Greetings, all...

The best thing about this forum is exactly what its name holds it out as: a common place where many people with different pasts and stories can coalesce and influence one another into beginning new paths which might had otherwise not been blazed.

I got into drugs early; smoking marijuana as a preteen led to multiple summers washed away in a lysergic haze.  I then tried (and by “tried” I mean “used liberally”) cocaine, benzodiazepines, all kinds of opiates and opioids, DXM, MDMA, ketamine, GHB, methamphetamines, NO2, and finally I ate psilocybin mushrooms at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.  That rocked.

Erowid was always my guide, and that is the site that peaked my interest in DMT.  As a connoisseur of hallucinogens (my all-time favorite,) I was always interested in that “next level” trip that was completely dissociative and made me see things that were not there.  I wanted this out of a primal adolescent desire to find, and then breach, the boundaries of my conscious ego, and I read about such an experience that could be had with DMT.

Now, I am interested in the spirit molecule for somewhat different reasons.  I am a secular humanist lawyer who strives to find logic and reasonability in all things; I do not entertain ideas that I cannot explain rationally.  I am, however, infinitely intrigued by the untapped areas of the human psyche and the seemingly endless plane of what we call consciousness.  I want to journey deep within myself to see what is there.

My first DMT experience was at a Tool concert.  Two kids sitting next to me passed me a joint and told me it was laced with DMT.  I had been wanting to try this for a very long time.  I hit it twice, holding it in as long as possible both times.  Unfortunately my borderline asthma and the harshness of the marijuana made it almost untenable.  Still, I felt effects more massive than I ever had in my life.  I had to sit down during one of my favorite songs to take in the entire arena.  Everything and everyone around me turned a deep shade of red, almost crimson.  I could hear every note perfectly even though it seemed to be coming from light years away.

What stuck out most of all was that it seemed as though I could hear every word of every conversation between each of the eighteen thousand people around me.  It was very, very intense.  I regained some semblance of sobriety about ten minutes later but (even though it was an outstanding rock show) all I could think about was how incredible an experience I just had.

Not too long after that, I extracted what I could out of about 50 grams of mimosa tenuiflora using a hasty A/B technique that I found on Mycotopia.  The yield, quality and most importantly the experience were subpar at best. 

Then I found this forum. 

I am about to perform a more professional extraction on a larger scale, and I want to contribute what I can as a full member of this nexus.

I want to do this in order to share what I have learned from lurking, reading, and inquiring from this site.  I want to perfect a method of attaining spice and post an experience report for the benefit of those who are soon to be in my shoes.  Most importantly, I want to become a full member so that I may contribute, more completely, to this community of ideas which utilizes a wonderful entheogen to evolve our species into (hopefully) something better than what we are in our current state.

Thank you for reading.