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Nirvikalpa Samahdi - A trip report

Qoniaq

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Nivikalpa Samahdi
A DMT trip report.
Nov 8th, 2025. Evening-night.
Weight 100kg
Amount vaped: ¾ of a 700mg cart over a 90 minute period.
From my Journal.

Trying to relay a DMT experience is difficult, at best. But when one receives a gift such as I did this weekend, words, indeed the concepts of language are poorly equipped to even hint at the exquisite perfection of the experience of complete dissolution of self. In fact words, thoughts even the concept of codified meaning had no place there (or here, or everywhere or …what?).
Most of my experiences with DMT are closer to the standard DMT trips at large: That is to say, for me, an all-encompassing hum, like a didgeridoo the size of the solar system, mixed with every voice in history all sounding out a perfect ‘’OHM'’ all at once, a wave or 'wall' of energy crashing over me from behind, Aztek feelings, Jaguar energy, ever changing muti-leveled creations of multidimensional beauty. These doses were usually in the range of 2 or 3 pulls of between 12-17 secs each or so on a 1:1 ratio cart at 4.2 volts on the Yocan Uni pro 3.0. This is more than enough for breakthrough doses for me. Over the course of the last years, I have gone to the DMT space about once a week, in a kind or religious communion. Of course, these trips were and are all worthy of a trip report, each a glorious and special exploration, and I do keep a journal of all my experiences, but the one I am about to relay is qualitatively, and spiritually different form all the other DMT experiences I have had. Some of the trips I have had fall into the ‘’entity’’ type encounters, with a many '‘shaman / healing’’ experiences as well. I have been called to vocalize many times too, to interact with the environment I was in, but I cannot reproduce the sounds my vocal chords make in the DMT space, while back in the real world. I cannot create overtones in regular consciousness the way I can in the DMT state. I cannot access the bass tones or soprano sounds that I can create while in DMT land. So, in all , I would say the last 30-40 or so trips have been more or less exactly along these lines. More than incredible for those who have never tried DMT, but for the more experienced readers here at the Nexus, hardly anything new for you.
Back to our story.
We have been doing a ‘stepped’ approach to DMT. It alleviates most if not all of the tension and nerves that usually precede a DMT pull. What we do now, is a ‘handshake’ hit first. I take a good 6-7 seconds pull of the cart, knowing full well I will not do more for the moment, and sit back for the light show. This dose is not enough for a breakthrough for me, but it is enough to let me have a ‘taste’ of the trip to come, should I choose to continue. Also, since I have made the conscious decision to do ONLY that small hit, I get no fear, palpitations, or apprehension at all. No ‘shaking hand on the pipe’ syndrome! This was my first run on a new cart, and it was full of crystals. I had to warm it in my hands for many minutes first. This handshake went through the customary visions I seem to get on my way in to the DMT world, and then it transformed. The overall feeling was one of the Buddha. Not of animal spirits, ancient cultures, concentrated meaning, fractals, kaleidoscopes or entities. Just a silhouette of a cyberpunk-type Buddha. Lotus position, in meditation.
I came back and looked at the unopened can of Heineken on the table, and the big joint I had prepped. I told my buddy to put my beer back in the fridge, as I was going to do another trip, and I don’t mix booze or weed with DMT. Neither does he.
As we were getting ready for a proper hit, I put ‘Know Thyself’ by ‘Suns of Arqa’’ on play on the sound system, and as the flute started to play, I took my first hits. 1 big hit of around 15-17 secs, held it for a bit, then took another big 15 second hit right away. Laid back and let myself expand. There were not many visuals, no big sense of acceleration, no tunnels or entities. Just a pure quiet. All I could hear was the drone in the song, and the melody of a flute, that accompanied me to the highest mountain top. Where I sat, alone and with everything. It was as if my mind held its breath, and just stayed like that. There was no voice or voices, no inner dialog, no conversation. Not even an observer. Just pure ‘’Is-ness’’. My attachment to my body was inexistent, as was my attachment to my life, my wife, my daughter. All meaningless. My concept of self, gone. And not even missed. Not even an ‘I’. The stillness was pristine. An exquisite meditation where I could literally ‘play’ with any encroaching thoughts like kids toys. The most sacred space surrounded me. A gift from the source. A kiss on my spirit. It is the highest and most exalted place I have ever experienced in all my lifetimes. The absolute pinnacle of peace. No illusions. Nirvikalpa Samahdi. Christ consciousness. Not alone, not with anything. No separation. There was absolutely no concept of time. There was no ‘other’, just being.
As soon as I would ‘feel’ my hand on the vape, I would quietly bring it to my lips and take more. I did this over and over, never leaving the meditation. If you have heard ‘know thyself’ then you know what an emotional hit it is when the basslines are introduced to the divine pattern of the raga. Bom Shiva, and more hits.
During the entire session, I was dissolved. Fully and completely ego less, my only requirement was a slight hand movement every 10 minutes or so to add more altitude. And I could even do this ‘separated’ from my body. The hand was on auto pilot, and knew how to introduce the DMT to my lips. Even the once or twice that I remember ‘missing’ my mouth only served to deepen my concentration and my pure minded state. There were no distractions. No possibility of anything wavering in my perfect blissful state. Whatever was happening, whatever COULD happen would only deepen my meditation. The Album finished without me noticing. I was just on the mountaintop, in the void, floating in the arms of Source. Absolute spiritual perfection.
At one point I heard my trip buddy ring the Tibetan singing bowl we use to mark time. My hand went off auto pilot, and did not bring the vape back to my lips. Then at some point I heard a voice say calmly ‘’You’ve been in there for an hour and a half. It’s 9:30’’ I could not comprehend the message. What does and hour mean? What is 9:30? I have been, and always will be as I am now. What does ‘in there’ mean?. I let myself come back into my body, the familiar little ‘shiver’ in the muscles in the back of my legs welcomed me home. The same little twitch you sometimes get after an earth shattering orgasm. I moved my feet at the ankles for a bit, and yawned myself into physical presence. I felt as though I had taken a full body spiritual shower. Like I had been given a gift beyond anything I could have ever hoped for. I had been presented the road map, the goal of all the meditation, the mother healer. The state of Is-ness that can not be other than its own Is-ness. Like winning the astral lottery. I placed my hands in a kind of ‘namaste’ pose, and wept. I wept tears of the purest joy. I don’t know for how long. My face in my palms, I found myself saying thank you over and over again. In the 4 languages I do speak, and then in dozens of languages I do not speak. An outpouring of gratitude, of recognition that what I had just been offered was the highest of all gifts, of all love. I had been granted an audience to the divine, and I felt like I had been there forever.
I checked the cart. I almost emptied the whole thing over that 90 minutes.
The next thing I remember feeling was huge sadness, or maybe disappointment that I would so easily ‘abandon’ my family, my daughter, my life. How quickly the switch was switched. How, without any hesitation or doubt, I plunged headlong into the dissolution of my self. Never even giving a thought (there is no thought) about my family. That they need me, that they love me. That they would be devastated if I never came back. But I tell you I could have stayed there till death as some of the ascetics do in Eastern traditions. I understood why monastic life requires you to detach from everything. It is so you are NOT attached to anything that could hold you back from diving headfirst into the deepest of all '‘no coming back from this’' meditation. It is because the perfect state of mediation is like unto death. There is no need to return, no desires (as there is no separation of self / anything else) no regrets. And having attachment to the people we love holds us back from this state. Some time passed, and I came to grips with what I had just experienced.
When I got home, I gave my loved ones the biggest hugs ever. I held them close. They did not know what/where/when I had just ‘been’, but I knew that I am not an ascetic. I have attachments (for good or bad). I love my family. And I was so happy to have the chance of having a body, of living this life of joy and suffering, of having to chop wood and carry water. I am not ready to give up all these attachments yet, but I know now that when the time comes, I will return to source, as we all do. I will do it with an open heart and an accepting soul. No fear. Because I got a gift. A handshake. A perfect, exquisite, ineffable view, a taste of reality in its infinite sacred beauty. The mountaintop.
Maybe I made a cart of 5 MEO by accident! Hahahahaha…
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Forever, thank you.

Thanks for reading!
PLUR
Q
 
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Fully and completely ego less, my only requirement was a slight hand movement every 10 minutes or so to add more altitude.
Thank you for a wonderful report. I just want to nitpick a bit and say that if you have any concept of self, body, or hands, you are not in a state of complete ego loss.

DMT can produce a range of experiences, but complete ego loss on any substance is a rare occurrence. You can be quite far gone and still maintain some concept of form or body, similar to how we have a vague sense of being a body while we sleep. A true nirvikalpa samadhi would be similar to a blackout or deep sleep, but with your awareness intact.

The simple trick is asking who is egoless, or simply moving your attention to whoever is experiencing the state. You will be surprised by how quickly it gets real. A true egoless state is usually accompanied by extreme fear and dread, as if you are about to die. Still, all experiences are useful, and you will see what this gave you later on. It is never about fireworks or insights; it is always about your mundane, sober life.

Peace 🕊️
 
Hiya, hey thanks for reading and commenting!! Nice to know there is someone out there! :)
So, yeah, I get what you are saying for sure. Explaining, or writing about things that are so deeply hard to describe assures I will never get close to approaching the truth in writing.
I have had 2 experiences with 5MEO as well (but not Bufo, just synthetic, but I would love to try natural Bufo as well!!! 100%), and though similar, this was different from the point of view of the selfless self (if that makes any darned sense.....). There was an awareness in this trip that was not related to ''MY'' self, or to my feeling of agency. Not ego-death like 5MEO, but more of an ego dissolution. Like it all just went away, as though it were never there. So, nothing felt like it was lost. A meditation wherin I could leave the self aside, where the 'me' no longer had a say, and there was no sense of the observer either. My 'self' or 'ego' was not dead in my mind, not lost. Just no longer necessary, and as if it never was in the 1st place. The ''I'' that ''I' was, was not my personal ''I'' nor my observer, that ''I'' I can usually get in touch with (''I'' meditates daily) No, this was the ''I'' that is behind the observer. The ''I'' that allows the observer ''I'' to see the ego ''I''. (Sheesh, I am re-reading this, and I am having a hard time, but there you have it. not easy to deal with this stuff!! )
Personally, I did not find my 5MEO experiences to be scary or frightening. Heavy, yes. Deep. Calm. Single pointed. Pure. But super peaceful and loving. Like Deemz if Deemzy was itself on MDMA! But I tend to move into these experiences with my 'spiritual' chest forward, as if jumping out of a plane. The 2 times I've done 5MEO, I jumped in head first. I don't muck about with handshakes, small doses and such. I don't ''lean'' into 5MEO. I just effin go! I take the vape and hit it 2 times at 6-7 seconds, and I hold the 2nd one until I am no longer there. That is how I was initiated to it, maybe there are other/better ways? let me know! I don't have many 'memories' of my 5MEO trips, not at all like NN. Also I don't feel any real need to go back to the 5MEO space either. I have never had any physical symptoms, or trauma surfacing, or anything like that. Both were beautiful experiences. My takeaways from 5MEO are truly ineffable, not images, not even feelings. Just a deep and profound understanding of the source. It destroyed any and all faith I may have had (I had very little to begin with, as I got my degree in Classics!) and replaced it with a lived experience of integration/reunion with the infinite. Like the difference between having an elephant descibed to you or seeing a picture of one, vs touching one, riding it, smelling it, even stepping in its crap, if needed, and having a true experience of the elephant, not just a representation. But knowing, really KNOWING what an elephant is. Or as they say in the Matrix, it's kind of like being in love, noboby can tell you you are, you just know it, balls to bones. 5MEO did this to me about ''God'' or whatever divine word titillates you. But there was not very much for ''me'' to bring home from 5MEO. Maybe because there was just no ME. It was more of a confirmation of long know truths. A kind of ''Oh, OK. You were right, and you can move on to other adventures now, you're good to go buddy!. Cheers!'' It gave me permission to truly trust my own path, and my own destination. All is OK, right place right time...all that...All the woowoo stuff, but that's what I got! But I never went through the ''total perspective vortex'' of Douglas Adams fame with 5MEO, though I know many who say they have.
This NN trip I described was not like 5MEO, not a death of my ego (you are correct) , but more of a 3 doors down perspective, of the self behind the observer that is behind the ego that is behind the toughts...No more self, but still with agency.
As for the re-hits, I do them pretty much on auto pilot. As I may have mentioned before, place a 2 foot long clear tube on the end of your vape, and leave it close to (or still in the corner) of your mouth. The slightest pressure on your thumb, deep breath and you are hitting it again. Not quite DMTX, but pretty close. My next experiment will be a CPAP machine plugged into a cart if I can find a way to control the dosing!
 
First and foremost, I am simply sharing my understanding. It is in no way an absolute truth, but rather one more angle from which to approach this entire topic.
Every description of nirvikalpa samadhi I have read assumes a total loss of all bodily awareness, which is why I pointed it out.
It destroyed any and all faith I may have had (I had very little to begin with, as I got my degree in Classics!) and replaced it with a lived experience of integration/reunion with the infinite.
That sounds like the outcome of proper ego dissolution. Exactly how many layers were removed during the experience remains unknown. We enter samadhi each night during deep sleep, yet no one places much weight on it. My issue with all these reports of transcendence is that there is always something experiencing it. That is the mystery: what is this something?

No one can remain high for an entire lifetime; at some point, we all must come down. Even if you have the means to use DMT every day, old age and death will eventually knock on your door. So, what is the point of all this? Surely there is something to bring back from these trips. I feel the most important part is how the experience changes you.

🙏
 
what is "I". that's the million dollar question I keep going in to explore.
Exactly. At some point, it sinks in that you don't even need any external help or high states. This "I" is always with you because it is you. The whole quest is about investigating yourself.

If psychedelics keep you motivated and bring more fire to your path, by all means, continue. We all need to find our own way and use the tools that help. Personally, I don't think one can get the final answer with psychedelics. You can come very close, but in the end, you need to cross the finish line by yourself. Although in our hectic age, almost no one reaches that far, imo. All the best on your path. May you find what you seek 🙏
 
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