Joe Macdonald

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. -Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy

A DMT breakthrough is like the craziest carnival you can imagine. Bright colors everywhere, jesters that mess with you, strange creatures all around. It's the most alien, bizarre thing you'll ever see. Despite this, there is a strange sense of 'returning home'.

The best place to take MDMA isn't a rave. Take MDMA with someone you love — fill your bed with pillows, add some lights, put on a good playlist. MDMA lowers boundaries. You can understand your partner at a deeper level, process trauma, & strengthen your relationship.

shrooms know when you have a corrupt soul or impure intentions.

This is exactly what it feels like as you take your second hit of DMT

Terence McKenna preached 5 grams in silent darkness even after a bad trip that caused him to stop taking psilocybin. If you play with the fruits of the gods too often, don't be surprised when the gods start playing with you

Prohibition makes zero sense.

What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms, where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the Mandela, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightning. -Terence McKenna

“Our generation is the first, ever, to have made the search for self-awareness a crime, if it is done with the use of plants or chemical compounds as the means of opening the psychic doors.” -Sasha Shulgin

We used to have a goddamn country before inflation ruined it

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DMT dissolves your reality in 30 seconds. First, it's vivid neon geometry, then a tunnel, then the liminal waiting room. When you finally break through, it feels like home. Intuitively, you know this place. You're left with the question "Why have I been here before?"

Closed-eye visuals on 10-15mg of DMT:

A dual 5-MeO-DMT and n,n DMT vape pen.

Sasha Shulgin created over 240 new psychedelics in his backyard. His favorite? 2C-B. It's described as a mix of MDMA & LSD, just 4–6 hours in length.

DMT didn't make me believe in other dimensions. It made me know. Because I went there. Belief is for things you haven't seen.

Smoked too much DMT and ended up here, how do I escape

You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness. -Terence McKenna

Why are DMT crystals so beautiful?

We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together. -Terence McKenna