Anybody here used ayahuasca? (aya-soul/dead, wasca-vine/rope a.k.a. Yage?)

uhhh no thanks

you've got to prepare it properly, which takes a long time and is rather laborious, but it really adds a bit to the experience too. you get a MAOI (syrian rue is common, although b. caapi is the actual ayahuasca vine and contains a different ratio of chemicals, leading some, including myself, to prefer it to the comparatively quick and dirty rue), and brew it with a dmt-containing plant source (mimosa hostilis rootbark contains the highest level of alkaloids so it's the easiest - p. viridis is the classic one but really the mimosa's more worthwhile).

the whole mix tastes revolting. like, absolutely revolting. this stuff kinda tastes like stomach acid/vomit. get used to the taste, because you'll be getting it again when you puke it back up. and you WILL puke it back up.

so you hold it down for as long as possible - you want to keep it down so you can absorb as much as you can, but it's coming back up one way or another. the purge is just that, a purge. we're talking projectile vomiting here. but the thing is that it's actually really pleasant in a weird way. when you start feeling sick you just feel bad all over, and then when you throw up...it's honestly completely refreshing and you just feel totally clean, emotionally as well as physically, and kind of euphoric.

shortly after that the actual psychedelic effects kick in. it's sort of different for everyone, like a lot of psychedelics, but for me, my body becomes heavy, heavy, heavy until it feels like it's merged with whatever i'm laying against. at this point i felt like i didn't actually even have a body, and that my consciousness is a little ball of clay being pressed out infinitely in all directions by the ayahuasca. visuals are amazing, the most detailed, beautiful, crystalline jewel-like lattice spreading out over everything, colors spinning, and full-fledged dream movies when you close your eyes. jungle imagery apparently isn't too uncommon, and i've had, for lack of a better word, "spirit jaguars" running through my brain. you cannot remember a time when you didn't feel like you do at the moment. in fact, you have no sense of time whatsoever, to an order of magnitude more than with other psychedelics. i felt like i learned a lot about myself, and had an amazing, gentle, blissful comedown.

honestly, it was one of the most amazing things i've ever experienced. BUT if things had taken a wrong turn, and there's no guarantee whatsoever that with something so incredibly strong it won't, it would be complete, utter hell. so, uh, caveat emptor and all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=736NKsK86Uk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui8-b5ZCQnk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XtJ_Hp17Xk

ALTERED STATES is: about the dumbest movie.

Its pretty stupid but some of the imagery is awesome

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/fez_/goat2.gif

Sometimes I think that I need this medicine. I keep doing things like staying up all night and/or drinking too much and not eating enough b/c I think subconsciously I'm trying to force some meeting with the parts of me that I can't normally access otherwise.

Hmm.

Oh man the inaccessible parts of me have been downright terrifying when accessed.

The only ayahuasca I've got my hands on is that Pelt album.

The only psychedelic drug I've ever tried was mushrooms in chocolate form, and it did nothing but make things not funny. Sucked dude.

fuckin pussy

who? me?

lol paranoid?

no that was directed at rabies for only trying zhrooms once and not liking them. but i was totally j/k

yeah, i'm paranoid. off-topic, but i tried to webmail you about something. how can i bug you about some stuff; not droogs, but Karmapa stuff?
seriously. thnks.

hmm thats weird the webmail didnt come through

try y0u at sc00psn00dle d0t c0m

oh hey never mind it was in my spam box

oh, ok. TECHNOLOGY!!! Go figure.

ok i replied hopefully thatll work!

Last night I was offered DMT by someone, and I (stupidly it turns out) thought it sounded fun and bought some. When he gave it to me he said it was something called "changa". I looked it up today and I can't take it. There is a very high risk of death with my antidepressant. Sounds like the ideal way to take it apart from the whole "may kill you" thing. Isn't supposed to make you puke like ayahuasca does.

oh i didn't realize until just now that this was Yage which at least i know about from the beats. fuck that shit, I'm never taking that. I have a good friend who is a shaman in training though whatever the fuck that means. I mean I know that sounds flakey as shit but he's a straight up great person so who knows.

congrats on not dying, that would have been bad

always wanted to try this stuff after teenage exposure to terence mckenna but it was kinda hard to come by in small-town scotland

I only know the word Yage from the Future Sound Of London, never wondered what it was :-/

I have a friend with a DMT freebase connection but the crack pipe method of ingestion is not a big selling point for going solo.