Hey!

I like a lot your intro essay   Congrats on your success with extracting (and big ups for taking the initiative to doing it).  How did you extract, A/B, STB, with or without wash/re-x, freeze or evap etc?  Personally I like a lot the extractions that use limonene as the non-polar solvent, and salting with fumaric acid. Check BLAB for example,  I feel yields are really excellent when extracting like this, and I appreciate the fact that DMT fumarates store good, can be consumed orally and can be converted to white freebase crystals easily.

As for getting nervous/apprehensive about smoking DMT,  thats completely normal, and a good sign (if its not an extreme panic I guess), because it shows respect. Even after years of first having tried DMT I still get this apprehensiveness before smoking it again.  There are a few things one can do to help, one of them is to first smoke a small dose to remember a bit and get somehow used to the body effects, wait a few minutes sitting down, breathing slowly and focusing intentions, and then truely going for it.  Also I like taking small-mid doses of shrooms and smoking on top, there is a fantastic synergy and the mushrooms are a great platform to launch from and to come back to, easier for integration and so on.   In any case, remember there is no rush to doing it again, do it when you feel right   The first year or so of DMT use I would do it a few times, but nowadays its much more rare.

One thing I was wondering, what is your smoking method?  Also what kind of setting do you smoke it in?

So another thing I realy really liked about your essay is what you said about enlightenment. I completely agree, and I think instead of searching for an end-state where all is perfect, we should rather appreciate the eternally changing process of life and try to do the best we can along the way, always trying to learn and improve ourselves and turn that back into the world.

Hope to read more from you soon! See ya!