I feel like sharing one of my experiences with t.peruvianus, which is a potent cacti, sometimes as potent as peyote. I had gone to a store in downtown Montreal to buy 20g of cut & dried peruvian torch. They looked like crocodile to me. The next day, at around 4PM i arrive at my friend's house where I was about to prepare my cactus juice. I put the whole bag (20g) of the cacti in the blender and started putting the cacti to powder. Once in powder, I decided to add water and lemon juice (after reading a couple reports that acidity helps the mescaline)... once complete, i was bummed out to see i had 3 full glasses of sick cactus juice/mousse to drink. It was the worst thing ive ever drinked... but i drinked it all, in less then 40 minutes or so... i almost threw up many times, blocked my nostrils and decided to be brave, i really had to finish it after all... I was very doubtful that this would all work... I really didnt think it was the potent stuff, and I didnt believe it would be so easy to have a deep trip by buying this substance at a store this easily for 20$. But I was wrong, thank god About 45 minutes after ingestion, I felt a body buzz, a good one, i was very giddy and pleasant, we then went in a car ride to buy some food at the grocery store where i work, being a bit fucked up, i decided to stay in the car... i didnt want my boss and fellow workers to see me dazed and confused on mescaline . In the car i started gazing with my eyes, eyelids half opened, i stared at the street, the cars, the buildings, and I remember seeing something like a witch house on the other end of the street, and the emotions linked to it were very profound. My friends came back in the car, we put on some Pink Floyd, and drove away. It was "Welcome to the Machine", and the synth was really affecting my senses, it went through me, it was a ball of energy, i could see the ball of energy, it was right in the middle of the car, and everything around this ball of energy was simply part of it. Its like our reality is a hallucination caused by this certain set of circles and spirals. 2 hours later Im outside sitting on the edge of the swimming pool, I am defenitely feeling the psychological and visual effects ... butterflies and dandelions are followed by patterns of colors, leaves are drowning in the water making all kinds of patterns, trees are separated by an energy, like they were sharing a part of their existance with each other, and somehow there seems to be a crack in the water. something splitting it in two, as if it were solid, a mirror. I swore I saw a shape, alive, on the other end of the swimming pool, I still had my eyelids half-opened, in a position where i am able to see. The water allowed me to see things I could not normally see, like a gateway. A while after, I come back inside the house, There was an ant on my foot that stayed on me until I reached the sofa. I sat down and let the and stand there, on my foot, for a long time... we were sharing something, something once again, that was perceivable in a different state of awareness, everytime i see, i notice my eyes are simply gazing... not watching... not inspecting, they just gaze... simply. The ant gets off my foot and starts walking away, it had long legs, spiderlike legs, something once again that i was seeing. around him was a coccoon, and during his crawling, or walking, or whatever fashion it was moving, there was a very distinguishable line that i could perceive linking him to me. after a while i could see his spiderlike legs caught in the coccoon, caugh in its webs... my sober friends were frightened by the weird situation, an ant staring at me for minutes, struggling, but still. I decided to get up, but i could feel a pressure getting more intense everytime I moved further away from the ant, until somehow it snapped, and something was complete. Another little while after, I had an experience with a snake, my friend's snake, took him out of the aquarium and put him on my hand, he usually bites, but said there might be something special. He put him cautiously around my arm, i stood still... letting him venture around my arm... i tried to get rid of all my fear, as i could sense it wanted to feed on my feelings. as i stayed neutral the snake approached me and looked at me, not my face, my body, my stomach, somewhere around my heart... it closed its eyes, i decided to close mine... i had been able to share part of my existance, simply the feeling of beeing with the snake for a few minutes , and i left, stood up and let the snake there, moving... my friend got mad and said "dont you realise, i can lose him so easily, dont let him there, he'll get lost in the cracks of the sofa..." my friend was expressing a lot of anger, and somehow i managed to feel something different about the snake, it got solid, it was insulted somehow... and made abrubt movements in my friends arms. it was quite a struggle to put him back in the aquarium. 5 hours later, a lot of visual hallucinations, patterns, faces are very weird, mouths noses and eyes are smaller and they seem to be in the corner of peoples faces. people look like mexicans , weirdly, and their shapes are very long, kinda like cactus. 6 hours later, I get back home... I still am different, I still see, matter of fact, i still can today, sometimes. 8-9 hours later, effects start to diminish, i get up and go to the bathroom, i feel the cactus wants to get out, i can imagine him escaping from my mouth, but nothing... i go back waiting patiently in my bed for the time to come... I close my eyes and vividly fall into the hypnagogic state, i hear a loud buzz, open my eyes and see a huge cloud of bugs, but of course, this was an hallucination created by the state, and most likely caused due to the intoxication.. it is now 12:45PM... 8:45hours after ingestion, the cactus leaves , violent vomiting... I go to bed, still feeling a little intoxicated and fall asleep ...
Fascinating. I hope one day I'm lucky enough to experience mescaline. From the experiences I've read it seems like a true entheo, one of the few.
lol for real? i saw his eyes go shut once in a while, its something i clearly remember. but it couldve been part of the hallucinations... i wouldnt be impressed.
but are you guys sure? do their eyes sometimes just go dark? like if it had skin over it or something. or just their eyes becomes all dark.? i clearly remember seeing his eyes, and then for a while it was either dark or skin over it.
great report man. really looking forward to getting mine through. i like the way you focused more on the connections you felt rather than the visuals most reports ppl just rave about what they saw.
When snakes are ready to shed they grow a thin layer of skin over their eyes. Probably thats what you saw. Good report btw
A very interesting story. I can see how the indians stayed connected with nature and had great respect for it. The experience with the ant is unique. They are alive and have thoughts too. We humans can make jet airplanes but noone can make a live breathing ant. In India, I saw the Janist people sweeping their path as they walked to make sure they killed no bugs. That's going a little too far, but I put spiders outside rather than smash them. The only thing I can say is don't do it for the high but think of God. Doing it for the high may tweak your brain chemistry..... so go slow. You don't want to be a psysophrenic sp? medicine man in the middle of a city. Who will understand but the doctors?
