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Member #2 - 04:43 PM
Correction, it was this recent comment of Dan’s /t/questions-regarding-darkroom-practice-posture-body-and-eyes-movement/979/8
Member #5 - 04:45 PM
Emm.. I am not sure. But taking serotonin precursor and SSRI is a bad idea exactly. Ssri blocks the re-uptake or neuromediator flooding your receptors with serotonin. AND if you give 5-htp or similar, the total amount of serotonin is increased in your body.
From what I know this exact combo could be devastating. When dealing with such delicate matter, always re-check with multiple and most credible sources. There is a lot of dubious validity stuff over there, on websites.
I have a friend who died at the age of 26 due to experimenting with drugs and medications, after a fatal combo… She was also a practitioner of Tensegrity and recapitulation. So I always warn people to be sure they know what they are doing and take all precautions if deciding to pursue any experiments like that
Member #2 - 05:33 PM
Absolutely. It should be a VERY well-informed decision. I’m more interested in it’s possible use as a support to the darkroom, dietary changes and micro-dosing as it were.
But I’m no pharmacologist!
Member #5 - 05:51 PM
Try 5-htp then, could be some curious results
And relatively safe if alone
Member #3 - 06:23 PM
>Most likely, we are getting a brain entering some hybrid state of dreaming and wakefulness
That hybrid state is called “hypnagogia,” in science.
Or an AP shift in here like u said 
Member #3 - 06:37 PM
I’ve got some liberty caps I picked while out walks this year I will experiment with how they aid dark room gazing maybe later this year or maybe next year I’ll let you all know how that goes, I’m sure it’ll go swimmingly. You don’t need darkness to see colours on shrooms we all know that. I’ll maybe experiment more with micro doses, as an amplification of the sober gazing experience instead of an experience in and of itself.
I feel stuck in a bit of a plateau with my practice so I may try it even sooner if I can’t bump myself out that with my own sober efforts.
Member #3 - 06:50 PM
I don’t have an appetite for psychedelics anymore, like a son caught smoking who’s dad made him smoke the whole pack of cigarettes I got all that out my system over the course of a very wavey few years of my life.
The habit reduced itself from tripping on anything and everything Anywhere with anyone, to only tripping alone, to only tripping alone on strictly hawain baby woodrose seeds, and I now do that 2 times a year max. It scares the shit out of me every single time and it’s incredibly intense so you don’t rush to go back to it, the last time I done it was January.
Hawain baby woodrose just happens to be the one thing I’d trip on that was increasingly kind to me every time. It beats the shit out of you but it embraces you and explains you why it was for your own good. It’s like a really loving, really aggressive Chinese street chiropractor…
Lockdown led to me to picking psilocybin mushrooms for the first time a few years this year tho so I’ll see what they can offer me.
I’d never seen the appeal of small doses but I hadn’t been practicing anything like darkroom gazing in the past so now I can maybe see it’s use as a tool.
Saying that, when I’m going thru the carlos books, and I’m just about finished tales of power, the closest thing I relate DJ’s descriptions and experiences of what the Nagual is, is to my DMT experiences in my younger years. Being on DMT is probably the furthest away from worldly reason I’ve ever been in my life, so it naturally comes up when reading these descriptions of this state of being which is so separate from reason and so entirely abstract and non-worldly.
Member #2 - 08:01 PM
"…the brain is where DMT exerts its most interesting effects. There, sites rich in these DMT-sensitive serotonin receptors are involved in mood, perception, and thought. Although the brain denies access to most drugs and chemicals, it takes a particular and remarkable fancy to DMT. It is not stretching the truth to suggest that the brain “hungers” for it.” – DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Rick Strassman, M.D. (2001)
https://upliftconnect.com/brain-on-serotonin/
Member #3 - 08:06 PM
Cool! It’s also interesting to look at the DMT molecules and Psilocin molecule side by side, they’re practically identical.