DXM: Psychedelics Lite?

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Would I recommend DXM for your present state of mind? Try a low second plateau trip and see how you feel, but don't get cocky because it's so easy to handle at that point and jump straight to the third. Increase gradually. I honestly think you'd be much much better off with mescaline, as others have said, but that's only from what I've read of it; have yet to try the sacred cactus myself. In a few weeks though, that will have changed.

Why? Because unlike most, I have taken the time and effort to cultivate a shamanic relationship with DXM, instead of merely treating it as a drug used for personal pleasure.

DXM, like ketamine, is a crystallization of Thanatos energy. Thanatos refers to Death, Darkness, the Underworld, etc. This is just how it is. It's not scary, or evil. Exquisitely beautiful, in fact. There is no light without darkness.

Think of it this way: Being alone in the woods at night is frightening if you live in the daytime world. But if you are a nocturnal creature, you are quite at home. It's the same with DXM - it can take you to the shadow world, but you have been transformed into an inhuman shadow-being yourself, so it's all quite comfortable.

I don't know why more people don't articulate these aspects of dissociatives. It's very clear to me. But then I've always been a purist, taking care to use entheogens in the most respectful, patient, focused manner possible. No doubt this is why I am apparently permitted to travel places that others are denied.

Some people who have used DXM may have no idea what Darkness I'm referring to, but then they're probably the ones who chug a bottle of Robotussin and then play video games. You think Dexter is going to grace them with its power and glory? Fuck no!

Terence McKenna had some great advice for working with Minded entheogens, such as the plant teachers, and things like DXM. Ask it to "show me what you are for yourself." This is a very powerful exercise. Try it sometime, you might get a response.

I love this post and I love your approach to tripping.

I'm also curious about ketamine, wonder if K-holing will be anything like what you describe for me. Everyone here seems to think highly of DXM, but I took it to the third plateau and had an experience I can't describe as psychedelic in any sense, just fucked. Completely fucked. I'll likely never touch it again. The second plateau, however, was beautiful, and weird.

I agree with whoever said that music and a dark room is essential. As for whether it's psychedelic or just dissociative, it seems to depend on the person... in my case, it was massively dissociative, there were no distortions of senses as you get on a tryptamine / phenethylamine trip (no visuals, for example) but for others, it is psychedelic.