treefingers49 said:
2ci a reality enhancer? i've had some pretty deep introspective trips on this substance.
I went shopping at the super walmart on 20mg of 2C-I before a party.. my visual field was all crazy but my mind was only worried about if I had read the price tag thing on the powerade right.
2C-I is a visual parade if anything. 2C-I is very reliable for me.. it is recreational. That puts it in a new class of psychedelic really.
2C-I isn't really an Entheogen. Ott coined the word and it literally means "Substances which generate god or spirit within."
theo=god,spirit
gen=creation
Full Definition
ENTHEOGEN nov. verb.:
'God within us', those plant substances that, when ingested, give one a divine experience, in the past commonly called 'hallucinogens', 'psychedelics', 'psychotomimetics', etc etc, to each of which serious objections can be made. A group headed by the Greek scholar Carl A.P. Ruck advances 'entheogen' as fully filling the need, notably catching the rich cultural resonances evoked by the substances, many of them fungal, over vast areas of the world in proto- and prehistory. See Journal of Psychedelic Drugs Vol 11.1-2, 1979, pp 145-6. We favor the adoption of this word. Early Man, throughout much of Eurasia and the Americas, discovered the properties of these substances and regarded them with profound respect and even awe, hedging them about with bonds of secrecy. We are now rediscovering the secret and we should treat the 'entheogens' with the respect to which they were richly entitled. As we undertake to explore their role in the early history of religions, we should call them by a name unvulgarized by hippy abuse."
Anyway
I do two
STRONG mushroom (50+gram wet) sessions a year. After the first spring harvest and and the first fall harvest.
I do these sessions with a sitter who uses a level 2 dose and I've got six spots within a 1 hour drive where even if I got naked and screamed no one would hear me.
We set up a tent and start a small fire. Sometimes an insense balll is lit (burns for 6 hours at least.)
These are my spiritual Shamanic training sessions during which I work toward the ability to attain and control the hyperdementional trance; the result of cumulative conditioning and mental training. The goal of every Shaman is to be able to acheive ego-loss every session. I am a poor Shaman, after 12 years or so I have only achieved this 4 times.
Beyond those I tend to try new substances as they come along and every 3 years or so I have a Mescaline session.
I also use DMT extracted by A/B and vaporized every once in a while but I'm not a fan of Ayahuasca.. I beleive a Shaman should use the tools that can be found in the local enviroment.
I do not, however, train using the traditional old world
velada sacred mushroom ceremony used by the Mazatec shaman healers.
As it stands with the war on thought I am a shaman who works only on my own spirituality (for now.)
I'm currently looking at all the 2C's for use as spiritual tools.
Initial work done with mixng 2C's and organics have me very excited!
I have found 2C-E with fresh mushrooms might be the "golden gun" I have been looking for.