I'm not interested in salvia. I've read too many bad trip reports and heard too many people say that it has no spiritual value. Plus I don't want to be out of my mind, especially on my first trip. I'm looking for something with a gentle come-up that lets me ease into the feeling. Smoked salvia...

Hi, Sparky! I'm new, too, and I wonder the same thing. From the hundreds of experience reports I have read, I am under the impression that these are the factors in an ego-death experience: - a fairly high dose of psychedelic substance - a calm, quiet environment - meditation during the...

I would think that after doing DMT as many times as McKenna did—thousands? tens of thousands?—some things began to repeat themselves, patterns emerged, and he could sometimes anticipate what the experience would be like.

I've listened to many of McKenna's talks including the one I think you're referring to. He said "don't give in to astonishment" in the context of in-trip communication. He was convinced that the "DMT beings" or "machine elves" were trying to communicate specific knowledge to the voyager, and...

In the U.S. live cacti or non-dried cuttings seem to be perfectly LEGAL. Pure mescaline is strictly illegal. In between is a gray area: any form of drying, blending, or extracting could be interpreted as "preparation" of mescaline and has some legal risk. Every legal interpretation I've read...

Jamapricotica, you asked if the poster has any previous experience with psychedelics. I do not. My research leads me to believe that cactus (probably San Pedro) is the best way to introduce myself to psychedelics, because it is easily available, easy to prepare at home, and has a gentle and...

Thank you both. I have lived in Pennsylvania only a short time, so please feel free to make Pennsylvania jokes. I won't be offended. :-)

Since other legal psychedelics are available, morning glory seeds seem like much effort and discomfort for relatively little effect. Either you eat the whole seeds and suffer from nausea and leg cramps, or you spend lots of time and money extracting the LSA. So I wonder, is there something...

Since other legal psychedelics are available, morning glory seeds seem like much effort and discomfort for relatively little effect. Either you eat the whole seeds and suffer from nausea and leg cramps, or you spend lots of time and money extracting the LSA. So I wonder, is there something...

I have mild anxiety, for which I now take a low dose of antidepressant. But on the few occasions I've smoked marijuana, I was left with a calm feeling afterward that lasted up to a week. During that time, I could concentrate better because I was not distracted by random thoughts and worries...

Hi, friends. My name is startrek. I'm a professional man in my 40s, and after much reading and thinking and reading and thinking, I've decided that psychedelics are right for me at this time in my life. However, I still have a few questions before I start down that path. I'll post more...