Psychedelic brew ayahuasca’s profound impact revealed in brain scans
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#2I am fascinated by this stuff and DMT and part of me would love to try it. It appears most people experience the same entities such as the self-transforming elf machines. I read another transcript where somebody met their intergalactic girlfriend and the absolute bliss of their reunion and how it felt like they have known each other for hundreds of years.
A nice short of Terence McKenna discussing the DMT Elves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tGPM7ZxgOM
Another example DMT Girlfriend (can't find the original transcript) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHLpB38LNg4
Re: Psychedelic brew ayahuasca’s profound impact revealed in brain scans
#3I am fascinated by this stuff and DMT and part of me would love to try it. It appears most people experience the same entities such as the self-transforming elf machines. I read another transcript where somebody met their intergalactic girlfriend and the absolute bliss of their reunion and how it felt like they have known each other for hundreds of years. A nice short of Terence McKenna discussing the DMT Elves https…
I would advice against prolonged use or using it often. I have seen people around me change their behavior irrationally and erratically, and not for the good, as in not being able to regulate their emotions in a sensible fashion. So while fascinating perhaps, I don’t think it is always used responsibly.
Re: Psychedelic brew ayahuasca’s profound impact revealed in brain scans
#4I am fascinated by this stuff and DMT and part of me would love to try it. It appears most people experience the same entities such as the self-transforming elf machines. I read another transcript where somebody met their intergalactic girlfriend and the absolute bliss of their reunion and how it felt like they have known each other for hundreds of years. A nice short of Terence McKenna discussing the DMT Elves https…
I would advice against prolonged use or using it often. I have seen people around me change their behavior irrationally and erratically, and not for the good, as in not being able to regulate their emotions in a sensible fashion. So while fascinating perhaps, I don’t think it is always used responsibly.
As seems to be the case with most things. Everything done in moderation. Overconsumption of anything will bring harm in different ways.
I also believe some changes to ones personality is less than ideal, but more ideal than say, chronic opioid/stimulant/etc use over time
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#5I am fascinated by this stuff and DMT and part of me would love to try it. It appears most people experience the same entities such as the self-transforming elf machines. I read another transcript where somebody met their intergalactic girlfriend and the absolute bliss of their reunion and how it felt like they have known each other for hundreds of years. A nice short of Terence McKenna discussing the DMT Elves https…
I love reading the trip reports on Erowid:
Re: Psychedelic brew ayahuasca’s profound impact revealed in brain scans
#6I am fascinated by this stuff and DMT and part of me would love to try it. It appears most people experience the same entities such as the self-transforming elf machines. I read another transcript where somebody met their intergalactic girlfriend and the absolute bliss of their reunion and how it felt like they have known each other for hundreds of years. A nice short of Terence McKenna discussing the DMT Elves https…
I would advice against prolonged use or using it often. I have seen people around me change their behavior irrationally and erratically, and not for the good, as in not being able to regulate their emotions in a sensible fashion. So while fascinating perhaps, I don’t think it is always used responsibly.
Many would say the same about friends taking antidepressants as IMA, ISRS, ATC… or others DANGEROUS stuff as opioids.
An average 2023 pharma shopping bag is highly dangerous when not used responsibly !
Moreover, DMT does not induce any addiction, which may be a cause of its absence on drug dealers and pharmacorps shelves.
We should celebrate studies of medecines that have a chance to help people without damaging them.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would advice against prolonged use or using it often. I have seen people around me change their behavior irrationally and erratically, and not for the good, as in not being able to regulate their emotions in a sensible fashion. So while fascinating perhaps, I don’t think it is always used responsibly.
Many would say the same about friends taking antidepressants as IMA, ISRS, ATC… or others DANGEROUS stuff as opioids. An average 2023 pharma shopping bag is highly dangerous when not used responsibly ! Moreover, DMT does not induce any addiction, which may be a cause of its absence on drug dealers and pharmacorps shelves. We should celebrate studies of medecines that have a chance to help people without damaging them…
Sounds like DMT can damage them as well. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26166234/
Re: Psychedelic brew ayahuasca’s profound impact revealed in brain scans
#8I am fascinated by this stuff and DMT and part of me would love to try it. It appears most people experience the same entities such as the self-transforming elf machines. I read another transcript where somebody met their intergalactic girlfriend and the absolute bliss of their reunion and how it felt like they have known each other for hundreds of years. A nice short of Terence McKenna discussing the DMT Elves https…
I would advice against prolonged use or using it often. I have seen people around me change their behavior irrationally and erratically, and not for the good, as in not being able to regulate their emotions in a sensible fashion. So while fascinating perhaps, I don’t think it is always used responsibly.
Everything in moderation, especially moderation.
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#9I had never done any kind of drugs in my life or psychedelics, but took Ayahuasca once with friends who were in the personal wellness space circa 2010.
My experience:
- tastes like mud
- it’s recommended to vomit after taking it, but I felt too self-conscious because we were all together in the same room
- the first part of the trip was wonderful as I spent 2hours in bliss seeing colored lights, I still remember this feeling fondly
- the next 2 hours were bad as I saw myself as a kid alone crying in recess, but it did help me see past trauma I hadn’t resolved yet
- for the following month, I felt 10x more present in my body and alive.
- I got more confrontational which almost got me into fights, but also got me laid
- after 1 month my state went back to normal, this made me sad since I loved my other, 10x more confident self
- it seems the reason it lasted so long is because I couldn’t vomit in the first place, so the “medecine” stayed with me longer
Overall awesome experience and would love to do it again.
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#10I am fascinated by this stuff and DMT and part of me would love to try it. It appears most people experience the same entities such as the self-transforming elf machines. I read another transcript where somebody met their intergalactic girlfriend and the absolute bliss of their reunion and how it felt like they have known each other for hundreds of years. A nice short of Terence McKenna discussing the DMT Elves https…
I believe whats happening at a certain level all brains encode an abstract conscious reality-stream in a similar way, and as such distortions to the brain manifest in similar ways for everyone. The fact that DMT entities are so common tells us that the perception of other consciousness's is a primitive attribute in however our world-state is managed by the brain. Flip a few random bits in an image, you get pixels. Flip a few random bits in the brain, you get conversations with entities. The error mode tells you about the data format.
So here's my conjecture. The brain attributes a "spirit" to every object the same as it attributes color and size and shape. Linguistically we use it all the time to reason about cause and effect. "The piston wants the wheel to turn, but it is too tired". Some cultures literally believe in these spirits.