascinating that their use nearly completely eradicated the craving for alcohol in my life. In comparison, all prior attempts at sobriety were exhausting battles of willpower to see how long I could fight the cravings. The absence of craving is undoubtedly the unique gift that psychedelics offered to me which has resulted in the lasting freedom I am enjoying.
After having had such profound healing in my life as a result of psychedelics, it is with a burning passion that I go forward to help others find the same opportunity for healing. In truth, my hope is to one day be a sort of Neo-Shaman.
I just recently became a physician. I believe that puts me in a very good position to be able to encourage the psychedelic revolution in the United States and ultimately achieve my goal to facilitate the healing of others through the use of psychedelic medicines.
My undergraduate degree is in biochemistry. I will tell you I was never all too enthusiastic about chemistry... until I was extracting DMT! To speak a little to my experiences with psychedelics: I have successfully extracted DMT and implemented the e-mesh vape technique, cultivated Psilocybe Cubensis, and am currently extracting mescaline and propagating Bridgesii cuttings. I have had a couple of experiences with ayahuasca guided under shamans. I am also well versed in LSD, and in my early days I was very active with the use of salvia. Most of these I could not have done without the help of the Nexus. I have read hundreds of pages through this forum and am highly impressed by the scientific focus through which the Nexus engages. It is for that reason that I am extremely grateful to be part of this group.
Personally, I am very passionate about the healing power of the mushroom. I think that the ease of cultivation, minimalization of negative side-effects, the spirit and healing presence as a true organic entheogen, and ideal time duration makes psilocybin a nearly perfect compound. Notably, I wish to share an incredible synergy I read about on this forum (and with trepidation proceeded to try). The results were astounding! I feel this must be spread: administration of a low to moderate dose of mushrooms combined with DMT vaporization post-peak. It is a smoother transition, much easier to remember, incredibly beautiful and synergistic, and ultimately results in less pre-flight anxiety. By far, it is my preferred way to vaporize DMT.
So that's my story everyone. Thank you for reading!
And a quick question in case anyone can provide some information on this: I am performing a mescaline extraction following the Ekstaza protocol. I despined, deskinned, and removed the core as described by Phlux, prior to drying. As this is my first time doing a full A/B mescaline extraction, I was hoping to minimize complications, particularly the risk of emulsion. So far, everything is going well, but that was a time intensive aspect of the extraction process. I was wondering, can anyone comment on their experiences with cacti skins and how they contribute to the risk of emulsions with dried San Pedro when using STB teks such as the Ekstaza protocol? I appreciate any insights.
TLDR; I am a biochemist and medical doctor who has received healing from alcoholism through psychedelics. I wish to help others find similar degrees of healing. This is my motivation to engage in activism with the psychedelic and medical communities. Psilocybin has been my primary focus and passion, and the compound synergizes incredibly well with vaporized DMT. Currently I am exploring mescaline, and I question the impact of the skin on emulsions with STB extractions.
. Also, I didn't really like scraping the filter since it inevitably scraped some paper product with it off of the filter (this was more of an issue when vaporizing DMT leading to... unexpected firey explosions :shock: hahaha. This would certainly be less of an issue when ingesting mescaline sulfate orally). To circumvent this issue with DMT, I ended up just quickly decanting the NP from my jars and rapidly evaporating off the lingering solvent with a fan, leaving very nice DMT crystals in the jar which were easily scraped up with a blade.
