Gekke Wijsheid

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Through his writings and through conversations with Jonathan Ott, who describes himself as a "pharmacognocist," I myself and other explorers and researchers interested in this area became aware that it is possible to safely ingest the purified substance 5-Meo-DMT as well as other psychoactive tryptamines as snuff, and with considerable more ease than the Amazonian shamans who snuff the dried plant powders through long blow-tubes (Ott, J., 2001).

An effective dose of 5-10 mg of 5-Meo-DMT can be inhaled into the nasal passage with a straw, in one inhalation, with minimal and transient burning sensations.
This amount is visually about the size of a few grains of salt – and cannot be accurately estimated with the naked eye.
The small size of an effective portion of this medicine has the advantage of ease of ingestion, but the accompanying disadvantage that it is easy to ingest an overdose, producing dissociative panic reactions in naïve or unprepared individuals.

As stated above (p. 24), the ED-50 of 5-Meo-DMT is 5 mg and the DD-50, at which 50% of subjects dissociate, is 15 mg. Careful measurement of these minute doses is therefore highly advisable – one could even say essential.2

The major advantage of the snuffing method of ingestion is that the experience lasts 45 minutes to one hour (compared to 10-15 minutes with the vaporizer inhalation method) – leaving ample time for meditative, therapeutic or shamanic practice, supported
by recorded music or chanting or drumming.

My colleagues and I were affirmed in switching to this as the preferred mode of ingestion when we realized that snuffing is the method the Amazonian Indians use for this medicine, for whom the powdered plant material is forcefully blown into the nostrils.
A further advantage of the snuffing method of ingestion over smoking is that onset of action after insufflation is about 5-7 minutes.
This is because adsorption of the powdered material through the mucous membranes of the nose takes slightly more time than absorption of the inhaled vapor through the lungs. This leaves more time for meditative centering and lessens the likelihood of dissociation due to anxiety at the suddenness of onset.
In comparing ingestion by smoking/vaporizing with ingestion by snuff, the most significant difference between DMT and 5-Meo-DMT also becomes apparent.
It is hard to come by much information of the effect of snorting crystallized pure DMT.
Few people seem to have found this method of ingestion useful because to snuff an effective dose of 50-60 mg. would be a laborious and painful (to the nasal passages) procedure. If you could do it at all, the effect of the snuffed DMT would last about 30 minutes, though I suspect few people are willing to put themselves through such discomfort.

As mentioned above, we had adopted the protective code name Jaguar for this shamanic medicine, and on my own first trial with the snuff method, after several years and dozens of trials of only working with the smoking or inhalational method, telepathically
received an affirmation from the spirit of Amazonian shamans, in the form of the statement – "Jaguars don't smoke." Like other cats, they avoid smoke and fire – but also like other felines, they do constantly sniff and snuff the surrounding chemical atmosphere.

My personal view is that the smoking/vaporizer method of ingesting this substance has no advantages whatsoever over the ingesting by snuff, and several drawbacks, as indicated above.
Negative dissociative and panic reactions can and do still occur with the snuff method, but can be considerably reduced through meditative preparation, a supportive, non-ingesting guide or sitter, clarity of intention and very careful measurement of the minute doses involved.

A further refinement of the ingestion procedure that reduces negative reactions to virtually zero is to take an initial insufflation of about 5 mg, a threshold dose, and then, after 20 minutes or so, when the full effect of that amount is felt, an additional dose of 5 – 10 mg can be taken, by choice, for deeper healing work.
This then produces a depth healing trance lasting about 90 minutes or so, with ordinary real-time awareness of one's body and the surrounding space returning gradually and peacefully.

While the deep, out-of-body states of cosmic consciousness described above with smoking doses of 15 mg and above can and do also occur at these dosage levels, they are less common.
Nor do they seem to be necessary to produce deep healing and insight experiences – which typically occur as the person returns to ordinary time-space awareness.

Rather than a dissociated out-of-body trance state, as can occur involuntarily in trauma, and as can also be used intentionally in hypnotherapy, where the person doesn't remember anything on returning – these are absorptive trance states where awareness remains in the body but is simultaneously expanded into extra-dimensional and infra-somatic realms, and with full memory on returning.

We have found also that having and holding the intention to remember the experience enhances the remembering, thereby connecting the deeper realizations with everyday consciousness.


The following poem was inspired by my experiences with the Jaguar medicine of slowly descending to deeper levels of body consciousness in an intentional, conscious healing trance.
I titled it Diving for Treasures – Absorption. It was recorded in my CD of spoken word poetry, Spirit Soundings, accompanied by beautifully evocative music by Kit Walker and other friends.




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Measuring spoons for amounts of 5-10 mg. of any crystalline powder can be obtained on the internet.
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Uitreksel van "the toad and the jaguar".
Ralph Metzner