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Thanks for your reply.

    I've smoked DMT concentrate once. I don't believe it was the 5-MEO compound, but I'm not 100% certain.

Do you know of any of the specific differences between smoking DMT and drinking ayuhausca? (i.e., why are there different experiences?).

    I experienced the usual kaleidoscopic, geometric visuals, and was left with strong sense of spirituality and conviction, and an overall appreciation for life.

When you say you gained a "strong sense" of spirituality, what actually caused this? Was it specifically a personal moment while on DMT? Was it an entity or feeling or shape/colour? Was it any of the following:

1. Bursts, puffs, and splashes of colour.

2. Repetitive, multiplying non-figurative elements.

3. Geometric designs and patterns.

4. Designs with figures. [Figures are vis-ual elements that look like things, plant, animal, human, and so forth.]

5. Rapid figural transformations

6. Kaleidoscopic images.

7. Well-defined, stable, single figurative images.

8. Proto-scenes.

9. Full-fledged scenes.

10. Interactive scenes. [The visionary has limited interaction with things in the scene.]

11. Scenes of flight. [The visionary is fly-ing over the scene and has a subjective sense of flight, though he or she is, in fact, immobile. One may become trans-formed into a bird.]

12. Celestial and heavenly scenes.

13. Virtual Reality.

Does the spiritual feeling stay with you today? Has the experience changed you in a long-term positive way?

Also, have you read The Antipodes of Mind by Benny Shannon (apparently the most extensive scientific treatment to the subjective account of ayuhausca)? Or any of the professional reviews? All essentially claim it is a modern science classic:

- Gregory Dixon's review

- John Horgan's review

What do you think of Graham Hancock's "The War on Consciousness"?

I've never quite read anything like the literature surrounding ayuhausca. It seems like an actual potential avenue to learn about deep aspects of consciousness that needs to be explored rigorously and scientifically. As one of the reviewers stated (I think Nixon), Benny Shannon's book gives one the feeling that you are reading a work akin to Darwin's On the Origin of Species as it is a data driven analysis of a something that is literally Terra Incognito (at least to science of course).

Thanks again for the response.