How SWIM discovered spice?
In SWIM's youth he had many questions about his challenging situation in life and about life in general... Eventually, his anguish brought him to spiritual literature which opened his deeply manipulated mind and taught him to trust in life, to let go (to a certain degree) and many more. Personal growth and exploration of his spirituality was SWIM's main reason and motivation to do spice. SWIM learnt that we are all connected, that the separation is just an illusion of the physical dimension. He heard that one can consume Ayahuasca to experience this connection with everything... About a year later SWIM has reached the right mind set and decided to extract spice and to try it. He does not regret it.
Who can experience spice?
In SWIM's opinion everyone can do spice, but only those who have the right mind set will get the most out of the experience. For instance, if a person is not opened to the idea that there are other dimensions beyond our universe, that our bodies are not the only part of our beings, he will not be able to integrate the spice experience properly; he will tend to forget it completely or think of it like a hallucination produced by his own mind having no relevance to the real world.
Insights from spice experiences
Taking spice in right mind set is like the red pill, it is a ticket to spiritual revelation with point of no return. Many things SWIM has learnt from spiritual books he accepted in his world. Still, he had a thought of doubt that all that could be just theory helping people to cope with life but having no relevance to the actual reality. Spice experiences have completely destroyed these doubts.
SWIM experienced himself outside of his body. In that state he was feeling with no doubt that he is not his body but is using his body including the brain to experience the physical dimension. He witnessed his body being a complex highly automated biological hardware. He witnessed his eyes seeing, his body balancing, and his brain thinking. He reported this profound experience in another topic here:
TR: being "outside" of the body, you feel like a "tree" :-) - Welcome discussion - Welcome to the DMT-Nexus
SWIM is working on recognizing and disempowering his ego for a while already. He got additional inspiration in the movie "Revolver". SWIM watched a trip report by Joe Rogan on YouTube where Joe told that the spice experience can free a person from his ego. Now SWIM is becoming conscious of the effects of the spice and his other contemplations on this topic. SWIM tends to judge people less and less, especially by their outer appearance. He found a very interesting analogy to describe his new perception of other people. If you watch "Star Wars" you see a plenty of alien beings, most of them having common features of a humanoid like face with eyes and mouth, and arms and legs. Notice your perception of these creatures. You are not conditioned to judge them by their appearance or even actions. You just watch them with interest and curiosity. SWIM experiences the very same feeling towards other people who he is encounters. This is the state where the saying "clothes make people" cease to be valid.
More great realizations came after the SWIMs first trip in a world outside of our dimension. Read the aftermath here: