where to begin?

[Suliman]

i have a fair experience with psychedelics, particularity with LSD. i recently was fortunate enough to have been able to try DMT for the first time and i was exposed to the most profound, significant experience of my psychoactive career.
i am a profound dogmatic skeptic, but pursuing the numinous seemed strangely important to me after this unique occurrence.

my question is, how can i start using this amazing chemical psychonautically? im not looking to get high here, im looking to explore my consciousness. i have mild experience meditating, but i haven't done it for years. im assuming sensory deprivation is the correct path, but i want to do so correctly and safely.

thanks for your advice.

 

[IJesusChrist]

HAHA GOOD!

I really enjoyed reading that, so many people lately have been "Wow I wanna try DMT dude!" (real life and on this page).

It depends what you are going for...

I personally don't take DMT to talk to god, to "see" reality, or any extroverted goal. When I smoke DMT I am attempting to understand my subconscious. I want to understand what truly is behind the curtain, and I study my reactions, my trips afterwords.

The way I used to do it in the past (I have a long record of extreme anxiety) is take about 4 or 5 drinks of alcohol. Enough to have confidence in my goal, and a want to have reality shattered. This was usually like spinning the barrel of a gun, 4 out of 5 times I'd be fine. The come down would be nice, and I would be euphoric. The 5th time would usually destroy everything I held dear; my relationships, my perceptions, my self.

After having a few incredibly confronting trips about who I am and how I perceive, I realized that is what I wanted to explore.

I usually don't wake up and say "Today's the day! I'm going to do DMT today!"

The day usually progresses 'normally' until about 6pm or 7pm when I feel an urge to understand and learn. Then I know. I set aside one hour to myself. I listen to music for the first 15 minutes. The next 15 I set myself in the zone, remembering my last confrontation, and then the next half hour is light meditation and calming myself into a euphoria.

Then I enter.

 

[EndlessEntity]

yea. not something to take lightly but alot of the time you gotta throw yourself into it and say fuck it
i usually light incense and smoke a little before i do it maybe meditate. i tried meditating during it once but i was completely overwhelmed.

 

[viljo]

I skipped what ijc and mindless entry wrote.

to ask a question or question the nature of your experience.

dogmatic please be specific?

numinous i just don't get it.

which chemical?

were did you go on your last journey?
how long do you wish to stay there?
that's right.
how much reality can you afford to loose?
how well did you control it?

sensory depravation, is religion. Is it not?
If yes I might have made a grave error in reality.

 

[DaZeD]

I usually don't wake up and say "Today's the day! I'm going to do DMT today!"

The day usually progresses 'normally' until about 6pm or 7pm when I feel an urge to understand and learn. Then I know. I set aside one hour to myself. I listen to music for the first 15 minutes. The next 15 I set myself in the zone, remembering my last confrontation, and then the next half hour is light meditation and calming myself into a euphoria.

Me neither!

I often woke up and thought, "today i'm definatly going to smoke DMT", and then i don't, or when i'm at work i cheer myself up with the thought, "when i get home i'll smoke DMT", and i don't.

I always wait for a "special" moment, but then i can wait forever, cause even when a moment seems perfect there's still something that holds me back, DMT (this might be a personal thought) but it just demands a huge form of respect.

I like the way you set yourself up for the trip there JC, seems like the perfect way to prepare yourself, i tend to smoke DMT after a shower, dunno why, but in that shower i do some kind of meditation, though, i'm never really that calm when i hit the pipe (bad choice of words maybe, it make's me sound like some crackhead, but anyway), there's always some degree of tension, but as soon as i inhaled the first toke there comes this overwhelming sensation of complete bliss and intense calmness, the tension fades like melting snow in just an instance.

But to answer the OP's question, i'd have to agree, some kind of meditation is a good idea, what i always do is, i ask, not on loud, but in my head, to what/who-ever is supposed to hear it, that i'll have a good experience, a calm, enlightening, refreshing, peaceful experience, and that works very well for me, i never really had a bad experience, some where heavy, but i wouldn't call them bad at all, and still i'm always tense before smoking DMT, even though afterwards i was always so happy that i've done it.

 

[vibrancy3]

my question is, how can i start using this amazing chemical psychonautically? im not looking to get high here, im looking to explore my consciousness

Suliman here my first DMT tek it costs around £50 (if you have not got the materials) real easy

http://psychonaut.com/post-37988.html?f=36