100th Monkey
Rising Star
Hello friends and elders,
I have been lurking on this site for a few months and feel it is now time to introduce myself and participate in this community. So far I've used this site primarily as a technical resource. I certainly appreciate all the fine folks who have taken time to explain the nuts and bolts of their own extraction procedures, problems, solutions, and experiences along the way. I've come to learn that the answer to just about every technical question imaginable is here somewhere if one is willing to dig for it. My questions answered, I had hoped to explore my true purpose, (fellowship), and maybe someday give something back that will help others.
I'm not a recreational drug user or even an occasional psychonaut. I am a shirt & tie husband and father who works a regular job, drives my kids to little league, but who lives a secret life of study. The focus of my study is Consciousness. My search has pointed me to several spiritual technologies, (e.g. meditation, OBE's, NDE's, and of course psychedelics), a couple of which I've had some experience with. Like many I imagine, I was drawn to this site by the recently re-popularized work of Dr. Rick Strassman, along side of references to the pineal gland made by other authors such as Graham Hancock, and from various ancient mystical traditions.
Quite honestly, I had hoped to be a little further along at this point. From the advice and extraction teks posted by this community I was able to produce a gram of whole milk colored powder. A second pull yielded another gram of evaporated milk colored powder which I kept despite my better judgment. I felt I was good to go! My first experience was in the presence of an experienced sitter. It was a low dose and while visually interesting, nothing to write home about. My sitter couldn't make my second attempt so I had my wife sit in his place. This failed journey was fraught with technical difficulties. My third attempt was solo. More technical difficulties. I went back to the message board before trying again. It was on my fourth attempt that I started to suspect that something was wrong. Impatient and a little frustrated, on this attempt I smoked enough, "...to take down a rhino", in my friend's words. The visuals this time hinted at ancient archetypes, but I could not break through. When the snakes stopped squirming and the room stopped glowing, I sobered up to white powder sprinkled on my bedspread and a trickle of vomit running down the front of my shirt, (from hacking up a lung).
I decided to take a break from DMT for awhile and conserve my powder. A friend suggested I try Salvia Divinorum, an herb everyone seems to regard with extreme caution. I reasoned that this would be a good control. Quite a sneaky herb, but still no shamans in the desert or anything beyond a strange sort of dizziness and disorientation. It was after doing research on Salvia that I think I found the answer. I began taking an SSRI a couple years ago during a particularly difficult ordeal in my family life. I've tried to get off of it a couple times but the withdrawal symptoms made it a tough drug to kick. In my research I found a blog by a woman on my same prescription who experienced the same odd dizziness and general resistance to Salvia. The OTC name for this medication is Celexa, and if I contribute nothing else to this site, I hope to determine for certain whether there is a potential negative drug interaction between DMT and Celexa. I have been completely off of this drug for 6 days now, still withdrawing fairly hard. In a couple weeks I will resume my DMT experimentation and let you know what I experience.
Thank you again to all those who came before me. Now that I'm registered, this site is a little overwhelming in it's vastness!----------------------100th Monkey
I have been lurking on this site for a few months and feel it is now time to introduce myself and participate in this community. So far I've used this site primarily as a technical resource. I certainly appreciate all the fine folks who have taken time to explain the nuts and bolts of their own extraction procedures, problems, solutions, and experiences along the way. I've come to learn that the answer to just about every technical question imaginable is here somewhere if one is willing to dig for it. My questions answered, I had hoped to explore my true purpose, (fellowship), and maybe someday give something back that will help others.
I'm not a recreational drug user or even an occasional psychonaut. I am a shirt & tie husband and father who works a regular job, drives my kids to little league, but who lives a secret life of study. The focus of my study is Consciousness. My search has pointed me to several spiritual technologies, (e.g. meditation, OBE's, NDE's, and of course psychedelics), a couple of which I've had some experience with. Like many I imagine, I was drawn to this site by the recently re-popularized work of Dr. Rick Strassman, along side of references to the pineal gland made by other authors such as Graham Hancock, and from various ancient mystical traditions.
Quite honestly, I had hoped to be a little further along at this point. From the advice and extraction teks posted by this community I was able to produce a gram of whole milk colored powder. A second pull yielded another gram of evaporated milk colored powder which I kept despite my better judgment. I felt I was good to go! My first experience was in the presence of an experienced sitter. It was a low dose and while visually interesting, nothing to write home about. My sitter couldn't make my second attempt so I had my wife sit in his place. This failed journey was fraught with technical difficulties. My third attempt was solo. More technical difficulties. I went back to the message board before trying again. It was on my fourth attempt that I started to suspect that something was wrong. Impatient and a little frustrated, on this attempt I smoked enough, "...to take down a rhino", in my friend's words. The visuals this time hinted at ancient archetypes, but I could not break through. When the snakes stopped squirming and the room stopped glowing, I sobered up to white powder sprinkled on my bedspread and a trickle of vomit running down the front of my shirt, (from hacking up a lung).
I decided to take a break from DMT for awhile and conserve my powder. A friend suggested I try Salvia Divinorum, an herb everyone seems to regard with extreme caution. I reasoned that this would be a good control. Quite a sneaky herb, but still no shamans in the desert or anything beyond a strange sort of dizziness and disorientation. It was after doing research on Salvia that I think I found the answer. I began taking an SSRI a couple years ago during a particularly difficult ordeal in my family life. I've tried to get off of it a couple times but the withdrawal symptoms made it a tough drug to kick. In my research I found a blog by a woman on my same prescription who experienced the same odd dizziness and general resistance to Salvia. The OTC name for this medication is Celexa, and if I contribute nothing else to this site, I hope to determine for certain whether there is a potential negative drug interaction between DMT and Celexa. I have been completely off of this drug for 6 days now, still withdrawing fairly hard. In a couple weeks I will resume my DMT experimentation and let you know what I experience.
Thank you again to all those who came before me. Now that I'm registered, this site is a little overwhelming in it's vastness!----------------------100th Monkey
