Great video, I love hearing McKenna talk about DMT. I was just trying to explain to a friend about how, "when you're there, it's more real than here", but I couldn't do it justice. McKenna hits the nail on the head though when he describes it in this video though.

I'm in the process of reading his book "The Invisible Landscape" right now. Pretty good so far... It dumps a lot of knowledge on the reader in the beginning.

And it's also great to hear Terence speak on pretty much any topic. He is beyond articulate. If you're just getting into Mr. McKenna, I would recommend True Hallucinations first, it's the story about his Amazon adventure, which Invisible Landscape analyzes.

DMT even if hard to buy is relatively easy to produce if you can get access to the right plants. I'm not sure if the plants are legal in the states. But they are over here. And there are enough guides online to make it. I know multiple chemistry students who make a big buck making DMT over here.

I read it before I ever tried DMT as well. Especially entertaining were the later chapters speculating on how to explain the phenomena with quantum mechanics and dark matter. It didn't really matter that I familiarized myself with it beforehand though, I was still pretty scared because it was my first psychedelic. I recorded reports for 5mg increments, 20-50mg. Craziest trips weren't actually break-throughs either, they were the ones where I was probably just a few milligrams short of it. The DMT realm and entities from it would bleed heavily into this reality, but framed strangely still in this dimension. DMT is also the only psychedelic I've tried where I distinctly remember having radically changed touch, smell, and taste, instead of the normal vision and hearing. Lots of synaesthesia too. My skin always felt like beach sand, my clothes felt like some kind of fleshy substance. Definitely an 'otherness' with it.

@shikoku
It is like Shulgin says, DMT is in more places than not. They would never be able to ban all the plants that contain it, it is just way too common in nature.

easily make DMT: ======================= Break 1-Pound of Mimosa Hostilis rootbark into 2" pieces and grind it all up in a glass-topped blender, a little at a time. ------------------------------------Polar Extraction: Premix in an empty 1-Gallon plastic jug: 1-Quart White Vinegar & 3-Quarts Water. Put the ground up Mimosa in a 3-Liter crockpot, then fill it with the water-vinegar solution. Stir well and turn it on "high". After 2 hours, remove the crockpot ceramic liner, hold the lid on slightly offset, and pour off most of the liquid into a 1-gallon wide-mouthed glass or stainless container. Add the remaining water-vinegar solution to the crockpot again. Stir well and turn it on "high". After 2 hours, remove the crockpotceramic liner, hold the lid on slightly offset, and pour off all of the liquid into the same container again. Discard the rootbark fiber and save the two combined extractions in the 1-gallon container. Allow the vegetable particles in the extraction in the 1-gallon container to settle to the bottom overnight. Then pour off the liquid into an empty 1-Gallon glasswinejug, being careful not to pour off any of the vegetable sludgeat the bottom. Discard the sludge and keep the contents of the wine jug. ------------------------------------Basification: Premix in advance a solution of: 5 Tablespoons (63grams) of Sodium Hydroxide ("Red Devil" lye) with1-Pint of WARM Water. Stir well. Slowly add this solution to the wine jug, then cap the jug. Gently tilt the wine jug back and forth for 1 full minute to mix the contents. ------------------------------------Nonpolar Extraction: Add 250ml of (Ace Hardware)VM&P Naptha to the wine jug. Add exactly enough warm water to the jug to raise the liquid level to an inch below the top, then cap the jug. Gently tilt the wine jug slowly back and forth for 5 full minutes to mix the contents. Allow the jug to sit undisturbed on a table for at least 4 hours. There should now be two layers visible in the jug, a lower dark one and a smaller clear one on top filling the neck of the jug. Use a glass turkey baster to suck up the top clear layerintoa pint mason jar. Be careful not to suck up any of the lower brown/black layer into the mason jar. -------------------------------------Freeze-precipitation/wash: place the sealed mason jar in a FREEZER for 3 days to precipitate the crystals. Prepare a filter setup by placing a funnel into a quart mason jar and putting a small coffee filter paper into the funnel. Shake the naptha in the mason jar strongly to stir up all the crystals atthe bottom and quickly pour while still very cold into the funnel for filtering. Impure yellow-white DMT crystals willbeseenon the coffee filter paper. Allow the crystals to completely dry out on the filter paper in the funnel. Premix a wash solution by mixing equal parts of Distilled Water and NON-SOAPY clear Ammonium Hydroxide(Ace Hardware Janitorial Strength Ammonia) into a pint container. Slowly pour 100ml of the wash solution over the crystals (still in the filter paper) to wash them. Remove the filter paper from the funnel, spread it out flat and allow the crystals to COMPLETELY dry out. You will now have 2-1/2 grams of white crystal DMT.Atleast50 strong doses. Mix it with some parsley and smoke a little in your favorite pipe!

sooooo I tried DMT

Long story short: yeah. Whoo. :)

kungfu2882 said:

@stoney216 BTW I just bought that book. Thanks for the recommendation, man :)

No problem. Let me know how you like it!

Well, I should have said "ordered"... It's on the way.

kungfu2882 said:

sooooo I tried DMT

Long story short: yeah. Whoo. :)

Ahh.. Welcome. It's Nice, huh?

@Inception. Get over it. If it doesn't work for you, that's great. People seem to enjoy it. What you are saying is tantamount to going to a theme park and saying that riding the lazy river is the only valid experience there. You can't mock or denigrate people for wanting to take the roller coaster with 5 loops. Also, I'm sure many of these people have changed their "alter state" or however you put it while sober. They are not the ones with the issue here, that would be you.

Trismegistus said:

I am currently reading the chapter on "Mystical states" This book was an incredible exclusive look into the world of illicit substances, and the legalities regarding research and synthesizing DMT. There are manifold accounts of high dose controlled trips and the patterns and themes that reoccur in each unique trip is an interesting glimpse into our collective unconscious. Its a shame that these substances cant be studied intensively. Notably, although psychedelics are traditionally taken in a natural/shamanic set and setting, the DMT is administered intravenously in the top floor of a hospital. This, however, is more or less appropriate for such an unprecedented alien a substance as pure dimethyltryptamine.

Strassman's the man.

Some had real great breakthroughs I heard. But those people where cosmonauts or shamans. I agree, they need to really test this stuff wholeheartedly. Again and again until the end of time if that's what it takes. So much going on unexplained.

kungfu2882 said:

I actually read DMT: The Spirit Molecule recently, as well. It was refreshing to read a psychiatrist's take on the hallucination phenomenon and have that view alter as the tests progress. Unfortunately, I'm unable to find any DMT to give it a shot myself, but I'm hoping the universe will drop some in my lap pretty soon.

Do you have any bush parties where you live? Find out where your local bush rave parties are at and I 100% guarantee you that you will find DMT there, the first step to finding DMT is finding the right community. I'm in no way a fan of techno and rave music but I figured that's where I would be able to obtain this shit, at underground rave bush parties...they call them "doof doof" parties here in Australia.

I've tripped on a few things, but not DMT, yet. I was wondering, what are everyone's thoughts on "trip characters" that pop up and interact with you. Random neurons firing, inter-dimensional beings, angels and demons, Jinn, spirits or ghosts, reptilians, projections of your own dna or any other things outlandish enough that they might be true? I'm constantly shifting in my perception of the trip, and figure DMT is the current peak of psychedelia, so it should also be the setting to figure it out. They do seem to have some wisdom about them that both terrifies and soothes me if that makes sense.