downwardsfromzero said:
Hello and welcome!
Don't forget the bundleflowers, Desmanthus illinoiensis and D. leptolobus. They might not reach the magic 1% figure but they can be grown from seed and could be a good option for the long haul.
Fortunately, discussion of live plants and seeds is more permissible. And if you're wanting a rapid return (and let's face it, at some point waiting thirty years for a result ceases to be an option...) you might want to consider mushroom cultivation.
I see that you've had some experience with Syrian rue. It could be a worthwhile thing for you to revisit in the course of spiritual inquiry, even just by itself. What do you recall from those previous times? Did you ever combine it with anything else psychoactive/psychedelic, besides the (unsuccessful?) admixture plants? There's a lot more to rue than simple MAO inhibition. Not to mention the possibility of rue+shrooms [shruemahuasca?]
Is Desmanthus illinoiensis useful? I had read that it was very variable and many have discounted it.
I have 5-6 Desmanthus illinoiensis plants in my back yard right now. I grew it years ago and never used it. It's readily spread by birds and popped up in a few corners of the yard other than my garden. I have been avoiding it while mowing for a couple decades in the hopes of facilitating it's spread in my area.
I grew leptolobus in the garden as well, but it never took off very well and I eventually gave up on it.
I tried rue for the first time when I was a teenager, just by smoking and never to potentiate anything.
Fast forward to the early 90's and I was reading about Ayahuasca. I tried to accomplish that a couple times, but the admixtures I had were not good.
It was always with the 2-3 grams of rue considered the minimum required for MAO inhibition. The last time I tried, it did change the experience noticeably, but it was just a dreamy state with extra color enhancement.
A short time after that, 5meo-DMT became available to me. I smoked rue with that in low doses a number of times.
One time, I was on a stronger dose of 5meo and I smoked just 4-5 rue seeds. That was a bit scary, even on that small amount of rue.
Smoked rue on mushrooms once or twice.
This was going on at about the time my daughter was 2 or 3. Shortly thereafter, I could see she was becoming more aware. I decided to stop all such things and concentrate on raising her. I think psychedelics actually enhanced me getting in touch with her when she was very young, but I did not want to influence her with that lifestyle once she got older. That's her decision to make.
I did do mushrooms one more time at a more substantial dose (for me) and met my shadow. A significant experience which I will always remember. Your shadow is
you, ya know. It's the fears and drives and irrational energy which helps you survive.
Can't fight it, can't reason with it, just gotta love it and try to guide it. I call it my "baby".
As an aside, my daughter's 24 now and I've suggested microdosing mushrooms to her for her migraines.
So, my attitude back then was that I had a job to do and that I needed to concentrate on that. I retired about a year ago and now have no job to do. I have relaxed my lifestyle in a number of ways. Mushrooms are fairly easily available. I haven't gone there. I'm thinking of Pedro.
However, I'm fascinated by the reports I've read on DMT. It seems a different league.
People saying they're not scared of dying anymore is nice, ya gotta admit.
I've read over the extraction teks. Some of them seem pretty do-able.
This guy's a little strange, but what do you think of this tek.
Simpler stuff like this STB seems to be dependent on using MHRB though, not sure.
Thus me asking about that and wondering if it is necessary for the simpler teks.
However, I do understand that might be a difficult subject.
Thanks a whole bunch for your input.
