Welcome to the Nexus!
Nagual, are you also interested in learning something or just sharing the knowledge you yourself have? If you're interested in learning here, what exactly interests you most? Can you share a bit about your psychedelic and your extraction experience?
Tele, while I agree with you that people have indeed come preaching in the Nexus, I dont think you should already post as if Nagual is one of those. Also it seems a bit contradictory that you say everybody is a beginner and should be humble, and yet you ask him to give you a number of how many blast offs? What does it matter?
Let's hear the man ideas and then decide
I am absolutely open to learning from any wise souls here that wish to share with me
I am an avid biochemist, and I enjoy art, music and stories as a reflection of the primal archetypes that reside within us all.
I have been using psychedelics since approximately 1994. After becoming acquainted with the major players, I decided to explore the fringes. Armed with well worn copies of PiHKaL and TiHKaL, I worked my way through any and every research chemical I could find that sounded like it had something it could teach me.
Around 1998 I became weary of being chained to my home, my life and my friends, and decided to liquidate my assets travel around the united states. I hitchhiked and bussed my way around the country, visiting cities with large transient hippy or artist populations. I kept a small supply of different research chemicals, and would freely share them with interested people that I met. I did this for about 2 years, at which point I was weary of being poor and I longed to have a stable home.
From 2000 until 2009 I focused on education, getting a degree in biochemistry, then working first in an analytic chemistry laboratory, then a drug discovery firm.
In late 2009 I again felt the need to explore and learn. I liquidated my assets (again!) and went to Puerto Rico. I befriended some native Tainos, and had my first DMT experience with Yopo (which they use rectally). I knew from my experience with DMT that it was a special molecule, and I felt an intimate connection with it. After some time in Puerto Rico, I decided to travel to the Philippine Islands. I stayed in the Philippines learning from natural healers, artists and warriors until early 2011.
After returning to the United States, I began to experiment with DMT preparations. I started with traditional Ayahuasca. Being somewhat dissatisfied with it, I proceeded to try and improve the experience for myself. Phenelzine instead of Caapi was the first (and by far most significant) modification. I also developed an extraction procedure that can quickly produce a high yield of very pure substance, but requires a centrifuge, a chromatography column, a speed vac and a sublimation apparatus. I also designed a topical DMT mixture (which is basically just a pluronic lecithin organogel) to provide an extended experience with a very gradual, gentle ascent and descent.
I would say that for the last year I have been taking some form of 'huasca (primarily my pharmahuasca preparation) 4-5 times per week, and since February I have gained enough mastery over the substance to basically live on it all the time, running a constant blood level equivalent to a ~25-35mg dose from around 10 am until I shower in the evening.
The amount of personal growth and learning I have experienced in the last several months living in a dreamlike state has been incredible. I have basically become a different person, and the knowledge, confidence, creativity and empathy that have come with it have me in awe. I have wanted to share this process with others so they can experience it as well, but I needed time to be absolutely certain it wasn't illusory. I am confident now that it is not, so I am here to share
Color me bored and yawning.
You sound like an insufferable windbag to this particular tired old hedonist, but go right ahead and break it all down for us, scientificteachershamanguy.
Edit: How about that? My 2,000th Nexus post. I'm sorry I went and used it up on an insufferable shaman teacher.
I can be an insufferable windbag if I so choose. I can also be a playful and give you a healthy serving of oldschool forum smackdown if that is what you are looking for. If you're feeling froggy, leap.
I'm not saying you're an arrogant person. I'm not saying you don't have something very valuable to offer this community. However, a desire to learn from and serve this community will aid you in your desire to contribute knowledge.
I'm surprised that some people got so wound up. I think shaman is a dirty word around here. I came offering some things that I have verified to be novel and of great value after searching high and low to verify that they were not already common knowledge. I'm not trying to preach a life philosophy or a religion, that isn't my role. My job is to give people better tools so they can discover for themselves.
